Bleach: The RPG

Player Name: Holly (owner)
Player Screen Name/E-mail address: beowulf_darkknight

Character Name: Shailaja no Suiten
Pronunciation: shI--la-ja
Nickname: Shai
Age: 400 but appears around 19-20.
Species: Kunitsu-kami, more specifically an UNDINE (type of water spirit) of Kilconquhar Loch in Scotland.
Rank/Occupation: Nigi-mitama kami third class. Mortal form, Student.

Weight/Height: 135 lbs, 5 foot 4 inches.
Eye/Hair Color: Amethyst colored eyes, hair is long, deep plum/burgundy color.

Physical Description: Shailaja is a comely young woman of around 20, with ample curves giving her a fine hourglass figure (32 DD/24"/34" breast/waist/hip proportions). Her skin is light toned and fair (getting sunburns easily), and pretty much unmarred by scars or such, save for a small tattoo like marking just below her navel. This is her Kami mark, in the shape of a single tear drop tinted dark blue, no bigger than your thumbnail. Her movements are graceful, soft and flowing. Her hair is worn very long, covering the pointed tips of her ears, another distinguishing mark of the Kami, and is a silky, Burgundy shade. Her eyes match that of amethyst, shimmering often when in or near water.
Her typical clothing in school is the classic school girl uniform. A white button top, a yellow sleeveless sweater, and short plaid pleated skirt, with white knee high stockings and white shoes.
Outside of school she can be seen wearing baggy hip hugging jeans, and a white tee-shirt. She almost never wears shoes outside of school, though opting for flip flops when necessary. Most of the time she carries around a large olive green old pack that was once a medical supplies sack in WW2.


Personality: Shailaja is typically a soft natured, sweet tempered woman who is slow to anger and prefers not to argue or fight, though she knows it's sometimes inevitable. She can be social at times, approaching class mates out of the blue to simply get to know them, ask for help, or general chit chat, though she’s very careful to steer clear of anything that could give her away as a non human. She appreciates art very much, and those with a talent for it are looked highly upon in her eyes. For those who actually stop to talk, find her rather intelligent, but lyrical at times. To a degree she's distant from others, a quality adopted through the pain of losing those whom she's grown fond of, and the powerless feeling of watching the inevitable end come to mortals.
    

Weaknesses: Shailaja is very weak against strong fire attacks, but has the same tolerance for other attacks, spiritual or not, as would any shinigami lieutenant. Also heat is draining on her body, making attacks straining.
Strengths: In any body of water, her element, she gains strength and endurance, and can regenerate faster than normal. She can identify any type of liquid matter, as well.
Likes: She loves bathing and swimming, getting to know others, music and art class, koi, and certain crystals (sapphire and other blue colored gems and stones, as well as quartz, which amplifies positive energy.) She is an extremely good cook, having studied for 40 years, and absolutely loves music with a fierce passion (she is a siren after all). Also, it's an odd quirk, but she prefers softer voices, and 'nice words', which in turn she often says 'Thank you' or other 'feel good' sayings. The reason for this is identified in Emoto's water crystal pictures!
Dislikes: She dislikes people who are unnecessarily rude, pollution, destruction of natural grounds, cigarettes. She has a bad phobia of cars, and will absolutely freeze up around active roadways. She also dislikes harsh noises and hateful words.

-Powers/Abilities-
Water element - Torrential Jet: This power is taken from her elemental affinity. Shailaja can create a foot thick jet of high pressure water, which can break through walls when at full power. It’s pressure is around 500 lbs per square inch, and reaches about twenty feet. Use is up to two times a day without rain/surrounding water.

Water palm explosions - Condensing water at the center of her palm, she uses martial arts style of Tai Chi in combat, and the strike causes a small blast against the target, the taken damage being only hand sized, but very painful, and deadly if struck in the right spot. Use is up to 20 times until energy is depleted, and only when not using any other power.

Water crescent scythe - A projectile weapon the thickness of a sheet of paper, shaped like a crescent moon. Being only a foot in diameter, it doesn't cut large areas, but can easily slice through flesh/bone/ and some barriers (weaker ones). The projectile is made of water, and when launched, spirals at the target with uncanny speed. Can use up to 14 until energy is spent, though more if it's raining, or if water is present.

Water shield: Creates a shield of water in the shape of a bubble, with the density of most spiritual shields, most effective against long range energy attacks. Strongest when around/in water or rain.

Water submersion - drowning prison: Like the shield, this envelops one opponent in a sphere of water. The density of the water is very thick, making it very hard to move. It not only holds the possibility of drowning, but the water disperses the spiritual energy, draining it until the person escapes the sphere or becomes unconscious. (lasts up to five rounds (three and a half minutes) for opponents weaker than herself, otherwise lasts for about a minute for those of equal or stronger in spiritual power.

Kami energy - spiritual substitution: This technique allows once per day any Kami to give their powers over to another individual, unlocking their most potent attacks, and increasing their spiritual pressure by ten (sometimes surpassing Captain rank Shinigami for certain individuals). The person is imbued with the energy for about two hours, or until the Kami releases it, or the individual does. Afterwards, the Kami must recuperate for 24 hours, or 7 hours if immersed in their element to sleep. Upon gaining the Kami’s energy, the person also is enhanced with a special attribute as well, according to what element the kami is.
Fire - Stamina and power
Water - health and focus
Air - maneuverability, easier dodge
Lightning - Speed
Earth - Strength and endurance

Kami energy - Aether movement: It’s a rapid speed movement, moving from one place to another in less than a second. However, they do not pass through another plane of existence like some hollows or Arrancar, but bend the world around them, making it appear as if they simply reappeared out of nowhere. Movement is up to 60 feet per second/blink, and they must be able to see where they are going.

Odd abilities:
The ability to change her form into liquid when in a body of water, used for an escape tactic.
She can also, like all spiritually adept people, read the color of an aura, the energy surrounding a person, determining mood and health.
She can also immediately reveal poisons in a substance, which is used mostly for her Fugu (puffer fish) cooking, where upon she can extract it and dispose of the toxins. She can also do this to a person who has been poisoned. (non synthetic poisons only)
She's an extremely good cook, having traveled Europe/Asia for 40 years to study culinary arts, something she takes very seriously.
Her voice, it's a dream to listen to when she’s in the mood to sing, but she can also play instruments very well, though she favors the piano and cello over all others.

Weapon/Zanpakuto: She does not use a Zanpakuto.

History of this Character:
Life... animalistic, the first awareness of self as the world expanded around the undine in her earliest years, a creature, a monster, that which legends spoke up among the people of the highlands of Scotland. The form was of a typical sea maiden, part fish, part human, skittish and dangerous, though curious as to what the bipedal beings along her shores were doing, and of the small wooden fishing boats that prowled the still waters of her lake. Fishermen's tales of fish women had even woven it's way around her, spreading awe and fear in the fleshy humans hearts and minds, while their thoughts further progressed the birth of the undine. It was well known to those of otherworldly lines that once a human put forth energy, through thought, worship, love, or fear, that the entity would arise, manifested from that which was instilled. In her case, the 'Shee', as the fishermen had taken to calling her, arose from the mystical qualities they attributed.

Time passed, curiosity grew, and the once subtle elemental spirit took on a new understanding. There were things outside her watery world, things other than the small wooden vessels that passed along the surface of the Loch, and the whiskey soaked men that cast in lines adorned with deadly hooks. With that curiosity and, subsequently an ounce of courage, she pulled herself out of the fresh, cool waters, and onto the shore. Though a fishy tail did not abide her movement on the hard ground.

Transformation. It took time, as her body reshaped itself, scale and fins molding to skin. And it was painful, at first, as tissue had to grow accustomed to such dramatic changes. Bones fused followed by muscle, tendons, veins, arteries, fatty tissue, nerves, then lastly skin shaping into working limbs capable of bipedal movement. But even then, the transformation of aquatic to land was yet to be mastered. To walk upright took even longer, despite how easy it looked from afar. Stumbling around like a babe was the extent of her progress for two years until the undine's equilibrium could compensate, and grant the girl a decent enough gait.

It was then, naked and wobbly, did the young woman make for the nearest town. The site was, of course, beyond shocking to many of the townsfolk that spotted her arrival, believing her a specter of some sort lurking just out of reach, and scrambling off when ever approached. But the luck of one shepard's wife, out laundering her washed linens, to coax the uncertian water spirit to her domicile. Thus the beginnings of the domestication of the undine.

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A century passes. With time, and movement, patience and practice, comes understanding and knowledge. As she did not age, and humans often questioned things not akin to themselves and their comfort, the young water spirit had to move around, avoiding to stay in one place for too long for fear of questions that would arise from the natives of the land. The words Witch, Sorcerress, and other terms that came from their speculation, proved the great need for secrecy. And that only fueled the reasons for her gypsy like lifestyle.

Travel was important, as it allowed her to learn, not only about the world that had broadened it's boarders to the girl, but of the people that inhabited it. Language was a hard tool to master, taking at first a few years to master her first, the English dialect of Scotland during that time. Then in rolled on to Gaelic, common throughout the British isles. Latin came in third, though it became far easier as the language was used commonly through churches and teachings of some strange divinity that the humans followed.

Religion, a forigen concept to the girl, the worship of a omnipotent being that had no impact on the world that he supposedly ruled over? It made no sense to the kami, who regarded it as rubbish. Should something who created all the world want to interact with it as well, be there like a parent when their child falls and scrapes their knee, to kiss away their tears and make everything alright? Instead it's suffering, repentance, redemption, more suffering, and the fear of eternal damnation into a fiery place called Hell. What an unpleasant idea! Certainly her Mother would never do such a thing. Oh, if only they knew of her... Pitty. Another fact that was important, during those times, to stay silent about. The church didn't take too kindly to outside opinions...

However, the 19th century seemed to be a time of revolutionary movement, thus promoting the evolution of the human race towards an enlightened future. Well, enlightened by means of mechanics and science, philosophy and inventions, it was a sad time that humans no longer looked to the old ways, no longer giving thanks and receiving blessings from the Earth which provided them with so much. Thus the end of the Old World practice and belief systems, trampled by the ideals of progress and logic.

But despite the disbelief of the race that predominated the world, the undine remained vigilant to explore along with those beings, gaining a better grasp of the workings that man succeeded in. She could understand, unlike many of her brethren, the benefit this change had on the humans. It made life easier, to a greater extent than what would have been should the tools now available to the masses had never been put to creation. And that simplicity allowed for humans to expand, grow, produce far more than thought possible.

She had come to admire and fear that of the human race. For the inevitable would soon follow. What if they forgot? What if the age old myths that they told during bed time, or in fairytale books, what if those no longer came to be, scratched out by the Logic these men so sought after? Her kind, her elemental kin, would they too cease to exist as well?

Or, could she grasp onto the frayed threads of life and continue on, living half in life of humans, and half in the realms of the other world?

However, her existence was not always flooded in worries and conditions that harbored ill feelings towards the race that outweighed her own. In 1878, the girl had taken residence in Maribor, Slovenia, and an off chance encounter happened with one of the most eccentric young men she had ever known. She knew him as Nikola. Despite initially disliking the university student, his passion for particular interests and subjects was admirable. He had talked often of inventions, radio waves, and the mastery of electricity, which of course the water spirit though absurd at the time. Though, nothing was to come of their friendly companionship, as two years later, Nikola had left to attend Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague, and the undine departed further westward. They did, however, keep for a few years contact through letters, though even those faded as time passed.

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The 20th Century. The end of World War 1, followed by further technological advances. The world was casting an eerie shadows over all it's inhabitants. So many deaths...

During the start of this century, the undine, had traveled over Europe, moving on to Asia for a short period before returning to western Europe, where war had broken out once again. Germany, Austria, Hungary, Poland, all fighting against Britain, France, Italy, and shortly after, the U.S.

1915, she had taken up residence in Berlin, before the great Flu epidemic, though times in Germany were growing very hard on all it's people. During which, a young medic named  Adelaide Friedhelm befriended the undine, ultimately housing her during the beginnings of the second world war, and sharing with Shailaja her most personal secrets. Homosexual relations during this time were strictly frowned upon, and Adelide had a female companion in the same field as she. Though the public had been given the impression that the two women were sisters, living under the same roof, behind the walls was a much different, and dangerous, story. In 1930, the happy family however found their peace in such a forsaken time shattered when Karin, Adelaide's lover, was removed from the hospital where she worked, and sent to the front against the Russian forces. Two years later the letter of her death and certificate was sent back home, nearly a year late. Adelaide, unable to properly grieve for her love, continued to work in Berlin, until the following of the end of the war. In 1948, Adelaide committed suicide, leaving what possessions she owned to the undine, including her medical supply bag. The act, though the undine could no more prevent it from happening than she could the setting sun, made her feel as if her self proclaimed duty of protecting and seeing to it that her charges were pleased had failed miserably.

Shailaja, a name the undine had chosen for herself, decided it better to venture out and away from the ghosts of Berlin, though sorrow followed relentlessly, and the endless reminder of how fragile humans were making it harder to bond with them, though inevitably from her own nature, it proved harder than what she had intended. Her wanderings led her all over Europe, and into the culinary schools that situated themselves in France, Italy, Spain, and a number of others, her mind set on the particular art of food preparation. How she decided on such a fanciful profession was the observation that humans enjoyed good food, though half of what was on the menus of many restaurants were barely considered healthy, or good. She would see to it that this fallacy was no more, especially if she was in the kitchen. Schools were far easier to attend than modern time, and she had mastered over a course of 40 years the culinary arts of various cultures, from Europe to Asia, even South American, though her travles never ventured her to the U.S. She had heard that the typical food and delicacies in that country was barely worth her time and effort.

In 1964, Shailaja sustained serious injuries from a car while crossing a street in the rural country side of Alsace, France. The vehicle was moving at 62 mph when it struck the unwary undine, flinging her from the scene and, luckily, next to a flooded ravine. Sustaining two breaks in her leg, her arm, three ribs, and a concussion, that point was her beginnings of a harsh phobia of vehicles. She had crawled into the waterway and let herself drift along, though the healing process took 4 days to complete, even while completely submerged, it was painful, and frightening. And with recovery, the water spirit had a new found dread in life, and kept a healthy distance from roads and from cars, parked or not.

Current Events:

2007, after having resided in Russia for a period of time, Shailaja's travels took her westward, into Japan. She had been familiar with Tokyo, though something pulled at the girl to move further south, to the small, and less popular town of Karakura. Indeed, the well of energy there was astounding, acting upon the Nature spirit like a magnet. Finding a nice spot in the well cared for Park to reside, she decided to enroll in the local high school, and perhaps get a better feel for the town before settling in for any length of time. All of her belongings, two large duffle bags full of various odds and ends, many trinkets dating well before the century, and most priceless to her, referring to her photo album as the  most precious possession she owns. Pictures, small leaflets of newspapers, even letters, line the pages of the thick, heavy book. All these items she has entrusted to the local Kodama (lower class tree spirits) to guard while she's away.

Player Name: Ben
Player Screen Name/E-mail address: takeruyamato44@yahoo.com

Character Name: Sato Migami (Pronounced Me-ga-me)
Age: 19
Species: Human (Half-Kami)
Rank/Occupation: Full-time Student/Part-time Florist
Element: Wood

Physical Description: Migami is approximately four foot ten inches
tall and weighs in at ninety-eight pounds soaking wet. Though she
is short and light for her age the young woman makes up for her
stature with hazel eyes, long flowing brown hair, and an olive toned
complexion that glistens in the sunlight. Finally, she tops all of
that off with a near perfect figure that drives most men wild.

Personality: Migami is usually slow to speak on a matter and only
opens her mouth if she has something important to say. To some, this
makes her appear indecisive and shy, but nothing could be further
from the truth as the young woman has been endowed with a wisdom that
is beyond her years and a knowledge that covers a wide range of
topics. She is also known for her nurturing qualities as she loves
taking care of others especially those who are sick, lonely, or
distraught. Finally, she is independent, a quality she inherited
from her mother, and she does not like to accept help unless it is
absolutely necessary. This is both a strength and a weakness. It
enables her to grow stronger faster, while at the same time
alienating her from those who care about her. This has also lead to
her not receiving help in areas that she really needs it in
especially when it comes to her worst fear – raging infernos (The why
behind this will be revealed in the game).

Likes: Gardening, the Woods, Long Walks, Volunteering
Dislikes: Harming others, Being an Burden, Fire

-Powers/Abilities-

Forest Kinship – Simply put, our character shares a kinship with all
things wood especially trees. This ability allows her to hold
conversations with them, and it makes her capable of giving them
orders to halt an enemy advance (the last part used in her history).
This ability has its limits however as some trees tend to be "more
stubborn" than others and will not take orders unless she does
them "a favor" nor will they readily do anything for her if they
perceive her to be at odds with the wood in some way.

Wood Manipulation – This ability is still, at present, a class one
ability that only allows her to manipulate smaller items. Some
examples would be 2X4s, her cane, pencils, and so on.

Photosynthetic Feeding – This ability requires her to sprout roots
from her feet that extend into the ground. From there she can draw
nourishment and even heal herself using the earth. The major weakness
of this ability is that she cannot move while she is feed and if she
is not careful and allows her roots to stay planted for more than
forty-eight hours, she will turn into a tree (This will also happen
if she allows herself to fall asleep while she is feeding). (Please
note: She has not discovered this power yet.)

Odd abilities: Which of her abilities do you consider "normal"?
*laughs*

Weapon/Zanpakuto: While it is not technically a weapon, Magami can
use her cane to defend herself physically and as a conduit to channel
her powers.