[b]Name:[/b] Nishimura Takara
[b]Appearance:[/b] There's this one thing in particular that makes Takara stand out: she's enormous. Not enormous in the same way that the gatekeepers of Seireitei are, but still head and shoulders above your average person, and she's twice her captain's height. Her appearance isn't particularly notable otherwise: her blonde hair is kept braided, and she wears the standard uniform, for the most part, whilst keeping the armband on; the main difference is wearing sunglasses even when it's dark and raining.
[b]Age:[/b] Unknown
[b]Gender:[/b] Female
[b]Class:[/b] Shinigami, 1st Division Lieutenant
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[b]Jack of All Trades:[/b] Rather than focusing in any particular area, Takara strives to keep her skillset as well-rounded as possible, and to rely on being able to quickly adapt tactics rather than trying to beat, say, a master swordsman in a melee fight. She is, however, particularly good at hakuda: hard to not be when your captain relies on it.
[b]Shikai:[/b] Let's Rock, Iwa no Hebi: her nodachi-sized blade turns into a sizeable hammer, though it isn't a melee-type weapon at all--it's an earth-element zanpakuto. It has a quite simple effect: any rock or stone it comes into contact with follows the hammer's swings, leading to repeated misses granting Takaraa a quite sizeable hammer.
[b]Bankai:[/b] Yūdokuna Iwa no Hebi: the hammer itself converts to stone, and will quite cheerfully levitate. It still needs to be 'swung', but the movements no longer need to be exaggerated, and the control over the individual rock it picks up is vastly magnified, with Takara able to split it into multiple hammers or stranger shapes. On top of this, organic matter the stones hit converts and breaks off; quite a nasty thing when it hits a shinigami or the like and their arm petrifies and breaks away.[/hider]
[b]History:[/b] As Kotohime's childhood friend, it isn't surprising that she followed the head-captain, sticking close to the enormous font of raw power and acting as a voice of reason rather than anarchic violence. For as long as Kotohime has been a captain, Takara has been by her side stopping the entire command structure from disintegrating and the division into an individually potent but undisciplined mob.
This persists, even though she could have become a captain through any of the accepted methods by now, with Takara unwilling to leave Kotohime to not screw things up. Thus, she staunchly remains a lieutenant: you can't [i]make[/i] someone become a captain.
[b]Details:[/b] Very strait-laced and serious; whilst her superior is more concerned with fighting and the active side of things, it's Takara that spends her time sorting out the paperwork and making sure the First Division stands as a model for the rest, rather than anarchic chaos. She's rather proud of her height.
[b]Staring Location:[/b] Seireitei