so how do arcs work?

What I meant was how do villains work in your arcs, how do you transition from each arc, and what about time skips.

Savaris Kusanagi-Shihoin [+]

Appearance: Savaris' looks break away from the traditional looks of a Shihoin and Adopt mostly Kusanagi Clan traits. He has medium brown skin and silver hair known to the Kusanagi clan. Instead of keeping his hair long like his siblings he prefers the distinction of short hair. He is slightly taller than his siblings being 6'2" and has a scar over his left eye.

Name: Savaris Kusanagi-Shihoin
Age: 86 Appears to be in the mid-20s
Personality: Calm and Laid back for the most part. Savaris is an optimist who believes that the world will continue to revolve, whether you live or you die. Because of this attitude, he is sometimes seen as uncaring but underneath his playboy facade is a man of true worth.
Backstory: The story of Savaris dates back years before his birth. His mother was the only living survivor of a massacre that killed the Kusanagi clan. While taking refuge with the Shihoin clan, she had an affair with the clan leader at the time. Such things were looked down upon and thusly his mother had to be punished. She was banished to the Rukongai with threats of death if she were to return. Instead, his mother chose to take her own life, pledging that she loved that master and always had. Savaris was raised alongside his half brother and sister as if they were equal. He knew the noble lifestyle as well as had access to finest food, clothes, and teachers. Despite that he never showed any ability as a soul reaper nor did the other nobles like or accept him.

Savaris childhood was spent most days by his lonesome deep in study. He may not have had any proficiency in fighting he showed exceptional skills in Kido. He didn't have a large reiatsu pool but he did know and understand the workings of Kido. No matter Bakudo or Hado, he was very proficient. After years and years the genius gene finally awoke inside of him. His brother, Yoshiro, thought he was ready to go to the academy where he spent his time as events unfolded. He could do nothing as his sister was exiled, as his brother became the head of the Shihoin clan and later his siblings' death.

To the Shihoin Council, Members that lead the family until a new Head can be found, he is seen as nothing more than a slacker who can possibly be used for their gains. But Savaris has the resolve of his own. Despite that, however, he has still yet to unlock his Shikai and learn the name of Zanpakuto.

Strengths:
-Kido
-Hakudo Practitioner
-Excellent Strategist

Weaknesses:
-No Skill in swordsmanship
-No battle sense
-No Shikai

Zanpakuto [Uknown]
Sealed Appearance
Name:
Zanpakuto spirit appearance: (Optional)
Release Command:
Shikai Appearance:
Shikai Ability:
Techniques:

Iwakuni Shiroko [+]

Appearance [+]

Name: Iwakuni Shiroko

Age: 55 Appears to be 16 or 17

Personality: Shiroko is a shy girl who has a hard time raising her voice and often people talk over her. However though she speaks softly she has a sharp tongue and has great observation skills. She often comes off as cold but its mostly just her inability to connect well with others.

Backstory: (its cool if I add more later yeah?) Shiroko grew up in the rukongai. She doesn't really remember her life when she was alive as a human but she knew she died relatively young. Because of her white hair and yellow eyes she was seen as a bad omen and never found a family that became a permanent home. She had more spiritual power than the majority of people around her which caused its own set of problems.

Strengths/ Weaknesses: Binding spells are her #1 speciality. Healing would be second followed by offensive kido. Her swordsmanship has gotten to a passable level but hand to hand combat is pathetic.

Zanpakuto

Sealed Appearance (see pic of character)

Name: Benzaiten

Zanpakuto spirit appearance:

Banzaiten [+]

Release Command: Bind

Shikai Appearance: The shikai is a series of chains that connect to both of her hands with a ring on each finger. The chains can generate more links as needed within limit of course. The connected portions look like the following.

Shikai Appearance [+]

Shikai Ability: Binding. Pretty simple. She is able to wrap the chains around her foes and bind both their movements and their spiritual powers.

Techniques:
Chain Wrap Binding Seal- Her most basic form her sword's form. She wraps her chains around the foe to bind their physical movements.

Kodama (echo)- This allows her to sacrifice some links of her chains to reform her zanpakuto in its sealed form to give her a katana weapon. This weapon has no special abilities and exists physically disconnected from the rest of the chains. It simply allows her to have a weapon since her chains have no edge in order to attack with.

Denso-ji (link/transmission line)- She is able to cast her healing spells through the chains to multiple targets at once rather than having to heal one at a time.

@Champion

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Most of this looks good, but how come he wasn't able to learn the name of his Shikai?

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Long story short, he can't hear it when it tries to speak to him. He's never been in a serious fight and he's a slacker, kind of a womanizer, a little bit of a drunkard but his Zanpakuto is the complete opposite. Serious and honorable. Even tho it still tries he is too blinded to hear it. Besides the personality conflicts he has with his Zanpakuto, there's also the fact that it's a straight up long sword, he has no sword skill at all so he barely uses her and prefers to stick to hakudo. Although now that I think about it, I should probably add the appearance in.

@Champion

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For the most part I do like the character, and the reasons are understandable. The only issue I can think of is the fact everyone was drafted into the shinigami academy and were able to graduate. Which I"m not sure would happen if he wasn't at least able to use his Shikai. I'll have to think of this.

Edit

Although, one way around it is that he lost his zanpakuto at some point, and just never got around to trying to find it as his fighting styles worked fine without it?

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Well, there's that and many other prominent members were able to acquire seats without a need for shikai. Kenpachi himself didn't realize his until the end of the series. The special forces don't use their zanpakuto majority of the time. Neither does the Kido Corps. I'm not trying to be a Kenpachi or anything I just believe it would be more worthwhile to discover it IC.

As far as a technical reason for graduating, he is a member of a powerful clan. Cant we just say some strings were pulled?

That actually may be even better. A young savaris among a group of geniuses, being pushed to exceed his limits to keep up with his rivals. Sounds amazing.

@Champion

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Well if you're okay with your character having a slower rate of progression then the rest then we can do that.
Just add that to the back story, and put that he lacks the prodigy gene in the strengths/ weakness section. Then let me know so I can review it.

@Red Mage@Champion@crimson lion
-How do you guys feel about a discord for this rp?
-Is there a particular day you guys would like to start this