Name: Kuroda Kyoichi
Appearance:
Moderately tall, standing at 6'2". Dark of hair, kept medium length and usually in a pony tail. Athletically built, lean but not frail. Blue eyed, holds fierce expression.
Age: 320 soul years, looks approximately 16 in human years.
Gender: Male
Hair Colour: Black/Dark Blue
Birthday:May 29th
Clan/Family:Kuroda
Race:Soul
Profession:Shinigami. Official judge of the tea ceremony club
Rank: Captain of Squad Five
Spiritual Energy Colour: Blue, with orange streaks.
Power Level: Captain Level
Personality: If ever there was someone who is first heard then seen, Kyoichi would be it. Boisterous and carefree, Kyoichi walks his path with absolute certainty. He carries about him an air of arrogance, a sense of trust first and foremost in himself. Slightly insane, he will dive head first into any challenging situation before assessing his chances of success. All of those traits aside, he is quite joyous, often found joking and chatting idly with anyone he meets. Strong willed, he is not easily discouraged. All in all, Kyoichi is the neighborhood jokester who likes to enjoy whatever his life has to offer him, just take whatever he says with a grain of salt.
History: Every year for as long as Kyoichi can remember, there has been a ceremony held by his immediate family revolving around a sword. To him, at his young age, it just look like a blue piece of metal held up on a shrine. He simply did what he was told and then enjoyed the food his mother and grandmother took literally hours and hours to prepare. His father and grandfather carried out intricate rituals to cleanse and polish the sword, something Kyoichi was taught to do ever since he started taking part in the ceremony...
Other than that, Kyoichi carried on with school, joining any club that seeming interesting to him. Sports, literary, debate, his choices were quite diverse as he found many things to be of interest to him. His grades did not suffer because of his incessant need to find new things and unending curiosity for new subjects.
His fifteenth birthday rolled around. He finally got his chance to at least hold the sacred sword his family has enshrined for as long as he can remember. When the ceremony came to pass, everything changed. His grandfather instructed him to retrieve the sword and unsheathe it for the cleansing and polishing that was done each year. When he did as he was told, a burst of blue and orange energy poured out from the sword and was absorbed by Kyoichi. Kyoichi himself did not see it or feel it, however, everyone else around him saw it happen in what seemed like slow motion. His grandfather remembers a story told to him by his grandfather about the prophecy around the sword. One day, a child born of his roots will be able to call on the spirit that resides in the sword and carry out his sacred task. After the event, his grandfather asked Kyoichi to sheathe the sword and they moved the shrine to his room and it was kept there until the day he left for Bugei Academy.
Getting into the academy was not a huge problem as his family has ties with a powerful family from antiquity. It helped that Kyoichi had top of the notch grades and loads of extracurricular experience. On the day he was leaving, his grandfather retrieve the sacred sword personally and handed it to him, telling him about the story around the sword. He then asked him, as a final command regarding the sword, to keep the sword safe at all times and learn to use it to its fullest. Accepting the task, Kyoichi set off to start his secondary education at Bugei Academy.
One year after that, he was struck with a terrible, and odd disease. Unknown and incurable, it took him very quickly. For some reason, he felt as if his family knew of this. They did not try as hard as they could to bring him back, instead, they just let him pass.
Arriving at Soul Society, he met up with his ancestors, who were all shinigamis before him, all the way up to the patriarch, Kuroda Kenshin. One afternoon, Kenshin sat the young Kyoichi down and explained everything to him. The disease that took him was in fact hereditary, and was called Tainted Soul. Kenshin was the first to be afflicted with this, and he told him the story of his first...outburst. He also told him why his grandfather's name is Sengoku, and the reasoning behind it all.
Now that he is here, Kenshin expects his fourth generation descendent to join a proper squad and be a productive member of the Gotei 13.
Relationships/Friendships/Rivalries/Siblings:
All are still alive-
Kuroda Sengoku (85) Grandfather
Kuroda Yuuko (83) Grandmother
Kuroda Kenshin (52) Father
Kuroda Natsu (50) Mother
Kuroda Yunko (12) Sister
Other:
Pair of sunglasses, not particularly extravagant.
A old pipe and pouch, given to him by Kenshin the First
~Zanpakuto~
Zanpakuto name: The Furnace
Type: Fire
Zanpakuto Shikai Release command: Bring to life the essence of the Living Flame!
Spirit Appearance:
Spirit Personality/Goals:
Quite serious, his zanpakuto does not bend nor does it yield. Harsh, it does not tolerate weakness. Driven, it is determined to take the title of "Strongest Fire Type" from the legendary Ryūjin Jakka.
Inner world:
Sealed appearance: Katana. The blade is tinted red, and the guard and sheath is gold. The handle is white and wrapped with a purple cloth.
Shikai appearance:A golden mace, lit on both ends with golden flames.
Bankai appearance:A large, brown mace. Lit in the middle with dark red flames. There are ancient glyphs that glow on both sides of the weapon, pulsing with the flame.
Shikai skills:
(Start off with no Shikai or 4 to 5 Shikai skills)
1. Burning Orb- Kyoichi swings his mace, firing a fireball in the swing's direction (2 post cooldown)
2. Decimating Smash- Bring his mace down into the ground, Kyoichi lights the ground around him, in a 5 feet radius, aflame and stuns anyone caught in the blast (3 post cooldown)
3. Vicious Strikes- Kyoichi swings his mace twice. If either of the two swings connect as a hit, he can immediately launch a Burning Orb at close range at the enemy (4 post cooldown)
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Bankai skills:
1. Mercurial Blast- Kyoichi fires off three empowered Burning Orbs in quick succession. These orbs will seem unpredictable, but they are truly homing blasts sent towards the enemy(3 post cooldown if firing one, 4 if firing two, 5 if firing three)
2. Soul Furnace- Empowering his Decimating Smash, the radius is now increased to 15 feet, and the blast now continuously pulses after the smash at the site (5 post cooldown)
3. Reckless Swings- Kyoichi swings his mace four times and if any of the four swings connect, he can immediately chain the hit into a Mercurial Blast (4 post cooldown)
4. Bloodlust- By consuming the flames contained with his mace, Kyoichi transforms into a rage-infused monster. Each strike will lit the enemy aflame. 10 post duration and then a 15 post cool down with a chance of being used twice per battle.
5. Last Breath- Charging at his enemy, Kyoichi leads with his flame-imbued mace in a dashing attack (3 post cooldown)
6. Dragon's Descent- Kyoichi summons a dragon-shaped meteor down from the skies to strike the battlefield. Once struck, the battlefield will have pillars of flames appear randomly (Usable only when Bloodlust is activated, thus only usable once per thread)
Non-lethal Zanpakuto Skills:
Skills
(Note: The skills below are the ones learned in the Academy. You may pick and choose which ones you want from what is listed below already. You can have all the skills already given to you or perhaps challenge yourself a little and Handicap your character in some area's)
Master Level Zanjutsu
Kido
Expert Level Bakudo
Hado Practioner
Hakuda Expert
Hoho Practioner