Name: Sara Nicholson
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Personality: Sara is quiet and reserved. When faced with new situations her unspoken motto is to mind her own business. She is typically daydreaming or sketching. She doesn’t make friends easily, but when she does, she proves incredibly loyal almost to a fault. She works and studies hard and makes sure to schedule time to relax and unwind, which for her includes gymnastics, dancing, and roller skating. Her outwardly cool demeanor betrays an underlying anxiety at having been thrown into more new circumstances than she knows what to do with it.
Backstory: Sara child of a one-night stand between and American tourist and Japanese businessman. It took her mom a few years after returning to the States to find her father online and tell him of the development. Sara’s mother did not press, but her father still helped with financial responsibilities. He was still largely absent from Sara’s life. Her mother has recently passed due to a drunk driving incident. With no other living relatives Sara has recently moved to Sagamiyama to finish high school and live with her father for the first time in her life. It is there that her strange drawings are seen as more than just strange drawings.
Why did you become a Substitute Shinigami: Sara has always had, well, she wouldn’t call them visions … imaginings, yeah, imaginings is a good word of strange worlds. White desserts under an endless night and hollowed chested monsters. Tall white pillars over a massive Japanese town and people in black kimonos. In between words filled with white cloaked figures and pointed red hats. She couldn’t help but cast them onto paper. A Shinigami saw them and when she was found dying
(She fell off a bridge. It is unclear if she was pushed or if she jumped) she was offered a chance to get to know those worlds, to fight the monsters, to keep the peace. Knowledge that these strange worlds weren’t just imaginings caught Sara off guard and she took the offer, hoping to learn more, and willing to do her part.
::COMBAT::- Strength: 150
- Skill: 150
- Speed: 400
- Focus: 400
- Constitution: 300
- Reiryoku: 600
- Reiatsu: 120
::Shinigami Arts:: - Zanjutsu: 0/5
- Hakuda: 0/5
- Hoho: 1/5
- Kido: 1/5
Feats:
Zanpakuto: Sara keeps her Zanpaktuo strapped to her back because she honestly has no idea what to do with it. She has attempted, on multiple occasions, to change the color of the sheath and as a result it is now a mishmash of multiple colors and dyes. She doesn’t hate it, but at this point she’s fully committed to the tie dye look and one day she will get it right. She has hung a shark (her favorite animal) hand sanitizer holder to the hilt. Does that help with the balance? No. Does it help when she’s covered in monster blood? Also no. But it makes her feel better and that’s what matters. The guard is a heptagon (her favorite shape, so far her sword at least makes her happy to look at) and solid with no pattern or design.
Shikai:
Techniques: Enhanced Gymnastics – Sara can use her Hoho to slightly amplify her natural skill at gymnastics to leap and flip out of the way, barely dodging attacks. This plays into her basic fighting style: staying out of the range of attacks and avoiding blows to send her own attacks off from a distance.
Memorized Kido: Sara knows Bakudo Hainawa, Hado Byakurai, and Hado Shakkaho. (I don’t want to give her too high power spells since she just starting out. I would like to aim to make her a Kido master and capable of blending and combining Kido however she wants, and being only limited by her creativity.)