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How high can we count before a mod gets involved?

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The alarm buzzed. A hand shot out from under the covers. The alarm fell silent. From under the covers a face emerged to stare at the ceiling above. With a barely audible groan the body levered itself upwards to wake up. A glance at her phone told Sara that she didn’t have school today. She could just lay back down and sleep the day away. That sounded ideal. She could just sleep and sleep and sleep and never wake up. In fact, she did lay back down on the futon, considering that course of action. And then she sat straight up as she heard a crash in the kitchen.

That would be her stepmother. The woman worried about her. Sara was even willing to bet that she worried more than her father did. It was … nice, she supposed, if not a little awkward. Sara wasn’t used to people worrying about her. Sara supposed that she could go to the gymnastic gym. There was little opportunity to go during that week and her stepmother had taken the time to find the gym for Sara, before Sara had arrived. That still sounded like too much work and too much effort. She still levered herself out of bed and moved to pack up the futon. The sooner she delt with her stepmother’s worry, the sooner she could be done with it for the day.

*_*

That afternoon saw Sara wandering the streets of Sagamiyama. She was carefully avoiding both a certain flower shop and a certain mechanic’s shop as she looked for a place to ‘buy a treat’ as her stepmother had insisted, she did after gymnastics and pushed a few bills into her hand. That had happened this morning as Sara didn’t eat breakfast. Sara rarely ate breakfast, avoided dinner with her father, stepmother, and two younger half-brothers, and lunch was hit or missed. So, that was another thing that her stepmother worried about. Sara really did want to find a treat to eat, because her stepmother was nice and a good woman, and Sara really didn’t like worrying her, but nothing seemed appealing.

Not for the first time Sara thought about letting the mod soul that she had gotten from that one Shinigami from the candy shop had given her about two months ago just have her body. The few times it had interacted with her family it had interacted with them better than she ever could. She was worried that Tatsuha and Hayasegawa would have problems with that. They had to be watching her. They had known about her drawings after all, and she wasn’t she that she would be able to tell when or how they were watching. Sara giving the mod soul her body seemed like something that would upset them. Not for the first time she wondered why she had said yes to their proposition two months ago. Being a substitute Shinigami hadn’t solved any of her problems and she was still no closer to seeing the places that she saw in her dreams and nightmares. Tatsuha and Hayasegawa kept saying ‘someday’ and that was starting to get frustrating.

Finally, she decided on just getting takoyaki from a stall that didn’t have a long line. There wasn’t much of it so it was easy enough to force down. It didn’t taste bad either and for a moment Sara debated weather or not she should get some more, but no, it was probably time to get home. She had just a little bit of homework to do before she went back to school, and it wouldn’t hurt to work on her Japanese a little bit either. Maybe she could get to bed early. Gymnastics had been strangely exhausting even though Sara hadn’t done much. She could just sleep and sleep and sleep and never wake up. That sounded ideal.

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@Sho Minazuki

Hey. This question seems silly to ask, but I would like to know the answer. Is it a weekday or a weekend? In the role-play I mean.

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@Sho Minazuki

Did you draw those? That's incredible!

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@Sho Minazuki

I have a few questions that I think would be helpful for everyone. I may think of more later.

1. Are our characters aware of each other? Like have the recruiters organized us in any way? Or do they think they are the only one?

2. Do our characters know Shi Kai is a thing?

3. How long, roughly, have they been Substitute Soul Reaper for?

4. What happens with our characters' bodies when they are off doing Soul Reaper things?

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Sara Nicholson

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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.
• In Progress - Graceful Slide - Sara is in the process of mastering this. A simple slide maneuver, able to low profile a lot of things. It can get a lot of distance with a running start. What actually makes this though is the recovery at the end, where the user should be able to stand up instantly, otherwise it's just a normal, clumsy 'slide'. (Technique written/crafted by Sho Minazuki)

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.)

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@Sho Minazuki

Hello! Would you like me to post my character here first, or straight to the character tab.

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@Sho Minazuki

Hello! Me again! I added a sentence about her death. It's in green. If you have any more questions about it I would appreciate you DMing me. I would like to avoid accidently crossing a line. I can explain that more in depth via private message as well. I hope that's okay. I also slightly edited her technique. I'm not aiming for fancy. Her Hoho is just supposed to make her gymnastics (and maybe her dancing) a little bit more fluid, a little more graceful, and a little bit faster. If that makes sense.

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@Sho Minazuki Awesome! In that case here she is! I hope I did it right. I am open to positive corrections and constructive criticism.

Sara Nicholson

Hider

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.)

Bleach - Resonant Souls [AU]

@Sho Minazuki

Hello! I'm working on my character sheet and i was wondering of Reiatsu was part of the 2000 points. I get that it is a fifth their Reiryoku, but I would like to make sure I do the math right.