Reathin

As with most zanpactou, Sanze bears a katana shape when not unsealed. The hilt guard and wrap are both blue-white, and a deeper teal tassal dangles from the edge. Reathin wears the sheath on his right side (despite being right handed). The sheath is black at first glance, but reflects colors oddly, like oily water.


While zanpacto spirits might come in humanoid, semi-humanoid and outright animalistic, Sanze resembles nothing found in nature (physically or mentally). The majority of his form is a stories-high circle composed of brass colored interconnecting clockwork components. Surrounding this ring are a set of levitating arm-equivalents, six on the inside of the ring and six on the outside. Each arm is composed of an hourglass filed with lightly glowing sand moving without the slightest regard for gravity. The hourglass is encased in sparse brassy lines that wind their way around the glass. At the end of each arm floats a stony hand formation with a blue-white light set into the palm like a gemstone. The arms on the interior of the ring surround a sphere of green-white energy, sometimes shielding it, sometimes holding it, sometimes ready to do either. The “top” of the circle (or at least the part normally oriented as such) is a simple metallic face without a mouth (flatter than an actual head, but not fully flat. A mask with nothing behind it). White fire burns in the eyes. Below orbit a set of cogs larger than the components of the ring itself, but smaller than his arms. They float perpendicular to the sphere, forming a sort of conical shape. Despite seemingly lacking the means to do so, Sanze is perfectly capable of speaking and does so with a veritable choir of voices working in unison (but not perfect harmony).

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As unusual as his body might look, Sanze's mind is stranger still. The spirit claims to see all potential worlds. The issue is that he lacks the ability to discern reality or probability, thinking of each as just as real and important as the others (this belief is almost certainly inaccurate, it should be noted. The avatar is likely just extrapolating possibilities), making talking to him a matter of putting together the tangled processes that pass for thought within him. The avatar IS highly creative and genuinely desires to be helpful, but his communication skills are an utter mess. Due to his perceptions, Sanze is unbelievably gullible and can be made to believe very nearly anything. More than anything else, the spirit loves open minds (particularly those who are dangerously open. The avatar lacks a conventional moral compass, unfortunately) and wishes to see the world full of the fruits of ingenuity. He is very fond of overblown names for his abilities and superfluous, flowery speech when one can get his mind on track momentarily (otherwise he speaks in what looks like non sequiturs, but are really statements lacking context). Sanze intrudes on Reathin's thoughts quite frequently, conversing on whatever is happening (or, at least, might be happening).

SHIKAI

Sanze is a dual-release style zanpactou.

When released, Sanze grows slightly larger and straighter, not quite reaching greatsword length but beyond a conventional longsword. The second sword is shorter, as is common for dual weapon fighters. The weapon is decorated with softly glowing blue tracery with a teal stone set into its hilt. When its abilities activate, the light sometimes flares brightly, creating an aura around the blade momentarily. Most distinctly, the black metal swords are stylized to bring to mind a pair of clock hands from a tower, scaled down to something human sized.

Name: Collapsing Waveform
Type: Offensive, Defensive, Binding or Offensive/Binding Hybrid (Depending on
each use)
Class: Zanpactou Spirit
Tier: II-IV
Range: Long
Description: The realms of possibility are endlessly diverse in their provisions and weapons. Reaching into his Avatar's broken mind, Reathin pulls out destructive phenomenon to harm and hinder his foes. Whatever matter or energy he wishes to draw forth makes itself manifest, but its destructive power and/or binding strength is based on its tier, no matter what it looks like. The size and speed of the attack is based on tier as well:

Tier II: Bala speed max. Up to 10x10x10 meter area max.
Tier III: Half bala speed max. Up to 20x20x20 meter area max.
Tier IV: Cero speed max. Up to 50x50x50 meter area max.

Matter and/or energy from offensive type uses of this ability fade within seconds back into nothingness, once the damage is done. With a binding component, they may last for up to 5 post cycles, but similarly fade away after this point (or at once, if the binding is broken through some means, such as bursting).

Further, Reathin may alter the technique to be Defensive, summoning protective phenomenon/matter in the same way as its more destructive applications. The same tier restrictions still apply. They fade away within 5 post cycles at most, as above.



Name: Echoes of Infinity
Class: Zanpactou Spirit
Type: Illusion
Tier: II-IV
Range: 100m
Description: Sanze claims to see all places, every world that might have been or may yet be, with no ability to distinguish between their likeliness or sensibility. Such madness (and it must be madness...right?) has its glorious moments and the avatar is perfectly willing to share his visions with the world, bringing the painfully limited senses of Reathin's supposed "real" world one step closer to understanding.

Once Echoes of Infinity is activated, Reathin chooses a world within Sanze's mind with any characteristics he likes. He then overlaps said world with his own, creating an illusionary space with a radius of 100 meters. The illusion can only effect 2 of the senses at any given time (chosen at time of projection). The world he projects may be vastly different then Reathin's own, or completely identical to it with only a difference in, say, what objects are in the area. The illusion fills in all the appropriate details automatically, meaning Reathin can be caught completely off guard by the effect (since he isn't deliberately choosing the details). This does make it useful for scientific experimentation, as the illusions following reality's rules can give him details without wasting materials.

At Tier II, the illusion looks perfectly real unless one steps outside the area, but logically deducing the nature of the place is perfectly possible.

At Tier III, the illusion seeps into the minds more thoroughly, blocking the realization that it is an illusion from coming into a targets mind without direct evidence of such (and even than, it takes some convincing).

At Tier IV, the illusion creeps toward the truth. Those who play along with the illusion (knowingly or not) are empowered fairly significantly, while those who try to fight it are weakened in their efforts. For example, a world where the air was really a liquid would allow people to move more quickly by "swimming", while trying to ignore that would make movement a bit more trying. This doesn't guarantee success/failure, but it makes it considerably more likely.

Reathin may choose whether or not the illusion works via direct mental interaction or by binding light, generating sound, creating smells etc. "Pure" illusions that directly effect the mind are limited to 2 senses. The bending light, generated sound etc. isn't so constrained, but still cannot generate fake reiatsu.

In its completed form, Echoes of Infinity may now be "pinned" to an individual or object, centering itself on them and making them to core reference point. This doesn't change the maximum area of effect; rather, it simply moves about with pinned target so that they always represent the center of the effect.

Deliberate reiatsu bursting can weaken and dissolve the effect, as with all illusions. The higher the burster's advantages, the more potent the dispelling effect.


Name: Vault of Woven Dreams
Type: Supplementary
Tier: I-IV
Range: Long
Description: Sanze's visions of alternative worlds are compelling, and he can breath life into them, for a time. This ability generates a pocket dimension, built from Sanze's mind and given a pseudo life. Much like Echoes of Infinity, Reathin chooses the nature and rules of the pocket realm and it fills itself with whatever is appropriate. Unlike Echoes, this is not an illusion effect (technically). Anything that occurs within the Vault works as if it were real...but only while an individual is within the Vault. Once an individual leaves, nothing (positive or negative) comes with them, not even wounds or pain. Leaving the Vault is simplicity itself; simply desiring to leave is enough. Reathin can also deliberately expel anything that came into the Vault from the real world. Even if an individual seemingly dies within the Vault, they emerge unscathed. The Vault cannot be deactivated while anything real occupies it. Nothing generated within the Vault can leave; it de-natures instantly if it tries.

Access to and from the Vault depends on Tier. For each tier level, one point of access (identifiable as an opaque hole in the air ranging in size from 1x1 feet to large enough for a vehicle to pass through) is formed. Anything that passes through these points enters the Vault if Reathin wills it (passing through harmlessly if he does not). When they exit, he also chooses which one they emerge from. The points of access are mobile (their speed is set by Tier, I and II for bala, III for half bala and cero for IV).

The duration of these false worlds depends on Tier:
Tier I: Indefinite
Tier II: Up to 6 post cycles
Tier III: Up to 5 post cycles
Tier IV: Up to 4 post cycles


Now more properly attuned to the fractured dreamscapes of his avatar's mind, Reathin may now maintain as many Vaults as he wishes to spare the energy for, although he still can only access them in shikai.

More usefully, the Vault may now forcibly "invite" others and maintain their presence within. Exerting selective "gravity", the portals may suck in whichever individuals, substances or phenomenon within 100 meters of them that Reathin desires. This may be resisted with a heavy burst of reiatsu, much like a binding art (which this isn't really. It just shares a weakness). Those inside find leaving more difficult than before. To get out, they must spend a number of posts reistsu bursting as the tier level of the vault. They don't need to concentrate on that exclusively though. "Killing" Reathin while in the vault also works to instantly allow exit (although, as positive and negative effects don't leave with people, this doesn't actually kill him any more than him killing them would). Due to the degree of harmonization Reathin possesses to this effect, even dealing serious damage to him disrupts the Vault's hold on people, allowing others to escape if they so choose. Reathin must pick a portal and they emerge from it no worse than when they entered.

Finally, the Vault has a particular harmony with Reathin's craftsmanship and research skills, allowing him to build what he can imagine. Essentially, the Vault may be used as a workshop, providing any raw materials and tools he could ever require. He can only use it to build things he possesses the ability to build (ie. the items need to be approved and within his Item Creation mastery's reach). He can only take items that meet this criteria out; anything else is not truly real and dissolves into nothingness when he leaves, as normal.


Name: Quantum Immortality
Type: Defensive or Healing (See Description)
Tier: II-IV
Range: Medium
Description: Wounds are an inconvenience at the best of times. But what if the attack hadn't landed, the binding never been cast? If it might not have happened, in some capacity it never did, as far as Sanze is concerned.

Used as a defensive technique to intercept an enemy attack, this technique converts the incoming attack from “real” to “potential”, dismissing it into the mad dreamscapes of Reathin's avatar. It can only intersept and destroy attacks matching or less than its tier. Others are reduced in power, but not banished. When used on existing damage/negative effects, this technique functions as a healing effect but does much the same thing. Similar to Orohime's banishment abilities, it rejects the reality of the problem. Negative effects (binding arts, poisons etc.) are removed if Quantum Immortality can match their tier. Otherwise, they're weakened but not removed.

For wounds, the exact effect varies by tier:

Tier II: Wounds aren't actually healed at this stage, merely held in stability (baring heavy activity or more hits) in preparation for proper treatment later. Later tiers also have this effect, unsurprisingly.

Tier III: Simple, low level damage can be healed casually. Notable cuts and bruising takes a post. More serious wounds take longer (2 posts for significant laceations/second degree burns/equivelent scale wounds, while third degree burns/deep lacerations/equivelent scale wounds take a full four posts of treatment).

Tier IV: The process automates itself, no longer requiring active concentration or participation. It is otherwise as efficient as Tier III.

Using the technique on someone who has died within the last few minute is possible, serving as a mystic equivalent of a defibrillator to bring the subject back. This window is brief however, and the process is not always successful (needs OOC permission to bring someone back). Any longer and they re-enter the reincarnation cycle/become too tied to a hollow/dissipate entirely, depending on what killed them. Regardless, the subject will not regain consciousness for hours, but remain stable barring anything else.

Overuse of this tech on the same person over a short period of time is disorienting. After the first two uses, feelings of nausea, discomfort, and even audio/visual hallucinations in extreme cases.

Finally, in its completed form, Quantum Immortality may be used to banish not single effects, but a whole person. Those so effected are hit with a binding art that traps them in one of Sanze's mad mindscapes, dream realms littered with random objects and images. Afterward, they are returned either to the point they were banished from or a place heavily harmonized to their nature (such as a home), at Reathin's discression. Banishing someone this way is a binding tech based on its tier (and can thus be escaped as a normal binding art). Attempting to permanently bind someone is always Tier IV and only works on someone who would be killed by a Tier IV offensive technique (usually by weakening them to that point). They still vanish forever and are dead for all OOC intents and purposes, but the effect ignores regenerative effects and the like. Once it connects, the character can't come back any more than they could normal death.

If Reathin uses the permanent form on himself, there's no undoing it. He (and his avatar) may drift back into reality as ghost-like entities that appear and disappear anywhere, but they cannot have any physical influence. At best, they may speak and appear before people, even show them images and sounds with Echoes of Infinity, but this is the extent of their disembodied existence. They remain trapped either in Sanze's mad worldscapes or as wisps of their former selves in reality, and nothing can bring them back to normal.

BANKAI

Junzen Araware no Sanze



Most bankai are enormous entities, constructs or weapons of some kind, and Sanze's second release is no different. A colossal arrangement of clockwork in the form of a legged platform, Junzen Araware no Sanze is composed of one large semicircular platorm, which possesses a total of 12 mechanical limbs, eight of which are pointed down to serve as grasping, attacking, defending devices similar in function to regular arms. The other four point upward at four equidistant corners. Between each of them sits a wall of glass-like material (as hard as the rest of the bankai) whose transparency is based on Reathin's mental command. Atop these walls and their four corner-arms sits a mechanical roof arranged like a strange fusion of factory and temple. The construct is a superb channel for Reathin's reiatsu, reiryoku and technology; it may fashion itself into properly scaled technical replicas of Reathin's abilities (ie. if he wished to fire a byakurai from inside, something on the outside would momentarily fashion itself into a clockwork lightning projector, same for his implants). The overall results don't actually change what Reathin can do, just how they manifest while he's inside. The bankai's size is about 50 meters by 50 meters by 50 meters. If it needs to, it can fold into itself for reduced size, but never below 20x20x20 meters. Reathin may control the bankai from the outside, or he may do so within, usually by adopting a meditative stance in the central chamber and borrowing his bankai's senses. Controlling it inside is more comfortable.

Name: Infinity Unbound
Class: Zanpactou Spirit (Bankai)
Tier: II-VII
Type: Offensive, Defensive, Binding or Offensive/Binding Hybrid (Depending on each individual use)
Range: 100m
Description: His mind released from its own self-imposed limits of "real" and "unreal", Reathin can now tap much more deeply and strongly into Sanze's alternative worlds for his tools. This ability is functionally the same as his shikai technique Collapsing Waveform, without the cap. As an added clarification to both those techniques, when Reathin manifests anomalous phenomenon (ie. weird stuff like matter-erasing light), it is always possible to counter it with any sort of reiatsu-infused attack of the same tier or better (so a kidou could fight it off, or a zanpactou technique or whatnot). Speed caps remain the same beyond tier IV (ie. still cero speed). Size increases to 70x70x70 meters area max for Tier V, 85x85x85 for Tier VI and 100x100x100 for Tier VII.


Name: Cosmic Principle Nexus
Class: Zanpactou Spirit (Bankai)
Tier: III-VII
Type: Offensive, Defensive, Binding or Supplementary (Depending on each individual use)
Range: 100m from bankai when technique is activated (portals),
Description: Reathin has escaped from the terrible burden of only walking in one reality. This is in many ways simply an upgraded version of Vault of Woven Dreams, utilizing the same factors save where noted below. Like that technique, Cosmic Principle Nexus fashions a pocket dimension to Reathin's specifications (similarly, he chooses the theme and rules, while the details fill themselves in automatically, even if he wouldn't know them. Thus, he can be surprised and potentially endangered by his own technique). Entrance to the Nexus is performed through portals in the "real" world, which work exactly like the Vault of Woven Dreams versions.

The difference is in the Nexus itself. Firstly, it is much harder to escape the Nexus if Reathin doesn't want someone or something to leave. Simply desiring to leave isn't enough any more; either Reathin must be seriously harmed (destablizing the Nexus for a post cycle enough to leave) or by dealing catastrophic, intentional, self-inflicted damage. The peculiar shock of near suicide is a peculiar weakness of the technique (the damage one must inflict on oneself matches the tier of Cosmic Principle Nexus). The second major difference is that wounds don't leave when escaping the Nexus (Reathin's included). Benefits still don't leave at this stage either, nor do non-damaging detriments.

While in the Nexus, Reathin sets a "theme". Thereafter, he may order the Nexus to attack, defend, supplement or bind within the bounds of that theme (ie. if he chose the theme "sunlight", he could conjure bursts of sunfire, block with solidified light etc.). These actions aren't separate techniques themselves; they are manifestations of the single technique activation of Cosmic Principle Nexus and thus the power of these actions is strictly limited to the Nexus' tier and may, as normal, be matched or trumped based on an opponent's tech tiers. In response to Reathin's Nexus actions, an opponent has two primary choices (three, if you count the destructive escape). They may counter with their own techniques, OR they may tap into the Nexus' power (using the same theme Reathin has chosen). This is not quite as efficient (they pay more reiryoku to do so than Reathin), but the Nexus will still serve them within the theme.

MASTERIES

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