REIRYOKU TECHNIQUES
Name: Black Iron Creation
Type:Supplemental
Class: Reiryoku
Range: Short
Tier: III
Description: Black iron is created directly from reiatsu and as such the amount created dictates the cost. Black Iron can be created in Seran's body or outside of it, but it can only be created within ten feet of Seran's body. The process of turning reiatsu into black iron is not instant, though it is very fast, fast enough to form in order to block a swinging weapon (half-bala speed). Black iron flits between the rules for items and techniques when it comes to damage and defense. When used to attack, it functions as a physical weapon of sealed zanpakuto quality, and when wielded or formed as a weapon it has weapon durability as stated in the item guide. However when used to defend (making a wall to block an attack or similar) it functions as a spiritual tech.
Name: Black Iron Manipulation
Type: Supplemental
Class: Reiryoku
Range: Long
Tier: II
Description: Using black iron in combat involves changing its shape to suit the need presented by the situation. Every time a black iron object is changed this technique is used. When black iron is formed it automatically takes the shape desired, but from then on whenever a it takes a new shape it costs energy. The shape of black iron can be just about anything, from weapons and equipment, to clothing and armor, to additional limbs, to forms such as plants, animals or even liquids. The form of black iron changes at bala speed.
Name: Black Iron Animation
Type: Supplemental
Class: Reiryoku
Range: Long
Tier: III
Description: Black iron can take any shape. However many of the shapes mentioned are useless unless they can move (Appendages, animal and plant shapes, liquid). Giving an object movement is basically the entire point of black iron animation. Once a black iron creation is animated it can be animated for seven posts. But this only applies to the way it is being manipulated. So for example, levitating and swinging a black Iron weapon costs reiryoku once, the same for if Seran made himself an additional limb and animated it to use it like the designed limb. But if he created a limb and animated it, but then wanted to change it into a weapon and levitate it, it would take reiryoku again.
Name: Black Iron Sharpen
Type:Supplemental
Class: Reiryoku
Range: Short
Tier: IV
Description: Used for manifested black iron weapons, this technique enhances the cutting power of any black iron armaments created to shikai equivalent. This ability has no visual cue, but a metallic ping is emitted from every weapon enhanced. This cutting power remains so long as the black iron is in an armament form.
Name: Black Iron Harden
Type:Defensive
Class: Reiryoku
Range: Short
Tier: IV-VII
Description: Like with sharpen, this technique amplifies black iron with additional reiryoku, though this technique enhances the structure of black iron to defend against enemy techniques. This ability shares sharpen's lack of visual cue, but has a similar audible ping. Lasts for for maximum post for tier but can be deactivated early.
Name: Black Iron Portals
Type: Transportation
Class: Reiryoku
Range: --
Tier: III
Description: Black Iron portals is a technique that creates portals for seran to use in combat and to travel between worlds. When created the portals take the form of small black orbs, roughly the size of a baseball. Two are required in order to move between them. These portals are permanent and can be given to others but can be destroyed if hit with a higher tier technique. They can also be manipulated by black iron animation. In order to move between worlds the orbs must be placed in either hueco mundo or soul society before they can be traveled too. When the portals are activated they instantly expand out into a disk and Seran can move between them or transport other people/objects/techs
Name: Breath of Black Smoke
Type: Supplemental
Class: Reiryoku Techs
Range: 50m AoE
Tier: IV
Description: Seran converts black iron inside his body to a gaseous state and exhales a massive cloud of inky black smoke into the surrounding area. This smoke causes no damage, but obscures vision. It has no scent and can be manipulated with Seran’s other black iron control abilities.
Name: Quench
Tier I-VII
Type: Defensive
Class: Reiryoku
Range: Long (100m)
Description: Seran points his hand in the direction of a weapon, sending his reiryoku to it at cero speed then closes his hand, surrounding the item with his reiryoku and counteracting all energy in the weapon. This “quenches” the item, disabling all the items properties and negating any energy being used through it. The cooldown of quench depends of the tier of the abilities quenched, and none of the items properties can be used, and no energy can be used through the weapon for 3 posts after being quenched.
Name: Black Dominion
Tier I+
Type: Passive
Class: Reiryoku
Range: Self
Description: Seran’s specialization in creation give him a unique understanding and power over items. When he holds an item that he didn’t create, black veins flow out from his hand into the weapon, analyzing it and dominating it. This includes items taken from opponents upon death and items taken through theft or disarming. This technique’s advantages are calculated using Item creation.
Analyzation: If the veins are allowed to spread throughout the item (3 posts), Seran gains all information about the item including materials used to make it, composition, all abilities the item has and how to use them.
Dominion: This applies to items with anti-theft properties or items bound to a certain character. This ability has stages. Stage one is the first post the weapon is obtained and is anti-destruction, stopping the item from self destructing or harming Seran with properties. Similar to Seran’s quench ability, this counteracts any energy residing in the item, draining Seran to do so. The second stage takes place after the weapon is analyzed, and manipulates whatever ability that binds the weapon to the specific person. The ability is either destroyed through this process or changed to consider Seran as the weapon’s owner.
Release Items: Against release items (fullbring, zanpakuto, doll) this technique acts differently. Assuming Seran could disarm the opponent of the item, the process is similar but with a different endgame. Analyzation still takes place, the only difference being that Seran cannot use any of the items abilities.
Name: Quarantine Sphere
Class: Reiryoku
Tier: V-VII
Type: Binding
Range: Medium
Description: Seran extends both hands perpendicular to one another in the direction of the chosen target, sending reiryoku above and below them at the speed of Cero, creating two halves of a hollow sphere. The hands are then closed together and the fingers interlocked, causing the two halves of the sphere to close around the target and lock. The victim is then trapped within the barrier sphere and is incapable of interacting with anything outside of the sphere until the technique is released by Seran or broken by force (though they can speak to those outside the sphere if Seran allows it), and Seran can also control the sphere's movement. This technique’s cooldown depends on tier used. This technique can last indefinitely (until broken) so long as Seran focuses on maintaining it, but if he chooses to do so he cannot use other activated reiryoku, or release techniques (unless specifically designed to be used with Quarantine sphere) and cannot step. He also must have one of his hands devoted to maintaining the technique (pointed in the general direction of the sphere and not used for other actions like blocking).
Name: Pacify
Class: Reiryoku
Tier: III-VII
Type: Offensive
Range: Medium
Description: A technique developed by Seran to stop a target without damaging them. He channels his reiryoku as electricity in one hand and fires it at an opponent at cero speed in a cone. Designed to not physically harm the target, this electric shock simply paralyzes depending on advantages, and directly targets the nerves to be excruciatingly painful. Seran can maintain this energy for three posts regardless of tier used, but choosing to do so above tier III causes a 6 post cooldown. This ability can also be used in tandem with Quarantine Sphere, channeling the energy of the attack through the sphere instead of the hand, ensuring it hits the trapped target.
HAND TO HAND / WEAPON SKILL
Name: Ikkotsu [一骨, "Single Bone"]
Class: Hand to Hand Technique
Type: Offensive.
Range: Self.
Cost: IV
Description: Ikkotsu is the result of incredible spiritual and physical energy being pumped into a single thrust of the arm, which causes instantaneous damage before blasting the opponent away up to 100 meters in distance, the damage itself aimed to crush completely through something, rather then break it.
Name: Soukotsu [双骨, "Double Bone"]
Class: Hand to Hand Technique
Type: Offensive.
Range: Self.
Cost: VI
Description: A doubled-version of Ikkotsu in which the user condenses spiritual and physical energy into the upper arms before striking usually both on the torso and abdominal area, inducing incredible damage that obliterates the area upon contact, dealing major damage, but causing no knockback, unlike Ikkotsu. Soukotsu requires Ikkotsu to be trained to utilize.
Name: Tsukiyubi [撞指, Thrust Fingers]
Class: Hand to Hand Technique
Type: Offensive.
Range: Self.
Cost: IV
Description: By putting pressure into a single point in between two fingers, the user of Tsukiyubi can instantaneously blast somebody back with just a touch, sending them upwards of 50 meters away upon impact.
Name: Ninjutsu
Class: Hand to Hand Style
Type: Supplementary
Range: Self.
Tier: N/A
Description: Ninjutsu, in a literal translation, is the art (or ability) of ninja. Ninjutsu is an incredibly uncommon martial arts, learning it would be hard unless you knew somebody who had the art passed down from a previous dynasty. But you never know.
Ninjutsu in it's main form is to assassinate people, simple as that. It's attacks are focused around hit-and-run, remaining silent, and killing in one shot. No exceptions have been since made, and those who could not do this as a Ninja often times got executed for being terrible at what they did.
While the details are foggy, the most prominent of Ninjutsu styles or stances is a simple, non-formed style which focuses on keeping the weight on the left leg to allow for pivoting attacks. Outside of that, Ninjutsu is only detailed on how much they included within scrolls from ancient times.
Name: Chinmoku [Silence]
Class: Hand to Hand Technique
Type: Supplementary.
Range: Self.
Tier: II
Description: Those who take up the mantle of a Ninja are taught to be completely silent, to make no noise, to leave nothing behind. Chinmoku is the spiritual equivalent, for while a ninja could be quiet, absolute silence is only achieved through ones spiritual energy masking all sounds from the user outside of abilities. Chinmoku, while being a passive, is instantly broken upon using an ability that causes sound (i.e: flame, shikai, etc) or visual antics, and requires two turns for the spiritual energy to reform and create the silence again.
Name: Shakou Kikku [Blackout Kick]
Class Hand to Hand Technique
Type: Offensive.
Range: Self.
Tier: II
Description: A technique that combines the practices of not only stealth but silent retreat. If discovered, the user is able to deliver a kick that produces a flash of light upon contact, allowing the user to retreat without being spotted. This would leave the opponent in a daze, blurred vision for a post and left to wonder about what just happened. A ninja can appear and disappear in a flash.
Name: Jikkou [Execute]
Class: Hand to Hand Technique
Type: Offensive.
Range: Self.
Tier: III
Description: A technique that moves with such precision, while looking harmless. It is a chop aimed directly at the back of the opponent's neck with a soft touch, the user sends a pulse of energy from the point of contact to stun the opponent's movements for a brief moment as the energy disrupts their entire body. A 30% stun to the entire body is inflicted, unless the user has 2 advantages over the opponent, then can virtually knock them out for a post.
PLOT TECHNIQUES
Name: Black Iron forging
Type: Supplemental
Class: Creation
Range: Short
Tier: IV
Description: Black Iron forging is the process of making an object made of black iron permanent. This process is costly and requires time and concentration so doing it in combat is ill advised. When supplied with enough energy, black iron will become a permanent material and can gain unique powers and properties. To do this, the object is created and then energy is supplied to it over the course of about 2min. Other beings can supply energy to help in this process. The properties the item gains are related to several factors: First the desires of those who supplied the energy, the type of item that is made permanent and finally the item assimilated through black iron assimilate. NOTE: ALL ITEMS CREATED IN THIS WAY MUST APPROVED THROUGH THE APPROVAL PROCESS.
Name: Black Iron Assimilate
Type: Supplementary
Class: Creation
Range: Short
Tier: IV
Description: Another useful creation ability revolving around Black Iron. When Black Iron is introduced to large amounts of energy it gains the ability to fuse with other materials. This fusion can take certain properties of the fused material and can have various uses. One of the most interesting is that it will not always change the substance. This means that if it is fused with a plant the plant will not always die in fact if could keep growing normally while gaining special properties from the black iron. If an item like a Zanpakuto is assimilated then created alloy will not keep the original items abilities but it will often gain new ones from the process. Note: Like black iron forging this ability is ill advised to use during combat. It can be used at the end of a combat topic to assimilate something from a defeated opponent. And again all things created through this process must be approved through the approval process. Materials made through this process are often used in black iron forging and individuals may give Seran materials for the forging process. NOTE: ALL ITEMS CREATED IN THIS WAY MUST APPROVED THROUGH THE APPROVAL PROCESS.
Name: Black Iron Consumption
Type: Supplementary
Class: Item Creation
Range: Short
Tier: VII
Description: The next level of Seran's black iron abilities. While the first abilities( black iron forging/ assimilation) were designed to create equipment and weapons, this new ability is designed to increase Seran's spiritual ability arsenal. Black iron consumption is similar to black iron assimilate, with the major difference being that black iron consumption takes place inside Seran's body. The basis of the ability is simple: By eating certain materials Seran gains new spiritual abilities (THAT MUST BE APPROVED). When Seran eats a material it is assimilated by his black iron inside his body and then absorbed. The abilities gains are directly related to the material consumed and are then trained by Seran to make them complete. Note that this ability can not be used on materials owned or created by others unless forcefully taken in combat or given as gifts. All consumed materials must be obtained IC. Cannot be used on Zanpakutos.
Name: Memory Link
Type: Supplementary
Class: Reiryoku
Range: Short (Requires direct contact with being or storage crystal)
Tier: I
Description: Memory link is a fairly basic ability revolving around the sharing of memories between two beings. Useful as both an interrogation and information sharing ability, this skill scans the memory center of the brain and transfers the information to another being, allowing them to experience the memory exactly as it happened. This ability can also be used against another being by forcefully scanning their mind with reiatsu when they are incapacitated or severely weakened. This ability can also store memories in special crystals created by Seran’s black iron so they can be transported to others without the need for the person sharing the memory to personally give the memory to everyone intended.
-This ability cannot be used on a character without OOC consent.
-Because these are memories, the shared memories cannot be falsified or manipulated, they will appear exactly as the user or victim remembers it.
-This ability cannot be used to instantly gain experience or instantly train techniques or masteries.
Name: Essence Forge
Type: Supplementary
Class: Creation
Range: Short
Tier: V
Description: Essence forge is a creation method developed by Seran after reaching the pinnacle of his black iron abilities. Black iron, he has officially concluded is his “Material Essence”. Material Essence, is a term created by Seran after studying the soul communication abilities of fullbringers. Soul communication teaches that all things have a soul regardless of whether animate or inanimate, and material essence is simply put: The physical form an animate soul would take if it were inanimate. For Seran this is black iron, which is to say that if he was an inanimate soul he would be black iron. Essense forging then, is the ability to extract the material essence of other beings and use it to make objects of great power.
Seran draws out a being’s material essence in much the same way as he creates his own black iron. The process can take hours, since he is materializing the essence on someone else. The person must channel their reiryoku into a ball between their hands. Once this is complete, Seran places his hand on the energy and extracts the material essence from the concentrated reiryoku. The material manifests inside the orb of reiryoku and once it has completely taken form the reiryoku is released. Depending on the form the material can then be used to create items. (These materials and items must all be registered and because of its complexity using it in combat is ill advised).
Name: Spiritual Insulation
Type: Supplementary/ defensive
Class: Creation
Range: Supplementary
Tier: III
Description: Spiritual Insulation is an ability designed to make buildings sensory proof and if done in the human world also slightly spiritualizes the building, making it impossible for spiritual beings to phase through. This ability works by creating a spiritual membrane around the entire structure that sticks to it and rejects sensory abilities that try to penetrate it. A being must physically be inside the structure in order to sense those within, and even in that case the process can be done again on smaller scales to make individual rooms sensory proof. This ability is permanent once completed and can only be removed by those who know the ability or if the area that the ability was used gets destroyed. Because of the complexity of this process, this ability cannot be used in combat, and if the structure is damaged the seal breaks and the reiatsu of those within can be sensed. When physically in the presence of this structure, those with high enough spiritual senses (on par with Seran's creation level) will see a faint glimmer from the structure.
Name: Green Weaving
Type: Supplementary
Class: Creation
Range: Medium (50m)
Tier: III
Description: Green weaving is a creation method revolving around spiritual plants. It was invented by Seran but can be used by anyone with basic creation skill. Green weaving involves feeding a plant reiryoku and manipulating the shape of the plant’s growth with that reiryoku. The process doesn’t give the plant any special properties, it merely causes the plant to grow in a certain shape. This ability is mainly used to obtain a part of a plant without killing it.
Name: Soul Caress
Class: Item Creation
Tier: VII
Type: [Non-Combat]
Range: Short
Description: To directly interact with a being’s soul, the spiritual body (and physical body in the case of non-spiritual beings) must be “softened” and split apart to create an opening from which the structure of the soul can be accessed. Seran’s method to achieve this effect came from his study of the effects of artificial souls. Gikon were designed with several purposes, but the one of interest for this ability is the ability to evict the spiritual body from the physical body, originally designed to help force stubborn spirits out of bodies and later used to help shinigami quincy vacate their gigai. Seran’s research yielded the observation that in doing this artificial souls change the “frequency” of their soul to interrupt the frequency of the soul and physical body they are attempting to evict. Working with this in mind, Seran developed a technique to vibrate his own soul at an even higher frequency, which scrambles the frequency of the target’s spiritual body and gives Seran an opening to reach past it, directly into the soul itself. Once he has access to the soul, Seran can create a faux representation of the soul’s structure outside of the body, allowing him to see his work without having to directly open up a large enough area to physically see the individual’s soul.
MATERIALS
Name: Black Iron
Quality: Uncommon
Type: Unclassified
Amount: Renewable
Description: After leaving the Soul Society, Seran manifested an ability to help him his seemingly endless encounters with shinigami when his only vessel was a damaged gigai. Revealing itself during a fight, this technique caused a strange black material to bleed out of his body and coat it in a regenerating black armor. Over time Seran discovered that he could call forth more of the material at will, and manipulate it into most any shape he could imagine. Over time this became his signature power and he developed and discovered numerous abilities related to the substance. In its base state black iron is a dense, metallic black liquid. But this state is changed almost constantly through Seran’s abilities, making black iron capable of mimicking the appearance and physical state of many other materials.
Name: Hueco Acero (Hollow Steel)
Quality: Uncommon
Type: Metal
Amount: renewable
Description: A dark grey metal with low luster. The material seem to dislike being polished and reverts back to a darker, tarnished state if such a process is attempted. When forged into items it often takes on a scratched appearance, as if it was gone over with a wire brush, but this does not affect the item in any way other than cosmetically. It is made from separating out iron sand from the normal sand within Hueco Mundo and smelting it. The resulting metal can be worked with like steel, but maintains the appearance of iron. This material was originally discovered by Theocelese.
Name: Hueco Vaso (Hollow Glass)
Quality: Uncommon
Type: Glass
Amount: renewable
Description: Glass Made from melting down the white sand in Hueco Mundo. While it can be seen through to an extent, the glass maintain the pale white tinge of the sand.
Name: Hollowfied Seeds
Quality: Advanced
Type: Seeds
Amount: 5
Description: Within the research materials discovered in the laboratory of the former Espada Szayelaporro Granz, Seran and Theocelese found dormant seeds that were noted to have been found deep underground in Hueco Mundo. Using the theories in the notes, they managed to grow the seeds within Las Noches. But soon after the Alliance disbanded and Seran harvest seeds from the numerous plants to take with him for study, leaving the garden to fade away without maintenance.
Name: Hollowfied Iron Wood Tree
Quality: Advanced
Type: Plant
Amount: 30 (one fully grown tree)
Description: Grown from seeds taken during his experiment into growing plants in Las Noches. This is the first hollowfied plant species Seran has fully bred. Plants chosen had exceptionally durable wood and high growth rate. Looks quite similar to a traditional desert ironwood tree from the human world (olneya), this tree differs only in color, having exceedingly dark, brown wood and very pale green, almost white leaves. The tree flowers all year long in captivity or in Hueco mundo, with small black and white flowers that attract jigokucho. It also has an exception growth rate, reaching full size in a matter of weeks when fed reiryoku on a regular basis, and even faster when grown using green weaving.
Name: Jigokucho Silk
Quality: Advanced
Type: cloth
Amount: 30
Description: Jigokucho raised in Las Noches or around Seran's hollowfied plants will lay eggs like a normal butterfly. The larvae that hatch are very similar to silkworms, and make a cocoon of white silk from which they hatch into their butterfly form. If collected, cleaned, and spun, these cocoons produce an incredibly strong and spiritually attuned thread that can be woven into silky cloth or otherwise used.
Name: Hollow Extract
Quality: Rare
Type: Soul Material
Amount: 25
Description: A writhing liquid that changes between black and very dark variations of blue and red. It moves as though it has a mind of its own, and reacts to spiritual energy by attempting to seek it out. After going through the research notes of Szayelaporro Granz, Seran began researching hollow soul structure. This liquid, dubbed “Hollow Extract”, was created by removing the dominate soul or souls from a hollow and then using black iron assimilation to break down the remaining creature into a liquid form, stopping the souls from dissipating as they normally would when a hollow is slain.
Name: Medius Silex (“The Centermost Stone”)
Quality: Advanced
Type: Stone
Amount: 5
Description: The Material Essence of Adam Man De’dues, created when Seran kidnapped the Fullbringer and used Essense Forging on his reiryoku. An Incredibly hard and dense green stone with beautiful patterns along its surface similar to certain kinds of earthly granite. This stone is incredibly heavy, even spiritual beings have trouble lifting it with simple brute strength. The stone absorbs sunlight to glow dimly green at night.
Name: Retineo (“Restrain/ Maintain”)
Quality: Advanced
Type: Ink
Amount: 5
Description: The Material Essence of Salem, created when Seran kidnapped the Shinigami and used Essense Forging on his spiritual energy. It is a completely clear, almost invisible liquid that changes color when exposed to different spiritual matter and energy.
Name: Soul Communed Crystal
Quality: Rare
Type: Crystal
Amount: 15
Description: The shattered remains of Aevi’s crystallized coffin. Created when the fullbringer lost control of her gravity powers. The earth around her was put under such extreme pressure that the carbon compressed into diamond, sealing her in a massive crystal. During the years she was trapped, her fullbring and soul communication powers remained active, essentially augmenting the “soul” of the crystal for so long that effect became permanent. After she was freed, Seran recovered the material and kept it to continue studying the girl’s powers.
Name: Racial Blood Samples
Quality: Uncommon
Type: Blood
Amount: 1 for each sample
Description: Blood samples taken from the many individuals Seran has had contact with over the years.
Arrancar: (Theocelese, Eleanor)
Shinigami: (Salem, Arashi, Tiru)
Fullbringer: (Adam, Daiki, Aevi)
Hollow: (Yaksha)
Vizard: (Matrium, Hidane, Ryka)
Human: (Wasu)
Sub-Shini: (Cyril)
Name: Soul Matrix Stem Plasma
Quality: Extraordinary
Type: Soul Substance
Amount: 7
Description: The main product of Seran’s expertise in soul construction and modification. From studying his own soul pill, an artificial soul pill, and the souls of numerous races, Seran was able to manifest a material from his reiryoku and black iron that closely resembles the material that makes up a soul pill. This substance is essentially blank soul “material” and can be used in soul related creation and modification.
Name: Blood of Seran
Quality: Extraordinary
Type: Soul Substance
Amount: 5
Description: A pitch black liquid substance, distinguishable from black iron’s base state only by the fumes of dark crimson it emits. Blood of Seran is actually a misnomer, as modified souls have no actual blood to speak of, and the name soul runoff would likely be more scientifically accurate. When Seran began his research on exposing the soul of a being so that it could be modified, he made a striking discovery regarding his own soul and souls in general. Not unexpectedly, the soul grows and matures as a being ages, but it can also be damaged, as is well understood for those who understand hollowfication and soul suicide. But Seran’s discovery was the certain events during one’s life can affect the growth of the soul and in some cases damage it through traumatic experiences. In cases like his own, the soul can actually be rent in certain places and does, in fact, bleed. A substance created by by negative experiences, the “blood” is volatile and carries a taint with it into the items it creates; which tends to add certain “negative” effects on the user.
ITEMS
Name: The Red Dog’s Sword
Type: Item - Standard
Tier: VII
Condition: --
Description: Appearance
The original weapon Seran trained with during his time in the Seireitei, it was the only weapon he felt comfortable using despite being trained in a wide variety of armaments. When he was assigned to the modified soul “test run” in the human world he stubbornly took the weapon with him, despite the concern that it made him look brutish to carry such a weapon and they wanted him to appear civilized. But these worries were unfounded, and with the weapon Seran earned a reputation as a combatant that fought with brutal efficiency. When he escaped from the Seireitei during the mod soul genocide, the weapon was the only thing he took with him, though the blade broke his escape. For several months while he was hunted, the broken weapon was his only defense, but eventually it became to damaged to continue using and Seran was forced to rely on hand to hand combat and eventually his awakened spiritual abilities. For a long time the weapon was nothing more than a familiar weight on his waist or back, always with him but no longer a viable tool of war. With the discovery of black iron came the rebirth of the weapon, with the black substance binding the broken pieces of the blade black together. As Seran learned more, and honed his skills of making over skills of destroying, the blade became an artistic piece, with engravings down its surface, constantly changing designs on the guard and scabbard. After he was invited to live in Hueco Mundo, the blade underwent its first reforging, and the steel of the blade was folded with material from a blade given by his friend Haru, and iron from Hueco Mundo’s sand that Theocelese had smelted. From then on the weapon was reforged numerous times, each one adding in a new material Seran had discovered or been given, but he never attempted to give the weapon properties beyond that of a normal sword.
Materials/ Other:
Spiritual Steel
Black Iron
Hueco Acero
Unnamed Metal (Haru’s Fire Sword)
Zanpakuto Steel
Soul Synthesized Silver
Orichalcum (Eleanor’s Alchemically Perfected Gold)
Hollow Extract (Soaked In)
Extended Soul Communication
Extended Alliance Stress Testing (While Drunk)
Dangai Particle Exposure (Dangai Event creature blood)
Soul Communed Crystal
Hollowfied Iron Wood (New Hilt)
Jigokuchu Silk (Hilt)
Name: Zanpakuto [Name Omitted]
Type: Item - Standard
Tier: --
Condition: Self Repairing (canon)
Description: A standard length katana with a black wrap. The guard is shaped like a flower and has two layers, one pointing out like a normal guard, and one that where the petals bend out and up like actual flower petals.
Name: Seele Schneider
Type: Item - Standard - Single Use
Tier: VII
Condition: [10]
Current Amount: 4
Description: The Seele Schneider is perhaps the most powerful quincy arrow in existence. In its inert state, the Seele is an ornate bar of Soul Synthesized Silver with a rectangular loop at one end and an opening at the other. When activated, the weapon forms a blade of condensed reishi that vibrates along the edge. It goes without saying that this weapon has seele level sharpness, the highest obtainable by items. But the Seele’s usefulness to a quincy goes far beyond a sharp edge. The blade’s vibrations break apart the bond of spiritual particles the blade comes into contact with, allowing the quincy to draw them in more easily over time. Each post that the blade comes into contact the spiritual particles of the opponent (tier IV or higher), it gains a charge. At five charges, the quincy may lower the cooldown of one reishi ability by a single post. At ten charges, the user may convert the Seele into its arrow form and fire it as a single use tier VII arrow, though this overheats the Seele and makes it unusable in the fight from then on.
Name: Jigokuchō
Type: Item - Standard
Tier: I
Condition: Not Applicable
Description: Jigokuchō are the hell butterflies used by shinigami as guides through the Senkaimon. Seran obtained two of these creatures from Arashi and was able to breed a population of them to pollinate the plants within Las Noches. These Jigokuchō have maintained their abilities as guides and message carriers.
Name: Gigai [2x]
Type: Item - Standard
Tier: --
Condition: Not Applicable
Description: Gigai are artificial bodies originally created by the shinigami. They allow shinigami to blend in in the human world and interact with non-spiritual beings.
Name: Artificial Souls
Type: Item - Standard
Tier: --
Condition: Not Applicable
Description: Gikon are souls, designed by Shinigami scientists, which separate a Shinigami's spirit from a Gigai, should they be inhabiting one, or evict stubborn spirits from their corpses if necessary. They also act as assistants to shinigami, performing basic tasks while using their gigai.
Name: Shigai
Type: Item - Standard
Tier: V
Condition: Not Applicable
Description: Shigai are the hollow version of gigai. Manufactured by Seran with his black iron, hollowfied spawning pool, and human blood samples, these bodies can be grown in the lab for use by humanoid Hollows and Arrancar. These bodies allow those races to take a human form and interact with non-spiritual humans in the human world. Being’s using these vessel can use all their abilities while occupying these bodies but they also have a special release mechanism in the chest of the shigai that when turned and pushed down, ejects the being within so they can use their spiritual body. While using this body the user's resistance mastery becomes the same as a human's. In all other ways there bodies behave much in the same way as a normal gigai, including the transfer of injuries taken from the gigai to the spiritual body.
Name: Alliance Communicator
Type: Item - Standard
Tier: III
Condition: Not Applicable
Description: Alliance Communicator is an enhanced reproduction of the shinigami’s Denreishinki. It was designed by Seran as the standard issue communication device for members of the alliance before its disbandment. It has all the properties of a normal cellphone and several other more useful spiritual properties. The AC is capable of cross world communication, allowing the Alliance contact regardless of what dimension they happen to be in. The AC has a GPS that functions regardless of which world the owner is located. The device also has a tracking feature for members of the alliance to find one another. This has an infinite range and other alliance member’s ACs can be pinpointed on the GPS, regardless of distance, as black dots with names above them (this feature can be turned off by the owner).
Name: Regenerative Serum
Type: Item - Single Use
Tier: VII
Condition: Not Applicable
Description: [Canon Invention Box]
A serum based on the substance used by Mayuri Kurotsuchi. When injected into a subject, this serum stimulates cellular production, essentially giving the target high speed regeneration for a brief period. This can heal large damaged portions of the target’s body (limbs, organs, etc…), but also causes a large amount of pain when healing large sections. Because of the intensity of the drug’s stimulation of the body’s cells, it can only be administered once per target in combat, with the second injection causing extreme exhaustion and inability to continue fighting, though this effect cannot be used to intentionally debilitate an opponent.
Name: Healing Hot Spring
Type: Item - Standard
Tier: VI
Condition: Not Applicable
Description: [Canon Invention Box]
Hot springs infused with healing healing energies, copied from Urahara Kisuke’s copy of Tenjirō Kirinji’s “White Bone Hell”. Mimicking Urahara’s more tame version of the healing water, this spring has no negative, damaging side effects to weaker souls, but is also not anywhere near the level of the legendary zero squad member’s healing. The pools are meant more for training recovery than medical treatment, but still are quite effective, healing deep gashes, broken bones, torn muscles, basically most things aside from internal organs and entire body parts (though parts can be reattached in the spring assuming they aren’t too heavily damaged). The spring also restores the stamina of those who use it, allowing them to return to training or any other strenuous activity faster. The main downside of this item is that it takes up a huge amount of space, takes a long time to set up in a new location, and is not mobile, making it basically unusable in combat.
Name: Caja Negación
Type: Item - Single Use
Tier: Canon
Condition: Not Applicable
Current Amount:
Description: [Canon Invention Box]
Caja Negación is a special cube-shaped device that is intended to simulate the effects of Negación fields on the target. When used, via insertion into the target's hollow hole or soul, the cube isolates and traps the subject in a separate, alternate dimension. Caja Negación were originally utilized by an Espada in order to punish their Fracción if they deem that the situation requires it. Once trapped, it takes several hours for the subject to escape from the isolated space, and once they do manage to escape the are deposited in a random location within the world they were occupying when trapped.
Name: Multi-Use Wire
Type: Item - Standard
Tier: IV
Condition: Not applicable
Description: Thin, black, metal wire made from black iron and hueco acero(hollow steel). The wire is thin, but not sharp, and clearly visible to the naked eye and close ranges. This wire has innumerable uses, especially with its spiritual conductivity that allows it to be manipulated by the user. The wire is generally stored on a closed spool connected to the user’s belt, and the spool device contains mechanism that allows the wire to be cut at different lengths.
Name: Chameleon Suit
Type: Item - Standard
Tier: III
Condition: Not Applicable
Description: The chameleon suit is another standard issue piece of the equipment for members of the alliance. In its base form it is a large black ball of soft cloth-like material which when activated flows onto the user’s body like liquid and forms into a skin-tight, black jumpsuit that covers the entire body save for the head. Once it is equipped the suit can change shape, color, and consistency to any type of clothing the user prefers.
Name: Monitoring System
Class: Reiryoku Techniques
Tier: I
Type: Passive
Range: Infinite
Description: The suit has a built in status system that is connected to Seran’s “network”. This allows their condition to be monitored. The suit tracks heart rate, respiratory rate, body temperature, and can even take a blood sample for analysis if the user is poisoned or any other foreign substance enters their body. The suit also tracks any damage dealt to the body of the user.
Name: Chameleon System
Class: Reiryoku Techniques
Tier: I
Type: Passive
Range: Self
Description: The system which gives the suit its name. The Chameleon infiltration system has several effects: The first, and most important, is the reiatsu filter, which absorbs the user’s reiatsu, edits its sensation, and then releases as normal. Depending on the location, this changes the feeling of the user’s reiatsu to human, shinigami, or hollow. The second stage of this system is the appearance modified. Assuming the user is humanoid, this system modifies their appearance to better blend into an environment. These changes vary person to per and race to race, but as an example, if an arrancar wore the suit into the human world, their mask fragments and their hole would become cloaked, making them look identical to a human. In certain situations the appearance of the user’s clothing will also change to fit their environment.
Name: Incursus
Type: Item - Standard
Tier: VII
Condition: [10]
Description: Image
An simple yet exceptionally crafted blade. Made from forged black iron and Hueco Acero this weapon was made as a simple katana, but with every aspect being worked on in exceptional detail to achieve perfection. The weapon was smithed by folding together both materials continuously, using black iron forging to imbue the weapon’s soul with the concept “Sharpness”. The tsuba(guard) and kashira(end cap) are made of Eleanor Lockwood’s oricalcum. The tsuka(handle) is made from hollowfied ironwood and wrapped Jigokucho silk. The nakago(tang) is inscribed in Retineo with Seran’s maker’s mark as well as the inscription:
I am sharp as guilt
which I use to cut all things
as Seran wills it.
Name: Infinite Sharpness I : Light Cut
Class: Item Creation
Tier: I
Type: Passive
Range: Self
Description: As the ancient Japanese proverb goes: Blades of legendary sharpness were so perfectly crafted that their edges cut through light, rendering the user invisible. Incursus gives testament to this idea, rendering its user invisible when the blade is held in Seigan no Kamae (held directly in front of the user with the edge facing the opponent) or similar. This invisibility is not perfect, and only makes the user invisible while the edge is directly facing the target. This effect also also occurs when the blade is swung, making it, as well as the arms and parts of the body of the user, invisible during the sections of the swing where the edge faces the enemy.
Name: Sharpness II : Friction Cut
Class: Item Creation
Tier: I
Type: Passive
Range: Self
Description: Along with its remarkable edge, Incursus is also polished to a near mirror shine. But this polish isn’t simply for show, were you to look at the blade with a microscope you would see a completely untarnished surface. This aspect of the blade gives it near a near frictionless surface, making it cut through the air with zero resistance. In base terms, this adds an advantage to any speed based motion the blade takes.
Name: Infinite Sharpness III : Uncuttable Cut
Class: Item Creation
Tier: I-VII
Type: Passive/Supplementary
Range: Self
Description: Taking the legends a step further. During its forging process, Incursus was imbued with the concept of cutting beyond the physical cutting potential of normal weapons. This allows the weapon to cut that which would normally not be impossible. Things such as (but not limited to) fire, wind, lightning, even water will be split cleanly by the blade; leaving a severed void for several posts after it is cut.
Name: Infinite Sharpness IV : Concept Cut
Class: Item Creation
Tier: I-VII
Type: Passive/Supplementary
Range: Self
Description: The final, and likely the most defining form of Incursus’ sharpness. The weapon is so amazingly sharp, and the idea of sharpness forged into the blade so purely, that this weapon is capable of cutting that which has no physical form or appearance. The applications of this aspect of the blade are essentially limitless, but here is an example of its uses on a solid block of steel. Upon cutting the steel the user cuts the concept of “hard”, causing the steel to become soft and malleable like clay. Or he cuts the concept of “steel”, severing the block into the iron and carbon that created it. He could also cut “Solid” causing the steel to melt into a liquid, and then proceed to cut “liquid” to turn it into a gaseous state. Alternatively he could slice the steel’s “weight” causing the metal to become light as a feather, or perhaps even chop through the material’s “potential” causing items created from the steel be poor no matter the skill of the maker. And that is only a taste of what can be accomplished with this ability. It should be noted with concept cut that the user can choose whether or not the blade damages that which is being cut, meaning if the ability was used on an ally the blade would cut into them but only cut the desired concept, leaving the flesh untouched. There are stipulations however:
-Only one concept can be cut per strike.
-The blade cannot break down into parts things that lack them. So while steel can potentially be broken down into iron and carbon, the remaining elements cannot be split further as they are “pure”.
-The blade cannot cut through concepts that would instantly kill an opponent, such as: “Life”, “existence”, or even something like “heartbeat”.
-The blade cannot cut concepts that would heal a target.
-Cutting concepts that affect a target’s mind such as “identity” or certain emotions like “anger” or “joy” or similar require OOC consent. However these concepts can be severed as part of a technique, for example if a technique caused a being to become angry which caused them to become stronger, cutting “anger” would stop the technique from functioning while leaving the emotion.
-Concepts like race cannot be cut without special permission from mods. For example a vizard cannot be cut into a shinigami and hollow.
-A being’s “skill” cannot be cut to lower masteries, however their “strength” or “speed” can be, which causes it to be halved.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Because of the complexity of this item, most notably the fourth tech, it would be impossible for me to know and write out every single stipulation and a lot of stuff will need to be worked out in objections as the item is used in threads.
IMPORTANT NOTE: With Concept Cut, the outcome of the ability is not entirely within the user’s control, and will often come down to both the user and the opponent’s imagination. This also means that any cut can potentially be a double edged sword. Using the same steel example as above: If an opponent had the ability to control a piece of steel and the user were to cut “solid” to convert the steel to liquid, the opponent would still have control over the material and would now have access to liquid steel. Taking it a step further, the opponent might consider “liquid” steel to be molten, so once the steel was converted to liquid it would also be exceptionally hot, thus increasing the damage it could do, effectively turning Incursus’ power back on the user.
Name: Monitor
Type: Item - Standard
Tier: VII
Condition: Not Applicable
Description: Monitor is a hybrid organism created from research into hollow essence, hollowfied botanical organisms, and artificial soul research. Originally designed as a biological computer to store all of Seran’s acquired knowledge and carry out basic tasks, the system was enhanced when he decided to create an advisor based off of his own mind, but that could only think logically without the interference of emotions. To do this he decoded parts of the mental coding within his soul pill coding and inserted it into a hollow soul template he designed by studying his hollow essence. As his creation grew he tested its intelligence and modified the genetic structure with hollowfied plant genetics to complete the soul’s coding. In its completed form, Monitor is a large hollowfied brain organism, mainly black with glowing purple lobes covering the surface. The exterior hides an highly complex body with chambers for studying and creating biological substances. Monitor can also interface with almost any conceivable system, including electronics and operate them, allowing it to run all parts of Seran’s lab.
Name: Monitor Jigokucho
Class: Item Creation
Tier: I
Type: Item
Range: Infinite
Description: An evolution of the standard jigokucho grow within Monitor. In appearance they differ only in that where the normal jigokucho have red on their wings, the Monitor Jigokucho have purple.These jigokucho have all the qualities of the originals, with the added benefit of being the eyes and ears of Monitor.
Name: Unveiled Melody
Type: Item - Standard - Body Modification
Tier: VII [Expertise]
Condition: Not Applicable
Description: Plainly stated, the soul does not see and cannot be seen. It is an intangible force that cannot easily be interacted with. In his first experiments, the most important lesson Seran learned was that his eye, no matter how he enhanced them, were limited in their perception of the soul, and therefore acting on that visual information could only take him so far. The frequency of the soul, which he had initially discovered as a means to access a being's soul to begin with, was a far greater code of information if it could be understood. To this end, Seran used his own soul and exposed it to the various frequencies he had documented from other individuals. Through this his discovered a grouping a nodes within his soul more sensitive to these frequencies, and magnified them, allowing his soul to "hear" the frequency of other souls, including the souls of inanimate objects to a degree. But this ability is not without cost, and this new sensory information stacks on top of those from his base senses. This can lead to sensory overload, and unbalancing of his own inner frequency, causing what he's dubbed a "soul migraine".
Dangai Nesting Jigokucho - Few creatures are as well adapted to the dangai as the jigokucho. These tiny creatures have an enate sense of direction with the precipice, guiding their shinigami masters from the soul society to the human world and back again. But the whimsical nature of the jigokucho is well known within the Gotei 13, and keeping butterflies captive is a task easier said than done. When one does find its freedom, the dangai is often the place it returns to, as there is no safer place in any world. Here the butterflies frolic and reproduce, far from the reach of any that would seek to harm or capture them. They mutate, becoming an incandescent purple from feeding on the particles within, and develop an even more powerful relationship to the dangai than their black relatives. Obtaining this item allows the owner to be guided to a stable “pocket” within the Dangai, an area unaffected by the turbulence of the rest of the precipice would. The owner of this item may establish a base there that can only be reached by them, and can otherwise travel the Dangai with immunity from its negative effects.
Name: The Mark of Seran
Type: Item - Standard
Tier: VII [Expertise Item]
Condition: Not Applicable
Description:
The Mark of Seran is a modification to the target’s soul, manifesting as a new branching section from the soul’s base. Small at creation, this new component to the soul grows just as the soul normally would depending on a character’s actions. The new section is heavily influenced by Seran’s soul, notably the structures that formed prior to his escape from the Seireitei, and as such there is an emphasis on the darker aspects of his personality. The mark is created from Soul Matrix Stem Plasma and the so called “Blood of Seran”, appearing as a mix of the native soul structures and the ones from Seran’s own soul. Outwardly, the mark appears as a black tattoo on the on the subject’s skin, with position depending on a variety of factors. The tattoo is identical to Seran’s maker’s mark, that being a combination of the eternal knot and ouroboros, a black snake wrapped around itself devouring its own tail. Depending on IC interactions [see below] this new section of the soul grows, granting the subject new abilities overtime and acting as a base for other modifications to the soul later down the line. It should be noted that placing this mark on a character requires OOC consent. The mark cannot be removed by anyone but Seran. The mark of Seran's powers are universal to all marks, but each one also carries a supplemental mark, equivalent in power but unique to the individual, as the main mark evolves so does the supplemental.
Plot Effects:
Besides its actual abilities, the mark also has some effect on the mental state of the subject, resulting in a number of interesting plot interactions once the mark is placed. These interactions also determine whether or not the mark’s power increases. The first of these aspects is a pleasure response to actions that would fall in line with Seran's own will, a sensation that radiates out from the mark into the body. Most individuals experience this pleasure differently, but the strength of the response does not vary, and increases as the mark becomes stronger. The second aspect is an effect on the individual’s conscience, causing them to be guided by Seran as the “Devil on their shoulder”. This starts simply at first, with a basic nudging thoughts towards the pleasure the mark brings. As the mark grows these thoughts turn to more pronounced voices in the subject’s head, and down the line to actual hallucinations. What this basically means is Seran can post in any thread where the mark is present as the “Voice of the Mark”, though this cannot physically affect what's happening in a given thread and only the person with the mark can hear the voice and see the hallucinations. For beings with an inner world, a manifestation of Seran may appear there, as the mark is part of their soul. The third aspect is memory runoff, meaning a vague sharing of memories between Seran and all those who carry the mark. This is by no means a complete memory download between individuals, and only appears sporadically, usually when certain stimuli like a person, object, or place trigger a particularly strong memory. The last aspect is termed “Seran’s Will”, and is linked to the second aspect. Occasionally, a subject with the mark may be in a situation where their actions would greatly benefit Seran’s own goals. When this happens the mark urges them to take such actions, and if they do the mark evolves more and/or faster than usual.
Name: Project Cerberus
Type: Item - Minion [Expertise Item]
Tier: VII
Condition: Not Applicable
Creation Info: After gaining access to the former lab of Szayelaporro Granz, Seran came across his research regarding the modification of hollows and arrancar (see his Fraccion). With this information he began studying how to create unique variations of arrancar using the gillian that populate the Menos Forest. Although his first attempts met with failure, his fifth attempt, which he later named: The Cerberus Project, was successful and involved the creation of animalistic arrancar that could be domesticated. These creatures were created through a process called “Animalistic Soul Emphasis”, a variation of a hollow’s natural life process. Taking a normal gillian, Seran would overpower and bind the creature. Then, because a normal gillian has no dominate soul, Seran’s skill at modifying souls allowed him to search through the souls comprising the hollow for the one he wanted to become dominate. Because of the dangers of this process, Seran initially chose animal souls, usually those of dogs or similar domesticated animals. After a soul was chosen (though note that not all gillian possess the correct soul for this process) Seran used his black iron to assimilate the entire hollow and then supplied energy only to the chosen soul, empowering it to become dominate. From there Seran would watch over and allow the hollow to evolve naturally, stepping in if the creature was in danger of being killed. And after the gillian had consumed enough of it’s brethren, it would evolve into a adjuchas class hollow, where Seran would stop its evolution by breaking its mask, turning to into an arrancar. But unlike the majority of arrancar, who’s dominate soul was human, these creatures did not take on a humanoid form, nor did then develop any sort of resurrection, a trade-off for the lessened aggression and ability to be domesticated. Seran has dubbed these creatures “Animalistic demi-arrancar” or Black Hounds. And like their name suggests these creature can be tamed and act as loyal companions for Seran and his allies.
Description: Black hounds are large, quadruped beasts with incredibly dense, black fur. Their front legs are massive compared to the back and have massive claws that blend into their dark coat. They have no eyes, instead utilizing echolocation and smell to scout their environment. Their most noticeable feature is their mouths, which contain numerous rows of glowing teeth, along with a massive tongue of the same color that is prehensile and can grap and manipulate objects with remarkable dexterity. The creature’s claws, teeth and tongue are all shikai equivalent weapons. While similar in form, the hounds come in a variety of sizes and thier teeth and tongue change color in accordance the the creature’s mood.
Name: Garm
Type: Item - Minon
Tier: VII
Condition: Not Applicable
Description: Garm is a the alpha male of the black hounds, and the first of their species. Befitting his status Garm is a gigantic mass of muscle, similar in size to a fully grown grizzly bear.
Name: Bloodlust
Class: Item Creation
Tier: III
Type: Supplementary
Range: Self
Description: Garm begins to frenzy, filling his muscles with reiryoku to strengthen them. This gives him a 3x boost to speed for 8 posts.
Name: Consume
Class: Item Creation
Tier: I-VI
Type: Passive - Defensive
Range: Self
Description: Garm is well known for eating just about anything he can get his paws on. This includes things like Hueco Mundo’s sand which, for some reason, he cannot get enough of. But his hunger also applies to spiritual energy, allowing him to eat and destroy techniques he beats in advantages.
Name: Burrow
Class: Item Creation
Tier: I
Type: Passive
Range: Self
Description: Garm can burrow through non-manipulated substances his startling speed. When used, this technique allows Garm to move through terrain at the same speed he can run, creating a tunnel behind him.
HAND TO HAND / WEAPON SKILL
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HEALING
Name: Black Iron Healing
Type: Heal Self / Heal Other
Class: Healing
Range: Short
Tier: III
Description: This ability is an extension of Seran's other black iron abilities, mainly the Black Iron Assimilate and Black Iron Forging. Because of it's unique properties, black iron makes for a useful healing technique. How black iron is used for healing is simple: When someone is injured, with say, a cut. Seran puts black iron over the wound. He then assimilates the cells around the wound to make the black iron into said cells. He then uses these cells to replace the lost ones and therefore seal the wound.
REIATSU INFO / PERKS
Deep crimson in color, appears as steam coming off Seran's body. The feeling of reiatsu is dangerous, but not malevolent, like a wild animal that won't attack unless agitated. The signature smells lightly of iron when it is fully released.
Name: Sensory field
Type: Passive
Class: Reiatsu
Range: Medium
Tier: II
Description: The sensory field is an invisible field of reiatsu that always surrounds Seran. This field extends to twenty meters away from Seran’s body, and includes into the ground and through physical objects. Seran can sense the shape and movement of all things within this field, but not their composition or power.
SPECIALIZED CREATION PERK
AREA OF EXPERTISE
Name: Soul Genetics
Description: The study of soul structure and composition as well as the characteristics of souls belonging to different races/species/etc.... Items relevant to this area are ones that directly effect the soul, including making souls, modifying them, or otherwise influencing them directly. Canon examples of related concepts include hollowfication, soul suicide, artificial and modified soul creation, soul-object integration.
