Barnaby the Clown

[/b] ♠︎ Cutting Edge
Class: Weaponry
Tier: I, II-III
Type: Passive, Offensive
Range: 0m-100m
Description: The most basic form of Barnaby’s style of combat, Cutting Edge is a technique that involves coating his playing cards with his reiatsu to make them incredibly sharp. The male is so fluid with this technique that it is constantly in effect the moment he assumes a stance and draws his first card. Tier I merely acts as a defining for his standard card throwing and knife-like use. They hold the standard power of your standard zanpakuto attack while are capable of being thrown at Bala speeds. At Tier II that these cards begin increasing in lethality. The extra energy coating the blades creates a small barely visible aura of about six inches that extends past the card’s length. This aura merely extends the cards’ cutting range, making it more effective in combat whether up close or thrown. These too may be thrown at Bala Speeds. Tier III focuses mostly on this cutting effect. The aura that coats it now expands to a meter in length and allows Barnaby to fight as if wielding a sword. This aura doesn’t make the cards as aerodynamic as he would like, slowing them down to Half Bala speeds.

Name: ♦︎ Mirrored Glass
Class: Weaponry
Tier: III
Type: Defensive
Range: 0m-50m
Description: While preferring a more offensive form of combat, there are times in which one must defend themselves. This House of Diamonds technique focuses solely upon this. By infusing his energy into a playing card before throwing it, he will use the energy to erect a barrier to defend himself (or others) from harm. Just like a polygon, the barrier will take a prismatic shape depending on the number of points these cards make up: three will create a triangle, four a rectangle, etc. This shape is merely cosmetic and doesn’t effect the quality of the shielding. This barrier erects itself at Half Bala speeds.

Name: ♣︎ Confetti
Class: Weaponry
Tier: II-III
Type: Offensive
Range: 0m-50m
Description: What’s a party without confetti? Certainly a more explosive style of combat, Barnaby may utilize this technique on any card that has been infused with his spiritual energy. Focusing upon the card, it will begin to glow a bright pink and will then detonate in explosive fashion with some form of visual cue (such as muttering “Bang” or snapping his fingers). The degree of explosion depends on the amount of energy placed into each attack. At Tier II the explosion is comparable to a grenade and holds most strength in a 5 meter radius. It is enough to blow limbs off if the hit is direct. At Tier III the explosion is much grander and comparable to a RPG. It creates an explosion that is 10 meters in size and completely blow up a body into various chunks that rain down like confetti.

Name: ♥︎ 52 Pick-Up
Class: Weaponry
Tier: III
Type: Offensive
Range: 0m-100m
Description: One of Barnaby’s techniques that requires the most concentration, this technique involves the clown to focus his spiritual energy into an entire deck of cards. This may be either a deck he is holding and/or cards he has already thrown. This focus causes each card to glow a soft pink hue and effectively become extension of the clown’s body and control everything from the entire deck to an individual card. These cards hold the quality of a Tier I blade and move at Bala speeds. While this technique is in use, Barnaby may not perform any other card-based techniques. This lasts upwards to five posts or until he chooses to end it.[/ul]
Name: Sleight of Hand
Class: Hand to Hand
Tier: III
Type: Supplementary
Range: 0m-5m
Description: While Barnaby mostly utilizes a sleight of hand to draw his cards from seemingly nowhere, summoning them right before his audience’s eyes, the clown has sticky fingers that are quite allusive. If within hand to hand combat range of a target, he may use this technique to snatch an object off of the target’s person without them knowing it. The smaller the object, the easier this task becomes. Of course, he may not take an object that is currently being used.

Name: Bala (Hollow Bullet)
Class: Cero/Bala
Type: Offensive
Range: 100 Meters
Tier: I
Description: A weaker but quicker alternative to regular Cero blasts. The technique hardens the user's spiritual pressure and fires it at around twenty times the speed of a Cero.

• Default ability for Arrancar and Adjuchas Hollow

Name: Cero (Hollow Flash)
Class: Cero/Bala
Type: Offensive
Range: 100 Meters
Tier: IV
Description: Are high-powered energy blasts that can be fired from various places on the body. Only Menos, Arrancar, and Vizard have so far been shown to use Cero attacks, and it appears that stronger entities can use it more efficiently.

• Default ability for Arrancar and Adjuchas/Gillian Hollow

Name: Sonido (Resounding Revolution)
Class: Stepping
Type: Stepping
Range: N/A
Tier: I
Description: Is the Arrancar equivalent of the Shinigami flash steps; it allows the user to travel at incredibly high speeds for short distances. Use of Sonido is punctuated by a brief static sound, in contrast to the "swish" sound used for Shunpo.

• Default for Arrancar and auto-gained at [ML-A] for Hollow

Barnaby always carries around numerous packs of traditional playing cards with him wherever he goes. It is truly a rare occurrence to not see him with at least two or three complete decks. He also keeps a few items devoted to magic whether its a coin, flowers, never-ending-scarves, balloons, etc.

When flared up, his spiritual energy has a soft pink hue. Should he be angered, however, this pink turns into a malicious purple.

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