Name: Tokemaru
Age: 53 in human years, 17 in Shinigami years
Sex: male
Appearance: average height, average built teen with short and unkempt brown hair and brown eyes.
Specialty: Defensive melee
Zanpakuto:
http://ss.cocoainsun.com/katana1.jpg Zanpakuto's name: Genbu
Genbu's appearance:
True form:

Small form:

Human form:

Shiki:

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Genbu's Shiki takes the form of a shield shapped like a turtle shell attached to Tokemaru's right arm, a medium legnth blade protrudes from the front end for attacking.
Ability 1: (Turtle Shell Guard) the blade withdraws into the shield and the shield expands to twice its original size and glows with green light. in this form, Genbu is almost indestructible. However, this ability drains Tokemaru's energy at a fast rate and can fail if it is hit with a powerful enough attack. Also, Tokemaru can not attack with Genbu as long as this ability is active. This ability lasts for three minuets.
Ability 2: ( Berserk Turtle Ripper) The blade glows with green light and spins around the shield like a saw blade, making it harder of Tokemaru's opponents to block his attacks as well as increasing his attack power. This ability lasts for five minuets.
Ability 3: (Turtle God Lash) The blade transforms into a more boomerang like form connected to the shield by a chain that is concealed within the shield. Basically it becomes a rietsu powered grapple launcher with a maximum range of 25 meters. It's called Turtle God Lash because it can also be used as a whip. Since launching the blade requires the use of rietsu, Tokemaru can only fire it so many times. At his current level of power and skill, the maximum number of shots is 20.
Bankai: (Turtle God Genbu) Tokemaru's body as covered in a metalic exoskeleton with a shield on each arm and a large turtle shell on his back. The armor is very strong and can take a lot of punishment. However, the armor is not indestructable; a strong attack (an attack from Reddeye for example) will cause damage to the armor. Tokemaru's physical streghnth is tripled but his speed remains the same.
Bankai ability 1: The shields on Tokemaru's arms are the same as his shikai, they both have blades and they both have the ripper and lash abilities. The blades are longer and the lash chain is also longer. The ripper spins at a much faster pace thus increasing its attack power.
Bankai ability 2: (Turtle God spear) This ability allows Tokemaru to create large reaetsu spears and hurl them at a target. The spears move in a strait line and are very fast and can easily peirce through weak armor. once they strike a target, the spears will lose their stability and explode. The slears can also be used as melee weapons.
Agility abilities:
~Dashing~
A most basic technique that allows the user to throw him/herself to a certain direction using a certain angle of which way the the stance is directed and executed. Based on an individual's atributes, dashing can be quite a moderately fast move instead of running. Also depending on the distance, dashing can be quite useful if in closer range to the opponent. This technique is basically for all ranks.
~Shunpo (Flash-Step)~
A movement technique that allows the user to move faster than the eye can follow. This technique requires a very high level of training, thus a most difficult one to obtain. One, who is of a high lieutenant ranking, must be able to possess Shunpo. Furthermore, it is a most fearsome mid-range/long-range speed known to be the exceeding ability than dashing. All in all, this ability can only be used by lieutenants and captains. For lieutenants it is nearly mastered, yet not perfected. Therefore, it is only of mid-range level 1. For captains Shunpo is of a level 2 maximum ability in which it is fully perfected for both mid-range and long-range.
~Air Walk~
Another skill, though not necessarily related, is the Soul Reaper ability to walk on air using spiritual energy. By collecting and solidifying spiritual particles beneath their feet, Soul Reapers can gain traction on thin air to either freely move about or to stop themselves from falling. This particular ability can only be obtained from officer level. Furthermore, it cannot necessarily be used every so often, especially for officers. It is an ability that can only be temporarily used but cannot last for a very long period of time. However, for lieutenants, they can stay on air for quite a bit longer and for captains, it can be held for quite a long while considering the great amount of riatsu within a captain ranking individual.
Kido:
~Hado~
4. Byakurai (白雷, Pale Lightning) = low
29. Chuujou / Assatsu = low
32. Ōkasen (黄火閃, Yellow Fire Flash) = low
33. Sōkatsui (蒼火墜, Blue Fire, Crash Down) = low
36. Kongōbaku (金剛爆, Adamantine Blast)
38. Altar = medium
45. Chain Reaction = medium
52. Bakuhatsu no Chakudan (Detonating Impact) = medium
53. Big Hammer = medium
58. Tenran (闐嵐, Orchid Sky) = medium
92. Gaki Rekkō (牙気裂光, Raging Light Fang) = maximum
~Bakudo~
4. Hainawa (這縄, Crawling Rope) = low
8. Seki (斥, Repulse) = low
16. Ryuusa (Quicksand) = low
35. Fushibi (伏火, Ambush Flare) = medium
37. Tsuriboshi (吊星, Suspending Star) = medium
39. Enkosen (円閘扇, Arc Shield) = medium
62. Hyapporankan (百歩欄干, Hundred Steps Fence) = medium
68. Hitoshirenu Nankan = maximum
73. Tozanshō (倒山晶, Inverse Mountain Crystal) = maximum
81. Danku (斷空, Splitting Void) = maximum
98. Hitoshirenu Rokkaku Nankan = maximum
~Jokou~
3. Blue Mist = low
22. Bikan (Beautiful Sight) = low
80. Area of Silence = maximum
Backstory: Not many babies can survive for long after being born in a rural village in the middle of a severe epidemic, Tokemaru was no exception. Tokemaru became ill and died just three days after his birth. He was then found and taken to the Soul Society, were he was raised. His surrogate mother, a shinigami named Suzaku, taught him everything about the Soul Society and about shinigami. Her stories filled him with the desire to become a sinigami himself and make Suzaku proud.
His dreams were crushed when Suzaku was ambushed and killed by hollows during a mission in the human world. He hasn't given up on his dream to become a powerful shinigami, but he is now unsure of what to fight for. Now that he has reached the rank of temporary captain, Tokemaru has decided not to worry about the future so much and take his carrier as a Shinigami one day at a time.
Persona: Tokemaru is a shy and reclusive person. He is also rather clumsy and he will beat himself up when he makes a mistake. However he will always make his best effort to do things right. Tokemaru is not as shy as he used to be and has more confidence in himself, but he still has a long way to go.