CHARACTER INFO
CHARACTER NAME: Ishida Uryuu
SERIES: Bleach
RESERVED: Y
WISHLIST: N
PERSONALITY:
The word "smart-ass" is usually associated with his name, as he is very intelligent analytical, and takes pleasure rubbing it in other's faces, most especially his "rival" Kurosaki Ichigo. He doesn't really care is others are put off with his attitude. For him, he has earned the right to brag. And bragging for him means a bit of name-calling, a bit of harmless banter and usually a lot of loud arguing.
Underneath all this though, he is actually shy and quiet, and hides this by acting cool and occasionally spastic around others. He also follows the moral code of his heritage, the Pride of the Quincy, coming off as polite to his peers, having a strong sense of justice, and the urge to defend what he has, whether his friends or his lineage. He refuses to kill though, and simply prefers to incapacitate an opponent, no matter how badly the said enemy has offended him.
There are other things that set him off, such as buttons (which is regarded as unusual, seeing as his favorite hobby is sewing), and his father, Ryuuken, who had once said that there was no future in being a Quincy and protecting those who are already dead. He had taken offense to this, and lost some respect for the man, going so far as calling him "Ryuuken", which is considered extremely rude in Japanese conduct. Ishida Ryuuken is still his father though, and he still does save some feelings of affection for him.
Uryuu has a unique sense of style whether he wears customized Quincy garb, or just casual clothing. Some of his shirts that previously had buttons were self-modified to bear zippers, and, all of his garments in fact, hidden Quincy crosses. His blue and white Quincy clothing is slightly different from the traditional garb, as he had once commented as a child that it was "lame".
TIMELINE: Chapter 344, after he defeats Yammy
BACKGROUND:
Despite his father's vehement disapproval, Uryuu trains under his grandfather in the ways of the Quincy. He shows a knack for it, and has the talent to push forward. However, one day, Souken is killed by a group of Hollows, and that implants something in his young, impressionable mind; true fear. The experience teaches him that nothing in the world is as well as he had thought, and since then has harbored a genuine hate for the shinigami, and is determined to show them the true power of the Quincy, in any way possible.
As a teenager, Uryuu meets and confronts Kurosaki Ichigo, a subsitute shinigami given powers by a shinigami named Kuchiki Rukia, and challenges him to a game wherein one must kill more Hollows than the other within a day's time limit in order to win. He uses a special bait to call in Hollows, but his 'game' does not go according to plan when he also attracts a Menos Grande, or a giant Hollow composed of several minor Hollows. Thus, he and Kurosaki try to work together to defeat it, but Kurosaki is the only who actually had done something useful. He hates herself for being that weak, and vows to become stronger, and not be left behind.
Little time goes by when he and Kurosaki, along with Inoue Orihime and Sado "Chad" Yasutora, have to work together again, this time to save Rukia from execution, as she had been taken away by her brother Kuchiki Byakuya, captain of the sixth shinigami division, and her childhood friend and Byakuya's lieutenant, Abarai Renji, for breaking the shinigami's laws and transferring her powers over to Kurosaki. They are separated when they enter Seireitei, leaving Uryuu and Inoue working as a pair to find Kuchiki's whereabouts while hiding from the shinigami squads. Shortly after, they come across a shinigami, but easily defeat him. Their more dangerous encounter though is with the captain of the twelfth division and chief of the science department, Kurotsuchi Mayuri, and his lieutenant and artificial daughter, Nemu.
Uryuu orders Inoue to run, as Inoue's gifts are more for defense and healing and are therefore not much use in this battle, and proceeds to fight Kurotsuchi himself. He becomes badly wounded and is unable to move, thanks to the special ability of Kurotsuchi's zanpakuto. As an insult to injury, the shinigami narrates to him what he had done over the years to the Quincy souls he had managed to collect over the years. The final straw was the showing of the photgraph of Uryuu's grandfather, broken, bloody, and almost unrecognizable. Uryuu begins to have irrational anger he has never experienced before, and that is what motivates him to get up and fight again. He utilizes all the techniques he knew at that point, even going so far as removing the Sanrei glove, the item he had worn to help his reishi-gathering ability. With this, he gains the power he needs to be able to defeat Kurotsuchi. He loses his Quincy powers in the process, but is convinced he had managed to avenge all the souls the shinigami had tortured. Almost immediately after this, he is captured by another shinigami captain, Tousen Kaname, and is placed in prison with Sado and Shiba Ganju, a man who had insisted to follow them into the shinigami territory, to wait for the others to be captured as well.
They are then released by Inoue, assisted by the captain Zaraki Kenpachi, and four of his underlings. Together they eventually arrive at Rukia's execution located at Sokyoku Hill, where Ichigo is currently engaging Kuchiki Byakuya in a battle. Before the fight escalates to dangerous levels, plans are revealed by some of the captains who had found this whole business of execution over Rukia's simple misconduct, and had carried out their own investigations. Aizen Sousuke steps forward, and carries out her plans, assisted by fellow conspirators Tousen Kaname and Ichimaru Gin. He takes the Hogyoku or Orb of Illusion from Rukia's body (the mysterious shopkeeper Urahara having hidden it in her at an unknown time), and escapes with the help of ten Gillian. They take him and the other two to Hueco Mundo, the world of Hollows, and there he begins to create his army of Arrancar, or Hollows that have broken their masks in favor of gaining more power, in preparation to take Seireitei over.
With this turn of events, Rukia is cleared of the false charges, and the humans are sent back home- without her, as she had stated that she needed to stay and regain the power the Hogyoku had taken from her body. Life goes on though, with or without her. Uryuu is then to fend for himself, powerless, as he refuses to reveal his new state to the others, making him an easy target for two incomplete Arrancar who come into the human world. He manages to hold them off, but only until his supply of Quincy equipment runs out, leaving him to be saved by his father. Ryuuken offers to restore his powers, which he's not so quick to bite, as there's a condition, and that is to never associate with the shinigami ever again. After long consideration, he agrees, and trains underneath Ryuuken's hospital. When he is ready to drop, dead tired, he is shot near the heart, giving him a scar on the chest reminiscent of the Quincy cross, and, of course, his powers back. The rest of his training is then dedicated to re-mastering these, as they have grown more powerful than before.
While training though, there had been two more invasions, both times by some of the Espada, Aizen's elite ten. Shortly after the third, Inoue disappears, and is suspected to be behind enemy lines. Urahara takes it upon himself to call Uryuu and relate to him what has happened, and reveal that Kurosaki and Sado are planning to enter Hueco Mundo to save him. Here he cuts his training short, and runs away with several Quincy equipment Ryuuken had locked away. This decision is questioned a little later on by Sado, as he had heard of his agreement with his father, but his reasoning is that there is a loophole, Kurosaki not being a full-fledged shinigami, and he was doing this for Inoue only.
Once inside Hueco Mundo, they come across a trio of goofy Hollows, the smallest (and possibly youngest) seemingly connected to the Arrancar with her face revealed, and her mask upon his head, unlike the other two. Her name is Nel Tu, and is reluctant at first to associate with them, but eventually agrees to lead them to Las Noches, the large structure where Aizen and his Arrancar reside. Almost immediately after this meeting, they are joined by Rukia, and Abarai Renji, who claim they had been sent on by Byakuya himself. Together they invade Las Noches, but are forced to split almost immediately.
Uryuu comes across an Arrancar, Cirucci Thunderwitch, and engages her in battle. He is later assisted by Pesche, one of Nel's two "brothers", who is actually quite useful with his technique "Infinite Slick" when not running his mouth. Here Uryuu reveals one of the weapons he had taken from Ryuuken, the Seele Schneider, the only Quincy weapon to take the form of a blade. He successfully defeats Cirucci by shooting her in the Saketsu, one of the areas of the body where reiatsu, or spiritual pressure, originates. He doesn't seem quite happy with this win though, and leaves almost immediately.
Later, he finds Abarai in trouble against an Espada, the Eighth, Szayel Aporro Grantz. They team up, and use their best techniques to fight, but even together, they're no match for the Espada and her ability to create voodoo dolls and destroy their internal organs. They are lucky (or unlucky), as Kurotsuchi Mayuri arrives and defeats the Arrancar flashily yet effortlessly. Kurotsuchi, assisted by Nemu, grudgingly heal them, stating that Seireitei had sent four captains after them to provide assistance, himself included, while the others prepare in Karakura town for Aizen's last invasion. He reveals that they have switched the town with a fake, the real Karakura in Soul Society, bound in place by four pillars.
As soon as he is well enough, he races back into the dome of Las Noches to come across Kurosaki fighting Ulquiorra Schiffer, the Fourth, and the one responsible for bringing Inoue to Hueco Mundo in the first place. The battle is being interrupted by two female Arrancar who dearly would dearly love to kill Inoue, and are then stopped by a third Arrancar, Espada number ten, Yammy. Uryuu however defeats Yammy, and places himself as Inoue's guard as Kurosaki and Ulquiorra fight. The battle is not over yet though, both inside and outside Hueco Mundo...
ABILITIES:
Like any Quincy, Uryuu is able to manifest his bow by collecting energy in the air and forcing them to take on a shape. He has great control over his powers, and has even learned techniques that most Quincy have not even been able to use, making her a genius in his own right.
- Reishi (spiritual particles) Manipulation and Absorption: He can collect the particles in the air and use them as fuel for his bows and various other weapons.
- Hirenkyaku: A technique which allows him to travel short distances in extremely high speeds by concentrating reiatsu under his feet.
- Ginrei Kojaku ("Lone Sparrow on a Silver Cliff"): His most recent bow, with which he claims he can fire 1,200 arrows consecutively.
- Licht Regen: He can gather a large amount of reiatsu at his left shoulder, and release it as 1,000 arrows all at once.
- Ransotengai: An ancient Quincy ability that allows him to move any paralyzed or otherwise immobile part of his body like a puppet, making him able to fight until his body is literally dust.
- Seele Schneider: The blade weapon that can also double as an arrow.
- Haizen: One of the four techniques that utilizes silver rubes filled with reiatsu, he can create a beam of energy that can slice through an enemy.
- Gritz: The second of the silver tubes techniques, he is able to create a pentagram that surrounds his target like a light prison.
- Wolke: The third of the silver tube techniques, he can use one of the tubes to make an explosion, or even cushion a fall.
- Sprenger: The last and most complicated of the silver tube techniques, he can create a pentagram seal with Seele Schneiders as its points, and make it explode by pouring the liquid inside a tube over one of the blades.
GAME INFO
EDENSPHERE NAME: Seele Schneider, or simply Seele (lmao two names for this kid)