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Character Name: Kurosaki Ichigo
Series: http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Ichigo_Kurosaki
Point in canon: I will be taking Kurosaki Ichigo from Chapter 424. This chapter marks as the beginning of the Lost Shinigami Representative Badge Arc, in which Ichigo has defeated Aizen and is now living his life as a normal human being (his shinigami powers being absent). I plan on taking him sometime between the beginning of 424 and before anything happens in the new arc. (More or less on a random day where he won’t miss anything of importance; probably after school or after he goes to sleep.)
Character Background and Personality: >
Character Background:
The start of Bleach begins with Ichigo as a sort of medium in the town of Karakura. He is aware of the existence of ghosts and even attracts some Pluses (the ‘good’ ghosts that wander around the town waiting to be sent to Soul Society) to his person. It was only until a shinigami by the name of Kuchiki Rukia came into his room one night, trying to hunt down a hollow (a ‘bad’ ghost with a loss of heart; a hole signifies its lack of a heart both physically and emotionally). Rukia was unaware that Ichigo, being the spiritually aware person that he is, could see her every move and hear her every word once she entered his room. Once Rukia realized of his abilities, she tried to explain the basics of a shinigami, however, he didn’t believe a word of it. Although Rukia had bound him with incantations called Kido, both managed to go downstairs and discover the damage of a hollow attack against his home and family. Outside, Ichigo’s sisters Karin and Yuzu were being attacked by the hollow Rukia had been looking for before and Ichigo, misunderstanding the consequences of letting the hollow devour him, tried to get the hollow to eat him instead of his sisters. Since the decision was life threatening, Rukia threw herself in front of him to defend him, ultimately harming herself in the process. She was too weak to fight it off after and she decided to give Ichigo half of her shinigami powers to defeat it. Ichigo ended up taking away all of her powers instead of half and defeated the hollow in place of her. Ichigo saw Rukia the next day at school, with her under the cover of a new student, and the decision was soon made that Ichigo would take care of the hollow duties until she got her powers back. This was how Ichigo first gained his shinigami powers.
The series continues with a few more various arcs. There are three smaller ones involving his now current friends, Inoue Orihime, Sado Yasutora, and Ishida Uryuu before the first major arc involving the rescue of Rukia from her execution in Soul Society (the place where souls go after they die). Because of the transfer of her powers to Ichigo, a human, she was condemned to be executed. Ichigo lost the borrowed powers he gained from Rukia and sought to gain his own before going to Soul Society to rescue her. With the help of shop-keeper Urahara Kisuke, Ichigo regained shinigami powers, as well as part hollow powers. Ichigo, Sado, Orihime, and Ishida all travelled to Soul Society to rescue Rukia from her death, fighting battles with captains and other important figures in the realm. Along the way, Ichigo grew stronger in power and learned the name of his zanpakuto: Zangetsu. He also achieved bankai, the highest level of power-ups for shinigami, while training with another accomplish travelling with them at the time, Shihoin Yoruichi. At the end of the Soul Society, Ichigo had fought with countless captains and rescued Rukia from her immanent death. The arc also brought forth the new villain in the series, a now ex-captain by the name of Sosuke Aizen. It was revealed that he had planted the Hougyoku in Rukia while she was in the World of the Living. (The Hougyoku is a device first thought to break to boundaries between hollows and shinigami but later determined to actually manifest a person’s deepest desire.) He extracts the Hougyoku from Rukia and retreats to Hueco Mundo, the land of Hollows, with accomplices Ichimaru Gin and Kaname Tousen. The end of the Soul Society is marked as Ichigo becoming a Substitute Shinigami in his hometown and leaves to go home with his friends, aside from Rukia, whom chooses to stay in Soul Society instead.
The beginning of the Arrancar arc begins back in Karakura with Ichigo and his friends in school. He’s been taking his job as a substitute shinigami seriously, but it is only when he starts to have problems with his hollow side, the other half of his powers he gained before while training with Urahara, that he falters with his occupation. Ichigo is unable to control his hollow. A new set of characters are introduced, calling themselves vaizards. They also, like Ichigo, are part shinigami and part hollow. Ichigo initially rejects Shinji’s offer (the leader of the vaizards) to join them, but since his hollow continues to take over and endanger himself and those around him, he joins the group and begins to train. During his training, two Arrancar arrive to the World of the Living to search for Ichigo. However, Ichigo is at training at the time, and instead, Sado and Orihime arrive to determine the source of the trouble and find the two high-level hollows. Sado tries to defeat them on his own, but is struck down him and Orihime is left to both heal her friends and fend off the attacking Arrancars (the high-leveled hollows). Ichigo, although being in the middle of training, sensed the problems and arrived on the scene just before Orihime could get hurt as well. Ichigo’s hollow attempts to take over in the middle of the battle, but the distraction later results in Orihime becoming injured. The two hollows leave because they’ve deemed Ichigo as too weak and unnecessary to take out. Because of the attack, Soul Society sent in an advance team of high-level shinigami to watch over the town.
Soon after the advance team arrives, Orihime was confronted by a hollow from the fight before, and is forced to come with him to Hueco Mundo. But before Orihime leaves, she visits Ichigo in his bedroom to say goodbye and confess her love. It is only the next morning Ichigo recognizes her reiatsu (spiritual energy) on his wrist, which was injured in a previous battle. He is called to her apartment and finds out she has been kidnapped by the arrancar.
The bulk of the Arrancar Arc happens in Hueco Mundo, where Ichigo fights various hollows of varied strengths and powers. Ichigo and his friends (Rukia, Renji, Ishida, and Sado) go together to Las Noches (the ‘castle’ in Hueco Mundo) and also meet a hollow named Nel, as well as her companions. Ichigo barely manages to defeat the enemies he runs into at first, until he gets into a battle with the original arrancar from the battle he ditched training with vaizards for, and the one that kidnapped Orihime - Ulquiorra. Ulquiorra initially is too strong for him, as well as Ishida and Orihime whom rise to the top of Las Noches as well, and they both find Ichigo to be dead with a large hole in his chest. Ishida, trying to fend of Ulquiorra, leaves Orihime and she is reduced to tears over Ichigo’s body. It’s her cries for help that cause Ichigo’s inner hollow to stir and awaken to save her. Ichigo’s new hollow form easily takes out Ulquiorra, but unfortunately harms Ishida as well. His new form is only stopped by Ulquiorra giving a last attack to the back of his mask, striking it and causing it to crack. Ichigo reverts back to his shinigami form, and sees the damage he’d done without knowing it. Ulquiorra has lost too much of his body to sustain himself any further and dies by turning into dust.
We next see Ichigo rushing down below the dome to save his other friends being attacked by the strongest Arrancar, and after some back-up from the captains of Soul Society, Ichigo’s priorities are redirected to Aizen and he is escorted to Karakura Town. There, he attempts to defeat Aizen, but fails due to prior circumstances and worries. Instead, Kurosaki Isshin, Ichigo’s father, shows up at attempts to fight off Aizen himself while Ichigo fights Gin. Again, Ichigo fails, and Aizen and his companions travel to Soul Society instead, where the real Karakura Town lay. Aizen goes there to use to the town to make the Royal Key, a key said to need 100,000 souls to make. Ichigo and Isshin go after him there to prevent Karakura Town from being annihilated, but not before training in the Dangai (a separate space between the dimensions) for three months in order to hone his skills and learn a technique called the “Final Getsuga Tenshou”, a way that should defeat Aizen entirely. Ichigo learns the technique in that time and as he returns to Karakura in Soul Society, it had been like no time passed at all. Ichigo fought with Aizen and eventually used his final form, Mugetsu and defeated Aizen. Aizen was sent to prison while Ichigo was reunited with his friends. But shortly after that, Ichigo passed out and fell asleep for a month. When he awoke, he discovered his shinigami powers were gone because of the complexity of the final attack. Ichigo lost the power to turn into a shinigami as well as being able to sense the spiritual pressure of those around him, including Rukia and Renji. He is, as he once wished he could be, normal, and he continues to live that life for the next 17 months.
Personality:
Ichigo’s personality is defined and carved around a lot of things. He’s considered a rude, stubborn individual to those who don’t know him personally. If someone doesn’t know him as a friend or family, he is hot-headed and he relies on his actions more than he does his words. Similarly, that means if someone tries to pick a fight with him, he won’t stand by idly and ignore them; he’ll fight back. Two misconceptions that cause the idea that he is the way he is (the more violently-natured to those who don’t know him), is due to his orange hair color and his general, nonchalant attitude towards fighting.
For those that do know him on a more personal level, they see that he’s an individual with one hell of a protective complex over those he cares for. From his outward appearance of a bully of sorts, Ichigo actually does really well in his school studies, ranking 23rd in his class, despite having to run out in the middle of lessons to defeat hollows in the past, which results in missing a great amount of school. Along with being a studious young adult, Ichigo has a protective complex over his family and friends. He used to care over his sisters, as well as cared for father in very unusual ways (usually fighting or bickering) prior to meeting Kuchiki Rukia at the start of Bleach, but once he gained his shinigami powers, his desire to protect his family and school friends increased drastically.
Ichigo’s protective complex only gained more steam the longer he went through the series, and he felt he needed to be there to win fights or help others by the end of the Arrancar Arc. At the point I am taking him from, Ichigo will have lost his powers after his final battle with Sosuke Aizen and is nothing more than a mere human. He still wishes to protect his friends, but has no more experience than he already had from his hand-to-hand combat. On the outside, he appears to be considerably mellowed out from the start of the series, but it is more recently revealed that he despises not being able to do anything for his friends that suspiciously seem to be getting hurt or disappearing.
Sexual Orientation: I would like to play Ichigo as straight. In various points of Bleach, Ichigo has been exposed to girls and some indecency, and it’s made him blush like no other. The first time was when Yoruichi was going to take a bath in a hot spring with him and at one point, she sat cross-legged in front of him, in the nude. Another time was when Matsumoto Rangiku, a vice captain of Soul Society, began to unbutton her shirt. Ichigo covered his eyes and protested that he would not be so easily willed to let her stay at his place, but he peeked through his fingers to see instead. He is defined as a late bloomer, but I believe he is straight and if accepted to Micro, would only be with girls.
Sample Post: (Third person.)
It’s an uncomfortable feeling, having that surge of heat rushing through his veins. Kurosaki Ichigo sat at a table (which he felt ever-so grateful for some sort of coverage), his arms folded on the table top with a rather large scowl on his face. His cheeks were flushed and his eyes were reading with emotions of agony. To a passerby, he looked merely to be in pain.
Ichigo was in pain, but there was so much more to it.
He seethed inwardly at the grotesque thoughts entering his brain as his eyes followed the uniquely shaped bodies of women passing by. Things he’d given no thought to before, he was now. Noticing the curvature of their bottoms or the way their assets bounced with every step...
Flushing brightly, he dropped his face into his hands and groaned, not caring if anyone walking by heard him. All these thoughts of particular anatomy and doing crude things had him frustrated. He was never like this before, so why was he now? Not only was it disrespectful to those women, he thought, but it was disgusting. Thinking of random women in those kinds of ways was not something he wanted to think about at all.
Still, he didn’t need to look down to know there was a problem at hand, and he needed to take care of it soon. He hadn’t run into any of his friends thus far, and he wasn’t sure he wanted to, especially in his current condition. But strange faces made him feel more uncomfortable, particularly because he didn’t know how to approach them about his problem.
It took a lot of effort, both physically and mentally, to stand up from his seat. Ichigo was very red now that his ‘problem’ was more noticeable as he stood (and silently cursing his affinity for tighter pants), but he had to persevere and push on, determined to find someone who could help.
Series: http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Ichigo_Kurosaki
Point in canon: I will be taking Kurosaki Ichigo from Chapter 424. This chapter marks as the beginning of the Lost Shinigami Representative Badge Arc, in which Ichigo has defeated Aizen and is now living his life as a normal human being (his shinigami powers being absent). I plan on taking him sometime between the beginning of 424 and before anything happens in the new arc. (More or less on a random day where he won’t miss anything of importance; probably after school or after he goes to sleep.)
Character Background and Personality: >
Character Background:
The start of Bleach begins with Ichigo as a sort of medium in the town of Karakura. He is aware of the existence of ghosts and even attracts some Pluses (the ‘good’ ghosts that wander around the town waiting to be sent to Soul Society) to his person. It was only until a shinigami by the name of Kuchiki Rukia came into his room one night, trying to hunt down a hollow (a ‘bad’ ghost with a loss of heart; a hole signifies its lack of a heart both physically and emotionally). Rukia was unaware that Ichigo, being the spiritually aware person that he is, could see her every move and hear her every word once she entered his room. Once Rukia realized of his abilities, she tried to explain the basics of a shinigami, however, he didn’t believe a word of it. Although Rukia had bound him with incantations called Kido, both managed to go downstairs and discover the damage of a hollow attack against his home and family. Outside, Ichigo’s sisters Karin and Yuzu were being attacked by the hollow Rukia had been looking for before and Ichigo, misunderstanding the consequences of letting the hollow devour him, tried to get the hollow to eat him instead of his sisters. Since the decision was life threatening, Rukia threw herself in front of him to defend him, ultimately harming herself in the process. She was too weak to fight it off after and she decided to give Ichigo half of her shinigami powers to defeat it. Ichigo ended up taking away all of her powers instead of half and defeated the hollow in place of her. Ichigo saw Rukia the next day at school, with her under the cover of a new student, and the decision was soon made that Ichigo would take care of the hollow duties until she got her powers back. This was how Ichigo first gained his shinigami powers.
The series continues with a few more various arcs. There are three smaller ones involving his now current friends, Inoue Orihime, Sado Yasutora, and Ishida Uryuu before the first major arc involving the rescue of Rukia from her execution in Soul Society (the place where souls go after they die). Because of the transfer of her powers to Ichigo, a human, she was condemned to be executed. Ichigo lost the borrowed powers he gained from Rukia and sought to gain his own before going to Soul Society to rescue her. With the help of shop-keeper Urahara Kisuke, Ichigo regained shinigami powers, as well as part hollow powers. Ichigo, Sado, Orihime, and Ishida all travelled to Soul Society to rescue Rukia from her death, fighting battles with captains and other important figures in the realm. Along the way, Ichigo grew stronger in power and learned the name of his zanpakuto: Zangetsu. He also achieved bankai, the highest level of power-ups for shinigami, while training with another accomplish travelling with them at the time, Shihoin Yoruichi. At the end of the Soul Society, Ichigo had fought with countless captains and rescued Rukia from her immanent death. The arc also brought forth the new villain in the series, a now ex-captain by the name of Sosuke Aizen. It was revealed that he had planted the Hougyoku in Rukia while she was in the World of the Living. (The Hougyoku is a device first thought to break to boundaries between hollows and shinigami but later determined to actually manifest a person’s deepest desire.) He extracts the Hougyoku from Rukia and retreats to Hueco Mundo, the land of Hollows, with accomplices Ichimaru Gin and Kaname Tousen. The end of the Soul Society is marked as Ichigo becoming a Substitute Shinigami in his hometown and leaves to go home with his friends, aside from Rukia, whom chooses to stay in Soul Society instead.
The beginning of the Arrancar arc begins back in Karakura with Ichigo and his friends in school. He’s been taking his job as a substitute shinigami seriously, but it is only when he starts to have problems with his hollow side, the other half of his powers he gained before while training with Urahara, that he falters with his occupation. Ichigo is unable to control his hollow. A new set of characters are introduced, calling themselves vaizards. They also, like Ichigo, are part shinigami and part hollow. Ichigo initially rejects Shinji’s offer (the leader of the vaizards) to join them, but since his hollow continues to take over and endanger himself and those around him, he joins the group and begins to train. During his training, two Arrancar arrive to the World of the Living to search for Ichigo. However, Ichigo is at training at the time, and instead, Sado and Orihime arrive to determine the source of the trouble and find the two high-level hollows. Sado tries to defeat them on his own, but is struck down him and Orihime is left to both heal her friends and fend off the attacking Arrancars (the high-leveled hollows). Ichigo, although being in the middle of training, sensed the problems and arrived on the scene just before Orihime could get hurt as well. Ichigo’s hollow attempts to take over in the middle of the battle, but the distraction later results in Orihime becoming injured. The two hollows leave because they’ve deemed Ichigo as too weak and unnecessary to take out. Because of the attack, Soul Society sent in an advance team of high-level shinigami to watch over the town.
Soon after the advance team arrives, Orihime was confronted by a hollow from the fight before, and is forced to come with him to Hueco Mundo. But before Orihime leaves, she visits Ichigo in his bedroom to say goodbye and confess her love. It is only the next morning Ichigo recognizes her reiatsu (spiritual energy) on his wrist, which was injured in a previous battle. He is called to her apartment and finds out she has been kidnapped by the arrancar.
The bulk of the Arrancar Arc happens in Hueco Mundo, where Ichigo fights various hollows of varied strengths and powers. Ichigo and his friends (Rukia, Renji, Ishida, and Sado) go together to Las Noches (the ‘castle’ in Hueco Mundo) and also meet a hollow named Nel, as well as her companions. Ichigo barely manages to defeat the enemies he runs into at first, until he gets into a battle with the original arrancar from the battle he ditched training with vaizards for, and the one that kidnapped Orihime - Ulquiorra. Ulquiorra initially is too strong for him, as well as Ishida and Orihime whom rise to the top of Las Noches as well, and they both find Ichigo to be dead with a large hole in his chest. Ishida, trying to fend of Ulquiorra, leaves Orihime and she is reduced to tears over Ichigo’s body. It’s her cries for help that cause Ichigo’s inner hollow to stir and awaken to save her. Ichigo’s new hollow form easily takes out Ulquiorra, but unfortunately harms Ishida as well. His new form is only stopped by Ulquiorra giving a last attack to the back of his mask, striking it and causing it to crack. Ichigo reverts back to his shinigami form, and sees the damage he’d done without knowing it. Ulquiorra has lost too much of his body to sustain himself any further and dies by turning into dust.
We next see Ichigo rushing down below the dome to save his other friends being attacked by the strongest Arrancar, and after some back-up from the captains of Soul Society, Ichigo’s priorities are redirected to Aizen and he is escorted to Karakura Town. There, he attempts to defeat Aizen, but fails due to prior circumstances and worries. Instead, Kurosaki Isshin, Ichigo’s father, shows up at attempts to fight off Aizen himself while Ichigo fights Gin. Again, Ichigo fails, and Aizen and his companions travel to Soul Society instead, where the real Karakura Town lay. Aizen goes there to use to the town to make the Royal Key, a key said to need 100,000 souls to make. Ichigo and Isshin go after him there to prevent Karakura Town from being annihilated, but not before training in the Dangai (a separate space between the dimensions) for three months in order to hone his skills and learn a technique called the “Final Getsuga Tenshou”, a way that should defeat Aizen entirely. Ichigo learns the technique in that time and as he returns to Karakura in Soul Society, it had been like no time passed at all. Ichigo fought with Aizen and eventually used his final form, Mugetsu and defeated Aizen. Aizen was sent to prison while Ichigo was reunited with his friends. But shortly after that, Ichigo passed out and fell asleep for a month. When he awoke, he discovered his shinigami powers were gone because of the complexity of the final attack. Ichigo lost the power to turn into a shinigami as well as being able to sense the spiritual pressure of those around him, including Rukia and Renji. He is, as he once wished he could be, normal, and he continues to live that life for the next 17 months.
Personality:
Ichigo’s personality is defined and carved around a lot of things. He’s considered a rude, stubborn individual to those who don’t know him personally. If someone doesn’t know him as a friend or family, he is hot-headed and he relies on his actions more than he does his words. Similarly, that means if someone tries to pick a fight with him, he won’t stand by idly and ignore them; he’ll fight back. Two misconceptions that cause the idea that he is the way he is (the more violently-natured to those who don’t know him), is due to his orange hair color and his general, nonchalant attitude towards fighting.
For those that do know him on a more personal level, they see that he’s an individual with one hell of a protective complex over those he cares for. From his outward appearance of a bully of sorts, Ichigo actually does really well in his school studies, ranking 23rd in his class, despite having to run out in the middle of lessons to defeat hollows in the past, which results in missing a great amount of school. Along with being a studious young adult, Ichigo has a protective complex over his family and friends. He used to care over his sisters, as well as cared for father in very unusual ways (usually fighting or bickering) prior to meeting Kuchiki Rukia at the start of Bleach, but once he gained his shinigami powers, his desire to protect his family and school friends increased drastically.
Ichigo’s protective complex only gained more steam the longer he went through the series, and he felt he needed to be there to win fights or help others by the end of the Arrancar Arc. At the point I am taking him from, Ichigo will have lost his powers after his final battle with Sosuke Aizen and is nothing more than a mere human. He still wishes to protect his friends, but has no more experience than he already had from his hand-to-hand combat. On the outside, he appears to be considerably mellowed out from the start of the series, but it is more recently revealed that he despises not being able to do anything for his friends that suspiciously seem to be getting hurt or disappearing.
Sexual Orientation: I would like to play Ichigo as straight. In various points of Bleach, Ichigo has been exposed to girls and some indecency, and it’s made him blush like no other. The first time was when Yoruichi was going to take a bath in a hot spring with him and at one point, she sat cross-legged in front of him, in the nude. Another time was when Matsumoto Rangiku, a vice captain of Soul Society, began to unbutton her shirt. Ichigo covered his eyes and protested that he would not be so easily willed to let her stay at his place, but he peeked through his fingers to see instead. He is defined as a late bloomer, but I believe he is straight and if accepted to Micro, would only be with girls.
Sample Post: (Third person.)
It’s an uncomfortable feeling, having that surge of heat rushing through his veins. Kurosaki Ichigo sat at a table (which he felt ever-so grateful for some sort of coverage), his arms folded on the table top with a rather large scowl on his face. His cheeks were flushed and his eyes were reading with emotions of agony. To a passerby, he looked merely to be in pain.
Ichigo was in pain, but there was so much more to it.
He seethed inwardly at the grotesque thoughts entering his brain as his eyes followed the uniquely shaped bodies of women passing by. Things he’d given no thought to before, he was now. Noticing the curvature of their bottoms or the way their assets bounced with every step...
Flushing brightly, he dropped his face into his hands and groaned, not caring if anyone walking by heard him. All these thoughts of particular anatomy and doing crude things had him frustrated. He was never like this before, so why was he now? Not only was it disrespectful to those women, he thought, but it was disgusting. Thinking of random women in those kinds of ways was not something he wanted to think about at all.
Still, he didn’t need to look down to know there was a problem at hand, and he needed to take care of it soon. He hadn’t run into any of his friends thus far, and he wasn’t sure he wanted to, especially in his current condition. But strange faces made him feel more uncomfortable, particularly because he didn’t know how to approach them about his problem.
It took a lot of effort, both physically and mentally, to stand up from his seat. Ichigo was very red now that his ‘problem’ was more noticeable as he stood (and silently cursing his affinity for tighter pants), but he had to persevere and push on, determined to find someone who could help.