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Character Name and Series/Original Character: Matsumoto Rangiku
Name in Role Play: Matsumoto, sometimes Rangiku.
Race/Ethnicity: Demon/Japanese
Age: 24
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Appearance: Matsumoto is a stunningly beautiful 24-year-old. Her wavy locks of auburn coloured hair flow to mid-back. They often cloud up her enormous bosom. For this reason she often gets asked out a lot, mostly by dodgy men. She doesn’t exactly hide her extraordinary breasts either; when wearing a dress, it often has an extremely low-cut neck. When wearing more modern designs, her shirts show off most of her chest.
Matsumoto prefers to wear a simple theme of black, white, and pink. She typically wears something along the lines of a black shirt with white lining (or vice versa) with a matching skirt or pair of pants. On top of this she has pink accents, like a sash or gloves. Her dresses are decorated much in the same way.
Personality: Matsumoto is often light-hearted about most things. Particularly, she’s very bouncy around Hitsugaya-taichou, her captain from Soul Society. She’s constantly telling him to relax when it’s usually her who needs to tighten up a bit more. She also loves hugging people, and because of Hitsugaya’s height, he often ends up in between her breasts. Matsumoto can also be very lazy at times, choosing to relax at spas and sleep in rather than do important paperwork to help Hitsugaya-taichou.
However, when things get tough, Matsumoto sobers up and is extremely protective of her captain and almost always acts upon his orders. Several years ago, she used to be much more serious than now because of her ambition to be better at fighting within Soul Society than she was at the time.
Abilities/Weaponry: Part of the powers she gained in becoming a demon was an increase in her already rather proficient sword fighting skills and a new added ability: to be able to turn her sword into ash and then control the ash how she pleased. To get her sword to this stage, Matsumoto must only utter the word ‘unare,’ Japanese for ‘growl.’
She also gained the traditional demon powers, such as durability, quicker healing, and retractable claws. She cannot die easily of blood loss either.
Weaknesses: Matsumoto cannot handle any electronic devices. She does not understand how microwaves work, or how electrical plugs work. Her battle tactics are not extremely well thought out, meaning loopholes in her fighting can be found. She also has a weak stance. If one attacks her hard enough, her legs will give out.
Again, being a demon, Matsumoto cannot stand holy references. She respects the gods of all these different cultures, but she cannot be around crosses, stars of David, or anything else in that category without being severely damaged.
History: Matsumoto Rangiku was born a century ago in the year 3021 in the 89th district of Rukongai, Japan. The Matsumoto family was traditionally a family of swordsmen. Every Matsumoto family member was an expert in sword-fighting. Rangiku got her own sword at age 12 after training with her family’s castaway swords since age 3. As custom to the family, she named her sword Haineko, meaning ‘ash cat.’
The Matsumoto family was expecting another combat and tactical genius, but soon learned that Rangiku fell well below their expectations. She was somewhat lazy, more interested in her appearance in her teen years, and did not pay attention to any information on her stance. She made her own path in sword fighting, and as a result, was not a prodigy as expected. Her parents never really paid much attention to her since.
When Rangiku graduated from high school, instead of going to college, she decided to go into a Japanese organisation called Soul Society. Having been interested in exorcism and souls and fantastical elements since she was sixteen, she immediately entered, much to her parents’ dismay. If her daughter was going to soil the family’s name with her terrible sword fighting, couldn’t she at least get a full education?
In Soul Society, she met a man named Reiatsu. They were both in the same division and worked together every day. They became known as the best friends in all of Soul Society. They shared everything. Rangiku even told him of her family, and of how she was a letdown for all of her ancestors. Reiatsu understood, listened willingly, sympathised. And he told her about his life, a fabricated life, a life created only to lure Rangiku in. She fell for it, believing every single word of it. She believed that he had been kicked out into the harsh streets of Rukongai at only eleven years old, believed that he had only learned combat through fighting with local gangs, believed that Soul Society only held pity for him and could see potential in him. She believed every word, every lie that spouted from his mouth.
And then, two years after she joined Soul Society, Reiatsu made her an offer she couldn’t refuse.
“I can help you improve your sword fighting so that you’ll be better than anything that your family has seen yet.” Rangiku, eager to please her family, immediately accepted. Reiatsu told her that all she had to do was meet him later that night outside the residential buildings. Rangiku immediately agreed and that night, at ten in the evening, they met up and walked into a secret underground room of a shed. Reiatsu tied a blindfold around her eyes and muttered words of soothing to her as they went through the process of becoming a demon. Near the end, Reiatsu untied the blindfold and told her to relax. And so she did.
Reiatsu slit Rangiku’s wrist lightly, taking a few drops of the blood and dropping it in Rangiku’s eye. She screamed and grimaced in pain, curling up immediately, her hands clutched over her left eye desperately. Reiatsu left her there to cry and weep alone.
At around two in the morning, Rangiku finally released her eye, the whites partially stained red, and trudged back to her room, pain still throbbing. But, as she found in a few months, she had become a demon, and could now turn Haineko into controllable ash by saying ‘unare.’ She also found she had increased power and went back for a week to show her parents. They were overjoyed, although still slightly miffed about her stance. She had at last satisfied her parents.
But twenty years later, she was still in Soul Society, although now a fukutaichou of her division. And she hadn’t aged at all. People were beginning to think that Rangiku was a demon, and so she fled from Japan. She learned of different branches of Soul Society all around the world and moved from Japan to South America to Russia to Australia, staying only a few years in each place. She just recently moved to Allupato, Italy, where yet another branch of Soul Society was located. She was immediately assigned to Hitsugaya-taichou’s division as the fukutaichou.
She bought a dumpy little apartment to sleep in close to the headquarters and happily spent the rest of her free time in Hitsugaya-taichou’s company, destroying whatever electrical appliances he had and happily making friends with all the others who spent time in his home.
Organization/Pack/Clan/Guild?: Soul Society