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Player Information
Name: Skyla Doragono
Age: 26
AIM SN: AschLappyOfRAWR
email: skyladoragono@gmail.com
Have you played in an LJ based game before? Several
Bonus: How did you hear about Siren's Pull? Was here before; enabled again by Aizen-mun
Character Information
General
Canon Source: Bleach
Canon Format: Manga
Character's Name: Szayel Aporro Granz
Character's Age: 600-ish, give or take a few hundred years? Looks around late twenties, early thirties.
What form will your character's NV take? A very sleek, professional looking cellphone... in pink, with little Verona and Lumina cellphone charms.
Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities:
Normal form: Szayel is extremely intelligent; a master scientist and a master inventor. For example, Szayel invented the system that allows him to manipulate the corridors of his private area of Las Noches. He also altered the DNA of his numerous fracción, so that they could heal his injuries when consumed. He's also exceptional at analyzing the reiatsu (spiritual pressure) and abilities of others, and once he has all the information he needs, he is capable of nullifying or easily avoiding any and all attacks made by them. He has been shown to be capable with the sword, effectively blocking Renji's attacks and forcing him to show off what he was capable of while barely even moving throughout the entire assault. However, he prefers using his brain over brawn.
Like most arrancar, he also has high spiritual power as well as enhanced strength, and is protected by his hierro ("iron"; a technique that allows an arrancar to condense their spiritual power around themselves for protection). He doesn't seem to benefit from it much compared to the other Espada, as most successful attacks draw blood. However, he makes up for it by having extremely high endurance, as shown when he survived Ishida's Sprenger explosion (though he did lessen the damage after analyzing Ishida's reiatsu). Also, he can use sonído to move very quickly, and while he doesn't have any particular special version of it, he is rather fast, as he was able to keep up with Ishida.
In the video games he's appeared in, one of Szayel's moves involves shooting a pink Cero (a highly destructive beam of energy) from his mouth. He never uses one in the anime or manga, and I don't see him as the type to shoot off randomly destructive blasts unless absolutely necessary, so this will probably never happen.
Released form: By saying, "Imbibe, Fornicarás," and swallowing his sword, Szayel transforms into his resurrección form, where his abilities are reminiscent of a parasite. By shooting out a black, tar-like liquid from his back, he is able to create clones of anything it touches, and he is able to alter the appearance of these clones if he chooses to. If these clones are destroyed, they burst to pieces, before forming yet more duplicates. On the off chance that he is eaten (whole or presumably in part as well), Szayel is able to gain complete control of the individual's body by fusing his consciousness to the person's nervous system. This supposedly lasts until whatever of Szayel that was eaten "passes". His wings and the buds on them can expand and contract at will, allowing him to shield himself from attacks.
The main ability of this form, however, is the ability to make voodoo dolls. By wrapping his wings around a victim and spitting them out, he can create a doll in their likeness (which is burst out of one of the buds on his wings). He also apparently absorbs some energy from the individual, as he thanked Ishida "for the meal" when he did this to him. Any damage done to the doll is also done to the person it looks like, with the exception of it being popped open, as it was designed to do that. The dolls contain little pieces representing the internal organs and other vital parts of the body inside of it. If Szayel crushes these pieces, the corresponding organ is also crushed.
The ability Szayel is most proud of is his Gabriel ability, which allows him to be reborn if his body is ever injured too badly to be saved. He does this by planting a portion of himself into an individual that he is in physical contact with, and then proceeds to absorb all the fluids of the victim, effectively eating them from the inside out and normally leaving the person as a dried up husk after emerging from their mouth.
Weapons: His sword, Fornicarás; its importance is stated above.
History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History: Have a link, but here's a basic rundown:
Not much is known about Szayel before he joins Aizen's army, other than the fact that it's assumed he did not have much contact with his brother, Ilforte, as he was never in any flashbacks with him. Some point after joining Aizen, he was an Espada of unknown rank, but later removed for unknown reasons (possibly because he wasn't that strong; considering he prefers to fight with his mind rather than brute force, this isn't that hard to believe). At some point after this, he was approached by Nnoitra, the then Octava Espada, and asked for assistance in dealing with the Tercera Espada, Nelliel Tu Oderschvank. He created an illusionary device for Nnoitra that distracted Nelliel, enabling the other man to deal a crippling blow to her head, defeating her. Szayel was there to observe Nnoitra dumping Nelliel and her fracción over the walls of Las Noches, expressing surprise when she turned into a child. He also suggested that he and Nnoitra should join forces on a more permanent basis, but was denied. Sometime after this event, Nnoitra started moving up in rank, and Szayel was able to rejoin the Espada, becoming the Octava.
He is seen a couple times before his grand debut, first in the meeting with all the other Espada, discussing Ichigo and his companions invading Las Noches, and again when Aizen confronted him about unleashing the Exequias on the substitute shinigami. He finally takes the stage personally when Renji and Dondochakka invade his personal corridors, mocking them for falling into the "simplest" of his traps. Unfortunately, Renji does not allow him to finish his introduction, preferring to "kick his ass" than talk and unleashes his Bankai, which Szayel quickly nullifies thanks to the fact that he already knew what to expect -- Renji had fought against and defeated his brother previously, in whom Szayel had implanted Memory Spirit Bugs. After Szayel expresses little remorse (or rather, none whatsoever) over his dead sibling, a brief fight breaks out in which Renji thinks he has the upper hand... until he realized Szayel barely moved through out the entire exchange. He continues to attack, though Szayel quickly grows bored with someone that "wasn't anything special," before summoning his numerous fracción to finish Renji off.
Unfortunately no sooner does he call the end of the act, does Ishida bust his way onto the scene, killing one of Szayel's larger fracción as he does so. The Quincy proves himself to be a more challenging opponent, even managing to stab the Espada through the neck. This quickly changes of course when Szayel starts nullifying his attacks as well, having already analyzed Ishida's reiatsu during his earlier fight with "that whore," Cirucci Sanderwicci. It takes a combined last ditch attack from both Renji and Ishida before Szayel is badly injured enough to have to show just what makes his Octava fracción so special, consuming one of the round ones called Lumina and healing himself of all damage. He then puts his fight with the two of them on hold, having to change his clothes because he wouldn't be able to concentrate with his appearance in such disarray.
Renji and Ishida make a break for it, but Szayel is watching their progress as they go, rearranging the halls of his area to force them to loop back around to the same room they had been fighting in. Once they return, he declares that he has decided to fight against them using his full strength, despite how much of a "bad joke" it is, and transforms into his released form. The battle starts again, but Szayel merely creates clones of the heroes, sitting back and watching as they fight themselves. That is, until Renji (and in turn, all of his clones) use Bankai and blow off the roof of Szayel's area of the palace.
Irritated, Szayel forces the clones to explode, before attacking Renji and Ishida directly, starting with the Quincy first and making a voodoo doll of him, happily demonstrating it's abilities by crushing the doll's stomach, doing the same to Ishida as well. It's not long before Renji ends up in the same boat, and while Dondochakka and Pesche attempt to save them, like everything else, Szayel nullifies their abilities and is about to finish all four of them off...
Point in Canon: ...and this will be when he's coming into Siren's Port.
Character Personality: Szayel breaks the trend of how most Arrancar behave in Las Noches, but not by much. He prides himself on his high intellect, and boasts to be a "perfect being" and "immortal" because of his ability to reproduce himself no matter how many times he is killed. He is also extremely narcissistic, going so far as to put an entire fight with Ishida and Renji on hold, because the former burned off half of his outfit. He even complains about his ability to resurrect, saying the only bad thing about it is that it leaves his hair a mess. Szayel also has particular tastes, and if anything goes against them, he's sure to change it at the first opportunity. He demonstrates this with the clones he makes of Dondochakka and Pesche, changing their respective polka dots and loin cloth because he found them ugly.
Szayel is also rather prejudiced against all non-hollows, and views humans, shinigami, and Quincy alike as little more than research material. This makes him come off as extremely sadistic; especially when he tells Renji not to get too beat up before he dies, as he prefers to work with a neat corpse. This is also the reason he follows Aizen as well, because he hopes that Aizen will rid the world of all non-hollows; he is rather loyal to him, if only because he knows that Aizen would squash him before he could blink if he ever attempted to stand against him. That doesn't prevent him from not revealing everything in his reports, as Aizen comments that he wishes Szayel's reports were more accurate at one point. Even his own race is not safe from Szayel, as he has altered the DNA of his fracción so they may heal him when he eats them, presumably without their knowledge, judging from the reactions of his fracción when he revealed this fact. He also has a very sarcastic side to him, protesting he just "wasn't into that sort of thing" when Renji used his sword to trap the two of them close together. Lastly, Szayel has a flair for the dramatic, and considers himself much like an actor on a grand stage as he toys with his victims, often drawing out just how badly he can affect a person just for his amusement, as he shows when he demonstrates how his voodoo dolls work.
Szayel is usually fairly calm and composed, but when he loses it, he really loses it, usually having a screaming and cursing hissy fit; the best example of this being when Mayuri just seemed to refuse to die, and he ended up throwing the voodoo doll he made of him to the ground, cursing and stomping on it as hard as he could. He can also be quite excitable over certain things, such as when Ishida revealed himself to be a Quincy and when he's showing off the abilities of his ressurección form.
Character Plans: Szayel is the very model of a mad scientist. Anyone that wanders into his grasp is sure to find themselves strapped to a lab table, and he'll be enjoying every minute of it.
Appearance/PB: Anime/manga icons; examples here at my Adstring journal.
Writing Samples
First Person Sample
[Greetings, Siren's Port; you have a very irate looking... well, it's hard to say what he's supposed to be, given the fact that Szayel showed up in his resurrección form. Whatever you want to compare the arrancar too, he doesn't look like a very happy version of it, tapping a very long finger against the NV before he spoke.]
Would an individual kindly explain as to why I was suddenly ripped from a very important confrontation to be brought to this... [a pause, his face twisting in disgust.] ...place? I am already aware that this is not Las Noches or even Hueco Mundo, so do not waste my time with such obvious answers.
Third Person Sample
It had never happened before, so Szayel did not have an adequate word to describe how he was feeling at the moment. The old, run down lab he was carefully picking his way through had been abandoned long ago, picking clean by ignorant thieves, and left to let the nature of the world take it's course. Any human would just dismiss it as a dump and continue on.
Szayel, of course, could see much more than that.
He reached out, running his gloved hand along an examination table, a spiritual presence still laying atop it; and if he listened close, he could almost still hear the delicious screams of pain. Many a specimen had been in this room, and it was clearly evident that many more had met their end here. That wasn't what had Szayel plagued by this unusual emotion he was feeling, however. What had him so at a loss, was the fact that his own spiritual presence was here, still clinging to the walls and the floor and the equipment like a parasite. He had clearly spent many hours here; studying, experimenting, toying with specimens.
The stains of the time he spent here were so obvious... and yet he knew, without a doubt, that this was the first time he had ever set foot in this building.
Szayel reached up to adjust his glasses, about to let out an irritated sigh, when a glint of light on the glass made him pause. Somehow, a primitive human-made computer had survived the looting. Curious, he made his way over to it, turning on the monitor to reveal a screen saver with a logo marked "SERO". Settling himself down, he moved the mouse to deactivate the screen, only to be presented with a login screen instead.
"Interesting..." he muttered to himself. This "SERO" was obviously a company of some kind... perhaps one that "he" worked for? He shook his head, deciding for curiousity's sake, to type in his usual username and password.
WELCOME BACK, SZAYEL APORRO GRANTZ.
"Tch... it's Granz, you ignorant human fo--"
His rant was cut off midway, as pages and pages of lab data and other important information flooded the screen. His eyes quickly scanned over everything, recognizing names amongst the chaos: names of every individual in Siren's Port. He sat back in the seat as the computer continued to work, finally finding a way to describe that errant emotion:
Utterly, completely befuddled.
As usual, that wasn't enough to stop him.
"Very interesting..." Szayel purred, waiting for the computer to finish so that he could commit the information to memory.
Name: Skyla Doragono
Age: 26
AIM SN: AschLappyOfRAWR
email: skyladoragono@gmail.com
Have you played in an LJ based game before? Several
Bonus: How did you hear about Siren's Pull? Was here before; enabled again by Aizen-mun
Character Information
General
Canon Source: Bleach
Canon Format: Manga
Character's Name: Szayel Aporro Granz
Character's Age: 600-ish, give or take a few hundred years? Looks around late twenties, early thirties.
What form will your character's NV take? A very sleek, professional looking cellphone... in pink, with little Verona and Lumina cellphone charms.
Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities:
Normal form: Szayel is extremely intelligent; a master scientist and a master inventor. For example, Szayel invented the system that allows him to manipulate the corridors of his private area of Las Noches. He also altered the DNA of his numerous fracción, so that they could heal his injuries when consumed. He's also exceptional at analyzing the reiatsu (spiritual pressure) and abilities of others, and once he has all the information he needs, he is capable of nullifying or easily avoiding any and all attacks made by them. He has been shown to be capable with the sword, effectively blocking Renji's attacks and forcing him to show off what he was capable of while barely even moving throughout the entire assault. However, he prefers using his brain over brawn.
Like most arrancar, he also has high spiritual power as well as enhanced strength, and is protected by his hierro ("iron"; a technique that allows an arrancar to condense their spiritual power around themselves for protection). He doesn't seem to benefit from it much compared to the other Espada, as most successful attacks draw blood. However, he makes up for it by having extremely high endurance, as shown when he survived Ishida's Sprenger explosion (though he did lessen the damage after analyzing Ishida's reiatsu). Also, he can use sonído to move very quickly, and while he doesn't have any particular special version of it, he is rather fast, as he was able to keep up with Ishida.
In the video games he's appeared in, one of Szayel's moves involves shooting a pink Cero (a highly destructive beam of energy) from his mouth. He never uses one in the anime or manga, and I don't see him as the type to shoot off randomly destructive blasts unless absolutely necessary, so this will probably never happen.
Released form: By saying, "Imbibe, Fornicarás," and swallowing his sword, Szayel transforms into his resurrección form, where his abilities are reminiscent of a parasite. By shooting out a black, tar-like liquid from his back, he is able to create clones of anything it touches, and he is able to alter the appearance of these clones if he chooses to. If these clones are destroyed, they burst to pieces, before forming yet more duplicates. On the off chance that he is eaten (whole or presumably in part as well), Szayel is able to gain complete control of the individual's body by fusing his consciousness to the person's nervous system. This supposedly lasts until whatever of Szayel that was eaten "passes". His wings and the buds on them can expand and contract at will, allowing him to shield himself from attacks.
The main ability of this form, however, is the ability to make voodoo dolls. By wrapping his wings around a victim and spitting them out, he can create a doll in their likeness (which is burst out of one of the buds on his wings). He also apparently absorbs some energy from the individual, as he thanked Ishida "for the meal" when he did this to him. Any damage done to the doll is also done to the person it looks like, with the exception of it being popped open, as it was designed to do that. The dolls contain little pieces representing the internal organs and other vital parts of the body inside of it. If Szayel crushes these pieces, the corresponding organ is also crushed.
The ability Szayel is most proud of is his Gabriel ability, which allows him to be reborn if his body is ever injured too badly to be saved. He does this by planting a portion of himself into an individual that he is in physical contact with, and then proceeds to absorb all the fluids of the victim, effectively eating them from the inside out and normally leaving the person as a dried up husk after emerging from their mouth.
Weapons: His sword, Fornicarás; its importance is stated above.
History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History: Have a link, but here's a basic rundown:
Not much is known about Szayel before he joins Aizen's army, other than the fact that it's assumed he did not have much contact with his brother, Ilforte, as he was never in any flashbacks with him. Some point after joining Aizen, he was an Espada of unknown rank, but later removed for unknown reasons (possibly because he wasn't that strong; considering he prefers to fight with his mind rather than brute force, this isn't that hard to believe). At some point after this, he was approached by Nnoitra, the then Octava Espada, and asked for assistance in dealing with the Tercera Espada, Nelliel Tu Oderschvank. He created an illusionary device for Nnoitra that distracted Nelliel, enabling the other man to deal a crippling blow to her head, defeating her. Szayel was there to observe Nnoitra dumping Nelliel and her fracción over the walls of Las Noches, expressing surprise when she turned into a child. He also suggested that he and Nnoitra should join forces on a more permanent basis, but was denied. Sometime after this event, Nnoitra started moving up in rank, and Szayel was able to rejoin the Espada, becoming the Octava.
He is seen a couple times before his grand debut, first in the meeting with all the other Espada, discussing Ichigo and his companions invading Las Noches, and again when Aizen confronted him about unleashing the Exequias on the substitute shinigami. He finally takes the stage personally when Renji and Dondochakka invade his personal corridors, mocking them for falling into the "simplest" of his traps. Unfortunately, Renji does not allow him to finish his introduction, preferring to "kick his ass" than talk and unleashes his Bankai, which Szayel quickly nullifies thanks to the fact that he already knew what to expect -- Renji had fought against and defeated his brother previously, in whom Szayel had implanted Memory Spirit Bugs. After Szayel expresses little remorse (or rather, none whatsoever) over his dead sibling, a brief fight breaks out in which Renji thinks he has the upper hand... until he realized Szayel barely moved through out the entire exchange. He continues to attack, though Szayel quickly grows bored with someone that "wasn't anything special," before summoning his numerous fracción to finish Renji off.
Unfortunately no sooner does he call the end of the act, does Ishida bust his way onto the scene, killing one of Szayel's larger fracción as he does so. The Quincy proves himself to be a more challenging opponent, even managing to stab the Espada through the neck. This quickly changes of course when Szayel starts nullifying his attacks as well, having already analyzed Ishida's reiatsu during his earlier fight with "that whore," Cirucci Sanderwicci. It takes a combined last ditch attack from both Renji and Ishida before Szayel is badly injured enough to have to show just what makes his Octava fracción so special, consuming one of the round ones called Lumina and healing himself of all damage. He then puts his fight with the two of them on hold, having to change his clothes because he wouldn't be able to concentrate with his appearance in such disarray.
Renji and Ishida make a break for it, but Szayel is watching their progress as they go, rearranging the halls of his area to force them to loop back around to the same room they had been fighting in. Once they return, he declares that he has decided to fight against them using his full strength, despite how much of a "bad joke" it is, and transforms into his released form. The battle starts again, but Szayel merely creates clones of the heroes, sitting back and watching as they fight themselves. That is, until Renji (and in turn, all of his clones) use Bankai and blow off the roof of Szayel's area of the palace.
Irritated, Szayel forces the clones to explode, before attacking Renji and Ishida directly, starting with the Quincy first and making a voodoo doll of him, happily demonstrating it's abilities by crushing the doll's stomach, doing the same to Ishida as well. It's not long before Renji ends up in the same boat, and while Dondochakka and Pesche attempt to save them, like everything else, Szayel nullifies their abilities and is about to finish all four of them off...
Point in Canon: ...and this will be when he's coming into Siren's Port.
Character Personality: Szayel breaks the trend of how most Arrancar behave in Las Noches, but not by much. He prides himself on his high intellect, and boasts to be a "perfect being" and "immortal" because of his ability to reproduce himself no matter how many times he is killed. He is also extremely narcissistic, going so far as to put an entire fight with Ishida and Renji on hold, because the former burned off half of his outfit. He even complains about his ability to resurrect, saying the only bad thing about it is that it leaves his hair a mess. Szayel also has particular tastes, and if anything goes against them, he's sure to change it at the first opportunity. He demonstrates this with the clones he makes of Dondochakka and Pesche, changing their respective polka dots and loin cloth because he found them ugly.
Szayel is also rather prejudiced against all non-hollows, and views humans, shinigami, and Quincy alike as little more than research material. This makes him come off as extremely sadistic; especially when he tells Renji not to get too beat up before he dies, as he prefers to work with a neat corpse. This is also the reason he follows Aizen as well, because he hopes that Aizen will rid the world of all non-hollows; he is rather loyal to him, if only because he knows that Aizen would squash him before he could blink if he ever attempted to stand against him. That doesn't prevent him from not revealing everything in his reports, as Aizen comments that he wishes Szayel's reports were more accurate at one point. Even his own race is not safe from Szayel, as he has altered the DNA of his fracción so they may heal him when he eats them, presumably without their knowledge, judging from the reactions of his fracción when he revealed this fact. He also has a very sarcastic side to him, protesting he just "wasn't into that sort of thing" when Renji used his sword to trap the two of them close together. Lastly, Szayel has a flair for the dramatic, and considers himself much like an actor on a grand stage as he toys with his victims, often drawing out just how badly he can affect a person just for his amusement, as he shows when he demonstrates how his voodoo dolls work.
Szayel is usually fairly calm and composed, but when he loses it, he really loses it, usually having a screaming and cursing hissy fit; the best example of this being when Mayuri just seemed to refuse to die, and he ended up throwing the voodoo doll he made of him to the ground, cursing and stomping on it as hard as he could. He can also be quite excitable over certain things, such as when Ishida revealed himself to be a Quincy and when he's showing off the abilities of his ressurección form.
Character Plans: Szayel is the very model of a mad scientist. Anyone that wanders into his grasp is sure to find themselves strapped to a lab table, and he'll be enjoying every minute of it.
Appearance/PB: Anime/manga icons; examples here at my Adstring journal.
Writing Samples
First Person Sample
[Greetings, Siren's Port; you have a very irate looking... well, it's hard to say what he's supposed to be, given the fact that Szayel showed up in his resurrección form. Whatever you want to compare the arrancar too, he doesn't look like a very happy version of it, tapping a very long finger against the NV before he spoke.]
Would an individual kindly explain as to why I was suddenly ripped from a very important confrontation to be brought to this... [a pause, his face twisting in disgust.] ...place? I am already aware that this is not Las Noches or even Hueco Mundo, so do not waste my time with such obvious answers.
Third Person Sample
It had never happened before, so Szayel did not have an adequate word to describe how he was feeling at the moment. The old, run down lab he was carefully picking his way through had been abandoned long ago, picking clean by ignorant thieves, and left to let the nature of the world take it's course. Any human would just dismiss it as a dump and continue on.
Szayel, of course, could see much more than that.
He reached out, running his gloved hand along an examination table, a spiritual presence still laying atop it; and if he listened close, he could almost still hear the delicious screams of pain. Many a specimen had been in this room, and it was clearly evident that many more had met their end here. That wasn't what had Szayel plagued by this unusual emotion he was feeling, however. What had him so at a loss, was the fact that his own spiritual presence was here, still clinging to the walls and the floor and the equipment like a parasite. He had clearly spent many hours here; studying, experimenting, toying with specimens.
The stains of the time he spent here were so obvious... and yet he knew, without a doubt, that this was the first time he had ever set foot in this building.
Szayel reached up to adjust his glasses, about to let out an irritated sigh, when a glint of light on the glass made him pause. Somehow, a primitive human-made computer had survived the looting. Curious, he made his way over to it, turning on the monitor to reveal a screen saver with a logo marked "SERO". Settling himself down, he moved the mouse to deactivate the screen, only to be presented with a login screen instead.
"Interesting..." he muttered to himself. This "SERO" was obviously a company of some kind... perhaps one that "he" worked for? He shook his head, deciding for curiousity's sake, to type in his usual username and password.
WELCOME BACK, SZAYEL APORRO GRANTZ.
"Tch... it's Granz, you ignorant human fo--"
His rant was cut off midway, as pages and pages of lab data and other important information flooded the screen. His eyes quickly scanned over everything, recognizing names amongst the chaos: names of every individual in Siren's Port. He sat back in the seat as the computer continued to work, finally finding a way to describe that errant emotion:
Utterly, completely befuddled.
As usual, that wasn't enough to stop him.
"Very interesting..." Szayel purred, waiting for the computer to finish so that he could commit the information to memory.