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Kuchiki Byakuya
Kuchiki Rukia
Kurosaki Ichigo
Kurosaki Karin
Kusajishi Yachiru
Kyouraku Shunsui
Luppi
Kuchiki Byakuya
Captain, Future 7
An only child born into the wealth and nobility of Alpha-1, there were few things in life that Kuchiki Byakuya lacked. Having attended a prestigious private school, Byakuya moved onto the top flight and officer school that the Alpha-1 had to offer. His advance through the ranks of the academy was swift, winning both honor and recognition through his remarkable intelligence and skill. It was during his travels through the various systems that he happened upon his future wife, Hisana.
For the first time ever, while with Hisana, Byakuya let his guard down. After fighting his family and their strict customs, he wed Hisana. Shortly after their marriage Byakuya took over the running of one of his families largest shipping routes, working to create his own investiments in a ruthless game that often led lesser men to ruin. It was during a trip to the great deserts of Chi-2 that Hisane became ill with a outbreak that had been ravaging the area. Suddenly, the order he had spent his life building was shattered. It was the first time that his immense wealth and social standing did not aid him and by the time a cure was found, it was too late. Trade embargos and Confederate laws kept the routes closed, the city's black market was unable to attain a dosage, leaving Byakuya to watch his wife suffer.
It was just before her death that she made a request for him to find her sister, a girl that she had rarely spoken of during their brief marriage. It took him two years to complete his promise to his late wife and adopt Rukia. And it took another year for him to secure her place on his ship with his crew on the Future 7. By then he had added working in the medicine’s black market to his resume and was well on his way to helping find a way to cure the wide spread of dangerous diseases. The one promise that he had made to himself.
All of this was in complete secret of course.
Kuchiki Rukia
General Crew, Future 7
An accidental child, Rukia was born to a mother whose name she doesn’t care enough to remember. Abandoned at the age of seven in the less than hospitable world of snow known as ALPHA-5, it was a wonder she didn’t simply freeze to death. But the fates like to smile on you sometimes-even if it’s actually because they’re laughing-and by different strokes of luck (unexpected generosity from pitying strangers, the odd friend here and there who eventually passed on or moved on, useful skills such as stealing or picking locks, etc) she made it to the freeing age of fifteen. During those years she made one friend who didn’t leave her, though in the same twisted manner, she ended up leaving: Abarai Renji. It is quite possible he was her best friend, though when she left suddenly without word she relinquished any hope of being able to call him that.
By this time she had decided to move. She had only saved enough her entire life so far to go in one direction however, so the choice had to be a good one. ALPHA-5, was always freezing to the point of seeming to cut your flesh with every wisp of wind, so unaccommodating and oppressive; Rukia longed to escape it, to set foot somewhere that she could imagine warmth…and at least the idea of kindness. Though her pride would never let her admit it, she desired something similar to the love and comfort her non-existent family could never offer her. Moving was the best and first step to getting there without saying so. Maybe because he had become closer than any family she had imagined she could have, Rukia left without a word to Renji. She left a note, but she couldn’t actually bring herself to say good-bye.
LAMBDA-4 ended up being her new home. Here she met Shiba Kaien, whose kindness and steadfast manner did much for her in the strange transition time to follow. Not long after her arrival, and very soon after meeting Kaien, she met a man named Kuchiki Byakuya, who would eventually bring her into his family as his adoptive sister. This was good and bad for different reasons, good due to the possibility of a family she had always wanted, bad because Renji had followed her to LAMBDA-4. If she had known before being taken into the name of Kuchiki she might have…well she wasn’t sure, but it made things a great deal more difficult. Still, she did her best to adjust and appreciate her “new life”.
Awed and a little disheartened by Byakuya’s 24/7 flawless behavior, Rukia would try again and again to prove herself to him by becoming apt in countless areas of practice such as mechanics, artistry, basic medical capabilities, music…essentially everything he could do without effort, she tried to be good at as well, perhaps to earn his approval, knowing her own background well enough to know the shoe didn’t quite fit her, so to speak. Not to be taken for granted as just something to protect or to ignore politely, she signed up for a position within the Gotei Enterprises, something “highly discouraged” when in her position in the Kuchiki family. And “highly discouraged” of course meant: not allowed...not like that had ever stopped Rukia from doing what she wanted to before. Kaien told her she had every right, though she should remember she didn't have to. It may very well have been his strange disappearance that gave her the final push in that direction, though the reasons remain ambiguous to anyone but Rukia herself. She regards Gotei and the Federation alike at a proper arm's length...or more, give or take.
What she didn’t expect was that her older brother would be her captain, or that Renji would be his lieutenant. Then again, she didn’t expect a stubborn ass of a mechanic with orange hair, a spitfire stowaway, or a fashionably inclined, slightly anal-retentive pilot.
Right.
Future 7? She wasn’t sure she liked the name much, but she’d deal with it…and the insane crew that came along with it.
Kurosaki Ichigo
Mechanic, Future 7
Kurosaki Ichigo was born into what should’ve been the average family. His father was the local doctor, his mother a loving housewife, and his sisters fraternal twins. The only thing that stood out was Ichigo’s flaming orange hair, but at that point, he could care less. He took the teasing with a smile, a smile as bright as his hair, and clung to his mother. Masaki was the light of their lives, and everything was fine as long as she was around.
They should’ve been a normal family. Until the day Ichigo and his mother walked home from the dojo, their hands entwined. He had lost to his sparring partner again that day, but his tears had already dried in the same way the rain had not, pouring in sheets to beat against their crinkly black umbrella as they walked. His tears always evaporated when she came to pick him up, no matter how many defeats he suffered, no matter how many insults were thrown his way. No matter what.
He was only nine years old the day he saw an injured man by the riverbank and darted out towards him, slipping his fingers from Masaki’s, leaving the protection of their umbrella. But the man was hurt for a reason, and his mother’s footsteps were quick, making sick squishing sounds in the wet grass as she ran.
Her weight was almost as heavy as the rain, trapping him against the grass as the criminals ran off, leaving Masaki and her precious son to die, caught in the crossfire. Ichigo doesn’t remember more than crawling out from under her limp body, his tears mixing with the rain, the first time he’d ever cried in her presence.
They didn’t leave a mark on Ichigo. His father, Isshin, inspected him fully, but couldn’t find a single thing except a new frown. A frown that scarred over and replaced the sunny smile. A frown that Ichigo wore as he walked back into the dojo, training to become the protector his parents had always wanted him to be, that he couldn’t be to save her. He walked out a few weeks later with nothing left to learn, and everything to fight.
And fight he did, defending his hair from insult -- it’s natural, bitches -- and protecting everyone he could. He stayed in school and studied hard mostly to prove his teachers wrong, and picked up a side-job as a mechanic mostly to keep his hands busy. It proved to be one of the few things he showed any real talent in -- besides the ancient art of kicking ass -- and he applied for a job at Gotei Enterprises the day he graduated.
At least it didn’t rain in space.
Kurosaki Karin
General Crew, Future 7
It wasn't easy, but no one thought it would be. Adjusting, that is. Her mother was dead, and her brother had ceased to exist. The house was overshadowed by something she couldn't really grasp. A dreaded D-word, worse than the F-word, and something that she'd seen occur more than once (her father was a doctor, and once she'd had a fish. The rumbling of the toilet flushing had drowned out her sobs.) Even so, this death was different. And their house, it was never the same. There would always be something missing.
Karin, she stretched out, and soon she, too, could kiss the cheek of that woman pictured on that huge poster her father hung on the wall. She kicked things around for a good chunk of her childhood, and refused to learn how to cook and sew and do her hair. Her mother had done all those things, and she'd done them well.
And she'd died.
So what was the damn point?
But Karin was just ornery, and under the cover of night, she'd pull a thick textbook from the bookshelf in the living room and flip through the pages. The stars and the planets, they were something so much larger than herself. There was so much possibility in them, and in them the dark-haired girl could see herself escaping all this.
She loved her family, secretly (and Yuzu not so secretly), but there would always be something missing in this house. That was the problem with loving people. You would never, ever be able to live without them. Karin couldn't understand why her father refused to leave this house, where his wife was echoed in the hallways, but this daughter could not live with this ghost.
Ichigo left, and Yuzu left. So she left, too. Her family, sometimes it was more like an equation than anything else. Add three. Subtract one. Subtract one...
two.
three.
Kusajishi Yachiru
Pilot, Creeping Limit
Yachiru was born in the dirtiest, most crime-ridden district of Chi-3 and abandoned shortly after. She still doesn’t know who her mother is, nor even if the woman (or girl) is still alive at all. It was through sheer luck (or perhaps fate) that Kenpachi Zaraki happened to be passing by after collecting on an extremely recent bounty - he still reeked of blood from the kill (hey, he was wanted dead or alive) and heard her crying. For some reason still unknown to him (he claims he just wanted to know what that annoying sound was so he could force it to stop), he followed the noise to Yachiru. To his surprise, when he lifted the baby into his rough arms, she stopped crying, and actually giggled as she took hold of his sword-blistered finger.
From that moment on, Yachiru and Kenpachi were inseparable, with him, of all people, raising her as his own. The two made quite the odd couple: the abrasive fighter and his cheerful, bubbly charge (her pink hair certainly didn’t help either). However, he made it very clear to her as soon as she was old enough to understand that he was not her real father. When she asked him (read: wouldn’t leave him alone until he spilled), he informed her that he didn’t want her to feel trapped by his life - but Yachiru would never ever leave Kenpachi anyway, so she has no idea what he was worried about. She was utterly devoted to him, and her happiness was linked permanently to his. As long as Ken was happy, she was too.
As Yachiru accompanied Kenpachi on all of his duties to Gotei Enterprises (as well as on his other ‘missions’), she came to realize that she developed these ‘hunches’ as to the general location of where his bounties were. With her terrible sense of direction, it didn’t help much, but this ability accompanied with her incessant insistence that she be given the position she wanted led Kenpachi to make her the pilot of his ship, and not just first mate. In addition, from the moment she was old enough to hold a sword, she was trained in the art of swordfighting. Yachiru takes her sword everywhere, and with it disguised as a toy coupled with her disarming personality, she has very rarely received any trouble with it.
In addition to learning how to pilot a ship and how to wield a sword, Yachiru became very well-versed in every aspect of her adopted father’s vessel. Being a small girl with boundless amounts of energy and curiosity, she took to interrogating all the ship’s crew, and is actually almost as good a mechanic and cook, among other things, as she is a pilot. Unfortunately, there was no one really to teach Yachiru what most children learn in school. Thus she can only read as much as her job requires of her and is terrible at writing and spelling; however, she has a good head for math, as such is needed on board an airship.
On their latest foray, Yachiru was separated from Ken and the rest of their crew. They attempted to board the wrong ship, and Ken and his crew were arrested. Yachiru was spared their fate due to her youth, and she was taken to Alpha-1. Brokenhearted at her loss, Yachiru fell into depression for all of a day before determining that Ken couldn’t be kept in jail for long, and he was bound to break out as soon as possible! And that meant he would need a ship and someone to find him. Unwilling to just let events unfold, Yachiru took Gotei HQ by storm and demanded the first open pilot position. It’s very hard to say no to Yachiru in general, especially when she has four years of pilot experience to back up her claim. They gave her the position aboard the Creeping Limit. Not caring much for the name, Yachiru promptly rechristened it “The Good Ship Lollipop,” painted over the name that was already on the side of the ship, and found great amusement in watching her shipmates try to clean it off. Her main purpose in life now is to be reunited with her beloved Ken-chan - though pirating and bounty hunting are close seconds!
Kyouraku Shunsui
Chief Executive Officer of Gotei Enterprises
Shunsui Kyoraku's father was a playboy politician on Beta-1, who raised his son to appreciate "the beautiful things life had to offer". In this case beautiful things meant women, and Shunsui spent much of his youth surrounded by them. In fact, his entire lifetime had been a showcase of 'earthly pleasures': money, cars, vacations to distant lands -- there was nothing denied. To add insult to injury, despite his spoiled upbringing he was a friendly person, charming and empathetic to the feelings of those around him. Connected to many influential people through his father, he was guaranteed to go far in life-- the only problem being he had no idea where he wanted to go.
Graduating from college with high ranks, he spent a few years wandering the galaxy in an attempt to find some sense of purpose. The majority of time was spent consuming mixed drinks and flirting with the locals, but he also managed to pick up several useful skills that weren't learned in private school-- among these the art of sword fighting, favoring the daisho for it's association to high ranking samurais of old. It was also during this time that he reunited with his closest childhood friend, Jushiro Ukitake, who had been in and out of several medical facilities due to an undiagnosed illess. The confederation had chosen to withhold access to several vaccines, stating distribution as a matter of priority: the more influence you had, the better your chances in the eyes of the feds. Deeply affected by the plight of his friend and the idea that several others could be facing the same situation, Shun made a decision.
Immediately returning home to claim an executive position at Gotei Enterprises, he has decided to keep a watchful eye on the feds, believing it better to have someone with a moral conscience on the inside.
That is, when he's not sleeping on the job.
Luppi
Espada, Las Noches
Luppi was one of those foul-mouthed, trouble-making teens whose parents often wondered where the hell they had gone wrong in raising him.
Son of parents whose lives were both dedicated to the Confederation military, Luppi spent most of his life on military bases in Lambda-2. He was an only child whose parents loved him, but the only way they knew to show it was through discipline and high expectations.
This wasn't a problem for Luppi for most of his early years; it was the only life he'd ever known, after all. But as he grew older - and discovered that preteen boys were a lot more masculine-looking and sturdier built than he was and weren't afraid to remind him of it - he became less pleased with the direction he knew his life was heading.
His parents wanted him in the Intergalactic Law Enforcement Facility, grooming him to follow in their footsteps. But that was far too easy; all he had to do was study and pass the exams (an easy task) to get into there. Besides, the military would only introduce him to more arrogant pricks like his classmates, who by now were teasing him mercilessly about his rather effeminate stature, and would pop him on a ship and toss him at whim all over the galaxy as just another pawn in the mix. Aside from finding new ways to tear potential bullies a new one every day (which he was more than capable of doing), Luppi found that he was ultimately bored, and would continue to be bored if that was indeed how his life was going to end up.
He wanted out.
Well, he wanted out until he found out about the Hollow project, at any rate. Really, he wasn't supposed to find out about it at all, but he couldn't help that he had two parents in the military already and that he had exceptionally good hearing. Being an elite soldier and being able to fly about the galaxy with a little more firepower sounded a lot more appealing than being an average low-level shipmate. It gave him a goal, and even his parents were surprised at his sudden drive to force his way into IGLE's elite academy at such a young age. He never lost his vicious attitude - he couldn't do anything about his appearance otherwise - but it nonetheless earned him a reputation that eventually caught the eye of the Hollow project administration.
As one of the younger members of the Hollow project, Luppi soon found himself at the rank of Espada at the age of seventeen. He likes his job... and his new uniform. Not that he gets along with his fellow crew members, mind you, but that doesn't make him any less worthy of being there. In his mind, it's only a matter of time before he gets an official numbered rank.
Note: YOU GUYS BROKE LJ. GOOD JOB.
The rest of the character histories can be found [HERE] and [HERE].
Kuchiki Byakuya
Kuchiki Rukia
Kurosaki Ichigo
Kurosaki Karin
Kusajishi Yachiru
Kyouraku Shunsui
Luppi
Kuchiki Byakuya
Captain, Future 7
An only child born into the wealth and nobility of Alpha-1, there were few things in life that Kuchiki Byakuya lacked. Having attended a prestigious private school, Byakuya moved onto the top flight and officer school that the Alpha-1 had to offer. His advance through the ranks of the academy was swift, winning both honor and recognition through his remarkable intelligence and skill. It was during his travels through the various systems that he happened upon his future wife, Hisana.
For the first time ever, while with Hisana, Byakuya let his guard down. After fighting his family and their strict customs, he wed Hisana. Shortly after their marriage Byakuya took over the running of one of his families largest shipping routes, working to create his own investiments in a ruthless game that often led lesser men to ruin. It was during a trip to the great deserts of Chi-2 that Hisane became ill with a outbreak that had been ravaging the area. Suddenly, the order he had spent his life building was shattered. It was the first time that his immense wealth and social standing did not aid him and by the time a cure was found, it was too late. Trade embargos and Confederate laws kept the routes closed, the city's black market was unable to attain a dosage, leaving Byakuya to watch his wife suffer.
It was just before her death that she made a request for him to find her sister, a girl that she had rarely spoken of during their brief marriage. It took him two years to complete his promise to his late wife and adopt Rukia. And it took another year for him to secure her place on his ship with his crew on the Future 7. By then he had added working in the medicine’s black market to his resume and was well on his way to helping find a way to cure the wide spread of dangerous diseases. The one promise that he had made to himself.
All of this was in complete secret of course.
Kuchiki Rukia
General Crew, Future 7
An accidental child, Rukia was born to a mother whose name she doesn’t care enough to remember. Abandoned at the age of seven in the less than hospitable world of snow known as ALPHA-5, it was a wonder she didn’t simply freeze to death. But the fates like to smile on you sometimes-even if it’s actually because they’re laughing-and by different strokes of luck (unexpected generosity from pitying strangers, the odd friend here and there who eventually passed on or moved on, useful skills such as stealing or picking locks, etc) she made it to the freeing age of fifteen. During those years she made one friend who didn’t leave her, though in the same twisted manner, she ended up leaving: Abarai Renji. It is quite possible he was her best friend, though when she left suddenly without word she relinquished any hope of being able to call him that.
By this time she had decided to move. She had only saved enough her entire life so far to go in one direction however, so the choice had to be a good one. ALPHA-5, was always freezing to the point of seeming to cut your flesh with every wisp of wind, so unaccommodating and oppressive; Rukia longed to escape it, to set foot somewhere that she could imagine warmth…and at least the idea of kindness. Though her pride would never let her admit it, she desired something similar to the love and comfort her non-existent family could never offer her. Moving was the best and first step to getting there without saying so. Maybe because he had become closer than any family she had imagined she could have, Rukia left without a word to Renji. She left a note, but she couldn’t actually bring herself to say good-bye.
LAMBDA-4 ended up being her new home. Here she met Shiba Kaien, whose kindness and steadfast manner did much for her in the strange transition time to follow. Not long after her arrival, and very soon after meeting Kaien, she met a man named Kuchiki Byakuya, who would eventually bring her into his family as his adoptive sister. This was good and bad for different reasons, good due to the possibility of a family she had always wanted, bad because Renji had followed her to LAMBDA-4. If she had known before being taken into the name of Kuchiki she might have…well she wasn’t sure, but it made things a great deal more difficult. Still, she did her best to adjust and appreciate her “new life”.
Awed and a little disheartened by Byakuya’s 24/7 flawless behavior, Rukia would try again and again to prove herself to him by becoming apt in countless areas of practice such as mechanics, artistry, basic medical capabilities, music…essentially everything he could do without effort, she tried to be good at as well, perhaps to earn his approval, knowing her own background well enough to know the shoe didn’t quite fit her, so to speak. Not to be taken for granted as just something to protect or to ignore politely, she signed up for a position within the Gotei Enterprises, something “highly discouraged” when in her position in the Kuchiki family. And “highly discouraged” of course meant: not allowed...not like that had ever stopped Rukia from doing what she wanted to before. Kaien told her she had every right, though she should remember she didn't have to. It may very well have been his strange disappearance that gave her the final push in that direction, though the reasons remain ambiguous to anyone but Rukia herself. She regards Gotei and the Federation alike at a proper arm's length...or more, give or take.
What she didn’t expect was that her older brother would be her captain, or that Renji would be his lieutenant. Then again, she didn’t expect a stubborn ass of a mechanic with orange hair, a spitfire stowaway, or a fashionably inclined, slightly anal-retentive pilot.
Right.
Future 7? She wasn’t sure she liked the name much, but she’d deal with it…and the insane crew that came along with it.
Kurosaki Ichigo
Mechanic, Future 7
Kurosaki Ichigo was born into what should’ve been the average family. His father was the local doctor, his mother a loving housewife, and his sisters fraternal twins. The only thing that stood out was Ichigo’s flaming orange hair, but at that point, he could care less. He took the teasing with a smile, a smile as bright as his hair, and clung to his mother. Masaki was the light of their lives, and everything was fine as long as she was around.
They should’ve been a normal family. Until the day Ichigo and his mother walked home from the dojo, their hands entwined. He had lost to his sparring partner again that day, but his tears had already dried in the same way the rain had not, pouring in sheets to beat against their crinkly black umbrella as they walked. His tears always evaporated when she came to pick him up, no matter how many defeats he suffered, no matter how many insults were thrown his way. No matter what.
He was only nine years old the day he saw an injured man by the riverbank and darted out towards him, slipping his fingers from Masaki’s, leaving the protection of their umbrella. But the man was hurt for a reason, and his mother’s footsteps were quick, making sick squishing sounds in the wet grass as she ran.
Her weight was almost as heavy as the rain, trapping him against the grass as the criminals ran off, leaving Masaki and her precious son to die, caught in the crossfire. Ichigo doesn’t remember more than crawling out from under her limp body, his tears mixing with the rain, the first time he’d ever cried in her presence.
They didn’t leave a mark on Ichigo. His father, Isshin, inspected him fully, but couldn’t find a single thing except a new frown. A frown that scarred over and replaced the sunny smile. A frown that Ichigo wore as he walked back into the dojo, training to become the protector his parents had always wanted him to be, that he couldn’t be to save her. He walked out a few weeks later with nothing left to learn, and everything to fight.
And fight he did, defending his hair from insult -- it’s natural, bitches -- and protecting everyone he could. He stayed in school and studied hard mostly to prove his teachers wrong, and picked up a side-job as a mechanic mostly to keep his hands busy. It proved to be one of the few things he showed any real talent in -- besides the ancient art of kicking ass -- and he applied for a job at Gotei Enterprises the day he graduated.
At least it didn’t rain in space.
Kurosaki Karin
General Crew, Future 7
It wasn't easy, but no one thought it would be. Adjusting, that is. Her mother was dead, and her brother had ceased to exist. The house was overshadowed by something she couldn't really grasp. A dreaded D-word, worse than the F-word, and something that she'd seen occur more than once (her father was a doctor, and once she'd had a fish. The rumbling of the toilet flushing had drowned out her sobs.) Even so, this death was different. And their house, it was never the same. There would always be something missing.
Karin, she stretched out, and soon she, too, could kiss the cheek of that woman pictured on that huge poster her father hung on the wall. She kicked things around for a good chunk of her childhood, and refused to learn how to cook and sew and do her hair. Her mother had done all those things, and she'd done them well.
And she'd died.
So what was the damn point?
But Karin was just ornery, and under the cover of night, she'd pull a thick textbook from the bookshelf in the living room and flip through the pages. The stars and the planets, they were something so much larger than herself. There was so much possibility in them, and in them the dark-haired girl could see herself escaping all this.
She loved her family, secretly (and Yuzu not so secretly), but there would always be something missing in this house. That was the problem with loving people. You would never, ever be able to live without them. Karin couldn't understand why her father refused to leave this house, where his wife was echoed in the hallways, but this daughter could not live with this ghost.
Ichigo left, and Yuzu left. So she left, too. Her family, sometimes it was more like an equation than anything else. Add three. Subtract one. Subtract one...
two.
three.
Kusajishi Yachiru
Pilot, Creeping Limit
Yachiru was born in the dirtiest, most crime-ridden district of Chi-3 and abandoned shortly after. She still doesn’t know who her mother is, nor even if the woman (or girl) is still alive at all. It was through sheer luck (or perhaps fate) that Kenpachi Zaraki happened to be passing by after collecting on an extremely recent bounty - he still reeked of blood from the kill (hey, he was wanted dead or alive) and heard her crying. For some reason still unknown to him (he claims he just wanted to know what that annoying sound was so he could force it to stop), he followed the noise to Yachiru. To his surprise, when he lifted the baby into his rough arms, she stopped crying, and actually giggled as she took hold of his sword-blistered finger.
From that moment on, Yachiru and Kenpachi were inseparable, with him, of all people, raising her as his own. The two made quite the odd couple: the abrasive fighter and his cheerful, bubbly charge (her pink hair certainly didn’t help either). However, he made it very clear to her as soon as she was old enough to understand that he was not her real father. When she asked him (read: wouldn’t leave him alone until he spilled), he informed her that he didn’t want her to feel trapped by his life - but Yachiru would never ever leave Kenpachi anyway, so she has no idea what he was worried about. She was utterly devoted to him, and her happiness was linked permanently to his. As long as Ken was happy, she was too.
As Yachiru accompanied Kenpachi on all of his duties to Gotei Enterprises (as well as on his other ‘missions’), she came to realize that she developed these ‘hunches’ as to the general location of where his bounties were. With her terrible sense of direction, it didn’t help much, but this ability accompanied with her incessant insistence that she be given the position she wanted led Kenpachi to make her the pilot of his ship, and not just first mate. In addition, from the moment she was old enough to hold a sword, she was trained in the art of swordfighting. Yachiru takes her sword everywhere, and with it disguised as a toy coupled with her disarming personality, she has very rarely received any trouble with it.
In addition to learning how to pilot a ship and how to wield a sword, Yachiru became very well-versed in every aspect of her adopted father’s vessel. Being a small girl with boundless amounts of energy and curiosity, she took to interrogating all the ship’s crew, and is actually almost as good a mechanic and cook, among other things, as she is a pilot. Unfortunately, there was no one really to teach Yachiru what most children learn in school. Thus she can only read as much as her job requires of her and is terrible at writing and spelling; however, she has a good head for math, as such is needed on board an airship.
On their latest foray, Yachiru was separated from Ken and the rest of their crew. They attempted to board the wrong ship, and Ken and his crew were arrested. Yachiru was spared their fate due to her youth, and she was taken to Alpha-1. Brokenhearted at her loss, Yachiru fell into depression for all of a day before determining that Ken couldn’t be kept in jail for long, and he was bound to break out as soon as possible! And that meant he would need a ship and someone to find him. Unwilling to just let events unfold, Yachiru took Gotei HQ by storm and demanded the first open pilot position. It’s very hard to say no to Yachiru in general, especially when she has four years of pilot experience to back up her claim. They gave her the position aboard the Creeping Limit. Not caring much for the name, Yachiru promptly rechristened it “The Good Ship Lollipop,” painted over the name that was already on the side of the ship, and found great amusement in watching her shipmates try to clean it off. Her main purpose in life now is to be reunited with her beloved Ken-chan - though pirating and bounty hunting are close seconds!
Kyouraku Shunsui
Chief Executive Officer of Gotei Enterprises
Shunsui Kyoraku's father was a playboy politician on Beta-1, who raised his son to appreciate "the beautiful things life had to offer". In this case beautiful things meant women, and Shunsui spent much of his youth surrounded by them. In fact, his entire lifetime had been a showcase of 'earthly pleasures': money, cars, vacations to distant lands -- there was nothing denied. To add insult to injury, despite his spoiled upbringing he was a friendly person, charming and empathetic to the feelings of those around him. Connected to many influential people through his father, he was guaranteed to go far in life-- the only problem being he had no idea where he wanted to go.
Graduating from college with high ranks, he spent a few years wandering the galaxy in an attempt to find some sense of purpose. The majority of time was spent consuming mixed drinks and flirting with the locals, but he also managed to pick up several useful skills that weren't learned in private school-- among these the art of sword fighting, favoring the daisho for it's association to high ranking samurais of old. It was also during this time that he reunited with his closest childhood friend, Jushiro Ukitake, who had been in and out of several medical facilities due to an undiagnosed illess. The confederation had chosen to withhold access to several vaccines, stating distribution as a matter of priority: the more influence you had, the better your chances in the eyes of the feds. Deeply affected by the plight of his friend and the idea that several others could be facing the same situation, Shun made a decision.
Immediately returning home to claim an executive position at Gotei Enterprises, he has decided to keep a watchful eye on the feds, believing it better to have someone with a moral conscience on the inside.
That is, when he's not sleeping on the job.
Luppi
Espada, Las Noches
Luppi was one of those foul-mouthed, trouble-making teens whose parents often wondered where the hell they had gone wrong in raising him.
Son of parents whose lives were both dedicated to the Confederation military, Luppi spent most of his life on military bases in Lambda-2. He was an only child whose parents loved him, but the only way they knew to show it was through discipline and high expectations.
This wasn't a problem for Luppi for most of his early years; it was the only life he'd ever known, after all. But as he grew older - and discovered that preteen boys were a lot more masculine-looking and sturdier built than he was and weren't afraid to remind him of it - he became less pleased with the direction he knew his life was heading.
His parents wanted him in the Intergalactic Law Enforcement Facility, grooming him to follow in their footsteps. But that was far too easy; all he had to do was study and pass the exams (an easy task) to get into there. Besides, the military would only introduce him to more arrogant pricks like his classmates, who by now were teasing him mercilessly about his rather effeminate stature, and would pop him on a ship and toss him at whim all over the galaxy as just another pawn in the mix. Aside from finding new ways to tear potential bullies a new one every day (which he was more than capable of doing), Luppi found that he was ultimately bored, and would continue to be bored if that was indeed how his life was going to end up.
He wanted out.
Well, he wanted out until he found out about the Hollow project, at any rate. Really, he wasn't supposed to find out about it at all, but he couldn't help that he had two parents in the military already and that he had exceptionally good hearing. Being an elite soldier and being able to fly about the galaxy with a little more firepower sounded a lot more appealing than being an average low-level shipmate. It gave him a goal, and even his parents were surprised at his sudden drive to force his way into IGLE's elite academy at such a young age. He never lost his vicious attitude - he couldn't do anything about his appearance otherwise - but it nonetheless earned him a reputation that eventually caught the eye of the Hollow project administration.
As one of the younger members of the Hollow project, Luppi soon found himself at the rank of Espada at the age of seventeen. He likes his job... and his new uniform. Not that he gets along with his fellow crew members, mind you, but that doesn't make him any less worthy of being there. In his mind, it's only a matter of time before he gets an official numbered rank.
Note: YOU GUYS BROKE LJ. GOOD JOB.