Warning: History and Abilities charts all the way back to my days in BSS (spanning about 2 years ago.) and in Sereitei. If you have any questions about anything below, feel free to PM me... ^^ Thank you.
Name: Yomiko Shihouin
Aliases/ Nicknames: Captain Yo-Yo
Yomi
Gran-Gran/Grandma [Only her granddaughter, Amie Kamashiro, can say this. Anyone else who DARES to say this... will be persecuted on sight. XD]
Lindiwe --- A Name her mother used to call her when she was young. In Zulu, it means "have waited."
Formerly known as Yomiko Shihouin-Kimishima
Age: Appears To Be 27 [But she doesn't let anyone know her real age]
Race: Vizard
Vizard Class: A-Class
Seat: Former Unseated Officer of the 13th Division
Former Vice-Captain of the 2nd Division.
Former Vizard-Captain of the 2nd Division
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 125 lbs
Personality: Yomiko is very imaginative, her mind knows no boundaries. She often is portrayed as clueless, but that is not her nature. She sticks to her principles when it comes to combat and showmanship. She is one to ball up her feelings, not letting anyone know how she really feels about something until the time is right. Yomiko doesn't like fighting, but if she is required to, she will. Trust me, she will after she tries to negotiate with you, peacefully. She is open-minded, smart, lazy, and in dire situations she still maintains her gangsta despite whatever is happening. Though, she really isn't willing to do much for anyone else, she is often seen doing anything for those who are close to her, such as Fuyu and Amie. [As a grandmother, she'd do anything for Amie. XDDD] Yomiko is very skilled in Zanjutsu, Hakuda, and Kido. She can perform high kido techniques without chanting the incantations required to do so. In the sleeves of her 'shirt' she has a multitude of throwing knives.
Theme Song(s):
Ashita e no Sanka [Orchestra Version] - alan [<3 I love this gal!]
Don't Let Go - Pacha Massive
Season's Call - Hyde
The Inspiration - Young Jeezy
Physical Description: Yomiko Shihouin is 5'6". She has dark brown skin and piercing golden eyes. Formerly, back in her Vice Captain and Vizard days, her hair was a dark violet color, just like her ancestor, Yoruichi Shihouin but due to events she dyed it a rich dark sienna color. Her hair falls down her back and almost reaches her 'backside'. Yomiko has a curvy and fit body that is rarely seen because of some of the baggy clothes she wears. She usually wears her hair down, and on rare occasions she ties it in a ponytail. On her shoulder, there is a tattoo with the Kanji 'Hope'.
Her Shinigami Uniform isn't like the others. She doesn't wear the Kosode but like other shinigami she does wear the Hakama pants. Replacing the Kosode, she sometimes could be found wearing a dark hoodie or even a regular jacket with a matching tank top. Or, depending on her mood, she might just wear something casual, such as a T-Shirt and some jeans or something. It's not often that she is found wearing her Captain's Haori. The woman wears her Zanpaku-to on her back, in a similar fashion like Hitsugaya. Now, Yomiko wears fingerless gloves that resemble the ones that Kaname Tosen wore when he was in the Soul Society.
Zanpakuto Name and Sealed Description: Persephone - Persephone is a long Odachi reigning 67 inches long in length. Because of the length, Yomiko usually doesn't carry her sword around with her. If she does, she usually carries the sword is carried on her back or shoulder via a brown strap. The sheath of Persephone is obsidian with the Kanji 'Hell' inscribed largely near the guard of the sword. The guard of the sword is in a rectangular form, with for small bells attached to the ends. The Hilt is wrapped in a long red, tattered cloth that feels like the material from a female Shino-Reijutsuin uniform.
Zanpaku-to Sword Type: Odachi
Zanpaku-to Element: Fire
Shikai: 'Prossimo a me... La dea di inferno...Persephone.' (Come To Me, The Goddess of Hell... Persephone..)
The Zanpaku-to's default form of a Odachi Sword turns into a long Ivory whip with purplish-black flames flaring at the end.
- 'Fiamma nera a mezzaluna...' (Crescent Black Flame)
The Crescent Black Flame allows the weilder to shoot a crescent like attack of black flames towards the weilders opponent from the flaming end of the whip.
- 'Mille pugnali neri della fiamma..' (Thousand Black Flame Daggers...)
In a similar manner of the Crescent Black Flame, the whip releases a black flame attack. The black flame appears as so, but it soon materializes into a multitude of dark daggers.
- Una frusta di fuoco… e una catena della frode… ROTTURA... (A whip of fire... and a chain of deceit... BREAK)
The Initial Whip turns into a Chain Whip. It consists of several metal rods, which are joined end-to-end by rings to form a flexible chain. Generally, the whip has a handle at one end and a metal dart, used for slashing or piercing an opponent, at the other. A cloth flag is often attached at or near the dart end of the whip, and a second flag may cover the whip's handle. The flag or flags enhance a wushu performance by adding visual appeal, and by producing a rushing sound as the whip swings through the air. They also help stabilize the whip, enhancing the performer's control. This reduces the performer's risk of inadvertently striking himself/herself.
- Coda del fuoco… (Fire Tail)
The Cloth flag at the end of the Chain Whip ignites in a black flame, allowing it to be shot out at the opponent.
- Separato…
The Chain Whip turned into Two Chain Whips. You can still use the Coda del fuoco attack with it.
Bankai:'Liberi le fiamme di inferno... Persephone' (Release The Flames of Hell.. Persephone...)
The whole area within a radius of Yomiko becomes a barren wasteland. The Earth starts to shake and created large cracks through the ground, allowing hot multing lava to shoot out to the surface. The whip transforms into a a scythe that has blades at both of the ends. The weapon was pull apart into three sections that are connected by a metal chain.
A Sample from another RP I am in. This basically describes what the Bankai is.
Yomiko Shihouin
Yomiko slowly placed her hand on her Odachi. She was becoming more aware of her surroundings and continued to tune out Haito's voice in her head. It was now silence. She couldn't hear anything but that voice of Ogato and Persephone. That was something that she had learned over the years when she was young, successfully tuning out someone to the point that it was silence.
Her golden eyes looked around at the place, she wanted to end this fight as quickly as possible. As the sky became darker, losing it's purplish hue, she knew that this situation wasn't going in her favor. It was certainly not. Yomiko looked over at the darkened beach and at the tourists that were dumb enough to walk along it. She could see shadows of Haito, forming along then beach.
She slid the sheathed Zanpaku-to from the holder on her back. A silver aura started to form around the former Captain. It was like a glow was surrounding her whole being. The wind started to pick up in the vincinity around the woman, at first, then it migrated through the city streets. The wind was fierce as if it were a hurricane coming. The reiatsu forming around her was unlike the one that was formerly present, it was like a mixture of the malevolent and benevolent. It was stronger... unlike the energy that the Captain would emit from her person.
It was the mixture of Yomiko, Ogato, and Persephone's.
With the soft jingle of the bells that hung from her guard, the energy began to grow into something. The woman pressed her lips together as she watched more of the shadows form along the beach. She didn't want to have to resort to doing this, but it would have to be the only way.
"Release the Flames of Hell, Persephone..." She whispered to herself. The small four bells that were on her guard released themselves from it. Small bells sank into the ground as if they were engulfed in quick sand.
A small rumbling could be heard in the distance, then it became louder and louder. The ground started to shake like it was a earthquake occurring in then downtown District. The buildings swayed and shaked, but as the rumbling became more dangerous, one of the hotel buildings actually collapsed. Cracks in the sidewalk ran along the beach, then they started to move themselves apart from each other. With a rush, as then 'plates' moved apart from each other, hot gushing lava shot out from beneath the cracks. The lava shot up in the air with a roar.
The sky's hue changed color. The sky was now a pinkish color, unlike then dark color that it was before. The ocean's waves crashed along one of the 'plates'. Her Zanpaku-to turned into a long obsidian scythe with blades at each end. On the rod of the scythe, a electric blue inscription appeared along it, but Yomiko didn't pay this not attention.
Her eyes dimmed a bit before they turned into that familiar hue of crimson. The former Tenshi-Heisoban's eyes resembled the blood of her victims of long ago. Those crimson eyes finally took notice to the Haito Shadows that were coming her way. The wind kept it's pace through the hell-hole realm which was now her Bankai.The extreme heat of the realm brought some to their knees at some point. The windy atmosphere proved a feat for some of her enemies that were lucky enough to see her Bankai.
Her golden eyes looked around at the place, she wanted to end this fight as quickly as possible. As the sky became darker, losing it's purplish hue, she knew that this situation wasn't going in her favor. It was certainly not. Yomiko looked over at the darkened beach and at the tourists that were dumb enough to walk along it. She could see shadows of Haito, forming along then beach.
She slid the sheathed Zanpaku-to from the holder on her back. A silver aura started to form around the former Captain. It was like a glow was surrounding her whole being. The wind started to pick up in the vincinity around the woman, at first, then it migrated through the city streets. The wind was fierce as if it were a hurricane coming. The reiatsu forming around her was unlike the one that was formerly present, it was like a mixture of the malevolent and benevolent. It was stronger... unlike the energy that the Captain would emit from her person.
It was the mixture of Yomiko, Ogato, and Persephone's.
With the soft jingle of the bells that hung from her guard, the energy began to grow into something. The woman pressed her lips together as she watched more of the shadows form along the beach. She didn't want to have to resort to doing this, but it would have to be the only way.
"Release the Flames of Hell, Persephone..." She whispered to herself. The small four bells that were on her guard released themselves from it. Small bells sank into the ground as if they were engulfed in quick sand.
A small rumbling could be heard in the distance, then it became louder and louder. The ground started to shake like it was a earthquake occurring in then downtown District. The buildings swayed and shaked, but as the rumbling became more dangerous, one of the hotel buildings actually collapsed. Cracks in the sidewalk ran along the beach, then they started to move themselves apart from each other. With a rush, as then 'plates' moved apart from each other, hot gushing lava shot out from beneath the cracks. The lava shot up in the air with a roar.
The sky's hue changed color. The sky was now a pinkish color, unlike then dark color that it was before. The ocean's waves crashed along one of the 'plates'. Her Zanpaku-to turned into a long obsidian scythe with blades at each end. On the rod of the scythe, a electric blue inscription appeared along it, but Yomiko didn't pay this not attention.
Her eyes dimmed a bit before they turned into that familiar hue of crimson. The former Tenshi-Heisoban's eyes resembled the blood of her victims of long ago. Those crimson eyes finally took notice to the Haito Shadows that were coming her way. The wind kept it's pace through the hell-hole realm which was now her Bankai.The extreme heat of the realm brought some to their knees at some point. The windy atmosphere proved a feat for some of her enemies that were lucky enough to see her Bankai.
-'Inferni che fiammeggiano fiore...' (Hell's Flaming Blossom)
This attack allows the user to conjour up small little spots of black flames on the battle field. By each minute, the flames grow larger and larger until the wielder deems it necessary to stop the flames. This attack lets the weilder control the black flames and attack the opponent when necessary. xD
-'Gloria a mezzaluna più scura...' (Darker Crescent Glory)
This Attack, well, you might as well call it a larger version of the Crescent Black Flame. Only this time, the daggers are more sharper and deadlier. This attack can only be used if the weilder uses the sctyhe.
-'Onda di paralisi dell'inferno...' (Paralyzing Hell Wave)
(( xp I'm tired. gonk I'll get to this attack when I can... gonk Sorry...))
-Schermo twisted della fiamma…(Twisted Flame Sheild) ||
This attack allows the wielder to create a barrier of hot, molten rock. =_=
Kidou:
Bakudo:
1. Restrain (塞, sai)— Locks a target's arms in place behind their back.
4. Crawling Rope (這縄, hainawa) — An energy rope entangles a target's arms.
9. Strike (撃,Geki) — Engulfs a target in red light, completely paralyzing them.
12. Fushibi: A net formed from an attachment point on the caster, can be small or large depending ong the reiatsu force behind it.
37. Suspending Star (吊星, tsuriboshi) - Creates a star-shaped cushion of Spiritual Energy, which anchors it to nearby objects with "ropes" of spirit particles. It can stop falling objects, acting like a safety net.[6]
58. Summoning of the Tracking Sparrows (摑趾追雀, kakushitsuijaku) — Tracks and locates any spiritual force the user focuses on.
61. Six Rods Prison of Light (六杖光牢, rikujōkōrō) — Summons six thin, but wide, beams of light that slam into a target's midsection, holding them in place.
62. Hundred Stepped Rails (百歩欄干, hyapporankan?) — A rod formed of energy is thrown towards the target before it disintegrates into numerous short rods which are used to pin the target to the surroundings and render them immobile.
63. Chainlike Desert (Sajo Sabaku)— The target is wrapped from the neck down in a thick chain.
75. Quintet of 1 kan Iron Pillars (五柱鉄貫, gochūtekkan) — Forms a cage made of five incredibly high and thick pillars around a target.
77. Heavenly Rickshaws in Silken Air (天挺空羅, tenteikūra) — Transmits messages to anyone within Soul Society.
81. Splitting Void (斷空, danku) — Creates an energy barrier in the form of a rectangular wall.
Hado:
1. Thrust (衝, shō) — Pushes the target away from the caster.
4. White Lightning (白雷, byakurai) — Fires a concentrated bolt of lighting from the caster's forefinger.
11. Tsuzuri Raiden: Imbues and object with an electrical current. The technique was used by Hisagi Shuuhei, by allowing the kidou to travel up the chain of his zanpakutou, Shinikaze.
31. Shot of Red Fire (赤火砲, shakkahō) — Fires a ball of red energy at a target.
33. Blue Fire, Crash Down (蒼火墜, sōkatsui) — Fires a burst of blue spiritual energy at a target in a similar manner to 31, but over a wider area and with more power.
54. Waste Flame (廃炎, haien)— Incinerates a target completely.
58. Orchid Sky (闐嵐, tenran) - A widening tornado-like blast is fired towards the target.
63. Thunder Roar Cannon (雷吼炮, raikōhō) — Fires a massive wave of yellow energy at a target.
73. Twin Lotus Blue Fire, Crash Down (双蓮蒼火墜, sōren sōkatsui) — Essentially a doubled version of #33, this spell fires two shots of blue fire with greater potency than the single-shot variety.
88. Flying Dragon Striking, Heaven-Shaking, Lightning Cannon (飛竜撃賊震天雷砲, hiryūgeki zoku shinten raihō?)— Fires a massive blast of spiritual energy in a fashion similar to a laser.
Other:
Kyōmon: It creates a glass-like barrier which is difficult to break from the outside, but quite simple to break from the inside.
Hanki: This technique nullifies an opponent's movement by hitting them with an perfectly opposite surge of energy.
White Crawl (白伏, hakufuku): A Kido Spell that allows it's caster to destroy everything within a certain radius of him/her.
Shunkō[瞬閧, Flash Cry]: A technique that combines hand-to-hand combat and kidō. It concentrates high-pressure kidō energy around the body, allowing it to be fired at opponents. It can also be used to instantly neutralize an opponent's movement.
Senka [闪花, Flash Blossom]: a flash step combined with a spin to quickly move behind the enemy, followed by a strike aimed to destroy the saketsu chain and the hakusui soul sleep with a combination of two quick thrusts.
Utsusemi [空蝉, cicada]: Allows a person to move out of harms way by creating another image of themselves.
Skills:
Odachi Mastery: It is widely known that the Odachi is a long sword that was used for ceremonial offerings and the like. Because of the size of the sword, it proved to be a feat for someone who wanted to wield it. Yomiko is able to wield the heavy sword as if she were able to wield a normal Katana.
Shunpo: Flash Steps...
Zanjustu: Yomiko is very talented in Zanjutsu. This is a bit of a sample of her Sword Play style. [X-Yomiko's style is Flying Snow's Style (The Female)-X]
Hakudou: Her Hakudou style is the Jun Fan Jeet Kune Do Style [Made famous my it's originator, Bruce Lee.]
Kidou: She has a mastery of most Kidou techniques. She can perform high level techniques without the chants.
Physiognomy: At the time when she was an unseated member of the 13th Squad, her Captain took it upon her to teach her Physiognomy and Kinesics. Physiognomy is a skill that can effectively identify and analyze the features of the face that characterize a person’s personality traits.
Kinesics: This is the other technique that her Captain taught her. Kinesics is the reading of someone's body language. This includes movements, gestures, expressions and posture; all that convey something about personality.
Vizard Abilities:
Vizard Mask: Mask [Temp until I draw it.]
Sonído (響転（ソニード）, Sonīdo; Spanish for "sound") is the Arrancar equivalent of the Shinigami Flash Steps and the Quincy Hirenkyaku; it allows the user to travel at incredibly high speeds for short distances. Use of Sonído is punctuated by a brief static sound, in contrast to the "swish" sound caused by Flash Steps.
Garganta (黒腔（ガルガンタ）, garuganta; Spanish for "throat") It literally tears open the dimensional fabric separating the worlds, revealing a tunnel of whirling, torrential energy that must be focused and solidified to create a discernible pathway.
Cero: are high-powered energy blasts that can be fired from various body parts, such as mouth, tongue, hand or fingers.
Bala: (虚弾（バラ）, bara; Spanish for "bullet", also translated as "Hollow Bullet") The technique hardens the user's Spiritual Pressure and fires it like a bullet from their fist. It is seriously weaker than a normal cero, it moves about twenty times faster and can be fired at a much higher rate, but the damage is much the same.
[---Post Time-Skip--]
Hierro: (鋼皮（イエロ）, Hiero; Spanish for "iron") refers to the hardened skin of the Arrancar, which is a result of their compressed spiritual power. While their skin is strong enough to block even released Zanpakutou bare-handed, it is by no means impenetrable. Stronger Arrancar have proportionally stronger skin.
Negación: (反膜（ネガシオン）, Spanish for "negation") fields are used to rescue fellow hollows. Only the Gillian-class Menos have shown the ability to use it. Negación fields surround a target in a square beam of light that isolates the target from the dimension they are currently in, making it impossible to harm them.
Pesquisa: (探査回路（ペスキス）, Pesukisa; Spanish for "inquiry") is the Arrancar equivalent of the Shinigami ability to sense Spiritual Pressure. It functions similar to sonar.
Gran Rey Cero (王虚の閃光, (グラン・レイ・セロ), Guran Rei Sero; Japanese for "royal hollow flash", Spanish for "Grand King Zero") is a much higher-level Cero used by the Espada. It is performed by mixing an Arrancar's own blood with the Cero.
Bio: Yomiko Shihouin was born into the Royal Family, Shihouin. She had two brothers, one that was younger and another that was older. Out of her two brothers, she was the only one that wasn't adopted. Her mother was banished from the Shihouin family after Yomiko became sick when she was very small. It was unknown at that time that the sickness that she had would plague her for the rest of her life would have such a strong impact on her physically and mentally. Once her mother was banished, her father disowned Yomiko and wanted her to be killed. At this time, she was a small child and before her father could do anything her grandfather stepped in and opted to raise Yomiko; much to her fathers' displeasure...
When her grandfather took her in, she was very young. At the age she was, she was barely able to speak. He raised her from then, teaching her things that will stay with her for a lifetime. As she was being took in by her grandfather, her father wanted little do with her. He just ignored her like she was nothing and her eldest brother was constantly belittling her. When she became sick again, her grandfather began to shelter her more than she should've been. She grew up sheltered by the Royal Family, not able to do anything until she was enrolled into the Shinigami Academy. She was enrolled in low-level classes by her grandfather, who didn't want to stress her body. At the time, she did not pay any attention to this, since she understood that her primary care-giver was trying to take care of her. When she was at the academy, she soon learned that being a Shihouin in a class full of commoners and such was not good. Because of this, no one [the students] didn't want to have nothing to do with her. This lead her academy years to be lonesome until she met Fuyu Arashi and another girl, by the name of Michiko, that wasn't afraid to speak to her or anything. As expected, these three became fast friends despite their differences in status. For a time, this made Yomiko happy...
Chaotic events followed her as she entered her last year at the academy. The year before, her youngest brother was murdered by her eldest brother, out of a fit of jealously. She witnessed the whole thing, not able to do anything about it since she was under her sick spells. The murder still reeled through her mind after wards, causing her to feel guilty about the whole thing. Her older brother, on the other hand, did not get in trouble for the whole thing, but instead he claimed that an 'assassin' had came to attack Yomiko and her brother. They all listened, but only Yomiko and her Grandfather knew the truth but remained silent. Months later, after this incident had happened, her older brother still taunted her with his rude names and such. He looked down on her constantly, the main reason was because of her unorthodox ways of being a 'noblewoman', such as befriending a commoner and other factors.
So one day, close to her graduation from the Shinigami Academy, something unexpected happened. While her and her friend visited one of the districts in the Rukongai, the two were ambushed... by her older brother and some of his friends. That's when they were attacked by the group. Though her friend was strong, her friend tried her best to protect Yomiko at all costs. With a stab to the heart and neck by two of the attackers (at the same time, I might add), her friend was killed. To remember her friend, at that time, Yomiko ripped the cloth from the girls' Hakama pant and wrapped it around the hilt of her Zanpaku-to...
Again, he got away with this as well... selling the family with the same BS
story that he fed them when he killed their own sibling...
Sick of the killing and the chaos that her brother has put her through, on the day of her Graduation, Yomiko decided to confront her older brother about the deeds the family had let him get away with. She thought if they wouldn't do anything about it, she will...
Her brother welcomed the challenged with open arms... not knowing that would be his last time ever being able to be the 'tryant' to her. Though it was a rough battle, Yomiko killed him. She didn't bother hiding his body or anything of the sort, she just left it there and waited beside it until someone came for them. Once someone came, the guard escorted Yomiko to the 'council' of the Shihouin Family. [Her grandfather was on this council as well.] Staring at her long and hard, they decided her fate. At the time, since her grandfather was on the council, she thought she was going to get away with the murder with a small punishment, but alas she was wrong. She was banished from the Shihouin Royal Family, by her Grandfather (Who SUGGESTED the banishing). Feeling betrayed, she left the Shihouin without a word...
Though she graduated from the Shinigami Academy and was admitted into the 13th Division, she decided not to go into the Gotei 13 at that time. Yomiko had a strong feeling that the Shihouin Family might try something... especially with their influence within the Soul Society... So she resorted in 'staying' in the Rukongai for a while.
Her days in the Rukon District Kusajishi were rough and harsh. She had no means for food or shelter. The girl resorted on living on the streets. Because of this hard life, Yomiko began to develop skills in thievery and such. She was breaking into people's homes and stuff... and that's when the Shihouin Family popped back into her life once again. Now, an assassin was after her and wanted her to end up being dead. The assassin caught her when she was walking on a dark night. The assassin almost killed her, until an unknown woman stepped in and saved her. Because of this woman's courage, this prompted her to go back into her rightful place in the Gotei 13's Divine Protectors Division. When she was admitted in, she tried to work around her sick spells and such. As she progressed in her training as a member of the Divine Protectors, she was one of the only few unseated members to gain her Zanpaku-to's Shikai and have a strong control on her reiatsu, which caught the eye of the 2nd Division Captain who recruited her to become his Vice.
Once Vice Captain of the 2nd Division, since she was so in-experienced, she had to learn most Kidou's that someone of her level should know. This prompted her to learn more Kidou, which would explain why she was so talented into that area. She also had to brush up on her Zanjutsu and Hakudou as well. When it came to her last name, she often set her subordinates straight by not allowing them to even address her by her last name or even bow to her, which she still does now. This is because she is not of the Shihouin Clan anymore, despite her last name. Well, as she trained and proved herself to the Captain, her Captain eventually trained her into learning Shunko, which she really doesn't have a full mastering of the technique. Soon, her days of being the Vice of the 2nd Division would soon be over which one of her sick spells caused her to leave her post as the Vice Captain of the 2nd Division...
A few months later, she came back to her post only to see that her former student had taken over the Division. This did not dishearten Yomiko, only made her happy. She was glad that one of her subordinates she taught actually became something. She met her former students in the training grounds, but the meeting was short lived when Yomiko fainted. Her student took her to the Vizard that she was allowing to stay in the squad. The Vizard healed Yomiko and for some unknown reason, out of randomness, she became his 'assistant' despite her protests. After most tests and so forth, he unwillingly turned her into a Vizard. After many 'adventures', these two actually decided to get married...
The marriage was long and quite interesting. Everything was going great until she went to seek out the training of Feiy Boelba and Drift Galewind. Her husband and Feiy were not on good terms with each other, knowing this, she went out to seek the training of the Vizard, anyway. As her time training with Feiy and Drift went on, her husband was killed during the time.
[--Post Time skip--]
