[Vizard Vice-Commander] Kumori Benihime

[Shuren]

Personal Information

Name: Kumori Benihime

Age
395

Appearance

Eye Color: Ruby Red
Hair Style/Color: Straight, waist-length and ruby red.
Height: 5'3"
Weight: 120 lbs
Attire: Benihime's normal attire consists a modified dress which a fur lined hood and a belt loops at the waist. The zipper on the jacket dress is usually only half-zipped per Benihime's usual preferences and is accompanied by a pair of thigh high stockings. There is a small emblem on the right arm cuff. She is also seen wearing fingerless gloves and a necklace that looks a bit like a collar clasped in gold with 3 gold chains hanging at various lengths down her neck. Beyond that she also wears a large belt around her waist also trimmed in gold.
Misc.: Benihime has a large set of crimson wings tattooed on her back. They look extremely realistic but because of how long and out of control her hair is, they aren't easily seen. She has a small barbell with a large black diamond hanging from it, in her belly button, and another, longer one through the top of her left ear, also normally hidden by her hair. Over her left eye and thing diagonal scar which stretches from her forehead down to her cheek.

Personality
Benihime is a socially functional sociopath, for lack of a better description. She doesn't seem to care much at all about anything unless she finds it entertaining. Her only real pleasure in life is manipulating people into doing what she wishes and this generally leads to her childish or flirty behavior (whichever is suitable). Most times both of these things are done only to hide what is actually going on in her mind and though the situations she causes give her great glee. Most times she'd rather spend the day tanning, shopping, sleeping or eating sweets instead of the constant kind of work it takes to keep her mind occupied. Unless, of course she is being fan-girl obsessive about her husband, as Raizen has always been her sole focus in life. She seems to forget about everything else when he is near and tends to watch him excessively when he can be found.

Powers & Abilities

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Overwhelming Reiatsu: Being one of the strongest and most experienced entities, Benihime possesses an exceedingly powerful Reiatsu. Its sheer strength is enough to break free from the strongest bonds in seconds. Her Reiatsu nullifies the actions of those possessing a High amount with no effort at all and would be exceptionally overpowering to them when used in an attack. Not in 1,000 years has a warrior been born more powerful than she. It can directly oppose a great amount of Reiatsu of others and tip the scales in her favor, it can even negate the effects of their abilities, if she exerts it. When at its peak, her spiritual power can be felt around the world.

Genius Intellect: Arguably, the most fearsome trait of Benihime is her tremendous intellect. She is well-versed in the history and proceedings of the world and is privy to knowledge unknown to many, such as secret methods. She easily grasps the concepts of subjects completely new to her and masters them quickly. Even in the most complex and dangerous of situations Benihime can rely on her calculating intellect to figure out the best course of action. Her assessment of a situation is swift, ad-hoc and accurate, allowing her to deduce the nature of other people’s abilities and countering them, often only requiring a few instances of observation.

Keen Scientist: Benihime is a gifted inventor and scientist, having created a number of clever devices and techniques to aid her in battle or otherwise. Her intellect in this field is evident, as she is able to create and invent devices on her own and further sophisticated research. She is an asset to any development bureau as her work can help accomplish the developmental goals. She knows chemistry, being able to work with chemical formulas and combined them to make new ones. She can also repair advanced machines, sometimes needing to improvise on materials.

Master Tactician: she has shown himself to be a masterful and flexible tactician, capable of adjusting seamlessly to any given combat situation, if not planning out events well in advance. She understands the strengths, weaknesses and mannerisms of her enemies, and creates strategies to achieve victory; this includes preparing traps or leading her enemies along complex battle plans so she can even deal with enemies stronger than herself. Like this Benihime can prepare victory many steps in advance and even incorporate her enemies and their plans into her grand scheme. Regardless of her own powers or those of others, Benihime always remains a tactically cautious.

Hohō Master Specialist: Benihime is highly skilled in the art of Shunpo. She has mastered this ability to the point where she can appear to be in several places at once. She can easily close tremendous gaps of distance in the blink of an eye while remaining undetected, and can surprise even some of the most proficient masters of this art as well. She is capable of effortlessly dodging simultaneous attacks at close range and evading Bankai level techniques. She is perceived to be so fast that one cannot discern even being attacked by her until after it has taken place. Even masters can barely keep up with her while she is still holding back.

Inept Zanjutsu: she is completely unaware about armed combat. Any use of a mêlée weapon would likely result in self-injury instead. In fact, Benihime is so ignorant about armed fighting that she is incapable to responding effectively to one. This makes her exceptionally vulnerable to Average level armed opponents or better.

Hakuda Master Specialist: As one of the most accomplished hand-to-hand combatants in history, Benihime is a highly skilled and dangerous combatant without needing to use her Zanpakutō. She can effortlessly catch her opponent's weapons with a single bare-hand. While fighting offensively, she shows tremendous agility and dexterity. She is also proficient in counterattacking. Her attacks have great speed and agility, leaving little time to counterattack. Additionally, it has proven difficult to actively lay a hand on her unless she allows it. She would have no problem fighting two masters simultaneously, and she might still come out on top.

Futae no Kiwami : With this technique, Benihime is able to supplement her prodigious strength with the ability to completely pulverize matter. She does this by implementing a double-strike, first using the proximal interphalangeal joints of her right hand and then folding her hand to strike with the proximal phalanx joints. The first strike counters and negates the target object's natural resistance and the second strike, delivered within 1/75th of a second, strikes the target object before it can recover from the initial blow, thereby causing it to shatter completely.

Hitokeri: A kick which is delivered with a blast of Reiatsu it is performed so fast it breaks the sound barrier. In doing so a sonic boom follows which creates a visible extension or amplification for the attack. If it is a short kick that is performed the blast looks more like a bullet, however if the motion performed in the kick is a sweep it comes out as a cresent shaped blast of energy. Additionally if this move is performed while her shikai is active the extra Reiatsu becomes unnecessary and her speed is further agumented by the special ability of her Zanpakuto.

Kidō Master Specialist: her knowledge of Kidō is so great, she can perform them by only calling out their names while retaining their great potential power, whereas most users require part of the incantation to do so, if not a full incantation. Benihime can produce immensely powerful barriers to protect her from all but the strongest of attacks, and create blasts that cause a tremendous amount of destruction in the area they are fired in. She can use multiple Kidō in conjunction for various combination and diversion tactics, and have them remain undetected until sprung in sync in a chain reaction. She can create her own unique high-level Kidō, and has extensive knowledge of forbidden techniques such as time and space manipulation. She has also show the ability to strengthen already cast spells by speaking their incantation afterwards.

Immense Strength: She is strong enough to stop even powerful attacks, when the opponent is weakened even stopping their releases with a single hand and likely end the fight with a single swing in the right spot. She can also inflict tremendous damage with her bare hands. Her strength is described as being ‘scary’, a fearsome weapon in its own right which can dictate the conditions of battle. She can fend of large weapons with only one hand and easily cleave durable armour with a single strike. Only those possessing a massive amount of strength could topple her might with ease.

Immense Speed: Benihime is deceptively fast in combat, even when just leaping. Her legs can propel her fast enough to surprise even fast opponents. She can instantly close huge gaps relying on her innate speed alone, appearing to disappear from sight completely. She is fast enough to react to most surprise attacks and masterfully deliver a counter to them. In battle, she can strike with incredible speed in rapid succession, making it highly difficult for her opponents to find an opening and counter-attack.

Immense Endurance: Benihime seems to be tirelessly energetic in combat. She can sustain peak activity for an extended period of time without tiring and requires only a short time to catch her breath again. This makes it difficult to tire her out completely through physical activity alone. She can even fight on unhindered after sustaining a grave injury.

Enhanced Senses not only can Benihime utilize the normal Reiatsu sensing technique of a Shinigami, she is also in posession of superior other senses. Her sight, hearing, sense of smell and even her feel for Reiatsu are very acute and sharp; able to discern smaller sources and nuances where others could not.


Dark Mist: An ability of Benihime's to tap into the dark realm created by her Zanpakuto. While wearing her boots she is able to call forth the devouring shadows of her world and they are in turn able to corrode spiritual things they make contact with, the weaker the spirit the faster the corrosion, until they are eventually eaten away completely and claimed by her darkness.

Zanpakutō

Kagehime (Shadow Princess): A pair of knee high black short heeled boots. They are form fitting like a second skin aside from a knee pad at the top with a large sliver insignia on it. This insignia has all the cutting power of a sealed Zanpakuto. In addition there are cleats on the underside of the boots also made from her Zanpakuto blade which serve as a way to cause extra damage to opponents. These boots are also equipped with thin black stabilizers that appear at the girl's mid thigh when she is wearing them.

Shikai: Its Release Command is Kurayami ni asobe (Play in darkness). Benihime's shikai now takes the form of a pair of red and black thigh high boots jointed at the knee. There is a small crystal cross at the ankle in the front with a small red gem at its center. A red pair of wings appear on the back of her boots close to the heel. Additionally there is a small red heel on her boots. In her released form the wings on the back of heels are as sharp as blades and the boots themselves provide armor all the way up her legs until they end. Additionally they are the conduit through which her shikai's main ability takes place and grant her the ability to fly.

➀ Yami no Kaigan (闇の海岸 "Dark Margin"): The main ability of Benihime's Zanpakuto, Yami no Kaigan allows for the shadows to leak from the subspace of Benihime's Zanpakuto into the dimension she currently inhabits. It creates the path for the shadows to emerge from creating darkness at the base of the woman's boots. In addition this particular power permeates her being, creating the shadow/darkness laced Reiatsu she uses for various purposes. Exposure for other people to these shadows will cause corrosion of their person at low levels, which comes off feeling like a burning sensation but it is actually just the sensation of being eaten alive by the weaker living shadows of her Zanpakuto.

➀ Youei (揺曳 "Flutter"): The shadows created by her first ability are manipulated by the butterfly wings on the back of the woman's boots. This manipulation stirs up the shadows allowing her to condense and kick them at targets at sound barrier breaking speeds. These shadows can be fired in a sweeping crescent shaped arc or as condensed bullets depending on how the woman chooses to execute the movements of her legs. Contact with this attack will cause concussive damage in addition to the corrosion of organic materials.

➀ Yami no Kairou (闇の回廊 "Corridor of Darkness"): An ability of Benihime's which is mostly passive in nature, she is able to exploit the Yami no Kaigan and create a temporary door into the subspace of her Zanpakuto. She uses this passage as a form of teleportation as the subspace measures time and distance differently which she uses to travel from one shadow into another. This corridor is laced with the devouring shadows of the subspace but does not seem to cause the girl injury in anyway. Beyond that she can also teleport other objects and people through the space with her if she is willing to expend the Reiatsu necessary to protect them from the shadows of the subspace.

➀ Shutoku (取得 "Acquisition"): This is a passive ability of Benihime's Zanpakuto. It directly binds things killed in darkness and shadows to the subspace owned by her Zanpakuto. While held in this subspace beings killed in darkness are held prisoner to the woman's will.

Bankai: Ikerushikabane no Kagehime (Shadow Princess of Living Corpses): When the true name of her Zanpakuto is spoken and her Bankai released, Benihime is shrouded completely in darkness. Her arms and legs gain what appear to be long glossy gloves and boots which are actually just the shadows sticking to her being. And when her body is revealed she is shown to have a large set of butterfly wings orange in color at her back which can be used for flight but beyond that create a large shadow in front of her much larger than her normal figure could create. The giant wings seem to flutter of their own accord causing shifts in the shadows at her feet constantly.

Enhanced Reiatsu: Though already possessing immense Reiatsu, in her Bankai her Reiatsu permeates the area and is powerful enough to have a profound effect on everyone in the area. It is enough to bring those with great Reiatsu to their knees and destroy their weapons with ease with a single Reiatsu infused attack.

➀ Jubaku no Kage (Curse of the Shadows): The large wings on Benihime's back during her Bankai cast a large shadow in front of her. This is no shadow, but in actuality an opening into the subspace of her Zanpakuto. Out of it come the devouring shadows in a much more concentrated form. During her Bankai they are able to strip flesh from bone in the matter of a few moments and beyond that these shadows stick to the surfaces they touch and devour that which isn't protected by their mistress. The radius of this shadow is approximately 10 meters in all directions spawning from Benihime's person and seems to be unaffected by the presence or absence of natural light.

➀ Tekuragari (Shadow Hand): With a command the pool of shadows at Benihime's feet form an innumerable number of hands. These hands can subsequently be manipulated at will, either with gesture or through telepathy to do Benihime's bidding. Additionally these Shadow Hands have the benefit of being created from the Jubaku no Kage, so direct contact with them will cause an opponent's flesh to begin to disintegrate.

➀ Edo Tensei (穢土転生 "Impure World Reincarnation"): Kagehime has a distinct connection with things that have died in darkness, particularly because of Shutoku. These beings are reanimated to fight for Benihime at a single command. They will rise from the shadows beneath the woman and fight for her. These risen dead are affected by her Jubaku no Kage, and taking hits or making physical contact with them can also cause the flesh to deteriorate over time. Beyond this the risen dead retain what is left of their minds at death and their powers as they were essentially removed from the cycle of life and death and bound to the subspace of Kagehime's realm.

Resurrecci?n: Criatura de la Oscuridad (Creature of Darkness): Benihime's Resurreccion form consists of a being shrouded in darkness. This creature is small with segmented body parts and a 5 meter long segmented tail. At the end of her tail is a large crescent shaped blade which is exceedingly sharp. Her cero is formed at the hole in the tail which comes out as a black orb while charging. Beyond that this being has a head which is formed similar to the crown like mask. The head lacks a mouth and instead has 5 eyes on it. Her body segments are also covered in eyes at various places and her joints have spiked protrusions lining them. Her hands only have 4 fingers each of these is also lined in eyes on the palm side (making the total number of eyes on her body 100). This form has no need to stand and appears to hover on the air in a crouched position at all times. This form is nubile and seems to speak only telepathically.

Enhanced Reiatsu: Though already possessing immense Reiatsu, in her Resurrecci?n her Reiatsu permeates the area and is powerful enough to have a profound effect on everyone in the area. It is enough to bring those with great Reiatsu to their knees and destroy their weapons with ease with a single Reiatsu infused attack.

➀ Ojo de la Oscuridad (Eye of Darkness): While ressurected the eyes covering Benihime's new form are all closed (They number 100 total). When they open she can create various bits of darkness to use in combat. That as an aside if she opens multiple eyes at once she gains the ability to form darkness into small creatures that will do her bidding.

They maintain a bit of her speed but are also exceedingly fragile given their murky forms. These yellow-eyed creatures take the power of 10 of her eyes to create and control and seem to find themselves easily dispersed by energy attacks. The plus side to them is if they are destroyed the 10 eyes used to create them close and can be reopened to form another creature after a short passage of time. If it happens that all the eyes on the body of Benihime open at once the darkness laced Reiatsu that spills from them will engulf a small defined area of about 20 meters square and locking anyone who gets stuck within it. Of course in so doing it traps them in a darkness normal sight will not allow them to comprehend and since the darkness is made of Benihime's own Reiatsu she is specifically hard to trace within it. When all of her eyes close and the darkness disperses she will be unable to reopen them for a long period of time leaving her seemingly defenseless.

➀ Cero Tristeza Absoluta (Absolute Sorrow Cero): With her tail as the focal point, Benihime is able to fire a continuous black cero. This particular cero is unique to her and acts as a whip when she moves her tail, it will only end as she commands it to do so. This attack has the added effect of being dangerous at both close and long range as her tail is also basically a blade which could harm an individual within 5 meters and the cero which can harm people within a 10 meter range.

Hollowfication

Hollow Mask: Benihime's mask is set up like a venetian set of blinds over the top half of her face extending upwards to the top of her head, like a crown. Though there are no visible holes in the mask it doesn't seem to obstruct Benihime's vision at all.

Benihime can hold her mask for an astonishing 24 hours! This time limit is theoretical however, if it is broken forcibly it cannot be resummoned for the same duration.

Power Augmentation: While Benihime is wearing the mask, her Hollow powers supplement her Shinigami powers, giving her a strong increase in Reiatsu which is enough to surpass most Shikai on its own. Coupled with her own Reiatsu she becomes a very formidable foe to her peers while relying on her Hollow powers alone.

○ Hyperspeed Combat: Her Hollow powers drastically increases her combat speed. This enhancement unlike that of Shunpo alone allows Benihime to create dozens of speed clones to confuse her opponent when involved in ranged combat. In closer combat, Benihime is able to move more quickly even around those who are more advanced at Shunpo than she is and potentially make a critical blow against them. Against someone of similar skill she will seem to gain more mastery over techniques and surpass them while the ability is actively being used. She can close massive gaps instantaneously and surprise even those with the most well-trained eyes. She is quick enough to evade and counter surprise attacks while surprising her attackers and her strikes are faster than most warriors can perceive, leaving very minuscule openings, if any at all.

○ Son?do: Benihime moves at exceedingly fast speeds when using spiritually enhanced travel. She doesn’t use Shunpo to achieve this however, instead she relies on Son?do. It can also slip through the Pesquisa of an Arrancar and through the sensory perception of those weaker than her.

○ Cero: Benihime can fire a powerful blast of concentrated spiritual energy at a target. She can fire a standard Cero, taking the shape of a projectile or a beam. It requires considerable loading time, making it unwieldy in a direct confrontation. Her Cero can deal heavy damage to anyone even when not completely loaded. As an explosion however, it can deal greatly enhanced damage when suffered point blank.

○ Kidō Augmentation: When masked Benihime is able to cast Kidō at a much faster rate than normal. The speed increase of her casting is only over shadowed by the additional power that each of her spells gains. The combination of increased spell speed and power make her a deadly foe while using Kidō and her mask simultaneously. Kidō won't tire her as easily when masked, meaning more spells can be cast in a shorter amount of time. Wearing her mask doesn't change is general knowledge of Kidō, but instead allows her to use her previous knowledge of Kidō to ravage foes.

○ Extended Duration: After having achieved domination of her Hollow, Benihime has the ability to hold her Mask for an extended duration of time. This allows her to fight Masked for much longer amount of time than normally possible!

Second Form
After being Hollowfied for 10 posts, the mask starts to change its shape. In its secondary form Benihime's mask extends down her neck to form odd jaw like protrusions near her neck. Beyond that she gains pointed spikey armor down her shoulders to her elbows and wrists. This includes a heart shaped opening near the fleshy part of her chest and a sturdy armor piece down her spine.

When this happens she is fully Hollowfied and can no longer access Shikai or Bankai, instead her Resurrecci?n becomes available.

○ High Speed Regeneration: Perhaps her Mask's greatest benefit, Benihime has the ability to quickly regenerate any part of her body save for the brains and internal organs. The repair of damage can start quickly and finishes in two posts time. Although its ability to regenerate is indeed powerful it is not without flaws; the brains and internal organs can’t be regenerated and if such irreparable damage occurs, the body may continue to regenerate though to no avail. In addition, if the body is damage before it had the chance to regenerate or if enough damage it inflicted at one, it can be destroyed regardless.