Senzo Shinryuuji

Name: Senzo Shinryuuji
Nickname: Aegis
Age: 279 (56 at time of death)
Gender: Male
Squad: 4
Rank: Lieutenant
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Personality: One would be quick to notice that Senzo seems consistently annoyed; not to the point of snapping or lashing out, mind, but his responses are generally short and quick, and he doesn't tend to spend much time on any given thing. This gruff personality occasionally gives way to the act of shoving people out of the way if he thinks something's taking too long or that he can do it better, and staring at someone interacting with him (or that he is otherwise interacting with) with a cold expression no matter what they might have done, or not done. As such, he doesn't deal well with authority, either grudgingly accepting it or simply avoiding it altogether.

Not to say that he is a wholly unpleasant person, mind; in fact, most of the effort he puts forth is for those near or under him, however his attitude might appear. He enjoys calming music as much as anyone, when the time is right, and can frequently be found spending his off time reading some story or other... as long as it will get him away from other people that so often inevitably come to dislike him. An inherently solitary being, he takes these opportunities where he can find them, thus avoiding crowds and the like... and sometimes meetings, depending on his mood. He is not very amenable, as none would likely deny, but it can hardly be denied by his general efforts that he is faithful (even though it can sometimes be difficult to see).

As a final point, a source of his plain bitterness is in fact his zanpakuto, mostly in that it is not an offensive type, by any means.
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As with his personality, Senzo's appearance is fairly gruff. His face ever remains only partly shaven, enough to leave a whiskery mustache and beard over a lightly pointed chin. Wild, short, and oft unkempt black hair crowns his head, never allowed to cover his dark blue eyes lest any bit of his field of vision be blocked. He stands tall at 6'3", with a muscular form built from years of combat and lightly tanned skin from years spent frequently out under the sun. Despite this, only a bare few scars cover his body, including a peculiar, straight scar on the front of his neck. Presumably, it was marked upon his spiritual body at the instant of his death, when a sword came to cut through it, but he doesn't seem to pay it any mind.
Bio: In death, as in life, Senzo took every opportunity he received to be on top of everything.

Born to a middle-class family and yet gifted with a servant from that very day, Senzo was raised to believe that he had to make the most of himself that he possibly could. Servants, land, money, weapons; all of them were sources of power, and all of them were what he had to pursue. After all, his parents were putting all the resources they had into his upbringing, so how could he not become someone highly successful? 'Twould be unheard of, so long as he was forced to keep up with all the teaching they pressed upon him!

Lest he become unsuccessful by any stretch of the imagination, the boy's upbringing consisted of swordplay, military tactics (so much as an affordable tutor could teach), history, and etiquette. A true leader of men, perhaps even a warlord, he would be, if his parents had anything to say about it. And so he became, in time... and the first step on that ladder to greatness was to come to the service of the local lord when he was no less than 15 years of age. Small, local jobs came first as a matter of gaining trust and recognition, before he was able to move on to the 'big task,' so to speak. There came his first challenge to test his ability and mettle: taking a human life. The life of one of the members of the otherwise three-person group Senzo himself was sent with, no less.

It was not an accident, nor an act of bloody betrayal that purportedly necessitated the death; rather, it was a simple thought: 'this cowering man is going to ruin the entire operation.' He might have, too, so led by fear and worry as he was. A swift thrust from behind with Senzo's sword was all it took upon that decision. Nothing was even said by the other two in the group, not after the boy proved so ready to explain himself. Instead, they calmly moved on to resume their given task, leaving the body of the deceased behind. Here Senzo had his first taste of death, and demons.

Fear, after all, was quite the strong emotion; enough to leave the deceased man clinging desperately to anything he could find. In this case, his own killer; not even grudgingly, but simply as a means of trying to say 'I can still go on.'

Years passed, and Senzo grew from a mere attendant to a lord in his own right; with, as many said, a 'cursed air' about him caused unknowingly by the clinging spirit that none could ever identify. Even with that, he was a strong lord, a warring lord, and regularly tested his might in capturing, or trying to capture, trade routes and small settlements near his own. They were only small raids, most of the time, but it still made an impact; his presence, his threat, still became known. And as with all threats, he had to be taken care of, even if it took an eventual gathering of separate forces to remove what forces he had amassed.

Again, there was no betrayal, nor accident; Senzo and his forces were merely bested in combat, and the leader's head was rightly taken. Here the man found the spirit that had clung to him for so long, an echo of part of his own past, and wasted little time in attempting to strike the man he had killed so long ago down permanently, now they both shared ethereal forms. The attempt ended poorly; the other was far more used to being a spirit, and simply eluded Senzo's efforts, persistent as they became.

Then came the Shinigami to put them both to rest, and the once lord grudgingly accepted his removal from the world of the living, in the thought that he could remake his status on the other side. It took him far longer than he had initially hoped, but there was no problem there; he no longer aged, and had all the time in the world! Knowledge of spiritual power and how to use it was soon added to everything else his mind had claimed, and the man worked his way steadily upward into the ranks of Shinigami through the persistent study and practice that he had always been taught by. If he knew he would end up in the division of healers with such a... detestable zanpakuto, he might not have bothered, but such became the fate of the former lord become supporter.
Inner world appearance: Senzo's inner world seems to be a contradiction of itself. Where patches of grass grow, the ground beneath appears dead and lifeless; conversely, where there is no grass, the soil appears to be quite a healthy, rich brown. Most strangely of all, the sky above this open plain is a canvas of blues and golds, lacking any form of stars or clouds otherwise and casting an interesting light upon the field below.

Zanpakutō

Name: Kusatoku (Grass Shield)
Zanpakutō spirit: Kusatoku as a spirit can easily be called a wolf, though there are a few particular oddities about it. Its eyes are a pure, dark green, wholly lacking any other color, and its fur is a dull brown, flecked with green spots that one might swear were leaves. Personality-wise, it is calm and stoic, rather befitting its power.
Sealed form: In its sealed form, Kusatoku appears as a standard, double-edged long sword, quite near identical to the one Senzo used in life. The silvery blade extends out from the hilt wrapped in black cloth, and the sword's guard is quite definably rectangular.

Shikai

Call out phrase: "Bloom and grow, Kusatoku."
Shikai description: Rather than an actual weapon, as such, Kusatoku in Shikai form is a large shield, colored dull brown with flecks of green just like its spirit form. The shield is rounded widely at the top, to curve steadily inward and end with a thinner, but just as rounded, bottom. In terms of size, it is 5'3" high and 3' wide; a difficult item to carry at the best of times if just for that.
Ability: Nature manipulation.
Techniques:
-Aegis Shield: When planted into the ground, Kusatoku becomes more difficult to break; the more fertile the ground it is planted in, the more hardness it attains, even to the point of being able to stand on its own, potentially unmoving except by physical act of its wielder.
-Wild Greens: Still another ability reliant on Kusatoku being planted into sufficiently fertile ground, this one can call upon plants themselves. Some medicinal, some poisonous, some tough to break through, the plants range in their particular effects. Twenty feet from where the shield itself is planted is the limit of where the plants can be called, so long as the ground affords any ability to nourish them.

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Statistics:
Rank/level - ADP-0
Hankou - 10
Reiryoku - 10
Hakudo - 11
Seijuu - 11
Bukijuu - 10
Hoho - 8
Points awarded: 0
Total points: 60

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