Shin Shikai

Shikai thread: https://thebleachworld.darkbb.com/t4133-make-new-friends-shin-semi-open



Relevant Post: (from page 2, near the bottom)

Even though he was attacking as fast as he possibly could, Kuro was dodging or parrying every single blow, while easily managing to launch his own attacks in between shin's strikes. Shin at this point realized that Kuro had merely been humoring him this while time, he could tell, Kuro could have easily ended this contest with those attacks, but was purposefully aiming of skimming hits as to not hurt Shin that badly, it was insulting, depressing, devastating even, he realized that there was no improvement since last time, almost no difference in their comparative power since Kuro had last pummeled Shin into the ground. His morale and purpose started to waver, and his strikes became a little weaker and a little slower as he the realization started to hit him.

At this time, Kuro stepped in and swung harder. It all seemed to happen in slow motion... their blades collided... Shin's shattered under the blow... The blade bit into his flesh... then a tremendous blow to the gut sent him flying.... tumbling across the ground before rolling to a stop face down in the dirt. Shin was not only hurting physically but mentally as well, why couldn't he win? why couldn't he improve? He had trained so hard... but he hadn't improved at all... He slowly stood up, as blood seeped through his clothes a bit, and looked forward at Kuro, who hadn't moved, and thought, Why are you so far away from me? Why can't I catch up to you?

"Do you wish for power?" Shin blinked, he was back in the castle, in the throne room with the dark entity before him again. He look forward at the entity, battered and bloody. The entity looked at him and said, "No strings attatched, just take my power, use it as you will." The creature raised it's hand and a giant weapon formed out of shadow materialized before it. It appeared to be a large double ended serrated sword, except that it had four sides instead of 2 on each end, more like a spear. Shin reached forward to grasp the weapon but it turned into shadow and flowed into his body. "Call me forth to do battle, Akumu, Devourer of Dreams."

Shin opened his eyes and realized he was back in the real world, he looked at Kuro and said, "Devour, Akumu." Shadows reached out from shin's hand and wrapped around his body and started forming a elongated shadow in his hand, soon it fully enveloped Shin and as the weapon the creature had extended to him finished forming the shadow covering shin retracted, leaving him standing there with the weapon in full shinigami robes. Shin looked down at the weapon in his hand, he knew how it worked, he didn't know how he knew, but he knew the properties of the weapon, it could extended and retract and he knew how to use it. He could feel the power flooding his body... He took a deep breath and charged Kuro again, spinning around and extending the weapon before him in a an attack, before retracting it at the end of the swing before it hit him and repeating it over again and again, as fast as he could, back and forth, all over the place, trying to land a single blow on the evasive Kuro.



Release Phrase: "Devour, Akumu"

Sealed Description: A short tanto, a 6 inch hilt with a 12 inch blade, double sided edge. All matte black


Unleashed Description: A 4 edged, double ended whip-sword. It is totally black and does not reflect light at all. (Made of solid Darkness)
Double ended, concept Design

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One side Concept Design

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It is an extremely heavy weapon, though shin doesn't know that.

It is able to be locked in Retracted or Extended state, its cap reach at extended state is 40 feet, however he does not need to extend it that far in extended form, he can lock it at any length.
The mechanics work very much like Renji's weapon if that helps you understand,
Also while in extended form it can be forcefully retracted, and the serrated edges will act almost like a chainsaw while retracting.

The length dependant on SP thing was more inspired kinda by the references people made to renji's weapon, as the manga goes on and he gets stronger it gets longer and longer and has more sections. That's where the idea for that comes from, but if you really want it a fixed max length i can do that.

Shik mentioned length based on rank instead of SP, harder to exploit, so what about lsomething like that?
if not id be ok with like a fixed 40 feet max.

i set it to a fixed length of 40 feet max, it should plenty to do what i want with it.