Reifujin Arashi (Ryouta's Zan)

Shikai

Name: Reifujin Arashi (Lady Tempest)
Spirit Description: Reifujin Arashi looks like a sprite (the fairy) except human sized. It’s not shown in the picture, but she has sharpened incisors, and her eyes resemble a feline’s. Also, her dress has a lion depicted on it.

Reifujin Arashi is not at all like Ryouta in that she is very arrogant. However, much like Ryouta, Reifujin is quite the extrovert and is constantly saying that if she was Ryouta, she’d “go up to every cute girl in Soul Society and show her what REAL pleasure is.” At this point, the faintest bit of blush will creep up Ryouta’s cheeks and he’ll shush her.

Inner World: The world is generally a gently rolling ocean, at the center of which is an island of ice, where Reifujin normally resides, and where Kazu arrives to speak to her. Around the island of ice is a thin curtain of steam through which one can view the ocean. It becomes stormy and the island (or iceberg) pitches with the waves when Reifujin and Ryouta spar.
Type: Water-type
Call Out Phrase: Weep…Reifujin Arashi.
Shikai Appearance: Ryouta’s sword seems to dissolve into innumerable water droplets, except leaving the hilt in his hands.
Shikai Abilities: Generally speaking, Ryouta’s Zanpakuto grants him the ability to create water (to an extent) and manipulate existing water on a molecular level. Meaning he can change its form from solid to liquid to gas. Range: Medium-Long. 150 meters. The amount of water he can control in Shikai is comparable to the amount of water in 3 Olympic swimming pools, or visually, Byakuya’s Shikai, in terms of mass. Common attacks with this ability include making blades of ice to cut, using pressurized water to block or smash, or using steam to burn.

Technique 1 Water Blade (Mizuyaiba): Ryouta can send spinning arcs of pressurized water at his enemy. Ryouta appears to be able to control the pressure of the water to an extent; he can make the water pressurized enough to cut through metal, if with a little resistance, or unpressurized enough to be like a garden hose. Range: Long. 200 meters before water dissolves into droplets (or in the case of ice, mini-crystals). If this technique is used using steam, the range drops to short-ish. 40 meters.

Technique 2 Sudden Mist (Kyuugeki Kasumi): Ryouta can generate a large amount of either cold or hot (steam) mist. It’s not ordinary mist or steam; it contains trace amounts of his reiatsu. Copious amounts of it effectively blind Ryouta’s opponent, and since the mist contains his reiatsu, makes it difficult to track his movement. He can cause the mist to condense into liquid (instead of gaseous) form nearly instantly, and then use it as a Mizuyaiba attack. Also, the mist seems to shift of its own accord into frightening shapes resembling lions, but these are aesthetic. Range: Circular with 50 meter radius.

Technique 3: Ice Coffin (Aisu Kan’oke): Ryouta can cause liquid to wrap around an enemy from the surface up, upon which point it will freeze. This can allow Ryouta to literally shatter his enemies, or, if he has no intention of killing, immobilize them without using time-consuming kido. This is purely aesthetic, but when the water is creeping up whatever surface, it seems to take on the appearance of claws, or fangs. Range: Short. Within 25 feet.

Technique 4: Senpuku no Tategami (Lion’s Ambush) – This move takes time to set up, but is absolutely devastating. Ryouta must form a rough circle of liquid on any surface with his attacks. At that point, he must trick an opponent into standing inside the circle, and then activate Aisu Kan’oke. While the opponent is immobilized, the rounded edges of the circle will flare with blue reiatsu, and seem to look like a lion’s mane. The inside of the circle will take on the appearance of a lion’s face, with the mouth where the enemy is standing. The mouth opens to fill the entire circle, and fangs of ice will stab into the enemy, effectively impaling them, or if they’re particularly tough (aka really tough Hierro) at least pinning them down or something. After Aisu Kan’oke is activated, it takes about 3 seconds for the rest of the technique to happen. Range: Short. Within 25 feet.

Bankai: Shugotenshi no Raikou Arashi (Guardian Angel of the Lightning Storm)

Bankai Appearance: Upon using Bankai, reiatsu infused water will surround Ryouta. This reiatsu will spread all over his body and form a suit of icy armor. The armor is very compact in that it fits Ryouta’s body tightly and allows maximum movement (making the vulnerable points at the joints). The helmet looks like a lion’s head, with Ryouta’s head in the of its mouth. It is very light, and extremely cold to the touch if anyone but Ryouta touches it. Prolonged contact (longer than a few seconds) would cause frostbite or worse. His Bankai seems to bring the temperature in his immediate vicinity down by about 20 degrees. The gauntlets on his armor have round little studs on each of the knuckles except the thumbs, and from each of these studs a claw about a foot in length can extend (the length of these claws is adjustable to anything within a foot.) These claws are slightly hooked at the end. In addition, from the wrists, single blades can appear out to cross the palms (like in Assassin’s Creed).

Bankai Abilities: Ryouta’s Bankai, in addition to the extra protection, grants him increased control over the element of water. Now, instead of having control over water on just a molecular level, he can control it on an atomic level. In addition, he can now manipulate up to 6,000,000 gallons of water at once, about the amount in 10 Olympic size swimming pools.

Technique 1 Kazeshini Unkurojou (Death Wind Over the Clouds)
By separating the atoms of hydrogen and oxygen in the water, Ryouta can create electricity. By doing this on a large scale, he creates lightning. By charging the cloud like this, he does even more devastating damage to an opponent. The denser the cloud, the more damage it does. For example, he could surround a circular area with a two mile radius with the cloud- but the cloud would not be very dense, and thus would only be able to kill low-level Hollow in the area. By decreasing the area the cloud is spread over, thus making the cloud denser, Ryouta can do more damage. For example, surrounding an Arrancar in a hurricane like formation that is dense and black will do far more damage to it than if it was standing in that two-mile radius of cloud. The lightning within the cloud(s) does not explode upon contact. Instead, it burns and lacerates- so if Ryouta formed a small hurricane around a small roughly humanoid target, it would be simultaneously burned and sliced to death. The weakness of the technique is that Ryouta cannot control the movement of the lightning as it is no longer water.

Technique 2 Gekido no Megami (Rage of the Goddess): It creates a spherical formation of water, which swirls around the opponent like a cloud. It then flies into them from every possible angle, transforming into sharp blades of ice as it does so, leaving no blind spots and nearly no possibility to escape. It then collapses on itself, obliterating the opponent. It is possible to escape maximum damage from this technique if one has the skill to do so; before it collapses upon itself, there is a microsecond of time in which to Flash Step or Sonido away. It is unlikely that anyone below Ryouta’s level of power would be able to do so.

Technique 3 Reifujin Tenshi (Lady Angel): It focuses all of his power into a single focal point, his sword, which he creates out of available water. The power is too great to be contained by the sword alone, however, and Ryouta will glow with a brilliant white reiatsu that forms a set of eight wings of water on his back, four on each side. In this form, Ryouta is capable of doing massive amounts of damage with a single blow; however he can only maintain this form for five minutes before having to seal his sword and rest/be healed.