Marlamin Kourei - Squad 9 Captain

Captain of Squad Nine - Marlamin Kourei - Rank 10

Shinigami

Name: Marlamin Kourei
Age: 540, Appears 48.
Height: 5’ 11”
Weight: 170 lbs.
Gender: Male

Personality: Abides by the law, always. He isn't much for jokes and rarely is seen laughing or even smiling. One of the things he does enjoy however is his sake. The man can usually be found sampling his own private stash on the back porch of his house when duty doesn’t call. He sometimes is seen writing musings to himself in a large library of journals he keeps. Some say they are tabs on the members of the Soul Society, whether or not that is true only he knows… No one dares cross the man to find out.

Appearance: Marlamin has navy blue hair which is kept rather wild looking. He also wears a pair of purple tinted shades and a black chain around his neck. When he wears a gigai he prefers black button-up dress shirts and blue jeans. He may also wear a black long coat over the outfit if the weather requires it. When in the Soul Society however, he tends to keep to his Captain’s attire save for the shades which he hardly ever takes off. The shades don’t aid his vision in any way, in fact they inhibit it, causing him to have to rely on his sensing abilities to make up for the reduced ocular input.

Spoiler:

Sealed Zanpakutō : The blade of Rosuto Reikon is about 72 centimeters long. The hilt is wrapped with a jet black ito, showing the silver colored metal through the diamond wrapping pattern. The base of the hilt has a skull on it, signifying it as the legendary “Grim Reaper Zanpakuto”. The sheath is as well black and has no significant markings on it. The skull is the only thing separating the expertly forged blade from any other katana-shaped zanpakuto.

Spoiler:

Call out phrase for Shikai: “Come Forth, Rosuto Reikon!”

Description of released form: (Spirit Type)
The blade transforms into a giant 80” scythe which is covered in bone that runs down the handle, resembling a human spine. At the top of the scythe, from which sprouts the blade, a horrifying skull rests, peering into the souls of the men and women in which it reaps. A broken chain hangs just above the six foot mark; some say it is the chain of fate for all of mankind. A lifespan only death himself would know, others say that it once held death to a land where only the damned roam but he’d broken out to seek vengeance on the lives of mortals…

Spoiler:

Shikai Ability 1: Kihaku Suitoru (Soul Drain)
Each time that Rosuto Reikon cuts an opponent, a small amount of reishi is absorbed into the blade and remanifested as raw energy in which can be fired back at the opponent in a slicing fashion or used to boost the user’s own spiritual energy levels.

Shikai Ability 2: Makura Reikon (Bolster Spirit)
This ability temporarily replenishes spent energy and empowers the user. Kido and other spiritual abilities are strengthened almost twice over, this ability lasts for about two minutes or until the user dismisses the ability, whichever occurs first.

Shikai Ability 3: Kyoufushou (Morbid Fear)
This ability causes the target to experience intense levels of fear, panic, and any other form of horrifying mental debilitation. This lasts for up to two minutes and does not leave the enemy helpless but rather causing him/her to focus solely on survival or escape. Attacking the user will not even cross their minds as an option of escaping the fearsome wielder of Death’s Scythe.

Call out phrase for Bankai: “The souls of the lost, I will guide.”

Zanpakuto Manifest: The Grim Reaper.

Spoiler:

Bankai Ability 1: Matsugo (Deathbed, The Hour of Death)
This ability places a form of curse on the enemy that can only be removed by the user or a healing type zanpakuto. (Some religious leaders of the human realm that have experienced contact with spirits before sometimes obtain a form of curse-removal ability that has worked in the past…) The curse has three stages:

Stage 1 [After 1 minute] – Loss of Strength. (-5 to Fighting Skill, increasing to -10 and -15 as the stages progress)
Stage 2 [After 2 minutes] – Loss of Spirit (-10 to Spirit Power, increasing to -15 as the stages progress)
Stage 3 [After 10 minutes] – Loss of Focus (The affected will find it extremely hard to concentrate, often beginning to talk to him/herself or wander aimlessly about… In battle, blacking out is not uncommon…)

Bankai Ability 2: Shi No Yobidashi (Death’s Beckoning)
This ability is not widely known about. It is taboo amongst some and simply feared by others. The ability, as the name suggests, raises the dead, but not in a resurrection kind of manner. The bodies of the, both recently and long since, departed raise up and fight under the user’s control. They can be ordered to do anything, even sacrifice themselves to Rosuto Reikon to further boost its abilities. These are fairly weak, comparable to low-leveled hollows. They have no desire to survive, which is why they aren’t known to defend themselves very well. What they are known for is to strike fear into the opponent and to protect their master at all costs. The bodies of spiritual creatures such as Shinigami come back with all the powers they had previously but lack the experience that they once wielded with them. These creatures only last for as long as the user wishes them to remain. When they are dismissed, the corpses collapse on the ground once again immobile mounds of dead flesh and bones.

Spirit power: 60

Speed: 40

Intelligence: 40

Fighting skill: 35

History/Background: Marlamin grew up in nobility, although he never cared for the rest of the nobles in his house. He completed his six years of training and graduated top of his class. He was admitted into Squad Nine and quickly rose through the ranks to Captain. This wasn’t something that hadn’t been already foreseen, the boy had shown promise at a very early age. It had been rumored that the lad was a prodigy, the next in line to inherit the “Grim Reaper Zanpakuto”. A rumor that proved largely true since his shikai took the form of a menacing black scythe. Indeed, Rosuto Reikon had been placed into the hands of yet another Kourei…

Marlamin is a fair Captain but does not tolerate disobedience or disrespect. He studies the art of kido and is widely known as a strategist. He was once a candidate for both the Twelfth Squad and Fifth Squad Captain position but took the open Ninth Squad position due to his continued loyalty to his original squad. Some say that they see a young Byakuya Kuchiki in the man based on his attitude towards the law.[/quote]