Character Bio: Himawari Fukuyama

Name: Himawari Fukuyama

Age: 406 (Appears 19)

Height: 5’8

Weight: 125 lbs

Gender: Female

Personality: At a first glance, Himawari appears to be an extremely aggressive individual, well known throughout her academy life for never backing down from any form of fight. She is exceedingly loyal, and will come to the defence of anyone she is close to. Despite often speaking without tact and her bold personality, Himawari is a very caring person, who will help her friends in any way she possibly can. She has a very strong sense of right and wrong, and will speak out if someone’s actions go against her personal beliefs. Himawari greatly enjoys a physical fight, and spends much of her time training and sparring with comrades, enjoying both swordplay and hand-to-hand combat.

Appearance: Himawari has hip length, flowing, bright red hair; several locks framing her face, others holding her long hair out of her face. Her skin is pale, complimenting bright blue eyes. She wears a slight variant of the traditional shinigami uniform, with no sleeves and no back, with open slits over her long thin thighs, over a slender hourglass figure, with an extremely gracious bosom. She wears her Zanpakutō horizontally across the small of her back, just above her hip.

Division: 11th

Seat: 3rd

Sealed Zanpakutō: Himawari’s sealed Zanpakutō resembles a standard 26” katana, except a hand guard that resembles a pair of childishly drawn wings. The hilt weaving is blue and white.

History/Background:

(Life)
Himawari was born in 1903, in the late Meiji period, in Tokyo. Her mother was a servant of a local governor, and her father was a servant of a British Ambassador to Tokyo, due to the first Anglo-Japanese Alliance. An illicit affair began between them and only a few months had passed before her mother became pregnant. It was shortly before this pregnancy was discovered that Himawari’s father was forced to travel back to England, completely unaware of his lover’s condition. The pregnancy discovered, her mother was dismissed from her job and her family disowned her.

She left Tokyo; hoping family in the north of the country would take her in. It was through her journey through the countryside that she met a young farmer who took her in and, after the birth of Himawari, eventually married her. Himawari was raised on their farm, and had a happy life with her friends in a nearby village. When she was 12, the rains came to the countryside much quicker than they had in previous years, and the nearby river broke its banks. The villagers fled seeking higher ground, but Himawari’s 5 year old half-brother was caught in the water. Himawari jumped in after him, and managed to help him climb out of the water and into a tree. It was at this moment that a log, being swept downstream, collided with the back of Himawari’s head and subsequently knocked her unconscious. Himawari drowned.

(As a Shinigami)

Himawari found herself in Rukongai, very confused as to where she was and what had happened to her. It took her several years to settle in, but she eventually formed a family with an elderly man known as “Gramps” and two younger boys, known as Hiro and Kaze, running a ramen shop together. For a while she lived happily with her new family, until one day when two shinigami came into her family’s ramen shop. The very presence of these two young men completely drained Himawari of her energy, causing her to collapse across the shop floor. The shinigami brought her back round to consciousness and offered her an explanation as to her sudden fatigue. Himawari clung onto their every word, fascinated by the prospect of becoming a shinigami. She immediately took the entrance exam for the academy, but it was not till her second application that she was accepted.

She took to the training well, though not always to her classmates. Himawari is often reprimanded by her teachers for getting into fights with other students, and for her non-conventional fighting style, Himawari preferring a reverse grip on her Zanpakutō.

Stats

Spirit power: 10.5

Speed: 18.5

Intelligence: 18

Kidou Mastery: 14.5

Fighting skill: 21

Overall: 82.5

Shikai: +2 to Spirit power, Speed and Fighting Skill.

Hagane no Tsubasa

Call out phrase: Fly Hagane no Tsubasa!

Description of released form: Hagane is a duel/melee type Zanpakutō, evolved to compliment Himawari’s skills in both unarmed combat and swordplay. It transforms from a katana, to a pair of elbow-length gantlets, constructed of black leather, with steel scale plating along the upper side of the arm, and steel knuckle protectors. Each extracts a blade, which has the ability to grow in length with each individual activated ability.



Abilities:

Ability 1: Tertiary Feathers: A blade the length of her forearm extracts itself from one of the gauntlets each. This initial ability is designed to catch enemies off guard, as Himawari is able to call out the ability quickly, even right in the middle of combat. This ability also uses Himawari’s own reiatsu to begin reinforcing the blade and armor on her shikai, allowing Himawari’s defense and physically strength to increase.
Fighting skill +3

Ability 2: Secondary Feathers: The blade of her previous ability increases in length, to the length of Himawari’s whole arm. The steel of the Zanpakutō increases in strength further, allowing Himawari to block and even break blades that are being wielded by someone who has twice as much natural physical strength as Himawari. This ability can be called out without calling out Tertiary Feathers first, but this requires far more energy, and signs of tiredness may become visible on Himawari’s face.
Fighting skill +5

Rp sample:

Melissa sat comfortably on the stoop of Cabin #1, leaning up against one of the tall, broad pillars, vaguely flipping the pages of a book. She sighed, closed the book, and looked out across the courtyard. She watched as a group of thin, sharp faced boys dashed out of the Hermes Cabin, and down towards the armoury, where a group of rather burly looking group of Ares kids were waiting, surely ready to ensure they were fully prepared for Capture the Flag.

She fingered her long two-toned plait that hung over her shoulder, before glancing to take in the evening sun. The time for Capture the Flag was growing nearer and nearer, and soon she would be expected to step into line with the other campers and try and crush the Ares cabin as far as possible. It had only been for the fact that the Ares cabin hadn’t asked her to be on their team that the Apollo cabin had. She climbed up from her seat and tossed her book through the cabin doorway, and closing the door behind her.

She scooped up Halcyone and her quiver, checking the number of arrows within. There was no way in all of creation she was going to lose any of her arrows again. The last Capture the Flag had robbed her of all but three of her arrows, or more specifically, the Hermes Cabin had swiped them before she had a chance to recover them. Satisfied that all were present and in check, she sank back down upon the step.



I wasn’t sure if you wanted a previous post I’d done or if you wanted a Bleach piece. I can change it if this isn’t what you need to see.

Approved, and i love that you read the percy jackson books as well