"The world’s best Swordsman doesn’t fear the second best swordsman, he fears the world’s worst swordsman. Because no one can predict what that fool will do."
Information //Keiji Takashi
Full Name: Keiji Takashi
Alias: Kei
Age Of Death: 10
Age Of Appearance: 25
Real Age: 157
Gender: Male
Current Residence: Soul Society
Squad Number:
Weapons: Japanese Katana
Items: Black wrap around sunglasses
Persona // Character quote
Keiji is an interesting fellow, born in North America and raised by a progressive half Asian half American family meant that Kei(as he is known to many of his friends) was taught the traditional ways of the Japanese so he was aware of them, but also was raised on the freedoms of the Americans. So he believes in the best of both worlds. He is was a history buff when he was in school, so he believes heavily in the old European idea of Chivalry as well as the old Japanese style of honor. He believes that all people are equal above all.
Kei also has what could be considered a big chip on his shoulder when it comes to so-called “Nobility” especially those who think that just because they are born with a silver spoon in their hand and in there mouth, that it somehow makes them better, smarter, stronger or better equipped for higher station then everyone else. Although he also knows how to bite his tongue when dealing with such people. As he knows that making enemies with them would also be highly stupid.
Kei regularly leaves the Seireitei and heads into the Rukongai Districts to help out the less fortunate people build shelters, find food, and to find their families. This helps him meet new people and start his own circle of contacts inside and outside the walls of the Shiginami. He also does this to show the other people in the districts that not all of the Shiginami view them as their lesser. Infact he views those that survive in the Districts as superior to them, due to their sheere will and ability to survive for so long.
Apperance // Body strcture
• NATIONALITY: Canadian
• HEIGHT: 5’9”
• WEIGHT: 172 pounds
• EYE COLOR: Green
• BUILD: Lithe Muscular
• HAIR COLOR: Brown
• HAIR STYLE: Kinda Spikey kinda messy
• PREFERRED CLOTHING: See Picture
History //
• Kei was born in Canada, to a mixed family, his mother was Japanese and his father was Canadian. His family started off poor, barely making it from day to day with enough food to feed 2 adults and 4 children which made it tough on everyone. He and his two sisters spent much of their first 10 years of life scrounging around Montreal just trying to survive, while his father took some online courses to try to improve there families overall life.
This continued until his dad got a job in Toronto working for a large investment firm. Kei came close to graduating high school in Toronto, and he would have been the first in his family to do so. He was just a regular kid that enjoyed a few different sports but also enjoyed practicing a variety of hand to hand martial arts styles. He was killed during his senior year when, a younger student went a little nuts and shot up the Cafeteria, he took 4 bullets and took 3 days to die.
Kei later found out that the person who did the shooting was actually under the influence of some really screwed up Hallow, and ever since Kei has made it his personal mission to figure out where the Hallow is and kill it, short of that the wholesale massacre of all Hallows would do the trick as well. That is one of the key reasons that he decided to join the Academy and become a Shiginami.
• Kei was not the greatest, nor the easiest students. He was a bit of a slacker, but excelled in personal combat. He regularly has no true idea about what he’s talking about, unless it comes to combat, but he is really really good at faking it.
One thing that he did seem to excel at though was learning the skill known as Shunpo(flashstep), which he learned in close to half the period of time that it seemed to take the rest of his class. But other then that one little piece, Kei did not seem to be overwhelmingly good at any one thing and did not immediately draw the attention of any of the Divisional Captains. Which is more or less why he is were he is now. He really hopes tho that he doesn’t end up in Division 4, not that he doesn’t respect division 4 for what they do, he just doesn’t feel that he would fit in there well.
• Shikai Obtainment; Kei went through near hell to obtain his Shikai, he had to fight for his Shikai, it took him 6 days of continuous combat just to find the correct spirit manifestation, Then it took another 2 days to fight the Spirit manifestation before he was actually able to beat the old man and to prove himself worthy of the partnership. This was all done under the most gruelling situation possible, in the middle of a simulated desert with very little water and food to sustain him. But his prevailing over the spirit actually strengthened their bond far beyond what he’s seen of other Shiginami, and he and “the old man” spend time talking to each other almost every night when Kei meditates.
• Is a recent graduate of the Academy, and has not been assigned to a division yet Although he has his eyes set on joining Division 11 or Division 10, maybe even someday becoming captain of Division 11. But he knows he has ALOT of work before he can get there. Kei hopes that the captain of 11th division will give him the opportunity to prove himself worthy of a seat in his division. He has managed however to avoid making a fool out of himself, physically or verbally, so has managed NOT to alienate any of the commanding officers of the Divisions, so he hopes that not doing so will make it more likely that he will get an assignment that meets closer to his goals.
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Kidou // The demon arts
Name: Fushibi (Ambush Flare)
Number: 12
Type: Bakudô
Range: Medium
Incantation: Unknown
Description: Creates a reiatsu tripwire of sorts that can be spread out like a large net. Any spiritual being who comes into contact with Fushibi becomes bound to the net. The caster can detonate Fushibi at any time, creating a widespread explosion that produces a bright flare of light. However, the explosion is relatively weak. Hinamori Momo uses this Kidô in conjunction with Shakkahô to create a larger, more potent explosion.
Name: Keikatsu (Opening Revival)
Number: Unknown
Type: Healing
Range: Medium
Incantation: Unknown
Description: A simple healing spell used to heal injuries. Costing Reiatsu depending on the wound, this Kidou surrounds the target in a flash of light, before starting to heal their injuries. The lighter wounds like mere scratches are removed virtually instantly, taking their share of reiatsu not per wound, but in total, while deeper wounds, like broken bones, and cuts that reach to the bone take longer to cure, taking up to 10 seconds. A Kidou Master, or master healer, can heal even lost limbs by using this Kidou, which take about 20 seconds to regenerate depending on the size of the limb. Some internal injuries can be healed, while injuries like cuts in the heart cannot.
Simple wounds cost about equal to a level 20 Kidou to heal, bigger ones, like broken bones, costs equal to a level 50 Kidou, and lost limbs requires Reiatsu equal to a level 80 Kidou.
Name: Enkosen (Arc Shield)
Number: 39
Type: Bakudô
Range: Short
Incantation: Unknown
Description: Summons a large, circular shield of condensed reiatsu to block opponents' attacks. The user's Zanpakutô is used as the central focus of the shield. Yet an advance user or a master of kidou can bypass this flaw and use it on any part of their body.
Name: Hyôsekkai Sennari (Hail Stone Cluster) ***
Number: 38
Type: Hadô
Range: Long
Incantation: Emperor of the North Wind whose blessings I seek, breathe upon my foes and let them witness true terror!
Description: An enhanced version of Hadô #6, Hyôsekkai. The user raises a hand to the sky and large stones of ice rain down from the heavens. The hail stones swarm around the enemy until the user crushes their outstretched hand into a fist, and the hailstones all collide into the opponent at the same time.
Name: Kyakko (Curving Light)
Number: 26
Type: Bakudô
Range: Long
Incantation: Unknown
Description: Hides the target from sight by bending light. This Kidô can completely mask the presence and reiatsu of the target from detection.
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Zanpakuto // Soul cutter
Sealed form: Slightly longer normal Looking Katana
Length: 32 inches
Weight: 4 pounds
Shikai // Moriamori
Name: Moriamori
Spirit Description: See image above
Spirit Personality:
Moriamori's personality is like an old sensai, who drives his students and partners to their maximum edge. Giving his weilder no other choice but to to give him their all. But he also makes his weilder want to give give him his all. He knows lots of little tidbits about almost everything and likes to share his knowledge over tea in his realm. Usually gotten to via daily meditation.
Inner World: Picture on description.
Type: Defensive
Call Out Phrase: To Me My Brothers
Shikai Appearance: A Katana with two blades running Paralell to each other.
Shikai Abilities:
the power copies the core character 10 times for combat. The copies take damage like any other character but do not Deal damage. The copies look exactly like the normal character and is all but indistinguishable from the origonal character.
Name: Shadow Assault
Type: Both Offensive and Defensive
Range: the copies must be within 5miles of the origonal character otherwise they just fade out of existance.
Description:
When the activation phrase is stated, the blade of Kei's katana shatters into 10(ten) shards. Each of these shards go in a different direction, and when each of these shards hit the ground the shard produces an exact duplicate of Keiji Takashi. Effectively every single one of them is indistinguishable from Kei.
Special abilties:
1) Each Duplicate of Kei has a mental connection to the origonal Kei. So if Kei concentrates he can see anything that his copies are seeing or feeling. The down side to this, is if one of his copies dies when he is concentrating on what they are seeing and feeling, he can be knocked into unconciousness for as much as an hour afterwards.
2) For defensive purposes, the shadow copies are capable of using Shunpo(Flash step). This allows them to get in an out of dangerous situations quickly. It also allows them a greater ability to masquerade as the proper Keiji Takashi, as he is able to use Shunpo. They have also recently gained the Ability to use the power of Keikatsu, however when the clones are using this power Kei cannot do anything else except concentrate his Kido ability through them.
Special Notes:
1) While the shadow clones are effectively copies of Kei, they are not Kei. They have the relative Toughness of a LL-W
level Shignami, which means it takes as much damage to kill a level LL-W shiginami to kill a shadow clone. They can also mimmick any Kido power that Kei has(even use individual Kido at will) however none of their Kido powers actually are effective...they are only mimmicks of the power and dont actually do any damage or do anything, they just LOOK like the actual power. Note: Without the exception of Keikatsu as it is mentioned under the Second point of Special abilities.
2) The Shadow Clones physical attacks with their swords, fists, feet and so on are also completely ineffective(again with the exception of Keikatsu as mentioned previously). They do NO DAMAGE. The Clones have precisely 3 uses....Scouts...Healers....and Meat sheilds to distract an enemy away from the Real Keiji Takashi.
After the clones form, the sword in the true Kei's hand returns to a sword form, only under this form it has two Katana blades(and one hilt) and the blades run parallel to each other(aka side by side).
Subject: Kei Takashi 
Sun May 08, 2011 6:50 pm
