Captain Commander Stefan Soan

Name: Stefan Soan
Age: Appears to be in his late 20's, early 30's
True Age: 819
Sex: Male


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Reiatsu Color: Purple

Character Appearance

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One of, if not the, most noticeable appearance characteristics of Stefan Soan would probably have to be his hair. He has bright seaweed green hair that is never styled, and usually appears rather messy. His facial features, while appearing to make him look like a rather warm individual, only hide his true ferocious nature. He has a face that makes him look rather handsome, though when he is fighting it appears more furious. He is muscular, though not creepy-muscular like insane body builders, and appears strong in the general sense of the term (not in power, but in stature, appearance, and muscle-wise).

Clothing: Stefan usually wears a black, skin-tight, long sleeve shirt beneath the rest of his clothes, and wears something similar as pants. Above his black shirt is a purple jacket with a high collar that extends to below his waste. He usually wears said jacket zipped up to the top area. Above THAT, he has another jacket with a single sleeve, except this one is much longer than his purple one. This jacket is long, dull-blue with gold lining, and has intricate designs along the edges. For his feet, he wears knee-high brown boots tailored for combat. Though, usually these clothes can't be seen as he wears his Captain Commander haori above all of it.

Fighting Style

Overall Fighting Style:

Rō Shukuhaku (lit Stay Low, kanji ロー宿泊): This is a custom sword style Stefan invented, as well as being is primary and signature style in combat. Its name foreshadows the type of striking and techniques Stefan uses with the Rō Shukuhaku style. The key point to this technique is quick strikes from a low, or even crouched position. Getting into a low position, Stefan would then use Iaido to draw his blade from its scabbard, strike quickly, strike again, and then continuously strike until he would end up in a standing position, wipe his sword clean, then put it back into its scabbard. This style focuses on using high momentum-based slice-attacks to deal incredible damage to opponents, and quickly be able to deal another blow while staying low and in a nimble enough stance to dodge incoming offenses. It also utilizes the sheath of the user's sword in order to apply both cut-based wounds, and blunt force trauma, as well as being able to use the sheath to defend while using the sword to attack. Rō Shukuhaku is a versatile kenjutsu style, as it allows Stefan to use other styles in conjunction along with it in order to increase his overall offensive power and potential threat level in combat.

• Ro: This is the most basic technique in the Rō Shukuhaku sword style invented by Stefan. Despite the basic level and simplicity of this technique, it can still be used to deal a good amount of damage to opponents. All this technique is, removing ones sword from its sheathe, slashing diagonally starting low and then moving the blade upwards and to the opposite direction from when the slash started, ending in either the upper right or upper left hand corner.
  
  
• Shan: Shan is another relatively simple zanjutsu sword technique in Stefans special style. This technique involves physical contact, IE Hakuda, and zanjutsu for a stronger, more effective attack. After either using another technique or just removing his sword from its sheath, Stefan quickly kicks with his right leg, aiming to push the opponent back slightly or at least hitting them hard enough in the chest to knock the air out of their lungs, and then quickly slashes straight downwards, a completely vertical attack.
  
  
• Don: The next sword technique in Stefan's arsenal involves something a little different from Ro and Shan. The Don technique involves striking with the back of Vague Katti, or while it's sealed, the flat side, instead of the actual bladed edges. After drawing his Zanpakutō from its sheathe/continuing on from another attack, Stefan will aim to strike his opponent on their either of their wrists with the flat side/dull edge of his blade in order to cause blunt force trauma to that specific area on his opponents body. If used with enough strength, it might even break his opponents wrist, making them unable to hold or carry a weapon with that hand, which, in the long run, helps Stefan quite a bit in a fight.

Other Zanjutsu Techniques:

[*]Kakuten: From a position higher than one's opponent (usually initiated by a powerful jump), one uses the momentum of the fall to strengthen a two-handed sword swing that brings the blade down on the opponent's head or shoulder. This attack is not only powerful, but should it hit, it also tends to be deadly to opponents as well (though this is assuming they don't have some form of Hierro or other defensive skills/abilities).

[*]Kakuto: Beginning in the same way as Kakuten, the user positions the sword as to initiate a downward stab to the head instead of a downward swing. This technique focuses all of the momentum of falling towards a single point, icnreasing the overall power of the attack, but due to it being a stab, it doesn't have the slashing attributes of Kakuten.

[*]Hitotsume: Nadegiri (撫で斬り, "The First: Killing Stroke"): This basic technique allows for a precision cut of extreme force and speed, it can casually slice through large, multi-story high opponents protected by steel skin. The opponent can be hit with one swift slash that is so precise, that they aren't even aware of it until after it has taken place.

[*]Senmaioroshi (千枚卸, "Thousand-Page Wholesale"): A technique where multiple blade movements take place so fast that they can literally shred a target into pieces. Stefan's version of this technique is so fast, that he barely has to move for it to occur. Standing still, he can slash multiple times, nearly 100, in just a few seconds, before putting his sword back into its sheathe, leaving the enemy dumbfounded by how quickly they were laid to rest.

[*]Maisherbu: Surīsutoraiku (まずレベル三振, First Level: Three Strikes): This technique involves moving so quickly around the users opponent, that they can cut three times without them even realizing the user got close enough to cut. This technique is special, because instead of cutting with the bladed edge, the user instead uses the dull edge of their blade in order to cause grievous damage from blunt force trauma instead of just lopping off the opponents limbs.

[*]Daisherbu: Kyūsutoraiku (第度九ストライキ, Second Level: Nine Strikes): This technique works in a similar way to Saisherbu: Surīsutoraiku, except instead of just 3 strikes, this time there are 9 strikes landing on the opponent at nearly the same exact time, all of them hitting within a very short moment. There are 3 blunt strikes for each side of the opponent: 3 on their back, 3 on their right side, and 3 on their left side. Their chest is usually left alone when this technique is used.

[*]Saisherbu: Nijūnana Sutoraiki (サード度二十七ストライキ, Third Level: Twenty Seven Strikes) This is the most recent level of the sherbu line of strike techniques developed by Stefan. This technique takes both speed and blunt force trauma to a completely new level. Revolving around pretty much the same thing as the two lower levels, Saisherbu is a tad different. Instead of strikes from 3 directions, the strikes hit in nearly every direction possible, nearly at the same exact time (or so it seems), causing as much damage to the opponents entire body at once.[/list]

Nine Sword Style: The Nine Sword Style is a custom style of offensive swordsmanship-based combat used and invented by Stefan Soan the Vizard. While the name of this style might make one think he is wielding all nine of the swords at once, in reality he is instead using nine separate swords that he has placed in strategic positions in order to give him the upper hand in combat. What Stefan will do is toss up 8 of his weapons, whether it be a mix of his special katanas or just plain old katanas is up to him. When these Katanas are tossed up, they fall into a ring shape around Stefan and his opponent, "locking" them in an "arena". This means that during this fight, Stefan will manipulate his opponent to staying in that specific zone so he can use his fighting style to it's optimum level. This also means that he constantly has many of his treasured weapons available to him during combat so he can quickly switch from say a regular sword, to Orochi, to maybe another special sword, which would force his opponents to stay on their toes.

Zanpakuto

Sealed Appearance:

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Stefan/Lloyd's sealed Zanpakutō takes the form of a black cane usually used to help one walk. Due to its detail, it is actually pretty difficult for people to figure out this "simple cane" is actually a Zanpakutō in disguise.

Sealed Abilities:

GrandMaster of the Sword Art: Stefan has trained in, learned, and mastered many multi-cultural sword styles, including the ever-popular Kendo style. He commonly uses Iaijutsu, which is associated with the smooth, controlled movements of drawing the sword from its scabbard, striking or cutting an opponent, removing blood from the blade, and then replacing the sword in the scabbard. He has mastered many other styles such as Hoki-ryu, Eishin-ryū, Tatsumi-ryū, Tamiya-ryū, and many other Kenjutsu's. He has also developed two custom and special styles only he uses on his own, as well as developed multiple other special kenjutsu techniques.

Grandmaster High-Speed Combatant: Stefan's sword style, Rō Shukuhaku, relies heavily on speed, something which he can easily provide for his various techniques. Stefan is extremely quick in fights, and very light on his feet, as well as being agile enough to dodge many attacks sent his way, even those that get close to his body. He, as a GrandMaster in General Speed, can out speed most opponents he comes across. Such swiftness was evidenced in his fight against an Ex-Gotei Captain, where he not only was able to get multiple fast blows on him, but was also able to dodge the attacks sent his way. He is also a master in Hoho, able to use Shunpo to its maximum potential in order to quickly move across battlefields and even cause problems for opponents, thanks to his skill. His speed is so developed that he has been known to take out captain level opponents before they even know what hit them.

• Utsusemi (空蝉, Cicada, referencing their molting): Way of Onmitsu, 3rd of the Shihō. It allows for a movement at great speed, leaving an afterimage behind. Stefan is highly skilled in using Utsusemi, and regularly uses it to mess with his opponents heads. He can create more than one afterimages at a time, though he usually doesn't push himself past 4 at once so as to not expel a lot of energy at once. While four may not sound like a lot, it's because it isn't. In reality, he CAN make 20+ afterimages, similar to the ex-Captain Sui Feng. However, the less clones he uses, the "stronger they are", as in, when he uses 20+, theya re basic afterimages, but when he uses less than 10, they are similar to the Quasi Clones that Zommari the Arrancar could use. He uses this to mess with opponents heads by forming an afterimage to make them think he's open to attack, then attacking from another direction, usually causing his opponent's face to be covered in shock and awe. This is perhaps one of the techniques Stefan enjoys flaunting.

Grandmaster Physical Strength: Stefan has an extremely high level of strength, a near equivalent of his speed. He is able to deal heavy blows and inflict a lot of pain and injury with just Hakuda, though his strength is better attuned to swordsmanship, allowing him to cut through even large steel buildings very far away. He has been shown to be able to cut cleanly through an entire skyscraper with little to no effort in his fight against a Vizard, and then push said skyscraper over onto its side after it had been cut in half horizontally. Getting punched by him isn't a good thing, but getting either side of his sword in your face is much worse.

Enhanced Kidō User: While Stefan isn't a specialized Kido user, thanks to his sheer power and reiryoku levels, he is able to use even high level-kido with ease. Stefan rarely uses Kidō except for before he releases his Shikai and Bankai, in order to rustle his opponents' jimmies. He prefers offensive Hadō over defensive Bakudo, though thats mainly because his fighting style IS very offensive. Despite not being one to rely on Kido very often, he does know how to mix Kido into his swordsmanship at astonishingly high levels.

Roaku (とどろき, Flash Roar) is an extremely advanced combat technique/style that fuses the slashing and stabbing of Zanjutsu with the incantation and energy technique of Kidō. This technique is extremely powerful, and works by forcing Kidō into the blade of one's sword. Not only does this increase the cutting power immensely, to ridiculous levels, but it also increases the overall power and durability of the blade in question, allowing it to take punishment it usually never could without breaking. Roaku also allows the user to fire very powerful blasts of electric-like energy at opponents. When Roaku is active, the users blade appears to be covered in bolts of electricity which shoot out in every direction, destroying the nearby terrain, along with releasing so much energy rocks and other objects similar will begin to rise up from the ground, only to be incinerated by the energy surrounding the users sword. The energy also rips apart the users clothing, usually at the very least destroying their sleeves, if not most of their torso's clothing. Roaku is the Zanjutsu equivalent of Shunko, and as such not only takes a very long time to learn, it also takes a very long time to master, and as such is very difficult to train for. Not only that, only the best of the best in a few areas can use it. Not only must you at least be master in Hoho, you must also be at least master in Zanjutsu. Due to Roaku being made up mostly for Hoho and Zanjutsu, and only the effects of Kidō are applied, you must only be advanced (or higher) in Kidō as well in order to even begin to learn it. Roaku is currently known by Stefan Soan, and has yet to be taught to anyone else. This technique is extremely powerful and dangerous, thus Stefan rarely uses it against opponents. It's power is said to exceed that of Shunko.

Name of Zanpokuto spirit: Zenkantetsu Kakasubido
Spirits Appearance:
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Spirits Personality:

There is only one word to describe the personality of Zenkantetsu Kakasubido, and that word is apathetic. Zenkantetsu Kakasubido feels no emotions whatsoever, no fear, love, hatred, or even the feeling of wanting something. No, he is so apathetic he has absolutely no care in the world, and cares not even for his own existence. Instead, he simply "exists". Zenkantetsu Kakasubido Does whatever Stefan commands him to, which makes this Zanpakuto extremely dangerous as 100% of his power, knowledge, and skill is at available use for his master. There is, however, one other aspect of his personality worth mentioning. Though he serves Stefan as a servant does their master, he refrains from using any royalties when referring or speaking to him. He also rarely speaks to Stefan directly, which might mean he holds some form of resentment towards him. Only time will tell.

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Shikai

Call out Command: Consume All, Zenkantetsu Kakasubido
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Abilities

Kūkan Jihenka: This is one of the two abilities possessed by Stefan's Shikai form of his Zanpakutō. This ability is a self-support type ability that relies on not attack by inflicting damage of defense by increasing his own durability, but instead relies on its specific uses in certain circumstances when he could really use it. The basis of this ability has to do with an entirely different realm from the one people exist. The ability creates an endless void that none have access to besides Stefan and those he wishes to bring with him, meaning not even "Omnipresent" beings like the demon Zarot would have access to this place(A good equivalent might be a Zanpakutos own Inner World). This void is immediately constructed every time Stefan's Shikai is activated, and instantly deconstructs as soon as his Zanpakutō is sealed again. Alright, time to get to the nitty gritty and real uses of this ability. By "deconstructing" a part of his body and "reconstructing" it inside the void, Stefan can make any part of his body completely intangible to outside forces. Basically, if a Bala is shot at his right shoulder, he can make that part of him intangible by removing it and placing its physical embodiment inside the void, which would cause said Bala to pass straight through his body, leaving no marks on his body, and himself completely unharmed. This ability is extremely useful, as if he is about to get cut, he can just make that part of his body intangible, to prevent harm to himself, than reform it just a few seconds later. For such a great ability, there has to be some downsides or weaknesses, right? Well, you're correct. In Shikai, he cannot make his entire body intangible at one time, and can only do up to about half of his entire body at once instead, meaning attacks that hit his entire body won't pass straight through. Another weakness is, if he touches someone or punches them, that is when he cannot make that specific portion of his body intangible, so hitting him quickly as a counterattack or quickly dodging at the last moment and then landing a quick hit will usually be enough to cause damage to him. Also, he can only make one spot on his body continuously intangible for 3 of his own posts. If he were to make his head intangible, that would not mean he cannot see in the world where he just was, as a "Shadow" body is left when the physical portion is transferred to the other world. Essentially, his body still appears to be wherever he was (Say, Earth), while his actual physical embodiment is tucked safely away in the void, which lets him interact with people and such even while intangible.

Boidoburēdo: The second and final ability of Stefan's Shikai has to do with the void that is created when this advanced form is activated. Instead of placing body parts into the void to protect himself, he removes objects from the void to attack with. The void has created an absolute infinite amount of swords and blades to be used by Stefan if he so wishes, however not all of these weapons can be used, otherwise he could just flood the universe with them. No, instead he can reconstruct a few hundred from the alternate void where they were deconstructed in order to attack opponents. Stefans Zanpakutō, Vague Katti, has a telekinetic connection with the swords as they are from its own void, which allows Stefan to control the trajectory of the swords, and control them in general (however, complicated use of many swords is mentally tiring for Stefan, so he usually has a few dozen performing the exact same thing at one time to reduce strain). Stefan can even use these swords as shields by putting them together to form a massive wall in front of him to protect him from a possible attack. These swords are relatively durable and strong, but they can still break if hit by a stronger opposing force. The swords are called "Slates", and is usually what Stefan calls them when talking about them. A big part of stress Stefan places on this ability is lying. He says the true power of this ability is how many he can summon forth for combat, when in reality this number is limited. The actual power of this ability is what he can do with all of them at once:

Boidame: This is not so much an ability as it is a technique that he can use with Boidoburēdo. The main point of this technique to cause massive damage on a large scale, as in, this isn't a technique normally used against one or even two opponents. No, instead, this ability would be great to unleash upon an entire army. By reconstructing every blade he can summon, which numbers in the low hundreds, above his opponents, he can drop them all on them at once. Thats right, just drop them on his opponents like some sort of rain of blades or something similar. The tremendous wide scale damage of this ability is great, however against just a few opponents, its not nearly as effective as they can either A. Attempt to dodge the swords as they come down, or B. Try and deflect them, which would be easier to do with less people. This technique also takes all of Stefan's mental focus, leaving him like a sitting duck, wide open for attack from an enemy.

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Physical Traits

• Movement speed: Master/Advanced/Adept/Beginner
  
• Durability: Master/Advanced/Adept/Beginner
  
• Strength: Master/Advanced/Adept/Beginner
  
• Weapon skill: Master/Advanced/Adept/Beginner
  

Shinigami Traits
[list][*]Shunpo: Master/Advanced/Adept/Beginner
[*]Kidō: Master/Advanced/Adept/Beginner
[*]Hakuda: Master/Advanced/Adept/Beginner
[*]Zanjutsu: Master/Advanced/Adept/Beginner