Kanna Aikotsuki [Approved, 1-2+]

» Name: Kanna Aikotsuki
» Age: 425
» Appearance Age: Mid 20s
» Gender: Female

» Association: While her loyalty falls with what the Gotei used to be, she has not been around to see its transformation, so it is unclear whether she is still loyal to them or not. The only other associations she has are with Snopy Saika and Kaminari Hatakeyama. She is at odds with Kaminari for reasons in their past, but is also a friend of the girl. Their relationship is an odd love/hate rivalry. Snopy Saika is Kanna’s boyfriend and the only person she has felt anything for in years.

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» Personality: Kanna is a very cautious person by nature. There was a time she wasn't, a time where she felt like she could trust people, but that time has passed. She keeps a close eye on everyone and always seems to be on high alert, like she's always ready for something to go wrong. She's often very stiff and rigid, never truly relaxing, though she's a good enough actress to keep that fact hidden. Kanna has abandonment issues, so getting close to anyone is hard. She keeps to herself most of the time, rarely letting anyone in close. Her known demeanor is calm and serious.

Kanna doesn't trust easily, but she is a caring person. She may not let people into her personal life, but she does care about the lives of others. She listens to other peoples problems, and often gets to know them this way. Since she doesn't let people close, she ends up having a lot of people call her friend, while she sees them as nothing more than acquaintances. Kanna only opens up to one person, and it was hard for that to start. It's her boyfriend, Snopy Saika. Kanna feels deeply for this man, but is scared of saying she loves him because of past experiences that left her broken.

Kanna is difficult to talk to for one reason: she's honest. Kanna isn't the type of person to sugar coat anything. She's very blunt and it causes problems. She usually gives people a warning, like "Do not ask questions you do not want to know the answer to" to make sure they understand what they're getting themselves into. Since most people don't know her well enough, they end up asking the question again and often get answers or opinions that they didn't really want. She doesn't see the point in lying, even if the lies are insignificant. Lies are burdens she doesn't need.

The only other "friend" that Kanna may have is Kaminari Hatakeyama. She knows the girl pretty well, but not exactly by choice. Kaminari had a habit of being in Kanna's face about friendship and tossed hundreds of questions that Kanna gave up on ignoring. Besides Kaminari, Snopy is the only person Kanna has any strong feelings for. In fact, it is only in front of Snopy that she'll open up, smile, giggle, and be on the adorable side. She feels completely safe around him and can often be caught using him as a shield. Only with him by her side does Kanna feel calm enough to be happy.



» History: Kanna had a very basic human life. She was raised in a middle-class family by her Mother, Father, and Grandmother. She was closer to her grandmother because her parents were always at work, and then seemed to forget about her once the second child was born. When she was thirteen, her grandmother passed away and she was left alone to care for her younger sister while her parents were off working. Kanna was a caring older sister, but she resented the youngest in the family. She never allowed her sister to get close and often avoided any bonding time that could happen. Kanna left home the moment she turned eighteen and held up her own life until she met a man named Kenichi. The two seemingly fell in love and they lived together for four years.

They were four very long years... The moment they were married, Kenichi showed his true abusive colors. He treated Kanna like it was a different century and like women didn't have a choice in the matter. Desperate not to be alone and make the relationship work, she stayed with him until their son was born. Once their son was born, Kanna could no longer handle the abuse and reported him. Kenichi had his connections, being a sheriff himself, so the report vanished and no charges were every made. Kanna took her chance to run with her son, only to have him follow and steal the child away. Kanna quickly realized her life was over when she couldn't find Kenichi and her son again.

After the loss of her son, Kanna didn't know what to do. She searched for him for years, every lead of hers running dry. When she finally got a new lead, after waiting a year since her last one, Kanna met someone in an alley way. Normally, this was a warning sign, but the desperation to find her son laid waste to her common sense. She didn't even get a chance to speak before there was a knife in her back. For a moment, she didn't even feel the sharp pain in her back. It was when the second hit that she screamed into the hand this man had taped over her mouth. She lost count at five as she began blacking out, and she died within a minute from the number of stab wounds.

Talk about being let down... You live your life believing that when you die, you'll go to a wonderful place where you don't have to feel sad and alone, but end up in the shitty Soul Society. Even reincarnation could have been better than this. Instead of being able to let go of her memories and live a new life, she remembered losing her son, being abused by her husband, and then spending years to find them only to be stabbed in a dark alley. It felt like the universe was only trying to punch her in the gut every time she caught her breath. It didn't matter now though, she couldn't do anything about it, so the best decision was to try and live a new life.

There wasn't much to do or see in the Rukongai. She lived a simple life working in a small tea house until she decided she couldn't stand the company anymore. She turned to homelessness for a while until one day she started getting hungry. It wasn't like that before; she never had to actually eat. When that changed, she went to figure out why and found out she may have some sort of power she didn't entirely understand. Kanna did some asking around, only to be drawn to Shino Academy. She thought of signing up then and there, but having to take the classes pushed her away. She wasn't a people person. She changed her mind later.

It was after an upsetting incident with a gang of ruffians and two young children that Kanna decided to join Shino Academy. She knew how certain areas of the Rukongai were rougher than the rest, so she sat back and watched like a coward as six people stole food from two young children that were no more than twelve. After doing that, she felt so guilty that she couldn't sleep at night. The children made it out okay, but that wasn't the point. Within a couple of days, Kanna enrolled in Shino Academy. She took the normal amount of time to graduate. She wasn't some star student or prodigy, but definitely shined in certain areas. Kido and Kaido came naturally.

Kanna's climb in the Gotei 13 was slow and steady. Like everyone else, she started at the bottom and worked her way up to Lieutenant. She met quite a few people, like Kaminari Hatakeyama, and aided many in their endeavors. She soon learned she was a sucker for anyone wanting to protect themselves, and often ended up training people based off of this reasoning alone. One of these people was Snopy Saika. She was good at kido, which was something he wanted to better, and so she took him on as a student for some time. The man learned quickly, but he wasn't just a normal student. Things between Snopy and Kanna soon became a little more than... heated.

Snopy let it slip that he liked her more than a student normally should, and this caused Kanna to pull away for some time. Sick of her avoiding him, Snopy confronted her and took a risk that neither of them expected to go the way it did. He kissed her and she returned it. From that moment on, a loving relationship formed between them and Kanna was able to willingly open up to someone she was learning to love. As their relationship was hitting a certain point, different questions came to Kanna's mind. Did she love him? How far would this go? Was she willing, ready, and capable of being with someone again? She didn't know and none of these questions were answered.

Out on a mission with a lot on her mind, Kanna came across her first demon. It was an intense feeling, one that caught her off guard at a time that she really couldn't focus. The next thing that Kanna knew was that she was being dragged out of the World of the Living and into Hell, literal Hell. With no reason for her to be there, Kanna lived in the dark realm for five years until present time. She only escaped when there was a mass release of those who lived in this realm. She had to fight her way through, but she ended up making it out, returning to the Soul Society as quickly as she could. With a few injuries and no sleep, Kanna made her way back home: to Snopy.



» Racial Abilities:

Hakuda: Kanna came out of Shino Academy with the basic knowledge of Hakuda. If you were to classify her as anything "C student" would be a good bet. Up close and personal is not her favorite way of fighting someone. Making physical contact with another feels wrong. Kanna can fight on the basic level with any seated officer, but her skill is nothing special.

Zanjutsu: This is her second way of going into combat. Pulling out her sword is not her favorite thing to do and when she does, it's normally to activate her shikai. Her swordsmanship is on the side of advanced, but not much better than that. Similar to hoho, she finds no use in the "specialized" techniques within this category. She prefers basic swordsmanship, but has admitted to attempting a few extra techniques here and there. She has not mastered any zanjutsu techniques, but can hold her own against any Lieutenant level players with ease.

Hoho: Since Kanna's skill in energy control is more about efficiency over power, her skill in Hoho, and speed in general, is very similar. For her, it's not about being the fastest, but implementing the desired technique without wasting energy. She finds little use for the more "specialized" techniques within the Hoho category, but shunpo is a technique that she uses like every other Shinigami. She uses shunpo confidently. It's is second nature to her, so she often uses it for basic every day movement. Going to the library has never been so easy! Because of her efficient way of using shunpo, she covers large distances in short amounts of time without using up much energy at all. Her skill has allowed her to outlast most people merely on control and efficiency alone.

Kido: Kanna is very skilled in energy control and has been since she began her career as a shinigami, so kido came naturally to her. From the Shino Academy until now, Kido has been her number one skill. She isn't some prodigy, but she's very efficient in her usage of kido. Her spells are often more accurate than they are power. They use the perfect amount of energy to get the effect needed. On lower skill kido, Kanna can actually use less energy than normal to get the same effect that the kido is supposed to give. Kanna studies kido quite a bit. She knows all of them by heart, including forbidden kido. However, just because she knows the kidos name, incantation, and the theory of it, doesn't mean she knows how to actually use it. She knows how to use most of them, approximately up to kido numbered to eighty, while those above are merely theories or things she has heard of. She plans to study them more and practice until she gets them down. She plans to also learn to make her own custom kido as well, but that will take some time.



» Zanpakutô Name: Kuchinashi

» Zanpakutô Spirit Appearance:

» Inner World: Kanna's inner world is an immense number of entangled overgrown vines that circle around her and her zanpakuto spirit to form a spear. It is impossible to take count of the amount of vines that make up her inner world. There is no walking through them either since they are tightly woven through each other like a well knitted blanket. The vines are about as thick as her arm normally, but can grow to be thinner or thicker. The vines grow a multitude of flowers, herbs, and other plants. Some of these plants are known to the outside world, while many are creations of Kanna's own spirit and imagination. These are the plants that show up when she actually uses her shikai and bankai. The only light source comes from thousands of small white flowers that Kanna calls an "Eronthra." The light glows bright during what Kanna knows as the day, and they dim during the night hours. This flower is bright enough to light the entire area clearly. As seen in the picture above, there are also strange little creatures that inhabit Kanna's inner world. Though they have nothing to do with her zanpakuto, they seem to not only be part of the garden, but keep the expansion of her inner world stable and aid in the growth of the thousands of flowers that grow.

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» Sealed Zanpakutô Power:

The Florist: The name is really just a pretty way of saying she can summon the plants from her inner world. She can only do this one at a time, up to 50 times in a day. When she summons a plant, it appears in her hand after a small swirl of green energy creates it. The plant then transforms into a vile of either powder or liquid. The powder often allows Kanna to create pills and capsules of medicines for people to take with them on missions. The liquid allows for shots, IVs, poisons, and other such things to be created as well. The plants that she summons vary in size, making it difficult for her to make mass amounts of these things. The fact is, just like in the real world, it takes time for a garden to grow. Kanna usually has a massive amount of plants growing within her inner world, usually tens of thousands, but if repeatedly used, it is possible for her inventory to be worn down. Since Kanna is more careful than that, and her zanpakuto spirit would kill her, she often cuts people off of taking too much of this stuff at a time. What happens if she needs to defend herself? Her patients are the only people that need these things, ya know.




» Shikai Release Phrase: Bloom

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» Shikai Abilities: There are a list of flowers and plants under the "Sealed Zanpakuto Power" section of this app. Each of these has an effect attached to them. Kanna has the ability to summon one of these effects in the form of a liquid. The liquid will drip from the bottom of the blade to the tip. The liquid will effect Kanna's opponent depending on the liquids contraction type. Kanna is immune to any of the effects that are in the list of plants above. Kanna has the ability to remove any effect that she has exposed someone to, but it may take some time to do it depending on the specific effect. Kanna can switch which one she is using once every three posts, allowing some effects to stack with others. If struck by an effect more than once, the effect does not stack or double, but the duration does start from the beginning again.

Ways to Contract the Effect of the Liquid:

• Inhale: The subject has taken in the liquid or its smell by breathing it in.
  
• Contact: The liquid has touched the subject skin.
  
• Ingested: The subject has taken in the liquid by eating/swallowing it.
  
• Injury/Injection: The subject has been cut, injured or had their skin pierced with an item, usually Kanna's blade, that is covered in one of these liquids.

» Bankai Appearance: [What does your Shinigami look like when released in their bankai?]

» Bankai Abilities: [What abilities does your Shinigami attain in Bankai?]




» Shikokai Appearance: [What does your Shinigami look like when released in their Shikokai?]

» Shikokai Abilities: [What abilities does your Shinigami attain in Shikokai?]



Skill Sheet

General Skills

• Durability: Adept
  
• General Speed: Advanced
  
• Strength: Adept
  
• Weapon Skill: Advanced
  

Racial Skills

• Hoho: Advanced
  
• Kidō: Master
  
• Zanjutsu: Adept
  
• Hakuda: Beginner
  

Will Skills

• Willpower: Advanced
  
• Mental Deduction: Advanced
  
• Pain Endurance: Advanced
  
• Focus: Advanced