Post by Abarai Renji on Jul 18, 2007 18:48:19 GMT -5
General Character Information
[/b][/color]Name: Abarai, Renji
Age: Exact age is uinknown, but Renji appears to be between his late teens and early twenties, but if I had to make a completly honest guess...I'd say Renji appears to be 18.
Gender: Male
Character Type/Occupation: Renji is a Shinigami
Rank: Renji is the Lieutenant of the 6th Division in the Gotei 13 under Captain Byakuya Kuchiki.
Blood-type: Unknown
Personal Information
Physical Appearance: Renji is a tall guy who stands at about 6'2" and weighs about 172 lbs. He has long crimson red hair that he normally ties up in a high ponytail. A lot of tribal tattoos cover his ENTIRE body, which Renji seems to update whenever he feels that he's acchieved something. He's normally seen wearing an expensive pair of shades, that cost a half of years paycheck, but whenever he wears them...they seem to get broken.
Personality: Renji is about as eccentric as any other shinigami. He varies from smug and thingyy in his first appearances to downright angsty and depressed after his major defeats, but shows himself to be an incredibly serious and determined fighter when confronted with an actual challenge. Renji harbours deep affections for Rukia Kuchiki. Renji is willing to fight, kill, and die for whatever he believes in, Renji is a dangerous man to those who stand in his way. He is much like Ichigo Kurosaki in many respects
History: Renji Abarai comes from the 78th district of Rukongai, where he grew up as an orphan with several other children, one of which happend to be Rukia Kuchiki. They survived in the rough streets of Rukongai by stealing or hunting their food. Though Rukia and Renji discovered they both had spiritual powers, they still remained with their friends until they all died one by one. Now that only he and Rukia remained of the gang, the two left in order to persue better lives as shinigami.
Once in the shinigami academy, Renji was placed in the top class, as he was very adept to swordsmanship , though he wasnt nearly as good in kido. His teacher was Shuhei Hisagi. Renji later befriended Izuru Kira, and Momo Hinamori, which each in turn became lieutenants. He and Rukia's relationship began to kinda disolve after she was adopted by the Kuchiki family, he felt that he shouldnt interfere with her life now that she was a noble, though they both missed each others company and confidence that the other gave.
Renji, Kira and Hinamori served under SĂ´suke Aizen and Gin Ichimaru in the 5th division, after which Kira and Hinamori were put under Ichimaru and Aizen in the 3rd and 5th divisions respectively. The rebellious Renji was moved to the 11th Division and eventually rose to the 6th seat. While Renji was in the 11th Division, he met and became friends with Ikkaku Madarame, who taught Renji how to fight. The same day that Rukia left for the world of the living, Renji was premoted to lieutenant of the 6th Division. After meeting Rukia's brother Byakuya, his greatest dream has been to pass his Captain in strength.
Renji's first appearence in the series comes when he and Captain Byakuya come to the world of the living in order to arrest Rukia. Though they are interrupted by Uryuu Ishida, Renji defeated him easily. Ichigo then comes into the fight to stop them, but Byakuya steps into the fight, severly injuring Ichigo, as well as cutting his weapon down to a mere stump. They take Rukia and then leave. Later Renji comes to check on Rukia in her cell, trying to cheer her up, by telling her that Byakuya wouldnt let them execute her, though Rukia knows better.
When Ichigo's group invades the Soul Society, Renji blames Ichigo for what Rukia's going through, and engages him in battle. In the human world, Renji was under a power limit, so he couldnt fight him to the best of his ability, but in the Soul Society, Renji isnt under that handicap, though Ichigo still beats him. Seeing the power that Ichigo holds, Renji begs him to save Rukia.
Renji was healed and then imprisoned by his Captain, who said that he should not have lost as he was so eager to fight Ichigo alone. He then has a conversation with Zabimaru, his Zanpakuto spirit, who insists on another fight with Ichigo as he's certain they can now beat him! Renji informs Zabimaru that the two are no longer enemies. After his conversation, he takes Zabimaru and breaks out of confinement, and finds his way to Ichigo, who is currently training with Yuroichi on trying to acheive Bankai. He goes off and trains on his own, telling them that he's close so he doesnt need help.
Renji leaves Ichigo to his training, to go and save Rukia on his own, only to be intercepted by Byakuya. Attempting to use his freshly reached Bankai against him, it ends up with Renji being defeated by his Captain. After once again being healed, he attempts another rescue, finding Ichigo at the execution grounds with Rukia, Ichigo tosses Rukia to him and orders that Renji protect her with his life! Renji willingly obliges and escapes from the execution grounds with Rukia in his arms. He barely makes it down the winding steps of the mountain they're on before being stopped by Kaname Tōsen, who teleports the three of them back to where they started. Sōsuke Aizen, having also teleported there, insists that Renji leave Rukia. Unwilling, he attacks Aizen along with Ichigo Kurosaki, who has not recovered entirely from his encounter with Byakuya. Despite their combined efforts, both are defeated easily.
After the events at Soul Society, Renji is assigned to the human world in Rukia's place. While he does not mention exactly why, he is angered at Ichigo's suggestion that he has been demoted from lieutenant. He also claims that Ichigo's inability to hide his huge spiritual power attracts hollows, so he's there to lend a hand. During his visit to the living world, Renji stays at the Urahara Shop where they give him the nickname of freeloader and constantly deny him second helpings of food by playing on his guilt.
After the Bount reveal themselves, he joins Ichigo's friends in confronting the Bount at Kariya's mansion where Jin Kariya sacrifice Yoshino Sōma in order to create the bitto. While patrolling around the city, Renji finds a child being attacked by the bitto and defends him. The bitto eventually withdraw on orders, but Renji is already seriously injured and the child is almost completely drained of his soul. Renji is healed by Hanatarō Yamada, but the child is left struggling to stay alive.
Meanwhile, Izuru Kira, Shūhei Hisagi, Rangiku Matsumoto, and Yumichika Ayasegawa are assigned by Tōshirō Hitsugaya to defeat the Bounts in the human world. The shinigami find the hideout of the Bount and enter, but are all disabled by Ugaki's doll, Gesell. Renji, Ichigo, and his friends enter the cave later on and are also attacked by Gesell. Most of the group is left to tend to their injuries while Renji and Ichigo continue on, finding the other injured shinigami along the way. After Gesell almost kills Yumichika Ayasegawa, Renji remembers the fighting spirit he was taught in the 11th Division and fights Gesell one-on-one with his final release. Yumichika Ayasegawa keeps Ichigo from interfering, explaining that anyone who's been in the 11th Division believes their fights should be one-on-one and helping would be considered dishonorable. Renji manages to wound Gesell, driving it insane and causing it to kill its owner.
During the brief discussion period between Ichigo and the shinigami after the Bounts enter Soul Society, an injured Renji (needing Yumichika's help to walk) tells the group he will also be returning to Soul Society. Although he does not enter Soul Society with Ichigo, he is later visited by Tōshirō Hitsugaya who wants to know if Renji knows anything helpful about the Bounts. In Soul Society, Renji, Hitsugaya, and Matsumoto investigate reports of strange activity in a forest in Rukongai. By the time the three of them arrive in the forest, the Bount are gone. Maki Ichinose, on the other hand, is waiting for them, hoping to slow their pursuit and buy time for the Bount. Though initially successful, he is engaged by Kenpachi Zaraki and abandons his plan for the opportunity to kill Kenpachi. After returning to Seireitei, Renji mainly fends off the many shinigami possessed by the Bount Mabashi's doll, Ritz. After Mabashi is killed, he assists in caring for the wounded. He also helps take Rukia to the execution grounds later on, where Kariya and Ichigo are fighting.
With the emerging threat of the arrancar in the human world, Renji, along with Rukia and four other shinigami, are assigned to aid Ichigo Kurosaki in the living world. He appears to stay with Kisuke Urahara for the duration of his assignment. When the Espada Grimmjow Jeagerjaques leads an assault on anyone in the material world, Renji battles the arrancar Ilforte Grantz. Even with his final release, he is initially no match for Ilforte. Things get even worse when Ururu Tsumugiya, the girl who works at the Urahara shop, interferes, injuring Ilforte and forcing him to release his zanpakuto, thus transforming into a bull-like creature. In this form, he impales Ururu on one of his horns and breaks through Renji's blades effortlessly. The tables are turned, however, when Renji is allowed to lift the power limit placed on him, allowing him to defeat Ilforte with some effort.
After the battle, Urahara allows him to live at the shop. However, Urahara has persisted in avoiding Renji's questions (which are the primary reasons as to why Renji decided to go to Urahara's shop). During his time there, he helps train Yasutora Sado to increase his ability because of an agreement Renji made with Urahara; Renji will do whatever miscellaneous jobs Urahara asks of him for the next three months in exchange for the answers to all of Renji's questions.
When the arrancar launch a second attack with the purpose of distracting the shinigami while Orihime Inoue is coerced into working for Aizen, Renji and Chad are left behind at the shop while Urahara goes to aid their allies. When Hitsugaya's team learns that Orihime is with the arrancar, Renji volunteers for Ichigo's sake to form a team and "force" Orihime back to her senses and bring her back by coercion. He is denied that request and is instead forced to return to Soul Society with the rest of the shinigami under the threat of force from Byakuya Kuchiki and Kenpachi Zaraki. Later on, however, Byakuya gives both him and Rukia permission to enter Hueco Mundo to fight alongside Ichigo's team.
After reaching Aizen's palace and discovering five separate paths, the group prepares to split up. Before they split up, Renji talks to Ichigo about the need to respect his comrades' skills in battle and leads the team in a chant used by the Gotei 13 in the past, vowing to never falter and come out alive together. Afterwards, Renji is mistakenly chased by the hollow Dondo Chakker, even though they are allies. Though Dondo Chakker is only concerned with the safety of his sister Nell Tu, his appearance and attitude is enough to freak Renji out and convince him to run with the hollow chasing after him. Both continue for some time after realizing this, arguing that the other should stop first. Eventually, Renji senses Rukia releasing her zanpakuto and stops, only to fall into a trap (along with Dondo Chakker) set by Szayel Aporro Grantz, who mocks them and introduces himself. He then reveals that the room they're in is designed to suppress Renji's final release, which Szayel Aporro was able to accomplish by analyzing the corpse of his defeated brother, Ilfort.
Renji learns of Rukia's spirit pressure disappearing through Szayel. He is initially disbelieving of Szayel when told that one of the Espada and one of his companions had killed each other off at the same time. However, when Szayel mentions that the shinigami was called "Kuchiki", Renji, using his initial release, immediately attacks Szayel. Despite Szayel saying that Renji would not be able to injure him with just his initial release, Renji manages to do so. Regardless, Renji cannot manage to duplicate the feat, and is saved by Uryuu, who quickly ends up in the same situation. The two join forces to deal with Szayel's minions. In order to give Uryuu an opening, Renji uses Zabimaru to tie himself and Szayel together, and then uses a kidō spell which injures them both. Szayel retreats, falling into Uryuu's trap, a massive ginto-triggered explosion. Szayel survives the explosion, albeit with major injuries, and heals himself completely by eating Lumina. He then departs to replace his ruined outfit and formulate a new plan.
Character-type Information:
Zanpakuto's Name: Zabimaru 'Snake Tail'
Personality: Zabimaru's spirit is portrayed as battle-loving and proud, which kinda makes him compareable to Renji's own personality. The baboon and the snake are both capable of intelligent speach, though the baboon seems to be the more dominant out of the two. The snake is definitly the more violent one of out the two figures.
Avatar's Appearance: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/30/Zabimaru.jpg
Zabimaru is a nue, which is a mythical creature, with a baboons body and a snakes tail. It also has markings upon its body, which in a way kinds resemble Renji's. Both heads are capable to talk, the Baboon more gentle but the Snake is more violent like.
Activation commando: " Howl! Zabimaru! "
Zanpakuto's Appearance:
This is what Renji's zanpakuto looks like when he calls its name along with the command, so its his Shikai form. It has the ruglar handle form, but from there it extends into being a large blade that has been sectioned off.
Zanpakuto's Shikai form: In its initial release, Zabimaru transforms into a segmented blade with a pick-like protrusion on each segment.
Shikai abilities: The segments are connected by a stretchable thread, making Zabimaru more useful as a whip than an actual sword, though it can serve as a regular sword just as easily. While Zabimaru can be stretched to incredible lengths in its whip form, Renji has a limit of three consecutive attacks before having to bring the segments of Zabimaru back together for recovery. Renji can also use his spiritual power to separate the segments and surround an opponent with them, allowing him to execute a one-shot omnidirectional attack called Broken Baboon's Fang but it is damaging to Zabimaru and leaves Renji defenseless.
Zanpakuto's Bankai Form: Zabimaru's Bankai form is called Baboon King Snake Tail, it transforms Zabimaru into a massive version of its initial release form resembling a skeletal snake. Zabimaru gains many more segments, which are much larger than in its initial release form, and also gains a snake-like head about the size of a small car.
Bankai abilities: Unlike its initial release, Zabimaru's segments are held together by Renji's spiritual power, allowing him to separate and reattach them at will. The segments themselves are extremely tough, making it difficult to destroy Zabimaru. Even if a segment is damaged, Renji can simply detach it and reform Zabimaru. Zabimaru also gains a special technique known as Baboon Bone Cannon after Renji perfects the use of his final release. The technique fires a dense blast of spiritual energy from Zabimaru's mouth. He can also use a much more powerful version of Baboon Bone Cannon where all the segments detach and sharpen using spiritual energy.
Character's Bankai Form: Renji is also slightly transformed, gaining a fur cowl around his neck.
Techniques: Renji can use kido abilities, though he isnt very good in using them.
Baboon Bone Cannon- This technique fires a dense blast of spiritual energy from Zabimaru's mouth. He can also use a much more powerful Baboon Bone Cannon, where all the segments detach and sharpen using spiritual energy.
Broken Baboon's Fang- Using his spiritual power to separate the segments of Zabimaru and surround an opponent with them, allowing him to execute a one-shot omnidirectional attack called Broken Baboon's Fang, but it is damaging to Zabimaru and leaves Renji defenseless.
Sample RP: The morning slowly began to rise into the sky giving light to what was formerlly illuminated by the high moon. Through the town came a guy with a back pack slung over his shoulder, he wore a white shirt with pink polka dots upon it, his hair was wild in a crimson red color, tied high into a ponytail, though unlike a females...his hair didnt hand low when in a pony tail. All across his body, there were what looked like black markings but were infact tribal tattoos.
Coming up to the house of a former enemy, but who now was a friendly rival, a good friend...Ichigo Kurosaki. Slowly knocking on the door, Renji waited for his 'cousin' to come on out. Sighing heavily, as he began to let his impatient personality get the best of him, he pounded on the door louder. " Come on Ichigo...! Get your ass UP!" He yelled, clenching his fist tightly. Today, he and Rukia had come back from the Soul Society in order to help Ichigo and the gang out in any case of a Hollow or anything that could require their attention or their knowledge on the subject.
When the door opened, Renji sighed heavily as he noticed Ichigo open the door, eyes closed and dressed for school. " What took ya so long d**nit?" He asked him, with no answer from him, they began to walk away from the house where Ichigo lived, his father coming out the door waving goodbye to his eldest son. On the way, they met up with Chad, and Uryuu, then with Rukia, and Orihime...who carried the lion plushie/ secret mod soul Kon in her arms. They all began to walk to school.