Post by jerichomaxwell on May 20, 2011 20:40:50 GMT -5
Name: Maxwell, Jericho
Age: 60
Gender: Male
Birthday: April 27
Height: 5'2
Weight: 130
Eye color: Brown
Hair color: NA
Class: Menos
Constitution
-Strength: 10
-Endurance: 10
Dexterity
-Agility: 20
-Accuracy: 20
Signature Skill
-Offensive: 15
-Defense: 15
Perception
-Intelligence: 20
-Concentration: 15
Presence
-Charisma: 15
-Leadership: 25
Appearance:
To say that Jericho has no real shape and substance is an understatement. Upon his death, the man had been turned into what he never thought would be possible when he realized that he never truly died: for the lack of better word he was a puddle. Though it is able to stand at a little under five feet, the hollow is basically a massive blob. It appears to have no real skeletal system as it appeared to be nothing more than a pile of black flesh. However, the truth of the matter is that his skeleton isn't rigid like a normal skeleton. The shape and composition of the hollow gives the hollow a more flexible skeletal frame, which is why he is able to move the way he does. The flexibility of the skeleton allows him to hang much more effectively than a rigid frame and is even able to coil up like a snake. There are very few markings on the body of the creature, but what can be seen is a series of silvery lines that are streaked around the hollow's body in intricate lines. When he used the dead zone abilities, the silver lines start glowing green.
His mask itself is very unique as well. It is in the shape that has one half smiling and the other half frowning as a symbol of both comedy and tragedy. Which is what he had always considered his life to be when it came to his final fate. On the frowning half, it is the form of a bleach white bone that is usually typical in hollows. However, the smiling half is something peculiar. It has a smile like a cheshire cat, but the more notable nature of the mask is that it is raven black. On top of that, the black half of his mask has a sheen to it that makes it look like obsidian or metal.
Though the blob like body does not have any scars, if given a closer look his face has some markings. The more notable scars are the ones that are along the temples of his face. That is where the shrapnel hit him when the dead spike went off. In addition to this, he even had some markings on his face that seemed to be almost alive. Though this is harder to see, his teeth seem to have the living markings on his face.
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Personality:
On the surface, Jericho appears to be calm in nature. He always seems to have a serene nature around him. When it comes to being able to interact with people, he has no problem being able to communicate with others. In fact, he feels at home when it comes to communicating with any soldiers because of his past life as one. But in reality he has a storm going on in his mind. After living as he had, he had a deep scar in his spirit that never completely healed. By all accounts he should have been able to reach the afterlife. But in reality there seemed to be no signs of an afterlife.
However, in the battlefield he becomes a completely different person. He becomes much more detached to those around him. He had been ingrained with the knowledge of not fighting fair, but fighting to both win and survive. When he fights, he actually uses the scientific method and puts a much more sadistic turn on it. When fighting for so long, one has to be able to notice patterns and attempt experiments to either cripple or destroy an opponent. And Jericho does this with no hesitation.
He has a cultivated hatred toward three things, but the first two are those that belong to the human world. The first two things he hates more than anything are doctors and scientists. Though he never heard of the Hippocratic oath., he knew in his heart that something was wrong and they were harming him. He had always blamed them for what he is now today as he gotten infected with gamma radiation. The third hatred is for the shinigami, but for being who they were. He hates them for being unprepared for the likelihood of human evolution in the ways of science and technology.
For loyalty, Jericho has a very strong sense as long as it is in terms of a singular body such a friend or someone he meets that also shares the same problem of surviving. However, if it is for an organization, his loyalty is pretty much shot down to nothing. After gaining this new form, he considers any leader to picture him as nothing less than a weapon that is not only able to be pointed at the opposing target, but also considered very expendable. If there is one thing that he will not tolerate, it is to be considered expendable after being forced to live several years beyond his expectancy. However, it isn't that he doesn't possess a closed mind. He is simply more skeptical with other people.
In terms of love, he has never really experienced it. So if he had ever been in that kind of relationship, he would become incredibly awkward and antisocial. He lacks the necessary experience and teaching to be able to make such a connection currently. Not to mention that his trust for others is considered to be very low since he is not sure if someone is going to either try to kill him or try to betray him.
Among his hobbies, he had grown with an interest with chemistry. During his change he had taught himself on how chemicals worked and desires to create components that would help out his team or to be able to eliminate his opponent. This hobby allows him to further his desire to make those suffer as much or even more than he had in his existence.
Strengths: Jericho has been known to have very average strength. But what he lacks in strength he makes up for both finesse and speed. He needed to be fast in order to keep away from the larger hollows. He also learned that even in his life before death, he needed to not only be able to be quick in his killing, but also be able to get out of a situation unseen. Being unseen is a very effective this time around considering his nature. Being blob like, he is able to sneak into areas that those with much larger forms would have a considerable amount of difficulty with getting into. But even with his new form, his greatest weapon is his mind. He needed to be smarter than his enemies since the typical hollow can easily tower over him.
Weaknesses: Being a dead zone, there is a very considerable amount of paranoia in his life. it is very difficult for him to trust people. Usually whenever he trusted people, he got hurt or people died around him. So he is very cautious about people getting too close to him. But what is his greatest weakness is his body. Because of the hollow's blob like form, he can be easily captured and contained. At the very worst case, any shinigami could easily capture him in a simple bakudou and have him sealed up in a box of some kind to make sure he never can escape again.
Abilities: .
Technique Name: Manifestation (manifestación)
Technique Category: offense
Technique Description:
This is the main way for Jericho to be able to defend against his enemies. Lacking any true limbs, he is able to create means of defense from his very body. Such weapons he could create from his body parts would be blades and shields. The sword is an average dual edge broadsword without a hilt and the shield is a tower shield. However, even with the skill of manifestation he possesses, there are limits to such things. For instance, he lacks the ability to create any ranged weapons. He is only able to form melee weapons from his body. Secondly, for the manifestation to be effective he would need to shift the reiatsu of his body to give the weapon form and substance. That means parts of his body would be crippled in order to create. That is why for the sake of surviving for a long period of time he can do up to two manifestations at a time.
Offensive forms: swords
Technique Name: Manifestation (manifestación)
Technique Category: Defense
Technique Description:
This is the main way for Jericho to be able to defend against his enemies. Lacking any true limbs, he is able to create means of defense from his very body. Such weapons he could create from his body parts would be blades and shields. The sword is an average dual edge broadsword without a hilt and the shield is a tower shield. However, even with the skill of manifestation he possesses, there are limits to such things. For instance, he lacks the ability to create any ranged weapons. He is only able to form melee weapons from his body. Secondly, for the manifestation to be effective he would need to shift the reiatsu of his body to give the weapon form and substance. That means parts of his body would be crippled in order to create. That is why for the sake of surviving for a long period of time he can do up to two manifestations at a time.
Defensive forms: Tower shield
Technique Name Dead Zone (zona muerta)
Technique Category: Augment
Technique Description:
Being infused with considerable levels of gamma radiation gave Jericho a mutation that no one, not even the shinigami or hollows, could anticipate. As a dead zone soul, he is able to turn his gamma radiation into a weapon for his manifestation powers or his hollow shot. Much like his hollow shot can manifest itself by building up reiatsu for it, the same is true for his gamma radiation. Upon releasing his radiation, any weapon he uses from either his body or his hollow shot acquire a radioactive green glow. An example of this would be his sword's edge acquiring the radioactive green color. It works much like how a poison works, but it is capable of exponential damage on a soul with prolonged infection (or if the opponent is still alive, radiation poisoning). Unlike normal poisons though, the soul instead becomes unstable itself. But the rate of infection is dependent on the well being of the opponent. If they are relatively unharmed, the rate of damage is brought to a crawl. However, the more injured the opponent, the quicker the radiation starts to take over. However, even with the poison Jericho wields, it can still infect himself. The longer he uses his Dead Zone skill, the more unstable his body becomes. It can even go to the point of him being unable to even move, let alone manifest his powers. The usage of these powers however are varied in nature. Just like how some techniques can be used for a long period of time while others cannot be used often, the Dead Zone is no different. While he is able to use the dead zone for about an hour time for his melee weapons, it's the hollow shot that would do him in. The hollow shot would only be able to wield 2 shots of radiation per day.
History: Jerchio does not recall much of his life, but he does know what happened when he was a soldier. At first he had been a simple grunt, fighting on the front lines as a marine. Eventually as he continued to move through the ranks, he had been able to find himself taking care of explosives and demolitions. But as he continued to work, a man in a black suit had approached him with a proposal that he never would forget. During the cold war, Jericho was an agent of the CIA. As a spy he had used his explosive knowledge to its fullest extent against the likes of the Russians and those that sided with the Communist party. He never really asked questions, he had done it for both himself and his country. However, life is funny sometimes. It was that kind of loyalty that would end his life. During an operation near Chenerbyl, an operation had gone straight for hell. His team was caught in an ambush after intercepting a KGB dead drop spike. His ears were ringing as he staggered out of the room, only to be shot through the heart by a sniper rifle. At first everything went dark, thinking he would probably be seeing the gates of St. Peter.
...Funny how life is sometimes
When he woke up, he found himself still within Russia. He thought that perhaps the sniper had miscalculated the attack. It was the best time for him to call in to his superiors and get an extraction. However, what he didn't count on was the chain in his chest. He had been frightened by this and thought that he had shrapnel embedded in his chest. Almost out of complete fear, he began to pull the chain hard against his body, screaming in pain as he attempted to rip it out of his body. His screaming brought out a strange looking animal. At first he thought it was just a pile of rubble, but it was a monster with a massive white mask. As he ran, he screamed in terror and everything had went to black.
He had once again regained consciousness and found himself trapped on the ground. He almost looked like he was slithering for a second. As he moved through the streets, he found a broken mirror and in terror he screamed in again. He wasn't human anymore, the animal turned him into some kind of creature. He was blob like in nature with his face constantly shifting. Eventually his fear turned into hunger as he started to look around for anything. He had not found many in the wars of humans, but he had found many sick hollows. He never understood it at first why these things were sick. All he knew was that he was hungry and it had to be satisfied. Little did he realize that his hunting grounds were a part of the nuclear meltdown incident that would change not just the world of man, but the spiritual world.
As he continued to travel through Russia, he realized something more disturbing. The reiatsu seemed strange, even for a hollow. Naturally Jericho was sick himself after a day, but he had shaken it off and was able to travel on. In a way, he just assumed it was some kind of cold. What he didn't know was that more sinister things were taking over. As he studied what was going on, the radiation had mutated himself in a very strange manner. Was it evolution or simply man's fluke? He never knew but right now he didn't care. In a way, this no different than when he was human. He was now going to be hunted more than ever because of his mutation. But in the back of his mind, what if there were more people that were sick like him? If that were the case, he was going to unite them all because at the end of the day. At the very least they deserve to know that they were not alone like when he had been left out in the cold by his government
RP Sample: "Hollow...I will kill you!"
A shinigami stood under a tree as the blob like hollow dangled from the branch. The mask of the hollow was right in the face of the man as he spoke. "Do you really think that they are going to accept you with open arms? What you seem to not understand is that you are more or less screwed for life." The creature plopped down on the ground, sliding along the snow of the Russian landscape. "You're within an area that is infected by a nuclear meltdown. It's kind of funny if you think about it," he said with a chuckle. The shinigami glared at it angrily as he pulled out his zanpaktou. "You think this is kind of a joke?!" Jericho's body shifted to indicate a nod as he continued to slide. "I heard about you guys looking for a guy named Quincy. But what you should have been more prepared with is taking measures against humans."
The shinigami crossed his arms as the hollow spoke. "First of all, it's not a "guy" named Quincy. Second of all, what makes you think we are not prepared?" Jericho slid up the tree again, looking out into the distance as he saw a pair of shinigami. "If you think I am a liar, I see a pair of your so called comrades. Why don't you go out and speak with them?" The shinigami gave him a smirk, thinking this creature didn't know any better. However, it wasn't until moments later when the other two shinigami pinned him down. He started to yell at them, saying that he wasn't some kind of monster. But the pleas fell on deaf ears. The shinigami was executed and the other two left. As he watched the shinigami die, he simply shook his head. The shinigami decided to use hope as his drive. However in this day and age, it was hard to find it. Closing its eyes, the hollow used a pesquia to see if there were anymore souls that died in Chernerbyl. However, there were no deaths at the moment. "Oh well, no dead zone souls here. Time to leave the land of ice and snow; next stop, the land of the rising sun." The hollow created a small garganta to slide his body into as the shinigami then vanished. Deep down he knew that he couldn't save the shinigami. A pity too, since he seemed to be a nice enough guy aside from wanting to impale him.
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