Arashimaru, Kurokotsu's Kooky Zanpakuto (Re-Approved)

Name: Arashimaru (Tempest Circle)

Zanpakuto Spirit Appearance: Arashimaru’s spirit is a large, robotic avian. Long black strips of metal form its beak and claws, with dark gray plates forming the main body. Red glass orbs act as the eyes, with glowing green vials for feathers. She speaks in shrill cries and clicks.

Zanpakuto Spirit Personality: Arashimaru tends to challenge her owner to games of skill and intellect when bored, due largely to having a very basic, frost-coated inner world. Despite not being able to speak in ways anybody can truly understand, her sadistic and cruel nature shows through in her games and mannerisms.

Release Phrase: Nakisakebu (Scream)

Family: Ice/Wind

Level: Bankai

Sealed Zanpakuto: When sealed, Arashimaru takes the form of a strange dagger, with the point reaching out only about two inches from the handle. The trick is that the blade is folded in on itself, each piece attached to the next by a small hinge. When Kurokotsu flicks his wrist, he extends the blade so that it reaches about two feet out. After doing so, Kurokotsu fills the hollow blade with reiatsu so as to make it able to stand up to normal Zanpakuto.

Shikai: As the release command is called out, Arashimaru rapidly extends, each of the hinges and segments turning into a handful of light blue steel rings. These rings attach to each other, forming a long chain. From the back half of the handle, a blade pops out, forming a deadly, pitch black curved blade. At the end of Arashimaru’s long chain is a deceptively heavy orb. Despite only being around four inches across, it weighs enough to cause a decent amount of damage if swung against a building. The end result of this transformation is a long kusarigama, with a chain around twenty feet long at maximum.

Shikai Ability: Arashimaru lets out minor amounts of reiatsu into the air around it, spreading the area through which it has dominion. The air with this reiatsu in it is chilled over time, around two degree drop every post. This cooling caps out at negative five degrees once at full power. In addition to this, the chain of Arashimaru is five degrees colder than the reishi around it, which can lead to frostbite upon extended contact. The reishi emitted by Arashimaru travels at fifty feet per post, capping out at five hundred feet from the focal point.

Bankai: As Bankai is called, the blade of Arashimaru retracts, forming a handle again. Then, the chain and weight shoot back into that handle, leaving behind a strip of pale green and blue reishi behind. This strip gradually takes on more colors, repeating the rainbow along its length. Every three inches or so, the colors change, starting at red by the handle and going down the color spectrum to purple at the tip. Despite looking like a blade, it acts more like a ribbon. Boufuu Arashimaru is unable to hold an edge long enough to cut, unless influenced by a technique. The entire length of fabric is around ten feet long, half that of Shikai.

Bankai Release Phrase: Bankai, Boufuu Arashimaru! (Windstorm Tempest Circle)

Bankai Ability: Bankai increases the control Kurokotsu has over the passive abilities shown in Shikai. The effects were minor in Shikai, but they become more powerful and disruptive in Bankai. Being in Bankai also increases the rate at which the wind-affecting reishi spreads, making it easier to reach a greater area. Along the length of ribbon, icicles form from the chilled air. With each swing, some of those icicles fly off. In addition to that, the ribbon tends to be around five degrees cooler than that of the air around it, which can lead to sudden freezing at lower temperatures.


Techniques:
Gale Shriek: Kurokotsu channels reishi-infused air around his Zanpakuto, then shoots it out like a cero or a kido. This technique is so named for the screech heard as the wind rushes along his Zanpakuto. This move chills the air around it by five degrees, quickening the descent into the frozen realm.

Duration: Instant, Cooldown: Two turns, Charge time: none

Zephyr Burst: In Shikai, this technique is used by hardening the reishi around Arashimaru, making a shield or a barricade, depending on how the chain is held at the time of release. In Bankai, it instead causes wind to rush along Boufuu Arashimaru’s length, allowing it to act as a true blade. If the foe is cut with this vibrating wind, it will aggravate wounds while also freezing them over. While both of these effects could be done just with the basic effects of the Zanpakuto, Arashimaru has hyper-focused the power with this technique.

Duration: Two turns, Cooldown: Four turns, Charge time: One turn

Seen this before.

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I really don't have anything negative to say. It's good without being unbalanced. Then again, you ARE the master of making the unbalanced weapons balanced, and the other way around.


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