Post by Aki Sora on Jul 15, 2009 6:57:36 GMT -5
NAME: Hitsugaya Toshirou
AGE: Appears to be between the ages of 12-14
GENDER: Male
RANK AND DIVISION: Juubantai Taichou
APPEARANCE: Hitsugaya is very short and his height is comparable to Rukia Kuchiki's. He also has spiky silver-white hair (which tends to draw attention in the human world) and teal-emerald eyes, which evokes his ability of controlling ice and water. He wears standard captain's clothing, save for a green baldric around his shoulders which holds Hyorinmaru, his zanpakutou.
PERSONALITY: Hitsugaya is generally mature and serious, in contrast to his free-spirited lieutenant, Rangiku Matsumoto, although he can sometimes be short-tempered and irritable. Despite their personality differences, he and Matsumoto seem to be very close. Hitsugaya is shown to also be easily irked by others goofing off or drawing unneeded attention to themselves, as shown when he led a team of Soul Reapers into Ichigo Kurosaki's school. He hates anything that he deems childish and hates being described as something close to a child. Fitting with the nature of his zanpakutou, Hitsugaya dislikes summer and warm weather in general.
Hitsugaya's intuition is extremely sharp, and he is the first person to correctly suspect Gin Ichimaru of foul play, though he understandably did not suspect Sosuke Aizen of the same. During his duel with Ichimaru in the anime, the latter remarks that Hitsugaya is the embodiment of a heavenly guardian that would be reincarnated once in a few centuries. This is attributed to his given name, which is a homonym for a casual Japanese term meaning "amateur", possibly referring to Hitsugaya's young age and inexperience relative to the other captains of the Gotei 13. He is very protective of Momo Hinamori, due to the fact that they were old childhood friends, promising to kill those who harm her.
ZANPAKUTOU: Hitsugaya's zanpakutou is Hyorinmaru (literally "ice ring", idiomatically "full moon"). When sealed, Hyorinmaru looks almost exactly like a normal zanpakutou with the exception of the guard, which is in the shape of a four-pointed star. The hilt is light-blue while the sheath is a deep blue. Hyorinmaru is the strongest of all ice element zanpakutou in Soul Society. Hyorinmaru's spirit is a large, winged, Japanese dragon.
SHIKAI (if applicable): Hyorinmaru shikai command is translated in the English anime as "reign over the frozen sky" (soten ni zase).
In its shikai, Hyorinmaru itself remains the same, but gains a crescent-shaped blade attached to the hilt by a chain. Hyorinmaru allows Hitsugaya to control water and ice. The slashes created by Hyorinmaru gives off an immense amount of spirit power which overflows from the tip of the blade, creating a flow of ice vaguely shaped like Hyorinmaru's dragon spirit. The dragon flies at opponents and instantly freezes anything it touches. The chain-blade also freezes anything Hitsugaya traps with it.
BANKAI (if applicable): Hyorinmaru's bankai, named Daiguren Hyorinmaru (literally "great crimson lotus ice ring"), causes ice to flow from Hyorinmaru onto Hitsugaya, forming into two large wings and a tail. Ice also forms into a dragon's head around his sword hand, encasing it up to the hilt; which is in the shape of an eight-pointed star.
Additionally, his wings are capable of folding around him to serve as ice shields. During one of Hitsugaya's earlier battles, the arrancar Shawlong speculates that Hitsugaya's bankai will fade when all twelve petals disappear and that Hitsugaya's bankai is incomplete due to his young age. Later during his fight with Luppi, the petals no longer appear. Also during that fight, Hitsugaya states that "even if [Hyorinmaru is] shattered, it will reform as long as there is water present."
Hyorinmaru's bankai has two known special techniques. The first is ryusenka (dragon hail flower"), which freezes any enemy Hitsugaya stabs, locking them into a cocoon of ice and freezing them to the core. Once frozen, Hitsugaya can shatter his opponent. The second is sennen hyoro ("thousand-year ice prison"), which forms a multitude of ice pillars using the moisture in the atmosphere. These pillars hold the enemy prisoner for a thousand years, also freezing them.
HISTORY: Hitsugaya's early life was spent in Junrinan, District 1 of Rukongai. There he lived with his grandmother and Momo Hinamori. He was also a friend of Jidanbo, the West Gate Keeper, whom he taught the "city rules."
As a child, Hitsugaya had an icy demeanor that estranged himself from others, with the exception of his grandmother and Hinamori. She would call him "Shiro-chan" (Lil' Shiro in the English dub) and he would retort by calling her "Bed-wetter Momo." The three were very close, and Hitsugaya was irritated when Hinamori left to join the Soul Reaper academy. Throughout his childhood, he was always aware of what seemed to be an icy presence within himself and had continuous dreams about a plain of ice. He claims or believes he died on that plain. Five years after Hinamori's departure, Hitsugaya encountered Rangiku Matsumoto, then a normal Soul Reaper, in a marketplace, when she stood up to a merchant who left his change on the counter, rather than handing it to him. The two got into an argument, and Rangiku noticed Hitsugaya's enormous latent spiritual power.
That night, Hitsugaya dreamt again of the icy plain and finally met Hyorinmaru for the first time, though he could not hear the spirit's name. He woke up to find Rangiku admonishing him for not being able to control his power, which had been freezing his grandmother. She convinced him that power like his needed to be controlled, and convinced him to become a Soul Reaper. With Hitsugaya's natural talent, he entered the Soul Reaper academy in spite of his age and became known as a prodigy, quickly ascending to captain of the 10th Division, ironically making him Rangiku's superior.
Hinamori has continued to call Hitsugaya "Shiro-chan" out of habit, and still feels protective of him. Because of a promise she had made, she only began to call him by name after he had achieved his zanpakutou’s shikai and was recognized as a Soul Reaper. Highly capable and knowledgeable, he remains the youngest of the captains within the Gotei 13.
OTHER: Hitsugaya is annoyed by anyone who calls him a child and anyone who doesn’t call him by his title.
SAMPLE: “Hitsugaya Toshirou sighed as he viewed the mountain of paperwork on his desk. This is going to take a while, he groaned inwardly as he picked up his pen to complete his task. They were mostly clearance files that only needed his signature, but man were there a lot! Where’s that Lieutenant of mine when you need her? She’s probably who knows where doing who knows what, he continued in his thoughts, breezing through his paperwork quickly.”
AGE: Appears to be between the ages of 12-14
GENDER: Male
RANK AND DIVISION: Juubantai Taichou
APPEARANCE: Hitsugaya is very short and his height is comparable to Rukia Kuchiki's. He also has spiky silver-white hair (which tends to draw attention in the human world) and teal-emerald eyes, which evokes his ability of controlling ice and water. He wears standard captain's clothing, save for a green baldric around his shoulders which holds Hyorinmaru, his zanpakutou.
PERSONALITY: Hitsugaya is generally mature and serious, in contrast to his free-spirited lieutenant, Rangiku Matsumoto, although he can sometimes be short-tempered and irritable. Despite their personality differences, he and Matsumoto seem to be very close. Hitsugaya is shown to also be easily irked by others goofing off or drawing unneeded attention to themselves, as shown when he led a team of Soul Reapers into Ichigo Kurosaki's school. He hates anything that he deems childish and hates being described as something close to a child. Fitting with the nature of his zanpakutou, Hitsugaya dislikes summer and warm weather in general.
Hitsugaya's intuition is extremely sharp, and he is the first person to correctly suspect Gin Ichimaru of foul play, though he understandably did not suspect Sosuke Aizen of the same. During his duel with Ichimaru in the anime, the latter remarks that Hitsugaya is the embodiment of a heavenly guardian that would be reincarnated once in a few centuries. This is attributed to his given name, which is a homonym for a casual Japanese term meaning "amateur", possibly referring to Hitsugaya's young age and inexperience relative to the other captains of the Gotei 13. He is very protective of Momo Hinamori, due to the fact that they were old childhood friends, promising to kill those who harm her.
ZANPAKUTOU: Hitsugaya's zanpakutou is Hyorinmaru (literally "ice ring", idiomatically "full moon"). When sealed, Hyorinmaru looks almost exactly like a normal zanpakutou with the exception of the guard, which is in the shape of a four-pointed star. The hilt is light-blue while the sheath is a deep blue. Hyorinmaru is the strongest of all ice element zanpakutou in Soul Society. Hyorinmaru's spirit is a large, winged, Japanese dragon.
SHIKAI (if applicable): Hyorinmaru shikai command is translated in the English anime as "reign over the frozen sky" (soten ni zase).
In its shikai, Hyorinmaru itself remains the same, but gains a crescent-shaped blade attached to the hilt by a chain. Hyorinmaru allows Hitsugaya to control water and ice. The slashes created by Hyorinmaru gives off an immense amount of spirit power which overflows from the tip of the blade, creating a flow of ice vaguely shaped like Hyorinmaru's dragon spirit. The dragon flies at opponents and instantly freezes anything it touches. The chain-blade also freezes anything Hitsugaya traps with it.
BANKAI (if applicable): Hyorinmaru's bankai, named Daiguren Hyorinmaru (literally "great crimson lotus ice ring"), causes ice to flow from Hyorinmaru onto Hitsugaya, forming into two large wings and a tail. Ice also forms into a dragon's head around his sword hand, encasing it up to the hilt; which is in the shape of an eight-pointed star.
Additionally, his wings are capable of folding around him to serve as ice shields. During one of Hitsugaya's earlier battles, the arrancar Shawlong speculates that Hitsugaya's bankai will fade when all twelve petals disappear and that Hitsugaya's bankai is incomplete due to his young age. Later during his fight with Luppi, the petals no longer appear. Also during that fight, Hitsugaya states that "even if [Hyorinmaru is] shattered, it will reform as long as there is water present."
Hyorinmaru's bankai has two known special techniques. The first is ryusenka (dragon hail flower"), which freezes any enemy Hitsugaya stabs, locking them into a cocoon of ice and freezing them to the core. Once frozen, Hitsugaya can shatter his opponent. The second is sennen hyoro ("thousand-year ice prison"), which forms a multitude of ice pillars using the moisture in the atmosphere. These pillars hold the enemy prisoner for a thousand years, also freezing them.
HISTORY: Hitsugaya's early life was spent in Junrinan, District 1 of Rukongai. There he lived with his grandmother and Momo Hinamori. He was also a friend of Jidanbo, the West Gate Keeper, whom he taught the "city rules."
As a child, Hitsugaya had an icy demeanor that estranged himself from others, with the exception of his grandmother and Hinamori. She would call him "Shiro-chan" (Lil' Shiro in the English dub) and he would retort by calling her "Bed-wetter Momo." The three were very close, and Hitsugaya was irritated when Hinamori left to join the Soul Reaper academy. Throughout his childhood, he was always aware of what seemed to be an icy presence within himself and had continuous dreams about a plain of ice. He claims or believes he died on that plain. Five years after Hinamori's departure, Hitsugaya encountered Rangiku Matsumoto, then a normal Soul Reaper, in a marketplace, when she stood up to a merchant who left his change on the counter, rather than handing it to him. The two got into an argument, and Rangiku noticed Hitsugaya's enormous latent spiritual power.
That night, Hitsugaya dreamt again of the icy plain and finally met Hyorinmaru for the first time, though he could not hear the spirit's name. He woke up to find Rangiku admonishing him for not being able to control his power, which had been freezing his grandmother. She convinced him that power like his needed to be controlled, and convinced him to become a Soul Reaper. With Hitsugaya's natural talent, he entered the Soul Reaper academy in spite of his age and became known as a prodigy, quickly ascending to captain of the 10th Division, ironically making him Rangiku's superior.
Hinamori has continued to call Hitsugaya "Shiro-chan" out of habit, and still feels protective of him. Because of a promise she had made, she only began to call him by name after he had achieved his zanpakutou’s shikai and was recognized as a Soul Reaper. Highly capable and knowledgeable, he remains the youngest of the captains within the Gotei 13.
OTHER: Hitsugaya is annoyed by anyone who calls him a child and anyone who doesn’t call him by his title.
SAMPLE: “Hitsugaya Toshirou sighed as he viewed the mountain of paperwork on his desk. This is going to take a while, he groaned inwardly as he picked up his pen to complete his task. They were mostly clearance files that only needed his signature, but man were there a lot! Where’s that Lieutenant of mine when you need her? She’s probably who knows where doing who knows what, he continued in his thoughts, breezing through his paperwork quickly.”
