[Andromeda]

Hey Xeim, question for you. Since Sinister is back. I'll assume that he'll be posting with me since he is on the Squad Ten team. But Haruka is as well. I know that you will be having difficulty managing your time. So how do you want Haruka managed from a story point of view. I'm not saying I want to control her or anything. Did you just want us to make some vague motions that she's staying with us and fighting or that she's sitting on the sidelines? Right now she is sort of there and not there if you get my meaning.

[Xeim]

I've been thinking about this lately, actually. Thanks for bringing it up. I actually think I'm going to have her sit this one out. If I have time, I'll post for her loitering around SS so that I can get back into her character (it's been six months, after all).

I want to post for her, but I'm trying to be realistic. If everything settles down, then I'll bring Asahi in when the arrancar come out, or maybe RP as one of the two NPC arrancar until they kick it. I don't think it'd be a good idea for me to throw a Haruka that I haven't written for in a long time into a heated story arc that I may not have a lot of time for. I will be directing things from the sidelines, though.

And, hopefully, my routine will have solidified by the time we're drawn into Shibuya. We don't have to rush through this arc. This RP is a bit slow, but it's still been steadily chugging along. ^^;

[Evangel]

Like a choo choo train chugging along with only but one shovel full of coal as fuel.

[Evangel]

Sorry for double post but any updates?

[Andromeda]

I haven't heard anything in updates from Xeim. Though I do probably need to start up the nag engine on Shadow, who's yet to post. There is also Sinister as well as Sato and Azetuer who are both missing as well. They are supposed to be present for these since I included them.

I was holding off posting until others joined in, but I guess I can make another post.

[Sinister]

I apologize. I was gone on a two week vacation. A more...tactful person would have told his friends... But things were pretty stressful. I'm back though. Working on a post tonight...

-Sin

[Evangel]

I might as well post my secondary character since there hasn't been much activity. It's still kind of a work in progress, so expect some minor updates. If you have any feedback, PM me.

Name: Engel Weiss (Most commonly called just Weiss)
Age (of death): 25
Current Age: Unknown
Birthday: Unknown
Birthplace: Unknown

Hair Color: Dark Green
Eye Color: Dark Green
Gender: Male
Height: 5' 9''
Weight: Unknown
Appearance: Weiss has messy green hair that extends down to his shoulders on the sides, covers his forehead in, front, and down to the middle of his back . His green eyes are accented by black outlining his eyes. His ears are slightly pointed, the ends barely sticking out from his hair. He has a tall, toned body and lightly tanned skin. His Hollow Hole is located in his chest over his heart. Weiss wears a tight, dress vest like top with a tie. He wears kimono like bottoms, and socks with sandals. His clothing is standard white and black Arrancar colors. Weiss' mask fragment resembles the Espada Grimmjow's and Halibel's. His mask fragment covers his entire lower jaw and upper jaw up to his nose and around his head from ear to ear. It appears similar to a pair of dragon jaws. In his human form, he fires cero blasts from his mouth and bala blasts from his fists.

Zanpakutou Name: Aliento [de dragón]
Sealed Form: A straight edge, average size katana. Has a green hilt with a gold cap on the end and a gold guard with a rectangular design and four, identical square openings in the design.
Release Phrase: "Arroyo, Aliento de dragón!" or "Arroyo, Aliento!" (Translation: "Burn, Dragon's Breath!")
Ressurection Form: Takes the appearance of a bipedal emerald green dragon with a green fiery mane, >> Similar to: http://www.creativeuncut.com/gallery-02/art/kh2-nobody-dragon.jpg<<
He still fires ceros from his mouth. His speed has increased greatly and so has his hierro. In this form, Weiss can launch lightning fast, dense spiritual energy attacks from his wing tips. He is also twice the size than his human form. This form has more in common with his Adjuchas form than his Vasto Lorde form.

Fighting Specialty: Swordplay, Sonido (Arrancar equivalent to shunpo)

Personality & Background: Weiss was once a very powerful Hollow, one of the few to reach the “Vasto Lorde” form. For days he would devour thousands of Hollow in order to retain his powerful form. Weiss grew tired of this way of life and searched for an alternative lifestyle. His search took him on a journey to places he had not seen in a long time.

Weiss traveled across Hueco Mundo for decades before he stumbled upon a Hollow who had gone through shinigamification. After a brief conversation, during which Weiss discovered the existence of Arrancars and Aizen, Weiss ate the Arrancar and proceeded to rip off his mask. The transformation was violent and painful, a feeling that Weiss had not experienced since his days as an Adjuchas.

When the transformation was finished, Weiss found himself no longer hungry for Hollow, but an empty feeling still lingered inside of him. Weiss tested his abilities and found them… weak. The transformation cut his power in half. The test of his ability brought several more Arrancar and Gin Ichimaru, Aizen’s comrade. Gin made an attempt to persuade Weiss to join Aizen but refused. Weiss destroyed the Arrancar, took some of their clothes, and fled into the deep reaches of Hueco Mundo.

Weiss vowed to never join Aizen’s forces, a remnant feeling from his solitary Vasto Lorde form. He would never be the puppet soldier of a foreign dictator, especially a rogue Soul Reaper.

Despite Weiss’ status as a Hollow, he is more compassionate than his fellow brethren. He blames this “humanistic emotion” on the shinigamification process. Since his transformation into an Arrancar, he has only killed only a few humans and Soul Reapers. He plays with them until they are fatigued and then he injures them to the point where they cannot fight back anymore. Some might say he is merciful, but Weiss would ignore their comments. In simplicity, the shinigamification process made Weiss more like the Soul Reapers than he would comfortably admit.

I've also updated my main's profile, but nothing too exciting.

[Andromeda]

Well I've been meaning to do this for a while since I wanted to start practicing it. Since I finally managed to finish it I figured that I post it. As usual I'm not completely happy with it, but it is pretty fair likeness to what I imagined for Steph. The links are all the same image just resized because the original was very large.

http://img2.imageshack.us/img2/9563/stephfull.jpg

http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/6292/stephfulls.jpg

http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/8236/stephfulls1.jpg

[Evangel]

Very nice work, Andro. Speaking of RP art, what ever happened to Azuteor?

Any ways, if not by Monday someone has posted I'm going to type up my secondary's first post.

[Andromeda]

I don't know where Azuteur is. Though we haven't seen him in a while. I've been meaning to write stuff for Kagashi, but I was hoping to see others posting. I guess it is just going to be us. Which if that is then I'll just post normally.

[Evangel]

Well, I can't go any further without Xeim or someone in my character's group posting something. Weiss' intro is at a stand still until Xeim comes back with info on her other Arrancars. Mugen can't continue without whoever is in the group (I forget who). I could just post and say that Mugen and Rei split off from the group but I don't want to do that if someone else has something in mind.

[Mistress Victoria]

I'm in your group. Just me.

I'm just going to skip ahead to killing hollows and stuff. So really, just do whatever you want.

Also, I doubt Xeim is going to be coming back any time soon. Life and all of that stuff, you know. TFF is way down on her priority list.

[Andromeda]

Just post Evangel. If Shadow's not posting after this amount of time you've waited long enough. Just move on and keep pace with Sinister and I. You can do what I'm doing with Haruka and the others in Kagashi's group. They're along for the ride, but I'll be controlling their actions until someone steps into control them. At this point anyone not posting has pretty much giving up their rights on their characters since they are doing nothing but holding up the RP. They are more than free to return and take control of them, but until that time we'll just move them around with us. You can't go killing them or doing anything huge with them, but being polite and waiting is over at this point. Just act.

[Mistress Victoria]

Yeah, I agree. I didn't want to hold up the RP. I was kind of hoping that you'd just keep posting. It's been a while since I last posted, so it makes sense to just keep going.

[Andromeda]

Sorry for the delay on the post, I sort of got distracted lately. Anyway, it is up now and leaves you with something to do Sinister. I'm figuring that we'll be starting to ramp up the difficulty of the hollows soon. So they will become more difficult to deal with forcing us to go all out. And at that point I'm guessing that the arrancars will be making their appearance. We still have heard anything from Xeim so I'm figuring that you will be controlling the arrancar Evangel. I'll provide the setup and then hand things over to you.

I'm thinking another round of stronger hollows but nothing that isn't too bad. Then we will face the really tough ones. We can spend a couple posts on fighting them if we want. And I'll give you the opening needed Evangel to bring your arrancar once everyone has defeated their respective enemies.

Also, Evangel you would have been better off keeping Shadow's characters with you. We are doing the same with Xeim and Azuteur's characters. While we aren't waiting on them to post, seeing us posting and that they're being left out can provide some pressure on them to post. The case with them though is neither are active so its not really going to change anything since we don't even know if they're reading the posts. However, Shadow's still around and posting so you know at the very least he knows you're posting. So if you had kept his characters around he would have had felt some urgency to post even if it hasn't appeared yet. But completely removing him from the posting cuts away all of the urgency. So now he knows that's being completely isolated and left behind in the story leaving him with no reason to keep up with us because he's no longer tied down. Sure he's not posting, but you want to keep posting to apply pressure on him since he is actually around here. So you might want to rethink things. Plus the idea was that we were going to be posting and working together isolating yourself from everyone that is with you sort defeats the purpose. We aren't in the academy arc anymore. I broke into groups because having so many character jammed together didn't make a lot of sense from a story point of view. But half of the characters are going to be removed in the next arc we do anything since it is pretty clear who is active and who isn't. So you'll want to keep working with everyone.

[Mistress Victoria]

Yeah. Most of my characters will be removed. I'll most likely only be keeping Shino, Fukumi, Raven, and Nagi.

Or I might make Raven and Nagi into NPCs that anyone can control. Same with Tamashi and Mai.

Too many characters really boggles me down. Shino and Fukumi are who I really want to concentrate on.

[Azuteor]

Hey guys, just letting everyone know that I'm still interested in the Bleach RP. I just haven't found the time to write up a post. Hopefully, I can get something in before Thanksgiving Break begins.

[Andromeda]

Thanks for coming by Azuteor to sign in as it were. ^^

Also Evangel, why are you jumping so far ahead? I got after Shadow about putting a gillain in his post and now an arrancar? We need to be stepping things up a little slowly. Even if it is not a powerful arrancar, they still rank equals to the Menos and Gillains, which are out of our power. We're supposed to be just fighting regular hollows for the moment. The time for the arrancar to show up hasn't arrived yet.

Also how can Rei sense shinigami that are not really fighting at full battle strength that are Rank Seat 5 and lesser that are about 5 miles away from your location. That seems a little unrealistic, plus its only been a year since we joined the Seireitei. It's highly unlikely that she got that close to a bunch of people from other squads in that sort of time. Her own squad sure, but everyone seems a bit of a stretch.

[Andromeda]

Well things are coming to a head soon between Sinister and me in our group. Since no one else has been posting regularly we'll be moving on to the arrancar in a couple posts. Sinister and I have been discussing things between us so I think a couple posts or so between us and we'll be ready for the arrancar point. After that things will end up wrapping up very quickly since we are no match for arrancar even a minor one. As previously discussed will be rescued by some Captain(s) and/or Vice-Captain(s). So depending on how many people besides Sinister and myself participate this mission arc will be over in something like ten posts probably, possibly fewer.

That said, it was agreed upon that after the mission arc that will be a character arc. That means we'll be focusing on a story that revolves around someone's character. You'll get to be the main character of the arc and things happening will pretty much be driven by your character and yourself. Hopefully, you all have some unexplored parts of your background that will help to provide the plot and substance for the character arc. If not we can figure out somethings now since we have the time. This is why I'm bringing it up now.

Based on the recently posted members/characters here is the list of characters we have to pick from for a character arc.

Steph
Kagashi
Haku
Mahonna
Shino
Mai
Tamashi
Shadow's fourth character
Mugen

I'm ruling Steph out since most of my plans require more development before being acted on. I can do Kagashi, but I would prefer not to be the first one to go since I would feel that it would be unfair for me to be the first. Kagashi will be a back up though if everyone is uneasy or something.

So someone step up and if you can provide a quick idea of what you'd like to do or explore for the character arc. That way we can flesh it out.

I would say it would be too early for this, but I can imagine one of the possible plot points or whatever we can do for our characters is gaining bankai. They are pretty important moment for everyone, though typically a lot of time has to pass before attaining them. But its something to fall back on if there are no other ideas. ^^

[Mistress Victoria]

If I do Shino, seeing as I have so many characters that revolve around her anyway, I'd pretty much only need myself to interact with. Four characters intertwine with each other. The others would just be support or extras to allow my characters to speak/continue the plot.

Andro knows my reason for not posting regularly. =P