Seitorō Nisshōkirite

Yue Shikyo (ゆえ しきょ Shikyo Yuè) was the formerly praised Captain of the Ninth Division of the Gotei 13, and later became a renegade due to an accidental Hollowfication. He was a Noble of the House of Shikyo that after his defection went extinct, due to its Matriarch's death, Yue is the Sole Living member of his clan, since he lives now as a shinigami. He carries a sense of pride in being a shinigami given his previous noble status, and holds a high regard to peace and diplomacy rather than violence. He's friends and allies with Seireitou Kawahiru and holds a high respect for him.

Background
The Previous captain of the 9th division and now ally of Seireitou Kawahiru he is the master of the fire element and his zanpaktou is comparable to Ryuujin Jakka in strength. As Captain of the 9th division he was known as Yue of the White Lotus (Yue no Shirohasu) and was feared because of his zanpaktou; During the Shinigami Civil War he lead his platoon too victory because he strategically wiped out the enemy forces. Before he was Captain of the 9th division he was 5th seat of the 2nd division. He Burned his Haori when he left the Gotei, signifying that he wasn't planning on returning, he wears a nobles outfit now as he serves with Seireitou, his old friend and fellow Ex-Captain.

Personality
Yue is a calm individual usually, but when he is angered he has the rage that rivals a wildfire. He has a great mastery of his elemental powers, as it is topped by no others who have an elemental affinity. He respects Seireitou for his powers knowing they far surpass his own in terms of raw strength. Yue is the runner up on Shunpo speed in the soul society, and appears to leave an after image behind when he uses it. When using his zanpaktou, his eyes glow bright red, and his very spiritual pressure ignites the surrounding area.

Pre Death
Yue died 2000 yrs ago in the 2nd Sho Dynasty when he killed the Emperor of the time for having his family executed, as punishment for his crime the Nobles of the time sealed his Body away in what is now The Tree of Spirits which grew because of the ritual. The nobles banished his soul to the Forest of Menos in Hueco Mundo where he was meant to die, but he was found by a pair of soul reapers and taken to the Seireitei.

As a Shinigami
After graduating the Shinigami Academy, he was recruited by the 9th Division but then was transfered to the 2nd Division for his intellect and cunning. a few years later after very intense training on the 2nd division Yue obtained his Bankai Tenrai Shirohasu, this was witnessed by his captain who recommended him to be the new captain of the 9th division because he was qualified and the 9th division was in need of a new captain.

Shinigami Civil War
During this time its shortly after Yue was promoted to Captain of the 9th division. Hes assigned a 6 man squad of soul reapers from different divisions. They operated under the name Juusanya Squad or 13th Moon Squad because they moved under the cover of the moon. This squad helped turn the tide of the war.

Hollowfication Accident
After the civil war ended, Yue used his ties with the 12th Division's R&D department to create a Pseudo - Hōgyoku and it went horribly wrong. the fake Hōgyoku was unstable and blew up causing the barrier between shinigami and hollows too be destroyed in Yue making him a hybrid. After he was rescued from the wreckage he hid the fact that he was part hollow for many years.

Defection From Gotei 13
After a while Yue started blacking out and it was discovered that the blackouts were causing the subconscious hollow within him to take control and attack the soul society (the subconscious nature of Hollow Yue was what was taking over not Hollow yue himself), noone knew that the rouge hollow was Yue and when he discovered this fact he defected under the guise of he needed to resign because of sickness.

Present Day
Yue Trained with Seireitou after his defection to learn how to master his hollow powers, after 3 weeks, he fully mastered his new powers. After this he joined Sei on his travels and is now helping him and the Gotei against the attacks of Kamui and his new Espada.

Battle with The Sexta Espada
Yue arrives to aid Captain Hikaru Kurosaki and Vice-Captain Mizu Kurosaki in their battle against Sexta Espada: Diabound Kernel. The battle starts off as a normal fight as Diabound causes Yue to have to use his Hollow Powers to supplement his soul reaper ones. This causes a shift in the battle towards Yue's side causing Diabound to have to release his Resurreccion against him. Diabound releases Genmaou Rabieru and causes Yue to release his Shikai Shirohasu against him but this doesnt do anything to the espada much to Yue's dismay. The battle goes on as Yue is only able to defend against Diabounds speed and power since its preventing him from setting up his shikai's attacks. Eventually Yue gets pissed off and is able to activate his Gedō state against the espada which catches him by surprise. Captain Hikaru tries to aid Yue but Yue tells him and his Vice to stay back unless they wanna die, He then holds his blade to the heavens and and calls out Gedō Shunkan activating his Gedō state: Version II  and uses his ultimate technique Endeingu Uchuu which ravages the Espada ending the battle in his death, Yue powers down out his Gedo state and leaves with the captain to aid the others.

Inner Hollow
The Inner hollow within Yue isn't like most inner hollows, he doesn't care and was easily subjugated and the powers are now under the complete control of Yue. The reason Yue has an inner hollow is that he experimented with the Hōgyoku and created a Pseudo - Hōgyoku, the Pseudo - Hōgyoku exploded and caused him to break the boundary between soul reapers and hollows and became a hybrid. he then went into his inner world and discovered a hollow spirit inside him, but it wasn't hostile; the two battle only because Hollow Yue wanted to test his masters powers. when he passed the test the inner hollow gave him all of his powers and Complete control of his hollow side.
 * During Yue's Fight with Koso, he and Hollow Yue's souls combined to form a perfect hybrid. This usually results in the shinigami gaining a Resurreccion, but it instead upgraded the Gedo State into a version II, that has a power equaling an espada release. This Fusion results in Yue losing the ability to summon is mask, but he can still tap into his hollow powers which is shown by the shade of red in his eyes shifting from Scarlet to a Dark Crimson to Mahogany in color.

Powers and abilities
Yue is a former captain in the Gotei 13, and a Vizard, meaning that he is quite skilled.

Shinigami Abilities
Flash Steps Master: Yue's flash steps is matched by only 2 people in the soul society, Byakuya and Yoruichi; His Shunpo leave an after image after its used masking his movements and allowing for him too counter attack.

Kido Practitioner: his skills with Kidou are not that strong, since Yue preferred to use his zanpaktou in battle, even though in the academy he was an excellent user of the art.

Master Swordsman Specialist: He is an Ambidextrous swordsman, and is able to use his sword with both hands with equal ability.

Master Hand-to-hand Combatant:  He can fight on par with the members of division two and can use shunpo in conjunction with it to hit his target with greater power.

Immense Spiritual Pressure: His spiritual pressure is strong enough that when he exerts it the air become dense and anyone with below a Vice captain's level pressure will find it hard to breathe, also his spiritual pressure isnt normal for a hybrid who normally only exerts 1 at a time, his spiritual pressure is mixed and can be misread as an arrancars by an untrained shinigami or spiritually aware human.

Flash Reishi Cannon: This technique takes his spiritual energy and channels it into his palm, in the same fashion as a cero, he then fires it, its only used by him. This is the Shinigami Equivalent to a Hollow's Cero.

Hollow / Vizard Powers
Cero: its a pale blue color, and is of comparable power.

Mask Creation: [title speaks] Loses this ability after he fuses with Hollow Yue and upgrades the Gedo State

Instant Regeneration: albeit rudimentary, while using his hollow powers he can heal from minor wounds.

Garganta: He is able to open Garganta portals to travel between planes, and this leads to the misreading of his Reiryoku and people would see the sky open and feel a hollow's spiritual pressure mixed with shinigami leading to the assumption that he is an arrancar and a battle would be likely too take place over it.

Zanpaktou
"Yue what are you doing? I know you can hear me now! Get The F**k Up and Fight him! What are you afraid of, you need to Abandon that fear in your heart or you will die!, now say my name and release my power!"

- Shirohasu when Yue was training to master shikai

Shirohasu (lit. White Lotus)- Shirohasu's Spirit takes the form of a young woman in a white gown, she is a fierce fighter, even given her princess appearance. She is brutally honest and will openly call Yue a screw up, but deep down she loves her master and will do whatever it takes to keep him alive. Before Yue knew her name she was called "The Beautiful Swords Princess" or "The Silent One". In its sealed form Shirohasu takes the form of a sakabatō (逆刃刀, lit. "reverse-blade sword")

Shikai
Shikai: Shirohasu's Release phrase is May the light of the Sun Illuminate the Darkest reaches of our world, and show us the path created by your divine light

Powers and abilities: The abilities of Shirohasu are labeled as Realms and are triggered by the command Tenchi no (whatever realm hes using) these grant Yue a different way to manipulate the fire produced by his sword.


 * Tenchi no Tendō (天地 天道 Realm of the Deva) - This attack causes Yue to create a Spiraling ball of fire in his hand, he then causes it to spin and compress until it gains the same heat intensity as the Sun. This sphere of fire is then compressed again until its the size of a marble, Yue then fires this sphere at his opponent, on impact the sphere rapidly expands and envelops his opponent. The sphere can span the radius of 5km and takes out what ever is caught in its radius.
 * Tenchi no Chikushōdō (天地 畜生道, Realm of the Animal) - Yue twirls his shikai on his index finger and causes it to create a ring of fire that he then multiplies creating a perimeter around himself and his opponent, this perimeter also causes the temperature to rise in this area, igniting things randomly, this also can cause his opponent to combust as their blood starts to boil.
 * Tenchi no Ningendō (天地 人間道, Realm of the Human) - This power give Yue the ability to control the reactions that create fire and combustion, allowing him to spark mini bombs at will, this can be used to ambush his opponents.
 * Tenchi no Gakidō (天地 餓鬼道, Realm of the Preta) - he twirls his shikai on his middle finger and makes it generate intense heat, this causes a desert type mirage to appear and cause his opponent to hallucinate thus inducing horrible hallucinations and tricking his opponent with Illusions of his presence, this coupled with shunpo make him untouchable unless they cool the area off.
 * Tenchi no Shuradō (天地 修羅道, Realm of the Asura) - He turns his blade 360 degrees and the ring of fire appears he then draws the Kanji for fire in the center and the same seal appears under the opponent, after this he says Katsu and the seal explodes causing them if caught to be enveloped by flames.
 * Tenchi no Jigokudō (天地 地獄道, Realm of the Naraka) - He calls out the name of the attack and a large pillar of fire erupts from the ground, below his opponent, this pillar then expands outwards for 5km then condenses into a disk of fire with a dome in its center surrounding the victim, This attack then condenses once more and whatever is inside if it hasnt been already is incinerated.

Bankai
Bankai: Tenrai Shirohasu (lit. Divine White Lotus) - This is Yue's Bankai, and grants Yue total control of the white flames it produces, The sword takes the form of a nodachi with intricate patterns on it, this is the compression of his spirit energy and as such hes alot faster and can hold his bankai for longer periods of time, even though he doesnt use his bankai often choosing to use Gedo State instead. His Bankai is a rare sight to behold and most who do comment on the fluidity of his flames and the beauty of the sword, giving it the proper respect it deserves as one of the most powerful fire based zanpaktou's.
 * Power and abilities


 * Enhanced Bankai Duration: His bankai like Ichigo's and a couple of other shinigami is a compression of his vast spiritual energy and as such he can hold it for a longer period of time.
 * Enhanced Speed: When using his bankai his speed is increased by a factor of 10 and when using his hollow powers in conjunction, its by a factor of 15.
 * Hierro like ability: This is due to the vast spiritual energy he possesses being compressed, it causes him to be able to create a hardened layer of spiritual energy around his body strong enough to block most Shikai releases, this is used in the same manner as the arrancar ability Hierro.
 * Bankai Attacks


 * Hasu Nishiki (Lotus 2nd Movement)- He fires a lotus shaped fire blast at his enemy, the lotus burns as hot as the sun and can last for nine days, its flames can only be put out by either a highly powerful water type zanpaktou or an equally as powerful fire type.
 * Hasu Tsuishiki (Lotus Final Form) - He holds his sword horizontal and a large dragon made out of fire appears around him, he swings his blade and fire erupts from the ground and engulf the enemy it takes out everything in its path.
 * Hasu Hyakushiki (Lotus 100th Ceremony) - He creates a fire ball of epic proportions and drops it on his enemy, It burns everything even the environment to cinders.
 * Getsugahasu (Moon Fang Lotus) - This move looks like Hichigo's Getsuga Tenshou but it is instead mad e up of White fire, this is the main attack used by yue.

The 外道, Gedō state
(外道, Gedō): This is the 7th ability of his zanpaktou and by far the most powerful; This technique allows for Yue to fuse with his Zanpaktou and Unify with its spirit causing a huge boost in his Spiritual energy but for a limited amount of time, usually being around an hour, this fusion can be reversed and it seals off all his other powers except the ones in his zanpaktou, so while fused he cannot use any hollow powers. The (外道, Gedō) state is activated when Yue holds his zanpaktou out in front of him and says "(外道, Gedō)" after that he is bathed in spiritual energy as he is fused with his zanpaktou spirit resulting in him having the appearance of black winged angel with white hair, His Zanpaktou changes into a Longer black sword and earns the name Kuroihasu or Black Lotus; In this state his speed and power is increased to its zenith and his spiritual pressure is able to ignite the very air around him giving him a fiery aura so intense that it breaks down everything in his path into reishi. Once the time limit of 1hr is reached, the state will end and fade away; This state cannot be used again for another 48hrs
 * This can be used in either Shikai or Bankai Forms.

Powers and abilities of the (外道, Gedō) state
 * Enhanced Shunpo - His shunpo speed gets augmented to above mach speeds, when using it he appears to burst into Fire particles.
 * Reishi Dominance - Can break Down spiritual item like buildings in the soul society and absorb them while in this state, his very spiritual pressure crushes and breaks spiritual matter down without him consciously doing it, this is because hes setting up his final attack once this state is used.
 * Fiery Spiritual Aura - his spiritual pressure ignites the very air around him.
 * Gedo State Special Ability


 * Shinsei Juujikei (Divinity Cross) - This is the most powerful attack he can use while in the 外道, Gedō state, it breaks down the spiritual energy of the area into fire particles and are absorbed into him and his sword. when he attacks he releases all that energy into 1 final attack.

The 外道, Gedō state: Version II
This is the upgraded form of The 外道, Gedō state, which was brought about during Yue's fight with Koso. This form is created when he and hollow yue's souls completely fused and he loss the ability to form his hollow mask, but gains something better, on the lines of Resurreccion but not the same. This State is achieved by Yue saying "外道, Gedō Shunkan (Outer path second instant)" and he transforms into a semi hollow-like state. The time limit for this form is 30 minutes, after it fades, Yue is exhausted and at the limit of his abilities, and Shriohasu is in a state where it cannot achieve its shikai state for several minutes. Powers and abilities of Version II
 * Unnaturally Fast Shunpo/Sonido: His Speed is unclassified and is a mix of Shunpo and Sonido, since there is a mixture of their respective sounds when he uses it, he appears to completely vanish and reappear at will.
 * Endeingu Uchuu (Ending Space) - This is by far one of the most powerful attack created by a Shinigami / Hollow Hybrid of Yue's Caliber and the only attack of the Version II. He swings his sword around in the air gathering spiritual energy, the swirling mass of spiritual energy will take the form of a black dragon, Yue then swings his sword towards his enemy and releases this energy. The ensuing blast takes the form of a twister, the blast radius is large enough that not even Yue can escape it and receives damage from it.

Trivia
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 * The attacks of this zanpaktou are loosely based on the six Buddhist paths of Reincarnation, and in conjunction the Six Paths of Pain from naruto. these attacks are referred to as paths but not in the same manner as they are in naruto
 * His inspiration came from a mixture of Ichigo and Urahara from bleach and Pain from naruto.
 * His use of his bankai is rare and is not used often enough, to the point where only a few have actually seen it. He prefers the use of either his Gedo state or his hollow powers rather than use bankai.
 * His Inner Hollow is very lazy and is the polar opposite of Hichigo.
 * His name translates into Reason of Death or Cause of Death or Circumstances of Death, pretty much it boils down to the The way you die
 * The attack of his Gedo State Version II was inspired by the Gokuryuuha of Inuyasha; used in the movie Sword of an honorable ruler by sounga.