Tsukuyomi (spirit)

Tsukuyomi (月読) is the manifested spirit of Ryo Hashimoto's Zanpakutō that is seen during Ryo's visits to his inner world.

Appearance
Tsukuyomi takes the form of a teenage girl. She is fairly tall with a well developed body. She has long silver hair and light brown eyes. Her outfit is quite revealing. This is a resault of Ryo being a bit of a pervert as stated by Tsukuyomi herself, although she uses this in order to tease Ryo and everyone else (men and women alike), when she appears outside of Ryo's inner world. Ryo calls her Tsuki-san (月さん) in short.

Personality
Thukuyomi often acts as a mentor to Ryo and always tries to push her master to become stronger. She is quite friendly and kind. She acts like an older sister to Ryo even though she tends to be rather childish and naive on several ocasions. During battle Tsukuyomi is very perceptive and cunning and will try to exploit her opponent's weakness in order to win. She also likes chating in a friendly manner with her opponent but she can be very fierce, as evidenced from her training with Ryo. Ryo has stated on numerous ocasions that she can be quite stubborn and she is quick to anger when Ryo takes even a scratch during battle. She has numerous mutual ideals with Zangetsu, Katen Kyokotsu and Benihime and when not in her child mode (Ryo's name for it), she gives Ryo advice in order for him to improve even further. Some have said that while crossing blades with Ryo they felt a great amount of anger from Tsukuyomi and thus Ryo, although Ryo later stated that it is just him and not her at all.

Powers & Abilities
Master Swordsmanship Specialist: She was able to keep up with Ryo, who is himself very proficient, with little to no effort during their training sessions, using only one hand. Ryo said that she always holds back when fighting him, something that is one of the few things that make him angry. He also said that even though he has a satisfactory amount of skill, if he was at her level he wouldn't even need his shikai against most opponents as he would be able to beat them with pure swordsmanship. Tsukuyomi is capable of incredible feats while using just a sealed blade, as she is able to make powerful and precise strikes in quick succesion with the opponent being unable to comprehent most of them, while she is actually holding back. She is capable of slicing a whole building inside Seireitei and create purple streaks out of thin air to strike her opponents with a mere slash from the sealed sword version of herself.

Immense Speed: Tsukuyomi has demonstrated speed that is great enough to keep up with Ryo (whose speed is the most trained and cherished ability), though the latter was injured from their hellish training. Although their differnce in their skill with Shunpo is minimal, this seems to be the only aspect Ryo can best his sword at for now, something that irritates him in a comical way, especially when Tsuki makes comparisons between them.