Nozomi Kujō (Darknesslover5000)/Ōko Yushima

Ōko Yushima (由嶌欧許, Yushima Ōko) was a Shinigami of the 12th Division and worked in the Shinigami Research and Development Institute. He was the developer of Mod Souls.

Appearance
Yushima bears a great resemblance to Kageroza Inaba (though it has also been said he resembles Nozomi Kujō more), having long green hair and brown eyes but a more narrow jawline and less-define cheekbones. During his time with the Tenth Division, he wore the standard Shinigami shihakushō. After he was transferred to the Twelfth Division, however, he donned a long yellow robe that buttoned up in the front and protruded upwards from his neck, covering the entirety of the back of his head, in the same fashion as Kageroza Inaba's attire.

After being resurected by the fusion of Inaba and Nozomi, he wears a standard Shinigami attire with a yellow under shirt, light blue gloves, and a light purple belt loosely around his waist to hold his Zanpakutō.

Personality
Yushima comes across as shy around others. Despite this shyness, Yushima cared little about being with others, believing that relying on others will only have them get in the way. He wanted greatly to prove himself to others. When he became a researcher, he took great pride in his work, becoming deeply enraged when the Central 46 canceled Project Spearhead, screaming at them while demanding a reason for why they shut down the project and doing everything he could to preserve that research.

As the resurrection of of his name-sake, Yushima has the same strong belief self-reliance. He looks down at the concepts of friendship and teamwork, believing it to be a crutch for the weak. Also like his Shinigami counterpart, values power and glory above all else. He takes great pride in his new-found power, constantly gloating at what he is capable of and is not above posturing.

From the preserved memories and emotions of his past life, Yushima appears to have an inferiority-complex, absolutely hating to be looked down at and refusing to accept defeat in any manner. When his own views are challenged, he will become very violent and lash out at his enemy.

After Nozomi's ressurection by Kaito Kurui, Nozomi was able to transform into Yushima for periods of time due to the implanting of Inaba Kagerza's "data" into her soul. While she is transformed, Yushima's personality is much more similar to Nozomi's than Yushima or Kageroza's, but Yushima is more prone to fits of anger.

Powers & Abilities
Master Scientist and Inventor: While as a Shinigami he was inept in combat, he was noted for being very intelligent, ultimately getting him transferred to the 12th Division's Research and Development Institute. There he was responsible for creating the Mod Souls.

Expert Swordsmanship Specialist: After becoming a Mod Soul, Yushima displayed considerable sword skill, able to quickly overwhelm his opponents even when outnumbered.

Immense Spiritual Power: After becoming a Mod Soul, as a combination of Nozomi and Inaba, Yushima displays considerable reiatsu, able to be felt from various Shinigami from a large distance.

Kidō Master: After becoming a Mod Soul, Yushima showed skill in Kidō, able to perform high-level spells quickly and effortlessly, even up to level 99.

Shunpo Expert: After becoming a Mod Soul, Yushima obtains considerable speed in battle, able to dodge several attacks from multiple opponents unscathed.

Enhanced Strength: As a Shinigami, he was physically weak. After becoming a Mod Soul, his physical strength was dramatically increased, able to repel a Shikai blast with a single bare-hand.

Zanpakutō
Sumitsukigasa (墨月牙鎖, Fanged-Chain, Moon Ink): takes the form of an ordinary katana with a golden hilt with a red cloth-wrapping and maroon sheath. It has a rectangular tsuba with a cross shape embossed on it. As a Shinigami, Yushima wore it on his sash. As Mod Soul, it is attached to a loose belt.
 * Shikai: When released, the katana turns into a double-headed voulge with red markings on it.[1] With the combined powers of Kageroza and Nozomi fused, Yushima's Zanpakutō becomes an amalgamation of both their swords, having Raiku's form but with more blade protrusions on the back end of both blade tips similar to Arazomeshigure.
 * Shikai Special Ability: Duplicating an adversary's attack and reproducing it is the power of "Raiku", absorbing an adversary's spiritual pressure and turning it into one's own is Nozomi's "Arazomeshigure". Sumitsukigasa possesses the power of both. "Raiku" consumes a great deal of Yushima's spiritual pressure and entails a risk when reproducing an adversary's attack, but with the power of "Arazomeshigure", He is now able to absorb the attack and continue to counterattack indefinitely.


 * Spatial Displacement: his Zanpakutō takes slices of space and recreates them. While it appears that he is manipulating time that is not what he does at all. He uses his Zanpakutō to recreate a space that didn't exist before and shifts his location in space in that instance.
 * By using the release command Seethe (沸き上がる, 'Wakiagaru' ). Sumitsukigasa glows yellow and transforms further gaining a large hoop with multiple bladed protrusions along the outside of it. The hoop is set into the middle of the of the voulge bar where the weapon is commonly held and twirled


 * Attack Duplication/Reiatsu Absorption: By spinning Sumitsukigasa right the central hoop glows pink allowing Yushima to absorb any attack that his Zanpakutō comes into contact with. When he spins Sumitsukigasa left the central hoop glows pink and fires the absorbed attack back. This is the true power of his Zanpakutō.
 * Hajō Kūri (覇錠空蔾, Tyrant Lock Void Bramble): By striking Sumitsukigasa into the ground, an elegant fortress wall of purple reishi is formed. The wall transforms all energy around it into reishi, condensing it into a green ball before getting launched as a considerably powerful wave that decimates everything in its path. The wave can dispel even after it is launched.
 * Renzan - Hajō Kūri (連斬 覇錠空蔾, Serial-Slashing Tyrant Lock Void Bramble): A more powerful variant of Hajokuri. After striking the ground, Sumitsukigasa will produce immense green reishi before be absorbed in the ground, forming Hajokuri's elegant fortress to appear in a green, solid, and more defined form which will surround Yushima. There are also various tendrils around the fortress which latch onto the ground beside it. A huge green light shoots into the sky, casting Celtic-like symbol above the area. This then proceeds to absorb the reishi that makes up the envirement (i.e. Soul Society), and can fire concentrated green blasts of energy capable of destroying a large area. It can also block most external attacks

<!--
 * Bankai: Not Yet Achieved

Bankai: Arazomekū Sumitsukigasa (退紅空•墨月牙鎖, "Faded Scarlet Void: Fanged-Chain, Moon Ink"): It is known that only Karen's variant of Sumitsukigasa possesses a Bankai. Karen tends to loathe using her Bankai, as she sees it as "unfair" to her opponents, and being the 'battle nut' that she is, can easily shorten the length of a fight as well as obliterate any chances of a good challenge for her. As such, Karen only releases her Bankai when facing up against a foe which she cannot defeat by any other method, or if Gai is in danger. To date, she has only shown her Bankai twice in Bleach: Rising Phoenix, ironically both times she was defeated soon after releasing. Arazomekū Sumitsukigasa is not to be used in RPs, unless the other(s) participating agree to it.

In Bankai, Karen's attire drastically changes, becoming a red and black long, revealing dress that is cut to show the entirety of her cleavage and the top part of her stomach. The sleeves of her dress are detached, and she has a giant black ribbon wrapped around her waist to show off her wide hips. The back of her dress is cut off, showing her sculpted back lines. Her dress has a slit that goes all the way up to her hip. In addition, she wears black traditional Japanese sandals and red gauntlets. Karen also becomes clad in a jet-black cloak, with a deep night-blue tattered fur collar around her neck area and the fringes of her cloak.

In this form, Sumitsukigasa takes on an extremely different form, transforming from its voulge form into the form of a scythe with a long black, staff-like haft. Despite being made out of metal, the haft is capable of bending, sometimes at incredibly drastic angles. The scythe blade is white and gold, with the two colours separated by a zigzagged line going along the blade. Next to the blade is a prominent decor in the shape of an elliptical white eye with a slitted crimson pupil, framed by gold metal, which goes around the eye and then splits into two strands of metal, which latch themselves onto the edge of the blade. Below the eye is a triangular zigzagged pattern, split with the colours dark grey and light grey. A slight extension, with small wing-shaped objects, one red and one black, is seen next to the eye, opposite to the blade.

Bankai Special Abilities: While Arazomekū Sumitsukigasa retains its dual abilities, Karen places preference in the 'Spatial Displacement' ability over the 'Attack Duplication and Reiatsu Absorption' ability in this form, which is due to her rarely revealing her Bankai, and when she does, it is a sign for her going 'all-out' against her foe. Despite Karen having lost both times she activated her Bankai, Arazomekū Sumitsukigasa is without a doubt, one of the most powerful Bankai in Bleach: Rising Phoenix, coming in third place, with the second place going to Mitsuru Inazuma's Yakusa-no-Ikadzuchi and Gai Nagareboshi's Shinonmyō no Kakusei being the strongest.


 * Enhanced Bankai Duration: As Karen can set Arazomekū Sumitsukigasa to constantly absorb any and all stray reishi from the area, theoretically, her Bankai has a near infinite duration, though Karen's love of battle prevents her from exploiting such a feature unless Gai is in danger. Ironically, the one time that she activated such an "overpowered" ability within the storyline of Bleach: Rising Phoenix, it was against Harafumei, who easily defeated her.
 * Ultra-Speed Combat: As Arazomekū Sumitsukigasa is constantly absorbing any and all stray reishi from the immediate vicinity, Karen can focus that stray reishi upon her feet before dispersing it in the form of a rocket-like burst of reishi, jet-propelling Karen in any direction she wishes at speeds exceeding even Hyper-Speed Combat. Normally, such an unorthodox method would expend a massive amount of reishi, leaving the user drained completely after a few minutes; however Sumitsukigasa's 'Attack Duplication and Reiatsu Absorption' ability removes such a risk, allowing Karen to utilize this incredible ability as much as she wishes. Her newfound speed is so tremendous, that it also greatly enhances her Shunpo prowess drastically.
 * Space Manipulation: By twirling Arazomekū Sumitsukigasa to the right, the portals created by the 'Dimensional Portals' ability are also able to negate attacks and record the information to recreate the space as Karen desires. This power to replicate can extend to various events: an opponent's attack, movements, even their Zanpakutō attack or attributes or more comically, their deepest secrets. This ability can only be used from one direction at a time. It also can be very taxing on Karen's energy-reserves from constant use, though with the 'Attack Duplication and Reiatsu Absorption' ability of Sumitsukigasa, this is hardly a problem. Twirling Arazomekū Sumitsukigasa to the left, Karen's Zanpakutō calls forth a portal that manifests the recorded event, which she is capable of doing once, after that, the recorded event is erased, requiring her to record another event within her Zanpakutō.
 * Clones: Karen has demonstrated the ability to use Arazomekū Sumitsukigasa's recording ability to record herself, thus producing a clone of herself. Unlike when she clones another person's abilities, the recorded version of her can act independently or under her orders until it is destroyed. Unlike Inaba's Zanpakutō, Karen is able to create up to nine duplicates of herself at a time, and when nine are out at the same time, she must wait until at least one is destroyed before activating the ability once again. When destroyed, these clones release an explosion which has enough power to decimate a small house.
 * Space Displacement: While appearing to freeze time, by using these portals on herself, Karen can in reality relocate herself instantly. With no warning to her new location, Karen can attack her opponent off-guard. She often uses this ability in rapid succession, sometimes racking up several hits against her adversary in a mere moment, giving her foe little to no time to react. This is also her preferred method of travel when in a rush. Before activating this ability, a bell-like chime is released from Arazomekū Sumitsukigasa, giving Karen's opponent a warning.
 * Kyūkei Mūkagami (無のミラーが粉々に, "The Mirror that Reflects Nothingness Shatters"): Karen condenses stray reishi in the area into an enormous sphere of reishi in front of her, which continues to suck in stray reishi at a rapid pace and near indefinitely. However, after a few moments, Karen traps the sphere right under the scythe blade of Arazomekū Sumitsukigasa, before slamming her Zanpakutō into the ground. This causes the sphere to impact upon the ground violently, dispersing the overwhelming reishi packed within the sphere in the direction of where the tip of the scythe is pointing at tremendous speeds, sending devastating shock waves through the ground in the direction Karen is facing. These shock waves are able to pass through and damage almost any substance, literally tearing it apart. The shockwaves can rise into the air if Karen takes time to absorb more than the initial reishi poured into the initial technique, possibly allowing her to attack her opponent from anywhere. This attack takes some time to prepare, so it is near incapable of use as a defensive technique unless Karen is some fair distance away.
 * Renzan - Hajō Kūri (連斬 覇錠空蔾, "Serial-Slashing Tyrant Lock Void Bramble"): A more powerful variant of Hajō Kūri, Arazomekū Sumitsukigasa produces this ability which surrounds Karen and forms an elegant fortress of green reishi. There are also various tendrils around the fortress which latch onto the ground beside it. A huge green light shoots into the sky, casting a Celtic-like symbol above the vicinity. This then proceeds to absorb the reishi that makes up Soul Society, and can fire concentrated green blasts of energy capable of destroying a large area within its blast radius. It can also block most external attacks. However, it is nowhere near as sturdy on the inside, as Mitsuru was able to use Kaminari Kesshō to shoot several thousand orbs of lightning inside the small openings, which detonated, destroying Renzan- Hajō Kūri.-->