Xiuhcoatl

Xiuhcoatl (シュコトル, Shukotiru) is a and the former Captain of the  having served as one of its earliest Captains due to an experiment on the  that caused him to end up in  hundreds of years earlier than when he entered. Following the War of Eight Seasons, he abandoned his position as Captain and took up residence in the, he is the caretaker of a small graveyard.

Appearance
Xiuhcoatl is a tall man with gaunt features, dark skin and a bald head, lacking hair. The ridges of his brow are elongated, extending slightly further than normal, which cast shadows over his eyes in the right conditions. He is affected by complete heterochromia with his left eye being brown and his right being a faint yellow. His ears are large and somewhat rounded and both lobes have holes in them from previous ear piercings. A small horizontal scar rests on his chin. He wears a headress shaped like a birds head with long torquise-painted feathers extending from the back. He wears the standard shihakushō of the Shinigami excluding the tabi and waraji. Instead a single hoop ankle bracelet made of gold hangs onto his right ankle. He wears a slightly modified Captain haori that comes with a stiff lapel and collar with a golden chain attached to the collar, the haori is worn like a cloak over his shoulders and using the chain to ensure it doesn't fall from his body. A gold armband with a single jade inset wraps around the right arm.

Powers & Abilities

 * Unique Kidō:
 * Enhanced Endurance:
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Zanpakutō
Gisei Shin'nen (犠牲信念, Sacrificing Faith) is a macuahuitl, with a light brown shaded wooden blade and hilt and soul-synthesized steel rather than obsidian for the edges, an image of a blue snake is emblazoned along the length of the blade. The hilt is wrapped in green silk ribbons with a twin pair of them that flow from the bottom, when the Zanpakutō is not in use Xiuhcoatl wraps his sword in the silk and keeps it held in his sash. Xiuhcoatl dislikes the powers of his Zanpakutō and often attempts to forego using it so as to avoid its abilities, this reluctance to use his Zanpakutō to its full extent causes a gap between the two that the Spirit of his blade alludes to being the cause of such a dark requirement to wielding it.
 * : Its release command is "Regret" (後悔, kōkai): Gisei Shin'nen is unique in that it has pre-requisites in order to activate its Shikai despite having been mastered by its wielder. In order to be released, the Zanpakutō requires several sacrifices, the minimum being six, though there is no observed maximum. These sacrifices are accumulated upon release of the Zanpakutō and therefore must be within a thin radius of a few feet to be properly counted. If done correctly Gisei Shin'nen creates an intensely strong tornado around itself that consumes the bodies of the sacrificed and shreds them into pieces, the blade then consumes the blood and shredded flesh and bone of its victims.
 * Shikai Special Ability: Gisei Shin'nen has the ability to use the bodies of those sacrificed to release it as weapons, this allows it to strike at farther distances than one would expect while also making the attacks much harder to predict, it can conjure anything that made up the wielder's physical form, to bones, limbs, and even a s mask. The body parts emerge from the blade itself as if they were trapped inside the steel and return when Xiuhcoatl stops using it, even if damaged the body parts can re-enter the blade and re-emerge as if nothing had happened to them. By absorbing Xiuhcoatl's spiritual power it could also manipulate things contained within it for more abnormal purposes such as using blood as if it were a chain and conjuring the imitation of a sacrificed Shinigami's Zanpakutō.


 * : Jiko no Gisei Shin'nen (自己の犠牲信念, Self-Sacrificing Faith): Like its Shikai, the Bankai also has a pre-requisite this time in the form of self sacrifice. However, instead of claiming the life of its wielder it instead absorbs his blood in order to release. The Bankai does not change the form of the Zanpakutō and instead it retains its normal appearance.
 * Bankai Special Ability: In Bankai Xiuhcoatl's sword allows its wielder to absorb the bodies of its victims like Shikai, it can then remake them and spew them out from its blade as patchwork zombies of a kind. Linking them to Xiuhcoatl through small links of blood allows him to control them as if they were extensions of himself. He can make several of these patchwork zombies, relying only on the number of opponents he is facing as they are the fuel for the ability.


 * Gakushū (学習, Learning):
 * Kyojin (巨人, Goliath):

Trivia

 * Xiuhcoatl means "torquise serpent" in a literal form and carries the meaning "fire serpent" in a symbolic meaning, it can also be interpreted as "weapon of destruction".
 * Xiuhcoatl is the name of several things in Aztec mythology, most prominently as a fire snake or a weapon shaped like a snake.