Eiji Sakuta

Eiji Sakuta (朔田=映司, Sakuta Eiji) is a young man who acts as a freelancer for various organizations. He is one of the three main protagonists of the sequel of Bleach: Rising Phoenix, and the designated anti-hero.

Appearance
Eiji is a slender, waifish young man with fine features. He has black hair that sticks upwards at the top, piercing crimson eyes and an unusual set of sharp canines. He wears black and tan robes, along with a large, white, flowing toga draped around his main body and across his chest. He also wears a circle-shaped necklace.

Powers and Abilities
Expert Hand-to-Hand Combatant: Though not near Arata's level, Eiji is still thoroughly competent in the art of hakuda. He is capable of knocking around his foes with powerful open palm strikes and bone-crushing knee strikes to overwhelm his foes.

Shunpo Expert:

Immense Strength:

Kidō Expert: It is unaware whether who is more powerful; Eiji or Arata in the art of the Demon Way. However, it is clear that Eiji is not somebody to be trifled with in spellcasting. As the polar opposite to Arata, Eiji's specialities are shadow and earthen spells.

Enhanced Speed: While his swordsmanship and all around offense, in addition to his durability is excellent, to say the least, Eiji is severely lacking in the speed forte. To be fair, he hits like a tank and moves about as fast as one. However, with Shunpo, he is at least Lieutenant level in speed, though Lisette and Arata far exceed him in the speed department.

Incredible Durability:

Vast Spiritual Power:

Expert Swordsmanship Specialist
Expert Swordmanship Specialist: Just like the other protagonists, Eiji has a specific forte- in this case, Eiji excels in the art of Zanjutsu, possibly even more than anyone else in Rising Phoenix canon with possibly the sole exception of the Soul King himself and that devil woman. While he can easily moderate the speed of his blows, it should be known that Eiji prefers to use slow, but very heavy and hard-hitting attacks to decimate his enemies. He can attack in the blink of an eye, but the strikes lose their sheer power- leading this style to only be broken out in a desperate situation.


 * Iaidō (居合道): Most of the time, Eiji uses Iaidō, a sword style where the user quick draws the blade extremely fast to strike, then re-sheathing it after every attack. Eiji's speed is so fast that he prevents opponents from reciting Kidō incantations and releasing their Zanpakutō making it highly effective against Shinigami and Kidō specialists, however, if one has no need for incantations or have short release commands, then they could hamper Eiji's advantage. Eiji is able to strike so fast that the opponent does not realize they have been cut until he sheathes his weapon.
 * Hitotsume: Nadegiri (一つ目・撫で斬り, "The First: Killing Stroke"): Eiji manipulates his spiritual power into the motion of a single swing. When performing the "killing stroke" Eiji transfers the full force of his spiritual power as though it were "mass" through his sword and then through the air. The strike itself is the medium, with the end result manifesting as a devastating wave of pure reiatsu. It is an attack that encompasses all his "power" into a singular strike; which is why it is often a lethal strike. Eiji can utilize this technique in a far different manner befitting Iaijutsu. Raising his sheathed blade upright, Eiji closes his eyes and blocks off all of his senses sans his hearing in order to hear the motions of his foe. A split second afterwards, Eiji unsheathes his blade and performs a vicious horizontal slash before sheathing his blade once again. During the stages of this variant of Nadegiri, Eiji grips his blade and sheathe back-handed in an eerily similar manner to how Arata grips his own blade.

Other Techniques:
 * Hadōmeppū (覇道滅封, "Supremacy Way Ruin Seal"): After unsheathing it, Eiji grips his sword with both of his hands; focusing and amassing his spiritual energy upon its blade as well as coating it in the same purple fire that Futama consists of. Now thoroughly ignited, Eiji focuses these flames at the tip of his blade, before they spread down, refining the blaze to its utmost extent. Swinging his weapon in an arc formation, Eiji unleashes these flames in the form of an enormous purple blazing arc or cresent moon of energy. This attack is able to break through many a barrier, and it can dissipate a rainstorm.

Zanpakutō
Kagekarasu (影鴉, "Shadow Raven") is the name of Eiji's Zanpakutō. When sealed, it takes the form of a black, fierce-looking and jagged katana. It is roughly 1.3 meters long, and the guard is white. Around the guard, there are numerous crimson flame-like designs, and the pommel of Kagekarasu is shaped like an emerald.

Shikai: Kagekarasu's release command is unknown; however, when released, Kagekarasu takes the form of a crimson halberd whose shaft can split into chained-together segments, giving it dangerous flexibility and reach, allowing Eiji to attack or defend over a wide area, in addition to being able to extend at high speeds to impale his opponents from a distance, and it carries tremendous force while extending. The chain runs along the handle, ending in a heavy ball at the blunt side. The ball's weight is used to easily wrap the chain around opponents, restricting them.

Shikai Special Abilities: In Shikai, Eiji has the ability to create and control feathers for multiple reasons. The feathers have piercing effects, and one is sharp as any Zanpakutō. These feathers are incredibly durable. The material he creates with these black feathers defies the Laws of Physics. Eiji's ability is focused around utilizing feather attacks with powerful aftereffects to quickly gain an advantage. Eiji also uses several trick abilities with his Zanpakutō to protect himself from being hampered and negated so he can continue his onslaught. All of these abilities are signaled by a cascade of black feathers swirling around Eiji's body before being activated. He can even use these feathers to create a propulsive effect. The type of feathers he uses can be changed. For example, they can be solidified to cling to surfaces.

<!--*Karuratoppa (迦楼突破, "Garuda Breakthrough"): Eiji condenses his spiritual energy in the tip of his blade to its utmost limit; before swinging it forward, releasing it in the form of a pitch-black crescent moon of raven down. Anything that clashes with Karuratoppa if it is significantly stronger than the attack is dissipated and neither attacks harm their users. However, if it is stronger, then it will act as normal.
 * Hayabusa Karuratoppa (隼迦楼突破, "Falcon Garuda Breakthrough"): In another use for Karuratoppa, Eiji can launch a weaker version of the wave, which distorts and disrupts the flowing of his foe's spiritual techniques, including even Bankai for the briefest of moments. However, Hayabusa Karuratoppa costs significantly more spiritual energy than the original, even though the output is much less than the first Karuratoppa.
 * Karuratoppa Kyōga (迦楼突破凶斬牙, "Garuda Breakthrough Bane-Fang"): The final Karuratoppa extension. If Eiji has utilized either Karuratoppa variant five times, then as he utilizes them, his spiritual energy will grow exponentially, increasing its power drastically and shifting this power to the tip of Kagekarasu. At the instant of the slash by swinging his blade downward, Eiji unleashes a giant pillar of black spiritual energy that blankets the surrounding area, destroying anything caught within the darkness and freezing the flow of his foe's spiritual energy, increasing in size until it is as large as a skyscraper, before dissipating.


 * Haguro (羽黒, "Feather-black"): Thrusting Kagekarasu into the ground, Eiji calls forth an aura of black feathers to surround his body. This aura swirls around his body at high speeds; and at the moment of contact, if the foe is much stronger than Eiji, then the feathers will absorb half of the foe's spiritual energy for the briefest of moments, gaining power equal to his foe; which is more often than not more than enough to knock them away so Eiji can gain some breathing space. In addition, in this brief moment, Eiji's powers and abilities mimic his opponent's; even including his skills in certain fortes, allowing him to use their own powers against them; but for such a miniscule amount of time, he could at the most fire off one attack, and that's being generous.
 * Haguro Umōseiiki (羽黒羽毛聖域, "Feather-black Feathered Sanctuary"): A variant of Haguro; with it, the aura of black feathers amasses around Kagekarasu, enabling Eiji to perform a high-powered slash which possesses the ability to break any defenses by raising Eiji's offensive power by the amount of power needed to break through during the slash; when Eiji breaks through, even if he is unable to strike the foe directly, the feathers scatter in their direction which are nearly unstoppable, inflicting small amounts of damage upon his foes without fail.
 * Haguro Nigen (羽黒二幻, "Feather-black Double Illusion"): The final Haguro extension. The black feathers expand and harden to form a battle-axe extension upon Kagekarasu. Despite the sinister-looking design of the weapon, it is not meant to take life nor wound others. In fact, Eiji uses it to defend; at the moment of impact, a feather scatters off of the battle-axe and disappears into the foe's body without a sound, piercing their very soul. This process is repeated until the foe has been touched by three feathers. At that moment, Eiji disengages Haguro Nigen, igniting friction in the feathers and completely severing the nerves in his foe's body, depriving them of all their physical strength, speed and durability.


 * Tsubame Gaeshi (燕返し, "Swallow Reversal"): The final ability of Kagekarasu. It can only be utilized when any two of Eiji's abilities are negated, which causes Tsubame Gaeshi to take over their spots and turn it into the only technique Eiji can use; while this would leave Eiji at a disadvantage, the effect of Tsubame Gaeshi is powerful enough to negate the drawbacks. Eiji amasses spiritual energy in his blade before expanding it outwards in the form of gauntlets and greaves to augment his attack power. However, any contact the foe's attacks make with these parts of armour allows Eiji to change the purpose of the opposing attack; for example, an offensive attack will become made for defense—thus possibly leaving its purpose null and void.
 * Tsubame Gaeshi Hakai (燕返し破壊, "Swallow Reversal Destruction"): Focusing more of his spiritual energy into his gauntlets and greaves; if the foe's attack possesses enough force to seriously harm Eiji or shatter his armour parts, then the gauntlets and greaves will release a surge of black feathers, rendering his inevitable injury null and void. However, it should be known that high-tier abilities and overwhelming force can break through this ability if the wielder is terrifyingly stronger than Eiji himself; this weakness eventually disappears as Eiji gets stronger—however, as he does, ironically, it loses its effectiveness.
 * Haneryū Tsubame Gaeshi (羽竜燕返し, "Feather Dragon Swallow Reversal"): The ultimate technique of Eiji's Shikai. Charging spiritual energy in his gauntlets and greaves, Eiji channels this spiritual energy into his blade, drastically increasing its power. In addition, the many times he has utilized each and every one of his attacks in Shikai doubles the spiritual energy for each attack, until he grasps naught but an overwhelmingly powerful force. This spiritual energy expands outwards, shaping and solidifying in the form of two "parts", with the bottom part becoming pure spiritual energy and the second half becoming an enormous black feather. By now, Kagekarasu has gained attack double to that of his own spiritual energy and the abilities he has utilized. With a single motion, Eiji performs an overwhelmingly powerful downwards slash with the feather before the spiritual energy spreads out to strike immediately afterward.-->