Katsu Ueda

Katsu Ueda (勝卓, Katsu Ueda, meaning High Victory) is the son of Xavier and Kaori Ueda, he is the partner and husband of Izumi Ueda and they have two childs.

He is the leader of the Karage Alliance agroup made with Shinigamis, Quincys and Fullbringers, to fight agains the Soul Society and protect the Shinigamis, the Quincys, the Fullbringers and the Souls from the hollows, during many years he have trained to become a powerful warrior and got it to master different fighting styles and increase his spiritual energy.

He is the main protagonist of the autor's main story Bleach: Relapse.

Appearance
Katsu is a tall, elegant with spiky blond hair and black eyes quite muscular. Katsu typically wears a white-grey shirt with a red cross on it, in the Human World. As a Shinigami he wears an outfit diferent of the others Shinigamis, a dark hood and cloak with arm bands and leather boots, with a pentagram sewn into his leather gloves.

During the timeskip he have got his hair longer and start to wear a diferent outfit that consist of a red jacket and blue pants with bandages on his wrists from his training. He's most often seen with a blade of grass in his mouth. Since his intense training, Katsu's build has become noticeably more defined. To increase his power even further, Katsu used spiritual power limiters to keep half of power while training.

Five years after he have create the Karage Alliance, married Izumi and got two childs, Katsu have become the strongest man of the Karage Alliance and his body his ten times more strong that before. He have got his hair spiky again and now he wears a striped suit with a tassle around the middle, he wears arm and leg gauntlets for battle.

Personality
Katsu is generally a carefree and friendly person, quickly able to make friends with almost anyone. He doesn't really pay attention to trends or gossip and most of the time goes by his own flow. Because he's lived in a desert almost his entire life and has had little interaction with things from society, he is almost completely clueless about it. He also refers to normal humans as if they were a seperate species due to the huge difference in how normal people grew up in civilization are to him and not understanding common things from it.

Katsu is actually a kind person who is just misunderstood. Despite the general population opinion towards Pirates, he refused to abandon another people oh is in trouble. He also comforts others who are scared or down such as Kagane after she was abandone. He is quite good at dealing with girls and is always calm and relaxed despite the exception of Hana that he really likes but often she relax and chill again.

Ways of Combat
Hand-to-Hand Combat: Katsu has great fighting abilities, he learned to compensate for the fact that I don't have the talent to use Zanpakutos. He trains every day to improve his physique and dominate further attacks. After having trained very Katsu got it to gain enough expertise to fight and fight against other Shinigami easily without problems. He developed several techniques of martial arts in order to defend his family and defeat the Souls Society captains.

Physical Attributes

 * Enhanced Strength: With an intense workout since childhood, Katsu developed an extraordinary physical strength that is outcast to the strength of a Lieutenant, and later after having trained even more his strength is portrayed as being greater than the strength of a captain. A proof of the strength of it is fact that to protect his wife stopped a giant boulder with just one finger easily right after I finished the long practice of five years. After having used the spiritual power limiters which also restricted some of his movements that he gets more physical strength, Katsu had really developed muscles.


 * Enhanced Speed: To be able to fight toe-to-toe against Zanpakutos users, he trained enough to be able to be faster than them and attack more effectively. To get faster he trained with hundreds of pounds on him and fighting with wild beasts who had natural speed as survival instinct that made them difficult to face. The first sample of the new speed of Katsu was when he saved Izumi to be attacked by a quincy who has speed that cannot be followed.
 * Enhanced Endurance:

Trivia

 * He is based on Ikki Takeda, Natsu Tanimoto and Saiga Furinji from Shijō Saikyō no Deshi Kenichi.