Hikaru Ichijo

Hikaru Ichijo is a Shinigami, he is the Captain of the 2nd Division. His Lieutenant is Atsuko Shimizu.

Appearance
Hikaru appears as a lean built, athletic man in his early 30's. He has long, spiky, jet black hair which is tied into a low ponytail in order to keep it out of the way.

He wears a sleeveless shihakshō with a matching Captain's haori. He also wears bandages on his arms which go up to his elbow.

Personality
Hikaru is a rather brash yet calculated individual, he tends to be in a state of alertness at all times, never once becoming more relaxed, due to his hyper-vigilance, he has a tendency of always having one hand resting on his zanpakutō.

He has a bad habit of completing others sentences when he doesn't need to, giving others the impression that he is overly rude, when in reality Hikaru is rather oblivious to his bad habit.

He generally never expressing anything apart from dead seriousness or a grim foreboding, rarely emoting beyond those negative expressions, however he is understanding enough to allow people to do what they feel is necessary as long as it's not overly ridiculous.

Powers and Abilities
Expert Swordsmanship Specialist: Hikaru is extremely proficient in zanjutsu, he constantly practices in order to keep his skills sharp, however he never progressed from an expert level, citing reasons of it being unnecessary to learn anything else.

His skill in Hakuda is so great he claims that he would be able to fight another Captain who was using their Shikai with just his bear hands with ease.

Enhanced Strength: Due to his main fight fighting style being Hakuda, Hikaru has a markedly higher degree of strength than what most Captains would normally have. He is able to easily subdue others much larger than him with absolutely no effort at all.

Enhanced Endurance: As he is constantly pushing his body to it's limits, Hikaru is very resilient, he is able to ignore even moderately serious wounds without any impairment in his ability to fight.

Keen Intellect: As the commander of the Hikaru is required to be an extremely quick thinker. He is able to deduce how best to carry out plans and he is able to see if anyone is lying to him by examining their facial expressions.

Kidō Practicioner: Despite having great potential in Kidō, Hikaru has seemingly little interest in it, only learning the basic spells. Despite his lack of interest in learning any advanced spells, Hikaru's control and power of even weak Kidō spells is incredible.

His skill makes it so he is hard to spot even other shunpo experts.

It is a light blue in colouration.

Zanpakutō
Not Yet Revealed

Shikai: Not Yet Revealed

Bankai: Not Yet Revealed