Suido Hikari


 * "I am in a journey. The journey that has no prize. The prize is the journey itself."


 * —Suido Hikari

Suido Hikari was a former Shinigami in search of the missing Kensei Muguruma and Mashiro Kuna in the Karakura Town, Human World, since the Hollowfication incident. Suido Hikari is also the younger sister of Mizunami Hikari, another former Shinigami.

Appearance
Suido is a slender female with light blue eyes, fair skin, long blonde hair, and gentle-looking features. Her hair has a bang down her forehead and a tied ponytail which reaches to her mid-back. She has a scar of number '9' on her left hand, covered by a white finger less glove. She wears a pair of rectangular-shaped glasses on her face in red color, which she idolize. During her days back when she was a Shinigami, she wears a normal Shinigami uniform. After her escape to the Human World, she now wears a black silk hat which covers most of her head, concealing her identity to anyone who recognize her. She still maintain the bang on her forehead and her ponytail. Her hair is now slightly longer than before when she was still in Soul Society, tied in a pink-colored flower-shaped tie and a pink strap behind her ponytail. She wears a black waistcoat with white trim for her upper body, and has white leggings and black boots for her lower body part. Her leggings are tied with a long, black belt which ends behind her left thigh. She still has her glove, which is still finger less, but now it is black. She still wore a pair of glasses, but they are blue in color, matching with her eyes, and still rectangular-shaped. Overall, her looks resemble that of a Shinigami with her black-and-white clothes.

Seventeen months after Aizen's defeat, she wore a completely black outfit. Her glasses are a pair of shades, now eclipse in shape, frame less, and in black color. She wears a thick, winter jacket-like outfit with many buttons resting down to her abdomen. The sleeves are normal and continues down to her elbows, and has green-colored fur around its collar. She now wears a pair of black-colored pants which have each a slit opening around the end, and are both covered in thin, green-colored fur. The belt is still present, hanging down from her left waist to her left lower thigh. Suido now wears a pair of back-colored high-heeled shoes, equipped with the skates whenever she needs it. She no longer wears a silk hat, or a finger less glove that she uses to cover her scar, but exposes her hair and hands freely. Her hair is now short, only reaching her shoulders, and has a bang to the left direction of her face, covering her left eye. Just like her older brother, she now has a hair clip on the right side of her hair attached to a long, flowing brown hair which rests on her right shoulder. She has a teal-green colored scarf tied around her neck, which extends down to her arms and some teal-green-colored markings on the back of her jacket. Her Zanpakuto is stored on the left side of her waist in its sealed form.

Personality
Suido is very caring to those around her, even if they are her enemies. She seems to be very loyal to no else than Kensei, and willing to put her life to the line when it comes to helping Kensei. She is shown to be hyper kind, unable to reject those who asks for her help, and willing to do her best in anything. Just like her older brother, she enjoys reading and pretty much liked music. She would actually go desperate when it comes to picking the musics she likes to hear, or has no books left for her to read. She dislikes people who do not respect their elders and willing to teach them that manners are everything in their very own lives. She believes that the rules are everything, the ideal of her own existence, even though she sometimes broke the rules or disobey direct orders. She does not like to disturb other people while they are talking, nor she likes to butt in to other people's problems and business, but once she accidentally got herself into other people's problems, she is willingly to sacrifice her free time and everything in order to help the person with the problems. When she was a Shinigami, she is shown to be very forgetful, as she cannot remember where she put her paper works on, whereas the paper works were in her grip the whole time. This forgetful attitude of hers puts on a capacity of her own doing, not allowing her to do almost anything, and limits her ability to multitask.

Because of her past, living alone without anyone to accompany her or even cheer her up in her darkest hours, deep inside her heart, she never stopped feeling lonely or abandoned; as she was abandoned by her own mother, and never met or even realize that she has her older brother to turn to. She always wondered why her mother abandoned her, and was always searching where she is, until she completely became a Shinigami. She couldn't escape her loneliness, and was always picked by bullies. Because of her ability to stood alone and never stopped fighting back, the bullies saw her as a tough girl who won't stop fighting back. Her true idol is Krisenta Akiles, the Arrancar who told her how to never give up, even if her flesh is torn apart and her bones are to rot away, or even when all hopes are lost. Despite Krisenta being her true idol, she never actually developed a close bond to him, and instead, she kept on searching for her Captain. She finally escaped her lonely and abandoned feeling when she lived along with Ichigo Kurosaki, his friends, and her own older brother. She felt like this is what she would call 'home', as she is able to laugh together, have great times together, and many more that she couldn't count.

Having worked under Kensei, she likes the ideal of fighting and is eager to improve her battle skills through every battle. This ideal of hers was developed since she has a close bond to him, and allows her to wake her ability stood up to many people who hurt her, and willing to fight back before she has even the chance to give up, a trait she earned when she was little. Her former mission was to impress Kensei with her battle techniques, but now, after the Hollowfication incident, she has only one goal and that is to find her former Captain who is missing, along with her Lieutenant. She is also shown to be fragile towards surprises, and dislikes surprises. She can either freak out or even started to hate the person who surprised her. It has also been shown that she is easily surprised towards almost everything new, despite her knowing so many facts. This fragile side of her came from her traumatic discovery that the person she was attacking this whole time was her older brother, and never liked any person who surprises her. She is very playful and likes to slaughter her helpless enemies slowly, which people saw it as her 'Dark Side.' Because of her overwhelming kindness, she can sometimes insist on helping and force herself to the limit of helping others. This unusual nature of hers only happens when a crisis is happening around her. She is willingly to disobey direct orders, even if it came from Kensei, in order to help others. If she had the strength, she would stood up to all of her problems in her life, and not willing to give up that easily when problems came. As stated before, she pretty much liked the words came from Krisenta, which is to never give up even when all hopes are lost. She sets her mind to the things or people she loved and cared about when she is about to give up, which gives her a boost to not give up and try again, and not willing to easily give up without a fight.

She believes that journeys are one's destiny that one must overcome, and believes that journeys are the source of all happiness, sadness, wealth, health, and many more. She is not interested in money or even males. She believes that all of those are just trials and temptation in her own journey, and developed an adaptation and hates them.

She seems to be kind of laid-back and likes to be alone when Kensei is not around. Her enthusiasm and her spirit to work harder are completely crushed when her Captain is not around. As proven that she won't do her paperwork, her cleaning duties, training with her Zanpakuto, even not to wipe her dusty glasses, and many more. After hearing the news that her long-lost Captain died by the hands of the Quincies and Sternritter, she has finally shown that she can be very angry. Her rage develops an adaptation and a sensitive feelings for everyone around her, including her older brother. She is not willing to help anyone, disrespects elders, and willing to butt in to other people's problems. All these she cannot contain will soon be over after a few hours. After meeting with her older brother, she shows a very kind and caring personality. She is willing to do anything for him and help him in his own life. She sometimes worries about him and can always cheer him up when he's down or upset. And she never gives up when it comes to catching up with her older brother in combat, not willing to admit that she's weaker than him unless it is settled in a fight.

History
Suido was born from an unknown mother, along with her unknown older brother. They were separated since they were born, and have no idea that they have each other. She grew around Rukongai, alone. Some of the old people around Rukongai said that her mother left her because her frighteningly unstable Reiryoku. Even her friends became afraid of her due to her little, but unstable Reiryoku. During the days when she was only a child, she met the young Toshiro Hitsugaya. She spent a few days with him, with both having the almost exact same problem. After a few days she spent with him, he finally left her for good and never came back, thus leaving her alone in her darkest hours again. She spent hours, days, weeks, and years wondering around Rukongai, to search for her mother, but she never found her own mother. Years later, Suido heard something about a Hollow invasion on Soul Society, starting with Rukongai. She heard this from the young Shuhei Hisagi, which told everyone around East Rukongai. As everyone run around and hides, Suido didn't run or hide. Instead, she waited for the Hollows to come. When the Hollows came, she exerted out her unstable and dangerous Reiryoku, which slows down the Hollow's movement. Her unstable, noticeable green Reiatsu could be felt by Kensei Muguruma and Mashiro Kuna who's on patrol and didn't felt the Hollow's Reiryoku from far away. They both quickly rushed over to her. Kensei found her, trying to stop the Hollows using her Reiryoku. Kensei yelled out, saying that she's a fool because she could have hurt a civilian, but Suido replied by saying that the civilians are hiding far away. After hearing that, Kensei and Mashiro took out the giant Hollows which breached down to the Rukongai. Saying that her actions are brave, Kensei told Suido to become a Shinigami to control her powers, so she wouldn't hurt anyone. Admired, Suido is willing to become a Shinigami and eventually forgot about searching her Mother.

A few years later, Suido became a student in the academy of Shinigami, the Shin'o Academy. During the six years she spent there, she was always hardworking and never gave up her dream, which is to work under Kensei. She was surprised to meet someone she had known there, which is both Toshiro Hitsugaya and Shuhei Hisagi. The three finally came together, with Toshiro in different class while Suido and Shuhei are in the same class. At some point after Toshiro graduated, Suido accidentally hit someone. Suido helped him pick up his books, and commented how oddly familiar he looks. The person also said the same thing, and they never saw each other again up until Suido, along with Shuhei, graduated from the academy.

After graduating, Suido instantly joined the Ninth Squad, under Captain Kensei Muguruma. When she joined the division, Kensei was surprised by her. Saying that she wanted to work under him for saving her, Suido also said that Kensei is the person she had always admired. Finally, she was accepted inside the Ninth Division as an unseated officer. She was happy and always worked hard to impress Kensei when she was there. One day, an incident happened around Rukongai. Many disappearances started to occur around Rukongai, prompting Kensei, Mashiro, and the seated officers to head out and look. Suido begged Kensei so she could help him, but Kensei denied, stating that she was still weak to actually fight in this currect condition. Suido then stayed inside the Ninth Division's barracks for so long until someone informed her that Kensei and the others are camping in Rukongai. Surprised, she head out on her own, only to be blocked by the Captain of the Twelfth Division, Urahara Kisuke. When Suido said that she must help her Captain, Urahara won't let her and forced her to stay inside her barracks. During the night, she felt an unusual Reiryoku source around both Kensei and Mashiro. This is the moment where she developed the ability to sense sensitive Reiryoku sources around her. She finally head out without no one ever noticing her, and finally felt that Kensei and Mashiro's Reiryoku sources have disappeared completely. As six other high-ranking officers head out to investigate, she head into the forest so no one could detect her, only to be countered by a large Hollow. By fighting the Hollow, she gained the permanent scar she has currently on her left hand. However, she overwhelmed the Hollow and won. The Hollow fled after the fight, when Suido heard the news that Kensei, Mashiro, Urahara, and the others were exiled from the Soul Society. Confused and depressed, she went back to her barracks. She finally got what she should do, and packed her stuff. She decided to leave Soul Society for good, and head into the Human World without anyone noticing her. A few years later, she met with the new 'Mr. Urahara' when he began working as a shop manager and got a few specialized things from him.

Equipment

 * Special Gigai: After her escape to the Human World, she somehow got a specially-modified Gigai for her to use. She can materialize it out of thin air using both the wind and her own Reiryoku. This Gigai allows her to use her Shinigami powers and abilities, and even materialize the sealed and Shikai forms of her Zanpakuto. Even though this special-type of Gigai uses her Reiryoku to materialize it, it doesn't appear that her Reiryoku is drained out little by little. It is somehow given to her by Urahara.


 * Attachment Skates: She can materialize a special-type of skates which she uses to boost her mobility. These skates uses her own Reiryoku to materialize them. She can use them effectively in both her Gigai and soul. Just like her Gigai, their materialization do not drain our her Reiryoku. The skates are in normal size to her, and the skates are in black color. There are light-green-colored, flame-shaped markings on both of the skates, and a pair of normal blade-like soles under the skates each. They radiate out a portion of her light-green-colored Reiatsu when she uses them, and if she uses enough portion of her Reiryoku, she can float a few inches above the ground. They are somehow given to her by Urahara, due to her lack of speed and mobility.


 * Knuckle Blasts: She has a pair of golden bracelets on her fists to augment the power of her punches. Unlike her Gigai and her Skates, these bracelets are stuck on her wrist, and do not use her Reiryoku to use their abilities at all. Whenever she feels danger, the bracelets' powers activate automatically, or she can activate their powers herself. When activated, her hands are covered in some sort of light-green glow, allowing her to have superstrength and boost the power of her punches drastically. They are somehow given to her by Urahara, due to her lack of fighting and Hakuda skills.

Powers and Abilities
Expert Swordsman: Even not a seated officer, she is quite good with her Zanpakuto, wielding it using both hands with quick speed and swift slashes. Her technique involves tricky switches, which she uses to confuse her enemies by switching the sword positions. She uses a reverse grip, and can do it fastly to catch up with her enemies. Her advanced skills in swordsmanship is noted by Renji Abarai, who excels at this category. Renji stated that her swordsmanship needs a little more practice to reach that of a lieutenant. Shunpo Practitioner: Her mobility is shown to be not very fast. She can use Shunpo for a second, and then stopped using it. She prefers to use her Shunpo once for a great distance and walks onward until she regains her strength to use Shunpo once again. After her escape to the Human World, she asked Ichigo Kurosaki in his Bankai which boosts his mobility to teach her. After her training with Ichigo Kurosaki, Ichigo still says that her Shunpo skills are not that bad anymore. Instead, her Shunpo now reaches the average level of a fourth seat's at least, as stated by Rukia Kuchiki.
 * Spearsman Specialist: As her Shikai takes the form of a long, pole-like weapon, she has learned how to use it effectively, understanding the length of a swing, and many more. After her escape to the human world, her spearsmanship is sharpened even more, with her skill to use a long, pole-like weapon to fight multiple enemies. As noted by Ikkaku Madarame, her spearsmanship is special, but nevertheless her spearsmanship specialist is still the same to that of a fourth or fifth seat.
 * Bakkusuipu(Japanese for "Backswipe"): Adapting herself to a fighting stance, Suido adopts a stance where her legs stood at the same degree and both her hands are holding the shaft of her released Zanpakuto facing forward with her right hand in front of her left hand, which stays directly beside her left thigh. This particular move advances her right hand and left hand to swing her released Zanpakuto backwards, using the axe-shaped blade, and thrusting the shaft to an opponent.
 * Shinseina Odori(Japanese for "Holy Dance"): Using her right wrist to spin around her released Zanpakuto, she spins around her whole right arm as her left hand stays at the same position. Her left foot tiptoe around the same position whereas her right leg is hidden behind her left leg. In this position, she continues to gather Reiatsu at the tip of her released Zanpakuto's main blade as she herself spin around. This particular move quickly gather the Reiatsu as she strike her enemies using her released Zanpakuto's main blade.

Healing: Even though not a member of the Fourth Division, she has healing powers at the most basic level. She can use it using her own Reiryoku without failing, and can only heal light or minor injuries. Even though this healing power of hers allow her to heal other people, the powers cannot heal herself. Kisuke Urahara points out that this is because the healing powers she uses to consume her Reiryoku particle by particle, and if she uses it on herself, she cannot heal her own Reiryoku. After enough research, Kisuke Urahara found out that her healing powers do not only heal physical souls or bodies, but also heal the person's Reiryoku source. This is probably the cause why she could not heal herself, as her healing powers consume her Reiryoku and she cannot use them to heal her Reiryoku again. Kisuke Urahara also stated that the cost of her healing powers are not that great, as her healing skills only consume her Reiryoku particle by particle, and also Kisuke Urahara stated that because of her Reiryoku amount, she cannot die out by using her healing powers over and over again. Urahara also points out that her healing powers are the same or lower to that of a fifth seat inside the Fourth Division.

Enhanced Durability: As stated before, she is able to resist significant damages to her body and willing to enjoy battle as much as possible, allowing her body to adapt to the maximum level of durability she has during her past life as a Shinigami. It is also stated that light injuries does not affect her at all, allowing her to keep on fighting without many flaws. She is also able to resist many exerted Reiatsu, proven that she is able to withstand and stood still while Renji Abarai, Rukia Kuchiki, and Ikkaku Madarame release their Zanpakuto's powers while Ichigo himself release his Bankai, which such releases of exerted Reiatsu can kill normal life forms, but Suido looked completely unfazed.

Kido Practitioner: She is not pretty good using Kido skills, as she can only do low-level Kido, still using their incantation. She is shown to use Hado number four with so little power and speed, even though she is using incantation for the Hado. It is noted by Momo Hinamori who excels at Kido herself that her Kido skills are not quite good. After her escape to the Human World, Rukia Kuchiki, without knowing her, taught her in the arts of Kido. Suido can now greatly uses Kido up to the level of thirties in both Hado and Bakudo. She uses Hado most, and the powers of her Hado is now officially recognized by Rukia as a good practitioner so far.

Hakuda Combatant: Her greatest weakness is her Hakuda skills. She has yet to shown her talent in Hakuda, unlike Kensei, who excels at this. But, she is shown to have little skill in Hakuda, even though the level of her Hakuda skill is bellow normal. It is her greatest weakness, as she cannot actually fight without her Zanpakuto. It is noted by Kensei himself that Suido needs extra practice with her Hakuda skills and Kensei even wanted to teach her in the mastery of Hakuda. After practicing, though, her Hakuda skills are considered to pretty weak, still. After escaping to the Human World, she can overcome this huge problem of hers thanks to Kisuke Urahara who gave her the Knuckle Blasts. After getting the Knuckle Blasts and inspiration, her Hakuda skills increased little by little, and considered to be the least of average in class of a fourth seat.

Average Flexibility & Agility: During her time as a child when she was little, she was shown to possess both flexibility and agility slightly above normal levels. In order to fight those bullies she had problems with without having any actual talent in her Hakuda skills, she uses her flexibility and agility to fight them. She has shown to have high evasion, always evading most enemies' attacks and allowing those attacks to hit her enemies' allies. She normally trains her flexibility by doing her usual chores along with her friends when she was still around Rukongai, and her agility was already a part of her normal life, as she has to move through small holes without getting hit or a scratch when she was around Rukongai. Her flexibility allows her to land multiple punches or kicks without her knowing any talent in Hakuda, and her agility allows her to evade enemy attacks.

Average Strength: Suido's subconsciously realize that her strength is slightly above normal without her ever noticing it. During her time as a child around Rukongai, she has developed the average strength she attained now by fighting bullies over and over again, and finally her strength reaches its peak. Her strength allows her to fight many enemies without having any talent in Hakuda, and she can incapacitate any enemy subconsciously because of her unnoticeable strength. The reason why she didn't realize her own strength level is because of she never actually trained with them, or even tested them out. Urahara stated that her strength possesses an unusual power, but no one is sure or completely knows what the unusual power of her strength really is.

Intellect: Suido has also proven that she is quite intelligent with many Shinigami, able to figure out their weaknesses and battle styles in mere seconds. Because of this ability, she fights without using most of her combat abilities, but instead, she uses her intelligent to search her enemy's weakness, exploit them, and attacks directly when she knows that her enemy is temporarily vulnerable, as her combat skills make her enemies mostly invulnerable when fighting her. Although her brother's intelligent and intellectual skill levels are above her, she is not willing to hone her own intellectual skills in combat.

High Spiritual Power: As she is not a seated officer, her Reiryoku is very and highly limited in amount, not allowing her to use it properly. She rarely uses her Reiryoku for Kido, and always uses it for her Zanpakuto's abilities. It is stated that even when she was a baby, her Reiryoku is unstable but powerful. Because of her Zanpakuto, she uses her Reiryoku mostly to manipulate wind and strengthen her Zanpakuto even more. It is stated that when she was little, her Reiryoku is unstable, but when she exerts it out, it is enough to slow two giant Hollows down. After her escape to the Human World, she learned how to stable the extended power of her Reiryoku so she wouldn't hurt a human. She now possesses the ability to sharpen the wind she manipulates, and learned to summon a hot wind and a small tornado without decreasing the amount of Reiryoku she has. The degree of her Reiryoku matches that of a fourth seat, stated by both Rukia Kuchiki and Renji Abarai. Her unstable and powerful Reiryoku allows her to completely resist three people releasing their Shikai and one person releasing his Bankai, with her seemed to be unfazed. Even though she rarely shown her Reiatsu to anyone, it is first seen that her Reiatsu is teal green in color.
 * Enhanced Spiritual Power Detector: Suido's whole being is completely adapted to any constant moving Reiryoku, even if the source is pretty far away. Her reflexes allow her to use this ability effectively to detect many Reiryoku, even if it is hidden. She has sharpened this skill for her to be able to detect any concealed Reiryoku. Even when she was little, she remembered her older brother's Reiryoku, allowing her body's reflexes and her ability to notice his Reiryoku first than anyone else's in Karakura Town. Her detecting skills hook up with her memories inside her brain and the veins across her entire body, and the more massive the Reiryoku source is, the more she is sensitive to it, allowing her to detect a powerful or weak enemy without seeing them face-to-face. She earned this ability when Kensei and Mashiro are in deep trouble, increasing her capabilities to detect Reiryoku.

Zanpakuto
KazeKiba(Japanese for "Fang Wind"): Her sealed Zanpakuto takes the form of a normal Katana. Its hilt is wrapped in light green color, and the hilt guard forms a four-petal flower-shaped hilt guard, with four spikes protruding out from each petal. It has light green sheath. As a Shinigami, she carries its sealed form around, and after her escape to the Human World, she usually summons its Shikai form immediately. Seventeen months after Aizen's defeat, she naturally has it with its sealed form.


 * Shikai: Its command release is Nagare(Japanese for "Flow"): Her Zanpakuto summons green Reiryoku out of her as it changes. In Shikai form, her Zanpakuto takes the form of a halberd, with oversized kitchen knife-shaped blade reminiscent to that of a tiger's tooth protruding out, and a normal, axe-shaped blade on the other blade's blunt side. The shaft of the halberd is green. The process of utilizing her Shikai is the main reason why she carries it around when she was a Shingami.

Shikai Special Ability: With its Shikai power, she can use and manipulate wind in small portion due to her very limited Reiryoku. The true power of her Shikai lies where she can manipulate wind to cover the blades of her halberd. This abilities enhances the cutting ability of both the halberd's blades, due to their own sharpness and the sharp wind they use. The sharpness of the blade and wind combined has demonstrated to be able to cut through solid objects with such light swings, and can pierce through so far anything. The only thing so far that can deflect Kazekiba's wind blades is Ichigo Kurosaki's Bankai blade. Other than this, she can shoot of many wind projectiles which explode into either a small tornado or cut any surface of solid objects. She dances to summon a tornado, and shoots of a small, blade-like sharp wind whenever she swings it. The wind she manipulates glow in the color of her Reiryoku, which is teal green, allowing her and her enemies to detect where Suido is going to attack next. Due to her Zanpakuto's true ability to use the wind to sharpen the power of its lethal blades, the blades of her halberd can be seen glowing in teal green color.
 * Bofu(Japanese for "Windstorm"): Adapting herself with the same stance as her Bakkusuipu stance, she swung her released Zanpakuto around using her right wrist in the middle of her released Zanpakuto as the center of rotation, and grabs the shaft using her left hand, reminiscent to that of a dance. This move allows the wind around the blade of her released Zanpakuto to shoot a sharp wind in the shape of her released Zanpakuto's main blade at the direction where her left hand points. The blade-like wind has enough power to cut through any object, but the wind cannot advance even farther than only five meters away from her.
 * Bankai: Suido has not yet achieved her Bankai. When she entered Jinzen to meet with Kazekiba inside her own realm, Kazekiba told her that she is ready to show Suido the power of their well-shared Bankai, but Suido refused to have a Bankai, as a Bankai will need ten or more years to master, and she is willingly to use her time to find Kensei. Although Kazekiba begged her and reasoned with her, Suido still has the same answer; she denies to have a Bankai. Although, Kazekiba is always ready and prepared whenever Suido decides to learn and master her own Bankai.

Quotes
(To herself) "You can do it. You can always do it. You try, you fail, you get back up, you try, and you succeed. I will not be broke down by sadness. I will succeed. I have faith in myself. Do it for Captain Kensei!"

(To Kisuke Urahara): "So, you are called 'Mr. Urahara' now? By the way, thanks for the Gigai and these funky--no, fancy shoe-things. The Human World is weird, indeed. Call me if you need me! I will always be there for you even when I am busy! Seriously!"

"Do not seek what you will earn by the end of the journey. Instead, seek endlessly until you found what you earned and learned during the journey. At least that's what my brain said to me."

Trivia

 * This character was created under the interest and inspiration of a member of the Visored, Lisa Yadomaru