Irou Takahashi

"A wanderer who lives in order to kill"

Irou Takahashi (高橋一郎, Takahashi Irou), is a Vasto Lorde class Hollow, that removed his mask and gained Shinigami powers thus becoming an Arrancar. Irou Takahashi is the name he used in order to infiltrate the Shinigami Academy and has since forgotten the name he had as a hollow.

Appearance
Irou is fairly tall and lean. He has silver chin-length hair and yellow-golden eyes with black sclera. There is a red mark running down the right side of his face, remnant of his succesful attempt to remove every last piece of his mask in order to hide every hollow-like characteristic he had. His clothing consisted of rags before he entered Seireitei, the standard Shinigami trainee clothing once he entered the academy and has varied ever since his departure, with every piece before and during his stay in Seireitei having the common trait of being worn in a way that hid his hollow hole.

Personality
Irou has described himself as a sadistic nihilist that lives in order to make everything disappear. It is because of this that he infiltrated the Shino Academy and proceeded to kill every trainee, only to stop after having killed half because all 13 captains arrived at the scene. Despite having superior ability than most he knows when he is outmatched and will hide and train more in order to kill the ones that he saw as more powerful as shown by his departure from Seireitei once he was driven to a stalemate in his fight with all 13 captains. During his Academy days his facial expression was that of a kind and friendly person. After his departure (and possibly before his enrollment in Shino) he always has an angry smile which, combined with his constant leaking of immense reiatsu, strikes paralyzing fear in the hearts of less powerful beings with 8 of the captains being unable to stand near him. Irou is willing to do whatever it takes to accomplish his goals. In a one-on-one battle he likes to torture his opponent once he has clearly won, before killing them. When fighting against many enemies at once he prefers to kill them instantly because he would be too bored to torture them all. He usually tries to decapitate his opponents from the beginning with the only exception being when one-on-one as he brutally cuts all the limbs first.