Aoko Dokumuchi

Aoko Shizuka (しずか青粉, Shizuka Aoko)   is the Captain of the 4th Division who took the place of the exiled captain before her. She is known for her soft, long blue hair and piercing purple eyes, as well as, her whip which is the released form of her Zanpakuto. Her weapon is a simple Katana when in sealed form whose name she discovered to be, Dokumuchi (毒鞭, Poison Lash/Whip). == Appearance == 

Personality


History


Equipment


Powers & Abilities
Whip Mastery: Aoko is a very skilled mistress of the whip. Her Zanpakuto, Dokumuchi, is part of her body and spirit as a whip when released from its sealed state and she can easily utilize her weapon to its full capacity. She is able to defend multiple blows in a ver short time as well as can perfectly utilize it to manipulate her surroundings to trip up enemies. While avoiding and evading, it's possible for her to take a flash-step back and lash at her opponent from far away with her segmented whip and often aims to use attrition as well as resolution while her weapon is in sealed form.

Kido Practitioner: While Aoko is not very capable or efficient in prolonged close combat, she learned that she had to make up for this weakness with two types of Kidou; restraining Kidou and defensive Kidou techniques. She studied night and day and constantly practiced with multiple students on a daily basis. She was completely fine with working herself to the bone to perfect her defensive and ensnaring Kidou spells to make sure she could mostly make up for what she lacked in defending herself otherwise. Upon Aoko finally learning her Zapakuto's name, Dokumuchi, and releasing it, she needed Kidou as back up and sparingly at that, but it's still important and always up to par. She never stops practicing her Kidou for future battles and ever seeks to learn new spells.

Great Spiritual Power: Due to ranking up to become the captain of the 4th Division, it was only natural that Aoko had very high and potent spiritual pressure/power which is increasingly hard to hide. It is safe to say that when you feel her spiritual pressure and she steps onto the battlefield, you better be prepared for a heavy fight to the death as this spiritual power is what also allowed her to manually secrete poison from her sword/whip Dokumuchi. Aoko can concentrate this spiritual energy excellently, but it's admittedly not her best skill in battle when it's difficult to fully concentrate which makes her performance slightly suffer.
 * Shunpo Expert: Being heavily linked to her excellent, not masterful control of her spritual power/energy, Aoko is very capable of many elements of fancy footwork which include increased speed that she has come to lead to mastery over Shunpo or the "Flash-step" technique that she can utilize anytime she wishes with ease which makes her a very hard to pin opponent, but not untouchable at the least. With this speed, she is capable of excessive and successful avoid and evade tactics as well as flash-stepping backward,or forward, while being attacked before spinning herself and releasing Dokumuchi's retracted segments to lash out at the opponent. With Hohou, she uses it in order to wound her target quickly and with small and repetitive wounds over time—also known as Attrition. All due what capability Aoko does have over the control and concentration of her spiritual power, her Hohou abilities continue to be a success if only 89% of the time.

Zanpakuto
Dokumuchi  (毒鞭,  Poison Lash/Whip ) 
 * Shikai: Dokumuchi's  Shikai command is "Lash" (当たる, ataru). In literal translation ataru actually means "to strike" or "to lash out at".

Combat
Aoko's biggest weakness is prolonged close-combat. Ever since she was younger, she wasn't very skilled in close combat or hand to hand combat either due to her feminine behavior and preferences. She had to make up for this weakness somehow and learned to block more efficiently but only giving her a 60% success rate until she became much older to which it has reached a max of 88% success rate out of 100%. This increase was due to awakening and releasing her Zanpakuto into its whip form. Aoko also has weakened peripheral vision in her left eye. Also, if you can tie up her feet, it's impossible for her to avoid or evade efficiently or at all while she's also open during incantations for Kidou.

Aoko is weak against most offensive Kidou as well as anyone who outmatches her in Hohou capabilities. She cannot avoid and evade 100% of the time leaving herself open on several occasions. She tends to have an issue fighting enemies that repeatedly attack for seconds on end which can loosen her grip on Dokuko in whip form.



Zanpakuto
Dokuko has several weaknesses which involve excessive blocking weakening the hold the user has on the weapon in which Aoko has to be careful of it slipping which risks her cutting herself as fatigue sets in during battle. Fire can be a weakness as it heats up the metal till it's untouchable anywhere other than the hilt making blocking, which requires two hands, impossible. Since it utilizes poison, water is a key weakness to washing it off the outside of the blade, sharp edges or tip it wields in released form. If a mistake does happen, Dokuko can poison its own wielder which requires immediate treatment and is why Aoko carries two antidotes with her in a pouch—but only two.

Trivia

 * Aoko means "Blue Child", this most likely refers to Aoko's hair color.
 * Aoko is often made fun of or disliked due to her oddly piercing purple eyes that stand out quite a lot compared to the rest of her. This has become an insecurity as well as her blue hair.