[Vizard] Lord Malice [Ready]

Name: Lord Malice, the Dark Soul
Gender: Male
Age: 450
Organization: Independent (Claimed to be the leader of an Empire)
Personality: Arrancars and Vizards described him as a revolutionary and a ruthless man who is out to take revenge against the Soul Society. His voice demands great respect and would convince a Hollow to join in his crusade. Few fanatics who joined his crusade claimed that he would be the fated one who will lead the Hollows to paradise where souls are more than plentiful. His locations are hidden as those who are true to his cause are capable of not telling even to their end.

Other than the words from intelligent Hollows, Arrancars and malevolent Vizards, nothing more was known, even among the Shinigami's organization, Gotei 13. What are clear among the Hollows, Arrancars and Chapinas are two things that they learned by past experiences of his interventions. He harbors a great hatred for members of the Gotei 13 and he hates Humans and Quincy. But as to why, he never told them anything other than a promise of domination over Soul Society as an Empire.

Appearance: He stands as a tall, imposing man with no hair, gray skin and fiery eyes. His broad, muscular frame entails that he is physically strong and durable as facial scars tell that he has been through a lot. His shinigami uniform was replaced with a suit made up thick, hardened, black leather and plated with hardened steel. He wears his black cape like he is a leader while his stance impose a power beyond one's imagination. With technology, Lord Malice seems to be no pushover.


Zanpakuto
Sealed Zanpaktou: It was simply a black handle with a winged tsuba that points upward instead of outward. Judging by the degree of technological details, it used to have a blade, but soon was evolved and lost the blade to favor its Shikai with more power. How it was attained was unknown, but was claimed by unfortunate Shinigami who crossed his path to be unnatural, such as its master's form. The only time it was not in its Shikai form was when it was holstered onto Malice's belt, but when drawn, it releases to Shikai upon command. It is a theory that it alone was a requirement to attain Bankai, so substitutes for this awesome power would be rendered dangerous without something to channel the power safely.



Spirit Name: Kroth, the Primeval Spirit

Spirit Appearance: Kroth is a giant black dragon with a single fiery eye in the middle of its forehead. The body is very skeletal and imposing with metallic luster reflecting light off of its slivers of scales. The wings are torn with age, but clearly capable of allowing it to fly for a long period of time. The fire it breathes is black, undoubtably dangerous for experienced individuals to go toe to toe with. Among the spirits, Kroth was reputed to be once a dragon of fiery grandeur before it turns into a malevolent creature by a hollow.


Shikai

Shikai Appearance: Without needing to call it out, Malice can invoke the power of shikai in form of a beam of red energy that glows brilliantly while filling in the void where his zanpakuto's blade was supposed to be.

Shikai Powers: It constantly feeds on the reishi in the air to maintain its form, thus reishi and reiatsu based attacks are weakened against it while the weaker kind would be absorbed into the beam. However, its true ability was to burn the spiritual particles with a heat great enough to burn through most thick layer of metals. That means only Shikai Zanpakuto and Bankai Zanpakuto could have a chance of not being cut into pieces on impact with this fierce and fiery beam blade.

Bankai

Bankai Powers: In this form, the beam blade intensifies, gathering more reishi in the air and greatly weaken the objects and attacks that rely on reishi and reiatsu. This means no Zanpakuto is safe against it and the only way to avoid having it breaking the zanpakuto was to avoid it completely. Quincy would find it difficult to use their techniques against him in that state because if they get too close, their Quincy bow will be very hard to materialize and maintain near that vortex around his beam blade.

Vizard

Inner hollow: It has no form before and after it took over Kroth, it now takes form of Kroth as it serves as Malice's guide and advisor.

Inner Hollow Abilities: It is primarily capable of manipulating the reishi in the air and corrupting spiritual entities through such manipulation. Though it is unknown if Lord Malice learned the method or not, but it is clear that Kroth was influenced and fused with it through corruption. Evident from Malice's understanding of cero, this Hollow is capable of launching various forms of cero.

Vizard Mask Appearance: It is infused with Lord Malice's face while broken through an unknown event in his career as a vizard. It is mechanical and dark, which gives Lord Malice a robotic voice whenever he speaks. The mask also flickers with technology as it may not be his real mask. Given that his mask is broken, it may cause confusion if he is actually an Arrancar or just a Vizard.

Vizard Mask Powers: With the mask passively fused to his face, he acquired the ability to manipulate the reishi field around him, allowing him to perform grand feats of spiritual control such as evoking a mass field of lightning, choke someone from a distance, move and stop physical objects in mid-flight, and rendering some kido into more reishi for him to use. One of the best feat he performed was a comprehensive understanding of how to disassemble cero and using it against his enemies as a storm of smaller cero. Note that it is a rare ability to attain and will require training after discovering the ability as it took Malice a century to master it to the proportion that he can perform.

History: Among the Gotei 13, it is a mystery as to how he became this way, but the best they could guess is that he was once one of them before he pursued deserters without reporting it to his superiors, thus he is deserting as well. When they found him, he was covered in the blood of many Shinigami deserters while on the process of developing aspects of a Hollow through a rare phenomenon called, "Hollowfication." The team that found him are forced to attempt in killing him before he turns Hollow and retain what honor he has left, but he thought differently. He slew the team and caused damages to the Seireitei after a gate keeper opened the way for him and before he left for Earth, marking himself as the Enemy of the Soul Society.

After that incident of his defection, there was an increase in Shinigami casualties and survivor reports of the deserter donned in black armor and attacking their fellow Shinigami. As time continues on, multiple attempts of his capture and assassination failed either because he was aided by abnormally co-operative Hollows or he was nowhere to be found at the site of his sighting. The frequent pattern is that he was commonly accompanied by at least two lesser Hollows and he is gaining strength overtime in both quality and quantity of his abilities and his small troop. Two years ago, a survivor was treated for severe burns and lacerations, claiming that the traitor spoke to him and vows eternal damnation upon Soul Society for "their sins."

Some said that he joined the Hollows into Hueco Mundo as to proceed with his vendetta against Gotei 13 and the entire Soul Society. However, it soon becomes prevalent that he is becoming a leader of the Hollow Army. The evidence lies with a group of wounded Shinigami who are investigating a small insurgence of Hollows in Southern Japan, but was ambushed by a well-coordinated group of Hollows and at least one Arrancar as the Arrancar said to hail not from the Espada, but from the Hollow Empire under "Emperor Malice." Whether there is a civil war in Hueco Mundo or an alliance, this powerful Vizard can prove to be a very formidable foe for Gotei 13 and the Quincy.

RP Sample: It all starts in the southern half of Japan, noon time to be estimated. A group of five Shinigami are dispatched there to scout out and possibly subdue the sudden insurgence of Hollows in the area. While in the streets, the group looked for over an hour and could not find the insurgents before they see a twelve foot Hollow running across the street. It is assumed that it is just a strong Hollow was left behind and they missed the insurgence, but something else happened. It all starts with a coordinated acid spit barrage from above to force the group to clump up together and a mighty cero to blast them down with hardly anytime to react.

One of the Shinigami looked at the one who shot the cero, an Arrancar with a gleeful smile on her face. "Welcome to the party. Sorry that Lord Malice could not join, because he has other things to do in Hueco Mundo." The Arrancar announced to the group as she approaches their stunned bodies with six Hollows landing nearby, surrounding them, "Normally I would order the Hollows to dissolve all of you, but perhaps a demonstration; a warning to your superiors that the Empire is out for their souls." The Arrancar picked up one of the Shinigami by her long hair, knowing that she is the most injured of them and could not do a thing to stop it. With that Shinigami watching her comrades and they are looking back, the Arrancar's blade rushed at the Shinigami's throat.

Skill Sheet

Face-Claims
Darth Malgus -- Star Wars: The Old Republic -- UHCM -- Lord Malice
Darth Malgus's Lightsaber Hilt -- Star Wars: The Old Republic -- UHCM -- Lord Malice's Zanpakuto
Kalameet -- Dark Souls -- UHCM -- Lord Malice's Zanpakuto Spirit