Crucia Di Raque
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| Crucia Di Raque ♀ | |
|---|---|
  Número Diecinueve | |
| Date of Birth | 21st July, 1581 (430) |
| Place of Birth | Kyoto, Japan |
| Dormir | Tosigo Arrollado |
| Player | Crucia |
| Arrancar | |
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Appearance
Crucia's arrancar appearance is distinctly different from her appearance as a soul living in rukongai, where she had long black hair down to her waist.
Crucia's natural height stands around 5 ft 6" but her boots add on another two inches. She has silver shortish (off the shoulder, see below for rough example) length cropped hair and narrow sultry jade green eyes. Her mask fragment sits on the left side of her head, the central point being between her temple and her ear. It extends outwards looking like a spiders web across the side of her face, as depicted in the below picture. Her lips are a dark green.
She is has a lithe and agile form, less curvy perhaps than some girls, but still presents an attractive figure. Her hollow hole is located in place of her navel. Haven't decided on the specific stylying of her Hueco Mundo patented clothing yet, but at the moment it involves thigh boots. Her age looks to be mid to late twenties.
Her sealed zanpakutō takes the form of a whip, formed out of interlocking tooth like segments, which create a serrated edge along the line of the whip. Generally it has the appearance of a more streamlined snake spine. It's 9 ft long, however the interlocking segments can separate to extend the full length up to 29.5 ft (9 meters... noticing a theme?). At the same time with a flick of the wrist in a certain way the segments can lock together in a different way, stiffening the whip into a straight line effectively creating a 6 ft spear. She wears it looped up at her right hip.
Personality
Crucia is a full blooded arrancar. By this I mean genuinely evil. None of this "sensitive arrancar" malarkey. She is heavily sado-masochistic and harbours a fierce hatred for shinigami, which fades slightly into a general distaste for any other spiritual being and outright contempt for non-spiritual beings. Her animosity stems from her history so see that. Her pastimes include torture, both mental and physical, and watching hollows fight and eat each other, normally shortly before she devours whatever is left.
At the same time she's hardly chaotic evil, she doesn't go out of her way to perform acts of destruction unless she's excessively bored, which isn't all that often.
Whilst she comes across as haughty to her subordinates, she is quite a different person in the presence of mightier beings, her more submissive side comes to the front.
History
Kuniyoshi Mai's soul was delivered into one of the more impoverished districts of soul society, with little to no memory of her former life, save a few snippets of dreams. However, she was blessed with good looks and an amicable personality. She fell in with a friendly crowd of girls around the same age as her, all of whom were recently new souls to Rukongai. They formed a sort of sistership between them. Her closest friend amongst this sisterhood was a girl a fair bit younger in appearance to herself, looking on the cusp of her twenties compared to Mai's later twenties. Her name was Kusanagi Sannai, and Mai quickly became her closest friend and a big sister figure to her. Indeed she was the oldest (in appearance) amongst the group, as well as the most responsible and capable, thus she earned the nickname "O-Mai", (Big Mai).
Ultimately the girls struggled with life, they were forced slowly one by one to sell themselves into the various pleasure districts that punctuated themselves throughout Rukongai. They were split up, much to their dismay, and Mai, having adopted a maternal/sororal role to the girls, felt horrible for allowing this to happen to them. She was particularly distraught over being separated from Sannai, not even getting a chance to see to it that Sannai was taken care of or sent to somewhere safe and secure. She never knew what became of her. She was in no better position herself, and was taken in by one of the lesser Pleasure Houses in the middle band of wealth. She was polite and diligent, and served her Masters and Mistresses well. She became well respected among the pleasure districts, making a name for herself, increasing her value, and slowly working her way up through the ranks of the middle wealth band of the Pleasure districts and eventually was honoured enough to make it into the lower ends of the much more posh and upper class high wealth band Pleasure Districts.
It was after she had gained this high status that she first met and befriended a young leather worker called Heihachi Eiishima, with whom she became a close friend, lover and confidante for all the boy's troubles. Their relationship was as close to a "traditional" relationship as a 'lady of negotiable affection' might hope to achieve without arousing the anger of her employers/owners. And then Eiishima successfully made it into the Shinigami Academy. She was proud of her charge, her 'Shima-kun. However she only saw him one more time after that, she could almost palpably feel him getting more and more distant.
And then one night he turned up in her chambers, having entered most improperly through the window, wearing black shinigami robes and sporting a peculiar white arm. He seemed like a man possessed rambling on about some strange dream he had had and how much danger she was in. He was evidently delirious and running a temperature, sweat streaming across his smooth head. It was most uncharacteristic of Eiishima, normally a calm, logical and down to earth man. She tried to calm him but it was to no avail. It took a while but eventually she managed to calm him, although only be saying she would come with him. Where? He wished to take her to the real world, that's where his dreams had told him that she would be safe. Deep down in her heart she knew she couldn't deny that she wanted to see the living world and what it was like*.
Almost immediately upon arrival in the real world Eiishima realised he had been led astray (although not how). He was ambushed by three arrancar, each at least as powerful as himself, who overpowered him, despite fighting to his max, and relieved him of his charge. Mai's emotions at this point are many and varying. Confused, scared, fearing for her friend and former lover's life (as she watched him get beaten to a bloody pulp), but at the same time angry and outraged that Eiishima had put her in this situation.
The three arrancar left Eiishima battered and bloody, his pride as a shinigami in tatters. But the did not kill him. First they explained to him how he had been fooled, with the tiny hollow in his arm invading his subconscious and dreams and suggesting these things to him. Then they opened a garganta, and with their new prisoner, proceeded to Las Noches.
She was deprived of her sight for the journey, during which she listened to the talk of all the horrific things they would do to her. And sure enough, the harsh slap of cold flagstones marking the end of their journey, they proceeded to inflict upon her all the horrors that they had spoke of. Mentally, physically, spiritually, the broke her. She felt herself falling into a dark pit as they deprived her of her dignity, her body, and eventually her mind. Falling into what seemed like an eternal blackness she focused on the one face she could, that of Eiishima. She became obsessed with hatred and anger for him, for doing this to her, for putting her in this situation, for giving her to them, for not being strong enough to save her from them. A deep burning hatred that filled her soul.
And then warmth. Soft, moist, womb-like warmth surrounded her. She felt her broken body begin to reform, differently somehow. She was not the same as before... her felt shorter, and her skin felt tougher, her sinews stronger, and her heart blacker. She had been reborn...
Combat
Strengths
Esqueleto de Serpiente: Crucia is INCREDIBLY/sickeningly flexible. Bending herself over backwards to place the top of her head on the floor between her feet is quite a party trick. On top of that she can also dislocate and relocate her joints without pain. This makes getting out of combat locks as well as avoiding surprise attacks easier for her than most.
Weaknesses
Hierro: (noting for when I get it) she has weaker hierro than most of an equal level. Although this serves a purpose where her resurreccion is concerned.
La Sádica: As a hardcore sadist she likes to draw fights with her prey out. This potentially gives her target time to recuperate or trick her and make that last minute come back, or prepare a long charge up attack.
