Daichi-Joukai Danketsu
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Daichi-Joukai Danketsu (Earth-Heaven Combination) is Hakkebana Jia Yin's Zanpakutō.
Yin actually possesses a zanpakutō pair. The blades are shaped in the form of elegant Chinese broadswords (dao) and are both identical in shape, color and design. The hilts are wrapped in black cloth and the blades are lustrous silver. The guards are circular without any design.
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Spirit Description
The zanpakutō spirits take the form of two very large Chinese dragons, but with wings and without the characteristic tufts of hair. Both have golden eyes, and they are totally identical in form, save for one striking difference. One dragon is black, with a white star shaped mark on its forehead, while the other is white, with a black star shaped mark on its forehead. The black dragon is called Taiyin, while the white dragon is called Taiyang.
Shikai
Release Command: Musubitsukero, Daichi-Joukai Danketsu! (Combine, Earth-Heaven Combination!)
The blades of the dao pair turn black, with the cutting edge a polished silver. The guards release a light which eventually forms two spheres each that rotate around the points where the guard of the swords should have been. Thus, there are two spheres per sword. One sphere is white and the other black. Four larger, colorless spheres then appear and begin to revolve round Yin. They cannot move farther than 10 meters from her body. They follow her wherever she moves on the battlefield, but only move as fast as a running person.
Shikai Abilities
Yugamero
Using the receptive energy of the Earth, as stated in the Yin-Yang principle, Yin can create a vacuum from one of the colorless spheres with the command: "Yugamero (distort/warp)!" This vacuum, which is about 4 feet in diameter, sucks and absorbs energy, especially in the form of energy based attacks. It can also exert a pull on beings, the force of the pull depending on the amount of reiatsu that the creature can release. The higher the reiatsu, the weaker the pull, and vice versa. When a vacuum absorbs enough energy, of which the total reiatsu signature of all attacks added surpass Yin's reiatsu level, it degenerates. When all the spheres degenerate, the zanpakutō seals, and Yin will have to release it again to utilize its abilities. The vacuum takes a second to form, and so cannot be used immediately. Also, after absorption of anything, the vacuum becomes inactive for 2 seconds, before it can contain any more energy. Only one vacuum can absorb energy at a time; meaning that she cannot store energy in two different vacuums, but only one. While this technique is in use, the black sphere that rotates round the hilt glows.
Hajikero
Using the expansive energy of the Heavens, Yin can call on her second ability with the command: "Hajikero (split open)!" A colorless sphere glows brightly and releases a burst of blue-white energy in a direction, which has the effect of concussive force. It has a range of about 25 metres, after which the energy fizzles out and disappears immediately. The blast has the same diameter as the vacuum and neither increases nor decreases in strength as it flies. With this technique, the white sphere that rotates round the hilt glows.
Igame
This ability is a sort of special version of the first ability. When this technique is activated, all four colorless spheres turn black, however, their edges are rimmed with light. This gives them an 'eclipse' appearance. The command for this technique is "Igame (deflect)!" This ability allows Yin to redirect the energy stored in one sphere out of another, with the same amount of force. In summary, Yin releases the stored energy in one vacuum through another one. Since the vacuum can also draw physical bodies, Yin can 'jump' through one and pop out of another. She can only carry one passenger, who is willing to be carried, or has an insignificant reiatsu level, compared with hers. As with the vacuum ability, the 'booting' time and 'heat' time apply. Yin cannot use the second ability, when using the third.
Strengths
-Balanced offense and defense
-Vacuums can cause an enemy to lose balance via suction
-Vacuums in Yugamero can act as shields
-Can redirect an enemy's attack back at them with Igame
-Igame allows her to transport herself, or an ally away from danger.
-Hajikero offers her long range attacks
Weaknesses
-Cannot easily use Shunpo in conjunction with her zanpakutō, since they will have to catch up, before she can utilize their abilities.
-Limited range of transportation via Igame; only 10 metres at most.
-'Booting' and 'heat' period leave her unable to use any techniques during that time.
-Sealing of the zanpakutō after all spheres degenerate also waste some of her time, as enemies can attack while she attempts to release again.
-While using Igame, the zanpakutō provides no offensive ability.
Bankai
Daichi-Joukai Ryoku no Kinsei (Balance of the Earth-Heaven Power)
When Yin yells "Bankai!", both swords turn into swirling pillars of energy (like cylindrical tornadoes), reaching from ground to sky, and dispersing any clouds in the vicinity, and then small discrete objects (dust and so on) swirl around them. After that the pillars shatter into uncountable little black marbles in white glows and Yin gains bracelets with half a marble on each bracelet.
Bankai Abilities
Hajikero
With this upgrade, Yin can create the concussive energy she utilizes in Shikai from any of the miniature spheres directly around her, or from her hands, via the bracelets. The size of the blast is greatly increased(about 50 feet in radius being the largest size), as expected of a Bankai, and do not have any distance limit. The blast (resembling a bluish white shapeless wave) is now more volatile, causing shockwaves of varying power, even after impact. The shockwaves are strong enough to throw an opponent backwards, and even crack walls, depending on the 'expansiveness' of the blast. Gaining more control of her zanpakutō's abilities, Yin can now compress the expansive energy of heaven, which her zanpakutō utilizes. She can compress it to a level of pseudo-solidness, where it can be physically felt. By physically felt, it actually gains the properties of matter: having weight and occupying space. This requires effort mentally on Yin's part. In effect, when she summons her expansive energy blast, she can condense it into shapes with small surface areas, like slender weapons, as opposed to creating walls. The more compressed the energy, the smaller it is. Thus, the large blasts are totally expanded, and smaller blasts are consecutively compressed. Yin doesn't use all of the expansive energy when condensing; she just needs a little part, as condensing 50 feet may prove a little difficult (the weapons themselves cannot be too wide, like broad headed axes or zanbato). Yin can create intricate designs that can reach a length of ten feet and can only create three at a time, but cannot create fully functional machinery of any sort. Since she only uses a little energy to create her 'weapons', they do not have any after-effect shockwaves. Like normal weapons, they can be broken and thy then dissipate, after which Yin can easily create new ones, and once they are formed, they require no more effort on her part, except when she wishes to create new ones. With the ability to condense her powers, Yin can determine the extent of the shockwave released as an after-effect from the blasts she fires.
There is no limit to the amount of blasts that can be fired successively, but they must take a second to recharge. Yin can only use any marbles that are within touching range for this ability.
Yugamero
This ability is an upgrade of Yin's 'teleporting' ability. With this technique, the spheres are able to create two fluxes of space-time distortion, that will channel an object, person or energy, from one flux to the other. With this, Yin has ingeniously created a technique in which one flux is sort of merged with the other. The effect is that it releases anything that goes in directly back the way it came. Surprisingly, this technique also works with physical force, dealing back the same amount of pressure that is dealt on the flux, back to the perpetrator. For example, a blow that could break bones could break the knuckles of the person who punches this reflective flux. Yin can teleport anywhere her spheres exist. However, there is still a heating period of one second, though the booting period is eliminated. The direction of redirection of the attack depends on Yin's mind, and there is no indication as to whether the attack goes back, or up, or right, e.t.c. As in the Shikai, any attack or ability that exceeds Yin's reiatsu level will break through the flux. As with the first ability, Yin can control the spheres that she can physically touch to form a flux. She can also create this flux directly in front of her hands, thanks to the bracelets. This technique, though nifty, requires a good deal of reiatsu to use (to ensure that attacks don't come crashing through). As a result, Yin can only use this technique up to seven times in a battle, though shifting her body is not as difficult.
Strengths
Yin now has more effective shields that can reflect attacks and damage.
Range of both teleportation and blasts are not limited.
Yin can create swords with which to fight in battle, and can always replace them if broken.
Yin can surprise attack enemies by opening up the second flux behind them.
Weaknesses
Heat period can waste her time in a fast paced battle.
Yin cannot make shields with the expansive energy.
Yin must either create weapons, or fire blasts; she cannot do both at the same time i.e. an energy sword cannot exist while she is firing a blast, and vice versa.
Redirection technique uses up a lot of reiatsu.
Senkai
Hanabanashii Tenkuu Renkinjutsu (Spectacular Aether Alchemy)
When Yin activates the Senkai, a drop falls from the sky, and a drop rises from the earth. When they meet in the center of space, they engulf everything for a hundred meters in a monochrome colored world. Only things of significant spiritual pressure have any color at all. The lighting seems to be that of the twilight, and a gentle wind blows about. Yin takes on an ethereal blue glow covering her entire form, her irises glow the same color, and she leaves no shadows. A dull hum emanates from the air around her in a hundred meter radius, the space covered by her Senkai.
Senkai Ability
Having fully understood the powers of her zanpakutō, and being able to grasp the concepts of balance and ‘opposites’, Yin has been able to compress the expansive energy of the Heaven with the receptive energy of the Earth, to form one fluid ability: Energy manipulation.
In her Senkai mode, Yin can release vast amounts of blue-white energy, akin to what she controls in Shikai and Bankai, and this ability is similar to her ‘Hajikero’ ability, only that now, she possesses the power to fully compress any size of energy she so desires. This enables her to create ‘pseudo-solids’, luminous blue constructs that can be felt physically. Unlike her Bankai, however, Yin can create much more than just three weapons at any location in her Senkai radius and the sizes of these constructs are much larger. No matter the speeds at which Yin moves, the Senkai field is always around her, with herself at the exact center.
The Senkai works with volume, distance and speed. With volume, the larger a construct is, the more difficult it is to create, and the less its durability. Yin creates with her mind alone, so she can create a very artistic object with little stress, as long as it is not too large. An object with a volume of twenty meters cubed (20m3) is the largest she can create without jeopardizing the strength of the construct.She cannot create anything larger than 30 m3, and even then, it is very weak and brittle. It is possible for Yin to create a large number of constructs, as long as they are not very large. Huge constructs can only be formed, at most, two at a time. If observed carefully, it will be noted that she cannot create any more than 60m3 in aggregate volume of constructs (that’s the arithmetic sum of two largest construct volumes). The average construct is very durable, capable of withstanding Level 5 cero and below, easily, as well as Tier 4 Kidō spells and Bankai abilities. The strongest cero may be stopped by reinforced constructs, but only once (reinforced constructs take longer time to create; the bigger, the longer it takes). The same goes for Tier 5 Kidō spells, as well as any ability on the level of a Senkai. The constructs can support very heavy weights, about the amount of pressure a Senkai-level ability can make (say, a bunch of tons?)
With distance, it has been discovered that the further away Yin is from a construct, the more stress it takes to build it. A large object created at hand will be no problem, but the same object created at a distance of say, fifteen meters away will pose a problem. It will be created slower, or will be simply weaker in form, if it is formed using the average creation speed. Yin can create any object (20m3 sizes or lower) within ten meters of herself easily, but anything beyond ten meters becomes weaker, unless more effort is put into it. Also, Yin cannot create anything outside the hundred meter limit. What is created can persist outside the Senkai range, but only for seven seconds, after which it fizzles out and reverts back to insubstantial energy, before vanishing away. However, even outside the Senkai field, for as long as they are in existence, the constructs can still be controlled easily by Yin.
The last thing to note is the speed of creation and movement. It goes without saying that smaller objects will be formed much faster than larger objects, though creation speed is very fast. Largest objects take three seconds to form (if they must be at full power), others are formed almost instantaneously. The objects are controlled with her mind and cannot surpass shunpo speeds, though even the largest object can move at an alarming blur, close to the speed of sound.
The question as to whether Yin can create anything, with the said object’s properties arises. Yin can create about anything, but it may not function in the original objects capacity, if the function is elaborate. For example, Yin could create a car of any type, and cruise along the road, though the tires will not be rolling. The constructs can be roughly called ‘sculptures’ (chains and ropes are still flexible as necessary, though), and though they can bend, if necessary, a gun made of wood will certainly not shoot anything, not even wooden bullets.
Strengths
Hanabanashii Tenkuu Renkinjutsu is a very versatile ability, enabling Yin to create many forms ranging from swords to shields to cages to whatever her mind can fathom, provided she doesn’t exceed the size limit. She can attack an opponent easily within a space of 100 meters from almost any direction. These advantages can very well decide the fate of the battle, once the Senkai is activated.
Weaknesses
The hundred meter limit is a liability, as very long range combatants with powerful offensive ability can cause a lot of problems for Yin. Truth be told, Yin loses a great deal of offensive power in Senkai, as the energy can no longer be fired off to release shockwaves. Also, her channeling and teleporting abilities are also lost.
