Vacía
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Vacía is Sachiko Haribou's Mask.
The merging of Sachiko and Vacía through the use of Symbiosis has had a dramatic effect on her transformation. She now takes on an appearance similar to that of an arrancar’s resurrección instead of your typical visored. Upon donning her mask, Sachiko is engulfed in an explosive sphere of reiatsu. As this reiatsu dissipates, it reveals her transformed body.
Sachiko only possesses a small fragment of her mask which decorates her forehead and left eye. The beginning of small carnivorous teeth can be seen running along the fragment of mask which traces the bottom of her eye. Sachiko’s voice takes on an inhuman echo and the whites of her eyes changes to black while her irises turn to yellow.
The clothing Sachiko wore prior to her transformation has vanished only to be replaced by a change in her skin which changes pigment and takes on a light gray color. An exception to this new coloration is the skin on Sachiko’s arms and legs just past her knees and elbows which darkens in color until it turns to a dark gray. Her newly colored skin is devoid of any details other than the natural shape and muscle tone of her body. A small hollow hole is located at the center of her xiphisternum.
Symbiosis has had more than a physical change on Sachiko. The ability has combined Sachiko and Vacía’s personalities though for the most part Sachiko has always remained the more dominant of the two. Donning her mask however, causes a switch in dominance and makes her behavior heavily influenced by Vacía.
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Inner Hollow
Vacía is practically a mirror image of Sachiko with only a few noticeable differences that set her apart from her host. Her skin is tinted gray, her pupils are vertically elliptical, and her nails are black with green crescent shaped tips. Vacía’s clothing is identical to what Sachiko wears with the exception of footwear which she lacks.
Mask Personality
Vacía is an overly aggressive individual who is quick to jump into a fight just for the sake of fighting. She is easily agitated and like Sachiko, possesses an unnatural amount of arrogance. If one were to call Vacía insane they would not be far off the mark. Many of her actions are performed with little thought which makes her extremely reckless and her moods swing wildly without any real reason. One moment she could be casually taunting an opponent, the next she could be tearing out their innards.
Mask Ability
By donning her mask, Sachiko becomes capable of forcefully extracting powers from an individual’s active, or recently active, external container (zanpakutō, hollow mask, etc.) by touching the owner’s source of reiatsu, or anything linked to it. When Sachiko extracts these powers, the original owner cannot access them in any form. (i.e. stealing a shikai also steals the bankai) Any zanpakutō that gets its powers stolen reverts back to its original form, a standard Japanese katana. Powers already in use upon being stolen immediately disappear as the link between it and its user is severed. These powers are immediately returned to their rightful owner the moment Sachiko’s mask disappears. Vacía will always prioritize absorbing a zanpakutō of the strongest power above all others. Any powers that have been sealed within two post cycles may still be stolen.
Sachiko gains the ability to utilize whatever powers she has absorbed as though she were the original owner though she must go through the necessary steps to activate them and may only use the form that was active, or recently active, at the time they were stolen. (i.e. stealing a bankai also steals the shikai but Sachiko may only access the bankai) Stolen visored powers cause Sachiko’s mask to transform into one identical to that of the visored. After saying a zanpakutō’s release phrase her body will take on an appearance based around the spirit of the zanpakutō. An arrancar’s zanpakutō has Sachiko take on an appearance identical to the one bestowed upon the original owner, but a form more fitting of her shape and gender.
In addition to absorbing the powers she also learns everything relating to them that is locked away in the owner’s consciousness. This knowledge is not permanent and as soon as her mask disappears everything that she has learned slowly fades away. Sachiko is only capable of absorbing one power per use of her mask whether she wants it or not, she absorbs the first power that comes into contact with her. Opponents who know of her power can manipulate what she absorbs.
Any absorbed powers which function around the use of a zanpakutō are replicated by creating a duplicate of that weapon. Shinigami zanpakutō powers whose strength is based off skill tiers possessed by the user use the equivalent skill that Sachiko possesses. kidō = cero -1, zanjutsu = aprenda, hakuda = hoz +1, hohō = sonido +1.
Sachiko's mask requires a minuscule amount of energy to maintain but an incredible amount to summon. This means that she can wear her mask almost indefinitely but is limited to using it once per thread. Absorbed powers require a considerable amount of reiatsu to hold onto and cannot be freely released. As a result, the moment Sachiko absorbs a power into her body the normal post cycle limitation for her mask begins.
Strengths
+1/-1: By stealing someone’s powers the scale is tipped greatly in Sachiko’s favor as her opponent is forced to rely on other skills and powers other than the one that has been stolen.
Like Strengths: Sachiko gains all of the normal strengths of any power she absorbs.
Unlimited Start-Up: Unlike other visored masks, Sachiko's does not suffer from a set duration until she has absorbed a power.
What Was, Is: Recently sealed powers are still able to be stolen by snatching onto the lingering energies that fueled them. This means that any power sealed within 2 post cycles is still fair game and can be stolen as if it were active.
Weaknesses
Like Weaknesses: Sachiko suffers all of the normal weaknesses of any power she absorbs. In addition, anyone whose powers she has absorbed knows best how to fight off the powers she has stolen from them.
Minimal Choice: Sachiko only has minimal control over what power she absorbs and that control is limited to whomever she comes into contact with first which will not always be the person she intends.
Once: Unlike other visored masks, Sachiko may only don hers once per thread.
Unwelcome Personality: A side effect of Symbiosis, whenever Sachiko uses her mask her inner hollow becomes the dominant personality which comes with its own flaws due to how aggressive Vacía is, rational thinking is kept to a minimum.
Useless: An opponent without an external container power, or one not actively using one, is a invalid target for this ability. If all opponents are invalid targets then this ability serves no function other than to change Sachiko's personality.
