Yagyu Shinkage-Ryuu

HIGH SPIRITUAL POWER: As a Lieutenant of the Gotei 13, Yagyu boasts a high spiritual power and is capable of taking on scores of shinigami, hollow, humans, etc. Whenever Yagyu's spiritual power is flared, there is a calmness about it, as if the wielder could strike at any moment.

REIATSU PASSIVE: Akin to the stillness of a pond, when focused Yagyu is able to detect presences from anyone who steps within a 10m radius of their position.

MASTERED ZANJUTSU: A practice mastered even during her human life, Yagyu boasts one of the better sword skills in the Gotei 13. Yagyu comes from the famous Yagyu clan of swordsman, and is currently even a teacher at a dojo located in the Rukongai. Yagyu names their sword style after their school, the Yagyu Shinkage-Ryuu, and is deadly in her utilization of her Daishou.

PRACTITIONER HAKUDA: Due to training underneath her father, the Yagyu Shinkage-Ryuu practitioners were also taught a handful of martial arts training as well. Not having relied on it even in the afterlife, Yagyu has a basic understanding of the workings of Hakuda, as well as being a practitioner of Aikido.

NOVICE SPIRITUAL CONTROL: Being the one area that Yagyu heavily lacks in, her spiritual control is flimsy and enemies who can properly control theirs could find an advantage against her on the field of battle. This extends to Kidou, where most are more likely to blow up in her face than anything else. Because of this, she only has a basic understanding of Kidou and knows none that extend past level 10.

EXPERT AGILITY: Part of her Zanjutsu training, Yagyu is an expert utilizer of Shunpou and is expertly agile, able to add parkour-style acrobatics to her fighting style when it suits her or the situation. Even whilst in the air, Yagyu is able to control herself with expert ease and with her light weight has become a formidable foe even airborne.

MASTERED PERCEPTION: A swordswoman even past death, Yagyu is able to properly formulate battle plans and very cleanly observe the technique patterns, movements, attacks, and defenses of her enemies. She has a keen eye for detail and will absorb as much as possible when in combat. Though she may not come up with extremely long winded plans in the same way a professional kidou user might, it is extremely difficult to get a leg up on her whenever she is focused. Speaking of...

Focus: An ability developed some time after obtaining her Shikai. Yagyu's breathing slows and her eyes close, allowing her to soak up even more of her surroundings than before. Instead of simply seeing, she feels her surroundings and can perform split second counters and dodges where necessary. In this focused state, she is also able to temporarily "shut off" her pain inhibitors and continue fighting. This does not cause her to heal or allow her body to completely ignore the damage, it simply allows her to continue fighting. She will still feel the entirety of the pain when this ability ends, but for the time while it's active she can shrug off even lethal wounds like they were nothing.

This ability has an added effect of effectively "slowing down time" around the user, allowing them more of a time frame to act. Think "Blade Mode" from Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. Same principle.

SEKIGAHARA - THE WAR TORN FIELD: The inner world of Yagyu's Zanpakutou is the battlefield she fought and died upon. The Battle of Sekigahara continues to rage on inside of the Zanpakutou's inner world, with Yagyu constantly being forced to fend off against her enemies and relive her harshest failure to steel her mind and as a for of "training" set forth by her spirit.

DAISHOU: Yagyu's Zanpakutou, named after the twin sword pair of the samurai. In her sealed state, Daishou is... exactly as it sounds, a katana and wakizashi pair worn at the hip. Normally only the katana is wielded in combat, but when the wakizashi is wielded alongside it, nitoujutsu is utilized causing the true power of the weapon to be brought out. As for Daishou herself, she is a cool warrior who exudes feminine beauty and can go on and on for hours about girly things. Basically, she's exactly what Yagyu would have been had she been given a proper upbringing. Yagyu is constantly berated and teased by Daishou, prompting the pair to become a comical boke/tsukkomi pair, and driving Yagyu to become stronger. Daishou claims that there is a second Zanpakutou spirit hiding deep within the Zan, and that it will only come out when Bankai has been achieved.

PASSIVE SHIKAI ABILITY: When Daishou's Shikai has been activated, the weapons gain a special property not unlike that of Izuru Kira's. Instead of adding weight, however, the Zanpakutou pair's cutting power will continue to increase per hit. The longer a fight drags on, the more effective the Zans become, eventually being able to cut through virtually anything. They are only able to increase in cutting power, and therefore cut, through solid constructs. For example, while a Kidou that creates something solid could easily be sliced through, a pure energy attack akin to a Cero would not be affected. While beginning reasonably sharp for a Zanpakutou, at it's maximum power either blade of Daishou would be able to hack through limbs with minimal to nonexistent effort.