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Name: Tao Yutaka
Age: Early Twenties
Sex: Male
Personality: Tao is the definition of a self-absorbed psychopath, he has no morals and lives only to satisfy his own wants and needs. He lives to fight, and to kill and will seek out strong opponents to achieve this. Since his awakening from an unknown, mindless hollow he has begun rapidly learning about his powers. He is a shady character, with vindictive cunning and a seemingly inbuilt mind for combat.

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Height: 6’2ft
Weight: 190lbs
Physical Traits:

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History: ???
Side Notes: Nemesis

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General Fighting Style: Tao prefers to keep close to an opponent and fight with hand-to-hand over using his Zanpakuto.
Strengths: Agility, Reiatsu, Reiryoku, Sonido, Hakuda
Weaknesses: Durability, Sensing, Heirro, Zanjutsu

Ability Name: Blood Manipulation
Ability Description: Tao can control his own blood to a fine degree, and is seemingly unable to bleed out. (So long as he has energy remaining)
- Blood manipulation
- Can create constructs and basic attacks
- Can create locations for his Resurrection abilities to fire from remotely, leaves a noticable bleeding sigil. 1 post cooldown on this use. Sigils are consumed when used to fire an ability.
- Endless supply so long as he has the energy for it. (Immune to bleeding out)

Ability Name: Sanguine Regeneration
Ability Description: Tao retained the ability of high-speed regeneration through the use of his Blood Manipulation. He can rapidly reform damaged parts of his body.
- High speed regeneration.

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Zanpakuo Appearance:

Zanpakuto Name: Carmesí
Zanpakuto Call Out: Bleed them dry
Cero: Bala, Cero, Gran Rey

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Appearance: Tao’s zanpakuto seemingly melts away in this form, mixing with his bloodstream to further enhance his manipulation abilities.

Resurrection Appearance:

Abilities:

Ability Name: Blood Manipulation – Flowing Crimson Scale
Ability Description: By manipulating the blood circulating through his body when mixed with his zanpakuto, Tao becomes physically stronger and faster while gaining the ability to fend off zanpakuto strikes with his hands and feet.
- Boost to Strength/Agility (x1)
- Allows blocking Zanpakuto strikes bare-handed. Other parts of the body are unprotected.

Ability Name: Blood Manipulation – Stinger
Ability Description: Tao fires off dense needles of crystallized blood at a target, these are shaped to be difficult to remove and cause tearing wounds that bleed profusely if removed.
- 3x Bala projectiles, no cooldown.
- Difficult to heal wounds if the needles are removed.

Ability Name: Blood Manipulation – Nova
Ability Description: Tao generates a golf-ball sized sphere of blood and sends it out towards his targeted location. He can detonate this projectile to send a cloud of tearing shrapnel into the area. These wounds are difficult to heal. This ability also detonates Stinger projectiles within it's range.
- Cero damage spread over a 10m radius cantered on the projectile.
- Stinger projectiles within range detonate into smaller shrapnel bombs, causing minor damage.
- Causes difficult to heal wounds (Regeneration takes 1 post longer for these wounds)

Ability Name: Blood Manipulation – Seeker Swarm
Ability Description: A basic application of Tao’s technique, he forms a compressed sphere of blood at his fingertip and rapidly fires a barrage of swift projectiles. These projectiles are guided and will make multiple passes to strike a target.
- 3x Bala projectiles.
- Homing ability, will return after a missed or dodged attack. (No guidance after)
- Successful hits act like ‘Stinger’ projectiles and cause wounds if removed by an opponent.
- 1 post cooldown.

Ability Name: Blood Manipulation – Convergence
Ability Description: Tao condenses a mass of blood to a marble sized, dense point between his palms. The ability activates with a high-pitched screech as the condensed liquid erupts forward in a laser like fashion. The forward speed is exceptional, but attempting to divert the aim becomes much tougher so a sweeping motion is difficult. The beam of blood will slice through practically anything it hits.
- Cero Cornea style attack
- Can be channelled beyond initial attack to sweep the beam across an area, dealing the same damage to anything it hits. This sweep is slow.
- 1 post cooldown.

Ability Name: Sanguinario Cero
Ability Description: Tao has access to a unique version of Cero that focuses on widespread devastation. It takes on a darker red hue and expands to a wide beam that he can sweep across an area. He stretches out an open palm and braces his wrist with the other hand to aim.
- Gran Rey level cero
- Can be maintained beyond its impact, turning is fairly slow but continues to deal damage for up to 2 posts.
- 4 post cooldown.

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Unlocked at 0-5:

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Approved 2-1