Sigh. I'll get to the rest in a bit. People keep interrupting me constantly.
Name: Makoto Kamata
Race: Shinigami
Age: 422
Gender: Female
Division: 2nd (may be moving both division and rank. She is currently under review.)
Rank: 3rd seat
Height 5-4
Zanpakuto: Shinkan Kaze, a katana worn across the back. Makoto is right handed.
Zanpakuto Spirit Form:
Inner World: Makoto's inner world used to be something like a bit of a utopia atop the clouds. Now it is as black as the world outside. She can tell something is there but it decays with time and doesn't know the full state of it.
Shikai: Soshaku, Shinkan Kaze
Shinkan Kaze takes the form of a Chinese saber with a red tassle and a silver blade. Makoto can shoot condensed wind with slashes and stabs from her sword. They have no reiatsu, just condensed air that's moving fast enough to cut somebody. She can also make short range barriers of wind in small pinpoint areas around her to repel people from touching her. Almost any movement with any strength behind it will go right through, though. The wind is not exactly the best clashing material as most kido and zanpakuto abilities will cut right through it along with swords or other weapons but it also is not so easily blocked. Where one might be able to block a wide attack with a sword slash, the wind will be stopped where hit, leaving the rest to keep going. It is also adept against armor and the like, slipping into cracks and joints. It, however, will flop against wide coverage like Danku.
Later on, Makoto will develop another application for her shikai dubbed localized tracking for lack of a better term. In essence, she constantly holds up a field of wind that moves around her, using it to sense shapes in her vicinity. At normal range, it is about 5 feet in every direction. At later combat range, it'll be 10, then 15.
Bankai: Kago no Shinkan Kaze
There is no visible change, not even a reiatsu spike and there is good reason why Makoto will learn not to loudly announce its presence. Kago no Shinkan Kaze drops a cage of a thousand (she will later be able to make mini versions instead) wind blades around a zone, usually around the target and herself. Invisible to the naked eye without something like a large amount of dust in the air or something similar and even then hard to see unless she has increased the intensity of the blades, the cage of wind swords could be compared to an invisible blender. They can be given simple commands with the hands. At first, all Makoto will know with it will be the closing of the fist which makes the wind blades fly in at the target. She can intensify them by feeding reiatsu into it which will make them more powerful but easier to sense and see. After they hit or have blocked and have done their damage, they will disappear. The more blades the concentrates on, the more will fly in. They do not replace themselves and cannot change direction once shot. Once depleted, she will have to reseal her bankai and release again to restock.
Later on, Makoto will have better application for her bankai, incorporating a few new commands for it. Opening her hand will call a wind blade to it for her to fight with like a sword but like all her wind attacks, it is nigh useless of blocking, only good for attack and penetration. Pointing at her target will allow for pinpoint shooting of single blades. The blades do emit a very dull reiatsu presence but it isn't too easy to notice and even harder to tell details when she is using localized tracking.
The range of localized tracking extends up to 25 feet in bankai plus anything inside the cage. Standard for the cage is about 20 feet but if she widens it past 25, she will still be able to sense everything within the cage's zone.
Skills: Makoto has very good people skills when she wants to, reading most like an open book and manipulating them... nicely. She calls it women's intuition, dubbing it ten times more useful than any kind of education though the truth in that is debatable. She will later develop localized tracking even for use outside of shikai but only at a 5 foot limit. As per typical of the 2nd division, she sports talent in hoho and is a practical type fighter, if a bit eccentric. Speed and aggression based, she uses an excessive amount of acrobatics and only a small but effective selection for kido. She will omit the chants on almost all occasions. Her kido suite is composed of the following.
Hadou 4: Byakurai
Hadou 11: Tsuzuri Raiden
Hadou 33: Sokatsui
Bakudo 39: Enkosen
Bakudo 61: Hyapporankan
However, she is one thing that the 2nd division and Omnitsukido are usually not: subtle. Not subtle by any stretch and it isn't because she is powerful with reiatsu oozing out everywhere but rather because the only place she blends in in is a loud bar or a high class party where she has every intention of making her stomach turn by schmoozing up to all the nobles and pretending to be a polite and refined little thing. She actually can put it off and do it well but it is a distasteful thing.
Weaknesses: No great amount of endurance. Zero attention to defense that doesn't benefit her attack aside special panic cases. She's now blind and to varying degrees seems to be the living form of Murphy's law and not on the good end of it.
Personality: Makoto is strong willed, stubborn, hot tempered, and extremely perceptive. Not so hot with logic and all that statistical thinking, she has a serious knack for reading people and does not hesitate to take advantage of it, often times to disregard of other things... like respect... or the rules. She is pretty good at knowing what she can get away with too. That doesn't mean that she isn't without good intentions but nor is her record the cleanest out there by any stretch.
The soul of the party, Makoto is usually at the center of anywhere that has alcohol and holds an incredible amount of it for her size. Being a prankster of sorts also comes with that ticket as she injects fun into everything around her, sometimes not to the amusement of her superiors, especially the might tightly laced and high strung captains. She prizes independence as well as trust (often used in the sense of trusting independence) and a moral standpoint above a law standpoint, something that get her (and sometimes the party which she holds in high value) into trouble.
This of course all applied before her accident that brought everything crashing down around her. For all of her usual tendencies, quite a bit has been changing since the loss of her sight, something that has hit her extremely hard. She's been cooped up more, eating less, and stressed from her probable demotion or transfer, court martial at worst.
Appearance:
Bio: Makoto had no real tie with the angel attacks or any of that sort of flashy business. "Average joe shinigami" seems to describe her a whole lot better. There was no matter of dramatic pride and promises involved but rather "because she wanted to" and "because it paid well". The alcohol became a quick bonus. Her academy days were spent as a minorly talented member of the top class (which she was on the bottom of in most respects as far as raw abilities went) and near the top of it due to her uncanny ability to read people and pick them apart mentally whether it was bringing their attention off of something or getting them to do what she wanted them to. This didn't help in solo matters like kido, written tests, and anything solo but that was of no concern to her. Other than the fact that she is known to have dated literally every single boy that was in the academy at the same time as her at least once except one who was universally identified as the greatest loser, it was fairly uneventful and she not too much different from every other partying fool.
Her climb up the ranks of the shinigami was pretty bland too. Showing prettymuch not a care in the world and general irresponsibility, she treated the Gotei 13 like her personal play thing just like she had with the academy. It was something that didn't work quite as well, seeing as how despite how good she might have been at getting away with things, her antics have built themselves up to the third binder recording them and have worn out the patience of a few of the higher ups. Of course, her strong points and practical results have mostly overshadowed such issues, leaving a captain here and there to use the word insubordination in conjunction with her but never on official record... until now. Now is different. It is no laughing matter anymore. During a mission in the living world, she had slacked and visited a few other shinigami who were assigned to the next city over. In the process of that, she ran into what they suspected to be a possible newly born arrancar. She called it in and was ordered by her captain to observe at a distance only and wait for backup. Possibly a little tipsy from her earlier trip to the bar and possibly moving in because the target was moving into a densely populated part of the city, she opted to ignore said orders and pursue. While she wasn't the one who actually attacked, she hadn't stopped it either. The prospective arrancar might have been a vastrolorde class. She wasn't sure but a few seconds later, there were three corpses next to her and only a bit of quick reaction kept her from getting her head blown off by a cero. Her head still got partially toasted and she had to be picked up by the 4th division. After further examination, it was determined that she had lost her sight and wasn't going to be getting it back with any mount of kido, nor crazy drugs and gadgets from the 12th. At this point in time, she has just been released from the 4th and is pending any variation of possible punishment for disobeying orders and the deaths of the three other shinigami. A few people whom she is not so popular with have also brought the complaint folders up to light, figuring that this would be as good a time as any to pin her history of unpunished antics on her when she has little to no space to squirm.