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Tatsuki Arisawa | Bleach | Not Reserved | 1/...1?
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Other Characters Played: None... yet.
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Character Name: Tatsuki Arisawa
Character Series: Bleach
Character Age: 17
Background: Despite knowing the main character longer than anyone else not in his immediate family, Tatsuki's life is about as normal as it gets in the world of Bleach before the story begins. She's 17 years old, comes from an ordinary middle-class nuclear family, her parents are neither separated nor dead, and she's not mentioned to have any siblings. That's not to say she's unremarkable herself, but to say her circumstances are anything but blisteringly average would be a bald-faced lie. She just has to put in the effort to make her life interesting, and her efforts certainly aren't wasted.
It was when she was four that she first met our hero, Ichigo Kurosaki, when they trained at the same dojo. She spent the next eight years beating the shit out of him, which, in the world of shonen manga, means they became fast friends. Growing up, the two were close, whether she was fighting off whatever bullies happened to be picking on him that day, or worrying about him around the time his mother died, she was generally the one who was there for him until he was able to stand up for himself. After sixth grade, their paths in life started to diverge, but they stayed friends.
Around that same time, she developed a friendship with Orihime Inoue, a classmate in middle school, in much the same way she became friends with Ichigo, but with less sparring: fighting off bullies. After she got on some third years' case when they forcibly cut Orihime's hair, she gave Hime herself the courage to grow it back out, and after vowing never to let her cry again, the two became best friends and remained so into the present day. In this case, however, it's impossible to overstate just how close the two of them are; Tatsuki has literally fine-tuned their friendship into a supernatural power. More on that later, though.
Things don't stay normal for long for her, of course. While visiting Orihime one day, she has her first encounter with a hollow, and it's one with a personal grudge against both her and Ichigo: namely, the spirit of Sora Inoue, Orihime's older brother, who had died about a year before they'd met. She spends much of the encounter knocked unconscious, but recovers just fine after Ichigo handles the situation. A few days later, she has another encounter with the supernatural, unbeknownst to her at the time, when a runaway mod soul in Ichigo's body puts the moves on Orihime, kisses Tatsuki, and jumps out a third story window. Luckily, no one is hurt this time, but not for lack of trying on her part.
It was only some days afterward that shit started to get real. In another part of town, one of her classmates, Uryuu Ishida, decided to be a douchebag and bait as many hollows as possible, just so he and Ichigo could compete to see who could kill the most, which, while incredibly stupid, is only relevant in that it set up what happened next (Which, by the way, you get no points for guessing). One of the hollows drawn to Karakura settled on the high school, where Tatsuki, Orihime, and another classmate, Chizuru Honshou, are cleaning up before heading home. Orihime, having noticed the hollow, suggests they leave right now you guys, so Tatsuki Arisawa went into the school to get her normal people close because she was in her office labcoat.
This decision proved rather fortuitous, as when the hollow released a barrage of spores, which it used to sic everyone on everyone else, she was inside and unaffected. Orihime was unaffected as well, but with a crowd of manipulated students being directed to kill her, she was in no less danger than before, so it was a good thing Tatsuki was dressed in time to kick some ass, which she did quite a bit of before being caught off guard when grabbed by Chizuru. With Tatsuki subdued, the hollow decided to gloat at her a bit, outlining how the students under its control would gang rape and murder her. She was, of course, having none of this shit, and told the thing to go fuck itself with a hard bite to the tentacle. Obviously, the hollow was pissed, and decided she wasn't worth the trouble and tossed her on the ground, which only spurned on Orihime to put on her hero shoes and do the saving this time around, putting the hollow out of everyone's misery and using her new-found powers to heal Tatsuki's wounds.
Because shinigami are dicks, however, the above two paragraphs are wiped from her memory immediately after each incident, leaving her none the wiser. After finishing second in her age group in a national karate tournament, she spends her summer break out of the limelight while Ichigo, Orihime and company are off on "vacation." After their return, however, she begins noticing things that aren't quite as they should be, and it's not long before she realizes that Ichigo is a shinigami, or that he's at least something more than normal. After yet again being nearly killed, and after Orihime's disappearance, she decides she's had enough. She confronts Ichigo, knowing that he knows something, and tells him as much. Not satisfied with his answer, she gives him a good enough punch in the face to put his head through a window and tells him off for not trusting his friends. She and two others follow him to the Urahara shop later that night, watch him head off to the castle in the sky to rescue the princess, and proceed to vanish for another 168 chapters.
Between then and her eventual return, she and the rest of Karakura are, quite literally, fast asleep, while the entire town is shunted off into Soul Society and replaced with a 1:1 scale model, which seems overdoing it a bit when you can just as well fight in a field, but that's not important right now. What is is that she and several classmates wake up just in time for Aizen, our godmoding villain of the piece, to arrive to carry out his nefarious plan. Despite the best efforts of everyone involved to fight him off, only his flair for the dramatic seems to be able to buy them any time, at least before his right hand man, Gin Ichimaru, pulls a Starscream and punches a hole in him. Aizen being Aizen, of course, buying time for Ichigo's arrival is all that really does, but Ichigo being Our Hero, it buys them enough, and he takes the fight a safe distance from the bystanders, Tatsuki watches from the sidelines with everyone else. When all is said and done, she gets the whole story, and since it's decided to be not worth the trouble, she gets to keep her memory of it as well.
From there, seventeen months of timeskip pass uneventfully.
Personality: Despite chance relegating her to a supporting role, Tatsuki displays all the standard traits of your archetypal shonen protagonist: loyalty, stubbornness, a willingness to put herself in the way of danger to protect those she cares about, and spiky hair. Despite the image that may project, however, she generally maintains a cool head unless the situation merits otherwise, a trait that's only grown stronger over time. She's also not as dim as the character type would suggest, and in fact is quite the opposite, getting average or better grades consistently, and being perceptive enough to notice things most people wouldn't, even occasionally having insights on her friends that they might not realize themselves.
That's not to say that's all there is to her, of course. It's secondary information, at best. She more often solves problems, only rarely her own, by force, and she's surprisingly effective at it. She's very much a tomboy; in fact, she has fewer typically "feminine" traits than most of the men in the series. She's athletic, has been training in karate her whole life, and aspires to make a living out of it. She plays video games, has the above-mentioned haircut, and even her approach to romance is almost frighteningly aggressive, and given how much thought she appears to have put into it, she's likely just a bit more perverted than she's willing to let on.
She values loyalty to a degree that can't be overstated. She would go to the ends of the earth for Orihime, and if she was capable of it, even farther, and it's likely she'd do the same for anyone, even without the personal motivation that comes with being her best friend, and if she feels you've done something to betray her trust, she will not hesitate to fuck your shit up. With all that's happened in her life of late, however, her own sense of helplessness has started to dominate her, and she's rapidly developed something of an inferiority complex. She can accept, to some degree, that Ichigo and others with power can handle what she can't, but having spent her life playing the hero herself, it depresses her that she can't do anything but sit back and watch all the same.
Abilities: Tatsuki has no actual powers per se. Well, she can see spirits, yes, and she has just enough spiritual power herself to not die around the most powerful beings Tite Kubo can pull out of his ass this week, but anyone with a name can do that in this series, so that doesn't quite count. Her only real power is that she's 180 pounds of concentrated asskicking in a 90 pound can. Remember that national karate tournament she came in second in? She was fighting with a broken arm. Her reaction to being grappled and immobilized by a hollow is to bite that shit, and from its reaction, it legit hurt. She confronted one of the most powerful characters in the series and personally put his head through a window. Her main power is that she can pull that sort of thing off without needing powers, because she's more hardcore than you will ever be. Perhaps worth mentioning as well is that her ability to sense spirits works in such a way that she can specifically sense Orihime's presence, or lack thereof. While it doesn't seem special, humans that can sense spirits usually only sense them in general, rather than showing any sort of awareness that it's a specific one. In fact, some of the main characters aren't that acutely tuned.
Sample Entry: Any of these should work, I hope. Not as long as I'd personally like them, but it should make the minimum.
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