Justice Kuchiki

"A show of ones strength and skill is not the number of enemies one takes down, but rather the quality of ones allies around you. A tree may grow to be tall and wide, but when the storm comes it shall snap in the wind. The three that nurtures others around it will sway in the wind, but stand strong thought the aid of it's fellows." Justice Kuchiki to Haku

## Introduction

Justice Kuchiki, or Kuchiki Zenji, is the former Justice of the Central 46. When the Central 46 was dissolved in favor of a new court of nobles the Justices where released from their duties and allowed to return to their families. Justice Kuchiki returned to his family and began to return it to it's roots, and attempt to undo all the damage Kuchiki Ranma had caused.

## Personality

Zenji is calm and prefers to think before he acts. He is cultured and diplomatic. He prefers to deal with problems early before they become big, and he can not stand incompetence. He is loyal to his family and vicious to his enemies.

## Abilities and Powers

### ***Physical Abilities***

* ***Great Strength***

* ***Great Durability.***

* ***Great Endurance***

* ***Great Flexibility***

* ***Immense Agility***

* ***Immense Speed***

* ***Immense Spiritual Pressure***

### ***Basic Level***

* **Chushin** (*中心 Center/Focus*): The core and most fundamental technique of Hakuda, it involves in intentionally focusing on one's interaction with their reiryoku, and this reiryoku's interaction with the body to willingly and consciously force an increase in the interaction and grant them an overall statistical increase to their attributes so long as their focus is maintained.
* **Kanjiru** (*感じる, Feel/Sense*): A basic shinigami technique where a shinigami will focus and enhance their spiritual senses to detect their reiryoku, and thus with practice, the reiryoku of others. This technique is an Hakuda technique and is widely used by shinigami and even other races.
* **Bakuha** (*爆破, Explosion/Blast*): The technique which gave rise to Zanjutsu, Hoho and Kido, it is simply the manipulation of one's reiryoku so it generates reiatsu and then manipulating this reiatsu. For many centuries most new hakuda techniques descended from this one, until the branches became so filled with techniques that they became the other aspects of the Zankensoki and thus a clear divide was made. Bakuha is still classified as Hakuda because Hakuda is still the first part of the Zankensoki taught to academy students, and serves as the foundation for the rest.
	+ **Ryuo** (*流桜 Flowing Sakura*): The name of the original technique that was used to manipulate reiatsu, nowadays it's rarely used other than for a signal flare, or as a means for stronger shinigami to intimidate or incapacitate weaker opponents.

* **Henshin** (*変身, Transformation*): A slightly more advanced technique which builds upon Chushin and whose effect is to simply alter the exact kind of interaction reiryoku has with the body and direct it in a more fruitful "direction" by mildly shaping the reiryoku within the body. In other words Henshin allows one to control how exactly the statistical increase occurs by modifying 3 variables: Strenght, Speed and Resistance. Controlling the relative ratios of the increase and decrease of these variables conveys one's mastery since the farther the values deviate from the norm the harder it is to maintain. This technique is still an inflexible "set and forget" kind however, but it is what enables **Stances** to function.

The 3 variables are defined as changing this:
* **Strength**: Is the kinetic power muscles can generate, an increase to this leads to higher power output and is essential for speed as well. A decrease in this will naturally produce less power but will not affect anything else about the muscles so it may provide an increase in accuracy.
* **Resistance**: Is resistance to damage and change in physical structure, it effectively hardens the body and makes it less reactive to the outside so when modulated to be weaker it makes a certain part softer, even the "detrimental" effect can be made by masters into an advantage.
* **Speed**: Is the body's ability to process and transmit info across itself, it's a boost to the nervous system and it provides the most speed and accuracy increase. Naturally when reversed it makes a body part less responsive to input and less able to take in information as well which can be useful in specific ways.

Notably there are people capable of changing other variables naturally or with training, but these tend to be secret techniques.
* **Shun** (*瞬, Blink*): A more forceful and active variation of **Chushin** that can be used in conjunction with it, it simply consists of explosively increasing the interaction to a much higher level for a moment. The difference between Chushin and Shun is akin to that of a jogging and sprinting.

* **Norou** (*呪う, Curse/Hex*): An advanced technique of Hakuda where upon the user will abuse one's physical contact with the opponent to resonate their own reiryoku with the opponent's body and thus endow a change in statistical prowess in a negative manner unto the opponent. Effectively Norou is a technique that weakens the opponent by exploiting the reiryoku interaction and physical contact with an opponent.
* **Ihyo** (*意表, Surprise/Something Unexpected*): An advanced technique of Hakuda where the user will utilize Shu while utilizing Chushin or Henshin, but cause both increases to be different in nature, generating a surprising attack. This technique is actually incredibly hard, to do this kind of simultaneously distinct increases requires a large level of talent, skill and training.
* **Yubi** (*指, Finger*): An advanced technique where one will modulate and alter the statistical buff granted to specific body parts, instead of a more general buff to the entire body. It is essentially a more focused Henshin for individual parts of the body, such as an arm or a finger. This technique can be used simultaneously with henshin to create incredibly complex stances.

* **Kyuryu** (*急流, Rapids*): Rather than a technique it's really the culmination of mastering the entering of Henshin, and flowing between **Stances** with each movement to a new stance that most benefits that movement at that moment. Kyuryu is a technique with truly infinite skill ceiling and the most skill expression out of the Zankensoki. Because of this sole technique Hakuda can never truly vanish as a fighting style.

### Zanjutsu

Mangetsu (満月, Full Moon) is Justice Kuchiki's Shikai. It is release with the phrase Liberate. The user holds their blade in the air and says the phrase. Upon release the resihi around the user forms into a moon. The moon then begins to grow as it absorbs more and more reshi growing larger. When the moon is out it can radiate a special kind of spiritual pressure. This Pressure is called Tsuki no kyōki.

Tsuki no kyōki has the ability to affect the minds of those under it's effects. The severity of the effect depends on the reitsu and the willpower of the creature or thing. If the target is less than half as strong as the user they will lose all thought all together and become a mindless puppets to the moon. If they are seventy five percent they will howl at the moon like a mad man. Those of equal strength or strong will not be affected by the madness. However they will feel their will being drained the longer they are under it. The longer one is under the Tsuki No Kyoki the more affected they will become.

Shinku no tsuki (深紅の月, Crimson Moon) is the Bankai form of Mangetsu. In this form the moon becomes blood red. The Tsuki no Kyoki changes and becomes Kemono no atsuryoku (獣の圧力, Beast Pressure). Those who fall under the Crimson Moon lose their sanity and become vicious beast. They are transformed into monsters. The strong and those with great willpower can resist the transformation. However the longer one stays under it the more like a beast they become. All fully turned beast are under the control of the Crimson moon. Once the Bankai is sealed the beast are sealed with it. The next time it is released the beast emerge with it. The more beast that are created from the Bankai the stronger it becomes.