Wakino Atsumori

**Wakino Atsumori** (脇野敦森, *Atsushi mori Wakino)* is a Shinigami and member of the 10th Division of the Gotei 13, serving under current captain Togashi Hiramochi. She's also the president of the Shinigami Women's Association, a group of female Shinigami who work together to improve the living conditions of the Soul Society and aid the Seireitei and Gotei 13 in various ways. She’s also a somewhat celebrity in the Soul Society, often regarded as the “pinnacle of beauty” and is known by the moniker **Medusa** (メドゥーサ, *Medusa)* due to her infectious looks and her ability to turn those who lay eyes on her into stone.

## Appearance

Medusa has long black hair, orange eyes, dark skin, and full lips. She's widely considered attractive by many people including both men and women of the Soul Society, she has a very curvaceous body and larger than average breasts. All of these physical traits leads her to being dubbed as the Soul Society's "pinnacle of beauty"

As for her attire she wears the traditional black shihakūshō that is often worn by the Shinigami of the Gotei 13 but with a few differences, she has her robes hanged loose which causes her chest being revealed. Instead of wearing the common White Obi she chooses to change the color of her obi to yellow. Medusa also wears a black cape, and ontop of her head she wears a traditional black bamboo hat. For her lower body clothing she wears a pair of black leggings, shorts, and the traditional Shinigami waraji.

## Personality

Medusa is known to be a very caring and loving individual, although she's considered to be helpful and a wonderful aid to a lot of people she doesn't like doing office business or paperwork and she deems it as a boring chore that's pointless and a waste of time, as she usually leaves the important work all to her captain Ryujin. Inside of her squad she has formed multiple relationships with the members and is usually considered to be the "parent" figure of the squad because of her motherly nature which makes her overly protective of her comrades and she usually tends to be bossy to those that are ranked under her. Her motherly nature causes her to love anyone that she views as her "child" and whilst this trait in her personality is great and shows how much of a loving soul she really is, it can be a weakness in battles or certain situations as she doesn't really worry about herself and is always thinking about her allies safety first before hers.

Medusa is not known to be academically knowledgeable or intelligent person but she is socially smart, and is able to create correct assumptions about a person's true intentions, motives or who a person truly is. This trait gives her the ability to socialize and interact and form bonds and connections with people easily no matter what differences in ideals or motivations they might have, this is a helpful personality trait which can also be used against her opponents who can be affected by her unorthodox charisma and magnetism that just leads people to get on her good side.

She's a direct contrast to her captain's calm and self controlled nature, as Medusa is loud, talkative, and at most times very noisy and all over the place. One great weakness of her is that she is very braggadocious and is extremely arrogant in battles which leads her to being caught off guard by enemies some times, she's also more of a talk during a fight than actually exchanging attacks type of person which leads her to being caught up in the conversation than the actual battle.

Her confidence is one of her biggest strengths and biggest weaknesses. This amount of belief in herself stems from the fact that she's always been praised by the people around her as one of the prettiest if not the most pretty women they've ever seen in their life. With this much compliments she receives she always loves to flaunt her more "sexy" features. She has no problem in showing off her body for a exchange with something she wants. She's very self aware of her "appeal" and loves to show off whenever she has the chance to. Even in battle most of her opponents are distracted by her figure and tend to not want to harm her as much as others, due to this it makes Medusa cocky which is another weakness because when she faces a opponent that isn't infatuated with her looks she'll get caught off guard due to her being used to opponents sparing her.

Medusa's favorite food is Tempura, she has a liking towards seafood and loves eating multiple type of fish, octopuses, etc. Her least favorite food is Goya because she doesn't enjoy bitter dishes and it takes a hard time getting used to the taste. Her favorite activities are singing, taking care of people, and training. Medusa also loves shopping and going out to buy new clothes. She mainly chose to join the Tenth Division due to her love of solving mysteries and investigation, and the squad partakes in operating large scale missions. Another one of her favorite activities is being a escort for multiple Soul Reapers, and Royals in the Soul Society. She also likes going on dates not only to find a partner but to just relax from her usual work and get opportunities to discuss with other people.

## Powers and Abilities

### Zankensoki

**High Spiritual Power:** As expected of a lieutenant of the Gotei 13, Medusa

### Zanpakutō

*For more information head to article, Shippūai (Zanpakutō Spirit)*

**Shippūai** (疾風愛, Hurricane Love) The Zanpakutō in its sealed form is

* **Shikai :** The release command Medusa yells to activate her shikai is **"**Stun those with your beauty, and turn all into stone **AMAZE SHIPPUAI!,"**
	+ **Shikai Special Ability**: Shippūai has the ability to sway people's hearts and minds by emitting pheromones from the air upon release. With these pheromones Wakino can attract people around her and make them fall madly in love with her, to the point that they're practically slaves or puppets under her
		- **Freeze** (氷結 , *Hyōketsu*): Wakino's signature technique that has garnered her the epithet of "Medusa" is Freeze. This ability allows her to turn those surrounding her that have a feeling of attraction or lust towards her to turn into stone.

## Trivia

* Medusa's birthday is Valentine's Day on February 14 which is a another extension to her love-based theme and zanpakuto.
* Medusa's name comes from the figure of the same name in Greek Mythology, the name was chosen due to her Zanpakuto abilities of making people who are up against her Zanpakuto turn into stone.