Bane

**Bane** (ベーン, *Bēn*?) is an Adjuchas-class Hollow feeding on the souls of spiritually-unaware humans for around 400 years. He is captured by Lt. Soichiro Tenma of Soul Society.

## Personality

Bane is a chaotic Hollow whose mental prowess has degraded from feeding solely on spiritually-unaware humans. In all terms of intellectuality except fighting, Bane is miserable. He enjoys the occasional dealing with spiritually-aware beings, like Shinigami. In such cases, he enjoys playing with his food. He is not used to being put on the back foot, and thus, when put in a difficult position, Bane's conduct is pathetic and will desperately plead and pound around.

## Abilities and Powers

* **Great Spiritual Power**: As an Adjuchas-level Hollow who has consistently fed on souls for 400 years, Bane possesses a large amount of spiritual power. Bane was, in a fight against a lieutenant as powerful as Soichiro Tenma, able to inflict great damage upon the latter while himself remaining unharmed.
* **Great Strength**: Bane possesses great strength, being capable of biting with enough force to create a vacuum in its wake.
* **Cero**: Bane possesses the ability to fire Cero, an attack of concentrated spirtual energy. Bane's Cero is red in color. Bane possesses enough energy to fire a maximum of four shots of Cero in a day. His Cero is powerful enough to break through Tenma's Kidō spells and inflict tremendous damage on the Lieutenant.
* **Quantum-Locking**: Bane possesses the unique ability of quantum-locking; when observed by any spiritually-aware individual, Bane ceases to exist. He is therefore invulnerable whenever he is observed. This ability acts as a double-edged sword, as though he cannot be killed in a state of non-existence, he is also unable to kill. Only when his foe blinks or is otherwise not paying attention to him is he able to attack them.

## History

Bane became a Hollow over 400 years prior to the events of *Something Strange*. For over 400 years, Bane has survived by feeding on spiritually-unaware souls, and has avoided conflict with numerous Shinigami thanks to his unique ability of quantum-locking.

### Something Strange

When Lt. Tenma of the 5th Division of Gotei 13 arrived in the Human World near Bane's vicinity on a mission, Bane attacked it with a Cero. The Shinigami was able to dodge the attack, but Bane was able to attack once more with another Cero, which Tenma blocked with a Kidō shield; as the Cero broke through the shield, Tenma had to deflect it with his Zanpakutō. Bane countered Tenma's next Kidō attack by ceasing to exist. He popped into existence again when Tenma yawned, this time using his large strength to bite with enough force to create a vaccuum to reel Tenma in for his next attack in case the Lieutenant dodged the initial bite. When the latter used another Kidō spell to attack, Bane responded with another Cero, grieviously wounding Tenma, before ceasing to exist again.

Bane is forced into quantum superposition with ion beams filled with quantum energy fired by Sir James Strange and Dr. Redford Man, carried to the battlefield by the Quincy Tomoe Bushida and Akio Asahi. In a last-ditch effort, Bane fires his final Cero at Strange and Man, only to be countered by Tenma. Akio then proceeded by firing a Reishi arrow that a struggling Bane caught with its fangs and spat at the two men holding the positron colliders, only to be now countered by Tomoe. The helpless Bane was eventually captured in the trap spawned by Tenma's utility belt.