Ferris Lost

*"I can't take the Throne. Order this, chaos that... what about the children who'll never see their parents again, because of the Cult's attack on the Human World? The friends and family lost because the Heavens decided to destroy Haven? A child like Falk's memories and experiences? The prized possessions of a Dragon who just wanted love? Ferris Lost can't turn his back on that. He's short-sighted, selfish, too weak to protect what he loves and too stupid to know what to do with power, earned or given. I'm sorry, but I don't think he's who you want. No matter what he may wish."*

> Like a rising dragon.
>
> Ryuku Fukui

**Ferris Lost** (フェリス・ロスト, *Ferisu Rosuto*) is one of the main characters of the series. He is a Wizard of Wing Bind who was transferred to Shin'ō Academy to train as a Shinigami in Class 4. He subsequently became a member of Yon and its successor, Ichigo. Like his classmates, he has the potential to become the next Soul King, and is a reincarnation of both a part of Tagashimimi-no-Mikoto and one of Rasgadura's generals; in his case, it is the dragon Götterdämmerung. He is the alternative leader of the Mōjūgumi in Rakuhen, replacing Ranka Komamura when she is in the Beast Realm. Following the Red Christmas, he holds the position of King-Regent of the Western Soul Society and bearer of the Crown of Fire, chosen of Merlin.

He is the adoptive younger brother of Ilcarthon Roscarrock and the fiancé of Tomo Amamiya.

## Personality

The (mostly) self-proclaimed straight man of the group, Ferris is a self-conscious but kind young man who cares perhaps a little *too* much about his reputation and standing, especially as a representative of his country and Soul Society in the Eastern branch. He is therefore careful in his words and dress, to the point that he can come off as a bit of a snob if he's not careful. Such things are not helped by the fact that, as one of the few among his friends who has extensive experience in the World of the Living, Ferris possesses greater knowledge of modern fashion and manners than most; the temptation to lord it over the others can be excessive, but he also tries to help them (and feels embarrassed on their behalf, even in the Soul Society) if they seem to be falling behind.

As someone who was originally training to be a Wizard, Ferris has an unordinary amount of sympathy for Hollows and Arrancar, regretting killing them and trying to save or control those he can, as if they were dragons.

## History

Ferris' biological mother - and, indeed, his entire family up to that point - is believed to have perished sometime before his actual birth and was quickly replaced by a Disguiser. It is unknown if he was conceived before or after this event, but Ferris spent most, if not all, of his nine months of incubation within the womb of a human-turned-dragon. Not long after his birth, when Ferris was younger than three years old, several Witches and Wizards of Wing Bind somehow caught wind of the situation and moved to subdue the mother. In the aftermath of their confrontation, in which her true form was revealed, Ferris was taken to Reverse London as a **Dragon-Possessed One** (ドラゴン憑き, *Doragon-tsuki*) and placed under the care of the Conservation Rangers.

## Powers & Abilities

### Natural Abilities

**Immense Spiritual Pressure**: As a former member of Class 4 and an incubating god, Ferris possesses at least the same level of reiryoku as a Captain-class Shinigami.

* **Reiryoku Resistance**:

**Multilinguism**:

**Master Chef**:

* **Food Enhancement**:
* **God Cooking**:

**Housekeeping and Construction Expert**:

### Shinigami Abilities

**Expert Swordsman**:

**Kidō/Magic Practitioner**:

**Master Hakuda Combatant**: After training with Jiyū Saibankan for four years, Ferris developed from an average-practitioner of Hakuda to an *above-average* practitioner. With Hakuda, Ferris can manipulate his body's interactions with reiryoku down to the cellular level, through various correct motions and assumption of mental states. Not only can he utilize his own, but Ferris can also make use of *ambient* reiryoku, allowing him to perform Hakuda without expending his own spiritual energy.

* **Tendachi** (天立ち; lit. "Heavenly Stance"): A secret Hakuda technique, Tendachi allows Ferris to modulate his body's interaction with spiritual energy on the level of individual tissues and cells, weakening and strengthening their 'statistics' in order to match the situation and his own needs as needed. As a result, Ferris can craft a stance that not only perfectly complements his own body's natural inclinations, impulses, and build, but also can respond to a given situation with a degree of precision beyond the ordinary practitioner.

Uniquely, Ferris is capable of applying this with his draconic intuition, grasping the exact nature of the ambient reiryoku (and other aspects of the environment) and constructing his stance accordingly. Due to the vast degree of effects that Tendachi can have, when Ferris relies *entirely* on his intuition to craft a heavenly stance, much ends up left behind -- he cannot adjust every single molecule in his body at once through it. However, by combining its findings with his own reason, he can craft stances that fit his current bout perfectly. The drawback is that this takes time, meaning that it is impractical and 'sloppier' stances generated purely by intuition are often his recourse in battle.
* **Tokuda** (???; lit. "???"): A unique form of Hakuda utilized by Jiyū and his predecessors/successors, Tokuda makes use of very specific movements in order to add Om into one's strikes. In short, it allows for one to 'speak' through their movements, not their words. While it was initially created without total knowledge of Om or its capabilities, those who have learned the ins-and-outs of the sage's art find it a powerful form of Hakuda indeed.

Via combination with his Ancient Wyrm Hoarde technique and its accompanying Breath and Armor techniques, Ferris can channel ambient Om, as well as his own, into his strikes and Hakuda techniques. Furthermore, he can harvest and use his own uraryoku and empower his Hakuda with it. Ferris has thus become capable of casting limited Maho and Urado through what is, effectively, sign language with his own body. Through resonating with others, and especially those he has enchanted, Ferris can transfer various effects from or to himself, from or to them.
**Shunpo Practitioner**:

### Zanpakutō

**Shukketsubara** redirects here. For the manifested spirit see Shukketsubara (Zanpakutō spirit).

**Shukketsubara** (出血薔薇, *Bleeding Rose*) : Ferris' Zanpakutō takes the form of a daishō pair of katana and wakizashi. They have purple hilts and sylvan-looking *tsuba*. Ferris often stores the wakizashi 'in the shadow' of the katana, tied by a cord around its hilt and near its own *tsuba*, in order to carry them as one unit. It is a rare case of a female Zanpakutō being wielded by a male Shinigami.

**Shikai**: Its release command is "**Subdue all dragons/royalty**" (圧伏皆竜, *Appuku kairyū*; *Viz* "**Overthrow the draconic rulers**"). Ferris typically joins his katana and wakizashi together by their rear hilts while speaking the command, creating one sword. When released, the katana takes the appearance of an ornate executioner's sword. It is pitch black in color, with reddish-purple runes etched along either side of its blade. The quillons are topped with roses of the same glowing color, and both they, the crossguard, and the hilt as a whole are wrapped tightly around with thorn vine-shaped chains. The *wakizashi* has been changed into a chain hanging from the hilt, leading to a spiked mace dangling at the end. This may be wrapped around Ferris' arm for safekeeping or to avoid collateral damage at no risk to its user.
* **Shikai Special Ability**: Shukketsubara possesses the ability to convert any spiritual substance (be it reiatsu, reishi, reiryoku, or reimyoku) into being extremely toxic. This applies not only to anything within the vicinity or in contact with the blade, but also with the spiritual matter produced by Ferris himself (though it will not hurt him, and can in fact boost his abilities through the careful application of stress). The higher quality the spiritual substance (i.e. the closest to that of the Nobles or the Soul King), the more potent the poison - at its worst it can kill and utterly decompose its target in an instant. The exact nature, effects, and properties of the poison appears to be under Ferris' control (unless his Zanpakutō overrides him with its own decision), from burning like flame to producing spores and fungi to consume the opponent. It may even be hallucinogenic in nature, giving Ferris limited control over his opponents' perceptions. The poison's effectiveness seems to become increasingly limited the farther away the source of the spiritual matter is from the blade; the greatest results can be found by directly piercing or slashing near the target, while outside of a foot around it they diminish. Ferris may selectively control which spiritual matter is targeted to avoid unpleasant political matters.

* **Injection** : The blade's range may be extended through creative application of its mace, and the spikes themselves can be detached and manipulated by motions of the main blade, though their range of free movement is as limited as the poison's itself. The spikes (or 'thorns') as he calls them, may be used to inject others with the poison directly.

   **Bankai** : **Keikan Shukketsubara** (荊冠出血薔薇, *Crown of Thorns Bleeding Rose*): According to Shukketsubara, her Bankai requires her wielder to develop enough "resistance" over time, through repeated uses of her Shikai. Thus, even if one knows the name of her Bankai state, they are not advised to use it until she has confirmed they will survive; to activate it before gaining enough resistance to her poison is to die. When it is activated, the chain dangling from the Shikai's hilt proceeds to whip out, twist, and rapidly expand around the user, before producing a giant, stylized iron maiden that closes around the user. On occasion, it appears to drag them up into the air, using the chains for support. A certain amount of time (ranging from immediately to perhaps several minutes, depending on numerous factors, such as efficiency, the actual level of resistance built up, and the rule of cool), the maiden will shatter and disgorge its user. It is currently unknown what becomes of the residual pieces, or the original blade.
* **Crown of Thorns**: When released, Ferris' skin has become a sickly purple, cracking with energy. Keikan Shukketsubara's main ability is the reverse of its Shikai's: rather than poisoning the target, it unleashes the full force of its poison on its user, enhanced and more than doubled by ascending to Bankai. Shukketsubara can apparently control the concentration and potency of the poison as well in this form (measured in percentages of effectiveness), and like her Shikai can modify its effects (initially only between uses). The user's body is inundated, to the point that, if they have not built up the resistance, their current body will disintegrate upon use. Through the careful use of Domain Expansion, Ferris is able to advance on this power in ways that no previous user has: he can concentrate this effect on particular limbs and parts or attributes of his body (and, indeed, other abilities and people). As might be expected, Ferris' entire body, down to even his bodily fluids like blood and sweat, become incredibly toxic in his Bankai state, capable of outright melting or dissolving what it comes into contact with if it is not sufficiently composed.
	+ **Super Vaccine**: The intense amount of poison subjects the user's body to an unheard-of amount of stress and consistent damage, to the point that it begins to function akin to a vaccine - the body adapts in order to counter it while the Bankai is active (it is not a permanent state), and reaps all the benefits therein. Aside from becoming much faster, stronger, and superior to his ordinary state by every other physical standard, Ferris' sense of pain is functionally deadened: he can still identify it, but is capable of easily overriding any rapid or immediate response in his body, such as flinching. He can even 'turn off' such things as his gag reflex and basic self-preservation if necessary, allowing limbs to be sheared off and other damage down without his body attempting to slow down. In practice, Ferris is also much more durable, meaning he can take a good deal of attacks without flinching and noticeable damage. This state also renders damage easier to analyze, as Ferris' body picks it out from the 'white noise' of the poison's regular damage. Indeed, it can be broken down and added to the poison's existing damage, further increasing Ferris' stat boosts.
	+ **Temporary Undead Constitution**: If Ferris does not deactive his Bankai after receiving certain wounds while in it, he is capable of concentrating many of the aforementioned properties into one area, and 'patching up' wounds, halting bleeding or decay, and then some. At its fullest extent, he can take mortal blows and appear to shrug them off, even with whole portions of his body blown away or otherwise rendered inoperable. While these will naturally become threatening if he must deactivate his Bankai, he can compensate for them and indeed use them to empower himself in the heat of battle ; any damage will be considered as adding to the super-vaccine effect, boosting his abilities beyond their baseline state (even at 100% potency).
	+ **Fungi Generation (Enhanced)**: Keikan Shukketsubara's decomposition ability to attacks and weapons that meet the composition criteria, breaking them down and causing them to grow into mushrooms, spores, and other fungi. These can be removed, clumped tightly enough together to serve as impromptu shields, and even have the residual life energy released in order to transform them used for limited healing and various kinds of rejuvenation. Their broken down, jarred, and distilled state is apparently an excellent ointment for the skin.
* **Enhanced Abilities**: Like some other Bankai, Shukketsubara retains many, if not all, of her base abilities (especially the potency and nature of her poison), with their powers significantly increased.

### Magic Hunter (Dragonclad) Abilities

Following Phebabelle Ephufort's Avalonic ritual in Reverse Angers, Ferris' human side has been replaced with that of a Magic Hunter. Through a form of atavism, his Magic Hunter ancestors' genes were fully awakened within him; so while he remains a mortal (having never uniquely 'died') his body functions like that of a Magic Hunter from the lost ages. At the same time, the fact of his contamination by dracotoxin has not changed, resulting in what amounts to a Dragonified Magic Hunter.

* **Passive Dracotoxin Generation**:
* **Reimyaku Mastery** - In his current state, both the exploitation (the unique skills of Magic Hunters) *and* the generation of reimyaku (unique to dragons are under Ferris' purview. His ability to grasp, analyze, and respond to changes in the ambient environment, as well as work his own, are unparalleled.
	+ **Directional Reliability**: Once he acclimates to any world's reimyaku, Ferris is instinctively able to tell which direction is north.
	+ **True Neutral or Variable Damage**: Ferris can produce true neutral damage with his strikes, bypassing the likes of elemental affinities in order to attack directly.

**Worldly Denial** (ワールドリー・デニアル *Wārudorī Deniaru*): A special reimyaku-control technique where a Dragon will align their reimyaku in a way which is reminiscent to the Hoho principles of the East. The end result is that the draconic reimyaku will forcibly repel and be repelled by other kinds of reimyaku. This technique can be used to shortcircuit Maho and weaken Maho-enhanced Kido, but the primary use of this for a dragon is the achievement of **True Dragonflight** (トゥルー・ドラゴンフライト, **Tōrū Doragonfuraito**), where they need nothing but their reimyaku control to fly. By utilizing

* **Self-Denial** (セルフ・デニアル *Serufu Deniaru*): An offensive move that, much like Gisei Hadō, focuses on sacrificial methods. Ferris utilizes his Dragon Breath in a sacrificial way, sacrificing and burning his generated Reimyaku to garner a more powerful effect at seemingly no bodily cost. This technique is highly compatabile with Witchcraft.

**Great Wyrm Hoard** (グレートウ・ワーム・ホード, *Gurētō Wāmu Hōdo*): A special classification of dragon hoard that's been specially enchanted by a dragon with a specific method. While a normal Dragon's hoard will become Enchanted overtime by a dragon's reimyaku and granted special attributes due to this reimyaku, a Great Wyrm Hoard will exhibit all of this and also allow the Hoard to be used as a massive stash of easily accessible and usable uraryoku. To create a Great Wyrm Hoard a dragon must be skilled enough to know how to use **Worldly Denial** and make use of it to repel the reimyaku which pollutes the uraryoku of an object in their hoard and then use their own reimyaku to coat only the outer layer of the objects on their hoard, still enchanting them but keeping a core of pure urado to be used at any moment. True masters of this technique can enchant objects to make use of this urado as a source of energy, instead of drawing on the reimyaku used to make it or the reiryoku of the dragon.

* **Ancient Wyrm Hoard** (エンシェント・ワーム・ホード *Enshento Wāmu Hōdo*): Ferris uses his own Reimyaku to filter the ambient Om. By doing so, he's either able to hoard and store that Om for later usage, or use it as a means of amplification through Kiai. It mixes exceptionally well with his Hakuda as well. Much like Great Wyrm Hoard and its subsequent techniques, Ancient Wyrm Hoard has its own, such as Armor.

**Great Wyrm Breath** (グレートウ・ワーム・ブレス *Gurētō Wāmu Buresu*): A special offensive technique on the level of Bankai, said to be the ultimate spellcasting maneuver available to any race. To use it, a Dragon must inhale a large volume of air, isolate and cleanse the uraryoku contained within it using their reimyaku control, and then infuse their reiryoku into the particles of air in such a way as to cause them to bring about a Maho effect when exposed again to the world's reimyaku. This maho spell explodes fueled with the power of the ambient reimyaku but also detonates the now purified uraryoku. The dragon's reimyaku in the exhaling process exists to prevent the detonation from occurring early, or, if the dragon is skilled enough, to guide the explosion.

* **Great Wyrm Armor** (グレートウ・ワーム・アーマー *Gurētō Wāmu Āmā*): A technique which builds off of Great Wyrm Breath. The practitioner first engages in the steps of Great Wyrm Breath, however, instead of infusing the purified Uraryoku into their breath, they infuse it into their scales by Enchanting each individual one. By doing so, they can generate extreme explosive power or amplified defense.

**Enchantment** (付加術 *Fukajutsu*): Due to his initial inability to maintain his reimyaku over a wide area, Ferris initially concentrated on applying it to his immediate vicinity - specifically his weapons. As a result, he honed his ability to affect objects and people with it to perfection. Ferris can grant any person or object in his vicinity a given property or product of his reimyaku for various purposes, both defense and offense (or some mixture of the two). Such things may also be turned into 'traps', holding their given effect until interacted with by a chosen or random party. Both of the aforementioned aspects can be combined to produce especially-devastating techniques. Ferris may also store his own techniques or abilities temporarily within an object or another person for their defense; another can also be made capable of activating one fo his enchantments for their own benefit along the way. He does not need to directly touch the individual in order to apply an echantment; simply being in their vicinity is enough (though it may require extra reiatsu expenditure).

* + **Kurikararyūō** (倶利迦羅竜王 lit. *"Dragon King Kulika; manifestation of Acala in the form of a flame-wreathed dragon wrapped around and swallowing the tip of an upright sword"*): Ferris enchants his blade, arm, shoulder, and the area around them in order to maximize destructive and elemental potential, harnessing his draconic reiatsu and foxfire to their limit, while layering various delayed-action destruction Kidō in them to be implated into the opponent. At times, a defensive element may be added.

**Draconic Intuition** (竜勘, *Ryūkan*; lit. "Dragon Sixth Sense"): As a Dragon ascended into a Magic Hunter, Ferris possesses a Dragon's natural intuition -- their ability to subconsciously process information from their immediate surroundings and make rapid-fire judgements based on them. This is a purely 'brutish' ability; Ferris cannot complete complete mathematical equations or lines of logic using it. Rather, it works as something of either a 'danger sense', alerting him to impending strikes or hidden threats within the environment, or detecting weaknesses in a target's defense and movements that he can exploit: strikes can land because they 'feel right'. He has also demonstrated this ability in such subconscious-heavy activities such as cooking and art. His intuition is also limited by the information available: things that exist in other timelines, or that could not be possessed with any sensory capability that Ferris has (excluding killing or malevolent intent) will pass unnoticed, or 'lag'; someone striking from another timeline, for example, will not register until the strike has entered Ferris' own time-space.

### Divine Abilities

Due to his spiritual origins, Ferris is one of the rare few individuals who possesses **Soul King Potential** (???, *????*; shortened to "**SKP**").

**Shinnoden** (神の点; lit. "*Mark of a God*"):

### Genkyōsei

**Genkyōsei** (原共生; lit. "Primal Coalescence"): A special technique created by Tomo and Ichimaru Ketsuno with Ferris' input. It consists of the user converting their Inner World's reiryoku into *reimyaku*; specifically, reimyaku that matches a particular place or realm in all the worlds. As a result, the user achieves what is known as **True Resonance** (正共鳴, *Seitomo*). This resonance with the ambient reimyaku enables one to assume a specialized transformation, one where their physical capabilities are incredibly stronger. However, one can also bolster their Kido, Hakuda, and other techniques while a Genkyōsei is active. In other words, one assumes all the powers that come with their state: being a miniature embodiment of a given world.

#### Core Techniques

In order to properly make use of Genkyōsei, Ferris has learned how to use the following techniques:

* **Shingei** (心芸; lit. "Mental Arts"): An advancement upon Jinzen, Shingei allows the user to maintain their individuality via specialized meditation and states of mind. In other words, they become capable of stabilizing their Inner World while still allowing it to interact with the outside world. Outside of the technique itself, Shingei empowers Ferris' draconic intuition, and by repurposing Hakuda principles allows him to interact with and endure mental attacks by adapting his mental state.
	+ **Jiishiki** (自意識; lit. "Pure Consciousness"): The pinnacle of Shingei that enables Genkyosei use, Ferris assumes a state of total self-consciousness, allowing him to retain his sense of self when going through reality-altering changes such as the conversion of his Inner World's spiritual pressure into matching the reimyaku around him.
* **Jugei** (呪芸; lit. "Magical Arts"): Based upon the fundamentals of mahō, Ferris is capable of regulating the reimyaku that he produces and the reimyaku that he absorbs in order to avoid noticeably altering the reimyaku around him. It also grants him increased control of the physical and spiritual effects of his Genkyōsei transformation, and all the connected magical effects.
* **Taigei** (体芸; lit. "Bodily Arts"): An application of Ferris' Hakuda principles, Taigei allows Ferris to regulate and control his body as it transforms into a miniature World, preventing his physical form from being destroyed or radically reshaped beyond repair.

## Weaknesses

### Zanpakutō

**Human World** : As the world of the living's amount of spiritual material is drastically reduced compared to the Soul Society or Hueco Mundo, Shukketsubara's environmental effect is reduced to almost nothing in range, and Ferris must instead rely on his own or those of others' directly in order to make full use of it.

**Range (Bankai)**: Due to most of her poison being concentrated in Ferris' body itself, in her Bankai state, Shukketsubara's regular poison's range is greatly reduced and harder to manipulate.

### Genkyōsei

**Berserk Form(s)**: Due to his disillusionment from his sense of 'self' and his frequent uses of playacting and fronts in order to be presentable to those around him, Ferris runs a great risk when using Genkyōsei transformations: at any moment, when the right pressure is applied or trigger enabled, he will lose control of his mental selfhood while transforming his Inner World's reiryoku into reimyaku. The result is a loss of control over the form: Ferris' transformation will mutate his body more drastically, and he will attack friend or foe alike depending on his mental state at the moment.

## Trivia

* According to his creator, Ferris' theme song is "*The Chosen Ones*" by Dream Evil.