Katrina Vargas

*"O pitiful shadow, wandering in darkness. Demeaning and bringing harm to others; a damned soul wallowing in sin… Care to give death as try?"*

## Professional Status

### Relatives

Ulquiorra Cifer (Love Interest (deceased))Alvaro Cifer (Son)

## Zanpakutō

### Reiatsu Color

Pink

**Katrina Vargas** (カトリーナバルガス, Katorīna Barugasu) is the former *Undécima* (11th) Espada in Aizen's Army of Arrancar.

## Appearance

Katrina Vargas full body.Katrina Vargas appears to be a young girl with long pink hair styled in pigtails. She has a petite curvy body, standing around 5'0 with pale, snowy skin. Her eyebrows are cut short and nails are long and dark purple. Her eyes are golden with long black, thick lashes. She is usually seen wearing a black choker with white frills on top and a circular rod attached to it. She also wears a white mini dress with a black liners, outlining her body. She completes her outfit with black thigh high boots.

Like most other Arrancar, she possesses remnants of her former life as a Hollow in her appearance. Her Hollow hole is located in the middle of her v-line. The remainder of her Hollow mask lies on the top left of her head, using it as hairclips to pin her hair back. It is shaped as bat wing. Her Espada tattoo lies on the upper part of her right arm which she covers it with a white bandage.

## Personality

Katrina is energetic and a playful girl who is loyal to **Ulquiorra Cifer**. She is known to be talkative as she attempts to always strike a conversation with him, even if Ulquiorra doesn't respond much. She is somewhat a 'himedere' as she would refer others as 'peasants', thinking she is high and mighty. She also shows that she has deep attraction for Ulquiorra as she always gets flustered whenever he is around. She is close friends with **Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez**. They would always be seen together bickering but respects each others boundaries.

After Ulquiorra's death, Katrina showed empathy and gratitude towards **Ichigo Kurosaki** and **Orihime Inoue**, stating that she is grateful that he is able to acknowledge what a heart is.

In battle, she loves to toy with her enemies. She finds enjoyment in fighting that she sometimes holds back in an effort to make the fight last longer. Katrina would like to make her opponent suffer a long and painful death.

## History

As a hollow, Katrina felt sorrow all the time. She would stray in one place most of the time that some Hollows would assume she is dead and no-good for. Later, it is shown that she would wander for days in the desert of Hueco Mundo to find some sort of entertainment, like watching the Hollows kill each other. She found joy in the massacre that she wished that one day, she can toy with her opponents to give them a merciless death.

Katrina in Hollow form.

## Powers and Abilities

**Cero**: Just like Ulquiorra, Katrina can fire Cero from her fingers. Her Cero can be charged distinctively fast, and it is pink instead of green. She can blast her opponent in great distances, disintegrating them and any obstacles that lies within its path. She can only fire Cero with her right hand.

**High-Speed Regeneration**: Katrina can easily recover from any damage by causing her to heal her wounds drastically. She can close her wound on her body and grow back any lost limb within extremely short period of time.

### **Zanpakutō**

**Gata** (型(ガタ), *Gata*; Spanish for “Cat”, Japanese for “White Cat Demon”): Katrina’s Zanpakutō is a long, double axe. She releases her weapon with a touch from her collar. The strapping/grip is pink as the blade is black.

* **Ressurrección**: Its release comman is “**Tear**” (破る, *yaburu*). **Gata** unleashes a black and pink burst of spiritual energy. In Katrina’s release state, she becomes a cat-like in appearance. While in this form, her hair is in high pigtails and receives one think horn that curves upwards on the left side of her forehead. Skeleton fingers seems to hold her breasts as her skirt turns black with thigh-high heeled boots. Her fingernails lengthens, as her arms are covered in fur, extending to her forearm.

**Ressurreción Special Ability**: She gains even greater physical abilities in this form.

* **Tail Manipulation**: In her Ressureccion form, Katrina holds three paper-like tails. She can control the length, movement, form, strength and effect at will. She can retracts them into her body when not in use as well. She has also displayed the ability to extort control over her tail from extremely far distances. Her tails are noted to be soft like silk yet sharp, sharper than most zanpakutōs. In combat, Katrina uses her tails as powerful and fast tendril-like whips to unleash long-ranged attacks while also being able to use it to form a shield around her body. She can harden her tails to use block attacks, repelling any power that comes her way. They are difficult to cut because of their soft properties, and can further loosen the effectiveness of slash by bending and weaving.
* **Enhanced Speed**: Her speed is greatly enhanced, moving great distances in an instant as if to displace herself.
* **Enhanced Spiritual Pressure**: In her Ressurreción form, her black and pink spiritual energy permeates her body.

## Relationships

**Ulquiorra Cifer**: It is noted that Katrina is in love with Ulquiorra. During her time at Las Noches, she appears to be rude and disrespectful towards Ulquiorra at first, despite their ranking, calling him a low peasant. He showed no sign that he was bothered but asked her if he should feel offended by her remarks. To this, it was no fun for Katrina as she did not know how to respond.

One day, Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez and Katrina had an argument about who is the strongest Esapada. Katrina threw some insults towards him, stating that he doesn’t deserve his number. That seem to trigger him. Grimm how was ready to strike her but Ulquiorra came in to stop him. Even if Ulquiorra doesn’t feel any compassion, he was willing to defend Katrina. Katrina was awestruck, giving her a perspective on Ulquiorra. He told Grimmjoe that there is no reason to fight recklessly based on emotions. Then turned to Katrina to say: “*I’m not doing this for your sake. I simply don’t want any destruction in here.*” His words were blind but Katrina’s heart skipped a beat.

**Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez**: Katrina and Grimmjow.s relationship is not a healthy one. Some would say it’s a love-hate relationship. They would often be seen bickering over the smallest things (for instance, they fought over which tea is better). Even so, they seem to get along sometimes and respect each other enough where they would be willing to fight side by side and defend each other when time comes. Grimmjow also sees Katrina as her little sister and vice versa.

**Nelliel Tu Odelschwanck**: Katrina respects Nelliel whenever she is in her adult physical form, simply because she is more wiser and know her best. They got along well during Nelliel’s time as the 3rd Espada. She could easily disclose Katrina’s love for Ulquiorra as well and Nelliel is the only person that Katrina admitted her feelings to.

In her child form, Nelliel seem to tease Katrina a lot about her high and might attitude. Even if Nelliel did not have her full memories back, she seem to pair her with Ulquiorra, saying that “*they look good together*”.

**Tier Harribel**:

**Ichigo Kurosaki**: Katrina showed disinterest towards Ichigo, not really viewing him as the enemy as he had Nelliel to accompany him. During the fight with Ulquiorra, Katrina did not interfere whenever Ulquiorra was in trouble as it was their own duel. Though, when Ulquiorra’s death came, she thanked Ichigo with teary eyes for letting Ulquiorra see a glimpse of what a heart is. Ichigo apologized, saying that it wasn’t a fair fight. Katrina then promised Ichigo to stop this useless and unbearable war with Aizen.

## Misc.

Katrina Vargas manga coverKatrina in Bleach art - Colmilos HuecoKatrina Vargas in Bleach anime