Kuwaka

* Hollow Form

**Kūwaka** (*Kanji*: **空若**; *English*: **Void Child**) is a student-trainee of Shin'ō Academy.

## ***History***

### *Birth*

Kuwaka was created as a sub-hollow, a hollow created by another hollow as a limb or servant. As such, in stark contrast to a supermajority of modern hollows, Kuwaka does not originate from a plus.

In addition, Kuwaka was created with a rare mutation which granted him independence from his birth hollow and intelligence on par with that of his birth hollow. Consequently, immediately after his birth, Kuwaka abandoned his creator and ventured off to do his own things.

Eventually, after a century of combat and development, Kuwaka just so happened to encounter his creator. Out of the hope that consuming his creator would fill the meaningless and perfect void in his soul, Kuwaka defeated and then devoured his creator. Afterward, Kuwaka despaired over the fact that he was still empty on the inside and then embarked on a quest to find a cure to his emptiness.

In search of a cure, Kuwaka attained a reigai and infiltrated the Soul Society.

## ***Current Abilities and Equipment***

### *Physical and Spiritual Capabilities*

#### **Spiritual Prowess**

Kuwaka exhibits a high amount of spiritual power and sound-elemental type of spiritual pressure.

Notably, Kuwaka's spiritual pressure exhibits the characteristics of sound and is heard as a scream composed of the voices of all those whom Kuwaka has consumed. Notable, Kuwaka is able to exert his spiritual pressure as both a noise capable of disorientation and a shock wave capable of destruction. Kuwaka can also channel his spiritual pressure into a blade in order to augment the blade's sharpness with a high-frequency vibration.

### *Skills and Techniques*

#### **Acidic Touch**

Kuwaka exhibits the ability to excrete a corrosive and toxic liquid from from his hands and thereby inflict a chemical burn upon an entity just by grasping or laying hands on the entity.

Notably, by sacrificing his High-Speed Regeneration, Kuwaka was able to augment his Acidic Touch's corrosivity and toxicity. As such, Kuwaka exhibits an Acidic Touch capable of corroding both spiritual particles and spiritual pressure alike! However, it should be noted that Kuwaka's Acidic Touch is only as strong as the amount of spiritual energy that was expended to use it.

##### Fuego

**Fuego** (*Spanish For*: **Flame**) is a maneuver where Kuwaka will ignite the air around himself by using his Acidic Touch to chemically burn the air in an exothermically reactive manner. Immediately afterward, Kuwaka will emit his sound-elemental spiritual pressure as a shock wave and then use that shock wave to manipulate the flame created by the air's ignition.

Notably, unlike a kidō or zanpakutō ability, this maneuver does not generate and manipulate fire by means of fire-elemental spiritual pressure. Instead, it generates fire composed of spiritual particles and then manipulates those spiritual particles with naught but the extreme dexterity and sheer force of a sound-elemental spiritual pressure.

#### **Cero**

**Cero** (*Spanish For*: **Zero**) is a maneuver where Kuwaka will condense an amount of his spiritual pressure and then release the spiritual pressure as a blast of pure and simple destruction!

##### Cero Sablazo

**Cero Sablazo** (*Spanish For*: **Zero Slash**) is a maneuver where Kuwaka will condense his sound-elemental spiritual pressure into a Cero and then imbue the sound-elemental Cero into a blade in order to both augment the blade with both Cero's destructive power and a high-frequency vibration as well.

In addition, by emitting the sound-elemental Cero as a shock wave as he slashes towards a target, Kuwaka is able to propel a crescent-shaped and sound-elemental Cero towards the target!

#### **Kūmon**

Kuwaka exhibits the ability to use Kūmon, a maneuver which allows him to enter the Garganta in order to journey between Worlds and even rip apart the fabric of space in order to tear open a hole to the Garganta.

#### **Zanjutsu**

Kuwaka is an experienced and well-trained Swordsman.

### *El Grito*

 **Weight** | 145 lbs

**El Grito** (*Spanish For*: **The Scream**) is a hollow power which is unique to Kuwaka. It allows Kuwaka to become a combination of a parasite and a superorganism by preserving the life of the any soul that he consumes and subsumes into himself and then siphoning spiritual energy from those souls.

In addition, El Grito also allows Kuwaka to materialize his spiritual energy into a manifestation of all the souls that he has consumed. This manifestation is not an embodiment of the souls but rather just a puppet of the souls. However, the manifestation is under Kuwaka's control more than it is under the souls' control. As such, Kuwaka is able to usurp control over the manifestation from the souls that are puppeteering the manifestation and thus Kuwaka is able to use the manifestations as both a proxy and a servant alike.

Notably, by digesting all of the non-plus that he had consumed and thereby excreting those none-plus from El Grito, Kuwaka was able to materialize his spiritual energy into a plus-like manifestation of all the souls that he has consumed. Afterward, Kuwaka was able to establish a bond between the plus-like manifestation and a zanpakutō and thereby establish a bond between the zanpakutō and himself! As such, through the plus-like manifestation, Kuwaka was able to gain a Zanpakutō Spirit! Subsequently, because the plus-like manifestation was the source of his ability to attain and develop a Zanpakutō Spirit, Kuwaka endowed the name **Misaya** (*Kanji*: **美鞘**; *English*: **Beautiful Scabbard**) onto the plus-like manifestation.

Notably, El Grito allows Kuwaka to both avoid undergoing evolution into a menos and break through his limits as an individual. As such, Kuwaka has managed to surpass the limit of a hollow's power without becoming any sub-type of hollow.

#### **Zanpakutō**

##### Sealed

In its Sealed state, Kuwaka's zanpakutō takes the appearance of a nodachi with a blade as long as Kuwaka is tall.

##### Shikai

The name of Kuwaka's zanpakutō is **Shōshino Zekkyō** (*Kanji*: **焼死の絶叫**; *English*: **The Ear-Piercing Scream of Someone Burning to Death**). It is released into its Shikai state by chanting the command "**Fight the monsters and gaze into the abyss**," (*Romaji*: **???**; *Kana*: **???**) and then calling out its name.

Shōshino Zekkyō exhibits the appearance of a double-bitted poleaxe with an axehead which is larger than the entirety of Kuwaka's body and a shaft which is just as long as Kuwaka is tall. Notably, Shōshino Zekkyō is a melee-type zanpakutō. As such, Shōshino Zekkyō does not exhibit any special abilities. Instead; Shōshino Zekkyō is just compatible with Kuwaka's spiritual pressure, conductive of Kuwaka's spiritual energy, more durable than a supermajority of zanpakutō, and sharper than a supermajority of zanpakutō as well.