Togabito

The **Togabito** (*咎人, Lit: Offenders*) are a species of spiritual beings that are imprisoned in Hell for crimes that they committed when they were alive.

## ***Overview***

The soul of a dead Human normally passes on to the Soul Society with the assistance of a Shinigami. However, Humans that lived lives full of sin - including those that become Hollows after dying - are incapable of entering the Soul Society. Instead, they are cast into the depths of Hell, where they are bound by indestructible chains and condemned for the rest of eternity. Under ordinary circumstances, these Togabito are incapable of leaving their prison, for they are constantly watched over by Kushanāda, the guardians of Hell. However, some Togabito are capable of leaving Hell and entering the Human World, though they apparently need to conceal their faces to prevent Kushanāda from dragging them back into Hell. In extremely rare cases a Togabito which regrets their sins and redeems themselves while in hell may be purified by the Kushanāda and allowed entrance into Soul Society as a plus.

Whilst in Hell, the Togabito live through a constant cycle of rebirth, death and regeneration. After a being is killed in Hell, their bodies are enveloped in chains, which sparks the transition into a Togabito, ultimately trapping them there, due to the sturdiness of their chains. The strength of each particular Togabito is the primary factor which influences their rate of regeneration.

Togabito as a race have very varied levels of power, since they have infinite time to train and grow stronger a Togabito can become as strong as a perfect Arrancar, however this strength is meaningless before the Kushanada who will always triumph over individual Togabito, if nothing else from sheer numbers alone.

## ***Abilities and Techniques***

### *Above Average Attributes*

As a means to drive a Togabito to absolute despair they are granted supernatural attributes so as to lead them into a false sense of power and make them fight the Kushanada in hell, this strength however despite being higher than even that of a normal hollow still pales in comparison to a Kushanada and thus the togabito often end up dying and reviving hundreds of times in fights against Kushanada.

Nevertheless, when not facing against the Kushanada a Togabito exhibits enough base statistical power and potential that with some training can rival Shunpo in Speed, Hierro in Defense and Blut Arterie in Attack Power without any need for the skill or know how of these techniques.

### *Hell Chains*

Once an entity has been stabbed by a Kushanada's blade or alternatively died in hell they will acquire chains on their body of varying lengths, these are known properly as **Jigokusari** (*地獄鎖, Hell Chains*) and they are absolutely indestructible except for a few rare exceptions. While these chains may appear short at first glance they are actually infinitely long and connect to the bottom most level of hell, with most of their length being untouchable and imperceptible by all except the Kushanada and those empowered by them. The chains of the Togabito transcend even dimensions and because they are always connected to hell they can be used as a way to connect to and draw power from hell's reimyaku.

The Togabito can actually extend and retract the solid and physical part of these chains and exploit their indestructibility for both offense, defense and utility, but they notably cannot manipulate them with anything other than pure reiatsu exertion technique. The manipulation and use of the Hell chains forms the most basic techniques available to a Togabito, a few common techniques include:

* **Clypeus** (*Latin: Shield*) A defensive technique where a togabito will extend and wrap their chains around themselves or alternatively create cover of some kind as a means to block an attack by exploiting the indestructibility of the chains.
* **Carcerem** (*Latin: Prison*) A utility technique where a togabito will extend their chain and cause the end of it to wrap around an opponent or part of an opponent to as to immobilize it. The togabito can then retract the chain to pull the opponent closer, tug it to constrict the opponent or swing the chain to reposition an opponent. This technique is perhaps the most versatily.
* **Aranea** (*Latin: Spider*) A movement technique where a togabito will extend their chain, anchor the end around something solid and then retract their chain as a means of propelling themselves in one direction like a grappling hook. This technique is useful when a Togabito is in an unfavorable position or as a means to propel themselves faster than their pure walking speed.
* **Serpens** (*Latin: Serpent*) An offensive technique where a togabito will extend their chain linearly as fast as they can as a means of attacking an opponent far away with an extending chain in a manner similar to the effect of Gin's shikai but acting a lot more like a bullet instead.

### *Peccatum (Sin)*

The Togabito are able to manifest the power of the sins they've committed in life by using their Reiryoku, when a togabito attempts to do so they must first discover which of the sins their own acts most closely align with as a prerequisite, otherwise their attempt will simply fail and cause them to explode and die. Even if a togabito is aware of what sin they're most closely aligned with they still require a certain level of skill, talent or technique so as to not simply cause an explosion and kill themselves. This suicide bombing effect is one of the many ways hell tortures its inhabitants.

* **Gula** (*gluttony*): Togabito of this category committed their evil acts fueled by addiction or obsession to something, this category is more of a catch all for crimes that don't fall on the rest.
	+ ***Effects***: Gluttony Peccatum generally confer upon their users the ability to absorb reishi and "regurgitate" a reishi construct back out, or similarly, absorb reiatsu and "regurgitate" a kido like effect.
* **Luxuria** (*lust*): Togabito of this category committed their evil acts fueled by a distorted form of love or committed evil acts of a sexual or perverse nature.
	+ ***Effects***: Lust Peccatum confer upon their users some kind of mutation which grants them additional body parts, or alters body parts they already possess to provide new functions. These abilities are reminiscent to the abilities of most hollows.
* **Avaritia** (*avarice/greed*): Togabito of this category committed their evil acts fueled by greed and the desire to amass wealth.
	+ ***Effects***: Greed Peccatum confer upon their users the ability to increase the number, size or dimensions of things or alternatively the reduction of the number, size or dimensions of things. Normally this effect is limited to a single object and is quite fast but sometimes it may be more general making it less fast or powerful in comparison.
* **Acedia** (*sloth*): Togabito of this category committed their evil acts by inaction, enabling others or by helping others commit crimes.
	+ ***Effects***: Sloth Peccatum are quite rare but they confer upon the user the ability to empower themselves and other togabito in a Kido like manner, the actual way this empowerment occurs is dependent on the user but all of them also possess the ability to quickly heal themselves and others with the trade-back of incredibly pain during the process.
* **Ira** (*wrath*): Togabito of this category committed extremely violent acts, such as murder, torture and any such excessive acts of violence.
	+ ***Effects***: Wrath Peccatums generally confer upon their users an increase to their physical attributes, but they may also alternatively provide the ability to manifest a weapon from thin air.
* **Invidia** (*envy*): Togabito of this catefory committed their evil acts fueled by envy and or jealousy towards their fellow man.
	+ ***Effects***: Envy Peccatums always confer upon their users the ability to copy the "alignment" of other Togabitos and manifest those effects, but for each alignment they copy each ability becomes weaker and the very first ability will always be weaker even if no other ability is copied. This allows Envy based Togabito to select what peccatum or peccatums they want or need at the cost of them being weaker.
* **Superbia** (*pride*): Togabito of this catefory committed their evil acts out of nothing but self interest and egoism, the crimes committed by these togabitos do not have any real justification behind them.
	+ ***Effects***: Pride Peccatums always confer upon their users the ability of telekinesis, they can most easily manifest this ability in the form of a force field around themselves. This telekinetic ability may be limited to only certain objects or materials but the power and speed will be greater in comparison to more general telekinesis.

### *Delictum (Crime)*

Similarly to the ressureccion of a hollow, a Togabito is able to evolve and acquire power which is many leagues above those of a normal Togabito, this level of power is referred to as **Delictum** (*Latin: Ultimate Crime*) and unlike **Peccatum** is unique to the Togabito in question. A Togabito's Delictum is the encapsulation of their most heinous crime and the circumstances surrounding it, it is the manifestation of the most heinous crime in their list of offenses and to use delictum is to admit and revel in the depravity of the evil within the heart of mankind.

While the actual effect of a Delictum is comparable to a Bankai in power it often falls in line or combines with the Togabito's Peccatum in some manner, however cases where they are completely unrelated do exist. Very few Togabito actually acquire Delictum because the side effect of acquiring Delictum is that hell will create a new Kushanada within the vicinity of the Togabito which will inherently seek out this Togabito specifically as an extremely high priority target. This special kushanada will until the end of time pursue this Togabito to the best of its abilities.