Zora Sontara

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**Zora Sontara** (ゾーラ ソンタラ Zoora Sontara): is the captain of the 5th Division in the Gotei 13 and the Kidō Corps Commander and Grand Kidō Chief of the Kidō Corps in the Soul Society. His lieutenant is Takao Mizaru. He came to be recognized as the **Spirit Supreme**.

## Appearance

Zora is a fairly tall, lean-built and muscular young man with tanned skin colour and grey eyes. His most distinguishing feature is his spiky white hair, which is slicked back, its numerous spiky strands pointing backwards and and possessing a single, prominent eyelash jutting outwards.

Fitting for his role as captain of the Kidō Corps he doesnt wear the standard Shinigami robes but instead wears a black under cloths which consists of a black tight and sleeveless shirt with silver accents which outlined his muscles and a metal plate on his collar, and black pants that has two black straps on his thighs, and another two strapped around his shins separate from each other. He wears black metal plated shoes, which appear to be attached to his trousers. His signature red coat is a type of holy shroud, which are actually two separate sleeves connected by a metal plate at the back which covered his arms and was cut off showing his upper torso and midriff, and had a separate red open skirt which ended above his shins with the top fashioned and tied with an agemaki knot, covered by a silver metal plate. In addition to this chosen uniform, he wears a captain's long-sleeved *haori* (羽織). The *haori* is white over his black and red Kido Corps clothes, which sports a black diamond pattern along its bottom half, with the number of Squad 5 on the back inside the Gotei 13 symbol (a rhombus). The color of the underside is a pale turquoise-color specific towards his squads signature color.

## Personality

Zora usually maintains a very stern, serious, and distanced personality, but often loses his temper in a goofy and exaggerated comical style. It would seem however, that this serene behavior is the only emotion that Zora often feels comfortable showing. Outside of situations where he feels confident in battle, he tends to smile or laugh the least out of the Gotei 13 and rarely fools around with the rest of his squad and likes to distance himself more to read or train. In fact, the result of his past at the hands of \_\_\_\_ is the only time that Zora has cried in his life. Zora is generally mature and serious, in contrast to his free-spirited subordinates Takao Mizaru and Kyoka Retsumi. Despite their personality differences, he and them seem very close as they are willing to follow Zora's orders through-and-through for important assignments out on the field. Zora is also easily annoyed by others goofing off or drawing unneeded attention to themselves.

Even in moments that are particularly tough on the Gotei 13 and would warrant sadness, Zora chooses to maintain a quiet solemnity rather than outwardly express his emotions. He has been shown to believe to a degree that these emotions can hinder his judgement as a Soul Reaper. He does not like to fight for reasons like revenge for enemies wounding his subordinates. Despite this assertion, though, he cares deeply for his squad members and wishes to protect them at all cost. However Zora will become outraged upon seeing his closest friend [[]] injured in anyway and that in spite of his preference for fighting without a motivation, will seek out revenge against those who have injured her.

## History

### Past

Zora was born 800 years ago. He was raised with a poor family of 4, stuggling to live, barely able to afford a house. While his older sister was healthy, strong and big for her age, Zora was sickly, weak and often bedridden by severe fevers. His mother spent many days at home caring for him and telling him bedtime stories, and his father and sister often worried over his poor health. Every so often, his parents would leave for long period of time, leaving him under the care of his sister until they return days later with a handful of supplies to live off of for the time being. Zora was an unhappy child who was somewhat self-centered. He used to throw tantrums out of jealousy of her sister's strong body and stamina. Because of his poor health, he didn’t participate in neighborhood social events, and the local children rarely saw him.
One day upon another of his families several day leaves, Zora suffered from yet another fever, this one much worse then before. His sister panicked, unsure of what to do as she did everything she could to ease the suffering. Upon his parents return as zora managed to survive his fevors barely, zora feels only hatred for his parents for leaving him in his time of need wishing that he never been raised by a poor family who abandons him for days and that he wish he would be raised by a rich noble family.
The next day he awoke and felt sorry for what he said and intended to appologize to his family but suddenly found himself alone, not just by his parents like usual, but also his sister was no where to be seen. Although he found it strange as one of them must remain to care for him, he assumed them to be out doing errands and waited in bed for them to return. As time went on they havent returned leading zora to believe they went on another one of his parents leaves and had taken his sister for some reason. This upset him greatly as this time they didnt even tell him they were leaving and left him alone in his condition.
Time went on he continued to wait for their return days went by and even the number of days their usually gone had went by and still no word, while he found that odd he still continued to wait. However the house payment had arrived and was unable cover it and was kicked out as a result. With no one turn to as he didnt know of any of his neighbors and was basically a stranger to them, he wandered throughout the streets to try and find his family as his anger grew now believing that they abandoned him.
After the abandonment of his family, a now orphaned Zora was left to fend for himself on the streets. Zora wandered around the city dazed and confused with his fever starting to act up again, mentally pleading for someone to help him. People who passed by took one look and pretended not to notice him. The only one who tried was a strange man, dressed more fancy then anyone else hes seen in his life. The man spoke to him, saying that he has been looking for him and took him with him to his office to see his boss, a crime lord who leads an underworld crime ring who was in the middle of meal. Zora took a strange fasincation to the food once he saw it, his mind drawing to it.
The boss creeped out by his stare yelled him to stop causing his mind to focus back on him. It was then he learned that the many leaves his parents had took that took them days to return was because they had been coming to him for money loans and work to pay it off. Zora was shocked to hear this, after holding so much anger for their leaves as he now realized they were doing this for him. The boss then continued to explain that due to his parents' untimely disappearance; he was forced to pay back his parents' huge debts to the organization.
As time went on he managed to survive and endure life in the slums as an erand boy errand and collector, stealing goods from the people and delivering questionably suspicious items to other members of the organization in order to contribute to the organization that sustaining him. Despite his hard work, they contantly mistreat him, forcing him to work even when stricken by his fever. Zora began to think this was punishment for his actions hating the boy that drove his family away from him, wanting the suffering to end.
The next day, he was ordered to be sent out on another errand, to deliver another suspicious item to his base across town and this time warned him to keep it hidden and to rush over to them, not to let anyone see it or to let anyone suspcious stop him. He begged the boss to let him rest more as his fever was getting worse this time only to be beaten for talking back and threatened to go or he'll disappear just like his family. This scared him enough to go ran to his objective. Along the way he saw a carriage that he found odd to be in the slums. He looked over and saw a man dressed in black leaving the building it was in front of with a carrier of food. Zora was once again drawn to the food as his fever grew worse causing him to collapse grabbing the attention of the man in black who went to go check on the boy. As he inspected Zora, the man gave him some food causing the fever to subside partly.
The man brought him back to his feet and explained the cause of the fever. He explained that he is no ordinary soul like the others because he possess Spiritual Pressure and that his fever is due to hunger and fatigue that comes from having Kido and suddenly noticed the package he was carrying and asked about it. Zora was confused by this, unsure of what any of it means but quickly realized that he wasnt suppose to stop or let anyone see the package and ran away from the man, continuing his job.
As he arrived at the location the men of the base took him to the back and beat the boy down for being late forced him to explain his reason. Even though he explained, the men were enraged even more and beat him even more for letting suspicous man see the package. One of them was about to finish him off for being too useless to the organization, visitor arrived causing them to go check it, leaving zora writhing on the ground. Suddenly he heard commotion coming from the room followed by clashing of swords and screaming, but didnt care, he hated his life and prayed that who ever it was causing it had come to kill them and himself. Wanting to die to end the suffering. When the commontion finally settled and the door slid open he heard the familar voice of the man in black. Who took the boy with him as saw the bodies of the abusers and the man set fire and destroyed the building he was in.
The man took him in and brought him to his base, he gave him plate of food and place to let him rest. Where he explained to be a Shinigami, and explained everything about Shinigami and kido. Causing a faschination in the subjects. Zora asks how he can learn to be able to learn and control his kido. Which the man suggested the Kido Corps as the best method.

### Kido Corps

With the man's help, Zora was able to start off as a trainee of the kido corpse where he remained with from that point on, where he eventually became committed to their ideologies. Zora was trained along with many other trainees with their instructor who began to explain how the art of Kido draws the power from their spiritual pressure. Explaining how Soul Reapers practice this art in their training somewhat however the Kido Corpse devotes their lives to this practice. Zora took an immedate fascination. While performing his practices he excelled at Kido for a first learner. Zora was given his own room in the Kido Corps barracks, in which he continued his practices in private.
Zora found himself uncomfortable with the fact that the instructors and other trainees, though they strove to be equitable, treated him differently than others. But it was because the boy's skills and abilities were far more advanced than his fellows, a fact that was impossible to ignore.
Seeking to better his understanding, Zora went to the library to take out several books on the concept of Kido. Where he was met with resistance as both the students inside and the librarian refusing to let him in. Claiming these books are too dangerous for a new student like he currently was and therefore was not permitted to read any of it before returning back to his room to continue studying, from there he began using his own methods of pratices, using his own creative ways of testing out kido effects and how to use them using what he learned in training and expanding on its use alone in his room
Zora continued his training with all of the other students under the watchful eye of his instructor but struggled initially, finding himself disappointingly unable to create a more advance kido spell which the other trainees appeared to have no issue doing. Becoming more frustrated as he continued to fail.
This made the disdain from the other trainees and instructors grow more. On Zora's way back to his room, he was stopped by some trainees in his class. They offered to tutor him the more advanced spells he was struggling with if he retrieves something for them in the living world. With a chance to learn and become accepted by others, Zora happily accepted. As Zora walks away, another one of the boys tells the one who gave Zora the directions that the location in the living world is currently shut down by anyone other then soul reapers due to the swams of hallows appearing. The boy jokingly acted as if he forgot. Later that night Zora snuck out of the barracks and successfully managed to sneak his way into the living world for the first in his life.
While exploring he learned of the difference between souls and living as he was unable to communicate to any of the living people and continued the search by himself but with no way of knowing how the living world is layed out, he had no way of knowing where to look. After a while of searching, he heard a commotion happening near by and went to investigate. From there he saw a battle between a swarm of hallows and a group of soul reapers. Afraid of what he saw and knowing he wouldnt stand a chance against them, Zora quickly ran away which caught the attention of a hallow. Zora ran and ran until he couldnt hear the fight and finally stopped to catch his breath. When the hallow landed before him and attacked. Zora tried to run away, barely evading its attacks, however no matter how far he ran the hallow was faster. So he knew he had to defend himself if he had to make it out alive and started launching single digit Hado spells against the hallow only for them to be too weak to even scratch it as the hallow lashed out once again, he was able to dodge it yet again but was grazed on the arm. He quickly realized he cant keep this up and that his kido wasnt strong enough and grew frusted.
Thinking all his training has gone to waste just cause he couldnt hurt it angered him to the point of tears as his life flashed before his eyes as the hallow went in for the finishing blow. Thats when he remembered of his practices hes been doing in his room. Where he developed other ways to using Kido and blasted a hado spell into its mouth as a boost to launch him away. He then fought back against the hallow using a combination of hado spells while using Bakudō to support them. Using these methods was able to help injure the hallow. With the hallow injured and thus much slower he then speak an incantation for Hado #31 **Shakkahō**, however before he finishes the incantation, he contains it in a barrier and begins another incantation for Hado #4 **Byakurai** and fires it at the barrier containing the shakkahō, launching it at the hallow like a cannon and released the barrier as it made contact. Due to not being able to finish the incantation of Shakkahō, the spell became unstable and exploded onto the hallow as the Byakurai bolted through the hallows chest creating a secondary hole. He then begins an incantation for a more advanced Hado spell Hado #73 **Sōren Sōkatsui** to finish it off. Despite still struggling at first and succumbing to the doubt he had to pull it off, Zora was able to concentrate hard enough to successfully perform the spell and finally killed it, and mastering this new technique.
Zora began walking away satisfied that he was able to use an advaced kido spell and defeated a hallow until he found two more hallows appearing, perhaps drawn to the explosions of his battle with the first one. Unsure if he would remerge successful again he saw his death immenant. When suddenly two soul reapers appeared and saved him, killing the two hallows with ease. Upon discovering he was a member of kido corps students, the soul reapers scolded Zora for being in the living world despite it being under lock down and brought him back to the soul society. Despite having more lectures from his instructors, everyone was amazed he was able to return alive and mastered a advanced kido spell that he was able to reamain a student.
With this achievement, Zora gained the confidence that he could have the skills to become a kido master and went to the library and asked for some new books, however, they still believed that Zora was not ready for the books. When the libarian refused to hand over the books, Zora took it upon himself to use his kido to take books from the library behind their back. With the books borrowed from the library, Zora studied his kido in private once again and progressed rapidly in his studies over the following years, becoming more advanced and powerful, creating unheard of methods in performing spells and creating brand new ones himself. As time went on Zora became so strong and talented in kido that the instructors had nothing to teach him.
Eventually he became an offical member of the Kido Corps and was able to go various missions and quickly rose through the ranks becoming one of its more talented members.

### Awakening his Zanpakutō

As one of its highest ranked members, Zora had visioned many ideas of how the Corp can aid the Gotei 13 on both missions and training and presented them to the current Captain of the Kido Corps, while impressed in his ideas, he unfortunately denied them, stating that the corps is a neutral military branch that does not engage with the Gotei 13 unless the situation desperately requires the need of the Kido Corps and dismissed Zora away.
Unable to accept this answer, as he saw great potential in the idea of collaberation with the Kido Corps and the Gotei 13 and returns to his quaters. From then on he gave his studies in Zanpaukto's, the main weapon of a Soul Reaper. He learns that a Soul Reaper must spend every waking moment with their **Asauchi** a loaned, nameless Zanpakutō, and as they progress in their training, a Soul Reaper slowly and methodically imprint the essence of their soul into their Asauchi. This is how they guide and mold their own unique Zanpakutō. Zora was impressed with how this complex tool operates. While he has a Asauchi which every member of the corp's aquires as a basic means of defense, he hasnt spent as much time with it compared to a fully trained Soul Reaper to progress the essence of his soul into it for it to be a Zanpakutō. However he was struck with inspiration and considered infusing his kido into his Asauchi to artifically speed up the process of pouring his soul into it. While it almost drained his entire soul basically almost killing him, the process was successful, creating his very own Zanpakutō before collpasing from exhaustion.
While Unconcious, he found himself in his **Inner World** where he discovered the Spirit of his Zanpakutō, A beautiful woman in white who was impressed with how he quickly brought her into existence and tries to tell him her name. Zora cannot hear him, however, as her voice is muffled by strong winds started to fill his ears making him unable to hear it. He then suddenly wakes up from his unconcious state in a cold sweat.
With this new development, Zora began his training in his Zanpakutō in secret, unsure of what the others will think of him practicing a method outside the Kido Corps. Mastering way to use its powers and combine it with his Kido. He's also been studying Soul Reapers and their duties even deeper then what he already knew and the meaning behind the Zanpakutō's name. With this new understanding of soul reapers, Zora became more clear that collaberation is needed. He then trains to be able to comunicate with his Zanpakutō through Jinzen, however no matter how hard he tried he couldnt force his mind to become one with his Zanpakutō.
Eventually Zora went to the Seireitei to meet with 1st Division Captain-Commander, Komatsuhime Oyuki Munenori to share his vision of uniting both the Gotei 13 and Kido Corp's. While he was thrown off by her attitude at first, respect her postion and demonstrated his plans on paper, talking about how the two groups can support each other when united in both missions and training and way of life for the Soul Society. While reading through them she was impressed with what he has come up with and told him to wait in First Division barracks while she presents these plans to Central 46 and took her leave. The following day she presented Central 46 the documents Zora created and even they were impressed with his plans. Seeing great potential in his ingenuity. However a project of this magnatude would take far too long to enact and not sure where to even begin especially with them being seperate organizations to begin with, however one member suggested something to help the process and sent Komatsuhime back to inform Zora of their decision. Upon her return, she told Zora of their decision, in order to aid in the start of their collaberation, Central 46 has declared Zora to be a liaison between Gotei 13 and the Kido Corp's. Granting him the privilege of a Soul Reaper.
Once he accept the deal, they were then interrupted by the arrival of a division member, who reported to the Captain-Commander that the Captan of the Kido Corps has recently been assassinated. Zora rushed out of room and went straight to the Kido Corps. Upon arriving at the headquarters, he found everyone was in a total panic. Many members rushing through the halls to get to their stations, other members were worring on what to do at a time like this. Few members were accusing others of the assassination and began fighting amongest each other. Zora prevented further chaos, by maintaining a calm head and taking charge of situation. He assists with calming them down once he arrived to the headquaters, sending members to their stations. Doing as much as he can despite there being more people in turmoil. Many were able set up a barrier to prevent the assassin from escaping, others were sent out of the barrier to locate and one suspicious. The rest scattered to set up an investigation locate the assassin within the barrier. Meanwhile he went to the captains quaters to investigate what happened.
Once he arrived, he found the captain dead in his chair. He look at him for a moment before walked in and looked around the room, analyzing everything in there and looked over the body. The room was in perfect condition, nothing was out of place or missing and the body showed no signs of a stuggle. Making him believe the assassin didnt come to steal anything, meaning the captain himself was the target and died without putting up a fight. He then looked over the body for possible cause of death. The only signs he saw was a small, thin wound in the front and back of his chest. Discovering that it was the result of sword stabbing him through the chest. While the Kido Corps do carry Asauchi's on hand for basic defense, none of them actually perfer to use it as their main method of violent tactics. Which lead to the conclusion that it was a Soul Reaper.
In order to find the killer, Zora focused his spiritual senses combined with Kido to detect the reishi of every living being that has been in this room creating trails of energy similar to **Spirit Ribbons** but instead shows the trails of where people have been. He watched many spiritual trails going all over the place in various directions and watched carefully for anything out of the ordinary, when he noticed one of the spirit trails was exiting through the window and jumped out to follow it, slipping through the barrier the Corps created and ran the path it was taking. When following the trail, he followed it right back to his home town he lived in when he was younger and continued to follow the trail.
The more he followed, the more he found himself suspiciously in more familiar area. Eventually he found himself standing before the hideout of his former crime boss. Zora found this even more suspicious. Without hesitating, Zora busted down the door to confront them inside. Upon entering he found himself surrounded by goons, half of which were carrying Asauchi's, others had their palms out aimed at him. He quickly deduced that these men were trained some level of Kido somehow. Whatever happened, their using tools and powers common for a Soul Reaper. Zora had no trouble defeating the underlings and made his way into the hideout, fighting his way through more of the bosses underlings. He eventually made his way to the bosses office and began questioning the man. Thats where he learned he was responsible for everything; siding with a soul reaper to build up his arsonal of stolen Soul Reaper tools and powers, his families disappearance for failing to pay their debt, finding Zora as he was better chance to pay it back despite his sickly condition, using him to distribute his stolen good to other hideouts he controls and planned to kill zora for being an more disappointment then his family was. Zora heard enough and went to attack his former boss, only to be stopped by a Soul Reaper and which he knew he would draw out if he attacked him. Upon a closer look he quickly realized that the Soul Reaper was the same man that rescued him from the former bosses control and brought him to the Kido Corps.
Zora engaged him in battle, clashing his Zanpakutō against his own. Zora questioned him during their stuggle to overpower the other. He learned that he has been working with the boss for even longer then he knew Zora. Working as his enforcer and smuggler, stealing goods from the Seireitei and giving them to him and training his goons in the art of Kido making his organization one of the strongest in the Soul Society. He cared for Zora when they first met to increase his reputation as a friendly soul reaper to avoid suspicion, attacking the hideout he was delivering a stolen good to by orders of the boss, and taking him with him to expect to grow his spiritual pressure hoping he would be strong enough to work with him and perhaps use him to take the fall should things go wrong, and the assassination of the Kido Corps Captain because of how in deep his investagtion was when he stole Kido Corps equipment and killed him to prevent him from finding out about the boss. Zora had enough listening to their reasons and continued the battle.
As the battle continues, Zora proved himself superior, fending off his sword attacks with his own combined with Kido. However this changed when the soul reaper awakens his Zanpakutō's Shikai and the battle shifted surprising Zora with its new powers as this is the first time hes seen a shikai power and had no experience to deal with it causing the Soul Reaper to become the superior one, as Zora struggles to even fend off his attacks.
During the fight the Soul Reaper shows arrogance due to his experience with his Zanpakutō while Zora doesn't know how to use it making him become for forcfull in his battles and boasts about the superiority it grants him as a master Zanpakutō user. He suddenly awakens inside the inner world of his consciousness and sees the woman in white standing before the sunset wondering why he isnt calling her name and repeats it, but yet again Zora cannot hear it. Stating it is sad, the woman asks how many times she has to tell him her name before he is able to hear it, as she thought nobody in this world knew her better than Zora. She then begins to question if he is even worthy of using her powe and decided to put him on trial. If he wishes to use her power and finally hear her name, he must find it himself and sinks below the water hes standing on and found himself underwater and suffers from almost drowning, the woman, following him, states he should not worry, as Soul Reaper control death, telling him to focus the Reishi around him. Listening to her, he was able to breath again and noticed he was surrounded by various different doors. She explains that each door represents apart of both herself and him. Opening a door allows him to see a part of themselves the door represents and that he must find the door that represents her name.
Despite his many stuggles of finding it, going from door to door. He has yet to find what hes search for and instead found many about himself, few of which even he knew about and many others he didn't know about and continued his search. Eventually he stopped his search from exhaustion, unsure of how much time has past even though it felt like days in this world. The woman questioned if he was giving up, to which Zora responded no and stood back up. Instead of searching blinded he closed his eyes to focus his Reiraku, using this to find the door he needs follows it. Once he finds the door, he opens it, containing a Zanpakutō's hilt. Telling him this time he ought to hear her name, the woman urges him to take the hilt. As Zora struggles to pull out the Zanpakutō.
Back into the real world Zora continues his fight with the Soul Reaper putting up a better fight then he was before, catching on to his opponents fighting style and performing better due to better understanding himself. However the battle doesnt change as the soul reaper still maintains the upper hand now showing his true desire to kill him and reflecting that in his sword, saying if he continues to fight, he will kill him. As Zora, thinking he is going to die, begins to lowers his sword in defeat, and the Soul Reaper continues to attack him. Zora sees the woman in white from his inner world again, who, asking why Zora is giving up when he has not yet called her and repeats what it is. This time, he heard her name, **Kenshō Kiyoshi**. Stopping himself from dropping his sword, Zora, looked towards his opponent, calls out Kenshō Kiyoshi, activating his Shikai. Looking at the new form of his Zanpakutō, Zora swings Kenshō Kiyoshi at him, unleashing a blinding blast of light. As the dust settles, he sees the Soul Reaper lying on the ground in defeat. He then took his unconcious body and binded the boss and took them both into custody and called off the search for the killer and now started an investigation to retrieve or destroy all the soul reapers stolen goods the organization has distriputed to each other.
With the situation now finished, Central 46 discussed the future of the Kido Corps. With none of the members able to succeed in the captain, they have suggested that the position for the Captain of the Kido Corps to be left empty until further notice.

### Becoming Captain

As time went on, Zora became a true master of his Shikai and even began his training for his Bankai, his spirutal pressure grew more powerful and due to his connections with the Seireitei, Zora became well accustomed to the Soul Reapers. Due to being accustomed to the feeling of going to his inner world, Zora became instictively able to reverse it and manifest the zanpakuto spirit Kenshō Kiyoshi into the physical world. His problem with being able to learn Bankai was that withall his power he has yet to subjugate Kenshō Kiyoshi under his control.

After the many years of obtaining and mastering his Bankai, Zora became a powerful figure in the Soul Society. At that point Zora has learned, mastered and created various types of Kido's that impressed even Central 46 that they unanimously agreed of appointing him as the next captain of the Kido Corps.

Approximately 110 years ago, the 5th Division captain postion had recently became empty, and when it became time to choose the next candidate. During a Captains meeting, Zora's name was high in many of the captains recommondation's list, due to his position as liaison to the Kido Corps he still maintains his soul reaper privilage made him avilable to given the rank of captain and his reputation was known throughout the entierty of the soul society along with his amazing work as a member of the Kido Corps capable to revolutionize the Seireitei. With all these factors together other captains came to agree and approved his recommondation. Due to having more then six captains recommondations of him and the approval more then three, Zora was approved by **Personal Recommendation** and appointed as the next captain of the 10th Division.

Later that day, Zora formally introduced himself to the 5th Division and explained that he had decided to change the policy of the 5th Division, to merge the division with the Kido Corps.

## Powers & Abilities

**Swordsmanship**: Despite his specialty being in the art of Kido, Zora is a highly proficient swordsman, possessing powerful strikes with equally impressive speed behind them. He can perform attacks with perfect precision and stop them in an instant. His abilities are considered highly dangerous as Zora's swordsmanship style incorporates his tremendous physical strength to overwhelm opponents and cause significant damage with his sword slashes, despite his Zanpakutō's Sealed State's small size. Zora has enough power to unleash Flying Slash Attacks, a sword technique that utilizes the very air itself to strike the enemy from a distance to cut and damage objects beyond his normal range. With his destructive power and flying slashes, Zora is capable of cleaving through entire buildings and other large structures. During his duels Zora has frequently defeated his opponent by his usual methods in battle being striking from various angles to and cutting them with a single attack. He has also used his strength to get the upper hand in deadlock clashes and strike down his opponent. While Zora's preferred fighting style isnt from his swordsmanship, he is highly proficient in combining it with his other skills and instantly switching between any of them. Although his strength plays a large role in his swordfighting ability, Zora is also capable of performing extremely precise cuts. Zora's precision skills allow him to use his swords to block projectiles, even a rapid series of them. Zora has cut objects even in small confines. Zora has additionally shown enough skill to unleash cuts on opponents and objects while in midair, while moving high above the ground at great speed. Multiple times, Zora has managed to fight off and defeat large groups of opponents on his own. If he is fighting weaker enemies (or innocent bystanders that he has no desire to injure in the first place) he uses only the flat end of his blades. Although quite skilled at dealing with attacks from multiple opponents simultaneously, Zora cannot always keep it up, especially if his opponents are skilled in their own right.

**Shunpo Master**: Zora is proficient in the use of Shunpo, keeping fast opponents on their toes with his continuous assaults.

**Kidō Master**: As the Grand Kidō Chief of the Soul Society's Kidō Corps, Zora is one of the greatest Kidō masters in the Soul Society. Having tremendous knowledge and unmatched understanding in all fields of Kido being a true master in the use of both Kidō and Bakudo type spells and has demonstrated the ability to use various high-level Kidō at full power with complete control and can cast them effectively without incantation. He is constantly and diligently studying and researching the Kido casted by Soul Reapers, learning about the many types of Kido there is and how they work as well as studying the existence of Spirit Pressure. Due to being in charge the Kido Corps, he has developed many types of Kido there is, he also tends to wander throughout the Soul Society and Living World, learning more about different types of kido first hand. His vast knowledge and research of incantation, Spiritual Pressure and the secrets behind Kido and its entirety along with his specialty in casting powerful Kido Seals and barriers, he came to be recognized as the **Spirit Supreme**. His Kido expertise is said to be so advanced that the kido he develops revolutionize the Soul Society. Through his vast knowledge of kido and their spells and for his desire to decipher all of the world's form of kido ever created, Zora has conducted extensive research and numerous experiments on creating his own Kido formulas, creating new Kido spells. According to Central 46, the kido spells Zora creates is of a very rare type, incorporating very high-level spiritual pressure in his kido formula. They described Zora's self-invented kido techniques as extremely intricate and well made and is of such difficulty that only skilled magic experts such as himself can use it and is beyond even their comprehension. He has full knowledge on almost every form of kido ever created and therefore knows full well on the structure of any kido used against him as well as what would be the best way to use against them. He can study the structural integrity of barriers and instantly knows what counter measures to take on how to break it, even ones casted by the superior noble clans, a feat which very few captains can achieve. His power level enables him to use low and mid-level Kidō to great effect and trained in the use of them that he is capable of casting them without even the use its of name or level and can cast them by sheer reflex alone. He can rapidly use a single high-level Kidō repeatedly, or multiple ones in quick succession, by name alone, without incantation or calling the type and level, while retaining considerable power and control. He has also mastered the use of the highest levels of Kidō of level 80 and above and can cast them without the use of incantation but the effort can be somewhat draining then it would with the incantation. He can use multiple Kidō in conjunction for various combination and diversion tactics, and have them remain undetected until sprung in sync in a chain reaction. His level of Bakudo is enough to contain and disable even a squad captain and can also produce powerful protection spells while in battle that can withstand powerful enough to easily withstand Kidō and above. Because of his power he is entrusted to the most important tasks in the Seireitei involving spiritual pressure phenomenon.

* **Kidō Creation**:

**Hakuda Combatant**: Though usually not his prefered method in combat relying more upon his Kido and Zanpakutō, Zora is highly proficient in physcial combat

**Genius Intellect**: has proven himself to be the most intelligent being both within and outside of Soul Society. Much of his intellect is seen in Kido creation, deduction of situations, and life style advancements. He is renowned as one of the greatest minds in the Soul Society along with Komatsuhime Oyuki Munenori and 12th Division Captain. He is well-versed in the history, strategy, and tactics of Soul Society, and is privy to knowledge unknown to many. For over 700 years, he had been expanding his knowledge and creative mind, engaging in experiments involving unique and highly advanced methods of Kido. He is very insightful of other people, allowing him to see through a person's demeanor and determine what they are thinking. Also able to read well into the situation, he can seemingly predict anything well in advance. He is a highly capable teacher, able to train not only the entirety of the Kido Corps himself but also train Soul Reaper's to advance their own Kido.

* **Master Strategist & Tactician**: Zora is a very insightful and brilliant man.
* He can quickly adjust to new developments and make quick decisions accordingly. He has great tactical acumen
* is very cunning,
* He is a very perceptive man,
* His skill at battle tactics is undeniable
* **Reiatsu Researcher**:

**Immense Spiritual Power**: Zora can exert an immense amount of Spiritual Pressure, which, in addition to his already admirable combat skills and finesse, makes him one of the most formidable captains. His spiritual pressure can be felt from a great distance, and it has the tendency to make people perspire in fear.

* **Masterful Reiatsu Control**:

**Spiritual Awareness**:

**Enhanced Strength**:

**Immense Endurance**:

**Enhanced Durability**:

### Zanpakutō

   **Kenshō Kiyoshi** (見性清, Pure Nature Essence): In its sealed form, Kenshō Kiyoshi is a moderately curved katana, a golden trefoil-shaped tsuba. It has a white color scheme matching its "Heaven" motif. Its kashira and kojiri are both gold with its sheathe being lacquered solid white a lot like its tsuka with three cords, both the saya and tsuka have simple light five-petaled flower motifs on both sides.

Kenshō Kiyoshi is a Shobu Zukuri style katana of medium curvature. Its all-light coloration is in accordance with its "heavenly" motif. Its tsuba is the shape of a trefoil, with each lobe thickly ridged (as is a central hole in each). The tsuka appears lacquered, being solid white (instead of wrapped in tsuka-ito), and is ridged by a pair of bands directly above the fuchi, as well as one higher up alongside two yet higher, far-apart lines of studs, all parallel. The kashira (singularly studded) is large, based in shape on a kumo (cloud) motif. The saya (colored the same as the tsuka) has a cord with two hanging, tufted ends (seemingly the sageo) a short bit below the tsuba, and is otherwise embellished by a triple set of flower motifs on each side (the pair near the cord six-petaled, the two below seven-petaled). The kojiri is large with trefoil cutouts on each side matching the tsuba, and is accented by a wide, knobbed ring above it.

He normally keeps it stored away in a pocket dimension and can summon it via Kidō.

* **Shikai**: it's release command is "**Illuminate my Path to the Heavens**". In its Shikai, Kenshō Kiyoshi extends slightly in length, and becomes more of a western style medieval sword. The hilt has become navy blue with a golden guard with blue lines engraved on it and a gold and blue middle followed by golden straight double edge blade. It is normally clad in bright light to hide its identity making it almost impossible to see and increase its destructive power. The around it light is so bright that not even Zora has ever been able to see his sword clearly, however he has stated that he doesnt need to, and that all he really needs is faith in his sword.

***Shikai Special Ability***: Kenshō Kiyoshi allows Zora to create, control, and manipulate light at will, His ssword constantly create an immense amount of spiritual power which overflows from the egde of the blade, creating a glow of light surrounding the blade making it almost impossible to see. As such, Zora is able to utilize light-based attacks. Such attacks include shooting beams of light from his swords tip, edge, or slashes (which are capable of causing massive explosions) to physical enhacement that enable physical attacks that connect at light-speed, which can cause devastating damage. While the light he creates are indeed fast, they are only able to travel into a straight line
* **Bankai**: **Kenshō Michi Satori** (見性道佐取, Seeing Nature Essence Path of the Divine): To activate it, Zora starts by raising his weapon in the air Zora's weapon is then enveloped in white light that shines a large pillar of light into the air that can be seen for miles away. Once the light subsides the weapon is missing from Zora's hand as its hovering above him before it decends back down into his hand. It has an abnormal shape that doesn't match what would normally be classified as something specialized like a sword. It has the appearance of what the world calls a "*sword*," but it is not something that can truly be called a sword or have the shape of any known blade. While it has a grip, handguard, and is the same length as a longsword, the section that should contain a blade deviates from the normal form of an edged weapon. The "*blade*" itself and the tip of the sword, spin in a spiral shape, are dull. It has the shape of a cylindrical, drill-shaped pillar made up of three independently rotating segments engraved with crimson cuneiform lettering that spin slowly in an alternating direction like querns, the middle segment spinning clockwise and the top and bottom segments spinning counterclockwise. While it is categorized as a sword, its way of being is closer to a wand. Its three sections respectively represent the heavens, the earth, and the underworld. It exemplifies the world's way of being by having each one of them rotate in opposite directions. The "*cosmos*" is thus represented by matching all three of these representations. Everything together represents the universe.

***Bankai Special Ability***: Upon activation, the segements of the "*blade*" begins to rotate causing all light in the area to bend twist and break all at once allowing him to manipulate any and all light in the world. This remains true even for light based powers produced by other spiritual beings including his own, putting him at an advantage against other light-wielding users even kido falls before this power. This allows him to move, bend and twist light however he sees fit and controls it in a very unique way. Its use is through not only hand, sword and gestures but by sheer thought alone and demonstrating the powers extreme casting range. He demonstrates perfect control over all the light in the surrounding area, multitasking it to perform more then one action all at once and still maintain perfect control without the slightest struggle for control over every separate actions. His control over this power is so advanced that through the use of outside source, Zora is able to manipulate the light emitting from the outside source, turning it into a new source of light attacks.

## Trivia

* Zora's Zanpakutō was originally called **Kagayaku Towairaito** (Shining Twilight) a dual Zanpakutō with a completely different shikai power based on light and dark, being based on Yin and Yang. However because dual Zanpakutō is not allowed it was altered to just light and **Kenshō Kiyoshi** was created.
	+ This also means, while its bankai form stayed the same, its ability was going to be completely different from what it is now.