Ren Chikamatsu

[Ren Chikamatsu]

Name
Ai Ren Chikamatsu.
( goes by just Ren )

Age:
17

Gender:
Transgender
( female crossdresser )

Rank:
00

Specialists:
Specialist Armed Combat / Specialist Advent

Appearance:

Standing at a mere five foot five, Ai isn't the most intimidating of people. He has light muscle tone, not very visible under his fair skin, but then again his slender frame is always hidden underneath a large wind breaker. On most days, every last inch of skin aside from his hands neck and face are kept covered in scarves, jackets, and sagging jeans, on rare occasions he will wear shorts or semi-formal wear, the most revealing thing he owns is a white button down shirt, but again, it's only worn to sleep. The highschool student is very sensitive about his appearance, his fashion at least, seeing as his auburn tresses are always disheveled and unkempt. His hair is always kept short, straight and usually tucked behind his ears though this fails as it always falls into his eyes. His eyes are an oddity, changing from various browns to blues in different lights but this too is hard to catch as the majority of the time they are kept closed. Though he is seventeen years old, he has the appearance of a fourteen year old, but don't underestimate him, he's all man.

Advent Affinity:
Shinigami - object

Power Focus:
[click for close up of normal beads]

Being of Shinigami affinity, Ai can manipulate the beaded necklace he is always wearing, his reiatsu changing it into a weapon. Given to him by a special person, it's an average necklace, falling no lower than his collar bone, a simple string of about 24 clear quartz beads. Having received the jewelry as a child, he is unable to take it off seeing as it's fastened with a tight knot and no clasp on a white rope. Channeling his reiatsu through the necklace, it expands and forms what looks like a barrier or an aura around his midrif of large orbs of glistening quartz, each of the beads dimly lit with a different color of the rainbow. This weapon acts as a shield, protecting him from surprise attacks, especially those of close range, and weak kido spells and anyone he extends the shield around ( maximum of two people ). This also implies that he has the ability to push the beads away from him as well as pull them closer, but only up to about a foot in either direction. The jewels orbit his body, the rotation speed is controllable and can pack some what of a powerful punch if some unlucky soul decides to get too close.

Advent Human Power:
Name: Kamikaze.
Level: Average
Description: Despite acting as a barrier against physical attack and low level kido spells, the beads can also be offensive. Concentrating his reiatsu to one bead at a time, he can flatten the orb into a razor-edged clear disc, and hurl the quartz jewel at the enemy. As the orbs are transparent, they are virtually invisible, but have a reflective surface. Flattening the jewels leaves his barrier open for attack, the more jewels that are thrown, the more vulnerable he is. To close the barrier once more, he must personally retrieve the discs himself. It takes two posts in between each attack, and only six of these small razor-like discs can be thrown without him having to retrieve at least one. If the user returns the beads to they're non-altered form, any discs that were thrown automatically turn back as well, returning to the necklace by any means necessary. To use the power once more after returning the weapon to normal, the user must wait three posts.
Restrictions: Must have beads as weapon. Once thrown, the discs can also be thrown back at the user in the same manner. To close gaps in barrier, each disc thrown must be retrieved by the user in some way.

Transcendence:
Name N/A
Focus Form: N/A
Release Conditions: N/A
Abilities: N/A

History:

With hard working, diligent parents that only wanted what was best for their child, how Ai is the way that he is, is a mystery. Since the day he was born, he's been the laziest in everything, surprisingly a sudden spark of interest turned him on to sports at some point in his life, though he's never asked to formally join any one team as he tends to get lazy half way through a season. It's more of a recreational hobby, aside from sleeping, sleeping and doing nothing is his profession. He knows the value of money, of course, he was raised very well, but the origins of his I don't care for the world much attitude are unknown.

There was only one secret he harbored and he took careful care to preserve. His parent's would never have approved of their daughter falling in love with another woman, to the point of Ai's obvious indifference to their concerns. If she couldn't have what she wanted, why would she grant them their wishes? It was bad enough that as a tomboy she naturally preferred more masculine clothing, but was forced into frilly fashion because her preference wasn't approved of.

In elementary school, Ren met his partner for life Yuma Haru Hayashi, they are inseperable despite they're obvious differences. They both seemed to share a similar problem, though it seemed that Yuma handled his situation differently, of course because of his own past. One made up for what the other lacked, and vice versa, and company was always a plus. Ren's parents did, however, hope that Haru would be a positive influence, seeing as Hayashi was a well-mannered intelligent child, and were proud when Ai agreed to attend highschool ( mind you they thought she was moving out with her boyfriend ). So it went, with the hard earned money his mother and father saved up, he was sent to Karakura Town where he attends Karakura highschool along with Haru in their own apartment.

Life was hectic at first, but comfortable. Ai underwent her changes, all her wardrobe was replaced with male's clothes and she cut off her hair. From her stand point, it was much harder for a woman to fall for another woman, always opting to be best friends and the such, not what she was aiming for. The way she was, it was possible to change back and forth, between adorable teen and an even cuter boy. The only thing she ever cared for was what was thought of her, and Yuma.

It was in their second year, walking back home from the store for what ever the refrigerator lacked that it happened. Neither knew just how tuned in to other worldly happenings they were until they saw first hand just what death looked like. Before them was a violent struggle of power between a hollow and a shinigami, the sight overwhelming for the two that all common sense escaped them. The battle was wild, and the two fighters struggled, putting the students' lives in serious danger. At one point, after trying to escape, Ai was forced to shove Haru away from him, out of harm's way. Both rolled, unnoticed by the two fighters. With the hollow rearing to strike the death god again, the young ones on either side of the battle field, Ren rolling to a stop behind the Shinigami as Haru stopped near the roaring beast.

What happened after that, like anyone else who has experience a traumatic event, Ai doesn't remember a single thing, except for the monster's roars and a soft drumming that rang in his ears as he awoke the next day. Life went on as usual after this, his personality unaffected by anything that happened, he was still his lazy ass self. It was the day after that the battle he witnessed sunk in, on the way home with Yuma, he lifted his arm to throw a small bag at his beloved, his thumb catching on the necklace that Yuma had given to him as children. Instead of the expected snap followed by the sound of delicate beads bouncing and shattering on the concrete, the jewelry expanded around his body each quartz bead lit with a different color of the rainbow.

With more experimenting, him and his Yuma slowly discovered what they were now capable of, despite the inicial shock, Ai has already grown accustomed to the strange abilities and sensations now, they were integrated as a part of his lazy lifestyle. He still doesn't care much, at times being reckless and careless, using this ability to control his necklace to make life even easier in public, it's not like it was his biggest secret to begin with.

[Takuya]

Approved.