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Harubo started out as a Vizard in what he would call "Reality 0". He was born in the Rygokguan District (or however you spell the poor district. >.<), as one of the few who had died, and remained with his family. However one day, during one of the Rygokguan's many dissentries in his realm, his father was killed by a group of angry rioters. He swore revenge on them for it, and chose to enter the Gotei 13 after he discovered he had spirit powers. In the Spirit Academy he learned of many things he was supposed to, and one he was not. He discovered one on lonely eve, that there was a way to mask ones inner hollow, joining it entirely with ones soul while maintaining your own sapience, and entire control. Hiding his Vizard nature had been very difficult to say the least so far, and when he discovered this he was estatic. He was not so estatic when he found out that it required one to devour souls, and bodies to maintain your sanity. So, he continued on for many years, garnering a rank of Captain after a few hundred years, and leading a generally happy life. That was until his realities Espada attacked, and the soul society fell to their quick and brutal methods. The first captain to fall was the leader of the 11th dvision, a brazen Kenpachi named simply "Krieg" which in his language meant war. Later in the battle, Harubo and the remaining captains of the 10th, 2nd, and 1st divisions fell back to the palace of the Soul King, barricading themselves within its massive gates, and seki seki walls. However the Royal Guard, Division 0, had been eliminated prior by the Primera Espada, and he was waiting for them inside the gates having already slaughtered the Soul King while they were occupied with the main force. Harubo, and his allies fought valiantly against the Primera Espada, but soon even the Commander General began to falter against the beasts fully released form, and one by one his comrades fell to the monster, and seeing all of this was too much for the 10th Division Captain, and he fled from the scene to the yet untouched Library of the soul society, and quickly withdrew the forbidden book, which in addition for methods of combining the Vizard hollow with the Vizard Shinigami, had detailed a way to traverse realities.
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He spoke the forbidden Kido, neon purple runes forming a circle around him, and a banging on the library door signaled that the Primera Espada, and his "master" were hot on his tail, and suddenly. Everything went dark as a pulsing purple garganta swallowed him, and the sounds of the last battle faded into the back ground. In this void he remained for many years, having little to do but master the beast within him that he had put into slumber for so long. He quickly found out the exact times of his release, having been a academic before all of this, he approached this with a scientific mind set, and set out to find ways to improve upon his control of the beast, and it's power.
After what seemed like a enternity he found out that since his traversing of the void his zanpaktou had changed as he had, becoming a black clawed gauntlet in it's shikai release, and a armor of seemingly unbreakable proportions in his bankai.
The abilities of this change was simply amazing, it seemed to feed off of the light that seeped out from a large sphere in the center of the void, and the closer he got, the stronger he felt. The armor also had something odd about it. Instead of a gauntlet it was now a massive lance of what appeared to be entirely void energy. After awhile the experimentations with his new abilities began to bore him, and he went back to seeing about the Hollow within him... He couldn't risk the ritual now, due to lack of the "food" required for it, but he wanted to investigate something that had been bothering him. Even when he released into his mask he still felt chained somehow, held back by some unknown force. So, one time he went full out with his Hollow mask, the sheer pressure from his spiritual pressure causing his bones to creak, and scream from the weight put down on him, but he pushed on despite the pain. After many hours of struggle, harubo was near black out, but he could feel the first link of the chain that had been holding him back beginning to break, so in a all or nothing push he screamed into the void that had been his home for so long, and it tore away, and he felt a power course through his ragged, and broken body he had never felt before, and he dived into the light, truly fearing nothing for the first time.
When he dived into the blinding, pure, light, he saw a massive flash envelop his form, and he emerged in a Soul Society not much different from his old one. He dismissed the mask quickly, and surpressed his spiritual energy as best he could as he looked around. Appparently he had arrived in a reality that had never experianced the betrayal of the 5th division, and here they didn't even have Espada. He simply slept, and wondered in the Rygoukan for many days, reveling in being able to experiance things again after so long in the void. One day, a young woman came into his cottage that lay on the lower levels of the Rygoukgan, bearing a pitcher of water, and a loaf of bread.
She was well dressed in a Orange sun dress, and had beautiful back length brown hair, and a set of dazzling sea green eyes. Harubo, having not had human contact since before the war, was a little unsure of what to say, or do, but merely nodded to the woman, thanking her for the food and water.... After a moment he remembered some of his manners, and asked if she would like to come in, and enjoy some sweet spread on the bread with him. She smiled, and accepted the offer, walking into the small, recently renovated hut, and entered the dining area, sitting down on one of Harubo's hand woven mats. Harubo smiled at the thought of having someone to talk to again, as he remembered the good times he and the other captains had before the surprise Espada attack. Thinking for abit, he looked up at the woman, his moon silver eyes glinting in the odd light as he said.
"So. If I may be bold enough to ask... What's your name?"
The woman laughed at this abit, Harubo had been so silent up until now that he had seen like some sort of injured animal,and his voice seemed to be hoarce with thirst when he spoke.
Harubo however was not privy to what was so funny, and pouted abit as he thought she was laughing at him. Seeing this provoked her to further fits of laughter, and after a moment of hysteria calmed herself down.
"I'm sorry, it's just you seemed so sullen a moment ago, and now your acting all pouty... It was just so funny that I couldn't help myself. As for my name, my name is Jeanne Von Lamor, I live up in the Sereitei, but I come down here often to visit friends. I saw you down here a few days ago, just kind of huddling, and came to see if you needed help."
Harubo nearly sighed outwardly in relief when he heard that it wasn't he who had done something stupid, or silly by this realities standards, but decided not to say anything more before taking a large glass of water, and quaffing it. This didn't turn out well however, and it resulted in him choking rather comicly before Jeanne hit him in the back rather hard, and caused whatever was blocking his air way to flow into the right pipe.
After a moment of regaining his breath he looked up rather timidly and thanked her for the water, and the help. After a brief moment of conversation, she got up, and left. Leaving the remainder of the bread, and the water pitcher behind, promising him that she would come again tomorrow. Harubo, went to bed that night, for the first time in a long time, felt contented on his straw mat, knowing that in this universe at least. Things would be okay. How wrong he was. When he awoke the next morning it was to the sound of screams, and battle cries from the near by Sereitei. Apparently Divisions 1, 5, 2, 12, and 7th had allied against the others, with intent to take over the soul society themselves, and assert "The noble rule" once more. Being a ex shinigami captain he ran to the Sereitei, gathering Reishi underneath his feet so he could walk in air without fear of any of the lower seats attacking him. There he found Jeanne fighting with her Zanpaktou against a sqaud of 6th division unseated members, the emblazon of the 4th division captain emblazoned clearly on her back. He bellowed in rage, at the beings attacking the one person he had connected with since the void, unintentionally releasing his hollow mask, and blacking out from anger. When he "came to" he found his bloody gauntlet stained with the blood of the 6th division who had attacked her, and the mauled corpse of Jeanne beside him, her heart torn out, and a message written on the wall in her blood.
"Chain the beast, lest it devour you."
Something then, simply SNAPPED within in the Ex captain vizard, and he fell to the ground, tears streaming from his eyes as a inner conflict raged, and then suddenly. He got up, the hollow mask reforming over his face, as he spoke the rites of the binding, and Harubo, The Captain of 10th division, and Harubo The Hollow became one. Merging more completely then any Vizard in any reality to that point, he awoke, the very ground shattering with the sheer force of his sheer spiritual pressure as he walked, butchering the war mongers, and the "Nobles" alike as he ascended the stair case to the soul palace, he crossed blades with this universes Commander General a man named Rei Ishamoto, who's bankai allowed him to ionize the air to create terrible electric storms that fried even Arrancar to a crisp. He had Sandy blonde hair, and serious blue eyes, and as he walked towards the raging unholy being, his brown cloak billowed in the wind of his fiercest storm he had ever created. He struck out against the being, a bolt of lightning striking directly into Harubo's form, searing his flesh, and fusing his bones. However, Harubo was no normal Vizard, and his rengeration that had developed upon his evolution soon brought him back up to full fighting capability, the spot where the commander general had struck only being recognized as ever having existed by a smoking scar on his left pectoral. Harubo began to laugh manaicaly at this, his insane cackles filling the now empty battle field with a sick, deranged laughter. He then raised his energy lance, and lunged at the Commander General the ambient field of ionized energy causing his armor to spark, and sizzle as the energy pressed against his own, however it was not enough, and Rei Ishamoto soon felt the entropic energies of Harubo's lance pierce his stomach, a few harsh words sputtering from the Captain General's lips as he was drained into Harubo as nothing more then a source of energy.
"See what you've done?! Your more of a monster then anything in this world. Go back to whatever hell that spawned you."
And then in a crack of lightning, the commanders withered corpse fell to the ground, and Harubo felt filled by his spiritual energy enough to travel elsewhere.