[BitP:R] BleachITP Reborn OOC Thread 15: Eye of the Tiger... Hollow

[Nicklance]

BTW, let me echo KD's sentiment in saying welcome to both you guys. I'm sure you'll have a blast.

Incidentally, Nick, did you intend for Aya's family name to use the kanji for "soul", or was it something of a coinkidink?

I ask only because a lot of terms in Bleach use "konpaku" as part of a term or a term into itself (Zanpakutou = Zan "cleave", Paku "soul", Tou "sword"; Mod soul - Kaizou Konpaku, etc.).

Fully intended. I think there's another way of writing them, but I know jack about Japanese. But Aya chooses to write this way because Konpaku is balanced. They both had the "ghost" kanji. And Aya could be split nicely into half.

The chinese name for her zanpakuto fits well into balance, with equal attention to the yin and yang.

So yeah she is slightly OCD about balance.

[Kuroimaken]

Hmmm. I recall one term for ghost is "yuurei", but then there are other types of ghost such as jibaku-rei (sitebound spirits), for example. I'll have to run some quick research to check the other reading, if you'd like.

[tgva8889]

Nicklance: Two comments.
1. Your tags in the Shikai Powers section are a bit off.
2. 120 ft and 240 ft are very large. For reference, 240 feet is in the height range of Godzilla and the length of the Great Sphinx. American Football fields are 360 feet by 120 feet. Remember that these are the radii of the Shikai's effect, which means that the sphere of influence would have a diameter and height of 480 feet. That's quite a large area. Transforming that large a battlefield is a pretty high-powered ability for a Shikai.

From my understanding, the Shikai allows one sword to become a sort of "zone of effect" that empowers the other sword. Is that correct? I'm not completely clear on how the second Shikai works.

[riccaru]

Mei and Serazel tried this little thing called staying under the radar.

Von Geister was doing the same until just a moment ago.

Takeshi and the KC members are, again, laying low.

Sereg, in the meantime, waltzed into the mortal world and immediately started blasting his reiatsu all over the place. He put up a giant "I'm right here, and I'm slagging dangerous" sign.

And that giant explosion happened just moments ago, after Sereg released his Resurreccion and still wanted the freedom to prance around mortals. If Josiah's concern about people dying just by being near him were bad before, it's magnified now.

Also, did you notice my posts in both the MW and SS about how people noticed the explosion, and are trying to figure out what's going on? But in the end, it was one large explosion, then nothing else.

As opposed to a continuously hostile Arrancar.

Why did everyone jump him in the first place, you ask?

What, were SWORD and the Shinigami supposed to let an Arrancar frolick around with no oversight or consequences? Really?

My post was more going off of "holy crap that's too much Hollow reiatsu to be anything else", but that works too.

"Continuously Hostile" wouldn't be the words I'd use for the guy who hasn't actually attacked anyone until now. It would be another matter entirely if he were doing anything more than not trying to be blown up.

Also, Genoveva has been said to be at least close to Geister in raw power. Also, doesn't an IFF use something that gives off a signal, and anything without one of those somethings is noted as "hostile" until proven otherwise? I don't think it's going to be able to tell exactly who's in what location. Unless they're going by his individual Reiatsu signature, which can be a false positive. I'm assuming the Princes have a signature at least close to the big boss. Or it could just be his handy-dandy powers.

[Dorizzit]

Riccaru, can you summarize Sereg's actions in your most recent post? I'm kind of confused about exactly what happened.

[riccaru]

Riccaru, can you summarize Sereg's actions in your most recent post? I'm kind of confused about exactly what happened.

He made the place dark again, tried to dodge the lightning and got a hole in his leg for it, shot his cero whip at Allen, got hit by the first wave, mostly avoided the second wave by Hibiki and swung the cero whip upwards.

[Draken]

The database was my idea, soul society knows exactly what Von Geister's reiatsu signature feels like.

And Von Geister's infantes (prince does not really apply because they have 0% probability of succeeding him) have the reiatsu signature of their hosts, only mixed with that of Von Geister and Reene when in their drone forms.

[Nicklance]

Hmmm. I recall one term for ghost is "yuurei", but then there are other types of ghost such as jibaku-rei (sitebound spirits), for example. I'll have to run some quick research to check the other reading, if you'd like.

Sure thing, though I don't think its nice to make you waste your time and effort when the character herself chooses this naming scheme, perhaps as an aside of what her real family name is would be a great addition to her character. :D

Nicklance: Two comments.
1. Your tags in the Shikai Powers section are a bit off.
2. 120 ft and 240 ft are very large. For reference, 240 feet is in the height range of Godzilla and the length of the Great Sphinx. American Football fields are 360 feet by 120 feet. Remember that these are the radii of the Shikai's effect, which means that the sphere of influence would have a diameter and height of 480 feet. That's quite a large area. Transforming that large a battlefield is a pretty high-powered ability for a Shikai.

From my understanding, the Shikai allows one sword to become a sort of "zone of effect" that empowers the other sword. Is that correct? I'm not completely clear on how the second Shikai works.

Yeah the tags are a little wrong. Will get to it.

As for the ft, yeah my bad. I wanted the effect to be no bigger than 5 meters radius for Hei Wu Chang and 10 meters radius for Bai Wu Chang.

And yes, one sword becomes a zone of effect to empower the other. So depending on which sword becomes the "area of effect" the other sword takes on a special quality.

Range and zone issues aside, is the Shikai ability too powerful?

[horngeek]

Dorizzit, Officer Inoue has an action to take that will bear upon the results of your post. Didn't do it earlier because I was a bit busy.

Riccaru, how much energy went into that Cero whip?

[Draken]

I don't know why but the names of that shikai and bankai sound more like chinese than the japanese I usually hear.

Not like I actually understand either, of course.

[Kuroimaken]

Sure thing, though I don't think its nice to make you waste your time and effort when the character herself chooses this naming scheme, perhaps as an aside of what her real family name is would be a great addition to her character. :D



Yeah the tags are a little wrong. Will get to it.

As for the ft, yeah my bad. I wanted the effect to be no bigger than 5 meters radius for Hei Wu Chang and 10 meters radius for Bai Wu Chang.

And yes, one sword becomes a zone of effect to empower the other. So depending on which sword becomes the "area of effect" the other sword takes on a special quality.

Range and zone issues aside, is the Shikai ability too powerful?

*snicker* No worries then.

And you're correct, Draken. Those are Chinese.

[KnightDisciple]

Also, the SCAR droids will affect things.

[tgva8889]

Yeah the tags are a little wrong. Will get to it.

As for the ft, yeah my bad. I wanted the effect to be no bigger than 5 meters radius for Hei Wu Chang and 10 meters radius for Bai Wu Chang.

And yes, one sword becomes a zone of effect to empower the other. So depending on which sword becomes the "area of effect" the other sword takes on a special quality.

Range and zone issues aside, is the Shikai ability too powerful?

I would like a clarification on exactly what the second part (Hei Wu Chang) does. It creates a zone of darkness, which I understand, but what is it about the attacking that it does?

Also, just as a note, both of those abilities seem perfectly fine for just one shikai. Having both may be a bit too strong, though neither ability is so fantastically amazing that I'd say they're too powerful, at least from my view and current understanding.

[Nicklance]

I would like a clarification on exactly what the second part (Hei Wu Chang) does. It creates a zone of darkness, which I understand, but what is it about the attacking that it does?

The white blade is able to attack from any angle and direction regardless of where Aya actually is. It also glows like a lightsaber, but casts no light to its surroundings.

Also, just as a note, both of those abilities seem perfectly fine for just one shikai. Having both may be a bit too strong, though neither ability is so fantastically amazing that I'd say they're too powerful, at least from my view and current understanding.

Slight clarification, both abilities cannot be active at the same time. Its either one or the other at one time. Its kinda like the Shadow Sun Ninja ability, you can only have one or the other, without the need to rotate the use of both abilities one after another.

[riccaru]

Dorizzit, Officer Inoue has an action to take that will bear upon the results of your post. Didn't do it earlier because I was a bit busy.

Riccaru, how much energy went into that Cero whip?

The amount of a normal cero, I'd guess.

[tgva8889]

That I understand. But options are powerful. As a personal example, Taiki's sword has a very limited ability. However, the strategic options that it opens can make it very dangerous, and very threatening. It isn't an obviously powerful ability, but what it does do is create a great deal more combative options.

I don't believe either power, or even both together, is actually that powerful, but that would be one consideration to think about. I personally approve.

[Draken]

Uh... The deserts of Hueco Mundo are endless. There isn't an edge.

[InyutheBeatIs]

...You mean there isn't a Desert of White Sand? Or is it just that Hueco Mundo is the Desert of White Sand?

[Draken]

...You mean there isn't a Desert of White Sand? Or is it just that Hueco Mundo is the Desert of White Sand?

Hueco Mundo is a desert of white sand. Said white sand is implied to be the dust of grounded leaves of the copse of a petrified forest with trees of titanic proportions.

[Nicklance]

That I understand. But options are powerful. As a personal example, Taiki's sword has a very limited ability. However, the strategic options that it opens can make it very dangerous, and very threatening. It isn't an obviously powerful ability, but what it does do is create a great deal more combative options.

I don't believe either power, or even both together, is actually that powerful, but that would be one consideration to think about. I personally approve.

Cool. What about the character to character dynamics? Any objections?

[Kuroimaken]

Uh... The deserts of Hueco Mundo are endless. There isn't an edge.

Fine, I'll ammend the post to be point A to point B, where B is an arbitrarily far location.

[riccaru]

Fine, I'll ammend the post to be point A to point B, where B is an arbitrarily far location.

You mean Canada?

[Draken]

Hueco Mundo is also permanently midnight, it has no sundown and no sun for that matter. If the sun is bearing down on Pico, then he is still inside the city's dome. :P

[Kasanip]

Gee thanks man! Well, my character would like to have a brother/sister type of relationship with her captain. I think that might work because of her personality quirk and the similarity of her zanpakuto's powers with his (light and dark-type). Though Captain Taiki would have to accept Aya's personality first. So this could go either way.

Secondly, the history is still slightly incomplete at the end. Trying to find a reason to transfer to the 10th Division.

I'll just drop my character in here while I head on to work. Please give me your comments so that I could adjust them before posting them in the registry.

Konpaku Aya, 魂魄 文 (family, given)

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Vital Stats:
Gender: Female
Age: 130
Height: 160cm
Weight: 40kg
Hair: Snowy white hair with raven black streaks that seem to never stay on the same place at all times, making it confusing to look at for long periods of time.

Skin: Fair skin smooth like a baby's. Unable to tan even under the longest exposure to the sun.

Eyes: Jet black eyes that are large and expressive. White specks in the iris that are only visible under more than cursory inspection.

Reiatsu: Pure white reiatsu with streaks of black in shades ranging from shadowy grey to jet black.

Rank: 4th Seat of the 10th Division

Appearance

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Appearance: Aya is a short and frail-looking girl with hair that reaches to her hips. Her Shinigami uniform is impeccable, and her reiatsu permeating her clothing only makes the white and black colors even stronger. She carries her twin zanpakuto one on her hip and the other on her back. Whether it is the black blade at her hip or the white blade at her back is not fixed.

Personality

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Personality: Aya can be described as a very cautious person. In her mannerisms and speech, she takes the trouble to think over them more, often leading to an impression that she is slow. A strange quirk about her is worth mentioning. Aya makes mistakes often, whether protoccol or etiquette or something else, as such, she has this strange code of conduct that demands that she act in repentance. If she had spoken in anger, she must later speak in peace and love, and vice versa. As such, this is not exactly the behavior of someone who seeks to do good, but rather someone who is constantly in search for a semblance of balance. This may make Aya seem cold or distant which in an objective perspective is not entirely the case. She is not too close nor too far with people in a carefully drawn social circle.

History

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History: Aya hails from a section of Rukongai that comprises of a section of society that is far more Chinese in nature, despite the largely omnipresent Japanese influence. Growing up as the daughter of a successful water merchant, she receives adequate education and training in preparation to help her father in his business when she comes of age. However, as she is growing up, she underwent a mysterious illness, where water no longer satisfies her hunger. Unsure of what to do, her father tried various cures, but as fate would have it, avoids giving her actual food, as he has never encountered Shinigami who were not Shinigami in the first place, hence unable to associate their requirement to eat food with his daughter's strange hunger.

Giving in to desperation, the merchant informs the authorities of this problem which the members of the 4th Division visits to diagnose. Discovering that it was only due to Aya's awakening spiritual power that is causing her hunger, they fed her and told Aya's father about the truth. Relieved that the emergency is solved, Aya's father makes arrangements for Aya to take the Shinigami Academy entrance exam when she feels better. And after one failed attempt, Aya passed the exams and joins the academy.

Within the academy, Aya applies herself well in her studies, having a foundation of education earlier in her childhood, she was able to maintain the state of mind and concentration necessary for the demands of the Academy curriculum. However, despite this, Aya never grabbed much attention, and was also quite happy being passed by for special attention or extra special classes.

When the time came to manifest and train with their respective zanpakutos, Aya's real power is revealed. By manifesting a pair of swords, and already looking as it still does in its sealed state, and reporting that she could hear voices very clearly whenever she meditates with her swords, her instructors know that in quick time Aya might become a force to be reckoned with, if not already a rare Shinigami who wields two weapons in a default state.

After several meditation sessions over the next few years within the Academy, Aya's body and mannerisms change as well. Becoming more sociable, but also more inconspicuous when she did not wish for company, her constant adjustments for balance in her mannerisms begin to mark her as an odd student. While her fellow classmates never understood the change, Aya did confess her situation to her instructors who understand that being the wielder of powerful zanpakuto would occasionally demand some compromise on the wielder's part in order to achieve cooperation. The instructors in exchange, offered Aya an extension of her stay in the Academy, so that she could use the time to fully concentrate and meditate with her twin blades before graduating and joining a squad. A reasonable caution, because to be unable to cooperate and wield one's weapons fully in a squad might bring danger.

That year afforded to her did more good than just attaining some basic level of communication and cooperation with her twin blades. Aya emerges from the meditation chamber with her Shikai form unlocked. Unlike other geniuses who spend less time in the Academy and attain Shikai at a faster pace than their peers, Aya spent a year longer in the Academy and achieves Shikai at the 7th year of her Shinigami training.

As part of her need for balance, the first squad she applies to join was the 4th Division. Citing the need to repay the gratitude the division has extended to her in the past, she paid off her 'debt' with a year's worth of service. Applying for a transfer to the 9th Division, she learns the rest of her scouting skills and other miscellenous abilities with their training program. This is also where her talents in stealth are discovered and honed to the best that she is capable of. Later, because of several successful showins in the inter-division sparring tournaments, she receives an invitation for intensive training while serving in the 11th Division. Accepting the offer, she develops and refines her duel-wielding skills and made several friends as well.

After 50 years with the 9th Division, and 10 years with the 11th, Aya's development has allowed her to begin bankai training. Taking a year's sabbatical leave from duties Aya enters the meditation chambers in earnest. However despite growing skills and experiences, Aya is not a genius enough to attain Bankai at her age, resulting not in a botched attempt to materialize her zanpakuto spirits, but that the zanpakuto spirits lingered even after the usual duration necessary to subjugate them to Aya's will. While the attempt is generally a failure, the lingering form of the zanpakuto spirits have essentially provided Aya with two companions during her meditative trance, each taking terms to challenge and educate her in their doctrine of light and darkness, and the need for balance to prevail. Where once Aya was only able to choose which of her blades to manifest its unsealed abilities, this mild improvement affords her the flexibility of switching ability modes. It was only when Aya attains a greater mastery of her Shikai where the spirits finally relent and dematerialize, with a promise to return when she is truly ready for Bankai training.

Under recommendations from her peers, Aya applies and is accepted into the 10th Division, allowing her considerable capabilities to blossom, allowing her to rise to the ranks of the 4th seat within 5 years.

General Skills:

Zanjutsu

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Zanjutsu: One of the rare owners of a twin zanpakuto, Aya is a master of dual-wielding. Combined with her small and agile frame and speed, Aya is a whirling dervish in combat. She is also fully capable of wielding only a single blade in battle, but is more comfortable when wielding both. Furthermore, as her shikai forces her to be deliberate in her actions and tactical in her movements, her strokes and strikes are measured and not wasteful and she exhibits extreme flexibility between switching from offensive to defensive stances. Furthermore, Aya's shikai has afforded several interesting methods of attack, of which are either highly risky to herself, or afford an advantage of surprise quickly lost to those that catch on to the weakness of the shikai.

Hakuda

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Hakuda: Aya's unarmed combat skills are passable and average, and she only appears to attain mastery due to her speed and agility. Her intense training in zanjutsu leaves this aspect of melee combat somewhat deficient. Aya is however an expert in grapples, locks and takedowns, something that being a member of the 10th squad must have.

Hoho

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Hoho: Aya masters shunpo along with zanjutsu at the same time, earning a little nickname of "Tiny Tornado". She is also highly capable of aerial combat, preferring its vast expanse in a fight rather than be restricted to the ground or in tight spaces where her speed's advantage is negated. Despite her preference, the specific abilities of her zanpakuto demands that she fights on the ground most of the time to make full use of her abilities, and at confined areas, her abilities have full play. As her one of her shikai modes favor high risk maneuvers, Aya must rely on her natural speed, agility and reflexes as well as shunpo to lower the chances of turning high-yield risks into critical wounds to her body.

Kidou

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Kidou: As expected for the 10th squad, Aya's binding kidou is well trained and developed. Offensive kidou are beyond her interest as her zanpakuto takes care of them. As part of her training with her zanpakuto, Aya has also developed kidou specialized in manipulating light levels, allowing her to dim and blanket a room in pitch darkness, to creating a constant flare of light so powerful that it blankets the spell's effective area in total brightness. These two spells have provided Aya with a niche asset in signal flare techniques, and is one of the reasons for her promotion to 4th seat.

Reiryoku

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Reiryoku: Already a petite woman, Aya's reiryoku seems to accentuate this fact, allowing Aya to fade away from inattentive observation or remain in a room and have her presence not felt. Quite often Aya is send ahead on scouting assignments before a patrol begins where her scouting abilities come in really handy. This does not hinder her ability to socialize or attain a presence in a crowd if she wills it to.

Zanpakuto: Hei Bai Wu Chang 黑白无常 (Black and White Guards of Impermanance)

Sealed Appearance

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Sealed Appearance: Bai Wu Chang 白无常resembles a katana with a white handle and very polished blade that gleams at even the slightest contact with light rays. And despite its reflective nature, any lights reflected from the snowy blade is white instead of the color of origin. Bai Wu Chang has a matte black sheath.

Hei Wu Chang 黑无常 resembles a chokuto, with its black handle and straight polished blade that does not reflect any light, and looks matte under inspection. Hei Wu Chang has a glossy white sheath. Both blades have crossguards that resembles two semicircles, one black and one white, joined together to form a circle. During battle, the guards spin slowly as if attached to a smooth movable axis. In Shikai mode, the guards spin as part of the activation of their abilities.

Sealed Special Ability: Twin blades

Zanpakuto Spirit:

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A pair of uniformed beings, one in mostly white and the other mostly black, in elaborate millitary-like attire appears. The being in white has a kindly air about him, and a tablet he carries that functions as both badge of office and weapon reads "Fortune favors those that meet me". The being in black has a menacing air about him, and a tablet he carries that functions as both badge of office and weapon reads "Death comes to those that meet me". Both men, however different their dispositions are, have long red tongues that are constantly sticking out of their mouths and reaches almost to chest level. This does not hinder their ability to speak.

Inner World

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Inner World: A dark room with only a large platform in the symbol of the Tao can be seen. At the center is a slightly raised dais for the visitor while the other two dais are located at where the circles within the semi-circles are found, those two dais are occupied by Hei Wu Chang and Bai Wu Chang respectively according to their color schemes. The central dias is unmovable while the platform is capable of spinning in various speeds.

Shikai Release Incantation

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Shikai Release Incantation: Qiu Fan Tao Yu, Bing Fen Liang Lu, Qiao Xia Yu Yue, Hong Shui Fan Lan, Yi Ren Yen Si, Yi Ren Shang Diao. (Prisoner escapes, search splits into two, agree to meet under the bridge, flash floods emerge, one man drowns, the other man hangs.) Note: The actual incantation is the last two phrases, allowing Aya to enter Shikai mode quicker, but doing this requires Aya to pay the penance by doing any one task in a longer and more roundabout manner.

Shikai

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Shikai: Only Hei or Bai Wu Chang's ability may be active at any one time. Switching between both weapon abilities takes only a swift moment of focus.

Bai Wu Chang 白无常: Bai Wu Chang explodes into brilliant sphere of white light of radius 10m, casting shadows in whatever direction Aya chooses. Bai Wu Chang retains normal offensive ability typical of zanpakuto, but Hei Wu Chang may attack the shadow of any enemy within the field of light and affect the enemy as if struck directly. In extension, Aya's shadow may also attack the enemy, provided the arm attacking wields Hei Wu Chang. If attacking in this manner, the shadow of the enemy may not be struck. Regardless of how Aya attacks with Hei Wu Chang in this mode, Aya's shadow may be attacked as well, inflicting a lesser degree of damage compared to the same attack if it had struck Aya directly.

Hei Wu Chang 黑无常: Hei Wu Chang absorbs all light in a spherical radius of 5m, creating a field of pitch darkness that any means of seeing in darkness is negated. Hei Wu Chang loses normal offensive ability typical of zanpakuto, instead dealing damage as significant as a stick wrapped in styrofoam would inflict. In this field Bai Wu Chang may attack any enemy within the field of darkness from any angle, becoming an omni-directional type of attack. Bai Wu Chang however becomes the sole glowing object in the field of darkness, slightly negating any advantage perfect darkness and omnidirectional attacks can afford. The glow however only illuminates the blade, not affecting the handle, or Aya or even her hand and arm that wields the blade.

Bankai

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Bankai: Still in training. Major plot point to attain this stage of mastery.

If you wanted to write your names in Japanese, it is not hard.
黑白无常 is Kokubyaku Mujou (maybe we write 黒白無常).

Bai wu chang = Hakumujou (白無常)
Hei Wu chang = Kokumujou (黒無常)


魂魄 is meaning of [soul] because it is together parts of soul 魂 & 魄. Maybe now it is not so different to say 魂　for [Soul] "tamashii" but it is religious difference of 魂魄. So it has balance feeling together, but maybe to say 'ghost' is not good translation, I think Kuroimaken.

EDIT: Ah, it is familiar picture of signature for Nicklance from Prime32 I think.

[InyutheBeatIs]

...*facedesk*

Well now. I'm pretty sure Pico should pick up on how absurd this situation is.

[tgva8889]

Cool. What about the character to character dynamics? Any objections?

I make a point not to "object" to character-to-character dynamics, as if you want to play a character who acts like X and likes to do Y, who am I to stop you? I would say that Taiki knows Aya personally and respects her lifestyle and skills. She probably has a prominent role in the Execution Force, likely as leader of one of the squads (not sure which, you can pick a number besides 7 if you'd like, there are at least 10 and none of them have specifically assigned duties yet).

[Nicklance]

If you wanted to write your names in Japanese, it is not hard.
黑白无常 is Kokubyaku Mujou (maybe we write 黒白無常).

Bai wu chang = Hakumujou (白無常)
Hei Wu chang = Kokumujou (黒無常)


魂魄 is meaning of [soul] because it is together parts of soul 魂 & 魄. Maybe now it is not so different to say 魂　for [Soul] "tamashii" but it is religious difference of 魂魄. So it has balance feeling together, but maybe to say 'ghost' is not good translation, I think Kuroimaken.

EDIT: Ah, it is familiar picture of signature for Nicklance from Prime32 I think.

Awesome, I'll use those names as well :D

And yes I play Helen in that game. (Thanks for drawing Helen!)

I make a point not to "object" to character-to-character dynamics, as if you want to play a character who acts like X and likes to do Y, who am I to stop you? I would say that Taiki knows Aya personally and respects her lifestyle and skills. She probably has a prominent role in the Execution Force, likely as leader of one of the squads (not sure which, you can pick a number besides 7 if you'd like, there are at least 10 and none of them have specifically assigned duties yet).

Probably 4 then, since it fits with her position as 4th seat. Balance see?

But yeah, her skills picked up from 9th division would be an asset. And her small niche specialty in Kidou helps in establishing a series of signal flare-like communications.

And yeah, its cool then, our characters know each other personally.

[Kuroimaken]

If you wanted to write your names in Japanese, it is not hard.
黑白无常 is Kokubyaku Mujou (maybe we write 黒白無常).

Bai wu chang = Hakumujou (白無常)
Hei Wu chang = Kokumujou (黒無常)


魂魄 is meaning of [soul] because it is together parts of soul 魂 & 魄. Maybe now it is not so different to say 魂　for [Soul] "tamashii" but it is religious difference of 魂魄. So it has balance feeling together, but maybe to say 'ghost' is not good translation, I think Kuroimaken.

EDIT: Ah, it is familiar picture of signature for Nicklance from Prime32 I think.

Funny how I learned more Chinese than Japanese from that post.

Which one is the second kanji? I could only run the search with both of them.

[Kasanip]

Funny how I learned more Chinese than Japanese from that post.

Which one is the second kanji? I could only run the search with both of them.

Because there are some kanji, I don't know what kanji you ask me.

[Kuroimaken]

魂魄 are the two kanji of interest.

The first, 魂, is shin/tamashii.

Which is the second one? (魄)