~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~General Information~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Name: Xin, Marin
Alias: Xenmar (To those outside the Espada), Arja Xin (In his Gegai form)
Gender: Male
Age: 5,010
Visual Age: 24
Race: Hollow
Hollow Hole Location: Left Shoulder, 1 inch diameter
Number Location: three inches below the right wrist
Mask Fragment Description: a cool-smooth bone-scar curving from the edge of his right eyebrow to slightly blow the center of his eye, there are three additional short curving lines out from the initial curve.
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Special Ability: Garganta Shouchi (Trans: Garganta Awareness)- This allows Xenmar to desern locations that recent Garganta have gone to and when\where Gargantas emerge. To trace it takes a moment to trace, but the arrivals don't take concentration, it's like a sense.
He can "hear" the remnant garganta like a buzz and to track the Garganta. It has a "sound frequency" that frequency must be listened for, like listening for a particular musical instrument in music. Once this is found He can open a Garganta that matches the "Sound" and follow it.
For detecting the arrival it is heard as a "Sound" with the noise level being an indicator of distance.
Extra Information: Xenmar considers himself a scientist or “forger of methods”, however this has cost him.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Additional Information~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
*This stuff is optional
Blood Type: Neon black\red
Family Members: Serin Xin-Shinigami (Daughter), Harrin Xin-Human (Very far removed descendant), Zerin Xin-fledgling Hollow (Descendant), Seis ("Adopted" Son\Experiment Six)
Birth Date: May 25th 300BC
Star Sign: Taurus Element: Earth Quality: Fixed Sign
Favorite Food: Sushi, Augment Souls
Least Favorite Food: Flounder
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Appearance~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
General Appearance: He has an eye condition giving him two different eye colors, one eye Orange and the other is Blue. He wears a Uwagi (Sanosuke Sagara's long jacket). It is silver with gold Chinese Kanji on the front that translate to Echo. Under the Uwagi is a dark blue, nearly black, Gi and Hakama. On the back of the Gi is a faded image of his family's crest. In addition to the Gi he wears an ying-yang earring dangling on a short chain also he occasionally wears sandals, but normally just sandal socks. There is a wavy blue scar on his left arm that sometimes glows in the dark as a remnant of his travels in Zenopolis. His slick red hair is done in a braided bun on the back of his head with a two inch braid dangling down where at the end the hair is free down to his ankles. The hair on his head has periodic strands down over the sides of his face starting from short bangs that expand in length as the get to the sides, the longest being just below his ears.
Gegai Appearance: Black hair and nice suit. He stands at six feet and is of an average weight for his height. Additionally he has a short well kept black beard.
Reiatsu Color: Black shelled with a water blue core and bursts of dark purple and red
Height: 5ft 6in
Weight: 133 lbs
Body Type: Athletic with noticeable slight muscle
Extra Information: a known technique of Xenmar is to incorporate obscuring color hazes throughout his Reiatsu.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Persona~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Likes: Experimental data, Observing his family line, maintaining balance.
Dislikes: Big shots (personality type). Threats to “Friends” or Seis.
Goals: Create a see-saw balance between the Shnigami and the Arrancar acting to make sure that while there are battles neither side gets beyond recouperation. Break or at least understand the Kidou Seal.
Insecurities: Killing and final death of those of his family line. (Though he has no qualm with trapping, converting or non-lethal experiments.)
Fears: His view of The Balance between the Arrancar and Shinigami being disrupted.
Strengths: Exotic Manipulation of Cero\Reiatsu gate creation from studied techniques, The Kidou Seal hold unpredictable powers.
Weaknesses: Not all living memories vanished with time, Xenmar has a code, he will keep his word as long as he gives it. If there is a need to revoke his word he will inform the involved party without intended trickery. The Kidou Seal contains a fraction of his power and siphons a part of any power he gains. Full Reiatsu suppression is difficult.
Phobias: N\A
Extra Information: Xenmar tends to respect strong entities sometimes to the point that he momentarily forgets their Friend\Foe status off the battle field. Meaning he might not instantly attack if a person he respects is happened upon, assuming it doesn't violate his duty.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~History~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Marin Xin was born in the ancient Chinese village of Maybow in 300BC during the Warring States period. He lived as a blacksmith, married and had a daughter. When armies came he stepped up as a defender. Until his 24th year when the Min Xou clan attacked, destroying part of the village and killing Marin Xin in process. Even after he died he remembered his vow to protect his village and his daughter. Years passed as memories started to blur, until he realized this was all for naught as eventually the village was destroyed by the returning Min Xou due to Marin's limited ability to interact with the world around him. He then vowed to kill the ones that destroyed his hometown which he had sworn to protect. After years of journeying through the lands until he finally found every one of the enemy soldiers and he didn't just destroy them, he devoured them finding that this satisfied his vengeance more for a reason he couldn't quite understand. After he had killed and devoured the destroyers he felt lost as the meaning had disappeared and his descent into a hollow complete.
Marin Xin's preferred targets were murderers and enemy armies. For a Hollow he retained some of his cunning and intelligence and as he made his way from village to village he heard rumors from the denizens of the dead that a special soul, a Shini-something goes around and destroys Hollows. Marin tried to hold back his devouring, but he was only able to resist so much and as he continued eating he occasionally sensed something. One time in the village of Ginou he though he was being followed until it split off. Xin followed the odd feeling, being led by his hunger and saw another more powerful Hollow fighting what he called a Shinigami. The Hollow looked as if it wasn't going to win, though this wasn't confirmed by Marin as he left rather than have any of the moves he saw from the Shinigami be used on him. After this event a new hunger stirred in him, one that wouldn't be fed for many more years.
More timed passed, the seasons went by and Marin found an army battling against what could only be described as barbarians. Death was in the air and it was a feeding ground for him, but even then the hunger didn't subside all it did was attract the attention of a nearby new Shinigami and a fight ensued, new Shinigami power vs an intelligent hollow drawing on battle instincts. What happened surprised even Marin, he was able to consume the fledgling Shinigami and he felt power satisfying power, an answer to his new hunger. However he was surprised as another Hollow that was attracted to this feeding ground attacked him. Powers clashed as the two blurred around the field of death, both gaining strength as they fought, until a new power flared up inside Marin for the Shinigami gave him a boost in addition to the eating of these souls and let him reach a new level of power before his opponent. Again Marin shocked himself, when he defeated his opponent he devoured him. Marin had devoured another Hollow?! And it had a particular appeal to him, unfortunately this is what started to fragment his memory.
For 100 years Marin or now with his shattered mind Xenmar went around devouring killers for a reason he couldn't fathom and other Hollows for reasons he could, he enjoyed the power, but a feeling from long ago was nagging him. He just couldn't seem to shake the feeling and it stayed with him for a long time. At this point as a Menos-Hollow he staid on the outskirts of Hueco Mundo consuming wandering Hollow. Xenmar occasionally went to the human world to slay humans for the purpose of attracting Shinigami to consume them. At times this worked and other times he had to flee back to Hueco Mundo. After absorbing another Menos-Hollow he learned the value of not incurring the wrath of the Soul Society from its memories. So he stayed hidden, getting into conflicts with other Menos he knew he could defeat. The strange thing he noticed was that the more he devoured the more he seemed to reorganize his shattered mind. Unfortunately by this time he had made a enemy of Homid Zue, a Menos Grande.
After 200 years of cleverly leading Homid Zue into confrontations with the Shinigami, Homid had finally become weak, weak enough for Xenmar to absorb the regenerating Hollow to become a Menos Grande himself, or so he thought. One of the Shinigami Homid Zue had absorbed was really a Vizard, and after Homid's absorption into Xenmar the mask came off unleashing a power that he could barely contain. This experience had weakened him for a time, but after he acclimated he found that he was no longer a Menos Grande, but an Adjuchas.
Due to his transformation thanks to the unfathomable release of power, Xenmar became overconfident and made a former ally Donezo jealous to the point that he attacked and nearly absorbed Xenmar. Xenmar was only able to force Donezo to flee. That event caused Xenmar to create his own group to defend and feed him from other Hollow, but due to his thought of extreme power he failed to care whom he had in his employ. This was a critical mistake as Donezo, gained power and planted people in Xenmar's fraction. After 20 years Donezo was ready for a strike after gaining enough power to become a Adjuchas himself. He and his allies within Xenmar's group assaulted him. The fight reminded Xenmar of his first Hollow fight as this was nearly just the same, two Hollow of near equal power fighting and blasting the landscape and each other. Both Hollow were gravely injured by the end of the battle and Xenmar had lost his “command” due to his overconfidence, forcing him to bounce between Earth and Hueco Mundo several times, stealing “kills” when he could from embattled Shinigami to regain his strength.
Over the next 800 years Xenmar thought about how he could get back at Donezo. After a few clashes he realized that he couldn't beat Donezo yet so he tried to get help from Menos Grande. The two Menos Grande that helped gave Xenmar the edge, several battles were won. This lasted only for a matter of months for at the end of the third month his new allies attempted to absorb him, this obviously wasn't appreciated by Xenmar, but unfortunately in a straight up battle he couldn't match two beings of such immense power. Desperation set in as chunks of his body were taken apart atom by atom and regenerated, but eventually Xenmar was able to use his Reiatsu to disrupt the Cero of his attackers and beat them soundly. Xenmar would not have absorbed them, he in fact respected their power, but they intentionally spiked their spiritual pressure. It took a moment for Xenmar to realize why, they had traveled rather far in the battle... they were within the patrol area of the Soul Society! As a defensive measure he absorbed the two Menos Grande and as a result became something greater, he felt their power, their experience coursing through him. His Reiatsu pulsed ravaging the area, he now found himself smaller, roughly human sized now or at least proportioned. However, before he could fully explore his new power as a Vasto Lord, a contingent of Shinigami arrived. In the beginning Xenmar had the advantage, he was easily able to dispatch all but one of the Shinigami. This Shinigami was a master of Kidou and with the last of his stamina he released an uncontrolled art on Xenmar. This sealed a fraction of his power in his Hollow Mask and reverted him back into a Adjucha, but it was more like resetting a clock then locking his power. Ether way Xenmar was forced to flee after his power crash.
The encounter with the Kidou artist intrigued him after he was able to cope with his situation. He then set off to study the Shinigami in hopes of developing a technique to use on Donezo. Centuries passed as he studied both the Shinigami and their Kidou. At the end of the 800th year he believed he had found a way to regain his power with the arts he'd been developing. Xenmar had determined that his power was sealed within his mask and a portion of any new power gained was also going into his mask so he determined that if he was able to absorb enough energy to overload his mask at one time he'd be able to take advantage of all the absorbed power.
90 years later he clashed with Donezo, the one who had usurped his power base and then enhanced it. Xenmar, despite what he thought of himself, couldn't compete against Donezo group's combined might, it even at times challenged Aizen. At the latter half of the 1,000th year Xenmar temporarily joined forces with Aizen to defeat Donezo and it worked in defeating him, but the energy was still partly absorbed; apparently the mask's power wasn't finite. However with the victory there was also a plot twist, Aizen's surviving force consisting of 3 Menos Grande and 2 Adjucha led by an Arrancar, and after seeing Xenmar's power they took it upon themselves to offer him an ultimatum, join Zeekin (the Arrancar) in a take over attempt or be divided amongst the supporters. Xenmar didn't appreciate the threat, if there was anything he didn't like more than big shots it was threats to his personality. Xenmar then released his Reiatsu and distorted the area causing the initial shots to miss. He figured that he couldn't take the thing called an Arrancar, but he could take the Grande in the distort zone. After taking a hit from the Adjucha, Xenmar absorbed the Grande, regenerated and began disrupting Cero. This weakened the Adjucha, crippled the Grande, but seemed to have no effect other than minor irritation on the Arrancar. After half an hour of battle he was able to absorb both Adjucha one after the other. A familiar feeling swelled in him, it felt like the Vasto Lord power, but it was as if a dam was holding him back. Unfortunately this moment of realization cost him his defense as the Arrancar still unaffected by the Cero disrupting field fired an energy blast tearing his left arm from existence. Xenmar's attempts at regeneration failed, he couldn't replace his arm! This, this Arrancar was in another league. The battle continued with Xenmar on the defensive for another hour. Xenmar shot a Cero at his Arrancar foe, Zeekin. Zeekin just seemed to stand there, but at the last second he deflected the Cero with his sword. Then Xenmar shot another Cero this time modified with his Kidou knowledge, the Cero split like a MIRV, but even though this trick was an impressive feat it held no such status to Zeekin who once again deflected it and returned with his own Cero. Xenmar used his Reiatsu arts to bend the blast around him though it was only partly successful. The Adjucha Xenmar by some miracle of odd skill lasted this long was about to meet his end. Zeekin burst with power as he activated his Resurreccion and placed the tip of his sword to Xenmar's Hollow Mask and unleashed a Grand Cero. This by all rights should have been the end of him, but as the Hollow Mask completed it's first crack it unleashed some of it's sealed power deflecting the blast and like cracking a vacuum seal the masked sucked the Arrancar in. Xenmar fainted, power bleeding into him. When he arose he felt different, but ok, his mask had a scar in it as if it had healed itself and then he realized something... he was once again a Vasto Lord and still suffering from the Kidou curse.
60 years passed and Xenmar continued his Shinigami studies, still suffering from what he is now calling the Kidou Seal. These studies were not without a price however, both Elite Shinigami and Aizen's forces soon took notice and for different reasons decided to target him. The Shinigami other than their standard mandate attacked him for trying to learn their Kidou methods and Azien deemed him an enemy for not destroying the Shinigami despite numerous opportunities. Eventually the Vasto Lord Xenmar fought a Shinigami, one that looked vaguely familiar as if someone in the distance was trying to be remembered. After a long fight lasting hours the Shinigami was critically injured and as Xenmar approached to consume the powerful Shinigami soul he realized what the familiarity was, she was of his family line. He stopped hesitant to kill, some feeling from his living time surfacing, but his hunger for new power and knowledge was exceedingly powerful. In an attempt to reconcile his feelings and desire he clawed at his face and ripped off his mask. The Shinigami blew away as a tremendous amount of energy was exuded, emanating in all directions destroying a flattening everything in the remote vicinity. The Mask's scar imprinted on his face as a cool-smooth bone-scar curving from the edge of his right eyebrow to slightly blow the center of his eye. Xenmar had just transformed into an Arrancar from a Vasto Lord, his power still being siphoned by the Kidou Seal.
16 years later Vasto-Arrancar Xenmar had just finished a battle against an Aizen taskforce he sensed a new power and turned to face it,but saw nothing. Maybe it was some kind of premonition because the Shnigami had begun to break down, or so the rumors were. He soon enough seized control once he found out the truth of the rumors. Xenmar was just taking an opportunity with rekindled overconfidence of old pushing him further. The Arrancar used intellect to maneuver his fellow Arrancar to work together. At first he did this without their knowing, but soon revealed how working as a group helped all. With his new power base he took his Espada to battle. Unfortunately he realized that most of his Espada were only working together due to necessity of battle and would overthrow each other or try to overcome Xenamar himself if they were to survive the upcoming clash in the Seretei.
The war, battle, shattered the Espada, some dying, some leaving. Even though the battle was ultimately a failure he did get tangible and intangible things out of it. The initial revelation after the retreat was a new perspective:: Both the Arrancar/Hollow race and the Shinigami need each other. Without the Shnigami most Arrancar needing something to fight and hate would turn on each other and ultimately prove self-destructive. The Shinigami need the Hollows and Arancar, despite their goal of peace, they would be lost if all their enemies were gone... everyone needs a goal.
The tangibles were quite interesting during the battle he gained the mask, or rather part of a mask, of a Vizard by the name of Chevalier. He planned on experimenting on it, but he had to gain resources more then he had now.
Shortly after the battle he began rebuilding his power base. Xenmar began studying the Shinigami again, learning things. His study had taught him how to create Gigai and unintentionally unveiled gate creation, an ability that may lead to stable plane creation and enable Xenmar to conduct research and plans more quickly, but for now lets fast travel occur. When first experimenting with this skill Xenmar had create a gate that trapped him in a hellish dimension At first Xenmar found the place interesting, being able to do research on these creatures he didn't recognize. This fascination ended after 50 years of experimenting on the new creatures, these beings were equal to if not more powerful than he was. Xenmar spent a total of 1,700 years in the hell dimension that he named Zenopolis. While in there he was forced to absorb and kill many things, though it seemed like no amount of power increase would suffice until he learned to unleash his Resurreccion and later his Segunda Etapa to elevate him to equal or in some cases near equal footing to the Vasto Lord level entities in Zenopolis. In addition to his survival when he could he planned for his eventual escape. He planned on using the Human world to slowly build up forces and power in the guise of a corporation using Gegai for himself and Arrancar/Hollow under his sphere of influence. With the time he spent in Zenopolis he had planned every building block of the foundation, though the future beyond that was unknown and even getting out was an uncertainty.
Eventually Xenmar found a way out he found that only mere hours had passed. While Xenmar survived it wasn't without cost as there was now a wavy blue scar on his left arm that sometimes glowed in the dark. In addition to that, the power he collected in Zenopolis is hard for him to suppress, there have been sometimes when his observation of the Shinigami have been foiled or general location given away by these Reiatsu leaks. In accordance with his corporate plans he, within the year, demonstrated his power to the Arrancar, Xenmar, Marin, was now not going to be easily overcome and so gathered supporters and let leave the ones whom didn't want to join him.
Now with a power base once more as King of Hueco Mundo he set up the Corporation known in the Human world as Arrancar Corporations or Arran Corp. He hopes to build his Espada, Board of Executives, completely and get closer to his new post war goal.
With the resources of Arran Corp and Hueco Mundo Marin used the Vizard mask to gain new Shinigami understandings and created an Arrancar Soul Burial Seal to relocate Pluses to Arrancar Corp. a symbol is bestowed to select members of the corporation. These new understandings also enabled a great feat of engineering he created after six times a creature with more of a Hollow\Shinigami Reiatsu balance. Marin called this Vizard-esk creation “Seis”.
Now a year after the battle Marin, Xenmar, King of Hueco Mundo is running a Human world Corporation gathering power to one day maintain a see-saw balance between the Hollows and Shinigami.
NOTES: (WIP attempt to enact similar restriction on Segunda as Vizard Res)
Marin\Xenmar as KoH has instituted a power limiter\Control in the Espada\Arrancar Numbers.
There is a Segunda Post limit of 10. This may be extended by Marin\Xenmar.
Standard Ressureccion may be subject to the power limiter. depending on power
Marin\Xenmar may power seal Segunda at will.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Member Information~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Alias: Marin
Other Characters: First
Name: Xin, Marin
Alias: Xenmar (To those outside the Espada), Arja Xin (In his Gegai form)
Gender: Male
Age: 5,010
Visual Age: 24
Race: Hollow
Hollow Hole Location: Left Shoulder, 1 inch diameter
Number Location: three inches below the right wrist
Mask Fragment Description: a cool-smooth bone-scar curving from the edge of his right eyebrow to slightly blow the center of his eye, there are three additional short curving lines out from the initial curve.
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Special Ability: Garganta Shouchi (Trans: Garganta Awareness)- This allows Xenmar to desern locations that recent Garganta have gone to and when\where Gargantas emerge. To trace it takes a moment to trace, but the arrivals don't take concentration, it's like a sense.
He can "hear" the remnant garganta like a buzz and to track the Garganta. It has a "sound frequency" that frequency must be listened for, like listening for a particular musical instrument in music. Once this is found He can open a Garganta that matches the "Sound" and follow it.
For detecting the arrival it is heard as a "Sound" with the noise level being an indicator of distance.
Extra Information: Xenmar considers himself a scientist or “forger of methods”, however this has cost him.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Additional Information~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
*This stuff is optional
Blood Type: Neon black\red
Family Members: Serin Xin-Shinigami (Daughter), Harrin Xin-Human (Very far removed descendant), Zerin Xin-fledgling Hollow (Descendant), Seis ("Adopted" Son\Experiment Six)
Birth Date: May 25th 300BC
Star Sign: Taurus Element: Earth Quality: Fixed Sign
Favorite Food: Sushi, Augment Souls
Least Favorite Food: Flounder
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Appearance~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
General Appearance: He has an eye condition giving him two different eye colors, one eye Orange and the other is Blue. He wears a Uwagi (Sanosuke Sagara's long jacket). It is silver with gold Chinese Kanji on the front that translate to Echo. Under the Uwagi is a dark blue, nearly black, Gi and Hakama. On the back of the Gi is a faded image of his family's crest. In addition to the Gi he wears an ying-yang earring dangling on a short chain also he occasionally wears sandals, but normally just sandal socks. There is a wavy blue scar on his left arm that sometimes glows in the dark as a remnant of his travels in Zenopolis. His slick red hair is done in a braided bun on the back of his head with a two inch braid dangling down where at the end the hair is free down to his ankles. The hair on his head has periodic strands down over the sides of his face starting from short bangs that expand in length as the get to the sides, the longest being just below his ears.
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Gegai Appearance: Black hair and nice suit. He stands at six feet and is of an average weight for his height. Additionally he has a short well kept black beard.
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Reiatsu Color: Black shelled with a water blue core and bursts of dark purple and red
Height: 5ft 6in
Weight: 133 lbs
Body Type: Athletic with noticeable slight muscle
Extra Information: a known technique of Xenmar is to incorporate obscuring color hazes throughout his Reiatsu.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Persona~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Likes: Experimental data, Observing his family line, maintaining balance.
Dislikes: Big shots (personality type). Threats to “Friends” or Seis.
Goals: Create a see-saw balance between the Shnigami and the Arrancar acting to make sure that while there are battles neither side gets beyond recouperation. Break or at least understand the Kidou Seal.
Insecurities: Killing and final death of those of his family line. (Though he has no qualm with trapping, converting or non-lethal experiments.)
Fears: His view of The Balance between the Arrancar and Shinigami being disrupted.
Strengths: Exotic Manipulation of Cero\Reiatsu gate creation from studied techniques, The Kidou Seal hold unpredictable powers.
Weaknesses: Not all living memories vanished with time, Xenmar has a code, he will keep his word as long as he gives it. If there is a need to revoke his word he will inform the involved party without intended trickery. The Kidou Seal contains a fraction of his power and siphons a part of any power he gains. Full Reiatsu suppression is difficult.
Phobias: N\A
Extra Information: Xenmar tends to respect strong entities sometimes to the point that he momentarily forgets their Friend\Foe status off the battle field. Meaning he might not instantly attack if a person he respects is happened upon, assuming it doesn't violate his duty.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~History~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Marin Xin was born in the ancient Chinese village of Maybow in 300BC during the Warring States period. He lived as a blacksmith, married and had a daughter. When armies came he stepped up as a defender. Until his 24th year when the Min Xou clan attacked, destroying part of the village and killing Marin Xin in process. Even after he died he remembered his vow to protect his village and his daughter. Years passed as memories started to blur, until he realized this was all for naught as eventually the village was destroyed by the returning Min Xou due to Marin's limited ability to interact with the world around him. He then vowed to kill the ones that destroyed his hometown which he had sworn to protect. After years of journeying through the lands until he finally found every one of the enemy soldiers and he didn't just destroy them, he devoured them finding that this satisfied his vengeance more for a reason he couldn't quite understand. After he had killed and devoured the destroyers he felt lost as the meaning had disappeared and his descent into a hollow complete.
Marin Xin's preferred targets were murderers and enemy armies. For a Hollow he retained some of his cunning and intelligence and as he made his way from village to village he heard rumors from the denizens of the dead that a special soul, a Shini-something goes around and destroys Hollows. Marin tried to hold back his devouring, but he was only able to resist so much and as he continued eating he occasionally sensed something. One time in the village of Ginou he though he was being followed until it split off. Xin followed the odd feeling, being led by his hunger and saw another more powerful Hollow fighting what he called a Shinigami. The Hollow looked as if it wasn't going to win, though this wasn't confirmed by Marin as he left rather than have any of the moves he saw from the Shinigami be used on him. After this event a new hunger stirred in him, one that wouldn't be fed for many more years.
More timed passed, the seasons went by and Marin found an army battling against what could only be described as barbarians. Death was in the air and it was a feeding ground for him, but even then the hunger didn't subside all it did was attract the attention of a nearby new Shinigami and a fight ensued, new Shinigami power vs an intelligent hollow drawing on battle instincts. What happened surprised even Marin, he was able to consume the fledgling Shinigami and he felt power satisfying power, an answer to his new hunger. However he was surprised as another Hollow that was attracted to this feeding ground attacked him. Powers clashed as the two blurred around the field of death, both gaining strength as they fought, until a new power flared up inside Marin for the Shinigami gave him a boost in addition to the eating of these souls and let him reach a new level of power before his opponent. Again Marin shocked himself, when he defeated his opponent he devoured him. Marin had devoured another Hollow?! And it had a particular appeal to him, unfortunately this is what started to fragment his memory.
For 100 years Marin or now with his shattered mind Xenmar went around devouring killers for a reason he couldn't fathom and other Hollows for reasons he could, he enjoyed the power, but a feeling from long ago was nagging him. He just couldn't seem to shake the feeling and it stayed with him for a long time. At this point as a Menos-Hollow he staid on the outskirts of Hueco Mundo consuming wandering Hollow. Xenmar occasionally went to the human world to slay humans for the purpose of attracting Shinigami to consume them. At times this worked and other times he had to flee back to Hueco Mundo. After absorbing another Menos-Hollow he learned the value of not incurring the wrath of the Soul Society from its memories. So he stayed hidden, getting into conflicts with other Menos he knew he could defeat. The strange thing he noticed was that the more he devoured the more he seemed to reorganize his shattered mind. Unfortunately by this time he had made a enemy of Homid Zue, a Menos Grande.
After 200 years of cleverly leading Homid Zue into confrontations with the Shinigami, Homid had finally become weak, weak enough for Xenmar to absorb the regenerating Hollow to become a Menos Grande himself, or so he thought. One of the Shinigami Homid Zue had absorbed was really a Vizard, and after Homid's absorption into Xenmar the mask came off unleashing a power that he could barely contain. This experience had weakened him for a time, but after he acclimated he found that he was no longer a Menos Grande, but an Adjuchas.
Due to his transformation thanks to the unfathomable release of power, Xenmar became overconfident and made a former ally Donezo jealous to the point that he attacked and nearly absorbed Xenmar. Xenmar was only able to force Donezo to flee. That event caused Xenmar to create his own group to defend and feed him from other Hollow, but due to his thought of extreme power he failed to care whom he had in his employ. This was a critical mistake as Donezo, gained power and planted people in Xenmar's fraction. After 20 years Donezo was ready for a strike after gaining enough power to become a Adjuchas himself. He and his allies within Xenmar's group assaulted him. The fight reminded Xenmar of his first Hollow fight as this was nearly just the same, two Hollow of near equal power fighting and blasting the landscape and each other. Both Hollow were gravely injured by the end of the battle and Xenmar had lost his “command” due to his overconfidence, forcing him to bounce between Earth and Hueco Mundo several times, stealing “kills” when he could from embattled Shinigami to regain his strength.
Over the next 800 years Xenmar thought about how he could get back at Donezo. After a few clashes he realized that he couldn't beat Donezo yet so he tried to get help from Menos Grande. The two Menos Grande that helped gave Xenmar the edge, several battles were won. This lasted only for a matter of months for at the end of the third month his new allies attempted to absorb him, this obviously wasn't appreciated by Xenmar, but unfortunately in a straight up battle he couldn't match two beings of such immense power. Desperation set in as chunks of his body were taken apart atom by atom and regenerated, but eventually Xenmar was able to use his Reiatsu to disrupt the Cero of his attackers and beat them soundly. Xenmar would not have absorbed them, he in fact respected their power, but they intentionally spiked their spiritual pressure. It took a moment for Xenmar to realize why, they had traveled rather far in the battle... they were within the patrol area of the Soul Society! As a defensive measure he absorbed the two Menos Grande and as a result became something greater, he felt their power, their experience coursing through him. His Reiatsu pulsed ravaging the area, he now found himself smaller, roughly human sized now or at least proportioned. However, before he could fully explore his new power as a Vasto Lord, a contingent of Shinigami arrived. In the beginning Xenmar had the advantage, he was easily able to dispatch all but one of the Shinigami. This Shinigami was a master of Kidou and with the last of his stamina he released an uncontrolled art on Xenmar. This sealed a fraction of his power in his Hollow Mask and reverted him back into a Adjucha, but it was more like resetting a clock then locking his power. Ether way Xenmar was forced to flee after his power crash.
The encounter with the Kidou artist intrigued him after he was able to cope with his situation. He then set off to study the Shinigami in hopes of developing a technique to use on Donezo. Centuries passed as he studied both the Shinigami and their Kidou. At the end of the 800th year he believed he had found a way to regain his power with the arts he'd been developing. Xenmar had determined that his power was sealed within his mask and a portion of any new power gained was also going into his mask so he determined that if he was able to absorb enough energy to overload his mask at one time he'd be able to take advantage of all the absorbed power.
90 years later he clashed with Donezo, the one who had usurped his power base and then enhanced it. Xenmar, despite what he thought of himself, couldn't compete against Donezo group's combined might, it even at times challenged Aizen. At the latter half of the 1,000th year Xenmar temporarily joined forces with Aizen to defeat Donezo and it worked in defeating him, but the energy was still partly absorbed; apparently the mask's power wasn't finite. However with the victory there was also a plot twist, Aizen's surviving force consisting of 3 Menos Grande and 2 Adjucha led by an Arrancar, and after seeing Xenmar's power they took it upon themselves to offer him an ultimatum, join Zeekin (the Arrancar) in a take over attempt or be divided amongst the supporters. Xenmar didn't appreciate the threat, if there was anything he didn't like more than big shots it was threats to his personality. Xenmar then released his Reiatsu and distorted the area causing the initial shots to miss. He figured that he couldn't take the thing called an Arrancar, but he could take the Grande in the distort zone. After taking a hit from the Adjucha, Xenmar absorbed the Grande, regenerated and began disrupting Cero. This weakened the Adjucha, crippled the Grande, but seemed to have no effect other than minor irritation on the Arrancar. After half an hour of battle he was able to absorb both Adjucha one after the other. A familiar feeling swelled in him, it felt like the Vasto Lord power, but it was as if a dam was holding him back. Unfortunately this moment of realization cost him his defense as the Arrancar still unaffected by the Cero disrupting field fired an energy blast tearing his left arm from existence. Xenmar's attempts at regeneration failed, he couldn't replace his arm! This, this Arrancar was in another league. The battle continued with Xenmar on the defensive for another hour. Xenmar shot a Cero at his Arrancar foe, Zeekin. Zeekin just seemed to stand there, but at the last second he deflected the Cero with his sword. Then Xenmar shot another Cero this time modified with his Kidou knowledge, the Cero split like a MIRV, but even though this trick was an impressive feat it held no such status to Zeekin who once again deflected it and returned with his own Cero. Xenmar used his Reiatsu arts to bend the blast around him though it was only partly successful. The Adjucha Xenmar by some miracle of odd skill lasted this long was about to meet his end. Zeekin burst with power as he activated his Resurreccion and placed the tip of his sword to Xenmar's Hollow Mask and unleashed a Grand Cero. This by all rights should have been the end of him, but as the Hollow Mask completed it's first crack it unleashed some of it's sealed power deflecting the blast and like cracking a vacuum seal the masked sucked the Arrancar in. Xenmar fainted, power bleeding into him. When he arose he felt different, but ok, his mask had a scar in it as if it had healed itself and then he realized something... he was once again a Vasto Lord and still suffering from the Kidou curse.
60 years passed and Xenmar continued his Shinigami studies, still suffering from what he is now calling the Kidou Seal. These studies were not without a price however, both Elite Shinigami and Aizen's forces soon took notice and for different reasons decided to target him. The Shinigami other than their standard mandate attacked him for trying to learn their Kidou methods and Azien deemed him an enemy for not destroying the Shinigami despite numerous opportunities. Eventually the Vasto Lord Xenmar fought a Shinigami, one that looked vaguely familiar as if someone in the distance was trying to be remembered. After a long fight lasting hours the Shinigami was critically injured and as Xenmar approached to consume the powerful Shinigami soul he realized what the familiarity was, she was of his family line. He stopped hesitant to kill, some feeling from his living time surfacing, but his hunger for new power and knowledge was exceedingly powerful. In an attempt to reconcile his feelings and desire he clawed at his face and ripped off his mask. The Shinigami blew away as a tremendous amount of energy was exuded, emanating in all directions destroying a flattening everything in the remote vicinity. The Mask's scar imprinted on his face as a cool-smooth bone-scar curving from the edge of his right eyebrow to slightly blow the center of his eye. Xenmar had just transformed into an Arrancar from a Vasto Lord, his power still being siphoned by the Kidou Seal.
16 years later Vasto-Arrancar Xenmar had just finished a battle against an Aizen taskforce he sensed a new power and turned to face it,but saw nothing. Maybe it was some kind of premonition because the Shnigami had begun to break down, or so the rumors were. He soon enough seized control once he found out the truth of the rumors. Xenmar was just taking an opportunity with rekindled overconfidence of old pushing him further. The Arrancar used intellect to maneuver his fellow Arrancar to work together. At first he did this without their knowing, but soon revealed how working as a group helped all. With his new power base he took his Espada to battle. Unfortunately he realized that most of his Espada were only working together due to necessity of battle and would overthrow each other or try to overcome Xenamar himself if they were to survive the upcoming clash in the Seretei.
The war, battle, shattered the Espada, some dying, some leaving. Even though the battle was ultimately a failure he did get tangible and intangible things out of it. The initial revelation after the retreat was a new perspective:: Both the Arrancar/Hollow race and the Shinigami need each other. Without the Shnigami most Arrancar needing something to fight and hate would turn on each other and ultimately prove self-destructive. The Shinigami need the Hollows and Arancar, despite their goal of peace, they would be lost if all their enemies were gone... everyone needs a goal.
The tangibles were quite interesting during the battle he gained the mask, or rather part of a mask, of a Vizard by the name of Chevalier. He planned on experimenting on it, but he had to gain resources more then he had now.
Shortly after the battle he began rebuilding his power base. Xenmar began studying the Shinigami again, learning things. His study had taught him how to create Gigai and unintentionally unveiled gate creation, an ability that may lead to stable plane creation and enable Xenmar to conduct research and plans more quickly, but for now lets fast travel occur. When first experimenting with this skill Xenmar had create a gate that trapped him in a hellish dimension At first Xenmar found the place interesting, being able to do research on these creatures he didn't recognize. This fascination ended after 50 years of experimenting on the new creatures, these beings were equal to if not more powerful than he was. Xenmar spent a total of 1,700 years in the hell dimension that he named Zenopolis. While in there he was forced to absorb and kill many things, though it seemed like no amount of power increase would suffice until he learned to unleash his Resurreccion and later his Segunda Etapa to elevate him to equal or in some cases near equal footing to the Vasto Lord level entities in Zenopolis. In addition to his survival when he could he planned for his eventual escape. He planned on using the Human world to slowly build up forces and power in the guise of a corporation using Gegai for himself and Arrancar/Hollow under his sphere of influence. With the time he spent in Zenopolis he had planned every building block of the foundation, though the future beyond that was unknown and even getting out was an uncertainty.
Eventually Xenmar found a way out he found that only mere hours had passed. While Xenmar survived it wasn't without cost as there was now a wavy blue scar on his left arm that sometimes glowed in the dark. In addition to that, the power he collected in Zenopolis is hard for him to suppress, there have been sometimes when his observation of the Shinigami have been foiled or general location given away by these Reiatsu leaks. In accordance with his corporate plans he, within the year, demonstrated his power to the Arrancar, Xenmar, Marin, was now not going to be easily overcome and so gathered supporters and let leave the ones whom didn't want to join him.
Now with a power base once more as King of Hueco Mundo he set up the Corporation known in the Human world as Arrancar Corporations or Arran Corp. He hopes to build his Espada, Board of Executives, completely and get closer to his new post war goal.
With the resources of Arran Corp and Hueco Mundo Marin used the Vizard mask to gain new Shinigami understandings and created an Arrancar Soul Burial Seal to relocate Pluses to Arrancar Corp. a symbol is bestowed to select members of the corporation. These new understandings also enabled a great feat of engineering he created after six times a creature with more of a Hollow\Shinigami Reiatsu balance. Marin called this Vizard-esk creation “Seis”.
Now a year after the battle Marin, Xenmar, King of Hueco Mundo is running a Human world Corporation gathering power to one day maintain a see-saw balance between the Hollows and Shinigami.
NOTES: (WIP attempt to enact similar restriction on Segunda as Vizard Res)
Marin\Xenmar as KoH has instituted a power limiter\Control in the Espada\Arrancar Numbers.
There is a Segunda Post limit of 10. This may be extended by Marin\Xenmar.
Standard Ressureccion may be subject to the power limiter. depending on power
Marin\Xenmar may power seal Segunda at will.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Member Information~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Alias: Marin
Other Characters: First
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