Lang Kai yi

[Lang Kai yi]

((OOC: The first part of this profile is Kai yi "Pre-Soul Society". As someone raised in the Shaolin Buhddist traditions, she would not have had any knowledge of the Soul Society, and her arrival is as much as shock to her as it is to everyone else. This is intended to be a character that grows into the storyline 'from scratch' as it were, from the perspective of someone who has no clue where she is, what she now is, or why she is there...at least to start. Also, being raised Chinese, she naturally interprets everything with a Chinese bent, especially since she finds herself in a distinctly Japanese culture...))



Name: Lang Kai yi [The Stubborn Wolf/The Dragon Spirit]

Gender: Female

Age: Mid 30’s

Race: Raised Chinese/Human

Weight: 130’

Height: 5’4”

Weapons:
(Pre-Soul Society)

The Bo staff.
The Kwan Dao, a long weapon used mainly to disarm an opponents sword or staff.

Dragon Daggers, carried in a twined single weapon, which can be used one-handed as a twinbladed dagger, or separated and used as two separate blades.

{{This is their Sealed Manipulated Form, the form they assume when in the human world and the form they arrived in the Soul Society in.}}

Location: West Rukongai

Biography:
Presumed abandoned, she was left at the White Crane temple as a baby. As she was a girl-child, no effort was made to find her kin. Raised by Shaolin nuns and schooled in Ng Mui’s Dragon Style, Kai yi, or simply Kai as she is called by friends and her Temple “family”, grew up learning both the spiritual secrets of the universe as well as the deeper mysteries of Shaolin Gung Fu. However, being a Free Spirit, which basically meant that she rarely listened to instruction until AFTER she got hurt, she tended to spend quite a lot of time in reflective solitude.

Always curious, often to the point of mischief, Kai never-the-less learned to counterbalance her rash behavior with focused Chi meditation, becoming quite adept at reaching high Chi levels and inner balance rapidly, a skill she found useful in stressful situations. However, eventually the call of the Outside World reached her, and she left the timeless serenity of the White Crane Temple and the Dailing Mountains of China, to roam the world. While the nuns had computers, and used them, the pace of the Modern World at first confused her. But, she quickly adapted, and became something of a world traveler, abandoning the robes of a nun and growing her hair out, discovering at that time that her hair was a silver-white, not the jet black of her countrymen.

She found herself always drawn to the rougher side of society, acting as a small light in the dark for those in need. While living in Los Angeles with a family struggling to survive in the gang-ruled neighborhood, Kai was killed during a gang turf-war, though the child she had shielded with her body survived. Upon arriving at the Soul Society, she was rather peeved to discover that her Shaolin skills had not made her as bullet-proof as she had believed she was…

[Lang Kai yi]

((OOC: Currently, this is a "work-in-Progress", so I'm sure I'm going to have to change some things...))

Post Arrival:

Location: Seireitei


Weapons:
As a Shaolin nun, Kai would have had little or no practical training with a sword, but would have trained extensively with most other forms of defensive and close-contact weaponry, as well as hand-to-hand Gung Fu fighting techniques. Her twin dragon daggers, which contained her long jing shen, permanently transform into two Yunlong Jien (Eldest/Honored Dragon Swords), at the moment she is transformed to shinigami, and from then on only assume the form of the twin daggers when in the human world.

While ones Zanpakutou appearance is typically an outward sign of ones Spiritual Energy, Kai’s Chi energy operates on a slightly different wavelength. Her entire life has been about balance and being ‘one’ with her surroundings. A large weapon would not only go against her Shaolin beliefs, but would in fact interfere with her inner Chi. She has no need for outward signs of strength, and prefers to be underestimated. Therefore, her Soul Slayers are in fact two smaller blades that act together.

Her Zanpakutou are Ying and Yang, Taijitu, Balance...Bailong, the White Dragon of Purity and Death, is a Fire Dragon, and Xuanlong the Black Dragon of Life, is a Water Dragon. Though dragons are typically male, Bailong is female, her twin is male, a rare hatching indeed as it is believed that they came from one shared egg. It must also be noted that white typically represents male, and black female, yet Bai and Xuan, as with all things, act as two separate halves of one whole, even going so far as to emerge first as a single Dragon, coiled on each other so as to appear much smaller than they really are, thus hiding Kai's true spirit force, but then uncoil and seperate into two distinct but identical weapons in all but coloring. Bai uses Fire Chi, while Xuan uses Water. It is not known what might happen should Bai and Xuan become permanently seperated, as they balance out each others Chi Force. While both mirror parts of Kai's personality, Bai, by her very nature, is a trickster and something of an imp...something of a spaz, while her brother Xaun is withdrawn and quiet, striving hard in all things to preserve life. In truth, Xuan is the stronger of the two, but Bai simply runs circles around him, wearing him down most times...

It is not known at this time whether her Chi energy is the same as Reiatsu, as there seems to be some differences on the surface. This may simply be due to how she was trained to use it, not the Spirit Energy itself.

Sealed appearance: Both Yunlong Jian are hand forged, hand folded Sanmai steel…a high carbon steel core encased in a softer high carbon and raw carbon mix for flexibility while retaining a sharp edge. Both jian are silver in color; only the hilt wrappings and tassel, and the blade etchings, distinguish them.



Bailong: (The White Dragon. Death. The right hand blade, used for attacking.)
A red lacquered hilt wrapped in white cording with an 8 inch long white silk tassel hanging from it, and a Chinese dragon etched on the blade and highlighted in white enamel.

Xuanlong: (The Black Dragon. Life. The left hand blade, used for defense, like a shield.)
An azure blue hilt wrapped in black cording with an 8 inch long black silk tassel, and a Chinese dragon etched on the blade and highlighted in black enamel.

Manipulated Sealed appearance: The twin intertwined dragon daggers, which were their first form when entering the Soul Society.

Avatar forms:
Bai is a white Chinese dragon with red eyes, her brother Xuan is black with azure blue eyes.


Shikai ("Initial Release"): Command: ji juang jyr jian [go gadget sword] This comes from Bai’s sarcastic response to Kai as Kai learned to control them, and Xuan, in a rare display of humor decided that they would only respond to that command, stating dryly, “Everything sounds serious in Chinese. No one will even notice.”



Bankai ("Final Release"): Command: Taijitu (this is a word that encompasses an entire concept: balance, beginning and ending, completion, and is represented in the ying-yang).
The two jian merge into a shimmering two handed great sword, with silver silk wrap and two 12 inch silver bell tassels. The wave pattern of the hand folded Damascus Steel blade creates the illusion that the great dragon etched upon the steel is moving. This etching needs no further enameling to bring out the detail, for it is readily visible.

Tianlong: The Great Dragon, (literally "heavenly dragon"). Bai and Xuan merge, to form a single Dragon, iridescent, almost pearlized gray scales with one red and one blue eye. It is not known for sure if Tian is yet a third dragon, or simply the state of being Bai and Xuan achieve when working in perfect harmony. All that is known for sure is that, in a deviation from standard practice, which causes quite a lot of conflict between her and her trainers, rather than calling out the technique command, Kai directs Tianlong by calling out the desired result, and the Great Dragon then draws from either Bai’s Fire element, or Xuan’s Water element, depending on combat factors. While Tian’s choices are hard to predict, making Tian much harder to mimic, it also draws and depletes Kai’s spirit energy much quicker.


Because of the odd interactive nature of Kai and her zanpakutou, and her natural reluctance to follow anything resembling an order, along with her decidedly different background and training, she often finds herself at odds with her instructors, and tends to have a fairly accurate count of every pebble or leaf within a given area because of the many hours spent in silent reflection of her rebellious attitudes. One of her first such disciplinary episodes occurs directly after her transformation to shinigami, and her flat refusal to accept the uniform…an effort that ultimately proves futile. She eventually learns to take her victories where she can find them, such as in the matter of footgear, and other such small concessions.

She also has great difficulty in adjusting to sword forms, having spent her entire life training in close small blade, and hand-to-hand combat. Her frustration, in direct contrast to her normal zen attitude, as well as her inclination to let Bai and Xuan take more control of situations, is seen by others as a weakness, perhaps to be exploited…but in fact, it only creates within her a drive to master this new form, and forms between her and Bai and Xuan an interactive team.

It is not known whether Bai and Xuan are in fact their own entities, or simply extensions of Kai’s own spiritforce. Kai is something of a square peg trying her best to fit into a round hole. Having never known her true family or heritage, she has spent her entire existence learning to live within the moment, to be content where she is, how she is, and why she is, and this “oh well” attitude tends to cause others to think that she doesn’t care about her training, or the people nearest to her, or the things that go on around her, when in fact, she cares very deeply.