Ace Ketchi-Kane (Con-Ay)

Basic Information

Name: Ace Ketchi-Kane

Actual Age: 100

Appeared Age: 13

Gender: Male

Division: 11th

Rank: Vice-Captain

Looks:
Ace stands at about 5'7 tall and weighs 124 pounds. He has silver hair and hazel eyes that walk on the line of gold. With looking at him you would think that he was completely skin and bones, but without a shirt on he dons a six pack and great calf muscles. His ears are always covered by his Silver hair and he wears a set of cat ears on the top of his head. He is never without a smile on his face unless he is in a battle in which he tends to keep one look at a time, if he is enjoying the battle he is smiling crazed like, but if it is boring him he has a blank expression. (Ace)

Personality: Ace is the happiest person anybody could know. He loves everything that life has to offer even the bad things. When he is around people he likes, he is the sweetest person around, but when it comes to the people he don't know he acts a little paranoid before he actually interacts with them. Even though he is sweet it is his temper that one must watch out for, because even though he is smiling he is most likely plotting ways to take you down. It seems that nothing gets to him. Like everyone in the 11th squad, Ace loves the battle even though he hardly shows the emotions of a person who fights even when he fights. He thinks that giving a person a facial expression will give the opponent a peek into his fighting style and/or his strategy.

Sexuality: He'll Never Tell

Relationship Status: Single and looking


Zanpakuto Information
Zanpakuto Name: Utsukushii Barādo (Beautiful Ballad)

Zanpakuto Looks: Zanpakutou

Zanpakuto Description:
Ace's Zanpakutou gives him the ability to hear and feel sound waves on a higher scale than most as if he is a Dolphin or Bat. It also allows him to convert sound waves into vibrations that he can unleash for attacks..

Released Zanpakuto Description:

Shikai Abilities:


• Yakan sonata (Nocturnal Sonata)- Utsukushii Barādo, plays a tune that entangles itself in the spiritual pressure and energy of Ace's enemy, hypnotizing the user and pushing them into a drowsy state. The music is so attune with his enemies energy that Only the people confronted by Ace can hear it. Once this takes effect the persons' body starts feeling drowsy and sluggish. Usually having them feel as Ace has gotten faster. Once his song change or he puts his Zanpakutou up the effect of this songs ends.
  
  It takes Yakan 2 to 3 post , by Ace, before a person weaker than Ace falls asleep. It takes 4 to 6 post, by Ace, to affect Other Vice-Captains and those on the same level strength level. 8 to 12 post, by Ace, to affect Captains and those on the same strength level.
  
  Captain Commanders and those on the same level and beyond. Takes 16 to 24 post, by Ace, to be affected even though they get weaker.
  
  Yakan scale
  If the person has no seat or rank to affect Yakan, slows them down to a sleep like state as if they were sleep or frozen. If the person is the same rank or seat as Ace then the effects of Yakan would make him move as if he was one rank or seat lower, giving Ace the upper hand. Speaking if the Person is 3-5 ranks or seats above Ace then the effect would make them move as if the difference was only 2-4 ranks or seats stronger. Anyone 6 seats or higher move as if nothing happened.
  
  
• Dengen Sonata (Power Sonata). Utsukushii Barādo, once again entangles its music into his wielders or targets Spiritual energy and pushes their body to the physical peak of their stage at the moment. Making them a little faster and stronger by a fraction (1/4) of their normal power and speed, until sheathe or a new song is played.
  
  Depending on the targets rank or seat i.e. if they have no rank and hold no seat at the moment Dengen Sonata will boost Ace up by half of their power.
  
  The effects of this ability only gives Ace the strength and speed last for about 8 post of his and ends on the 9th post of his. Or if he switches sonata's or he passes out.
  
  Dengen Sonata Effects
  By giving Ace the power and speed boost. He becomes stronger and faster than his opponent or closer to their level. he gains no extra new ability or anything. It's only raw power that he receives.
  
  Using Dengen Sonata more than 16 posts per battle would, put a strain his body, giving him injuries that will resemble broken bones and torn muscles.
  
  
• Shuryo Sonata (End Sonata)-Utsukushii Barādo's final sonata is a beautiful melody and light show that occurs when both the Yakan Sonata and Dengen Sonata fail to bring a win. Concentrating all of his spiritual pressure into one final attack.
  By tapping Bun Shu-Ki no Yume together he will release a devastating sonic wave, about the width of small car towards his enemy with the strength of a #60 Kidou used by a person of his skill level. As he gets stronger the power of this attack gets stronger.
  
  The Wave
  Range: 4 mi Strong 2mi medium 1mi weak and vanishes
  Width: 3 meters
  Length: 2 meters Long
  Type of Attack: Shock Wave it moves at 300 m/s

Strengths:

Yakan Sonata: The melody is so high pitched and beautiful, that the enemy does not know that the ability is being used until the very last minute and by that time it is to late to try to avoid it.

Dengen Sonata: The affects of this boost Ace to his opponents level and sometimes past them. Meaning if he was to use it against a Captain he it would add the difference to his power making him Captain strength or better.

Shuryo Sonata: This has the potential of causing whomever hit with this weak to major damage depending on the range.


Weaknesses:

Yakan Sonata: Its main weakness in Ace's eye is that it slows the enemy down for him instead of allowing him to fight him head to head.

Dengen Sonata: Main weakness is that if Ace is training with his Captain then it would be as if he was still a Vice-Captain, but with a power boost that even the scale. Not make him stronger. Since he is the Vice-Captain, his power will only go up by a 1/4 of his opponents. Until he gets stronger.

Shuryo Sonata: With this being a final resort if Ace misses the opponent then he would be to drained to continue to fight. He would still fight, but it would be him being hit and tossed around like a rag doll. Hitting his enemy or missing him will still cause Ace to have to relax for 3 weeks so his Spiritual power returns and his injuries can heal.


Zanpakuto Release Phrase: Asobi Watashi ni Utsukushii Barādo (Play me a beautiful ballad)

Released Zanpakuto Looks: Shikai one for each arm


Bankai Information
(This applies to captains, and advanced lieutenants only.)

Bankai Description:
When it comes to attack that is all it does. It has no ability to make the person tired and make a target stronger like in his shikai. His bankai does however have three abilities like his Shikai. The first one.

Bankai Abilities

1. Oto Himei (Sonic Scream)- Oto Himei is a wave attack much like Shuryo that hits the person with physical damage that burst the ear drums. So that the person can not hear where he would approach from next.
   
   The Wave:Range of 7 mi.
   Range: 4 mi. Strong (Loss of Limb) 2 mi. medium (Deep Gash) 1 mi. weak and vanishes (Deep Scratch to nothing)
   Width: 3 meters
   Length: 2 meters Long
   Type of Attack: Shock Wave it moves at 300 m/s
   
   
2. Oto Katta (Sonic Cutter)- Working like Oto Himei the blast from this is so powerful that the person being hit with this would have internal problems. The attack works like a miniature sonic boom and instead of showing physical damage on the outside the volume of the noise cause organs to rupture. The attack is so strong, that the only outside damage will be a bruise in the affected area.
   
   The Wave: Range of 9 mi.
   Range: 6 mi. Strong (Ruptured Major Organs) 2 mi. medium (Ruptured veins) 1 mi. weak and vanishes (burst vessel in eyes and ears)
   Width: 5 meters
   Length: 4 meters Long
   Type of Attack: Shock Wave it moves at 600 m/s
   
   
3. Oto Shi (Sonic Death)- When Ace wants his enemy to bow to him, he uses this attack. The force of this blow is so intense that the sound that comes from it drives a person to their knees in pain. Ace loves this attack the most. When fighting he uses it multiple times and has proven that to much of Oto Shi can cause a person to bleed out. Unlike the previous attacks, it only effects the body of the person by sound and vibrations. It does not cut them in anyway.
   
   It actually vibrates and rings so fast and high that the blood vessels burst. The pain is so unbearable and painful that the target is immobilized for further physical attacks by him.
   
   The Wave: Range 11 Mi.
   Range: 8 mi. Strong (Comatose and bleeding) 2 mi. medium (Not Moving and Bleeding out) 1 mi. weak and vanishes (Barely Moving)
   Width: 7 meters
   Length: 6 meters Long
   Type of Attack: Shock Wave it moves at 900 m/s

Bankai Looks: Ace's Bankai resembles his shikai in way of looks. The major differences is that the cut for the blades is longer and the blades have groves throughout it that make the weapon whistle when swung.


History and RP Sample
History:
Ace was born on Halloween in Nashville, Tn. His father came from a small village on the out skirt of Tokyo, and his mother came from Skull Bone, Tn. When his mother was in high school she was allowed to visit Tokyo and study abroad. Where she met Ace's father, at the time he was a junior at Tokyo High School in Omori, Tokyo.

The two fell in love quite fast getting married only a few years after they graduated from high. A few years later his mother found out she was pregnant and not wanting to have her son in a foreign country she asked if they could move back to the states.

Being a family man, his father agreed on her terms and they both moved to Nashville, Tn, USA a few months before he was born. Once there his mother, Tamara, introduced named him to her Ace. Loving the name so much, he decided to name their child Ace, after his wife's favorite uncle. And it was proper to let the boy take the family name Ketchi-Kané.

His parents knew how bad the kids would treat their son, for being of mixed heritage. What they did not take into consideration was how bad the south would treat one of mixed heritage. Even though they spoke to their son in both American-English and Japanese. They knew that it would be tough, but not as bad as it would have been over in Japan.

Ace grew up like a normal boy in the south. He went to the fishing hole, he enjoyed riding horses, he wore cat ears from when his mother met his father. He got into fights. When he was younger his mother showed Ace a set of cat ears that his father bought for her on their first date. She was planning on giving them to a daughter, but she ended up having Ace instead. Not wanting them to just sit around and collect dust Ace asked if he could have them, so he could feel closer to his parents and the fact that he liked the ears more than his one, he refuses to take them off.

Now back to the fights, he was in way more fights than a boy his age should have been in. More so, on the fact that he refused to take off his cat ears and when a person did try to remove them he would hit them. It was the constant fights that made him fall in love with fighting even more. It was this fact that made him want to fight once he died and appeared in the Seireitei, that was all he did. He died in 1912 due to a fight, with some bigger boys. Even though they out numbered him four to one. He still refused to give up. He died from multiple blows to the head.

Once he made it to the Seireitei, Ace was scared and alone, not knowing what to do. So, he did what everyone else around him did. He joined Shinigami Academy.

While he was in the Shinigami Academy, Ace advance as fast as he could, which was a tad bit slow. It was not until he learned that he was able to do what ever it took to succeed in the academy. So, when ever he needed he would sing a song to himself to help him remember the Hadou incantations. After a while he began to hum while he fought.

When the attacks were paired with rhythm he had no problem. Ace graduated at the bottom of his class. Due to him not knowing truly how to fire of a Hadou properly. But that did not matter to the young man.

He would rather fight with his bear hands or his Zanpakutou than actual spells and incantations. He felt that he was not a witch so why actually bother.

Finding his Zanpakutou

Everyone was there the day he was to find out his Zanpakutou, which made Ace nervous. His fighting skills where par none when it cam to him fighting with his hands and sword. The training for him seemed to go on for weeks. He was told that he could not graduate without knowing what his Zanpakutou was.

Well, one night while he slept, the young man woke up from a dream or so he thought. Walking in the dream felt real to the boy. The aspect of the dream drove the kid wild. He went to his instructors and complained about a noise he was hearing in his ear. Like a song, but it kept switching.

Going from a song to a high pitched wale. As he walked around trying to find a way to get rid of the noise he met his Zanpakutou, Utsukushii Barādo. The figure scared him for a while, but he quickly learned who it was. Getting his name and the history of him.

Ace knew he could not fail. The Zanpakutou told the boy, that not only was she the most beautiful sounding Zanpakutou, but he was the loudest. At first it did not register with the kid. When it was time to show what he had learned. Ace, aced the test. calling on Utsukushii Barādo to do his bidding.

Divisions
Ace at first started in the 2nd division. Being confused about which squad did what. He was under the impression that 2nd division just did the fighting, but was surprised when he went on reconnaissance missions, with the others.

When the captain learned that he was able to use his Shikai perfectly and that one of the abilities stay active and made people fall asleep, when confronted with the sound. of its voice. They quickly promoted the boy... Teenager to 3rd seat. His shikai was rare, not always did a person receive something that could put someone to sleep.

His last mission with 2nd division was not a happy one. Not because he hated the mission, but he felt that getting information was not technically a waste of time. He truly wanted to be a fighter and that is it.

Talking to his Captain he was given the permission to leave the squad in hopes of going to 11th. That was the easy part. The hard part was challenging everyone in order to get a chance to talk to the captain of the 11th division. Once he achieved that, he was told that in order to get his seat as 3rd in the squad he had to defeat the current.

That was easier said than done. His opponent was a brunt when it came to physical damage. Dodging everything he could. The fight went on for a while, before Ace decided to use Shikai. calling out his swords name he slowed down the enemy and boosted himself up. In the end hi took what he wanted 3rd seat.

BANKAI! and Vice-Captain

Ace was 3rd seat for a while. It seemed to him that he would never get to be Vice-Captain. He felt that since he was now technically 60, he should have more power, even if he did still look 13. Doing what he had done years prior. He challenged his Vice-Captain to a duel for the spot.

Ace was no match for the man. He lost repeatedly. Finally stepping up his game. Ace went off and trained and trained, until he had mastered what Captains and others call Bankai. Going back to his division, he challenged his V.C. once more. Stating that if he lost he would give up on advancing that way.

Taking the chance he fought him. Being taunted by the Lieutenant who always wondered why he hated using his shikai. Ace gave in. Standing he chuckled. After going into Shikai and slowing the man down to his level. He augmented his stats and shot off into bankai.

The current Lieutenant was shocked. The kid he tormented daily on the constant battles had went bankai. No one there thought that Ace was going to win the seat. With all the hate he was carrying inside on the constant lose, almost pushed Ace to killing his Lieutenant, but he stopped and smiled.

Now
Ace is 100 plus years old now, loving his seat and power some much, he has never accepted a battle request for the seat. Stating that the only way he will give the seat up would be if he was promoted or killed in battle.

Not to long ago Ace found out about Vizards and the power they hold. The knowledge came to him as a shock and he instantly wanted to be one. Traveling around the world of the living he visited two people. Shinji who was no help and Kisuke whom he could not find. Ace had basically given up on his search for the power, until he ran into an Espada by the name of Kyouga. The Espada told the boy of the power and helped him get it.

Besides that he was informed that his Captain Commander was also one of these Vizards. Caught at a cross roads he decides on what he should do.

RP Sample:

Ace walked into the halls of his division, his little pearly canine teeth sparkling as he look to his friends in his squad. For Ace today was going to be fun. It was the day he looked forward to every week. He got to practice with some random seat. Walking into the training room Ace sat on the floor. The shinigami was wearing his normal Vice-Captain attire. His jacket that covered his uniform was a royal blue, that ventured on green.

Ace looked out the window that was near where he sat and watched as the clouds moved, until he heard the door open. Pulling out his Zanpakutou quickly he placed the edge to a mans neck. Or he thought. Looking up it was his 3rd seat. "Why are you here?" He asked the man who skillfully blocked his attack.

Ketchi-Kane-san, I have terrible news.

Looking up at the man, he smirked. Ace was never the type to take bad news lightly. The last person who told him bad news, went missing. Technically he sent him on a mission to fight hollows, lots of them. "Are you sure you want to give me bad news. Why is mary not here, yet?"

That is the news. She went missing

Ace's golden eyes began to flame. The Vice-Captain was pissed. Looking at his 3rd seat he walked off. His Reiatsu was building things were being knocked around, people were being knocked around. As he walked down the hall he headed for his captains chambers.

"Sir, I want to go and find out what happened to Mary. They told me she went missing. His captain raised his hand, in terms of telling him to be quite. "Sir, she is like my best friend. I wanna know what happened." He said his tone getting loud.

She is dead. I am getting a team together. You can lead it. Just be careful.

On that note the shinigami left.