Name: Mitsurgui no Aku
Title: Aku the Nightmare King
Gender: Male
Race: Shinigami
Hair colour: Black
Hairstyle: Pulled back and plaited in multiple braids.
Eye colour: Silver.
Weapons: Inori no Kyogaku. Zanpak-to. The sword of a Shinigami.
Abilities: Aku came by his title as Nightmare King honestly. As a shinigami of lofty prestige, he rules over the realm of fear and, until recently, ruled over the darker side of dreams. With a look, Aku can make the strongest warrior turn white with fear or, more subtly, can place nightmares into their dreamscape, thus warning them away from a particular person or object.
Biography: The world of the Shinigami is a cold, dark copy of the world of the living. Ruled by lords with an emperor at the top of the hierarchy. The spirits that inhabit that kingdom possess unique powers over the world of the living. Some merely shepard the souls of the recently departed into the after life. Others, fight off the demonic souls that have grown twisted from being forgotten or from the grim nature of their deaths. The Shinigami Great Lords, however, possess different abilities and their subordinates mimic them.
Once, Aku was one of those lords. His realm was the dreamscape and his station on the Great Wheel is that of Nightmare King. The shinigami under his command spread fear into dark places in the world of the living. Aku himself, was in charge of keeping powerful men in check by haunting their dreams. He either forced them to face their fears to take their country to new and glorious heights or, the fear he inspired was so great it consumed them and drove them mad. One way or another, history had a lot to thank him for,
That is, until the fall of the Otherworld's current leader: The Red Empress. Mad with power and her utter hatred for the living, the Red Empress had rallied her four Great Lords to make war on humanity. Aku, the Nightmare King, Ryu, the Murderous Pixie, Tai, the Smiling Monk and Sen, the Silent Priestess had no other option but to obey. For a period of years, mankind was plagued with war and fear. Dizzying heights of mania and utter despair. The balance of nature was tipped and, in the end, the empress and her shinigami were punished.
She and her Great Lords were forced into human form and could only retain their true states in the dark of night. A terrible punishment for a once proud collective of people.
Now, the Red Empress sits in a position of power in Erion, though who she is is anyone's guess. And Aku and the others are there as well, though they are seldom seen.
Until now.
Title: Aku the Nightmare King
Gender: Male
Race: Shinigami
Hair colour: Black
Hairstyle: Pulled back and plaited in multiple braids.
Eye colour: Silver.
Weapons: Inori no Kyogaku. Zanpak-to. The sword of a Shinigami.
Abilities: Aku came by his title as Nightmare King honestly. As a shinigami of lofty prestige, he rules over the realm of fear and, until recently, ruled over the darker side of dreams. With a look, Aku can make the strongest warrior turn white with fear or, more subtly, can place nightmares into their dreamscape, thus warning them away from a particular person or object.
Biography: The world of the Shinigami is a cold, dark copy of the world of the living. Ruled by lords with an emperor at the top of the hierarchy. The spirits that inhabit that kingdom possess unique powers over the world of the living. Some merely shepard the souls of the recently departed into the after life. Others, fight off the demonic souls that have grown twisted from being forgotten or from the grim nature of their deaths. The Shinigami Great Lords, however, possess different abilities and their subordinates mimic them.
Once, Aku was one of those lords. His realm was the dreamscape and his station on the Great Wheel is that of Nightmare King. The shinigami under his command spread fear into dark places in the world of the living. Aku himself, was in charge of keeping powerful men in check by haunting their dreams. He either forced them to face their fears to take their country to new and glorious heights or, the fear he inspired was so great it consumed them and drove them mad. One way or another, history had a lot to thank him for,
That is, until the fall of the Otherworld's current leader: The Red Empress. Mad with power and her utter hatred for the living, the Red Empress had rallied her four Great Lords to make war on humanity. Aku, the Nightmare King, Ryu, the Murderous Pixie, Tai, the Smiling Monk and Sen, the Silent Priestess had no other option but to obey. For a period of years, mankind was plagued with war and fear. Dizzying heights of mania and utter despair. The balance of nature was tipped and, in the end, the empress and her shinigami were punished.
She and her Great Lords were forced into human form and could only retain their true states in the dark of night. A terrible punishment for a once proud collective of people.
Now, the Red Empress sits in a position of power in Erion, though who she is is anyone's guess. And Aku and the others are there as well, though they are seldom seen.
Until now.
