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Name: Persephone Ayesha Maestraza
Age: Persephone doesn't talk about her age, she's been around.
Gender: Female
Race: Marak'Hai
Weapon: [ Lullaby of Endless Pain ]
Weapon Info/Abilities: Persephone has a single transformation, which gives her access to her aspects.

While in her complete form, Persephone has three abilities, her weapon considered a bringer of destruction, decay, and death. Her blade also has a passive effect, with each strike, it feeds on an opponent's energy, increasing its power during that battle. Her aspects are interchangeable. To change an aspect, or activate her first aspect she states, the name of each. "Create Destruction." "Bring Decay." "Enact Death."

[ The Aspect of Destruction ] - Entering this aspect, Persephone gains access to an enhanced form of power. Her reiatsu becomes pure black, and her attacks become more powerful and accurate. She is also capable of firing a black flamed spear projectile, which explodes burning an area with dark flames. She does not fire this in rapid succession, and will not use it at close range.

[ The Aspect of Decay ] - To show how she perceives life, her blade poisons and plagues the environment in forms of acidic rain and methane-like gas. Acid forms throughout solids, dissolving them like dust. The gas envelops oxygen within the area, killing everything off. Slowly it all rots away, and everything begins to die. The blade combines with her area of reiatsu, for the actual area that is affected. If opponents are within the vicinity, their body feels extremely debilitated, slowing movement severely, and they beg to feel their skin weaken, as their life is being drained away from them. If her blade touches an area on an opponent, that area begins to decay, and this spreads. The only way to stop the spreading, would obviously be amputation. This lasts, unless the aspect is released, or Persephone dies. It makes logical sense, that the only way of avoidance, is to get away from her.

[ The Aspect of Death ] - Pouring every fiber of anger, hate, and endless rage into her blade, it become pure black, as is her heart. She gains the ability to create balls of pure dark energy. They absorb damage caused, and previous damage taken from and to Persephone. The more damage she caused, or received, the more powerful the balls are, increasing their size, and their damage. Wherever the balls strike, they leave a skull marking upon the body. If her blade comes in contact with any part of an opponent's skull marking during this aspect, they will suffer fatal damage, usually resulting in instant death. This aspect, due to the extreme power caused, when the phase ends, Persephone feels extremely weakened, debilitated, slightly blinded and very vulnerable.

Personal Abilities:

Master Swordsmanship Specialist: She appears to be highly skilled in swordsmanship. She wields her blade in her right hand, but being ambidextrous, allows her to switch during battle for surprise effect. She often hold her blade in a reverse style, leaving her prepared to counter or flourish strikes.

Enhanced Strength: Persephone has proven to be deceptively mighty for her build. She is capable of holding an opponent's blade with her bare hands.

Keen Intellect: In addition to her remarkable combat prowess, Persephone is also gifted with great insight and understanding to situations at hand. With her calm and collective nature, Persephone has become highly perceptive and analytical, allowing her to easily deduce the basic idea of her opponent's skills to figure out its strengths and weakness.

High-Speed Regeneration: Despite having great attack power and speed, Persephone's greatest strength is her regenerative power.

Character Bio:

Persephone lived a horrible human life. As a child, she had abusive parents who beat her constantly. And whenever she made a mistake or talked back, they would cut her. Often, she took the blame for everything, and was punished for all of it. As she became a teenager, people at school did not show any care, or understanding. They merely pointed fingers at her, and spread a bad name for her, saying she was a loose girl. One day, a boy took that to heart, and raped her. She stopped speaking for sometime, and quite going to school. She returned home.

She tried to tell her mother and her father, but they refused to listen, they tried to beat her, but she had it at last. She found a dagger, and killed both of them. One could say, the amount of blood was too shocking to be fathomable. She then decapitated their heads, and placed them on spears, outside of her home. She left her home that day, in search of those who hurt her.

She went to the school that same day, entering room by room, killing everyone. She mutilated bodies, and she made girls unable to have children. As for boys, she did the worst thing possible to them. She took away their manhood. She did so much murder and killing, that her entire body was covered in it. When the guards came, they disarmed her. However, they liked young women, so they chained her up.

From there on, day after day, the men raped her violently, and beat her while doing so. They used her until they were satisfied. Her body's will was broken, and she was dying equally so. The guards decided they'd give her a class execution. They took her onto this massive cross, and placed her upon it, slamming massive spikes into her hands, and legs. From there, she laid unable to fight or use strength to uphold her. They whipped her, and slashed up her body repeatedly for many hours. She slowed her breathing eventually give in, and she died a horrible death. For what she had done however, she would not be accepted into Soul Society.

Shinigami had attempted to purify her soul, however as a demi-soul, they had only worsened their effects, ripping her hollow hole open, and forcing the hollow transformation. Sadly, the weak shinigami would become her first prey, as she devoured their souls. Her cries would be heard throughout that world, as she began to try and fill her void. She began to hunt high spiritually exerting humans, careful to avoid large groups of shinigami. She would not allow other gillian to bite her, she was quick to develop her cero ability. Even as a gillian, she was a bit advanced. As she devoured them, she felt the power grow within her. For about 20 years she spent killing and eating them, at this point she evolved into an adjuctas.

Persephone ripped open a space in time, and went into Hueco Mundo, gathering small gillian forces, and killing off large numbers in succession, devouring their souls and masks. She wanted more, and more power. It become her obsession, and her longing. Whatever Persephone once was, now would be non-existent. All that would be, could possibly be her hollow heart. She spent 200 years, gathering power and devouring hollows. She would evolve into a Vasto Lorde, during the Great Hollow War.

Aizen ordered her into battle, along with many other hollows, though she did not become an arrancar. She refused the idea of resorting to such a weak method of obtaining power. As the war intensified, she was caught in battle with three Lieutenants and a Captain. With her power alone, she was not able to withstand their combined force. The Captain killed her, and her hollow body dissolved into dust. Her soul however, would now begin to become pulled.

The Gates of Hell longed for her. Her soul, was pulled within.

Becoming a Marak'hai, was like no other feeling imaginable. Though, to her, she felt nothing, therefore this was just another punishment. Her mere sorrow, and pain, fueled by years of resentment, and the anguish of losing her humanity, gave her such hatred. She went around, challenging whatever she found, and killing it. She killed hundreds of Marak'hai, big or small. She found enjoyment from killing, and continued to do so for 20 years, killing at the least 1200 Marak'hai. This alerted, and made the Emperor seek her out.

Now, being that she had nothing, and he offered her power beyond imagine, she accepted it graciously. Becoming a Marak'hai general, gave her great feelings of pride. She began training to this very day, mastering her sword and its aspects. She prepared, for the day she would return to the surface, and exact her own hatred and the Emperor's command. Her power would become its maximum by that point. She would be ready.

Additional Info: Persephone holds no liking for men. She hates every living creature, and contains no feelings. She executes orders without question. She is merciless.
Pic/Description: Persephone stands at 5'2'' at 95 pounds. Though she detests herself for it, she is without any doubt one of the most beautiful beings you can come across. She often wears dresses, and has her hair held up. She has dark red eyes, and jet black hair. She wears a golden crown, to signify her power as a general. When she transforms, everything loses color, and her skin becomes pale white.