User:Kin Mikazuki

Kin Mikazuki (三月 キン Mikazuki Kin) is the replacement Captain of the 3rd Division of the Gotei 13. Her lieutenant is Izuru Kira.

Appearance
Kin's clothing is kept simple and neat. She wears a pair of circular, light blue tinted lenses (NOT glasses) to help her control her spiritual pressure. Her vision is actual better than most Shinigami. Physically she's thin, but by no means skinny. Since leaving Rukongai she was able to fill herself out to a healthy weight. Her eyes are a bright emerald green and her golden hair bears the reasoning for her name (kin [金] is Japanese for gold).

Personality
Overall, Kin's persona is that of a brave young girl with a kind heart. As a child she was very energetic and curious, but always lived with the fear of being consumed by her inner Hollow. This fear prompted her need to gain power in order to suppress her darker self. Though she's strong both physically and mentally, emotionally she still fears that those she gets close to will abandon her and thus has great difficulty getting truly close to others. None the less, she's amiable and eager to befriend her superiors and colleagues if they return the notion.

History
Found in the Rukongai by Gin Ichimaru and Rangiku Matsumoto, the young Kin Mikazuki was unable to speak or even walk when she first came into the two's care. A gash along her right temple suggested a head injury and resulting amnesia. This was later confirmed by a member of the relief squad when she first registered at the academ        y. After rapidly regaining mobility and language skills, the three set off the Shinigami Academy in hopes of a better life. Gin and Rangiku were accepted in with ease, but during Kin's physical examination she lost control of her powers and transformed into a rogue Hollow. She was quickly targeted by the Onmitsukidō and thrown into the Nest of Maggots in one of the deeper cells.

During her imprisonment, she had her first encounter with Mayuri Kurotsuchi. Despite her initial wariness to the man, loneliness prompted her to talk with him. This only annoyed Kurotsuchi and led to ignorance of her entire existence. Before the trauma of his cruelty could be realized, Kin was released by the head of the detention squad, Kisuke Urahara, and taken into his care as a subject for his research. Kin never saw herself as such and instead developed a fatherly affection toward the man. When he became a captain, Kin received her blue tinted lenses as the first successful method to suppress her excessive spiritual pressure and keep her Hollow self contained.

After Urahara's exile, Kin escaped from his office before the special forces raided it and found refuge with Fourth Company Captain Retsu Unohana, whom she had met once before for an unbiased physical. For the next few years, Kin assisted her and the vice captain directly as a junior nurse. Under Unohana's care, Kin was finally able to maintain her powers and finally able to attend the academy.

She was a year behind the future vice captains Renji Abarai, Izuru Kira, and Momo Hinamori, as well as Rukia Kuchiki. Though she never interacted with any of her classmates, she had a fateful encounter with Kira in her freshman year when she lost her lenses and feared she's transform again. She controlled herself by concentrating on the reflective surface of a koi pond in one of the academy's gardens. When Kira appeared, he startled her and sent the poor girl into the pond. Being a gentleman, Kira helped her up and tried to dry her off, but a bare eyed Kin only panicked and ran away, leaving Kira wondering about her identity.

After graduation, Kin was transfered into the Twelfth Division. Knowing that Kurotsuchi had obtained the captaincy, she was anxious to meet with the man. Upon doing so, he wanted to disect

Zanpakutō
Seireihime (蜻蛉姫, lit. Dragonfly Princess): It looks like a regular katakana normally and the guard is shaped like a lotus flower.


 * Shikai: triggered by the phrase "breathe" (息おして, ikioshite). In its shikai, Seireihime transforms into a silver daitou, a Japanese long sword.