User:Nekura Wabizumai

is a Shinigami in the Gotei 13 who had served 2nd Division Captain Soifon as lieutenant 100 years before the main storyline. He is currently the primary candidate for the Captaincy of the 5th Division.

Appearance
Nekura has the appearance of a caucasian male in his mid to late 20's. He has dark brown hair that is slicked back, tied in a ponytail that is braided into four seperate braids and reaches halfway down his back. His attire consists of a sleeveless Shihakusho with a black belt with a silver buckle depicting the Cross of Confusion, and spiked leather armbands on his forearms. He also has a tattoo of the Cross of Confusion on his left bicep, he occaisionally wears black half-framed reading glasses when fulfilling his administrative duties for his respective Division, and he has dark bags under his eyes due to insomnia and habitual exhaustion.

Personality
Nekura is an extremely introverted and serious individual. He tends to spend his time fulfilling all administrative duties in his Division and spends his free time either helping other Shingami with their own office work (Namely Shuhei Hisagi and Kenpachi Zaraki), reading horror fiction novels, writing poetry or playing his bass guitar. While being largely silent and seemingly indifferent to everything around him, he is actually very shy and timid, often worrying about his disposition with others and being ridiculed in an extremely over-exaggerated fear of being ostracized and hated. It is because of this fear that he often turns down Shuhei Hisagi, Rangiku Matsumoto and Izuru Kira when they offer him to drink with them and helps his possible future lieutenant Momo Hinamori in her duties without her knowledge.

Nekura has also shown an excessive and near obsessive work ethic; often skipping meals, sleep, an d refusing drink offers to complete not only his work, but that of Divisions 9 and 11 as well. However, it has been stated by Matsumoto that he was much more obsessed with his work when he was a lieutenant 100 years ago. So much so, that on more that one of the many occaisions he had worked himself to complete exhaustion; he passed out after three days of going without sleep and going without food two and a half weeks beforehand, he hit his head on the end of the desk as he fell, and he spent more than three weeks in the 4th Division's infirmary recovering from his self-neglect.

While being the quiet and sullen individual he is, he also contiuously shows deep empathy and understanding towards many of his colleagues. Such as when he offers Hisagi help with his duties as temporary captain, saying that he knows what it's like to "be screwed over by someone who [he] looked up to" and to "clean up someone else's mess", and when he talks with Hinamori about his sudden candidacy for Captain, saying he "[wishes] [he] could have had an opportunity to turn away someone [he] positively loathed, like [she] did". He also has extremely low self esteem due to his fear of being hated, as shown when talking with Hinamori about his candidacy when he called himself a "spineless and sordid wretch unworthy of anyone's recognition or respect", among other, more descriptive, comparisons. His sense of humor is among the most morbid of any Shinigami in the Gotei 13, such as when he told the sadistic Captain Mayuri Kurotsuchi a joke about a "village idiot's suicide", Kurotsuchi called him a "sick bastard" after being visibly disturbed by the joke

He is also shy around women around women in particular. Such as when meeting Hinamori for the first time, he had tried to get drunk to "loosen up" so he could actually talk to her, but due to his high alcohol tolerance, he ended up running from the room when he failed at even returning her greeting before being intercepted by Jushiro Ukitake in the hallway. He also embarrased himself when first meeting Nanao Ise in the 8th Division barracks by repeatedly punching himself in the face because he accidentally told her that he thought she was attractive when he compliimented her glasses. When he was Soifon's lieutenant, he was so nervous about giving her a souvenir of a black cat plush-toy from the human world, he gave himself a peptic ulcer which he still has to the current day.

Nekura also has an interest in Heavy Metal music, going as far to adopt its fashion (his armbands, belt and tattoo) and obtaining an MP3 player in the human world so he could better store his music since the whole of one of his room's walls is covered with a bookshelf that is completely filled with CDs of various Heavy Metal bands. Some bands that he has stated as his favorites are Devildriver, Behemoth, KoRn, Coal Chamber, Dimmu Borgir, Kamelot, Cannibal Corpse, System of a Down, Lamb of God, Mudvayne, and Chiamaira. He also bought a bass guitar from the human world as an extension of his musical interests and has shown great skill in playing, leaving Yasutora Sado in awe of a solo he had played for him and Hisagi literally begging Nekura to teach him.

History
Nekura was lieutenant in the 2nd Division serving under Captain Soifon 100 years before the main stortline and had held his position for about 50 years, due to his work ethic and thourough and precise methods as an interrogator for the Onmitsukido. Over the years, he began to suffer from insomnia and severe exhaustion, though he refused any and all treatments and did not change his lifestyle due to wanting to impress his Captain, Soifon. 50 years before the main storyline, his Zanpakuto visited him in his dreams one night, mocking him for his weakness. The same night, an alert was sent out to the 2nd Division of an incoming Hollow attack in the Seireitei, and Nekura was the first to respond. When he released his Zanpakuto and began to cut down the horde of Gillians, he became disoriented because of his Zanpakuto's influence, and was hit with a collective Cero blast in front of the whole of the 2nd Division.

He survived the blast by releasing his Bankai, which he had learned several months prior, much to the 2nd Division's surprise, especially Captain Soifon's. When he defeated the Hollows, Nekura became ill because of his Zanpakuto's corrupting reiatsu; his vision was distorted beyond use, his hearing was plagued by piercing ringing at all times, and he felt as though his body was "dripping away" from him. Because of this, he was demoted as Lieutenant of the 2nd Division and an Officer of the Gotei 13, and spent the next 30 years being treated by 4th Division Captain Retsu Unohana.

20 years before the main storyline, Nekura and his Zanpakuto made amends, as it was his Zanpakuto that made him ill in the first place, and so made a full recovery. When he was made 3rd Seated Officer in the 2nd Division, Soifon recommended Nekura to Head Captain Yamamoto as a candidate for Captain if a position ever opened up, and was recogized for acheiving Bankai. He spent the next 20 years working as he normally did, but due to making a promise to Rangiku Matsumoto, Nekura was often forced to cut his work short, but he never fell behind.

Powers &amp; Abilities
Master Swordsmanship Specialist: Nekura is masterful at swordsmanship, capable of flawless precision and lethal attacks without much effort. Nekura's fighting style involves evasion and attacking an opponent either in the front or back using the element of surprise to overwhelm them.