Name: Harai Kamina
Gender: Male
Age: Looks to be in his early twenties
Appearance: Tall, standing at 6’2” with an athletic, muscled build, Kamina is a man in his prime. Skin has a healthy tan to it and his sharp features are considered handsome by many of the female members of the Gotei 13. His eyes are a dark ruby red color, almost black, that always seem alight and alive with a semi-crazed look. His hair is a light navy blue in color and slightly spiked, the bangs stick slightly out from his forehead and to the right. Tattoos cover his arms and back, all in dark blue-black ink. Wears the standard shihakusho in a very unorthodox manner – the kimono top remains open baring his chest with bandages wrapped about his stomach and forearms while his hakama are pulled up high and belted shut. On the back of his top is a red skull-shaped flame with a pair of oddly shaped orange shades. He owns a physical pair of those shades that is always on his person. The edges have been sharpened so they can be used as last-resort weapon if need be. His gigais tend not to wear shirts either, preferring open vests or unbuttoned shirts and slacks.
Personality: Brash, reckless, and hot-blooded, Kamina is a man of action and not thought. What he lacks in common sense he makes up for with intense determination. His confidence overrides all higher thinking functions so that despite actually being rather intelligent, he instead seems more the noble fool than anything else. This confidence often extends to others especially to those he sees great potential in. One of his favorite sayings is “Believe not in yourself, but in me who believes in you!” He can be stubborn and unyielding, especially when it comes to doing something that is in his eyes dishonorable or unmanly. Still, he is a loyal friend and skilled fighter that can be counted on in a pinch.
Rank: Third Seat, Ninth Division
Powers: Kamina is a skilled swordsman despite being mostly self-taught. His style though rough and unpolished, has a bit of savage elegance that few can imitate. He is well known for wild, relentless strikes as well as unorthodox tactics during battle. Lacking in speed, faster warriors have been known to run circles around Kamina, but he makes up for this in his durability and stamina. He’s infamous for being able to go on long after others have fallen to exhaustion. His kidoh skills are average at best, with a small, but well-rounded repertoire of spells. He is fully capable of Shunpo, but can only go a few steps before losing his breath.
Zanpakutou: Known as Gurren Lagann, Kamina unseals the blade with the command Pierce the heavens! Gurren-Lagann takes the form of a samurai warrior bedecked in red/black armor trimmed in gold. Its chest is replaced by the face of a massive grinning demon with yellow eyes. Only the demon face speaks and is the more animated of the two heads, with an attitude almost as hot-headed as Kamina can be. The two often bicker when Kamina is in their plane of existence which has so far served as an obstruction to the 'submission' part of the Bankai process.
Sealed – In its sealed state, Gurren-Lagann resembles a nodachi almost as tall as Kamina. The blade is plainly adorned with a cross-shaped hilt and hilt bound in ragged purple.
Shikai – In its initial release state, Gurren-Lagann forms armor around Kamina’s right arm ending in a rather large drill. He is fully capable of manipulating the size, shape, and spin of the drill, even able to fire off many smaller drills in rapid succession. As well, he is capable of ‘charging’ the drill with his own spiritual energy, empowering it and allowing him to ‘rocket’ towards his opponent.
History: Having died at a young age to starvation, Kamina hold few memories of his original life. He grew up in one of the mid-tier districts of Rukongai, not quite visicous slums like Kushajishi or Zaraki, but still quite poor. At the age 'thirteen', Kamina took off from his district to 'see the rest of the world'. He was attacked by wild Hollows at one point, where he discovered his own budding Spiritual powers by blinding them with a burst of reiatsu. Still, he would have been devoured had he not been discovered by a group of academy Shinigami led by Shuhei Hisagi. Impressed by Kamina's spiritual power, Shuhei brought him back to the academy to be trained. It was there he met Kumiko, quickly befriending the cheerful Shinigami as most of the other students were put off by Kamina's boisterous attitude. He was a fairly average student as grades go, and was more than once reprimanded for 'standing up to authority'. He did amazingly well on his practical tests, which combined with Lieutenant Hisagi's reccomendation were enough to get him inot the Gotei Thirteen, Ninth Division. He's become somewhat enamored of the Material World and finds any excuse to travel there, whether its patrolling or just regular recon work.
Relations: Friend and training partner of Kumiko's.
Other: Purchases his shades from the same place that Renji purchases his custom made headgear.