Octavia Sinfonia

[Octavia Sinfonia]

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"If I just keep trying, everything will be okay in the end! I just know it!"

Name: Octavia Sinfonia
Age: 135
Date of Birth: Jan. 13
Gender: Female

Affiliation: Independent

Appearance:

Height: 4' 4"
Weight: 91 lbs

Octavia's short stature and youthful appearance belies her true power. Her heart shaped face and round blue eyes hold a childlike wonder, and with her garb she looks like a young teenager out for trick or treating. Unaware or unwary often consider her cute, not guessing at her true potential. She is petite and agile, with hair as blue as the daytime sky cut in a tomboyish bob. Her hollow mask fragment takes the form of hairpins that resemble the “fortissimo” symbol in music, which she has a nervous habit of playing with. She carries herself with little grace, and is actually rather clumsy, tripping over her feet and sometimes her cape. She bounces when happy and in general likes to hop around whenever she feels like she has a little energy to burn. Her voice is crisp and clear, a soaring soprano with a distinctly youthful timbre. Her mannerisms are generally childishly overblown and dramatic to a point, often she drops to her knees or throws up her hands in surprise or grief and literally jumps for joy.

Her garb is heavily altered from what is considered standard. The top piece has no sleeves to speak of, and the majority of it is a flat black breastplate with a bit of ruffle from the shirt under the plate visible from the top. Her midriff is covered with a white shirt accented with black trim and buttons and white ruffle which opens just barely at the bottom to reveal her hollow hole, which is at her navel. Her shoulders are covered with a billowing white cape with an almost opalescent sheen that falls quite a distance past her ankles and settles on the ground. The hem is slightly frayed at the bottom because she occasionally steps on it, but it is made of very light material with black trim on the edges and high collar, and easily unfurls and trails behind her as she walks. The bottom piece is a pleated skirt, again white with black trim. Fancy buckled gloves of the same material as her cape cover her hands, with a second longer pair (colored black) under these to keep them from becoming uncomfortable. Her legs are covered by black stockings under white knee-high boots with buckles that match her gloves. These boots are pirate-like, with pointed toes and a very modest heel.

Personality:

Octavia is a very passionate and emotional young arrancar. While most have a twisted sort of honor code, she believes strongly in justice and maintains a strict (and surprisingly sensible) code of honor: do not attack the injured or innocent, do not attack the unwary or weak, always help someone in peril (as long as they will not hurt you in return). Breaking her code causes her immense grief. She is also highly superstitious, believing that luck is something that can be earned and manipulated and that karma will always come around. When she believes she has done bad she will ask and even beg her superiors to punish her for her actions in an effort to stave off worse consequences. Fortune telling and ""lucky"" rituals are a kind of safety blanket for her--she folds cranes in her spare time, carries a clover with her whenever she can and rounds numbers off in sevens. She knows other arrancar might think her silly, but she really doesn't mind looking silly if it makes her feel better. She deflects the blame for things that go wrong to simple bad luck, and is always willing to try again. Unfortunately, this deflection keeps her from learning from her mistakes just as much as it helps her remain determined and chipper. Octavia will never give up on something she desires—next time's certainly the charm.

Humans, Shinigami, and Quincy are of no consequence to her; while she treats them quite nicely and won't attack them unless she or someone she cares about is attacked, she truly couldn't care less what happened to them outside of her agency. What if they were all gone tomorrow in some fiery explosion? Well, that would just be okay. To their faces, though, she is energetic and kind, playfully palling around with children that can see her and not doing much to cause trouble unless she has been ordered to. She extends this same happy go lucky attitude and friendship to any arrancar that will have her, but most find her annoying. She has great respect for arrancar that believe in her kind of justice, though they've proven to be few and far between.

She is childishly concrete in her thinking—things either are or are not, and she won't take “maybe” for an answer. If she has a problem, she will push it away, eventually convincing herself that it does not even exist and even the most abstract of concepts become real in her mind once she grasps them. Simply put, if she likes it and believes it, it is undeniably real. If she doesn't like it, it might as well be dust in the wind. 

It can be argued that the source of her power is the same thing that is her greatest weakness—her never-give-up attitude and refusal to quit or surrender. Her conviction and determination keep her going when others would throw in the towel, both in love and war. She is very emotional and it is easy to make her cry, but when tears dissolve into fury she is a force to be reckoned with. While she is usually peaceful she's no pushover; she will chase whoever hurt her or her friends to the ends of the earth to punish them. She tends to forget that someone has slighted her after a while and wholeheardtedly forgive them if she believes they have been brought to justice.

Stress is something she has a hard time handling, and her nerves are frayed easily over time. She has a great number of nervous habits that begin to show when stress begins to overwhelm her—her lucky rituals become more overt and desperate, she fidgets with her hollow mask fragment, bites her zanpakutou's scabbard and is overall more prone to lashing out.

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Sealed Description: Sirenita Hueco takes the form of a cutlass in a plain black sheath with gold trim. The handguard is a gold bucket-style one with blue jewels embedded and the threading of the handle is blue and gold stitching. It is well-loved, with scratches and damage to the sheath and handle easy to see and even though the blade is kept sharp not even it is pristine. She keeps it by her side when she thinks she'll need it. (Sometimes she bites the scabbard when alone and stressed, some of the most obvious signs of damage to it are these bitemarks.)



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Octavia's first instinct when a fight breaks out is usually to attempt to solve things peacefully, especially with other Arrancar. Even with other beings, she will usually try to work things out a little, see if there was some mistake or understanding but if enraged or certain that the person she is looking at is guilty of some wrong, she becomes merciless and absolutely dauntless in her efforts to exact justice. Her healing factor is notably advanced compared with other arrancar which combines with her tank-like attack power to make her an excellent berserker. She will not stop her barrage unless she is physically incapable of continuing the fight or is talked down by someone she trusts. She isn't a poor strategist, but in the heat of battle adrenaline clouds her judgment; if she is to make a battle plan it has to be made before the battling begins in earnest.

She makes some use of her reiatsu techniques (cero, bala) but only sparingly—she tends to save her reiatsu up to speed her regenerative abilities. Her Resurrection is a last resort, and she will try to end a battle without using it if she can since it means more reiatsu spending to use her powers in this form. She prefers fighting with her hands and sealed sword, and she is adept at using them both. Her punches are bone-shattering and her slashes placed to inflict major damage. She is not sadistic in any sense but in battle she is perfectly willing do anything to ensure that she leaves the battle victorious up to and including taking her opponent down with her if necessary. She is almost compulsively led to keep fighting no matter how hopeless it is. Octavia tries to end fights quickly with devastating initial barrages even though she's more than willing to go the distance and hold out as long as her opponent stands.

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