Shikai:
Name: Jojishi - “Epic”
Release Phrase: Saikai - “Restart”
Manifestation:
An odd occurrence, to say the least, Jojishi is actually the collective name for the two spirits that reside in Lucia’s soul. Each spirit represents a different facet of her personality; however, as with her unrestrained imagination, is highly exaggerated. On first glance, the inner world they both reside in is nothing more than an enormous black expanse. However, upon closer examination, the world reveals itself to be a distinctive landscape, cities dotting separate areas of her inner world, representing her various theories and thoughts.. The rouge strands of binary code appear in the cities themselves, creating the individual beings and people. Each town is actually a stylized version of her thoughts, allowing her to freely roam through the area, filled with its own shops, non-playable character, enemies, and boss fights.
The first spirit, [1] - Unity, uses millions of copies of the number one in a light-blue font to create itself. While having no definite form, the spirit takes the form of an array of non-playable characters, whose appearances change depending on what city she is in. Unity takes the form of the protagonists in her inner story.
The second spirit, [0] - Null, takes form millions of zeroes in a solid, red font. It’s appearance takes the form of non-playable characters as well; however, a facet of the red-binary is imprinted somewhere on their character design. Null takes the role of the story’s antagonist.
Form:
As she’s learned form the multiple books and movies she’s seen, Lucia knows that every great hero needs a good weapon that they can equip. This theory transferred to her zanpaktou spirits as well. The spirits agreed on one thing, it needed to be not a good, but great weapon. Save the Queen? No thank you. Master Sword? They’ll pass. Mani Katti? The crit chance was pretty good but, they needed something with a higher strength rating.
Upon activating her shikai, the sheathe of her zanpaktou digitizes, disappearing from her side. Instantly, a gauntlet is materialized on her hand, the coding wrapping completely around her left hand. The weapon takes the form of a mechanized black gauntlet, with ones and zeros manifesting in the air around it. The coding continues to wrap around her arm, creating an interlocking chainmail of zeros. Circular braces appear around her arm as it continues to trail up.
Upon reaching her shoulder, a spaulder is digitized, taking the shape of separate crescent moon shaped plates. More binary materializes around the spaulder, continuously appearing and fading from view. Illuminated vectors trail up the entire manifestation, glowing white when dormant.
Ability: Do A Barrel Roll
Using the spirit as its pathway to conduct her chiyudou, she is able to rapidly boost the efficiency of each spell funneled through it. When activated, the vector trails take on a solid blue glow, the binary coding changing to solely ones. By writing the chiyudou, at the normal speed of casting with or without incantation, in binary code, before it is translated into back to kanji, the particles of the chiyudou are merged with the particles of the Unity, leaving a vector trail around the spell and onto the person’s body. When used this way, Lucia must pay 150% of the cost of the chiyudou spell used. Doing so; however, reduces the number of turns needed to heal the ailment by 2 rounds.
This effect can be compounded with ‘You Have Died of Dysentery’ by instead paying 200% of the cost of the chiyudou selected.
Ability: You Have Died of Dysentery
Lucia’s encounter with white mages in stories and games haven’t been the best experience. Sure, they were needed when you were attempting to speed-run a game and trying to fight the fifth boss while severely under-leveled, but in all the other cases, she wanted a job that was more than casting Raise on the party. Thus, she learned away to, eliminate this problem in her story. When activated, the vectors of her gauntlet take on a red color, the coding becoming solely zeroes. By paying 150% of the cost of a chiyudou, the spirit of Null is able to reverse its channeling effects. Doing so cancels the reiatsu regeneration aspect of the chiyudou.
Furthermore, chiyudou will now cause the opposite effect as stated in the kidou. The channeling time for the wounds to appear is the same as the channeling time for the woulds to be healed. In other words, a chiyudou that heals minor flesh wounds in three turns, will instead cause a minor wound in three turns. As long as Lucia stays within the channeling range, the chiyudou will continue to eat away at her target until its channeling time for the kidou has been completed. For healing chiyudou that have no turn duration, such as Rejoin, the effects are slightly dampened, instead causing the chiyudou to damage the area specified in the spell, causing a reduced version of the effects, whose damage is equal to the cost of the kidou. To pass on the degenerative effects she must contact the target with her glove or pass the effect on through specific methods detailed in the kidou.
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Bankai:
Name: Jikou Jojishi - “Artificial Epic”
Form:
At the point of final release, Lucia’s Bankai represents her video game world being completed. The words have filled the page, the scenery has been crafted, the characters have been introduced, the token quick-time events added... All that remains is combining all the sections in to one. In Bankai, each of the individual spirits merge together into a collective narrative.
The unified spirit, Jikou Jojishi, temporarily manifests itself, gliding and weaving around Lucia. Her form from shikai remains the same however, the entire landscape around her is digitized, giving it a more cybernetic feel. The entire landscape, stemming roughly 35 meters around her, is overcome with the vector shapes, weaving and arching around the entire area. On her left hand, the gauntlet, mail, and spaulder of her shikai remains; however, the entire form is enhanced in Bankai, with plumes of binary rapidly releasing form the manifestation.
Ability: Hey! Listen!
A 100% complete file, the combined spirit synthesized the skills of both individual spirits. When activating such an ability, the spaulder on her shoulder extends, the white lighting is replaced with light blue.
While in shikai, she was limited to the gauntlet as a focal point for the ability. Her mastery, as evident in Bankai, allows her to select any one of her limbs to be the focus. By paying 150% of the cost of a chiyudou, Jikou Jojishi is able to reverse its channeling effects. Doing so cancels the reiatsu regeneration aspect of the chiyudou. To pass on the degenerative effects she must contact the target with the limb or pass the effect on through specific methods detailed in the kidou.
Furthermore, chiyudou will now cause the exact opposite effect as stated in the kidou. The channeling time for the wounds to appear is the same as the channeling time for the woulds to be healed. As the influence of Unity appears, two turns of channeling is subtracted from the channeling time of the chiyudou.
As long as Lucia stays within the channeling range, the chiyudou will continue to eat away at her target until its channeling time for the kidou has been completed. For healing chiyudou that have no turn duration, such as Rejoin, the effects are slightly dampened, instead causing the chiyudou to damage the area specified in the spell, causing a reduced version of the effects, whose damage is equal to the cost of the kidou.
Attack: All Ur Base R Belong to Us
Every game system needs accessories. Extra styluses, system covers, a comfortable gaming chair, all of the extras combined makes the original system even better.
An advanced application of Unity, the entirety of her zanpakuto domain morphs into a conductor of her abilities. By opening the debug menu and paying 150% the cost of the chiyudo spell, she can weave the spell directly into the landscape’s coding. By writing the name of the spell, with or without its incantation, in binary, which is then translated into kanji, a a dome of destabilized reishi, with a 20 meter radius, forms around her hand and herself. Appearance wise, it seems as if there was no change in the environment at all. At any point, she can activate the trap, releasing the effect of the spell directly in the volume of the dome. In the case of healing chiyudou, all of the people inside the dome are healed by the chosen spell.
This ability can be combined with Hey! Listen! as long as Lucia pays 200% of the chosen chiyudou’s cost instead, causing the chiyudou to effect the body parts in the dome when activated, as long as the specified chiyudou affects that part.
Attack: Our Princess Is In Another Castle
Remember when video games were anchored to your TV set, stopping you from taking them to other places, unless you lugged the CRT along with you? Chiyudou works that way, so Lucia has learned how to turn into into a handheld.
By paying 125% of the chiyudou selected, she creates a small polygon in her palm, laced with the abilities of the chiyudou selected. By throwing the orb, she can send the selected spell up to 40 meters in front of her. The sent chiyudou takes the form of a variety of planar shapes no bigger than each of her fingers. When using a chiyudou in this manner, she can completely disregard the channeling radius for spells. Upon hitting the target, friend or foe, the chiyudou activates, healing the target as normal.
This ability can be merged with Hey! Listen!, as long as Lucia pays 175% of the chiyudou’s cost, allowing her to carry the corrupted effect’s coding.
Attack: You Spoony Bard!
When wielding a reversed chiyudou, actually landing a strike in the correct location can be difficult. Through a sufficient number of boss fights and skill grinding, Lucia has mastered the art of spreading the expelled chiyudou to various parts of her target’s body. By paying additional 50% of the reversed spell's cost upon strike, she can split the area of effect of the spell into halves, allowing each portion to effect a different part of their body, fragmenting it. She can spread the chiyudou to any body part that the chiyudou is able to effect. When doing so, the channeling rate remains the same; however, the size of the wound is decreased. The strength of each zone is decreased by half.
