Name: Raymandara di Volterri

Age: 819 (Appears 22, due to that being when he died)

Arrancar Number: 17

General Appearance:

Body:

Raymandara is relatively tall but not a giant, standkng at 5'10”, with
dark blond hair three quarters down his neck in the back and an inch
past his eyebrows in front, layered and generally his bangs swept to
one side with his hand, for convenience. He has an aquiline nose and
pleasant features; his mouth seems permanently set into a disapproving
frown or annoyed scowl, but he will often grin infuriatingly or
mockingly smirk to rile up his opponent, and he has been shown to be
relatively humorous and lighthearted, cracking a genuine smile now and
again.

Remnant of Hollow Mask: Along his left jaw and cheek.

Clothing:

Raymandara wears his white robes in an open V to the center of his
chest, showing his Hollow hole, where they close off until lower
thigh, where they fan out like a duster coat and extend to his ankles.
He wears simple white pants underneath, embroidered with a single
swirling, curving black line on the outside of each pantleg from two
inches below his waist to halfway down his calf. The inside of
Raymandara's open lapels are black, and his Arrancar number (17)
is embroidered in large, fancy, spiky writing on the left breast.

Personality:

Raymandara is normally very cold and calculating, goal-oriented and
believing that the ends justify the means. If killing an opponent
serves his purposes, he will, without qualm, though he will typically
spare women and children. If it easier or more expedient to leave them
alive, he will, and not second guess himself later. He will,however,
leave his opponents alive unless he must kill them, just because it is
easier. He is the consummate gentleman, very smooth-talking and
chivalrous, always polite and always reasonable and levelheaded. On
occasion, he will make a joke and crack a smile, showing that
underneath the icy exterior, he does have a lighthearted side. He is
currently partnered with Carcajada(edwardelrich's character), who is
entirely insane, and Raymandara exerts some restraint over him, acting
as a damage control much as Ulquiorra did for Yammy.


When Raymandara gets his blood up in battle, however, he is completely
different. He goes out of his way to injure and kill his opponents, even at great cost to himself. He will never give up, never surrender, and win or die fighting. In this state, his powers are significantly
increased, but there is no trace of the refined, almost elegant control that he employed in his attacks before, never wasting a motion. Instead, Raymandara will fight explosively, with reitasu
leaking out every which way uncontrolled. It is the difference between a sharp and deadly blade, and a huge and equally deadly hammer. The blade cuts with precision, aiming and incising exactly where directed; the hammer simply destroys the target and everything in the immediate vicinity, but in the end, both kill you just as dead. Raymandara's
normal calm, collected form is like the sword, and his battle rage is quite similar to the unsubtle but effective hammer.

Strengths & Weaknesses:

Raymandara is an incredibly good swordsman, and thus is a difficult
opponent before he releases his Ressurrecion. However, at this stage,
his Zanpakuto is just a sword, without the fancy powers of shikai or
Ressurrecion. In addition, he relies a fair bit on swordplay; his
Cero, while he uses it often, is weaker than that of many Arrancar.
When he enters the battle rage, he will virtually ignore all pain,
making him able to sustain otherwise-fatal blows and keep swinging
(the exception being blows that kill instantly or near instantly, such
as high-level Kido that attack the entire body, Cero, and direct shots
to the heart lungs, or brain.) He becomes much faster, stronger, and
more resilient, but this makes him reckless. His Hierro increases
enough that he grows careless and might decide to take a sword in
order for a chance to cut off his enemy's head, however slim. And why
bother avoiding their blade when you wont feel it anyway? He begins to
accumulate many smaller injuries that work together to slow him down.
Also, once he defeats his opponent and leaves the berserking state,
previously sustained injuries act on him at nearly double normal pace,
victims of his metabolism's sudden boost. With great power, comes
greater repercussions, and nowhere is that more true than when
Raymandara is battleraging.

Powers: Just those of Ressurecion, and of course his Cero, Hierro, etc.

Resurrección:

Ressurrecion Release Phrase: Enlighten (them), Electronica.

Ressurrecion Animal: Electric Eel

Ressurrecion Appearance: In his Ressurrecion, Raymandara's tailbone
lengthens into a long eel tail and his skin turns dark blue
with yellow spots. The tail fuses his upper legs together slightly.
His fingers and toes become webbed and slightly clawed, useful for
attacks, gills appear on his neck, and his teeth become pointed. In
addition, his eyes become noticeably narrower and dark outlines appear
around them. The weight of the tail forces him to walk with a slight
stoop, so that when he runs it looks like an eel swimming. He will often use this powerful tail to strike his opponents. In this stage, he is an incredibly good swimmer.

Ressurrecion Powers: When Raymandara enters Ressurrecion, his normal
stats are boosted, as is usual: strength, speed, defense, endurance,
etc. In this form, Raymandara has a powerful current constantly running
through the outer layer of his skin, so anyone that touches or attacks
hm directly gets badly shocked and stunned. Raymandara's powers deal with the manipulation of electric fields. He can send surges of electricity through the air (though these are weakened by having to jump from atom to atom), with enough potency to paralyze; these are given away by a crackling, hissing sound, a slight discoloration of the air, the smell of ozone, and a
wave of heat rushing toward you. His real ability, however, lies in
his ability to run current through objects he is touching, even those
that normally are poor conductors. He can transmit far greater
quantities of electricity through an object; the current must be
initiated by contact, but he after initiation, he can release the
object and maintain current through willpower. In this manner, he
cannot match the power of a single surge, but rather keep a low level
of current constantly flowing through the object, so if the opponent
touches it, they will be stunned or even paralyzed, depending on how
good a conductor the object is. Raymandara can focus electricity into,
for example, his fist, to add another element to a simple punch. Also,
as he manipulates the electrical fields themselves, he can stop an
enemy's lightning-based attacks or even redirect small metal objects
by creating a weak magnetic pull. For example, a common tactic he
might use is touching a tree or a table at the beginning of a fight,
seemingly innocently, perhaps under the guise of inspection or while
distracting the opponent with a Cero or conversation; then Raymandara
would lure the opponent back toward the object, have them
inadvertently touch it, and immobilize them. His control of electrical
fields is quite potent.Raymandara can create self-perpetuating fields, meaning each one creates another, which creates another, etc. This allows him to greatly extend the range of his manipulation. Also, the potency is such that he can turn objects into powerful magnets on touch, and the farther away he is, the proportionally weaker the magnet is. Raymandara's fine control grants him control over ambient electrons themselves. This means he can string together lightning blasts from the air, create waves of electricity, and remotely instill electrical charges in objects by hitting them with a beam of
charged electrons. Because of the electrical field around his body, he can sense objects that pass within about five feet of him quite accurately, essentially giving him eyes in the back of his head. When Raymandara enters Ressurrecion, he can create
a magnetic field around his hand and attract ferromagnetic objects
within a radius directly proportional to the strength of the field
created; this also allows him to remotely manipulate objects he has
magnetized by moving the magnetically-gloved hand, and to augment his
physical attacks with a burst of controlled and contained electricity.

Resurrección Segunda Etapa: (NOTE: This is only for if and when
Raymandara acheives a level approriate for the use of this technique.
Thus, approve it or deny it, but if it is denied I will still be able
to use the character and tweak it while I work up to Espada.)

I haven't decided on powers or appearance for this yet.

Ressurrecion Segunda Etapa Name: Don Electronica Aguilire (Electric Eel Lord)

Ressurrecion Segunda Etapa Release Phrase: Shock the misguided
knights, Don Electronica Aguilire.

History:

Life

(This is the life of the spirit that dominated the Hollow collectively known as Raymandara di Volterri.)

In life, Raymandara was an Italian scientist by the name of Roberto
Giacomo Bernadelli. He lived in the late 900s to the early 1000s, and
spent much of his time working with the concept of electricity. His
contemporaries scoffed at him for investigating an “invisible force
that attracted objects and shocked people”. They told him that what he
had so far discovered was evidence of God, and that he should devote
himself to the Church, which he disliked with great intensity. When he
graduated from University, he performed a thesis that he had developed
over the course of his studies, postulating that electricity was a
universal field that acted constantly upon the environment and had
more pronounced effects in places of greater concentration. He was
immediately branded a heretic and blasphemer, and he was strung up as
an agent of the devil. However, he had concealed a knife in his long
sleeve, and he cut the ropes binding him. In a fit of rage, he then
proceeded to kill the entire mob with just that one knife. Standing
over the mutilated bodies of his friends, neighbors, and colleagues,
hands drenched in blood, he dropped the knife in horror and ran. The
villagers who had not attended his impromptu execution, shocked at his
actions, drew themselves into an armed posse and chased after him.
Fleeing to his cliffside manor, Roberto-Raymandara entangled the
pursuers in an invention of his, a steel-fiber net with an electrical
current in it. Looking on, he watched in an agony of self-loathing as
what remained of his life writhed and died before him. As he turned to
enter the manor, something caught his eye: a pink ribbon. Sickened by
what he suspected, he bent over to inspect the corpse pile, and found
the body of a small child, whose mother he had known and who had come
for him in an attempt to protect him. In that one moment after he
straightened up again, he stood perfectly still, then, quite calmly,
he turned and flung himself from the cliff, killing himself instantly
on impact.

Spirit

The spirit of Roberto Giacomo Bernadelli was restless from the moment
it separated from his twisted, broken body. His chain of fate bound
him, not to his body, nor the place of his death, and not even to a
person. Instead, he was tied to the pink ribbon of the girl he had
killed. He watched as the ribbon passed from the girl to her sister,
and then to her niece, and then her niece's best friend; he spent a
full century tracking the path of the ribbon from girl to girl. Even
though he was eating himself up inside from self loathing every time
he saw the ribbon, his intense willpower passively kept the
Encroachment at bay, allowing him to participate in this long period
of observation and wallowing in his own self-hate. After 100 years,
his regrets overcame his determination, and he became a Hollow.

Hollow

After the process of Hollowfication was complete, Roberto discarded
his old name and became Raymandara di Volterri. He devoured the souls
of numerous humans before he realized that consuming another Hollow
would grant far greater spiritual energy. He began to kill and eat his
fellows, one by one, and he slowly, agonizingly, became stronger. He
began to challenge groups of Hollows for greater power, and succeed.
He spent a full three hundred years in this stage. He was never
stationary, because any time he remained sedentary for longer than a
year, humans and Hollows alike would begin to avoid his domicile
because word would get out of an incredibly strong entity residing
there. Thus, he was almost always on the move staying in one place
only long enough to eat any local Hollows and whatever humans with
high spiritual pressure in the area before moving on. He continued
like this for three full centuries before he advanced to the next
phase of Menos Grande: the Adjucha.

As an Adjucha, Raymandara developed something of a following of other
Adjuchas who realized his power and decided to support him. This
ragtag band advanced quickly through the ranks of Adjucha, killing and
devouring thousands of other Hollows, until they met one odd,
dangerous Adjucha (edwardelrich's character). This Hollow
singlehandedly killed all of Raymandara's gang and fought Raymandara
himself. In the intensity of the battle, both Adjuchas advanced to the
final stage of Menos Grande: Vasto Lordes. They were transported to
Hueco Mundo, the Desert of Death, where they continued their battle,
with no clear victor. After three days of unceasing combat, one of the
Espada located them by the noise and spiritual pressure. The battle
was broken up and they were both taken to the great Night Castle Los
Noches for outfitting in the manner of the Arrancar. When they woke
up, white robes were laid out beside them, with their Arrancar rank on
the left breast. Raymandara found his to be 17, while Carcajada (edwardelrich's character) was assigned 66. They spent the next three
days customizing their new clothing and having their current position
as Arrancar and what that meant explained to them. Following that, they were given two weeks of Ressurrecion training and turned out back
into Hueco Mundo, where Raymandara and his new companion discovered
they worked well together; they decided to become partners. Together, they spent 200 years wandering the Desert of Death and training, up to the current day, when they have been called back to Los Noches for mission assignment and are now officially on combat standby.