Mayuri Kurotsuchi

Affiliation

Captain of the 12th Division of the Gotei 13, Head of the Institute of Research and Development

Appearence

Mayuri's appearance has a skeletal look to it with a skull-like visage. His eyes are a golden color and he constantly bares his teeth giving the appearance of him constantly smiling. Both his ears are seemingly replaced with stubbed golden cones. His fingernails are blue and, with the exception of the fingernail on his right middle finger, are all short. The one long fingernail is as long as the finger itself. His face is painted, creating a black cross upon the center of his face covering everything but his nose and a small portion of his lower chin. His chin has a long golden attachment reminiscent of an Egyptian Pharaoh beard, his teeth are a golden color, and there is a golden frame around his face. His hair is also styled into "horns," that slope down from the top of his head and frame his face, which when viewed from the front looks much like a Pharaoh's crown. He also wears a large purple scarf around his neck, over his white captain's coat. His whole body, even his face and hands, has been painted black and white. Mayuri's Zanpakutō's guard is wrapped in cloth, and has several spiky protrusions sticking out right below the blade, which appear to resemble leaves. The hilt is pink.

Personality

Mayuri Kurotsuchi is a researcher and personifies the stereotype of the mad scientist. He sees everyone and everything not as a living being, but as an object to be researched, including himself. He has little respect or regard for most others. However, while he usually shows disregard for life, he has been known to warn people of possible dangers when they present themselves. As a scientist, Mayuri despises perfection, as he believes that achieving such a state leaves him with absolutely nothing more to strive for — namely imagination, knowledge and improvements — which would result in nothing but despair. In battle, Mayuri likes to toy with his opponent, torturing them little by little until they can hardly stand. Mayuri's utter disregard for life even extends to the rest of the Gotei 13, believing that all members of the organization are to be prepared to give up their lives in order to protect the Seireitei. To this end, he would gladly cut down any former comrades, even if they are under the enemy's control, test many of his experimental drugs on such comrades for the sake of his research which he believes to be the sake of the Seireitei. Despite his disregard for most life, Mayuri is very obsessive about creating it, and it is his dream to create a soul out of nothing

Backstory

110 years ago, he was the only prisoner in the Maggot's Nest who was considered dangerous enough to necessitate confinement in a small prison cell, chained to the wall by his ankle. He would, however, one day be visited by Kisuke Urahara who was seeking his genius to become vice-president in the newly thought-of Shinigami Research and Development Institute, a request that would automatically get him out of there. He reluctantly joins Kisuke's group and helps lead the development team. After an incident that got Urahara and Tessai Tsukabishi banished and several captains and seated officers Hollowfied, Mayuri later succeeded Urahara in leading the Research and Development Institute. At some point, Mayuri began developing the Nemuri Project, which he used to modify his Zanpakutō. This development allowed him to succeed Urahara as captain of the 12th Division of the Gotei 13. From these experiments, he created his artificial life form Lieutenant Nemuri Kurotsuchi. 110 years later, in the modern day, he participated in the battle against Aizen and his army of Arrancar, claiming several of the arrancar corpses and reviving them to make them into weapons and servants.

Abilities

Mayuri Kurotsuchi is the most intelligent, scientific, and inventive mind in Soul Society. If given a day to prepare, he can find a solution to any problem. As the head of the Shinigami Research Institute, Mayuri is a talented inventor and scientist, having created a number of devices and techniques to aid him in battle. Mayuri's Zanpakuto is named Ashisogi Jizō', after giving the comman 'Rip' he can summon a giant caterpillar-like creature with the head of a baby, it has the ability to spew deadly poison gas from its mouth, killing anyone caught in the crossfire.