INOUE, IMATO
SHINIGAMI
Third Seat, Sixth Division
Personnel File
Age: 100
Gender: Man
Ethnicity: Japanese
Physical Specifications
Height and Weight: 178 cm, 60 kg
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Black
General Appearance: Imato is a tall, slender limbed man. He has tiny, delicate wrists that accentuate the hang of his uniform. His raven black, silken hair is a gift from his mother — he wears it pushed up and back. Imato’s skin has a healthy pink glow to it, and he tans a good bit easier than his pale-white mother.
Imato’s chin is sharp, but his cheekbones come in at an easy angle, lending it a certain softness. He has soot-brown eyes. He wears thick-rimmed black glasses to read.
Psychological Profile
What a thing to ask! And thank you for asking. Here’s a perspective. Challenges are stormy winds that lets you know the wind is there. All that we can do is look at those challenges, and choose to accept them with dignity, knowing that it is by some strange and wonderful grace that we are given the opportunity to experience them in the first place.
But there is also more to life than the overcoming of obstacles. When was the last time you walked in a park? Not just on the way to your working life. Really walked, really noticed, and then sat down for a cup of tea nearby. Those small moments belong as much to the tapestry of your life as do your greatest professional acheivements.
Do you wonder why that is, though? Do you think that maybe there is some pattern to this. Maybe you can’t calculate the optimal ratios of work to pleasure, of communing with the self to finding yourself in others. But could you get close? Could you find some strange formula to approximate that. Is it in you? In me, I’m not so sure. But tell me about you. Seriously, I want to know. What was the face you had before you were born?
Zanpakutō File
Inner World
A small beach on a rocky coastal cliff, at least fifteen meters tall. A vast ocean, which has no reference in Imato’s memory, expands out to the horizon. It is a salty spring night. The full moon shines. A spark in the air gives the sky a green hue.
Zanpakutō Spirit
Kirikoete is both the moon and a woman at the edge of the water, at once. She is wearing a white dress, but other than that, the features of the woman change in a way that Imato doesn’t notice until after he’s left. She is holding some kind of flower.
Sealed Zanpakutō
Short tanto. Black, rectangular. The hilt is wrapped and tied off at the end by a blue braid.
Shikai Appearance
"Paint, Kirikoete."
Shikai Abilities: The spirit will observe the minds of Imato and another subject. It will then create a sensory object, usually an image and/or a sound. Both Imato and the subject will have the same experience.
This “image” may be a quite literal representation of the interests and beliefs of the parties involved. For example, a representation of murder might be the sound of a spade digging and a picture of a house in the Rukongai. It is not necessarily factual. The image generated might also be inscrutably symbolic — except, perhaps, to its subjects.
The image will usually appear in the mind’s eye. However, this is not always the case. Sometimes, it may appear as a brief hallucination in the scene around them, or as a memory.
Documented History
Imato was born to Keiko and Yoshi Inoue one hundred years ago. His childhood, as he remembers it, was happy. His mother was an established researcher at the time, only a few decades away from being elected as the first Captain of the Shinigami Research Institute. His father was a civilian.
At eighteen, he enrolled in the Shi’o Academy. He was a dedicated and hard-working student. The moment his best friend floated joining the Sixth Division, Imato never looked back. He loved the idea of pursuing a vocation where he could work on his feet, talk to people, and do some good for the community. He joined up after graduation.
His first posting was patrol in 49-58 East. It wasn’t the roughest job he could have gotten, but it put Imato face-to-face with some of the more unpleasant realities of the afterlife.
During his first year on service, Imato’s Zanpakuto spirit introduced itself. For nearly a month after, he was unsure of the power it had granted him. All he knew is that he would get aching headaches whenever he spent too much time around people. Eventually the headaches turned into strange and frightening hallucinations. It was only during a heated interview that he understood the true form of his power, and through that how to control it.
His spiritual facility in the realm of psychological profile gained him notice. By the end of his first year, Imato had cracked what many in the Division considered to be a cold case. He was promoted to a seated position, and given a new billet in the Office of Investigations. Imato has remained here since. His service record is exemplary and unblemished: he ranks among the highest in the office for case completion rate.
Recently, Imato was promoted to the position of Third Seat. Of course, there’s speculation that this honor was bestowed upon him due to undue, nepotistic influence. Imato tries not to concern himself with that. With the position comes new responsibilities. He will, as ever, face that problem with a hopeful enthusiasm.
SHINIGAMI
Third Seat, Sixth Division
Personnel File
Age: 100
Gender: Man
Ethnicity: Japanese
Physical Specifications
Height and Weight: 178 cm, 60 kg
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Black
General Appearance: Imato is a tall, slender limbed man. He has tiny, delicate wrists that accentuate the hang of his uniform. His raven black, silken hair is a gift from his mother — he wears it pushed up and back. Imato’s skin has a healthy pink glow to it, and he tans a good bit easier than his pale-white mother.
Imato’s chin is sharp, but his cheekbones come in at an easy angle, lending it a certain softness. He has soot-brown eyes. He wears thick-rimmed black glasses to read.
Psychological Profile
What a thing to ask! And thank you for asking. Here’s a perspective. Challenges are stormy winds that lets you know the wind is there. All that we can do is look at those challenges, and choose to accept them with dignity, knowing that it is by some strange and wonderful grace that we are given the opportunity to experience them in the first place.
But there is also more to life than the overcoming of obstacles. When was the last time you walked in a park? Not just on the way to your working life. Really walked, really noticed, and then sat down for a cup of tea nearby. Those small moments belong as much to the tapestry of your life as do your greatest professional acheivements.
Do you wonder why that is, though? Do you think that maybe there is some pattern to this. Maybe you can’t calculate the optimal ratios of work to pleasure, of communing with the self to finding yourself in others. But could you get close? Could you find some strange formula to approximate that. Is it in you? In me, I’m not so sure. But tell me about you. Seriously, I want to know. What was the face you had before you were born?
Zanpakutō File
Inner World
A small beach on a rocky coastal cliff, at least fifteen meters tall. A vast ocean, which has no reference in Imato’s memory, expands out to the horizon. It is a salty spring night. The full moon shines. A spark in the air gives the sky a green hue.
Zanpakutō Spirit
Kirikoete is both the moon and a woman at the edge of the water, at once. She is wearing a white dress, but other than that, the features of the woman change in a way that Imato doesn’t notice until after he’s left. She is holding some kind of flower.
Sealed Zanpakutō
Short tanto. Black, rectangular. The hilt is wrapped and tied off at the end by a blue braid.
Shikai Appearance
"Paint, Kirikoete."
Shikai Abilities: The spirit will observe the minds of Imato and another subject. It will then create a sensory object, usually an image and/or a sound. Both Imato and the subject will have the same experience.
This “image” may be a quite literal representation of the interests and beliefs of the parties involved. For example, a representation of murder might be the sound of a spade digging and a picture of a house in the Rukongai. It is not necessarily factual. The image generated might also be inscrutably symbolic — except, perhaps, to its subjects.
The image will usually appear in the mind’s eye. However, this is not always the case. Sometimes, it may appear as a brief hallucination in the scene around them, or as a memory.
Documented History
Imato was born to Keiko and Yoshi Inoue one hundred years ago. His childhood, as he remembers it, was happy. His mother was an established researcher at the time, only a few decades away from being elected as the first Captain of the Shinigami Research Institute. His father was a civilian.
At eighteen, he enrolled in the Shi’o Academy. He was a dedicated and hard-working student. The moment his best friend floated joining the Sixth Division, Imato never looked back. He loved the idea of pursuing a vocation where he could work on his feet, talk to people, and do some good for the community. He joined up after graduation.
His first posting was patrol in 49-58 East. It wasn’t the roughest job he could have gotten, but it put Imato face-to-face with some of the more unpleasant realities of the afterlife.
During his first year on service, Imato’s Zanpakuto spirit introduced itself. For nearly a month after, he was unsure of the power it had granted him. All he knew is that he would get aching headaches whenever he spent too much time around people. Eventually the headaches turned into strange and frightening hallucinations. It was only during a heated interview that he understood the true form of his power, and through that how to control it.
His spiritual facility in the realm of psychological profile gained him notice. By the end of his first year, Imato had cracked what many in the Division considered to be a cold case. He was promoted to a seated position, and given a new billet in the Office of Investigations. Imato has remained here since. His service record is exemplary and unblemished: he ranks among the highest in the office for case completion rate.
Recently, Imato was promoted to the position of Third Seat. Of course, there’s speculation that this honor was bestowed upon him due to undue, nepotistic influence. Imato tries not to concern himself with that. With the position comes new responsibilities. He will, as ever, face that problem with a hopeful enthusiasm.
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