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Bernie Nimitz: Pt. 2
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Bloodline Model: Cruor (Murder)
Activation Appearance: Bernie is a man who is quick to kill. He finds others—even those he would otherwise count as allies—disgusting and useless, more suited to be stuck to the end of his knives than to continue breathing the same oxygen as him. As such, he is one of those combatants who is dreadfully willing to activate his abilities in order to deal as much blind carnage as possible in as brutal a way as he can. Those who seem particularly skilled or at all troublesome to him are bound to face his Bloodline long before they get a full taste of what he is capable of on his own, which is already something extraordinary. Bernie suffers no annoyance in trying to take down opponents who are clearly a match for his own level of skill. Instead, he will hastily call on his activation in order to end the lives of his enemies bloodily and efficiently, giving them no more opportunity to counter or gauge his abilities than he has to. Even those he could feasibly annihilate with his bare hands run the risk of seeing his activation, based only on his mood and how much contempt he holds for his target. And contempt is something that he has in spades.
In a pure, disturbing expression of Bernie’s perfect embodiment of the concept of killing, the process of his activation plainly shows that he has no need for ceremony; to him, ending the lives of those within his ‘threat range’ trumps any sort of decorum that would otherwise be observed by his ‘comrades’. He refuses to take a pose, never chooses to clear the area to ensure his safety, and will, in fact, continue cutting at his opponents straight into and through his transformation, making him a ceaseless nightmare of stabbing, slicing metal that gives no quarter. This makes it functionally impossible to tell that Bernie is going to activate his powers until he actually gives the vocal command:
“Activate Bloodline Model: Cruor.”
Once the phrase is uttered (or, in an emergency that rendered him voiceless, transmitted via an internal implant), Bernie’s spiritual pressure multiplies to a terrifying level, even as he charges enemies or continues cutting and slicing at his opponents. The nanites within him, powered by his own natural well of Reiryoku, fully activate, duplicating that ‘seed’ energy and mixing it with latent power in the atmosphere to create a wall of Reiatsu strong enough to flatten Lieutenant-class opponents and crush trees into splinters. Even those of Captain-class power are forced to put up their best defenses to avoid being caught off-guard, which might allow for an opening that Bernie would absolutely find and exploit.
Within moments of the Cruor Bloodline’s activation, thousands of small metallic particles composed of compressed spiritual energy form like droplets of dew on the sides of Bernie’s head, beneath his eyes, and on his forearms (above the cloth of his suit should he still be wearing it). Guided by the infinitely complex workings of the Bloodline nanites that flow through his veins, this liquid, which is composed of spiritrons, solidifies into functional mechanical enhancements similar to cybernetics. They are the true ‘weapons’ of his activation and are responsible for the vast increase in his power; the augments bring his abilities to a level equal to a Captain-class Bankai. As such, they are incredibly durable, and can act as a coat of armor in addition to their specific duties of increasing Bernie’s natural talents to beyond-superhuman levels.
The mechanics that rest beneath Bernie’s eyes are small and somewhat rectangular, composed of the same combination of shaded metal that makes up all Bloodline ‘improvements’. The shapes, which seem to be divided in half by color (black on the bottom, silver on the top), take a sharp thirty-degree upturn at the outside ends of his eyes, as if the rectangle had been broken and curved to follow the contours of his cheekbones. The mechanics on the sides of his head are similarly rectangular but far longer, reaching from just above and in front of his ears straight up to the top of his head, leaving only an inch gap between the two of them. These two pieces are all silver and metallic, with none of the matte-black metal that often makes an appearance in the Bloodline aesthetics. Bernie’s red hair does little to hide them, and their thickness manages to have them prominently displayed on the top and sides of his head almost like an incomplete hair-band.
On each of Bernie’s forearms rest three segmented enhancements that are far larger and more prominent than the ones on his head. The first pieces, which rest just above his wrists near the back of his hands, are perfect squares. In the center of his forearms lie the second set of these ‘improvements’, which are rectangular in shape and wrap around the sides of his arm like the bands of a watch. The final pieces mimic the second, rest just a bit in front of his elbows, and are a few centimeters thicker in width. The core of each of these mechanical augmentations are black, surrounded by silver metal in an equal proportion that makes them seem aesthetically balanced. While the primary purpose of these forearm enhancements is to aid the twitch-like movements of his limbs and increase his capacity to kill, they also function as defensive bands that can absorb a great deal of damage.
Activation Abilities:
Knife Generation: Bernie may not find himself equipped with a giant, spiritually enhanced weapon like those given to Shinigami in their Bankai, but his activation does grant him a unique ability that brings his normally limited number of knives into the realm of science fiction. Simply by opening his hands and sending a brain signal to the nanites within his bloodstream, the Knifepoint Killer can produce dozens of paper-thin, deadly-sharp copies of his normal weapons out of the latent spiritual energy in the surrounding atmosphere. The production of these wafer-thin knives takes virtually no energy from Bernie himself; the work is done mechanically by his Bloodline. And since the weapons form similarly to his enhancements, beginning as droplets of liquid and rapidly solidifying in a moment, he can produce dozens of knives per second should he find it necessary. These blades are thin enough to weigh next to nothing, are easy to conceal, and are virtually impossible to see once thrown, yet they have the durability to block Captain-class techniques with relative ease, especially when held back to back in a tightly-packed grouping. This makes Bernie an offensive nightmare on par with some of the strongest combatants.
Perfect Motor Control: The true nightmare of Bernie’s release is not so much the number of knives that he can produce, but what the Cruor Bloodline allows him to do with them. The hairband-like augments on his head are placed directly on top of his primary motor cortex, which is responsible for the conscious movements of his body. Because of Bernie’s already superhuman capabilities with this section of his brain, his Bloodline is able to supercharge this part of his mind to allow for rapid, precision movements that seem borderline impossible. In essence, if Bernie thinks it and his body is capable of it, he does it—pretty much perfectly, every single time. If he wants to cut in the exact same place twice, his arms will do just that, and the potential for a mistake is essentially null. This motor control is so precise that he can flip a coin the same way and ensure the same result one hundred percent of the time so long as other factors remain the same. Applied, this ability allows him to surgically cut his enemies with his wafer-thin knives in ways that experienced doctors often fail to do under strictly controlled conditions. He can dissect arteries and tendons with such precision that his victims feel nothing at all; they simply lose the ability to use a limb, or suddenly start bleeding without ever knowing that they had been cut.
• Multiple Arm Illusion: The enhancements sitting above Bernie’s primary motor cortex may strengthen the abilities of his brain, but it falls to the augments on his forearms to ensure that his hands can do the kind of work he demands of them. A specific effect of this fine ability to move is a devastating visual illusion caused by the rapid pace that his arms can reach while performing his ‘work’. The movements can be so quick and so perfectly adjusted that it actually seems as if Bernie’s arms multiply, and that he is attacking from several points at once. If he were to choose to focus on making this illusion more ubiquitous, the Knifepoint Killer is actually capable of making it appear like he has three or more solid, fully-functional limbs on both sides of his body, placing them rapidly in the perfect positions to allow for this trick-of-the-eyes. This is something that he would mainly do if he found it absolutely necessary to outwit and surprise his opponent, although there is a chance he would do so just to unsettle a particularly irritating individual. His ability to attack with any of these ‘arms’ at any given time makes this a lethal technique.
• Knife Vibration: The only true ‘offensive’ technique of his activation, Bernie’s ability to rapidly and precisely move his body allows him to vibrate his knives as if they were electric saws, increasing their cutting capacity tenfold. He does this by moving his hands ever-so-slightly at a pace that is essentially invisible to the naked eye. This allows him to do such intimidating things as press a knife softly against the side of a reinforced steel building, then slowly move it through as if he were cutting into a warm slab of butter. The illusion of sharpness—that he can slice metal using minimal movement and strength—is secondary to the actual application of this ability; by violently increasing the vibrations, Bernie can essentially liquefy the impact area of his knives, cutting thousands of times within a fraction of a second. A single stab from an inch of his blade can end up leaving a gaping wound more commonly left by a shotgun round at close range. Combined with his precision, this ability makes him the ultimate killer, able to take a life at the first mistake his powerful opponents make.
Vulnerability Analysis: Bernie’s intelligence and his ‘intimate’ knowledge of the human body allow him to easily focus in on the common weak-points of other mortals. However, Shinigami and Hollow organs, body shapes, and abilities often provide radically different targets for quick and clean take-downs. The augments that rest beneath Bernie’s eyes are capable of scanning the physical bodies of his opponents using waves of spiritual energy in a manner similar to the Arrancar ability known as Pesquisa. They then hack into his eyes and literally show him the ideal places to strike an opponent using a visual targeting reticule that adjusts in real time. This ability does not allow him to predict movements, understand the intricacies of spiritual powers, or get vitals from his enemies, but it does provide him with the knowledge he needs to cut the right tendon in the right place to get the right result.
Activation Appearance: Bernie is a man who is quick to kill. He finds others—even those he would otherwise count as allies—disgusting and useless, more suited to be stuck to the end of his knives than to continue breathing the same oxygen as him. As such, he is one of those combatants who is dreadfully willing to activate his abilities in order to deal as much blind carnage as possible in as brutal a way as he can. Those who seem particularly skilled or at all troublesome to him are bound to face his Bloodline long before they get a full taste of what he is capable of on his own, which is already something extraordinary. Bernie suffers no annoyance in trying to take down opponents who are clearly a match for his own level of skill. Instead, he will hastily call on his activation in order to end the lives of his enemies bloodily and efficiently, giving them no more opportunity to counter or gauge his abilities than he has to. Even those he could feasibly annihilate with his bare hands run the risk of seeing his activation, based only on his mood and how much contempt he holds for his target. And contempt is something that he has in spades.
In a pure, disturbing expression of Bernie’s perfect embodiment of the concept of killing, the process of his activation plainly shows that he has no need for ceremony; to him, ending the lives of those within his ‘threat range’ trumps any sort of decorum that would otherwise be observed by his ‘comrades’. He refuses to take a pose, never chooses to clear the area to ensure his safety, and will, in fact, continue cutting at his opponents straight into and through his transformation, making him a ceaseless nightmare of stabbing, slicing metal that gives no quarter. This makes it functionally impossible to tell that Bernie is going to activate his powers until he actually gives the vocal command:
“Activate Bloodline Model: Cruor.”
Once the phrase is uttered (or, in an emergency that rendered him voiceless, transmitted via an internal implant), Bernie’s spiritual pressure multiplies to a terrifying level, even as he charges enemies or continues cutting and slicing at his opponents. The nanites within him, powered by his own natural well of Reiryoku, fully activate, duplicating that ‘seed’ energy and mixing it with latent power in the atmosphere to create a wall of Reiatsu strong enough to flatten Lieutenant-class opponents and crush trees into splinters. Even those of Captain-class power are forced to put up their best defenses to avoid being caught off-guard, which might allow for an opening that Bernie would absolutely find and exploit.
Within moments of the Cruor Bloodline’s activation, thousands of small metallic particles composed of compressed spiritual energy form like droplets of dew on the sides of Bernie’s head, beneath his eyes, and on his forearms (above the cloth of his suit should he still be wearing it). Guided by the infinitely complex workings of the Bloodline nanites that flow through his veins, this liquid, which is composed of spiritrons, solidifies into functional mechanical enhancements similar to cybernetics. They are the true ‘weapons’ of his activation and are responsible for the vast increase in his power; the augments bring his abilities to a level equal to a Captain-class Bankai. As such, they are incredibly durable, and can act as a coat of armor in addition to their specific duties of increasing Bernie’s natural talents to beyond-superhuman levels.
The mechanics that rest beneath Bernie’s eyes are small and somewhat rectangular, composed of the same combination of shaded metal that makes up all Bloodline ‘improvements’. The shapes, which seem to be divided in half by color (black on the bottom, silver on the top), take a sharp thirty-degree upturn at the outside ends of his eyes, as if the rectangle had been broken and curved to follow the contours of his cheekbones. The mechanics on the sides of his head are similarly rectangular but far longer, reaching from just above and in front of his ears straight up to the top of his head, leaving only an inch gap between the two of them. These two pieces are all silver and metallic, with none of the matte-black metal that often makes an appearance in the Bloodline aesthetics. Bernie’s red hair does little to hide them, and their thickness manages to have them prominently displayed on the top and sides of his head almost like an incomplete hair-band.
On each of Bernie’s forearms rest three segmented enhancements that are far larger and more prominent than the ones on his head. The first pieces, which rest just above his wrists near the back of his hands, are perfect squares. In the center of his forearms lie the second set of these ‘improvements’, which are rectangular in shape and wrap around the sides of his arm like the bands of a watch. The final pieces mimic the second, rest just a bit in front of his elbows, and are a few centimeters thicker in width. The core of each of these mechanical augmentations are black, surrounded by silver metal in an equal proportion that makes them seem aesthetically balanced. While the primary purpose of these forearm enhancements is to aid the twitch-like movements of his limbs and increase his capacity to kill, they also function as defensive bands that can absorb a great deal of damage.
Activation Abilities:
Knife Generation: Bernie may not find himself equipped with a giant, spiritually enhanced weapon like those given to Shinigami in their Bankai, but his activation does grant him a unique ability that brings his normally limited number of knives into the realm of science fiction. Simply by opening his hands and sending a brain signal to the nanites within his bloodstream, the Knifepoint Killer can produce dozens of paper-thin, deadly-sharp copies of his normal weapons out of the latent spiritual energy in the surrounding atmosphere. The production of these wafer-thin knives takes virtually no energy from Bernie himself; the work is done mechanically by his Bloodline. And since the weapons form similarly to his enhancements, beginning as droplets of liquid and rapidly solidifying in a moment, he can produce dozens of knives per second should he find it necessary. These blades are thin enough to weigh next to nothing, are easy to conceal, and are virtually impossible to see once thrown, yet they have the durability to block Captain-class techniques with relative ease, especially when held back to back in a tightly-packed grouping. This makes Bernie an offensive nightmare on par with some of the strongest combatants.
Perfect Motor Control: The true nightmare of Bernie’s release is not so much the number of knives that he can produce, but what the Cruor Bloodline allows him to do with them. The hairband-like augments on his head are placed directly on top of his primary motor cortex, which is responsible for the conscious movements of his body. Because of Bernie’s already superhuman capabilities with this section of his brain, his Bloodline is able to supercharge this part of his mind to allow for rapid, precision movements that seem borderline impossible. In essence, if Bernie thinks it and his body is capable of it, he does it—pretty much perfectly, every single time. If he wants to cut in the exact same place twice, his arms will do just that, and the potential for a mistake is essentially null. This motor control is so precise that he can flip a coin the same way and ensure the same result one hundred percent of the time so long as other factors remain the same. Applied, this ability allows him to surgically cut his enemies with his wafer-thin knives in ways that experienced doctors often fail to do under strictly controlled conditions. He can dissect arteries and tendons with such precision that his victims feel nothing at all; they simply lose the ability to use a limb, or suddenly start bleeding without ever knowing that they had been cut.
• Multiple Arm Illusion: The enhancements sitting above Bernie’s primary motor cortex may strengthen the abilities of his brain, but it falls to the augments on his forearms to ensure that his hands can do the kind of work he demands of them. A specific effect of this fine ability to move is a devastating visual illusion caused by the rapid pace that his arms can reach while performing his ‘work’. The movements can be so quick and so perfectly adjusted that it actually seems as if Bernie’s arms multiply, and that he is attacking from several points at once. If he were to choose to focus on making this illusion more ubiquitous, the Knifepoint Killer is actually capable of making it appear like he has three or more solid, fully-functional limbs on both sides of his body, placing them rapidly in the perfect positions to allow for this trick-of-the-eyes. This is something that he would mainly do if he found it absolutely necessary to outwit and surprise his opponent, although there is a chance he would do so just to unsettle a particularly irritating individual. His ability to attack with any of these ‘arms’ at any given time makes this a lethal technique.
• Knife Vibration: The only true ‘offensive’ technique of his activation, Bernie’s ability to rapidly and precisely move his body allows him to vibrate his knives as if they were electric saws, increasing their cutting capacity tenfold. He does this by moving his hands ever-so-slightly at a pace that is essentially invisible to the naked eye. This allows him to do such intimidating things as press a knife softly against the side of a reinforced steel building, then slowly move it through as if he were cutting into a warm slab of butter. The illusion of sharpness—that he can slice metal using minimal movement and strength—is secondary to the actual application of this ability; by violently increasing the vibrations, Bernie can essentially liquefy the impact area of his knives, cutting thousands of times within a fraction of a second. A single stab from an inch of his blade can end up leaving a gaping wound more commonly left by a shotgun round at close range. Combined with his precision, this ability makes him the ultimate killer, able to take a life at the first mistake his powerful opponents make.
Vulnerability Analysis: Bernie’s intelligence and his ‘intimate’ knowledge of the human body allow him to easily focus in on the common weak-points of other mortals. However, Shinigami and Hollow organs, body shapes, and abilities often provide radically different targets for quick and clean take-downs. The augments that rest beneath Bernie’s eyes are capable of scanning the physical bodies of his opponents using waves of spiritual energy in a manner similar to the Arrancar ability known as Pesquisa. They then hack into his eyes and literally show him the ideal places to strike an opponent using a visual targeting reticule that adjusts in real time. This ability does not allow him to predict movements, understand the intricacies of spiritual powers, or get vitals from his enemies, but it does provide him with the knowledge he needs to cut the right tendon in the right place to get the right result.
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This is part 2 of Bernie Nimitz's sheet, which contains Bloodline and Activation information about the character.
Part 1, which contains general information about the character, can be found here.
Part 3, which contains information about his Overload, can be found here.
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This reference sheet represents a member of Section 66—an original group of humans in my non-canon Bleach world. While he may seem overpowered, this particular description is not the one I use in roleplay—the power scales represented in its text are only in relation to the personal stories and the fiction which I write. When roleplaying, I use altered sheets with abilities to scale with the setting, completely devoid of power comparisons.
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Bleach © Kubo Tite
Part 1, which contains general information about the character, can be found here.
Part 3, which contains information about his Overload, can be found here.
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This reference sheet represents a member of Section 66—an original group of humans in my non-canon Bleach world. While he may seem overpowered, this particular description is not the one I use in roleplay—the power scales represented in its text are only in relation to the personal stories and the fiction which I write. When roleplaying, I use altered sheets with abilities to scale with the setting, completely devoid of power comparisons.
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Bleach © Kubo Tite
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