Swordsman. While she specializes in unarmed combat, Sui Feng is a highly proficient swordsman. Rather than fighting in the traditional style, the second division captain wields her sword more like a wakizashi, holding it in a horizontal reverse grip and making her strikes by sweeping the arm out, much like a punch, thereby allowing her martial arts skills to directly apply in a sword fight.
Stealth. Given her family's tradition of militaristic executioners, it's no surprise that Sui Feng is an expert when it concerns matter of stealth, intelligence gathering, and discrete assassinations.
Poison. Sui Feng has spent years building a resistance to every poison she encounters, making her not just a wicked scary person to have tea time with, but also immune to most poisons that might be used against her (in combination with her enhanced endurance).
Strategist. As someone trained and brought up beneath a house which serves as a piece of the Company's Intelligence division, Sui Feng's strategies are more often focused on subterfuge and confusion, but she's thoroughly capable of thinking out battle tactics of any variety. As necessary, she will use force, intelligence, and outright deceit to turn the tide of a battle, whether it involves herself, her subordinates, or an entirely different squadron.
Hakuda. While her former master will likely always hold superiority in terms of movement speed, Sui Feng's mastery of unarmed combat techniques, or hand to hand combat, is without rival in her canon. She is able to not just hold her ground against Yoruichi, who all but exclusively uses hakuda to fight, but also gains the upper hand, wounding her master numerous times (although she was unable to wound her twice in the same location due the other's superior speed).
In Overjoyed, hakuda will be translated more generally as a mastery of several martial arts techniques honed throughout her lifetime of training.
Passive
Death God → Human
Canonically, Sui Feng is a soul reaper or shinigami, and among the most powerful of her kind. Like all soul reapers, she’s above-average in terms of durability, and does not age in the same manner of humans. Soul Reapers can live for a thousand years or more, though Sui Feng herself is quite young for her species. Since the biological immortality would be, in essence, pointless in this ‘verse, I will be nerfing it entirely.
Sui Feng’s passive abilities will be derived from a combination of careful genetic engineering and high grade nanotech enhancements installed throughout her youth. Enhanced Durability. It takes significantly more damage to kill Sui Feng than the average human and she will persist with injuries that would ordinarily cripple another. While in canon her spiritual pressure would sustain her despite having no special healing capacities, this ability will be carried over as a combination of genetic engineering to strengthen her immune responses and nanotech-laced blood responsible for repairing major organs and staunching major wounds long enough to keep her fighting. In other words, while she won't have any regenerative abilities, her body will react to trauma with emergency protocols to keep her alive and moving longer than most.
This same mechanism will result in her near immunity to most common diseases and pathogens, as any damage done will be repaired by the nanotechnology once it reaches critical levels. As in canon, the best way to kill her is taking off her head with a gun or, more traditionally, a sword.
Enhanced Speed. Canonically, much of Sui Feng’s skill relies on her capacity to move quickly—near teleportation levels of quickly. This will be nerfed down to about three times the speed of a normal human and entail hormone/neurochemical manipulation on the part of her nanotech to make her subjective perception of time slow down and allow her to react more quickly, as well as genetic engineering to make her form particularly agile and quick.
Enhanced Strength. Using the same mechanics that gift her speed, Sui Feng is around three times as strong as she should be for her diminutive size, and when coupled with her endurance and consistent training, a particularly difficult foe to face in hand to hand combat.
Powers
Suzumebachi.
Suzumebachi, or "Hornet", resembles a normal wakizashi with a golden hilt before release. She wears it across her lower back, attached by a tether, and releases its first stage (shikai) by calling out its name and ordering "sting all enemies to death". This transformation results in the weapon becoming a fitted black and gold gauntlet and stinger, as seen here.
In Overjoyed, it will remain in its sealed wakizashi form without regains and its shape-changing ability, or shikai, will be due to programmable matter, but will not be accessible until her first major power regain.
MAJOR | Shikai | Nigeki Kessatsu/Death in Two Steps: Sui Feng's special ability is directly linked to the poison of her suzumebachi. Upon first strike, a homonka is left behind, resembling a large black butterfly mark across the victim. In addition to creating a deep puncture wound, poison enters the blood stream, and within a matter of minutes begins to impact the function of internal organs. Its true power, however, is in its second strike. If she successfully strikes anything (living or not) in the same place as her homonka, the result is an imminently fatal dose of poison and destructive spiritual pressure. (This aspect will be nerfed.)
In Overjoyed, its poison will be a direct application of a neurotoxic dose of nanomachines intended to attack the organs and break down the immune system with its first strike. The second strike, rather than causing magical glowy destruction, will result in an additional dose of neurotoxic poison capable of inducing seizures, brain hemorrhaging, or death.
Since there’s no reason for her to have a spiritual nuke, her bankai (Suzumebachi's second release) will be nerfed entirely.
MAJOR | Shunpo/Flash Stepping: Second only to Yoruichi Shihoin, Sui Feng is highly adept at the art of Shunpo, or flash stepping, a basic technique of movement in which all Soul Reapers are trained but few, outside of the stealth squad, master. The movement is often too fast for even the trained eye to follow and makes Sui Feng highly evasive in both close and extended quarters.
In Overjoyed, this will be translated as the above enhanced speed (passive) and phase-shifting technology embedded in her skin that allows her to become invisible to the naked-eye for a few seconds at a time when activated. Although this ability canonically allows her to ascend the sky, I’ll be nerfing that aspect entirely.
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Swordsman. While she specializes in unarmed combat, Sui Feng is a highly proficient swordsman. Rather than fighting in the traditional style, the second division captain wields her sword more like a wakizashi, holding it in a horizontal reverse grip and making her strikes by sweeping the arm out, much like a punch, thereby allowing her martial arts skills to directly apply in a sword fight.
Stealth. Given her family's tradition of militaristic executioners, it's no surprise that Sui Feng is an expert when it concerns matter of stealth, intelligence gathering, and discrete assassinations.
Poison. Sui Feng has spent years building a resistance to every poison she encounters, making her not just a wicked scary person to have tea time with, but also immune to most poisons that might be used against her (in combination with her enhanced endurance).
Strategist. As someone trained and brought up beneath a house which serves as a piece of the Company's Intelligence division, Sui Feng's strategies are more often focused on subterfuge and confusion, but she's thoroughly capable of thinking out battle tactics of any variety. As necessary, she will use force, intelligence, and outright deceit to turn the tide of a battle, whether it involves herself, her subordinates, or an entirely different squadron.
Hakuda. While her former master will likely always hold superiority in terms of movement speed, Sui Feng's mastery of unarmed combat techniques, or hand to hand combat, is without rival in her canon. She is able to not just hold her ground against Yoruichi, who all but exclusively uses hakuda to fight, but also gains the upper hand, wounding her master numerous times (although she was unable to wound her twice in the same location due the other's superior speed).
In Overjoyed, hakuda will be translated more generally as a mastery of several martial arts techniques honed throughout her lifetime of training.
Passive
Sui Feng’s passive abilities will be derived from a combination of careful genetic engineering and high grade nanotech enhancements installed throughout her youth.
Enhanced Durability. It takes significantly more damage to kill Sui Feng than the average human and she will persist with injuries that would ordinarily cripple another. While in canon her spiritual pressure would sustain her despite having no special healing capacities, this ability will be carried over as a combination of genetic engineering to strengthen her immune responses and nanotech-laced blood responsible for repairing major organs and staunching major wounds long enough to keep her fighting. In other words, while she won't have any regenerative abilities, her body will react to trauma with emergency protocols to keep her alive and moving longer than most.
This same mechanism will result in her near immunity to most common diseases and pathogens, as any damage done will be repaired by the nanotechnology once it reaches critical levels. As in canon, the best way to kill her is taking off her head with a gun or, more traditionally, a sword.
Enhanced Speed. Canonically, much of Sui Feng’s skill relies on her capacity to move quickly—near teleportation levels of quickly. This will be nerfed down to about three times the speed of a normal human and entail hormone/neurochemical manipulation on the part of her nanotech to make her subjective perception of time slow down and allow her to react more quickly, as well as genetic engineering to make her form particularly agile and quick.
Enhanced Strength. Using the same mechanics that gift her speed, Sui Feng is around three times as strong as she should be for her diminutive size, and when coupled with her endurance and consistent training, a particularly difficult foe to face in hand to hand combat.
Suzumebachi, or "Hornet", resembles a normal wakizashi with a golden hilt before release. She wears it across her lower back, attached by a tether, and releases its first stage (shikai) by calling out its name and ordering "sting all enemies to death". This transformation results in the weapon becoming a fitted black and gold gauntlet and stinger, as seen here.
In Overjoyed, it will remain in its sealed wakizashi form without regains and its shape-changing ability, or shikai, will be due to programmable matter, but will not be accessible until her first major power regain.
MAJOR | Shikai | Nigeki Kessatsu/Death in Two Steps: Sui Feng's special ability is directly linked to the poison of her suzumebachi. Upon first strike, a homonka is left behind, resembling a large black butterfly mark across the victim. In addition to creating a deep puncture wound, poison enters the blood stream, and within a matter of minutes begins to impact the function of internal organs. Its true power, however, is in its second strike. If she successfully strikes anything (living or not) in the same place as her homonka, the result is an imminently fatal dose of poison and destructive spiritual pressure. (This aspect will be nerfed.)
In Overjoyed, its poison will be a direct application of a neurotoxic dose of nanomachines intended to attack the organs and break down the immune system with its first strike. The second strike, rather than causing magical glowy destruction, will result in an additional dose of neurotoxic poison capable of inducing seizures, brain hemorrhaging, or death.
Since there’s no reason for her to have a spiritual nuke, her bankai (Suzumebachi's second release) will be nerfed entirely.
MAJOR | Shunpo/Flash Stepping: Second only to Yoruichi Shihoin, Sui Feng is highly adept at the art of Shunpo, or flash stepping, a basic technique of movement in which all Soul Reapers are trained but few, outside of the stealth squad, master. The movement is often too fast for even the trained eye to follow and makes Sui Feng highly evasive in both close and extended quarters.
In Overjoyed, this will be translated as the above enhanced speed (passive) and phase-shifting technology embedded in her skin that allows her to become invisible to the naked-eye for a few seconds at a time when activated. Although this ability canonically allows her to ascend the sky, I’ll be nerfing that aspect entirely.