Kisuke Urahara

Name: Urahara Kisuke

Sex: Male

Age: Unknown

Clothes: Kisuke Urahara always wears traditional Japanese wooden sandals and a bucket hat. He also wears a coat that bears some resemblance to a Shinigami captain's haori. When he was a captain, he wore a standard Shinigami uniform and also wore a long-sleeved captain's haori.

Race: Shinigami

Hair colour, length, eye colour: Urahara has blond, near shoulder length hair, and brownish eye's. He is also 183cm tall (6'0'')

Division: Ex 2nd and 12th squad

Division rank: Ex Third seat (2nd) and Captain (12th)

Organization: Urahara shop.

Rank: Kisuke Urahara is the owned of the Urahara shop.

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Character Traits: Though generally seen as a laid-back, jovial fellow, this side of Urahara is deceptively different from his cunning and serious side of his personality, when the situation warrants it. Despite his carefree attitude, his speech is always polite, though it is sometimes sarcastic. He can also seem serious, but his tone doesn't seem so. Yoruichi Shihōin notes that he tends to go over the top with whatever he becomes passionate about. He once described himself as a "mere honest, handsome, perverted businessman."

Urahara can usually be found near the scene of an important event, most of the time when it's a bit too late, but will rarely step in to intervene, preferring to be in control from outside. After the event is over he kindly pops up and helps the side he deems fit.

Bio: At an undefined point before he became a captain, Urahara lived at Yoruichi's mansion along with his future assistant, Tessai. He joined the Gotei 13 along with Yoruichi, and eventually became the third seat in the 2nd Division under her. As part of his duties, he also headed the Third Unit of the Special Forces, the Detention Unit. Sometime later Captain of the 12th Division at the time, Kirio Hikifune, was promoted to the Royal Guard or Zero Division. It was at this time that Captain Yoruichi Shihōin recommended that Kisuke become Hikifune's replacement. After his exam he became the new captain of the 12th Division of the Gotei 13. His lieutenant, inherited from the former captain, was Hiyori Sarugaki.

He later became the founder and the first president of the Shinigami Research and Development Institute. Mayuri Kurotsuchi succeeded him in both positions after his exile.

Not long after becoming captain (at most a decade), Kisuke was framed for the hollowification of eight Shinigami (the future Vizard) and was officially exiled by Soul Society for conducting taboo experiments, deceiving colleagues, and causing grievous injury. Aizen states that Kisuke was exiled for creating an untraceable gigai which caused the spiritual power of the Shinigami inside it to deteriorate, eventually transforming them into humans; he creates ten such gigai to aid in the escape of himself, Tessai, and the eight vizard. Yoruichi helped him escape and ran away with him as well. Some time later he opened a store with Tessai in the human world that caters mostly to a Shinigami clientele which provides them with Gigais, artificial souls, and other things that allows the Shinigami to walk through the human world unnoticed and with ease. He also seems to be an acquaintance of Isshin Kurosaki, Ichigo Kurosaki's father, and of Ryūken Ishida, Uryū Ishida's father.

Desired personal rank: Owner of Urahara Shop

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