Ulquiorra Schiffer
Ulquiorra Schiffer is a anime and manga male character who features in Bleach.
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Biography
Ulquiorra Schiffer (Japanese: ウルキオラ・シファー, Hepburn: Urukiora Shifā) was a spirit that became a Hollow that came to reside in Hueco Mundo. During that time, he always felt alone and wandered that dimension by himself with him lamenting his existence. One day, he was noted to had found a white tree with many sharp spines where eh found it satisfying due to the emptiness he shared with it. After sinking into it, part of his mask was destroyed and he to find peace. He eventually came to evolve into an Arrancar and was later found by Sōsuke Aizen who recruited him to join the ranks of his Espada.
He was later dispatched by Aizen to the world of the living to investigate Karakura Town in order to gain information of a person of interest with significant spiritual pressure. Alongside Yammy Llargo, they arrived in the human world where they started attacking humans with this drawing the attention of Yasutora Sado and Orihime Inoue who looked to save the innocents in the area. Ulquiorra remained watching at a distance whilst Yammy attacked the two humans who had minor spiritual pressure where he easily overpowered them and nearly killed the two. The two were only saved by the arrival of Ichigo Kurosaki who happened to be the target that Aizen had sent him after where the substitute shinigami managed to fight off Yammy. However, he then had to contend for a struggle for his body by his inner Hollow allowing for Yammy to gain the advantage over him and he nearly killed the human but their fight was interrupted by Kisuke Urahara along with Yoruichi Shihōin. Yammy battled the pair where he was outwitted by their superior skill with Ulquiorra finally intervening though he refused to battle the two. Instead, he opened a portal back to Hueco Mundo as they had achieved their mission and forcibly took Yammy with him back to Los Noches in order to report their findings to Aizen. Schiffer appeared before the gathering of Aizen and the Espada where he replayed the events of his mission where he reported that Ichigo Kurosaki was not a threat to them. Though an item of interest was Orihime Inoue's fate-manipulation powers that were seemingly useful to Aizen.
A month later, Ulquiorra sends a second group of arrancar (not counting Grimmjow's rogue actions) consisting of several Espada and Wonderweiss Margera, meant to distract the shinigami while he captures Orihime. By threatening her friends' lives, he convinces her to come peacefully, allowing her to say goodbye to one person beforehand.
After breaking free from the cube, he re-emerged back at Los Noches where at the time Aizen had taken the Espada to the world of the living to enact his plan to sacrifice Karakura Town to make the Oken. Ulquiorra was left in charge of Los Noches until his masters return where he kept within his care Orihime Inoe. By this point though, the girl had served her purpose and wanted her to experience despair before he killed her. However, she refused as she felt that she would be saved as her friends had come to rescue her. The encounter was the interrupted by the arrival of Ichigo who began his battle against Ulquiorra to free Orihime from him.
As he died, he asked Orihime if she still feared him but she said she was not and instead tried to reach out to him. It was then that Ulquiorra came to understand the meaning of 'heart' as it lay in a person's hand. In his last moments, he came to see an unafraid Orihime reaching for him as his body turned to dust ad dissolved into the wind.
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Ulquiorra Schiffer was a male Arrancar with a melancholic appearance and has green eyes with slit pupils. He has cyan lines descending from his eyes, making it appear as if he is crying, and is almost always frowning. He wears typical arrancar clothes: a white jacket, black sash, and a white hakama; however, his jacket has longer coat-tails than others. Like most other arrancar, he possesses remnants of his former life as a hollow in his appearance. In his first appearance, Ulquiorra's hollow hole is positioned at the base of his neck, but when Ichigo encounters Ulquiorra in Las Noches, it has been moved onto his chest. The remainder of his hollow mask lies on top of his head, forming a broken helmet, much like that of the example silhouette of a vasto lorde. His Espada number four which signified his rank amongst the Espada and level of power was tattooed on the left side of his chest.
On the surface, he was shown a being a very cold, callous and dispassionate person who was rather aloof where he was often brooding or indifferent.
He had claimed that he did not believe in Human emotions that he referred to as being the 'heart'. Ulquiorra had said that if the eye could not see something then it simply did not exist.
Ulquiorra was shown to be a skilled fighter who was very analytical where he theorised with a degree of accuracy on his enemy's capabilities. He almost accurately theorized the means behind Orihime Inoue's abilities and recognized that Ichigo Kurosaki's power constantly fluctuated between very weak to greater than his own strength.
It was shown that generally he refrained from killing others unless ordered to do so. According to Grimmjow, victims that peaked Ulquiorra's interest were killed in a particular way where he stabbed them with his bare hand in the same location as his Hollow hole.
As one of the Espada, he was noted to represent an aspect of death which was Emptiness.
Powers and abilities
As an Arrancar, Ulquiorra was originally a Hollow who came to evolve through the various life cycles before emerging as a more powerful humanoid form. He was shown to hold immensely high spiritual power that led to him being place among the top five Espada. This meant that he was forbidden from releasing his Zanpakutō in Las Noches as his sheer power could destroy the fortress.
Among his kind, he was noted for being unique in that he retained the regenerative abilities of a Hollow that was normally lost by their evolution into a Arrancar form. This allowed Ulquiorra to restore lost limbs that regenerated quickly over a short period of time. The only exception to this was destruction to his brain or internal organs. Sufficient damage done to his internal organs could see them be destroyed that could ultimately kill him leading to his body disintegrating into dust.
Ulquiorra had the unusual ability known as the Solita Vista (共眼界 (ソリタ・ヴィスタ), Sorita Visuta; Spanish for "Accustomed View", Japanese for "Inclusive Field of View") whereby he was able to replay events he had seen for others. This involved removing his left eye and crushing it where it turned into dust that flowed around for others to see. The dust was able to relay sight and feelings that Ulquiorra had witnessed during his activities. He was shown to regenerate the eye afterwards despite its earlier destruction
He possessed the ability to fire a Cero (虚閃 (セロ), Sero; Spanish for "Zero", Japanese for "Hollow Flash"; Viz "Doom Blast") that was an extremely powerful blast which he could shoot from his fingers on either hand. These blasts were green in colour where he could charge and fire them relatively fast with him able to shoot it from either hand. The strength of these blasts was able to send his opponents hurtling across great distances with it effectively destroying any obstacle in his path. He was shown to be able to charge and fire it quickly allowing him to catch an opponent by surprise by the powerful attack.
As an Arrancar, he had a Zanpakutō that was known as Murciélago (黒翼大魔 (ムルシエラゴ), Murushierago; Spanish for "Bat", Japanese for "Great Black-Winged Demon") that was a standard sized katana with a green handle and sheath. The guard had two curved extensions from its long sides with a line going through both sides, giving it an eye-like appearance. Upon activating this release, he gained extremely high-levels of speed with the likes of Ichigo Kurosaki who was used to super-speed himself was unable to keep up with Schiffer. In this state, he gained an ability to create 'lances' of spiritual energy that he could use for long-range attacks by throwing them at enemies or for melee fights. He also gained the ability to use a Cero Oscuras (黒虚閃 (セロ・オスキュラス), Sero Osukyurasu, Spanish for "Dark Zero", kanji translates as "Black Hollow Flash") that was a stronger kind of Cero attack which Aizen had forbidden to be used in Los Noches due to the destructive damage it could bring to the city.
Another trait unique to Ulquiorra was the fact that he could attain a second Resurrección form called Resurrección: Segunda Etapa (刀剣解放第二階層 (レスレクシオン・セグンダ・エターパ), resurekushion segunda etāpa; Spanish for "Resurrection: Second Stage", Japanese for "Sword's Release: Second Level"; Viz "Second Stage Resurrection") with even Aizen having not seen him in this form. In this form, he became even more demonic in appearance were he was black-furred being with clawed hand and feet. His Espada number was shown to completely disappear from his skin as his sclera turned green and he grew a long thin prehensile tail along with markings similar to blood flowing freely from his Hollow hole where the heart would be in a normal person. Ulquiorra's reiatsu lances developd flame-like tips which were called the Lanza del Relámpago (雷霆の槍(ラソサ・デル・レランパーゴ), Ransa deru Reranpāgo, Spanish for "Spear of Lightning") which exploded on impact when thrown with these detonations being immense enough to dwarf even those of the city of massive Las Noches.
Notes
- Ulquiorra Schiffer was created by Tite Kubo where he featured in the setting of Bleach.
- In an interview in Shonen Jump, Kubo said that the name of the character was derived from furniture designer named Patricia Urquiola.
In other media
Television
- In Bleach, Ulquiorra Schiffer appeared in the setting of the anime television series adaptation where he was voiced by Japanese actor Daisuke Namikawa and by English actor Tony Oliver in the dub.
Video games
Appearances
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