Name: Pereza Milagost
Age: 385
Visual Age: 40
Gender: Male
Ranks: Espada
Appearance: Pereza goes against the norm for hollows who have their masks broken off: the smaller and more shinigami-like they are, the more evolved and thus more powerful they are. Pereza is a rather large arrancar (7 feet tall) and has a considerable body mass. However, he is not fat and is in fact quite muscular, but because his body mass is so dense he is nevertheless called "fat." Pereza wears standard Espada pants, a divided hakama that's baggy, but he wears a customized black vest with white lining, along with leather gauntlets on both arms. His uniform is often disheveled and wrinkled because Pereza goes to sleep with it on and doesn't bother to straighten himself up. He has grey eyes and short cropped amber-colored hair, and his skin is tanned. All that remains of Pereza's hollow mask is a white piece of tortoise-shell across his nose (shaped like Nel's tattoo, but more angular) and the tip of a beak on his chin. Pereza has the Espada "2" tattoo on his Adam's apple. His hollow hole is located where his belly button would be, and he tends to scratch at it when he has just woken up, so he does it very often.
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Personality: Pereza is the epitome of being unmotivated. He would much prefer to just lie around doing nothing all day rather than find something to do. He only really listens to the Primera, and even then the Primera has to urge him to do something before Pereza actually does it. Pereza does not particularly want Fraccion, mostly because he doesn't like the responsibility of having to give orders. However, if the Primera forces him to have some, Pereza will oblige, though he will do nothing to supervise them and will let them mostly do whatever they want.
In short, Pereza is not a very effective leader. He would much prefer to have the Primera give out orders while he doesn't do anything. However, once he is in battle, Pereza will shed some of this apathy, as he will usually find a reason to fight and defeat his opponent, even if its a small goal.
Also, unlike almost all of the other arrancar, Pereza does not obviously show arrogance, pride, or bloodlust. He keeps these emotions submerged unless he is provoked, usually if someone interrupts his nap or keeps him from his leisure time.
Fighting Style: While Pereza lacks motivation and enthusiasm, he is no pushover. He is undoubtedly one of if not the strongest espada in terms of physical strength, and also has the hardest hierro among the espada. Thus, he will not rush in to attack an opponent; he will just lie back and let the opponent come to him, perfectly content to do so. He won't even react much if the opponent just whales on him, since his hierro is so strong. This behavior, along with the fact that his reiatsu ebbs slowly, often convinces the opponent that Pereza is weak and/or not taking a situation seriously.
He is not particularly interested in whatever is going on around him, but Pereza is also a cold analyst in combat, able to pick out the strengths, weaknesses, and openings of his opponent in a relatively short time. Whether or not he exploits those is a different matter, depending on whether he feels up to doing it or not.
Pereza is the only espada who cannot use sonido, and often has to be kicked out of the way of a powerful attack by one of his fraccion or another espada. He often uses broad, sweeping attacks with his arms that he charges with reiatsu to further increase his devastating power. His balas are also unique, in that they are not only fast but also quite devastating in terms of power.
Pereza really does not like releasing his sealed state, as it requires a fair amount of activity on his part. However, he will do so if he want to end a fight quickly so that he can go back to sleep. His main way of attacking is controlling his zanpakuto using telekinesis. Because of his strong spiritual connection with his weapon, Pereza can control it with very little effort, moving the heavy weapon as if it were a twig.
Background: In life, Pereza was a hard-working Jewish peasant in 17th-Century Poland, doing back-breaking work day in and day out to support his large family, who he loved very much. In fact, he also loved work and how it gave him a sense of fulfillment and pride when he brought in a successful season of crops. One day however, a series of pograms erupted in the region, and a band of men razed Pereza's crops and burned his house to the ground, along with himself and his family. As a spirit, he broke down at the sight of the burnt corpses of his wife and children. Since the shinigami could hardly be stationed in every little village and town around the world, no shinigami was able to purify Pereza's soul before he became a hollow.
Pereza's soul was able to rise above the other hollows in a Gillian-class Menos. He became one of the few Vasto Lordes of Hueco Mundo, in the form of a large humanoid tortoise with a taste for both hollow and human flesh. He grew stronger by eating the hollows that were foolish enough to attack him (since he did not feel like hunting prey of his own). Even though he was a Vasto Lorde, Pereza did not have a following of hollows, because he did not care for servants and most hollows knew that going to him for protection would be useless. He eventually was discovered wandering in the Abyssal Plains by the Primera Espada, who was looking for strong hollows to join him. He taught Pereza to tear off his mask (which was quite hard to do, mostly because Pereza didn't really feel like doing it). Pereza is now the Segunda Espada in the Primera's Hollow Army.
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