Arturo Plateado

Long, pale-turquoise hair falls around Arturo's yellow eyes. The remnant of his Hollow mask clings to his right cheek along the upper jaw and wraps around the back of his skull as a three-pointed crest, while the hole common to his kind sits just below his neck. He wears the plain white Arrancar uniform, set apart by a belt worn beneath his sash.

Arturo pairs the cold planning of a strategist with the savagery of a warrior, all fueled by a bottomless craving for power that his soul-devouring blade only feeds. Defeat he treats as weakness and flatly refuses to accept, hauling himself back up wounded to keep fighting. His confidence runs to outright arrogance, enough that he assaults Soul Society entirely on his own, and even after striking a bargain with Aizen he twice hints at a wish to see the schemer dead. In the English script of Shattered Blade, he speaks with a marked Spanish accent that sets him apart from other Arrancar.

Across the two games he appears in, Arturo's tale is one of repeated rampage and sealing. Ages before the main series he forged himself into a mighty Arrancar bent on destroying the Shinigami for hunting Hollows, stormed Soul Society, and cut down much of its army before being trapped and sealed beneath the Seireitei. Centuries later the weakening seal breaks, in Shattered Blade when the Sōkyoku is destroyed during Ichigo's rescue of Rukia, freeing him to gather the execution stand's shattered pieces by impersonating captains and spirits to grow stronger.

In The 3rd Phantom he returns roughly a century before the present, is briefly bound by Yamamoto's Ryūjin Jakka, and is drained of his stolen power by the Shisuikyō mirror wielded by Konoka Suzunami, then swept into a dimensional rift. He surfaces again in Hueco Mundo, worn and weak, where Gin Ichimaru delivers him to Aizen, who restores his strength for a mutually useful pact. Sent against Soul Society, Arturo is finally undone by the same mirror, after which Aizen claims it and reveals that the self-made Arrancar was never more than a pawn to be discarded.