Askin Nakk Le Vaar

Lean and tall with pale skin, Askin keeps his black hair swept back at neck length, letting one loose strand hang toward his mouth. Lavender eyes sit above pronounced cheekbones and full lips, framed by sharply angled brows. His Sternritter outfit pairs a ribbed gray V-neck collar with a white long-sleeved shirt fastened by a small disc brooch, while a set of three ringed bracers rides above his left wrist, one bearing the Quincy emblem he draws his bow from. He rounds out the look with pale harem trousers and pointed black boots, and before his promotion he wore the standing-collared white cloak of the empire. During the fighting at Wahrwelt his shirt is eventually scorched away, leaving little more than the collar across his chest.

Askin carries himself as an oddball with an unhurried, easygoing air, prone to putting things off and to needling his opponents with idle chatter rather than committing to a fight, sometimes even spreading out a picnic or sipping the café au lait he keeps in a thermos while a battle rages nearby. He stays courteous with allies and foes alike, introducing himself by name and making small talk, though he can turn sarcastic or quietly condescending. A talkative self-deprecator, he peppers his speech with his signature line, calling situations fatal in a nod to his Schrift. In combat he plays up the image of a spineless, useless underling, even fleeing mid-battle, so that enemies drop their guard, and he prefers to slip away from opponents he judges too troublesome, such as Mayuri Kurotsuchi. He takes pride in finishing foes elegantly through lethal doses and refuses cruder methods, staying cordial and quick to praise those who impress him, including Urahara. Rather than devotion, what binds him to Yhwach is curiosity about the world the Quincy King intends to remake.

Even among the Sternritter, whose power rivals a Shinigami captain's, Askin ranks highly as a member of the Schutzstaffel, pressuring the Royal Guard's Ōetsu Nimaiya and later downing Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez, Ichigo Kurosaki, and both Shihōin siblings before forcing Urahara to resort to Bankai. As a Quincy he shapes weapons from gathered Reishi and moves swiftly through Hirenkyaku, and he can hold his own in close quarters despite disliking it. His most striking trait is a refusal to die, having stayed conscious and talking even after his heart was torn out, alongside a keen read of battle and a deep grasp of physiology.

His Schrift, The Deathdealing, grants total command over lethal doses. By taking a substance into his body he can lower the amount needed to kill, turning ordinary or even vital things like blood, Reishi, or oxygen into poison for those around him, or raise the threshold to make himself immune to an attack after enough exposure, healing the damage it caused. He delivers this poison through slow-drifting Gift Balls and a spreading Gift Bad field, wields the Heilig Bogen bow to fire Heilig Pfeil, and once he shifts into his Quincy: Vollständig, Hasshein, he gains flight, a Reishi staff, and stronger variants including the battlefield-swallowing Gift Ball Deluxe, the sealing Gift Bereich barrier, and the pinpoint Gift Ring. His run ends when Urahara arranges for Grimmjow to strike him down from behind, a defeat Askin accepts gracefully.