Franceska Mila Rose

Built like a warrior of legend, Mila Rose cuts an imposing figure: tall, heavily muscled, and dark-skinned, with green eyes and a mane of brown hair that falls in thick waves down her back. What survives of her Hollow mask sits as a three-part crown circling her head and a heavy band at her throat, while the hole in her chest opens between navel and bust. Her outfit is styled after an Amazon, with plating across the chest and upper arms, gauntlets on the forearms, and a white skirt.

The seventeen months after Aizen's fall reshape those mask remnants; the crown thickens and sprouts a pair of long, bull-like horns, and her wardrobe grows more ornate, adding a caped, high-collared top and a red-belted skirt of hanging cloth strips. Long before any of that, in her days as a Hollow, she took the shape of a huge lioness of the Adjuchas class, her brown body plated in white at the legs and crowned by a golden mask and mane.

Of Harribel's three servants, Mila Rose keeps the cooler head, though that is a low bar; a single jab from her squabbling partner Cyan Sung-Sun, or from Rangiku Matsumoto with her favorite taunt of female gorilla, is enough to send her into a fury. She fights with a streak of cruelty and clearly relishes having the upper hand. For all the bickering, genuine loyalty runs underneath it. When Quilge Opie had grown lethally powerful, she did not hesitate to haul the unconscious Apacci out of danger despite the obvious risk.

As a Fraccion she wields enough spiritual power, colored orange-red, to trade blows with a Gotei 13 lieutenant, and she backs it with real swordsmanship, driving Rangiku back and later cutting down enemy soldiers by the dozen. Her physical strength is enormous, sinking a crater into the desert with one downward swing, and she rounds out her arsenal with a quick Sonido and an orange Cero that she cups in one hand before firing with a punch from the other.

Her blade, Leona, rests as a broadsword until she speaks the command Devour, at which point her Resurreccion leans even harder into the Amazon motif, granting lion-like fangs, a flowing gold-streaked mane, and a mark across her brow. Together with Apacci and Sung-Sun she can also perform Quimera Parca, a grisly ritual in which the three tear off their left arms and fuse them into a towering beast they call Ayon, a creature that curiously ignores the commands of its own creators.