Royd Lloyd

Bald from crown to nape, Royd stands tall and lean, a third eye opened at the middle of his brow. Round, headphone-shaped guards ringed in dark trim cap each of his ears. Over this he wears the Sternritter's usual white attire, hooded cloak included. As a boy he had short, light hair parted down the center, and by around age twelve both he and his twin had picked up a small scar on the forehead, at the very spot the third eye would one day sit.

Royd's defining trait is his devotion to Yhwach. He stands against Yamamoto knowing full well how deadly the risk is, watches the old commander's Bankai unfold, and still never runs or second-guesses the orders he has been given. Being praised by his sovereign for facing such a foe fills him with genuine pride.

From the moment they are born, Royd and his older twin Loyd Lloyd are impossible to tell apart, even to their parents and the staff who deliver them. By five they understand they are perfect copies of each other, having mimicked one another from the womb, and by twelve they learn to imitate outsiders too. Both can borrow another person's face, but their gifts split there: Royd reproduces a target's memories and personality, while Loyd takes on their powers and techniques.

Wearing Yhwach's form, Royd crushes Kenpachi Zaraki with ease and hoists the bloodied captain by the throat, only for Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto to arrive vowing to destroy him. When several Sternritter ambush the old commander, Yamamoto burns them to ash with Ryujin Jakka and turns on Royd, wounding his forearm before releasing his Bankai, Zanka no Tachi. Royd warns Jugram Haschwalth not to take the scorched blade lightly and probes its secrets, but Yamamoto answers with its eastern, western, southern, and finally northern forms, incinerating Royd's sword, repelling his Heilig Pfeil, and negating even the protective spell Kirchenlied: Sankt Zwinger. The southern form raises a horde of skeletons built from Quincy that Yamamoto once slew, and Royd freezes in horror at recognizing his own dead subordinates among them. As the northern form tears away much of his torso and arm, he apologizes to Yhwach for falling short. The real Yhwach then appears, praises him for fighting well, and kills the spent servant as Royd, in tears, calls the praise an honor.

His Schrift, The Yourself, lets him wear a target's exact likeness along with their mind, flawlessly playing the part, though as Yhwach he wields only some seventy to eighty percent of the original's strength. He fights with Blut Vene shielding him, manifests Yhwach's ornate spirit sword, can loose oversized Heilig Pfeil even bare-handed, and, drawing on Yhwach's lore, casts Quincy spells that mimic Kido.