Taikon

Taikon is a heavyset figure with washed-out blonde hair, his bulk wrapped in armor patterned with rings that radiate out from his belly and shoulders. Four dark teardrop shapes streak down each cheek, and a matching mark sits low on his stomach. The chains of his plating fasten at his nipples, with the armor draping down from there.

Hunger rules Taikon. He treats a battle like a buffet, thanking his prey for the meal as he devours their attacks and taunting them with the promise of a lethal kiss. Arrogant to the core, he dismisses Ichigo's group as too slow to keep up and sneers at their efforts even as a fight begins to slip away from him.

Taikon commands considerable spiritual power; together with his fellow Togabito he brought down the Espada Aaroniero Arruruerie. His size hides real quickness, and he hurls out punishing energy blasts, one of which shoved Aaroniero back in his released state. He also endures heavy punishment, taking Ichigo's Getsuga Tenshō head-on without harm. His signature trick is the power to sprout mouths anywhere on his body, each a set of toothed pink lips able to grip weapons or drink in Reishi. Whatever spirit matter those mouths swallow, from Uryū Ishida's arrows to his Seele Schneider, Taikon can spit back as a concentrated pink blast that scars the ground with a heart-shaped mark, and the same appetite lets him gulp down an enemy's weapon whole. When roaming outside Hell he hides beneath a dark cloak and hood so he can slip past the ever-watchful Kushanāda, though the disguise dampens his strength. That gluttony proves his undoing when Uryū traps a Seele Schneider inside the Geldschrank technique, sealing Taikon in a shrinking barrier that tears him apart.