Tokinada Tsunayashiro

Tokinada is a lean man with green eyes and shoulder-length dark green hair that hangs loose apart from a tight braid running along the left side of his head. Over a loose black shihakusho he wears a white haori.

Courteous in speech yet openly sadistic, Tokinada names watching others sink into crushing despair as his greatest pleasure. After uncovering what he calls the Original Sin behind Soul Society, he embraces a nihilistic outlook, reasoning that a meaningless world excuses total malice. Shrewd and manipulative, he is willing to draw his family's cursed ancestral blade even though it will drain his own life, purely for his own amusement. Even as death closes in he refuses any remorse, laughing that karma can never truly pass judgment on him.

Born into a distant branch of the Tsunayashiro Clan, Tokinada learned young to mask his contempt for the Soul King's authority, and in time he found records laying bare the buried past of Soul Society and his family's great sin. Forced into marriage, he chose the talented Rukongai-born Kakyo intending to grant her happiness only to tear it away, and he ultimately murdered her along with a friend who confronted him, escaping real punishment through his noble rank. He then sought out Kakyo's grieving best friend, the blind Kaname Tosen, confessed the killing to break him, and crushed his throat when Tosen lunged. Reaching the head of the clan by secretly ordering the assassins sent against himself, Tokinada advanced a plot to dethrone the Soul King: he commissioned Seinosuke Yamada and used Gremmy Thoumeaux's brain to complete the artificial being Hikone, recruited the Fullbringer Aura Michibane, and stole the palace Zanpakuto Ikomikidomoe. In Bleach: Can't Fear Your Own World he clashes with Shunsui Kyoraku and an alliance of Soul Reapers, Quincy, Arrancar, and Fullbringers, wielding the ancestral Enrakyoten, which copies the powers of countless other Zanpakuto at the cost of his own lifespan. Betrayed by Aura and stripped of his sword arm by Hisagi's Kazeshini, he flees, only to be run through and stabbed repeatedly by a young Onmitsukido girl avenging her family, dying with a final burst of mocking laughter as Mayuri Kurotsuchi looks on.