Yylfordt Granz

A fragment of his former Hollow mask crowns Yylfordt's head, its jagged shape suggesting a shattered helmet. His hair falls long and blond around red eyes, and he leaves the front of his Arrancar garb open so the hollow bored through his chest stays on display.

Long before Aizen recruited him, he existed as a hulking, bull-shaped Adjuchas whose skull sprouted heavy horns to either side. Natural plating armored its shoulders while the same blond mane trailed down its back.

Flippant and openly effeminate, Yylfordt peppers his speech with the word brother when addressing almost anyone. Whatever bond he once shared with his actual sibling, Szayelaporro, seems to have soured long ago, since the younger Granz greeted news of his death with flat indifference.

Yylfordt once belonged to a band of Menos that Shawlong Koufang guided across Hueco Mundo, all of them chasing the dream of climbing to Vasto Lorde rank. The group bent the knee to Grimmjow after witnessing his strength, vowing to make him their king. When their evolution stalled, Shawlong asked Grimmjow to devour a portion of each of them so he alone could keep rising, and the five survivors were reborn as his Fracción. His twin later embedded spirit-recording insects while mending his wounds, using them to log everything Yylfordt witnessed.

Riding alongside Grimmjow during the second strike on Karakura Town, he drifted toward Kisuke Urahara's shop and crossed paths with lieutenant Renji Abarai. He toyed with his opponent at first, shrugging off a Shikai blow one-handed and wounding Renji even after the lieutenant went to Bankai. Illusions from the Mod-Souls briefly boxed him in until he blasted free with raw pressure and cut them down. When a berserk Ururu Tsumugiya assaulted him, he unleashed his Resurrección, Del Toro, swelling into an armored bull that gored her on a horn. Certain the duel was won, he boasted of holding the fifteenth seat, only for Renji to shed his limiter, multiply his strength many times over, and erase him with the Hikotsu Taihō.