Ayon

Ayon looms enormous, a bleached deer skull fixed at the crown of its head and a shaggy dark-brown mane tumbling past its waist. Lighter fur wraps the limbs, cloven black hooves stand in for feet, and a pale greenish serpent forms the tail. Every piece echoes one of the three Fraccion who gave it life: the snake tail traces to Cyan Sung-Sun, the mane and upper arms to Franceska Mila Rose, and the antlered lower half to Emilou Apacci. The trio assume it lacks ears beneath all that hair, which would explain why it never heeds them. A cavernous mouth big enough to gulp a person whole hides under the mane, flanked by two large eyes below the skull's horns that Rangiku Matsumoto likens to gazing into a bottomless pit.

Yamamoto dismisses the creature as nothing but a killing thing, and it never obeys the trio who called it forth. Sung-Sun admits she has never once watched it react to their voices. Even so, it betrays faint care for them, pausing to glance over the wounded women before tearing into Quilge on Apacci's word. Nor is it purely witless; it once feigned collapse to draw Shuhei Hisagi into a trap.

The beast wields tremendous spiritual pressure, enough to overwhelm four lieutenants of the Gotei 13 and to gravely wound the Sternritter Quilge Opie even as he held his Quincy: Vollstandig. From its left eye it looses a Cero strong enough to drop a lieutenant, and its raw power is staggering: it rips a piece from Rangiku's belly, knocks Momo Hinamori out cold with one punch, and snaps Quilge's neck through his Blut Vene. Fury triggers El Martillo, ballooning its frame and its strength further still, and it can inflate a lone arm as a weapon. Its endurance verges on the ludicrous, brushing off Kido, a fist driven through its torso, and even a clean bisection, after which it fights on until flames consume it. Fast and oddly limber for something so massive, it returns during the Quincy assault to batter Quilge senseless, only for him to trigger Sklaverei and absorb its body into his own.