#and yk even if he was playing god working out dna out of nothing for reproduction was a work in progress and the kids were uh. a surprise

[amazingspider-z]

Smashing two separate aus together to reach terminal velocity for fun and profit on accounts that

1) Gigai should lean into the being fake bodies bit, I think. Have people with spiritual pressure Notice that shinigami are Not Human actually bc something about them is. Off. They don't blink. They don't breathe. etcetc

Or. They should have leaned into the half-human angle for the Kurosaki kids more. Ichigo was already bullied for being a redhead just. Add a little spice and have them set off some kinds of alarm in the back of most people's heads. Let them be half actually physical and half made up spirit particles only you know, nobody told them ever. (And yes ik it is A Major Plot Point that Ichigo was alive and even got his whole soul chain cut but! I posit mind over matter. Nobody told his ass he could Danny Phantom it up (well. nobody actually knew they could do that tbf but also nobody ever hit him with the oh yeah your dad was never alive in the first place) and so well. Good luck with the Shattered Shaft I'm-definitely-not-hollowfying-you-on-purpose Ichigo! He figures it out. At some point. Eventually)

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2) I do Not claim the aftermath of the Winter War/timeskip/Lost Agent Arc okay. Power loss arcs/storylines squick me out, okay! They're just. Sad. And I hate 'em. So a 'fix-it', the basis being that even if the Old Man and White Zangetsu were fused, it was the Old Man acting as 'Zangetsu' when Ichigo used the Final Getsuga Tensho, so the backlash went a little. Funky. (Bc yes i go with the theory that the Final Getsuga is a shinigami/Shiba thing not a bastardized Vollstandig and that mattered) so instead of losing his powers, Ichigo's soul started to destabilize (which yeah, did affect his power levels, but more on the his reiatsu is back to where it was before the Dangai instead of. Well. Everything) which to be fair was Very Bad and potentially fatal in the moment, so he had to be placed back in his body and was medically forbidden to leave it until his soul healed (which. for the purpose of the fused au is also how Ichigo figured out about the able to turn into a ghost on command thing-the combination of being forced to transmit spiritual energy through his physical body while he was healing+learning that his goddamn old man was. a shinigami actually shifted his worldview enough that when he was okayed to leave his body he just. Transformed instead). Alas, on account of his soul barely holding together with spit and determination and the teensy little detail of him being part-Hollow (and actual-Zangetsu being the only one awake to frantically try damage control) meant that some wires got crossed as his soul was healing itself, and well, instead of re-solidifying in it's previous state some elements from (both of) his Hollow form(s) filtered in accidentally to his new base state. Which. Yk. Is a super fun thing to find out and absolutely not at all horrifying to learn to live with.

#bleach #kurosaki ichigo #ichigo kurosaki #yuzu kurosaki #karin kurosaki #unstable spirits au #is what im calling this #long post #and YES ik about the whole #isshin binding his soul to Masaki's and becoming a shinigami-human hybrid whatever to become her opposite or whatever but #a) as i learned from the hell pit of comics i start to pick and choose how rigorously i stick to canon #and b) its still a FAKE body #like yes. i get that urahara (and mayuri) are mad scientists who play god but like. have fun with it #making as close to exact copies is something that urahara might do yeah but. fucked up meat puppet fun #and yk even if he was playing god working out dna out of nothing for reproduction was a work in progress and the kids were uh. a surprise #couldnt fit this above but. ichigo does end up speed running realizations bc the Old Man is knocked out HARD #(and technically his quincy powers except well. he never used those AS quincy powers but that's what uryu's for) #meanwhile ichigo is having multiple crisises over the state of his soul and his history and the Real Zangetsu (and uh. their relationship) #also as an aside yes ichigo (and karin and yuzu) still have fullbring potential just from. whoo hybridization does weird things