Happy Birthday! (January 31st)
Mayumi Makise (I-Chu)
Ryuunosuke Uryuu (Fate/Zero)
Aladine (One Piece)
Anna (Nanatsu no Taizai)
Bimii (Mikagura School Suite)
Tanuchiyo (Pop’n Music)
Suu (Monster Musume)
Hikari Kohinata (AMANCHU!)
Kijima Rei (Diamond no Ace)
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//Ayo it's a meta/hc heavy day. I would like to formally apologize to & thank @/sunniestshark for suffering my infodump about Karin & the Kurosaki family. I owe you my life.
This focuses specifically on the details & timeline of Karin's development of "I don't see spirits" to "I'm the Spirit Guy(tm) of the family" to "why the fuck is my brother, a trained combatant, not teaching me how to Not Die from hollows?" & how this affected the Kurosaki family.
We see in ch 1 that spirits are a) a common occurrence in the family, b) Yuzu can see spirits, albeit faintly, & c) Karin largely ignores spirits.
This attitude drastically changes in the Fullbringer arc. In ch 428, while she visits the Urahara Shouten for spiritual repellant, Karin seems to acknowledge spiritual capability more, & is happy to take the burden of the family's spiritual issues so Ichigo doesn't have to.
Karakura is a town inundated with malevolent spirits. Ichigo is frequently pulled out of class & woken in the middle of the night to address hollows (it's literally 90% the plot of the premier arc, so I will not be providing examples), & even after Sousuke is incarcerated & unable to sick weird hollow experiments on innocent townspeople (White & Metastacia are the first to come to mind) they're still frequent enough that Ichigo expresses in 424 that Uryuu takes care of a lot hollow problems, even being pulled out of class.
Additionally, it's not an uncommon occurrence in Karakura that the city experiences an ambush of many hollows. Just off the top of my head, Ryuunosuke & Shino are ambushed by no fewer than like six hollows in ch 482 & have to be rescued by Ichigo.
So Karin, who is spiritually capable enough to fight hollows with no training alongside Jinta, Ururu, & Don Kanonji in ch 88.5, is in a town literally drowning in cannibalistic monsters.
Despite her capability, Karin still needs help fighting. She isn't able to kill it on her own. It's perfectly feasible she'd be killed if left alone with the wrong hollow.
Obviously, any thirteen year old who's as insular as Karin is wouldn't seek help, but she would have to later on for survival. But there's no indication anyone really offers training. It's understandable why Kisuke wouldn't, but you'd expect, at the very least, Isshin to do the smart thing & stop coddling his daughters & teach them how to defend themselves. But he doesn't.
This is where meta turns into canon divergence.
Karin still fights hollows with Jinta & Ururu. She discovers her love for fighting hollows during this time. However, Ichigo feels Karin doesn't need to pursue combat now that he has his powers back. This makes Karin resent Ichigo. She says it's because she's gone to great lengths to keep Ichigo's status as a shinigami a secret, but she doesn't want to admit she's hurt & feels abandoned that her brother refuses to help her protect herself & do something she loves.
Their relationship continues to sour & eventually, it bleeds into the rest of the family when they start having outright screaming matches. During this time, Karin falls into depression, & most of her negative feelings culminate in self-injury since she hasn't developed effective coping mechanisms. During this time, her grades fall, she stops playing soccer, she starts smoking tobacco & marijuana, drinks, & once she enters high school, begins having one-night stands.
Karin kills herself after graduating high school. This implodes the family. They survived Masaki's death because Ichigo, Yuzu, & Karin were so young & needed Isshin for survival. However, they're adults now. I don't see how everything that's happened doesn't come to light. Yuzu finds out that Isshin & Ichigo are shinigami & is furious they've kept these secrets from her, & Yuzu is hurt that Karin, who we've seen share a bed before, has abandoned her.
I don't think Karin cutting ties with the family would dissolve it. But Yuzu is the matriarch. She cooks, cleans, & handles most of the household affairs. Yuzu & Karin cutting ties would dissolve the family.
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