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Their views vastly contrast ⸺ he knows, albeit it is in his heart to see, to understand what severed them. Ukitake knows the dangers of facing the mirror, by which he means how is he to depict truth from reality ( something best akin to the phrase: in the eyes of the beholder ). For those of the Seireitei, they’re no strangers to revelation.

❛ Have these thoughts always been ? From what point has our acquaintances become untrue ? ❜

Voices hummed at the edge of hearing, lives rising and falling like breathing stars; sparks flashed here, dimmed and burnt out there, all of it witnessed by his eyes. On and on they sang, a constant flow of input and awareness both as eyes closed while he bathed in the presence of life and death eternal. Distant galaxies, the heart of the world, the roar of the sun --- each was a symphony of sound that danced and spun beneath the surface of thought and knowledge. Endless, eternal, it strummed across the scope of his mind's eye, strings plucked and pulled tight before releasing again; resonant harmonious notes of sound.

But a visitor had come to him today, a visitor whose life was a precious thing, and he had still let him be. The power that pooled within was one that aided in survival; there was no need for his hands to reach out and consume it. This one he had always been fond of; it had never changed. A teacher of old.

Tea was an easy thing to offer, as were other vintages and delicacies; even like this, Aizen Sousuke had come to find that he still desired food and drink. Power needed fuel needed intake --- such was how it played out. He turned with easy grace, feet moving to direct him towards his visitor at last from where he had stood before the railing, gazing downwards towards the weight of Soul Society where it spread out below, ravaged but not broken. Changes were being made, even now. He knew the changes, just as he found himself knowing the weight of every soul that passed on the streets below. The system---...

Ah. His thoughts were drifting again, and he focused at last upon his visitor, offering a smile.

❝ Are you asking if I always had such ambition, Ukitake-taichou? ❞ A change in that voice, a reverberation that played out like thunder against the earth's bones; it vibrated, a stirring thing that contained within it a power unlike any other barring what he had given to the one who was his right hand ( the one that was arguably consort and lover and lodestone and more to the newborn god ) upon his ascension. ❝ Would any answer I presented satisfy your curiosity? Please, enjoy some tea with me. It's perfectly safe. ❞

No, no poison laced drink nor food, all of it handled and prepared by those that served him.

Only when both had tea in hand and were seated ( though one might see that Aizen did not fully come in contact with the cushion he sat on, if they looked closely enough ) did he consider the answer that he could give.

❝ No. These thoughts, this ambition, were not always within me. They took years to become, to grow; the simple injustice of the system promised that I would be left to witness things that simply were not right. Perhaps -- it was the first time that I was tasked with tracking down a dissident and slaying her was when it truly began. All because she killed a nobleman who had harmed her younger sister. I still remember her face. If I could have let her run ---... but I believe that was a test given me by my captain; to see if I would fit myself within the precedents laid out back then. ❞

A moment to sample the tea, his eyes all but closing. The violet tracings on his features almost seemed to glow, even as the bladed forms of the 'wings' he wore now stirred as if caught by errant breezes, swaying slightly from side to side. Then the depths of silver and sable were snapping open again; far gone were they from the depths of gentle brown, gleaming like moonlight spilling over snow.

❝ I simply saw what you have seemed to have forgotten, what so many have forgotten. This system is harsh; it is cruel, even. But the laws that are in place protected a man who murdered his own spouse; he was not executed for it. He was not imprisoned for it. The man simply did what he did because he knew he could get away with it. And no one saw fit to enact the laws that proclaim those not of noble birth will suffer and perish for taking such actions themselves. It is imbalanced. ❞

His free hand lifted, the nebulae visible within the depths of the chest that was split open to reveal the hogyoku, the crystals that surrounded it at cardinal points pulsing with their own inner glow, matched by the inner flesh of his arms.

❝ Would it appease you if I were to say it was from the time when I first met Kaname? Or Gin? Or perhaps it was when I was a lieutenant and I grew to hate the man that I loved so dearly for how he treated me? I would not say it became untrue; it is simply that none of you saw what I did. ❞

Those eyes lifted to fix to Ukitake's own, boring in like brilliant augurs into the depths of green.

❝ No child of the Rukongai will ever starve or be used again beneath my rule, Ukitake Juushiro. I will not permit it. They should not have to suffer, to fear for their lives, not in their afterlife; they will be guided to their next one peaceably when they are ready. I will make sure of that. That is when it became false; that is when it changed. When I realized the travesty of the children in the Rukongai and how they were permitted to suffer. I am certain that you more than anyone would understand such sentiments. ❞

Aizen sipped again at the tea.

❝ You are not faultless yourself; or do you think nothing of the badges you gave to Kurosaki Ichigo and Kugo Ginjo? They were similar and yet dissimilar. Or do you not think of it at all? Answer me that. ❞

#ask tbt;#kamikakefell #[ verse: soul king ] all the stars will fall from grace with your name engraved in the dust of their deaths.#hee hee hoo hoo i get to finally crack open the soul king verse for aizen

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