You tried to steal my daughter so I'm stealing your mother! part 2
So I actually wasn't planning on a part 2 so soon but here it is LMAO
Part 1!
Lucifer was… well, wallowing in pity, to say the least. In the hotel, of course, since he was trying guilt-trip Alastor into letting him spend time with you.
Alastor was obviously just going about his business, whilst Charlie was trying to comfort Lucifer.
It was pretty clear he was being a bit over-dramatic but he does it for one reason: to be able to spend time with you, without Alastor.
Ever since Lucifer told Al about you ‘sneaking out’, Alastor hasn’t left your side for a moment, until now, that is.
He was keeping an eye on Lucifer whilst he sent you to represent him in the Overlords meeting that day, since he was clearly unable to go.
Lucifer, sitting in a corner of the lobby, was now making sobbing noises, which only seemed to irritate Alastor (rightfully so)
“Alright, since I am obligated to… remove trash from the hotel premises, leave” Alastor turned to Lucifer and pointed at the door, to which the demon gasped in an over dramatic way.
“Trash?! Perhaps you should see yourself out then?”
Alastor glared at him, slightly pointing his microphone at him before sighing “I’m quite sure Mother would love to know about you insulting her son~”
“Now hold on, you cannot do that! You started this!”
“Yes and it matters not who began it, but who ended it”
“You’re evil!”
“Yes, thank you!” Alastor replied happily, turning back to what he was doing beforehand.
“Hey, we weren’t done talking!”
“Weren’t we?”
“NO?”
“That’s unfortunate, I just so happen to be very busy”
“You’re literally just standing there”
“Exactly! I’m being productive by not wailing like a child!”
“I’m not-! Ok so maybe I was doing that, but I wouldn’t have to if you just let me be around [Name]!”
“Not in a million years”
“Well, actually-“
“Don’t.”
And then you just so happened to return, in time to see the rest of their little argument! So fun.
At this point, Charlie had given up and left to talk with Angel and Husk at the hotel bar.
“What are you two arguing about this time?” You asked the two demons, who looked quite shocked to see you back so soon.
“Ah, Mother! Is the meeting over?”
“It is! It was quite boring, I must say. I have no idea how you do it, darling”
"Yes, can you believe I have to suffer through that each time?"
"It seems like such a hassle, you poor soul" Lucifer chimed in, naturally, rolling his eyes as he said this.
"Thank you for the compassion."
"Stop that, you two! I don't feel like getting caught in the crossfire of yet another one of your fights" you sighed, moving Alastor away from Lucifer. Sometimes you wondered how Alastor hasn't been murdered by him yet. Clearly some sort of miracle!
"Oh, but Mother! I cannot possibly allow this… scoundrel to take up much of your time!"
"Scoundrel?!" Lucifer screeched, it would be safe to assume he preferred 'Little bird' over 'scoundrel'… but it's not like Alastor cared much! He'd just go ahead and switch between the two.
"Yes, 'scoundrel'! When was the last time you were honest about something?"
"Earlier today before [Name] returned!"
"Are you referring to that insult?"
"Perhaps I am"
"You see, Mother? A true rat, right here! He admitted to insulting me!"
"You started it first though!"
You sighed again, joining Charlie, Angel and Husk at the bar. By this point, it's just the area everyone goes to when Lucifer and Alastor are arguing in the hotel.
"Don't ya deal with that on most days?" Angel asked, turning to you as you sat down on one of the stools.
"Surely it gets exhausting?" he added, surpringly pushing away a shot of some kind of alcohol that he was offered.
"Yes, however… I suppose I have Charlie to help. Although, she tends to be a bit unsuccessful…"
"I'm trying! They're like… like… ah! I don't know but they're something!"
You turned back to look at the two, the sight before you… less than pleasant: Alastor and Lucifer were fighting… kind of. They were essentially trying to push the other out the hotel… it wasn't necessarily too violent, rather childish instead.
"Absolute morons… hey, no! I'll be taking that back!" Angel shouted as Husk took the shot away from him.
"Absolutely not"
"Oh come on!"
"You shouldn't be drinking in the first place!" Charlie, of course, interrupted them, pointing a finger at Angel as he was now trying to reach over the counter.
"Then why offer it to me?!"
"To test your morale, of course" Husk poured out the contents of the shot glass and placed it somewhere off to the side.
"No! What a waste!" Angel Dust whined, now leaning on the counter in defeat, looking at the empty shot glass.
"UNLOCK THIS DOOR RIGHT THIS INSTANT!" Alastor could be heard, faintly shouting from outside the hotel. Somehow, Lucifer had managed to lock Al out. You wondered what would come of this predicament between them, though you were sure it would be nothing good.
You walked over to Lucifer "Luci-"
"Dear! Let's ignore this whole thing, yeah?" He grinned, putting his arm around your shoulder and side-hugging you, beginning to walk in the opposite direction from the front door.
"Okay wait, wait, wait!" You didn't allow him to simply walk away from the situation at hand. Him simply looking at you with the most innocent expression ever!
"I am not going to ignore that you locked my child out of the hotel!" your tone amused, as you exclaimed, turning back to face the door. Certainly, you weren't mad, it was quite a… silly situation, to say the least.
"It's fine! I'm sure he's capable enough demon to get back in"
"Yes, you would be correct about that" Alastor grinned, appearing right in between the two of you, lightly swatting Lucifer away from himself before dusting off himself (supposedly from Lucifer).
Lucifer, absolutely flabbergasted, looked at the entrance, the door being wide open and Charlie awkwardly waving, with a sheepish smile on her face.
"Charlie!"
"Yeees?"
"You let him in?!" Lucifer cried out, putting his hand on his chest. "My own child betrayed me!"
"I didn't betray you! … Kind of"
"Yeah! Kind of!"
"Sorry! Aha..ha…" she chuckled, awkwardly side-stepping back to her room.
You waved to her as she entered the hallway and disappeared from sight. Having almost forgotten about Angel and Husk, you could see Angel recovering from a laughing fit, whilst Husk sat there amused, cleaning the shot glass from earlier.
"Well then, little bird, I would say it's time for you to leave!"
"I beg to differ! I haven't been here that long yet!"
"Certainly long enough for me" Alastor shrugged, pushing Lucifer towards the exit.
"Uhh, no, I'm not leaving that easily this time!"
"Ah, so irritating" Alastor sighed, taking your hand and leading you away from him again.
"I believe I'll be sticking around until I'm too busy with my duties to do so! Out of spite, of course~"
Okay… why don't you two calm down? Oh! I know! Why don't we spend some time together painting each others nails!"
"What?"
"Mother, I refuse-"
"It wasn't a request!"
@montis-posts @sleepdeprived-barelyalive here you go!
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I really like the fact that Ichigo is a translator it wasn’t something that i ever thought he would do but it somehow works. I never thought he’d become captain I just don’t see it for him which is why it’s confusing when people say he should’ve become one ?? Like no way 😬
What do you think about him being a translator ? Also what did you think about the use of him being captain ?
ohhh, this is such a dead horse topic on my blog at this point, but yeah, i've never vibed with ichigo being a captain, mainly because a) he's much, much stronger than the average bleach captain😅, b) the thematic point of the story was that he's the living world protagonist and rukia is the soul society protagonist (at least during the first arc), and honestly if anyone has a believable motivation for "changing the system," it should be rukia, who grew up in the worst side of that system, and c) it's hard for me to wrap my head around what he would even do there. his duties and narrative goals have long transcended the mere hollow-purging he was doing in the first arc, i mean he was literally fighting a god in the last arc to prevent the collapse of the three worlds 💀 if anything, ichigo cares about all the realms, given how many times characters in TYBW comment on how virtuous he is because he's willing to rescue even his past enemies if they're no longer causing any trouble to him.
i think the reason this comes up a lot in fan circles is not because of how people perceive ichigo, but how they perceive soul society. shinigami characters are very popular, so it's easy to assume a lot of fans see them as the good guys. personally, i think kubo writes them as a very "do whatever is necessary to keep up the status quo" guys who act in soul society's best interest first and foremost, but aren't all necessarily bad people. it's the classic "good individuals ≠ good system" set-up.
i don't think kubo concerns himself with whether a side character is morally good or bad, he just writes them as having motivations that are consistent with who they are as people. for instance, mayuri isn't "good" but he acts in accordance with his own specific set of values. rukia and renji are "good" because their values often align with ichigo's. it's kind of like...the individuals might be likeable or even nice, but the system itself has done some pretty corrupt things. systems are slow to change, so i'd find it pretty unrealistic for one individual to be able to change centuries worth of practices overnight. of course, soul society has changed because of him, but so has everyone else. byakuya met ichigo and byakuya changed, grimmjow met ichigo and grimmjow changed, riruka met ichigo and riruka changed, etc etc. he's the consistent one, it's the others that change because of his influence. he's already done all of this without being captain, so i don't know how it would be interesting, narratively, for him to attain that role. what would it say about the character that hasn't already been said? it's implied that soul society aspires to reach his level, not the other way around, so it doesn't make sense to posit them as aspirational here. as the hero, ichigo is the aspirational one for most of the characters in the series.
also, i know this isn't a popular opinion, but i like that ichigo has parts of every "identity" in his blood (shinigami, hollow, quincy, fullbringer etc etc😂). therefore, it makes sense to me that he's got allegiances to every group, just as he's got enemies. he's bigger than any one particular group.
coming to his living world job, i think it makes perfect sense and i love how kubo phrases it
from a watsonian perspective, we knew from the very start that ichigo is good at english, likes it, etc etc. we also knew from the very beginning that he wasn't much help around the clinic and that isshin actually urged him to stay away from it, even though i would've been equally okay with him being a doctor. ichigo is smart and he has a great sense of compassion, so that's not at all a bad job for him either.
HOWEVER, my most favorite thing about it is, again, coming back to how kubo phrases it. ichigo as a character has always had insight into both sides, the dead and the living, that's what makes him special as a human, so in a way, he's always been a translator, it's just the language that changes. he's understood the language of grief, managed to bridge the gap between the dead and the living. he's been able to convince soul society to return ginjou's body by communicating the real anguish that ginjou felt as a soul reaper. he's been able to understand the arrancars even as he was fighting them, and in silent victory, he's even been able to empathize with aizen! ichigo is all about understanding, as you can see here in one of my favorite bleach chapters:
ichigo is very intuitive, very eager to understand another heart and build connections, and what else is translation other than accessing a whole other language, a whole other mind, trying to understand it? it might not be accurate or exact, but it comes close, and that's the joy of translation, isn't it? finding the most resonant way to have one world connect with another? the way i phrase something might be different from the way you phrase it, but feelings are universal and no one gets that better than ichigo, who has repeatedly understood the feelings of characters whom he shares no culture with. there's also a meta-ness to the "connecting two different worlds:" bleach has always had contrasts (the modern world, which ichigo lives in, vs the ancient world soul society is modeled on; the western influences on bleach's aesthetics, while bleach itself is a japanese story). ichigo ties everything together, so it's just very fitting and satisfying for him to occupy a position like this!
obviously, it also makes sense for practical reasons, considering the work-from-home nature of the job allows him to be on stand-by in case of any emergencies that need him, and it allows him to break the shonen generational curse by being very involved in his son's upbringing😂. kubo mentioned on klub outside recently that kazui's room was built according to ichigo's specifications, and that's a level of involvement i've always expected from ichigo😅 he's a homebody at heart, he loves having a home and a family and i think any job that allows him to be close to them is a good one! kubo gets a lot of deserved criticism, but i think he's always known his characters well, so i like it! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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