#mayuri being insane

[hollowfyshunsuikubo]

Mayuri Kurotsuchi Headcannons

A/N: Thie fic itself is going to take a while (Uni started up again and I am Suffering) so to feed yall before the self-indulgent smut im going to write, here's some SFW and NSFW headcannons. NSFW (and NSFW contents + warnings) is below the cut!

Mayuri Kurotsuchi x Gn!Reader (but Fem!Reader mentioned for NSFW)

Warnings: Smut, general Mayuri insanity, Slight Yandere themes, mentions of minor surgery, goofy silly moods

SFW:

You and Mayuri tend to have a very argumentative relationship once you've been dating for a few years

In the beginning, he was very possessive but also distant

He was very in denial that he felt anything, but he opened up after a while

You two have lots of arguments over morals and people

He believes that as long as you're safe, everything is fine

You're just trying to tell him that yes, you're safe. But the damned shinigami noble on the table getting a second heart because they paid for a years worth of funding is definitely not at that particular moment.

Hes often rude and blunt, but he means it in a good way. He'll often sound disinterested, but if you ask him about what you were talking about, he'll repeat it word for word and ask if you're going to continue or if he can keep working.

His version of being sweet is showing you his Lans and creations, but keeping you close my his side, his long nail always touching you if he needs to move forward or a little further away to show you something

Has definitely tried to show you how to dissect something odd, like another shinigami he picked up stole from the 4th Division. Needless to say, a fight broke out between you two, which ended with a scalpel and Akon both being thrown.

He also likes to have you sit on his lap while he's working.

Did he make a chair that he can sit in comfortably while you sit on his lap? Yes.

Does this chair have more comfort than any other chair in the 11th Division? Also yes.

Hes quite big on quality time you see, mixed with physical affection

Though some days, when he's more on edge than others, he'll opt to keep you in sight, but doesn't want to be touching you.

Like cuddling with you at night, when he can be bothered to sleep.

When he is very busy and can't make it to bed, he'll send Nemu with his regrets. He'd prefer to go himself, but it's far too busy.

He has contemplated installing a lavish, closed off, private, quadruple password locked room for you in his lab, just so he can see you easier, but he felt it may be too dangerous for you

He also enjoys seeing you chat with Nemu, though he does reprimand her if she gets too 'free' with you. Nemu is just happy her master is happy.

Nemu treats you like a mother. Yes I believe that Mayuri and Nemu are father daughter and not husband and wife come @ me. She enjoys going on "surveillance trips" with you (AKA walks around the Seireitei)

Moving on to nicknames and pet names, he doesn't really use them, but he does have clear favorites when he's in the mood. Baby and my dear are his go-tos if he feels mushy, but sweeting and rabbit are for his muh softer moments. He likes using rabbit as a teasing word. Not bunny, rabbit. He doesn't like bunnies.

He likes making sure you have things to do if you want to spend time alone, or if he's too busy.

His Captain's salary used to fully go towards funding the lab, but buying you things you want is also a good use of his money.

Hes never overstepped that particular boundary of excessive buying, though, especially if you're money conscious (all my people raised poor wya!)

Being with Mayuri is generally just an odd, but fun, if a little strained, time.

Tiny drabble:

It was cold today. You were bundled up as warmly as possible, attempting to not freeze before you go to Mayuri. You'd hoped to see him last night, you even stayed up far past your usual time, but Nemu poked her head around the corner and said that he'd regretfully be spending the night in the lab. You were welcome to join him, though.

You declined. It's been getting much colder, so you stayed in bed.

Now you wished you hadn't. You're tired and cold. A few Division members say hellos to you as you walk, and when you finally reach the lan, you see Mayuri in his chair, hunched over the console, looking at data.

"Nice of you to join me. Come, sit, now." He waved you over, not taking his eyes off the console. When you pause to wrap yourself up a little more, you hear the clacking of his fingers on the keys stop. "Sweeting, come here."

You forget about how cold you are and hurry on over. He's already leaning back in his seat, his hands away from his console, his brow irritated that he has to wait for you. You slide into his lap, and the smart chair registers that you're there. Another back pops up behind you, soft and squishy. But you opt to snuggle into Mayuri. His headpiece is a little annoying, but it's more endearing knowing you've seen what's underneath. That handsome face, alongside the soft lips that aren't covered with paint. He is finally able to get back to work, not saying another word.

That is, until he notices how many layers you're wearing.

"This lab has the best technology in the entire Soul Society, underfloor heating, and is warmed precisely so nobody is every distracted by the cold. If you're feverish or sick, go back to my room. I will provide you with warmth and a cure-all for your sickness." He doesn't look zt you just yet.

He feels a little insecure. How would you get sick? Is he not doing enough to keep you safe and healthy? Does he need to strengthen your immune system so he can spend more hours like this with you?

"I'm just a little cold, that's all." You reply gently. "There's nothing wrong with it. I'm not sick." Your reassurances did nothing to persuade him, but he supposed he could at least keep an eye on you while you're with him. At least you're with him. If you weren't, he have to take drastic measures to make sure you were. Nobody else was going to have you, that was for sure.

"Hmph. Fine." His clacking increased in speed. You closed your eyes, ready to finally cure the tired part of you, when you heard the clacking stop again and fabric wrap around you.

You opened your eyes to find he's wrapped his Captain's cloack around you, pulling you closer to him while also keeping you warm. The combination of his body heat the warmth of the cloak, and the renewed rhythmic tapping of his fingers on the keyboard fixed all your ills. The cold and your tiredness ebbed as you fell asleep in his arms, nestles close to him.

Despite the fact he was still working, he cursed you fot breaking his concentration. You were a little pest sometimes.

But at least you were his pest. He'd been working all night, after all... having you asleep with him, providing hum some much deserved affection as a reward for his hard work was worth it. After all, he was the most intelligent man in the Soul Society. He deserved to have a beautiful woman on his arm, in his arms, providing him with pesky emotions he didn't exactly not like, but rather enjoyed. He especially liked the strange fuzzy feeling he gets whenever he sees your peaceful sleeping face. What was that feeling called again?

NSFW:

a/n tried to keep it as gn!reader as possible, but there is ONE mention of a womb and pregnancy. (I fully believe Mayuri would give a biological male a working uterus and womb just to get them pregnant though)

WARNINGS: Sex toys, marking, nipple play, slight exhibitionism, breeding kink, degrading, power play, mentions of branding, mentions of knifeplay, semi-public sex, creampies, mentions of cock, womb mention/s (f!reader), masturbation, implied yandere in drabble

So, he likes toys.

Hes even made them for you.

Vibrating dildos in the shape of his cock to keep you coming while he's not there.

Vibrating panties that are so silent you can't hear it when you're right next to them.

A little toy kind of like the rose toy, except it's unsettlingly like his actual tongue

Needless to say, he's got you covered while he's away

When he's with you?

RIP.

Throwing it out there: he's a scientist. He's made his dick bigger. We've all seen how he carries Ashisogi Jizo. BDE.

So: 8.5 inches (cut, he likes to be clean) he keeps it unpainted (most of the time) and his balls are clean shaven, having slightly low. Good girth on him, enough to be somewhat of a stretch but not unpleasant. Really good hygiene down below too.

Anyway, he likes to study your reactions

The first few time you had sex, all he did was watch you. He even took notes.

You can't find the notes he took but you're sure that if you can't, nobody else but he can.

He's memorized your weakest, spongy spots

knows you live having your nipples sucked and licked and gently pulled.

those first few times were just you orgasming over and over and over again

loves biting. Marking is a big thing for him, as it shows that you belong to him.

Doesng like to mark with you cum though, as he feels it's a waste

Breeding kink? No

Hatred of wasting perfectly good seed with the potential to grow a genius nearly at his level within your womb? ✨️yes✨️

Is a more dominant man in bed, though likes to power bottom if you really want to ride.

The few times he's properly subbed for you, he didn't mind it, but he'd rather not

You made your sexual boundaries clear, but he's always asked permission to test them. A small brand he healed and got rid of here, a few interesting nights with knifeplay there...

Mayuri may be off the rails, but he'd do anything to keep you by his side. He knows your boundaries, and he knows his.

Moving on, he loves to degrade you.

Filthy slut, naughty whore, stupid bitch, and little cumdumpster seem to be his favorites

He loves the risk of being caught, as he loves the risk of you being humiliated

But he always makes sure you're never caught.

You'd be in an alley way, his cock thrusting in and out like a piston, one leg hoisted into the air, the cold air hitting your most sensitive part while he uses you like a toy, his other hand gripped firmly under your chin to tilt your head back to look at him.

You're dripping everywhere, the sounds of his dick going in and out of you something so lewd and pornographic you can't even contain your moans.

"You'd like to be caught, wouldn't you, you little whore? Go on, cum then, give the men who will walk past something to lick up and stare at."

When you cum, he shoves two fingers in your mouth, causing you to choke a little. He doesn't stop his hips, but you can feel your eyes rolling as he keeps abusing that sweet, sensitive spot inside you

Without warning, he's all the way in, his tongue running down your neck to bite the junction between your shoulder and neck as he cums deeply inside you.

Theres always a lot of it, to the point where it's almost like hes got years worth just stored there (even though your sex life is somewhat regular)

Oh yeah. I don't think Mayuri has a high sex drive, per se, I just think he likes to be close with you. Any chance he gets, he's like to be spending quality time with you and touching you in some way, and sex is quite good for that.

aftercare is pretty odd tbh

"You did better than I thought you would."

he generally likes to hold you close, and uses his captains hoari to wipe you down, if you want to be wiped down.

not many kisses, but he'll talk about the most insane things (i.e, how exciting it would be to study Ichigo Kurosaki, how annoying Captain Shunsui is, nitpicking over Akons work in the lab) quietly to help you get to sleep

once you're asleep, that's when the real aftercare starts

If your an afab, as much as he hates wasting it, he gives you a little injection to prevent his seed from taking hold in your womb

because of course, he's modified his semen to bypass any and all forms of birth control

after that, he cleans himself up, becayse he actually hates feeling sticky (as fun as it all was, that's one of his few icks when it comes to sex) he gets all the cum, the bodypaint, the sweat, and blood (if there is any) off before going back to bed

lastly, he'd make sure the bed was comfortable enough for him to settle down into, and he cuddles with you for as long as he can before either morning comes or he has to go back to work

he likes to cage you to him while you sleep, making sure you really can't escape

Tiny nsfw drabble:

His mouth devoured yours, much like how a lion would devour it's first meal in days. In the tiny corner of the lab, a hidden room long covered over but with no dust on any surface- he must have planned this, you think -he presses you against the wall, kissing you with such passion yet such possessiveness, you wonder if this is how the moon feels knowing the sun chases her. Knowing such heat is so close, yet only the sun can demand when you shine from it.

Everything in your mind turned into mush as he shoved you further against the wall, the pommel of Ashisogi Jizo pressing into your stomach, pushed a little further out than normal from his hard cock, still confined into his pants.

You tried. You really did. You knew his rule -"No touching until I tell you," -but it was so hard to abide by when you hadn't had him in over a week. It had been so busy, what with his newest big project...

So your hands moved to the front of his hakama, gently cupping his growing bulge through the fabric. You were rewarded so kindly for your disobedience, with a low growl from him and a hand flying to your throat to stop you from moving anymore, but the gentle grinding of his clothed cock against your hand. His lips nipped at yours and when you opened your mouth to gasp, he slipped his tongue inside, Ashisogi Jizo pressing painfully into your stomach as he leaned his entire body against you, quite desperate now to relieve himself of how hard he was. When he took his hand away from your neck, for a brief moment you had perfect clarity, and realized he wasn't going to punish you today.

Mayuri needed you. Over a week of yearning, battling himself and working so hard for his projects costs and hard work to pay off, he deserved to just stop talking. He deserved to not have to speak, to not say any words or make any sound. He just needed you.

The air was hot as you two writhed. His needs were coming and coming fast, much before yours, but when he dipped his head to bite and suck on your neck, his headpiece digging into your jaw, if felt as if you were about to orgasm just from that.

His hands were rough, pawing at your waist and ass, as if he could tear off your clothes and skin and get to the bones underneath, and make messy, bloody, raw love to your insides. Mayuri was a mess, to the point where he himself, who prided himself on his sharp mind and ability to be clear-headed through anything, began just desperately thrusting his clothes cock into your hand.

Your moans and little gasps when he kept attacking your neck with his lips and teeth, his body pain leaving marks of his lips all over your skin, but not marks like he loves to give, bruises formed by his lips that both adored and condemned you. Lips that lied and manipulated and coerced you into staying once, lips that now tried to make up for all lost time.

As soon as Mayuri found that sensitive spot on your neck- he didn't go straight for it this time, odd... -you scrambled wit your hands to pull down his hakama pants and grabbed ahold of his bare cock. The fleshy hardness of it, the girth, and the length... you couldn't do it alone, but he would help you out. He groaned into you neck, the second sound he's made since he dragged you into this small, abandoned room, pleased with you. He began thrusting, sloppily, into your hands, as you tilted your head back as he kept on kissing and marking your neck. One of his hands moved to paw at your chest, blindly reaching into your shihakusho to toy with one of your nipples as his tongue lapped at your neck.

You're breathy moans and whines, mixed alongside his occasional grunts, echoed in the room, and despite the locked door, he selfishly wished he'd dragged you anywhere else, just so nobody would hear you but him.

At the reminder to himself that you were his, his alone, and his until he chose to discard you (which he would never do), he grunts then exhales from the back of his throat, his cum coating your hands. He slowed his thrusts down, he stopped kissing your neck so hungrily, and he withdrew his hand from the inside of your shihakusho. His breathing was heavy still, and he looked at you with half lidded eyes filled with fire.

You felt a pull in your gut as his cock, which had been softening ever so slightly, hardened again. Mayuri kissed your neck softly, featherlight, before pulling his head back, but he didn't move his hips, or try to escape the grasp your hands had on his dick.

"You're not going to waste the next few, are you, my dear?" His voice is husky, raw with emotion. The look in his eyes reminds you of a man starved, a softly boiling rage born from need of something just beyond his reach. Mayuri leans forward to brush his lips against yours, his long nail on his right hand slowly tracing down the front of your disheveled shihakusho, opening it for his eyes and his eyes only. To see your skin, unmarred for over a week, displayed before him...

"I won't."

Your voice breaks him from his thoughts, and his gaze flicks to yours again. He grins, a predator, a man who will take what he needs to soothe his hunger.

"Good. On your knees then, and don't be wasteful."

#mayuri x reader #mayuri kurotsuchi #mayuri kurotsuchi x reader #bleach x reader #bleach #yn #nemu #smut #fluff #mayuri being insane #yandere themes #kinky shit #mayuri being tamed #pov ur bofriend is insane but its ok that means he's insane for you <3

[outlanderalien]

Everyone arguing about whether Giselle is trans or not, or whether trans people should claim her or not due to her being a sadistic pervert forget one crucial thing:

I love her <3

#bleach #giselle gewelle #Mayuri is my fave so imagine my joy when they made a cute girl who's also sadistic and perverse and trans and then had the two fight. #I feel so catered to. Irredeemably fucked up LGBT are my fave I want to collect them. #Frankly it's her god-given right to be insane. Good for her. #I'm done hand-wringing about evil characters being LGBT and whether that's okay or not. Let the gays go ape-shit. I'm tired of being nice.

[gallusrostromegalus]

Who in the Gotei 13 abuses emojis and how

The Groupchat Crimes of the Gotei-13:

Yamamoto: responds everything with an inscrutable "😎 👍". Announcing your engagement? 😎 👍 Telling him there is a scheduling conflict? 😎 👍 The seireitei is being invaded? 😎 👍 Tonkatasu Tuesday at 6:30 tonight? 😎 👍

Sasakibe: Endlessly persnickety about grammar. Despite having the fact that grammar is fluid and changes with context and what many of the new conventions mean explained to him, a total lack of punctuation to create an informal tone will make him literally foam at the mouth like a rabid boar.

Soi Fon: refuses to relegate fun facts about hornets to the #bugs channel, including unspoilered images of what assorted stings will do to human flesh.

Yoruichi: nudes in the SFW channels

Rose: 🌹❤️🌹 brackets his messages with emoji chains like quotation marks 🌹❤️🌹

Kira: vent posting/generally being a miserable little shit in the general channel

Retsu: consistently forgets to spoiler medical gore, keeps sharing medical "Fun" facts that give people nightmares.

Isane: "Hey guys, I need some advice on how to deal with *insane situation literally nobody that ever experienced before*"

Hanataro: unironically posting scorpions and venomous snakes to the cute animals channel

Shinji: ti xif ton lliw/tonnac dna segassem sih lla desrever wohemoS

Momo: crying for real about how cute the animals in the cute animals chat are

Hiyori: destroying things in rage about how cute the animals in the cute animals chat are.

Byakuya: Signs all his messages, as this is is official Gotei-13 correspondence. -from the desk of Captain Kuchiki Byakuya

Renji: no caps no punctuation no worries

Komamura: spent three *months* pretending to be friends with a pair of rural veterinarians and getting people emotionally involved in the saga of them trying to cure a mystery chicken affliction before finally ending his shaggy dog story with an ATROCIOUS pun.

Iba: unappealing thirst traps.

Shunsui: keeps falling for and linking obviously false clickbait articles.

Nanao: digging up literally decades-old drama

Tousen: setting his text color to match the background color to fuck with people.

Shuuhei: normal messages sent from bizarre locations "-sent from the secret downstairs microwave" "-sent from the captain general's iPhone" "-sent from Massachusetts"

Matsumoto: 💕 Putting ❤️ emoji 💋 between ❤️ every 😘 word ❤️ for 💋 the ❤️ aesthetic 💕

Hitsugaya: 2AM post @ing everyone of a single inscrutable emoji such as "🦆". Claims to have no memory of making this

Kenpachi: ALL CAPS LOCK ALL THE TIME NO PUNCTUATION ALSO FIGURED OUT HOW TO MAKE THE YELLING BUTTON LOUDER

Ikkaku: figured out how to use image-editing software specifically to make bespoke image macros at astonishing speed so he always has a meme on hand, including the infamous Zaraki Caused Another Bisexual Awakening Counter aka "GOT ANOTHER ONE LADS!!" meme.

Yumichika: ✨ 🦚 ✨ Worst 💙 possible 🪩 combination 💙 of 🪩 Rose 💙 and 🪩 Matsumoto 💙 quirks ✨🦚✨

Yachiru: Pink Text

Mayuri: immediately silenced all notifications from the Groupchat, forgot it exists

Nemu: Tracks Groupchat statistics and presentation them quarterly like a thesis defense and/or stockholders meeting.

Urahara: keeps finding obviously false clickbait articles to send to Shunsui

Ukitake: you can directly track how much Percocet he's on by how colorful, emoji 🤣 filled and ✨ WhImSiClE 🐟 🐟 hIs 💻 TeXtInG 💻 sTyLe 🐟 🐟 GeTS ✨

Rukia: signs her texts like Byakuya, but "-sent from Lieutenant Rukia 🐰 Kuchiki "

Harmless, until somehow her medical records appear under "Rukia Usagi Kuchiki" like she has a middle name.

#AEIWAM #ab elephant is warm and mushy #bleach #bleach fanfiction

[kiwicopia]

🔞 MDNI | Kinktober: Face Sitting 🔞

🎃 Mayuri x Wife!Reader 🎃

TW: cunnilingus, thigh holding, slight riding, squirting, eager Mayuri, overstimulation.

tags: @stygianoir @shes-so-insane @uzxotic

Your husband was always hardworking, and incredibly dedicated to the experiments he worked tirelessly on. It often led him to be worn out by the time he slipped into bed with you, falling asleep before you could ever ask how his day was. As his loving and caring wife, you couldn’t stand to see him like that. So, you took matters into your own hands. Talking him into missing one day of work was the difficult part, but Mayuri could never say no to you. Not when you would bat your eyes and give him that sort of look.

While sitting on his face, his tongue licked quick stripes up your cunt, causing your lower half to squirm. “S-Slow down,” you cried out. He was working you way too fast, not that he could tell. Each lick his tongue made had your hands gripping the headboard, and your nails dug into the wood when the tip of it teased your clit. Though your sudden outburst caused him to slow his movements down just a little. As much as he wanted to devour you, he knew he had to take his time with you. 

“Missed your taste,” he mumbled. Though it was muffled by him pulling you down on his face even more as he buried himself further into your pretty pussy. His togue delved between your folds, causing you to shudder as he slowly enjoyed his meal. The sounds of slurping only made you want to ride against him, and that’s exactly what you did. Your hips eased forward, and your clit brushed against the tip of his nose. The sensation sent pleasurable sparks up your body, and it did well to encourage you further. 

Your husband didn’t mind the motion and focused more on eating you out than the way you tried to sneak a bit of riding in. The steady pace of his tongue brought a constant wave of pleasure that flooded your body, causing your stomach to slowly knot itself as you moaned. The constant slurping noises caused by Mayuri only made you drag your cunt against his face a little more, disregarding any sense of gentleness as your brain focused on the pleasure. 

With his skilled tongue, it didn’t take long for you to reach your orgasm. His name fell from your lips as you cried out, and you would have thought that your husband would cease his licking, but he didn’t. “Honey?” Your body still trembled from release as you called out to him, yet he didn’t respond. Instead, your husband only continued lapping at your cunt, and it caused you to lift your hips up a little. “Wait—” 

A sharp gasp swallowed the rest of your sentence as Mayuri snaked his arms up and over your thighs, pulling you back down onto his face. His tongue began to work faster and faster inside of you with no signs of stopping. Your nails scratched against the headboard again as you tried to tear yourself away from his mouth, but his hold on you was too strong. Your swollen bud felt abused as he slid a thick stripe against it before his lips latched on, sucking it with fervor. 

You wanted him to stop, but it felt too good, and your hips slowly rocked against his face the more he sucked on your clit. The oversensitive bundle of nerves was receiving constant attention, and your thighs repeatedly clenched and unclenched as the familiar knot inside you tightened more and more. 

He was pushing you to the edge of another release, and he soon got what he wanted. Mayuri hummed as your body shook yet again, your cries of pleasure filling his ears as if they were music to his ears. Though he didn’t stop. Not even after you came all over his face. He lapped all over, slurping your juices right up before continuing to bully your pussy with his tongue. His eagerness was the cause of you being a good, little wife to him. Of just wanting him to relax after working so tirelessly and hard. 

You head hung back and you let out another breathy moan when his teeth gently trapped your clit in between them, slowly rolling it around before sucking on it yet again. His arms kept you trapped, and all you did now was sit there while he continued to devour you. Your eyes drooped as you panted, letting out wanton moans every single time a jolt of pleasure shot up your body. Your nerves were on fire at this point from being overstimulated, and you loved it. 

Moan after moan, orgasm after orgasm, Mayuri was making you an absolute mess just from his mouth alone. Your thighs twitched as your slick slid down them, coating his face and wetting it more and more, but he didn’t care. Your body soon hit its limit and you leaned forward, resting your forehead against the headboard while your husband abused your cunt some more. 

Your vision was spotted after the fifth release, and your pleading whines for him to cease turned into desperate ones for him to continue. “Yuri,” you called out to him in such a weak, tired voice. It was ignored as he brought you to your sixth—and final—orgasm of the night. Your body finally slumped forward after gushing all over his face again, and you clung to the headboard as if your life depended on it. Small breaths left your lips as you tried to think, but your mind was too muddled to do so. Too full of thoughts of him having ate you out like a man being served his final meal in life. 

Mayuri shifted beneath you, gently moving in a way that wouldn’t cause you to fall over or off the bed as he sat up. The lower half of his face still had remnants of your juices, to which his tongue worked at licking away, and he watched your exhausted form cling to the headboard. “Sorry,” he apologized. It wasn’t like him to do such a thing, but even he knew that he did too much to you. His arms snaked around your waist, and he pulled you close as he leaned against the headboard. 

“Too much,” you mumbled. 

He hummed in thought. “Couldn’t control myself,” he said. He held you tighter and sighed. “I needed it, though.” When your face buried itself into the crook of his neck, he grinned. “I could use a few more days of this.” 

“Okay,” you replied. You didn’t know what you did by agreeing with him, but you didn’t care. If it meant easing the stress and his tiredness from work, you’d let him eat you out and fuck you all he wanted to. Oh, what a good, little wife you were. 

#bleach #bleach x reader #bleach x you #bleach x y/n #bleach x female reader #bleach mayuri #mayuri kurotsuchi #mayuri x reader #mayuri x you #mayuri x y/n #mayuri kurotsuchi smut #mayuri smut #bleach smut #kinktober #kinktober 2023 #mdni #kiwicopia writes

[bleachbleachbleach]

[Bleach 080]

I think about these panels literally ALL. THE. TIME. I have thought about these panels in a thousand ways. Still, they baffle me. And I still have basically nothing to say about them.

I steadfastly believe that Renji is the kind of guy who would know who all the Captains and VCs were, both because he's a people person and because he'd see knowing who holds these ranks and speaking/acting in accordance with these ranks as a professional requirement. And if Renji calling Aizen 'Aizen-san' isn't going to change this, nothing will--not even Renji not knowing who Matsumoto's entire captain is.

Even if the current state of the Gotei is such that the divisions are highly fractured and there is very little inter-squad cohesion or communication, which I absolutely believe, there are still only thirteen of them. They are numbered! And assuming every issue of the SC is fairly similar to the one we see in Colorful Bleach, at least one magazine is actively attempting to cultivate cults of personality around these dumb captains, so it's not as though they're commanding their divisions entirely from behind green curtains.

So anyway, I'm like, okay, how could I see this working? I've chosen two options to tl;dr about.

Option A: We get insane with grammar

Option B: We method act

Option A: We get insane with grammar

In Matsmoto's line, the person she can't find is ウチの隊長さん (uchi no taichou-san). "Uchi" is a pronoun that has a variety of usages. One is a feminized form of speech, and, well, Matsumoto is a woman. But うちの (uchi no) can also be used by anyone to refer to things that belong to "the house"--or the family, the company, the farm, etc. So if we get insane with grammar, maybe we could argue that the captain Matsumoto's referencing is non-specific, is the Gotei's captain, and is simply *a* captain in the Gotei she had business with. Why Renji wouldn't just assume it was hers, given that we just talked about the fractured nature of Gotei governance, idk, but I mean, it could be Kyouraku. They know each other. [In the anime] people seem to give a lot of reports to Mayuri, too, so I guess it could be him, too. Yes, I think this is nutballs. Yes, it makes 90x more sense that she'd be talking about her captain.

The question Renji asks Matsumoto is: 乱菊さんとこの隊長って誰でしたっけ?

Again, I think the Viz translation makes sense here: "Who's your captain again?" In the Japanese line, my understanding is that he's talking about Matsumoto and this captain in conjunction with each other, and is trying to remember who the captain is. But I guess there might be some room for ambiguity? Like, "You and this captain--remind me who you were talking about?" At least in Japanese for Illiterates 101 (my lifetime enrollment), there are other more elementary ways he could ask who Matsumoto's captain was. So maybe we could read this situationally and say, well, Renji doesn't know who Matsumoto's trying to work with right now. Could be any captain! Which one are you talking about, Rangiku-san? Again, I don't actually think that makes sense, but WE'LL THROW IT OUT THERE.

Did you say "give it up, B3?" Hmmm. After some consideration... Nah!

Option B: We method act this.

Renji is standing around with Iba, Hinamori, and Matsumoto. They're all VCs now, but he definitely knows them better/perhaps more immediately in contexts other than their being VCs. Iba was his superior in the 11th, and Hinamori is his bff/classmate. (Or his douki, as Hitsugaya would say, LOL.) I don't know that there's any reason Renji and Matsumoto would know each other particularly well at this point, except that they're both loosely affiliated with Hisagi (though this is more true for Matsumoto in the anime and in omake paratexts than in the straight manga) and, having served under Ichimaru, Renji probably has some very vague sense of there being some connection to Matsumoto there.

I do think Renji and Matsumoto know each other socially, as two of the few extroverts in all of Soul Society. (Sidebar: Renji speaks politely but still casually to Matsumoto.) But I would be willing to believe that if that's the context in which one knows Matsumoto, she probably doesn't spend a lot of her downtime talking about work. Matsumoto is the work/life balance advocate the Gotei needs! I say this with acknowledgement that we definitely do hear Matsumoto canonically talk a lot about Hitsugaya in social contexts, whether complaining or disseminating random private information/photos, but I still feel like that's probably the exception rather than the rule--the exception we get to see because as the audience we don't care about the other stuff. (Well, we care. Here on Tumblr, the normal people website, where we definitely think about this series in a normal way.)

It's not like Renji doesn't know who Hitsugaya is, as a general person who exists in the world. Renji's friends with Hinamori, but Hinamori probably doesn't talk about him in a 10th-specific context, either. Renji's also not talking to Hinamori right at this moment, and I imagine it's hard to bring all these threads together on the fly when it's not something you really think about. Actually having out-of-context information about these people probably works against him for this, honestly.

Let's say we're Renji:

We're standing in a hallway with people we know in wildly different capacities. We're wearing our VC badge for the first time and it's all kind of official, but the information we've memorized about the Leadership Structure of the Gotei 13 is somewhat academic outside of divisions where we've had actual practical dealings, and isn't part of our fluent thought patterns and information recall.

Even as "which division are you!" is a normal thing to shout at some guy in the streets of the Living World, we haven't historically thought of Matsumoto as being attached to a division or a captain, because we've interacted with her superficially and socially far more often than the one or two times we have in a work context. If we gave ourselves enough time and were so inclined, sure, we could pull up our latent knowledge of the Leadership Structure of the Gotei 13 and superimpose that over Matsumoto and put together which division she was from and who her captain was.

Or we could just ask.

And once Iba answers, "Hitsugaya," we think, ohhhhhhh right right, of course.

Renji's line is あー例の天才児か.

例の (rei no) gives the phrase a sense of like, that thingy, the whatchacall. That 天才児 (tensaiji) one. (NB: 児 = child, which is information I would want to preserve in the line, since this detail will make it really obvious which captain we're talking about when they all show up in Chapter 81.) So I'd translate the line as, "Ahhhhh. That boy genius one."

Renji knows, he just doesn't necessarily actively know, if you know what I mean.

This matters and is interesting to me mostly for the mind mapping, and just thinking through what this world and information feels like to the characters themselves, rather than from our readerly POV. I THINK IT'S SO SEXY.

#bleach chapter 80 extended edition #matsumoto rangiku #abarai renji #bleach language #bleach headcanons #shinigamiology #bleach manga #bleach カラー #no brain just bleach

[ghostybane]

Bane's Opinions on MAMIYA DDD

Ok so I finally finished playing MAMIYA DDD and there is so much to unpack! I have been waiting for a year and now after reading through all of the events, I have gathered my resolve to talk about my opinions on it. I'll talk about Doomsday and Daydreams first before Mamiya and Natsume. DOOMSDAY I wanted to get Doomsday out of the way cause beforehand I did see some spoilers containing Minato's route and I wasn't too comfy about it (I hate Mayuri and Minato and tbh it was fucked up as it was). But I'll start off with Minato- and I know that doomsday crosses over with Haruki so some bits remain the same but it's easy to get through.

Minato: I liked reading Minato's route, It does focus on his identity as himself and as "Mina" and that it's about accepting himself, while also confronting Ni'igaki about his experience and that he won't run away from her and face her up front. He's become a much more stronger character and I really enjoyed it, I also did enjoy the part he meets with Yumehisa and Mina together. It was just really sweet and a wholesome moment. That was pretty memorable to me. I liked his character development a lot, he was the type to fall apart if no one could accept the way he is. Dressed up as a girl to continue acting the role of spreading happiness to everyone and even when he is exposed he runs away from it, but he faces it again when dealing Mayuri. Throughout the story, he finds himself, discovers "Mina" and learns to accept himself and face his fears and fight against Ni'igaki. It was a really strong and powerful arc for his character and I think it was a good choice. (I love and care for Minato so much you have no idea!!! But I am really happy with the ending and that I believe in him!) Haruki: It was straightforward but from his point of view. It was an enjoyable experience to go through his route as well. I like Haruki's character a lot, He's the rough looking character with a hard exterior but he's actually genuinely kind and soft. When he meets Touma again, he deals with his family issues and the reason why Haruki isn't able to love anyone cause of something he said in the past that made their family split apart. Though he learns to be more opened about himself and that he is capable of being loved by someone (Minato) and it improves himself as a character, where he takes control over his life and deals with things properly. He then was able to face Touma head on and settle things about their family problem. It genuinely was an enjoyable experience to read.

DREAMSDAY Ok so this is where lore of Keito comes in and an epilogue explaining MAMIYA's existence as well. It was straightforward and to the point, I still don't get how Keito is in the wrong timeline...but It is assumed he just ended up in 2012 cause the years were mixed together with 1999. Aside from that it was enjoyable, and holy fuck this route was more fucked up than I expected...

Ryou To be honest I was a lil confused with the whole Karma thing but it started making sense as the answers were given. The whole thing about Keito's death is so messed up, especially the fact they were making Ryou become MAMIYA was just insane. I love Keito so much that he wanted to protect Ryou at all costs and it was so sweet. It further developed that Ryou, who appeared in the timeline of 1999 wanted to be in a future together with Keito and he also went to save him as well and lead him back to his original timeline 2012 and see Keito alive (He is around 28 years old in the year 2012). Then up against Samejima they were interesting as both of them, tend to fall into their violent tendencies they fought it out to resolve their issue. It was a satisfying ending.

Keito I think Keito's lore was interesting although between the two timelines I'm not so sure which one is supposed to be canon Keito, aside from that. They don't entirely exist since he's perceived much more older after the Karma had been fixed. But anyways I like that it explains from his perspective before and after the Karma, I also did like that he was very close with Yumehisa and that for Keito to stay alive in this current timeline. That is how all the MAMIYA's (pink house) also disappeared. But it was very enjoyable to read his POV and I think it was pretty much the core to the story that leads to Side: Mamiya and Natsume's death.

then there is DOOMSDAYDREAM

I am a lil mixed with it but I think the way it ended was a lil satisfying enough, We had a lot of MAMIYA and Yumehisa lore and it was good for the story! But I sort of wished there was more for Natsume, reason why he was looking for MAMIYA. Why he died in the forest, and I kinda wanted to see baby Natsume...It would be nice if we had more backstory abt the way he perceived the world through his eyes, but all it did was get straight to the point. Let Yumehisa take over Natsume's work and Natsume proceeds to sacrifice himself for the sake of saving his friends and granting them a happy ending. It also didn't go in depth about his death at all, which I thought was the main point but oh well....we get a simple answer and that was he died because of a heart failure.

It was left with a cliff hanger as Yumehisa becomes a spectator and directs Natsume's story to a happy ending. I do also wonder if he may die at the end as well but...man...I didn't feel satisfied cause it was left for the audience to assume that Yumehisa will grant them all happy endings. AND THEN THERE IS EX- And tbh Idk what I was expecting...I thought it was gonna be important to the main story but no- it was a just a WHAT IF and Idk....I was really confused with the way it was supposed to go. All I understood was that Natsume snapped because of Yumehisa, he killed all of his friends and he had nothing. All he wanted was revenge and basically he just becomes a villain and kills off everyone, it's just so out of character. (Someone could you explain what the fuck EX was supposed to mean- but it wasn't that important so I discard that)

that is all of my opinions of the routes of Mamiya! They were heavily spoilery so I don't want to add in the tags. But I loved reading through DDD and it was nice, I feel a lil empty though after the finale but I assume that Yumehisa was able to fulfill Natsume's wish and set things right. Thank you for reading this long ass blog hahah!

[missingmayuri]

Love Stronger Than Steel

A Victorian Era KenMayu Fic

Inspired by this wonderful art by @criminal-sen

Mayuri wandered through his garden of roses, displayed around beautiful sculpted hedges and oak trees. His heels clinked on the floor, tailcoat swaying in the wind with every step he took as he fans himself to cool down from the intense summer heat.

He sighs deeply and thoughtfully, twirling his free hand through the white wig that sat atop his long and luxurious blue hair.

His heart had been forlorn for some time, wandering in a deep dark prison and unable to tell if his love was even reciprocated or being led down into a deep dark dungeon of pain and misery. Mayuri Kurotsuchi, nobleman of the twelfth company was for once lost in his own thoughts.

It had been fourteen moons since he met the blacksmith and his partner baker, a young girl with a passion for sweets. Both were incredibly care free, not really taking their jobs or lives seriously. Originally he thought the behaviour of both parties childish and immature, far beneath a wealthy noble like him. Yet he found himself coming back.

First once every seven moons, then every four and now every two, his heart skipping in his chest each time he layed eyes on the glistening tanned skin of blacksmith Zaraki at work.

He couldn't keep his golden eyes off the fire the larger man worked with, how it made him shine in the dim room he worked in. He couldn't stop looking at the way Zaraki pounded the metal into shape, the hammer in his worn hands insanely powerful behind the might of his muscles. At first Mayuri thought it a mere interest in the craft, a appreciation for the amount of care the larger man seemed to have despite his laid back nature but as of late he found himself closing his eyes at night, mind drifting to the man below his station and wondering if there was more to this feeling then he first thought.

Pondering the thought again had Mayuri stopping in his tracks, looking up to the clouds. It was a glorious day, warm and dry enough for a walk into town. Judging the weather from the clouds was always unpredictable and usually ill advised so he decided it best to take his umbrella for shade regardless, his wig being far too expensive to replace if soiled by sudden rainwater.

He walks to the large silver gates in front of his home with a sudden heavy chest that he was sure wasn't caused by the tight corset he was wearing, grabbing an umbrella as he passed by the front of his home. He wouldn't tell anyone he was leaving today, most other nobles of the other companies mocking him for his repeated visits to the man he wondered if his heart longed for. It had become a rather unpleasant exchange most days, all commenting on his repeated trips. All apart from Shinji Hirako.

Shinji was a nobleman such as he but one more accepting then the rest, once giving the twelfth noble a bunch of expensive lavender to give to Zaraki as a gift. He ended up not accepting though, at that point still in denial and not wanting to offend the blacksmith. Maybe this whole time Shinji knew Mayuri's heart more then he did himself.

He continued to walk through the cobble lined streets of the Soul Society, passing by rows of oil lamps and covered by the shade of his umbrella.

The walk seemed longer left alone with his thoughts but deep down Mayuri knew he needed to sort his affairs, even if he was seen as off one's chump for doing so. He just had to know.

He had to.

Mayuri passed by many building before he reached the town on the Soul Society's outskirts, accompanied still by the familiar clanking of his heels. These buildings were more run down. Not falling apart but smaller and less kept then his mansion and every building he lived around and had come to know in his everyday. At this point he knew each one by the crack in the stone, able to find the blacksmith and baker with ease as he enters without a smile and a worried lower brow.

The bell rings, causing Zaraki to turn and face the noble with a painted face.

"Hey Mr Kurotsuchi. That time for ya to visit me again?"

Mayuri doesn't answer, putting down his umbrella to avoid superstition and looking over the beautifully crafted swords. He was cursing himself in his mind, not thinking this far ahead. Mayuri was a genius commander, never had his troops failed thanks to his strategy and brilliant mind yet right now he found himself stuck on how to proceed, damming the beautiful sweaty man in front of him for clouding both is judgement, assessment and thoughts on the situation. He contemplated leaving, fanning himself to look busy as every possible scenario and option ran through his mind, a scowl on those dark lips of his.

"Oh. My work not to ya liking?"

Snapping from his thoughts quickly Mayuri looks over to Zaraki, slight redness to the white part of his painted face.

"No no sir. Your wares are fine, blinding even"

The comment has Zaraki suddenly smirking, leaning against the wooden table as the apron that laid over his shirtless torso caused Mayuri to cover his rapidly heating cheeks with his fan.

"Say. How about ya help me with this order for horseshoes I got this morn?"

"Why would I..?"

"Unless it's beneath you"

Feeling a bubbling anger deep in his core at the insinuation has Mayuri throwing down the fan and removing his tailcoat, the emotion clearly visible all over his face and in his eyes.

"How dare you?! Nothing is beneath me!"

Making his way past Zaraki and to the steel table has Mayuri finding his words spoke louder then his actions, not knowing what he even had to do. His hands shook in frustration, knowing how stupid he looked to the blacksmith and wondering if his brashness tarnished his image.

Zaraki lets out an amused hearty laugh that echoed off the stone walls, coming to stand behind the smaller man and grabbing his hands from around his waist. Mayuri was stunned, unable to move and letting the blacksmith have complete control.

"Like this"

The towering worker hovers the smaller and softer hands over the tools, picking up a dainty hammer as together they begin to straighten out the metal of the shoes.

The feeling was there again in Mayuri's chest and it was definitely not his corset. He couldn't breathe but it was pleasant. He knew he wasn't going to keel over but it was a thrill that had him gasping for breath a couple times as Zaraki leans his head on his shoulder and close to his neck to be closer to his work.

The tightening in the nobleman's chest was getting far too much, unable to hold things back any longer, turning to the man behind him and kissing him deeply without so much as a thought, almost like being on autopilot. Hands ran down the back of Zaraki's apron while the larger hands gravitated to Mayuri's slender hips. Even if they wanted to part they couldn't, closing their eyes and falling onto the floor as things quickly became more intense.

This felt right and despite his reservations and the difference in class Mayuri, for once in his life, was content and happy and as hands wandered over bodies he found himself smiling genuinely for the first time in years.

Thank you Sen for your amazing art and inspiring this story 💖

#missfics #kenmayu #bleach mayuri #bleach #mayuri kurotsuchi #bleach oneshot #zaraki kenpachi

[junko222]

TYBW Anime Ep. 3 vs the manga - SPOILERS

Bleach Twitter has been talking a lot about the pacing of the anime as opposed to the manga and the things that are being skipped.

Even though no one has asked for it, I want to lay out my own opinions on the matter in a forum that isn't limited to however many characters.

If you haven't read the manga, you might want to ignore this post. I intend to talk about spoilers for the end.

So one of the things that happens in both the anime and the manga in this section/episode is that Kubo-sensei lays out his THEME for this entire arc.

As the very groovy Aizen look-alike explains, the answer to the question "Are we on the side of justice?" is very clearly: "No." This will likely end in subjugation--one side will dominate the other, by brute force, not because it's just or right

Later on the same page/in the same scene, prayer bead wearing Aizen look-alike explains that wars only happen because both sides are right (and by implication also both wrong.)

Thus, what bothers me about the missing scenes, namely the lieutenant's meeting, is that one of the things that's revealed there is that Shinigami killed civilians to maintain the "Balance."

In the anime, Mayuri explains it to Yamamoto, but we don't see the evidence laid out in the same way--and that takes some power away. This is kind of a moment that could be read with a certain amount of horror because these civilians were not only unarmed, but also BAREFOOT. These were the poorest of the poor and an armed garrison of trained Shinigami literally rounded them up and slaughtered them on the orders of a 12th Division captain who has the authority to do so without the express permission of the Captain-Commander.

This is a moment.

A big one.

It's a moment where we see the cracks in the foundation of the Soul Society as "good guys." (Arguments can be made that they showed these cracks earlier, but this is the first time Kubo-sensei is being this blatant with his dystopia. He sets out the lieutenant's meeting and then literally allows a character to say, "hey, if we did genocide before, are we the good guys??" and have the answer be explicitly, "mmm, no, not really, but neither are the Quincy.")

So, I was excited when we seem to start to get more Ishida (younger and elder) on screen in the anime. I was very hopeful that we might see some of the Quincy side of the story, which was very much missing from the manga. Like, as the manga readers know, Ishida (younger) appears to join this side and one presumes there is a compelling reason for that, though we only know vagaries about what happened 200 years ago when the Quincy failed to meet the Shinigami demands and the Shinigami wiped them out almost to a man.

This is not being hit very hard in the anime.

More time was spent in the anime watching Juha Bach/Yhwach being a creep to his underlings which just makes the Quincy seem as insane as their master/king. Likewise, we got almost every blow by blow of Ichigo's fight with Nazi-haircut Quincy, which again, only serves to make the Quincy seem insane rather than justified in their anguish... which really they should be. (See Mayuri and Ishida fight in the rescue arc, where Mayuri explicitly states that he's not interested in this so-called last Quincy because he's already had his fill of torturing them and extracting information about them due to this last war.)

I'm glad they gave Ishida more screen time, but most of it was useless. Like, honestly, a flashback to the Mayuri fight would have been more powerful, IMHO, and requires no extra writing/drawing. Ishida's hunting for information about the Quincy's past and then us, the viewers, only getting the voice over of the exact same information that groovy Aizen-look-alike gives didn't feel worth the animation hours. Perhaps, you're thinking, but, Junko, they can't just make stuff up! Yeah, they can. Kubo-sensei is consulting, That means they're paying to put his name on the screen, as having approved of this whole thing. They could have asked him to write three sentences for Ishida to have read that fit whatever his vision is for the Quincy side of the story.

And again, I wouldn't harp on this, but this is literally the episode that SETS UP THE ENDING. Like it or not, Kubo-sensei told us he was going to end on a downbeat, with the Quincy subjugated and destroyed and no sense of justice. It's right here. IN THIS EPISODE. We should see the horror on the faces of the Shinigami who are suddenly made aware that they are complicit in not only genocide of the their hated enemy the Quincies, but also of the people they ostensibly protect in the Rukongai.

THAT would underscore the idea that there is no justice in war. Both sides has war crimes to answer for. We've seen Juha being crazy, we need to see the dark underbelly of the Soul Society.

And let me be clear. Kubo did not do this perfectly in the manga. Anyone who knows me knows that I had a LOT of problems with how this arc played out in the end. I had been hoping, however, that the anime could have been an opportunity to condense some of the endless fight scenes and give this story the backbone that Kubo laid down, but never built up.

Alas.

Also, am sad we never got grumpy (or thinking face??) Renji at Sasakibe's funeral.

Also, they skipped on the usual Kubo signature post-death scene where we learn about Sasakibe, his fierce loyalty to Yamamoto, and how he used bankai for the first time in battle only to die.

So, if you love Bleach for these kinds of character moments, the anime seems to be skipping them in favor of the protracted battle scenes, which... I mean, I love fighting anime? I would be lying if I said I wouldn't be happy with an entire 52 episode run of Ichigo just yelling "bankai" and "Getsuga Tensho" over and over!! So, I mean, I don't HATE the anime by any stretch. I'm just a fan fic writer who loves Kubo-sensei for his liminal spaces, his in-between moments.

And so far the anime is light on those.

I'm still deeply pleased to see it happening at all, however.

#Bleach #anime #anime vs manga #manga #tybw spoilers #bleach tybw #tybw arc #spoilers

[nowen422]

Nowen talkin bout bleach

BLEACH TYBW EP 24: What to do When the Abyss Blinks at You

(or, I CALLED IT SUCKAAAS!!!)

Alright folks. In the first five minutes we get a bricks worth of lore thrown at our heads, we then get a return of a character who actually is a big deal (kind of), and we get a good look at the skills and abilities of the zero division.

Overall I kept repeating one phrase through the episode. OH SH**!! Absolutely insane episode. The fight hype is real and we are going to see something cool (I hope). It’s just funny that I mentioned power scaling last week because it is going to come into play today and next week.

And yes, that ice cold son of a eyeball gun blinked this week. He blinked 5 times (yes I counted and watched it twice to be sure.) He blinks when he’s about to do something bad. Like murder, or lying, or even taking the eyes from a tiny god

Shinigami deaths: 16

Quincy deaths: 16

(Leave it to the zero division to tie up the game)

Spoilers below

Things I liked:

The whole intro that just completely explained where The Soul King’s hand came from, how Ywach made the decision to invade 1000 years ago (ngl he was probably gonna do it anyway), and what happened to the eyes he inherited from his dad. Needless to say, utterly amazing.

Ganju! I completely forgot you were in this! It makes sense, though that he’s going to the Royal Palace, considering that he is part of one of the noble families, but I don’t think that’s going to come up until way later.

Mayuri being so butthurt about Kisuke and his rocket. Man is the DEFINITION of petty

The shot of the frontline Invasion forces little broken circle. Clever work!

I’m sure it was just a testing tactic, but did Haschwalth really just drop some soldat and expect them to not get killed? Clearly he was using them as Guinea pigs, but still.

Senjumaru is so coldly polite, showing etiquette and courtesy when needed but with no sincerity. And then immediately murdering in the most cold-blooded way. This woman has it going on.

Nyanzol looks so baked goofy but still maintains menace. Great balance by the voice actor.

The Quincy royal guard look menacing as hell and are wonderful. Each of them get their own bullet point. starting with Askin! He is such a goofy fella, easily the one people will love later on

Gerard sounds exactly like I’d expect. Bombastic as heck and as murderous as a razor sharp knife

Lille exhudes arrogance and superiority, and his gun and shooting look great.

Pernida is scary as fuck. Plain and simple. Did you see what he did to that one guy with a look? I am not looking forward to hearing him talk.

Senjumaru addressing Pernida, and his silent words are just peak set ups for his reveal. 

God, I love Nimaya. He’s the perfect blend of goofball and monster that I like. Also, he laid out every single one of the Quincy royal guard before anybody else could lift a finger. 

The way Nimaya clowns on Lille is peak. Love it so much. 

The sound that Sayafushi makes as it cuts is interesting. It kind of sounds like a single second of the hum of a vibrating blade. Which makes sense considering that it’s so sharp that it cuts through anything it touches and is most likely cutting straight through the air molecules to make that sound

 The way Sayafushi ends up in Pernida’s head is so sudden I stopped breathing on the first watch. God I love this fight.

Last thing about Nimaya, his broken English is so fun that it completely circles around to grating and then right back to fun

Everybody knows that Ichibe is a killer. Compared to Yamamoto and Unohana, their kills are just playground fights compared to the stuff he’s done. There is a reason I bold the man’s name, and it is because he is the scariest being to ever exist.

Things I didn’t like:

Minor thing. random Quincy girl, kudos on the bravery of attacking the scariest person in existence btw, shot bullets. Granted they were Quincy bullets, but if this was 1000 years ago does that mean that the Quincy invented guns? Or is it like just a fast cannon? Questions I have.

That after all of Senjumaru’s sick as hell moments, we don’t get to know more about her palace or her roll. Each of the squad zero members has something that contributed to soul society. Names, healing, zanpakuto, the uniform, and artificial souls/cooking. We get to know the about the other four, why not the fifth. 

Nyanzol’s toungues made me think he had pieces of deli meat hanging out of his mouth.

I don’t remember how Ywach escaped the cage beyond him throwing the medal, so I’m hoping they explain things next week beyond “I’m metabreaking”

This is not so much an issue with the anime, but rather with the story. For those of you who know, squad, zero loses this fight. And on top of that, they lose bad. And because of that people think that squad zero is not as strong as day are supposed to be.  the thing that I like about this is that this episode shows squad zero is exceptionally strong because of their unique abilities as well as skills. They just unfortunately went up against a mini God with the most nonsense powers ever conceived. And I know that next episode, there’s gonna be a bunch of people saying “oh man squad zero is so weak, how could they have lost?” I’m really hoping that things look good next week before the big L drops 

And that’s the episode. If we’re doing 13 episodes for this core, then we’ve got two more. It looks like one is going to be all about the squad zero fight, and the final most likely will be Ichigo and his friends arriving at the palace to find that things have not gone well. Still, it I won’t be all bad. After all, we’ll finally get to meet the Soul King! The guy who all the fuss is about 😁

Just don’t blame me if you throw up when you look at it

#Nowen talkin bout bleach #bleach #bleach tybw

[unohanadaydreams]

we need more of that good old 00s insanity back in fandom because there’s not enough fic about mayuri hooking reader up to a sex machine For Science

As the 00s were my shiny introductory years to fandom and Bleach in particular, I absolutely agree.

RIP to the brave soldiers who got their accounts torn down on Quizilla for daring to give the Mayuri filth we deserved. You are lost but not forgotten.

When he feels empowered (ie, make-up on, clothed how he prefers, and bathed in an aura of never having a romantic inclination in his life), he is all too happy to be a sexual freak. I think you could take one of these variables away and he would still feel comfortable enough.

It's about the control. The messy, on-the-fly deductions. The portrayed detachment. Even when he displays enjoyment, it's not because of you. It's because of the act. The machinery. The way he can guess how this or that will make you feel and be completely correct. You could be anyone--that part's important. But you’re a squirming body, which is important too.

Here are some disjointed thoughts/headcanons that are not family friendly and get dark:

I think he would enjoy machinery that displays the unique abilities shinigami have and can utilize to get off. He relishes in any sense of superiority he can grasp on to, after all.

They can use kido for temperature play, restriction, and sensory deprivation without the need for physical props. Spiritual pressure could also be used as a form of restriction, breath play, ect. (On that note, the wiki says there are fucking VENTS on shinigami’s wrists for their spiritual pressure. Built in clit stimulators isn’t fair but whatever.) And SP can be built into shapes so like, we mere mortals can’t compete. Yes you have to be advanced to do that but with great power comes great orgasms without needing toys, apparently.

Machinery wise, I think he would play with these abilities. Not strong enough to shape your own spiritual pressure? That’s fine! He has a machine that molds your released pressure into a numbered set of shapes. You can literally fuck yourself. And it’ll look pretty too since he has color changing settings. If your pressure is purple, well now it’s a pulsing rainbow! Like LED lights but organic.

Or a machine that absorbs a Kido and disperses it in a more controlled way over time. With adjustments that can be made for intensity and location.

I also think he would be a big fan of machinery that blurs the line of you and the equipment. He loves synthetic organics. He loves repurposing organic material until it’s a farce of life. He’ll have you hooked up until YOU can’t remember where you begin and the machine ends.

I think this would also apply to machinery where he could feel apart of it as well. Interconnected to his creation and you in a mesh of intimacy that looks unnatural but feels organic.

The scientific papers this man is putting out on innovation in shinigami power specific sexual exploration & the machines schematics he’s patenting and selling are absolutely helping bank roll the R&D.

Some noble requests a custom machine and your ass is being used to quality check the entire process. For Science of course.

Also, 100% he would have a machine helmed by a mod-Soul. Yes it’s unethical. Yes it’s sexy & appropriately mad scientist compliant.

On that thought I ABSOLUTELY think he would keep a copy of you (think ala Soma) tucked in a mod-soul capsule that he can put in a gigai or whatever he wants at will. I think he would be a huge fan of having you in a way that no one, not even you, are aware of. He can’t be vulnerable with the you that exists freely in the world. But he can with the you who only exists when and where he wills it. This makes the concept of a mod-soul controlled machine even sexier. You are the machine. And he’s under your control. Even while you’re fully under his.

Literally Mayuri and sex machines are such gold.

#I would let him put me in a pill #I mean if it’s ala Soma I wouldn’t even know but I would still let him y’know #You are so smart and right and this needed to be said

[hollowfyshunsuikubo]

Sins of the Mad

A/N: as promised, the long waited Mayuri fic. It's shorter than the last one, but much more filthy. I might derail from my plan because I have some epic Castlevania ideas (I LOVE Issac ok). Kept this one gn so all of you can enjoy a little slice of Mayuri

Mayuri Kurotsuchi x gn!reader (side of Akon x gn!reader)

Word count: 2.6k

Warnings: Heaping pile of smut, angst (if you can call it that), toxic relationship, babytrapping (kind of)

AU: None

Beta read? No

Such a pretty little thing.

You writhe so prettily beneath him, moaning “It's too much” It will never be too much. Not while he has his hands on your perfect body, his cock bullying your perfect, tight hole. He watches your back arch as you reach your peak again. He listens to your whines, and he acknowledges them.

Understanding, but only for you. Yet he doesn't stop. He slows, letting you pant and recover as he slowly thrusts into you. But when your eyes, glazed with lust, ask him a silent question before you can ever open your mouth, it begins again. After all, the night is young, and he won't stop until you struggle to move.

It's been days, after all, since he's even felt the ghost of your skin on his. He's been so, so busy… it's only natural he makes up for lost time. You're an insatiable thing.

Mayuri recalls the day he first saw you, a clear day, uninteresting. Akon mentioned something about new members of the division, but he ignored it. The lab needed to be tended to, as the rest of the fools couldn't be trusted with his newest experiment-

“L/n, this way. The Captain is fairly busy.” He turns his head at the mention of him, looking to glare at the newest fools who entered his division under false hopes.

Yet, When his gaze lands on you, it's as if he had found something. You were standing nzxt to your friend, who had called you in a whispered hiss as you marveled at the lab around you. Wide-eyed, robes perfect, hair neat… oh, it awakened something in him. Something so internally primal he was disgusted at how he likened you to a gazelle in the sights of a lion. In his minds eye, he could see you stripped down to flesh, marks left by his teeth and nails covering your skin, those pretty eyes welling with tears as he gently laid you down to wreck you for another man.

He turned away and kept walking. There was little time for lust. Especially when there were trials to run, his new experiment to document, his underlings to order, and Nemu to analyze. His daughter was next to Akon, her gaze as dead and analytical as always. He noticed her gaze fall onto you for a moment before drifting to the larger group. He grimaced, knowing he'd have to tweak Nemu’s memory when it came to his preferences. He did always like his tyrsts to be innocent and sweet, preferably virgins. It made seeing their reaction that much sweeter. But they never lasted long. Early mornings were for getting up, and for kicking out the little thing that had graced his spare bedrooms sheets for a few hours.

Once he was satisfied with his plans for the day, he entered the lab. Bothering to think about any of the new members of the division was folly, and a waste of his precious mind.

Truly, he didn't think about you until a month later, when he walked in on you on your knees before Akon.

Akon, his third seat, so missable if not for his semblance of competence. Akon, who had his hakama undone, his cock out, and a hand on the top of your head.

“That's it, doll. Breathe.” Mayuri knew Akon could be kind, but to this extent? Pathetic. The man was being too nice to you. Watching as you shyly took his cock into your mouth.

Mayuri was struck then by a thought that disgusted him.

He was jealous.

He, the most elegant and intelligent mind in the Gotei 13, jealous of a mere third seat. The captain watched intently as you struggled on such a small cock (smaller than Mayuri's, anyway), saliva forming around the corners of your mouth. What idiocy. If it were him. If he were in Akon's place. If it was he you were on your knees for, his cock would already be nestled deep in your pretty little throat. He would fuck your face full of his seed, making sure to paint your mouth white before he had you against the wall, your pretty little hole displayed for him, pulsing and eager for his attentions.

Akon tilted his head back as you began moving your head slowly. What a bore.

Once again, Mayuri turned away, quietly, so as to not disturb the filthy moment you were having. Usually he'd interrupt, make sure Akon knew his place. But it wouldn't hurt to have you with a little experience.

Oh yes. He had his sights set on you then. What a trifling whore, already consuming his patience after seeing you only twice. You must like men in power. Or, at the very least, thirst for cock like a parched man thirsts for water in the emptiness of Heuco Mundo.

The death of him was nigh, but only when he was slamming his cum into you as you screamed. Le petit mort, Oh yes. His little death, buried so sweetly inside you, you'd be able to feel him in your stomach. How much prettier you'd be, displayed in the lab as his more capable assistants took notes, Akon watching from the shadows, as Mayuri bred you into a perfect bitch. How he'd make sure none of them remembered it afterwards- except Akon.

Oh, Akon would remember. That slimy little wicked horned fool, stealing his prey from him. He would learn what it was to covet a sweet thing like you. His gentle gazelle.

The next time was the first time you officially met.

“Captain Kurotsuchi, it's a pleasure to meet you.” Oh, your brilliant smile, so bashful, so unaware he'd already made you a perfect fuck machine to pound your little hole into submission while he watched. He imagined you strapped to a special table, legs spread, eyes rolling, his newest machine wrecking you before his eyes. He would make a feast out of you, making sure to nestle himself deep just when you couldn't take it anymore. He'd be sure to fuck you so full of his seed, a gift not many had the pleasure of receiving, to the point it flowed from you as a water flows from a waterfall. He grinned.

“A pleasure indeed. You are Y/n L/n, correct?” Silky smooth, a glance at you to only lure you in. A nice patch of tall grass where the lion awaits. Akon, who was standing at a computer desk, glanced over.

Mayuri knew it was uncharacteristic of him to recall the name of someone he's never met before. The Captain saw the look of fear flash across Akon's face before the third seat returned to his duty. Bless. Mayuri watched you smile bashfully. How pretty your lips looked. If only he could get the image of them wrapped around Akon's cock out of his mind.

“Yes! That's me. I was hoping to meet you, but we were told not exepxt much.” Your voice, so sweet. How enticing it is. How exciting it was to think about hearing it squeal and moan.

“Ah, come now. I am your Captain. It is my duty to welcome all new members of my division, after all. Consider this a belated, but no less heartfelt, welcoming.”

Heartfelt. He paused in his strokes for a moment, looking down at you. Your chest was heaving, and you weakly opened your eyes. You reached up to place a hand on his cheek, your thumb stroking his cheekbone.

Heartfelt. His heart was in it now, a fools doom. How demeaning and disgraceful it felt, to be at the mercy of his heart. But oh, how he craved you. How he felt the need for your appreciation and yours alone. No more would he entertain some mewling twink or soppy deluded girl, for he had you. He gently turned his head to kiss your palm. He appreciated how you felt the need to comfort him. It seemed even his mind wasn't as disgusted towards what his heart beat for as he thought.

He broke contact with your hand and folded your knees to your chest, driving so deeply into you that it caused you to choke slightly. He resumed his loving abuse of you as he continually recalled the past, turning over every angle with precision and detail as he made rough love to your body in the present.

He recalled the first time he called you into the lab after hours, the two of you alone. Such lies he told then, such things whispered to manipulate you to his side. Thinking about them hurt. He has wounded his poor gazelle, and you would never know. He could only apologize with each slam of his hips, and each soft kiss he laid upon you after the deed was done.

You walked into the lab, adorably sleepy. His first time seeing you like that. He would learn to cherish it, but only in time.

At that moment, he felt a little annoyed. You weren't already waiting for his call? Pathetic. He felt pathetic. Countless late nights bottling his own seed each time he thought of you and brought himself to blissful completion, dying a thousand times to quell his incessant need for your sloppy tongue wrapped around his hard cock. He watched you, and you met his gaze.

“You needed me, Captain?” You asked softly, tiredly. Yes, it was late, wasn't it? Perhaps he should have let you get some sleep. Being up this late may decrease your productivity tomorrow…

“Indeed. Come here, I wish you to see something.” He dismissed the thought as he beckoned you over with a single finger. You obeyed, so obedient to his every whim. Were you the same in bed? He guided your gaze to a screen, where data inputs had been typed.

"See these? These are done poorly. For the trained eye, there is little promise. But promise nonetheless.” He watched your face. Your eyebrows creased for a moment before you found the compliment. So adorably stupid. At least you did good tables. They weren't even that bad. Nearly perfect, but he had to lie. He had to crush you, as a hunter does his prey. How could he not? Your weakest state was vulnerable.

“Ah. Thank you, Captain. I'll do my best to learn the proper way to do it.” Your voice again. Something so sweet, so innocent. Hard to think your syrup tongue ones pleasured Akon. Maybe you'd done so countless times. Maybe you'd even spread your legs for him too, taking away the sweetness that lay between that was only meant for Mayuri. So the Captain laughed.

“Nonsense, you'll learn now. I shall guide you, and you are grateful to learn.” Mayuri felt Ashisogi Jizo quiver from his small chuckle. Then he touched you first the first time, and it felt like he'd finally sunk his teeth into your smooth skin. He guided your hand to the keyboard and forcibly, but gently, made you type up a new table.For the next two hours, he would guide you. And you were grateful. At the end, the night was nearly spent through. Your gaze, still tired, but slightly brighter with adoration, looked at him. So unaware of all the lies he'd told you.

“You're doing it wrong.”

“Such a fool, to know you picked this division instead of the 11th…”

“That was worse.”

“Truly, how do you expect to gain my appreciation or my praise if you do it like that?”

Far, far too many lies. Oh how he craved the taste of your sweat and blood on his tongue. How he craved your form writhing on his marvelous contraption he'd made for you, craved for your form writhing in his sheets. He craved to see the look on Akons face as Mayuri was balls deep inside of you, pumping your hole with a generous amount of his seed.

“Thank you, sir. I am extremely grateful.” Your reply warmed his loins further. One day, he'd do it all. When his lips parted in a smile, he could tell he'd done well with the nights efforts.

“Of course you are. You need me, after all. I am your Captain, equal only to a God. You crave what I can give you.”

Your screaming in the present jolted him back to reality. He watched your hands grip the sheets as an orgasm washed over you. He felt his own approach at how tightly you clamped down on his cock. So beautiful. So primal. He was no God. He was above that. Yet none of it mattered when you were with him. His beloved. His own gorgeous thing, the only one he lets distract him from his work. The one who he lets sleep in his lap, the one he goes on walks with when he has the time. The one he loves and adores and will never let go of. The one he fancies as the other parent of Nemu, despite her having none of your DNA. Mayuri can change that. He will change that, in fact. Nemu could do with a little of your moodiness, your ability to switch from one emotion to the other. It would be better for her combat abilities, distractions and all.

There's no other reason for him to include your precious DNA into his star experiment, after all.

Except for the love he has for you.

The man grunts as he feels his balls tighten. He squeezes your thighs as he looks down at you, his golden eyes flashing in the dim light.

“Take it all and be grateful, my little cumslut.”

His voice is raspy, more desperate than normal, and incredibly strained. Your moan in response, the closest thing you can get to a yes, sir, is what sends him over the edge.

“You need me, after all.”

His first manipulation, of countless to come before he made you his, and he filled you with his seed.

He sloppily thrust into you a few more times before stopping, panting. He watched you, just watched you, as he let go of your thighs. You lowered them, your body shaking slightly. He saw the tear tracks running down your face, the saliva gathered at the corners of your mouth, and the way your lips were slightly swollen.

And yet you looked at him with such love, he was struck with a guilt that could only be born from live. Keeping his dick buried inside you, he leaned down, pressing his chest to yous, and met your lips in a kiss. He could only apologise like this. If he ever told you, you'd leave him. Mayuri couldn't have that. If you left him, he'd depend into madness fully. The loss of a ships anchor left it adrift. The loss of a lions mate sends him into a rage.

Your lips parted, his gaze boring into yours with the fury of a thousand tiny sun's over the savanna.

“You're mine. Mine alone. Understand?” Ragged and soft, that was how you left him. Heartfelt with each word, his and his alone. In this moment, there was no past with Akon, no past with his own ex-lovers, just the two of you, sweating and barely able to move, in the present.

“Yes. Yours.” Oh, your sweet, broken whisper. Your shaky hands as they cupped his face. The gentle kiss you pressed to his forehead.

He would leave you like this so you would stay. Reeling you in on a line so tight that would kill both of you if you chose to leave. His pride was staked on your love, just as much as it was staked on his unrivaled intelligence.

How he loved you, despite the guilt wrecking his unwavering heart. Silence was a virtue, and he would always be silent when it came to what he did to have you beside him.

#mayuri kurotsuchi x reader #mayuri x reader #bleach #x reader #mayuri kurotsuchi #mayuri being tamed #mayuri being insane #Innocent reader #good lord #yn #bleach x reader

[fawnatrix]

Captain Kurotsuchi Nemuri Stuff

I have many ideas for Nemu surviving the fight against Pernida instead of Mayuri, and becoming Captain of the Twelfth Division. That’s my ideal world. Putting a Keep Reading tab here cause this gets kind of long.

I think the TYBW arc has this general theme of ‘letting the younger folk take the reins’ and in that regard I think Nemu surviving instead of Mayuri would make sense. Mayuri would die helping take down Pernida and all of his fans would get their annoying ‘he redeemed himself in the end so he’s actually not that bad a person’ bragging rights, and Nemu would survive to take over the Twelfth Division. The way God intended.

She gets her zanpakutō!!!

I am following @zanguntsu’s sword idea pretty to-the-letter because I really like it. This next part is assuming that you’ve seen their post about it, so if you haven’t, go skim that- this next part will make more sense. If I had to think of a name, maybe Harihana (玻璃花) would work (although I do also like Hanahōsho (花宝珠), the original name). Hari (玻璃) meaning ‘glass/quartz/crystal’ because glass and quartz can both magnify things, and it matches the original crystal naming. Hana (花) meaning ‘flower’ 

If I had to pick a specific flower for Nemu’s sword to be based on, I’d probably go with a water lily/lotus flower (they are different flowers, but their symbolism is often kind of just lumped together). Not only because they are very pretty but because they represent a lot of things I associate with Nemu in this AU

The roots of water lilies grow in the mud of mucky, shallow water, and they rise to grow beautiful flowers above the water. It rises above the filth and becomes something beautiful in spite of it- that’s why it represents enlightenment and rebirth in Buddhism. 

Adding onto that, I remembered this post by @littleeyesofpallas and how phonetically Nemu and Mayuri’s surname means something akin to ‘black soil’ or ‘black mud/sludge’ and I was like “Yeah, that’s on the nose enough to work” and ran with it. 

Water lilies are also poisonous! I could make a point like ‘they’re very dangerous despite their beauty, connections to Mayuri, a poisonous relative, etc, etc’ but honestly I only added this because I realized that water lilies and Nemu share something physically in common: terrible things happen when you try to eat them.

Honestly I really like the idea of Nemu having an especially beautiful zanpakutō. Not only because crystalline flowers sound very pretty to look at (you could go ham with those glittery shine/lens flare effects), because it contrasts her ugly/creepy father and his zanpakutō, and because she deserves to have pretty things to represent her beautiful soul, but also because I think it just,,, fits her.

Up until now being pretty has been one of Nemu’s defining character traits- and one of the character traits that, unlike some of her initial, more emotive characterization, has stayed consistent- and not in an intentional way; Kubo uses her for gross fanservice because she happens to be pretty. She’s not pretty for a reason, she just. Is pretty. But also: Nemu is one of the strongest characters in Bleach. I’m just gonna say it. Hot take: Nemu could kick Zaraki’s ass. She destroyed Pernida who’d adapted to Zaraki’s level using 0.6% of her physical power- she’s insanely overpowered and that’s probably what contributed to Kubo’s decision to kill her off. So Nemu’s zanpakutō having a very pretty and delicate exterior while being able to kick ass/have a busted ability (because the ability to magnify things is very handy) is fitting, I think.

Also I love the growth theme in her zanpakutō via magnifying things (which, if I may say, sounds very in character for Nemu to have. Being able to magnify things is very nice but also sounds kind of nerdy, which I think fits Nemu being a little science nerd). Nemu’s ‘growth’ theme in the manga had potential but Kubo didn’t do anything with it until he needed her to die saving his favourite character. Which is bullshit. Nemu’s growth shouldn’t have been learning how to disobey her father to save his life, it should’ve been learning to disobey her father and become her own person- not some scientific accomplishment of her father’s. Her growth should’ve been for her, not to prove that Mayuri created something that could grow.

Obviously the story ended with the TYBW arc so we wouldn’t have gotten to see it unless she got to be in a light novel or something (which, yes, I absolutely would’ve paid money for. Missed a capitalism opportunity there, Kubo), but I think Nemu’s character development after Mayuri’s death would’ve been really interesting. A few things that could be developed/questions that could be explored:

How does one continue to live for themself after losing the only thing they developed their entire existence around? 

How much life experience does Nemu even have? Did living with Mayuri her entire life, seemingly very isolated and sheltered, affect her ability to function on her own in any way? Does Nemu understand what a 401k is?

How does one go about building self-esteem after years of non-stop psychological and physical abuse while also grieving said abuser? (Because I do believe that Nemu would grieve Mayuri. Relationships are complicated, man). 

Would Nemu even be open to the idea of discovering more about herself at first, or has Mayuri’s treatment of her stunted her introspection in some way?

When and how does Nemu come to the realization that the way Mayuri treated her for her entire life was wrong? Or has she always known and was just trapped, wanting to help herself but feeling unable to? (Honestly I could see a comparison between Momo and Aizen and Nemu and Mayuri here). 

Who would Nemu reach out to for emotional support- or rather, who would try and connect to Nemu now that Mayuri is gone?

Way more questions raised and interesting characterization to explore than what Mayuri got after Nemu’s death (which, I’ll be honest, I did really like the scene where he hallucinated Szayelaporro as a manifestation of his grief. Kinda fucked severely, but still-).

Nemu really strikes me as someone who loves learning and experiencing new things, so I imagine her trying to learn about how to use her zanpakutō and use kaidō and get better at kidō while also not sacrificing her hakuda abilities because they’re such an integral part of her fighting style at this point. She wants to learn it all.

She could also just use both, like Suì-Fēng does. 

SHE COULD LEARN SHUNKŌ

Nemu could go to Ukitake (who’s retired, because I cannot in good conscious write this man as dead even in an AU that doesn’t involve him at all), or Nanao and Momo (cause they’re girlfriends,,,) and learn kidō so she can ask Suì-Fēng to teach her Shunkō. We love to see girlbosses helping girlbosses.

Between Shunkō, her zanpakutō, Gikon Jūrinjū, her limit-breaker ability, her insane physical capabilities, and her unstoppable growth, Nemu has the potential to be like. Just the strongest person. And I love that for her so much, she deserves it all.

That’s kind of all I’ve got for now. Nemu brainrot possessed my mortal coil once again and I infodumped into a Google Doc until I got tired.

#everyone go look at zanguntsu's nemu stuff too. very important context. they're doing gods work #i love nemu so much she is my everything #she should've survived and i will die on this hill #bleach #kurotsuchi nemu

[bleachbleachbleach]

Clenching my entire head to not laugh at the thought of the captains in a group zoom call rn. Shunsui definitely forgets he’s not on mute and starts loudly singing when he’s in the kitchen. Mayuri’s feed is insanely clear with zero lag because he somehow figured out how to obtain 80g wifi speeds. Rose keeps pointedly fixing his hair when others are speaking and gets a three-strike warning before he’s kicked out. Yoruichi walks on Soi-fon’s keyboard. It’s all going off.

I think this is an effect of usually being the one running the meeting, so even when I'm not, I'm a camera-on, just-sitting-there kind of Zoom attendee. So it is always wild to me what other people get up to. XD A few weekends ago I was in a meeting where MULTIPLE people were baking pies, both on and off camera. And this wasn't a casual meeting! So, yes, absolutely all of those things ^^^^ are true.

Soi Fon hates Zoom, even new-and-improved, better-encrypted Zoom, because all the computers in the 2nd are running so much encryption software Zoom always tells her her "connection is unstable" because the system is so bogged down. Sad when you consider that some Onmitsukidou agent is being dispensed of, handwritten notes stolen from him, roughly every 15 minutes. There are no secrets in the Seireitei.

Well, there very much are. But none of them are kept by the Onmitsukidou, lol.

Byakuya, frankly, is very much annoyed that anyone would expect him to attend a meeting via Zoom while he is on other business. The main reason he slashes his tendons in Hueco Mundo in the battle against Zommari is to provide an excuse for why he could not log into Zoom, much less complete the two-factor authentification triggered by "logging into his account from an unrecognized location."

#asks #soi fon #kuchiki byakuya

[missingmayuri]

Things as a Mayuri cosplayer I couldn't believe I would ever say

Seriously out of context some of the stuff you say when in cosplay in general is so bizzare. Mayuri is no exception. My two favourites being..

I need a new ruler for my makeup

Hold on, gotta glue on my ear guards

You don't realise till you look back years later how if someone didn't know you they would think your just insane 😂

#mayuri kurotsuchi #cosplay #I think about this a lot #Seriously like the stuff you say while in cosplay just casual like is strange #My life is so strange #BUT I LOVE IT

[animedoragon]

A friend dragged me into the ENA verse, I became feral and, naturally, shoved it with my other favorite thing and made a new thing. Therefore here’s some ramblings about Bleach in a fever dream, some doodles and a wip just because I have no self control

TWs: glitch stuff, severe mental health issues because of course they’re fucked in the head, probably drugs

So first off I’m unsure if I want both gangs to meet but it would be an interesting interaction to see the broken mind that’s Ena causing havoc with Ichigo and his existential crisis, lost in that equally broken world

Since it is a dream world, I can see something going down with either Kisuke or Mayuri that puts someone of the gang in a trance and traps their minds there-- originally this comes from a game literally called LSD Dream Emulator, so, it wouldn’t be too much of a wild take if someone consumed forbidden substances and might go insane if they stay there for too long

Obviously hero Ichigo & co. kicks in, as always without measuring the kind of consequences this could have on everyone’s psyche after Kisuke/Mayuri’s warning of how this could be very, very bad for their brains if they’re not careful

Whoever thought they would arrive together to that collective fever dream was an idiot and obviously they’re all separated. I’m counting with Ichigo, Chad, Uryu, Orihime and maybe Rukia and Renji in this one btw

Nothing there makes sense and that immediately affects everyone. From Ichigo’s POV he realizes right away something’s wrong when he feels his mind split and his hollow/Shiro’s personality coming through very intensely

His thoughts also become really loud and he couldn’t help but have a mental breakdown when he finally found someone to talk to and ask for directions, all his fears and insecurities came through and he screamed and glitched without control. And then he was fine. Nothing happened here let’s move on

It takes him a bit to notice he had a breakdown at all and obviously no one else really minds nor bothers to point it out. He also notices he’s had some blackouts too when he felt in danger and starts to question if that was his hollow’s doing (yes it was)

He doesn’t know Shiro/his hollow is having bursts of rage and taking over whenever a chance arises, if Ichigo feels threatened or is scared for any reason, he will come out and he will commit the equivalent of murder in the fever dream. He’s also not aware his face changes when those happen: in a neutral state he has half of both, if Ichigo has a breakdown his face looks fully like his but crying very intensely and glitching, and if Shiro has an outburst it looks like his hollow mask with horns and with two mouths (he’s the one I’ve doodled the most lol)

It would be funny if he stumbled upon the four legged guard from Extinction Party and they deemed his threat level as extremely dangerous

Now the point where things really go wrong would be when he finally finds either one or all of his friends

None of them have full control of themselves in there and the longer they’ve stayed, the more it’s been chipping away at their sanity, so no one is fully awake by the time they meet and they all start saying things they mean but are not supposed to say

So it’s the first time Ichigo hears directly from them that they love him and he’s the best friend they could’ve ever asked for, but JESUSFUCKINGCHRIST ICHIGO WE LITERALLY CAN’T BEAR WITH THE STRESS OF THINKING YOU MIGHT DIE ONE OF THESE DAYS BECAUSE OF HOW OBSESSED YOU ARE WITH PROTECTING EVERYONE EXCEPT YOURSELF

They’re not mad at him, but the time they’ve spent in there has almost completely eliminated their filter and he’s finally seeing just how bad it’s been for them to be his friends

...which could also be mistaken for “look what being your friend has done to us”

They do call him selfish at certain points for unconsciously dragging everyone else to his fights (cue Chad and Ishida almost dying certain times, cue Rukia wanting to die but Ichigo not letting her, etc)

If they push Ichigo to his limit he might as well have his own outburst or breakdown in front of them and spit out some not nice thoughts he’s had about himself, or even about them. If it’s Shiro taking the front seat, he won’t hold back on screaming at them and telling them they’re the reason he’s had to revive Ichigo in the past or show up to save his ass, because they’re all too pathetic to protect themselves and need their hero to give up everything for them, even his own life

And that’s where I’m at rn. The point where they’re gonna very unhealthily yell at each other and release all the shit they’ve held back. Now I just gotta figure out how badly that’s going to affect them and if there’s any chance they can escape the fever dream at all after breaking each other like that

In case it’s not obvious I’m very excited to make everyone suffer <3

#Bleach #ena #lsd dream emulator #ichigo kurosaki #I have severe brainrot

[archvillain]

Kyouraku and Ukitake for the character bingo please! (btw I'm absolutely in love with your Mayuri art)

omg teehee thank you for looking at it -//w//-(\ lessgooooo

starting with the obvious:

they are so cool looking: kyoraku is hot, ok? he's just a handsome guy. he's got everything in the world going for him and i'd probably fall prey to his wiles... i do wish kubo would've made more outfits for him, though, he really looks good in everything

they work better as part of a dynamic: with ukitake, kyoraku is a wonderful character. i looooved the regai filler with the evil gay clones fighting closely in sync and checking in on each other constantly. that being said, while kyoraku can stand on his own as a character, i feel like he just does better with a straight man to riff off...

nothing i like about them is technically canon: ...which is why him letting ukitake slip through his fingers with little fanfare rubs me the wrong fucking way. i get it; kyoraku is a self-sabotaging pity party on two legs at the worst of times, & he's always scummy and a little sneaky, but damn, that would've been an excellent place for fanfare that just got passed up. -_- that was your husband, dude! you just let him die & go to hell! this would be a radically different anime if he was the main character. it'd be a LOT gayer

they are a horrible person: kyoraku's vibes are rancid, almost as bad as isshin's (but not quite). the way he seamlessly blends the trope of "embarrassingly drunk uncle who can chess you under the table" and "creep hitting on you at a bar" in a way that's somehow both charming and loveable... this guy gives me iroh vibes something fierce i wish his backup straight man waifu was not his FUCKING niece however!!! kubo's obsession with fucked up relationships makes bleach so so interesting but the way kyoraku treats her is downright insane. the way that she never even seems to know that he's her uncle... imagine finding out your scumbag man baby of a boss is actually your BLOOD RELATIVE. EUGH

(a lot of this creep factor comes from the extra-canon omake collection from color bleach. the anime goes lighter on it! which is funny, because the anime's filler is MORE incesty with diff characters than the manga in places...)

they're like a blorbo to me: ....i still wuv him tho <3 i hemmed and haw'd about "deeper than they seem" and "not as deep as they seem" but i think all his depth is basically canon text. his depth is actually something i love about him

(climbs up the side of my soapbox with a knife in my teeth) im coming for you jushiro ukitake you son of a BITCH--

they're cool looking: he is so pretty. just getting that out of the way

they got done DIRTY by fans/everybody but me is wrong about them <3: since ukitake is basically what i'd like to call the ambassador of the bastards, the nicest cop in the regime, the poster boy for good boy did nothing wrong. he gets a reputation for being a saint. and that is both in canon and fanon! there's a LOT of angel fluff on this boy, because being the best of the worst still has to count for something? right?

wow! they are a horrible person: AND THEN THERE'S KAIEN'S DEATH. the way that ukitake stakes honor over life, the way that he lets rukia burden herself with the sole ownership of his death to the point that she feels like she deserves death for it... this man is both doing the most and also never ever doing enough. he practically orders kaien's death in the most sinister flashback, and then is never held accountable, leaving rukia to hold herself accountable instead... not to mention the way that he insists on sheltering his underlings & being kind and respectful and honorable, while coexisting like ROYAL GRADE A FREAKS like MAYURI KUROTSUCHI, and seemingly never noticing the blood on the hands of the system he upholds!!!!

wasted potential: this makes him SO INTERESTING. i wish i could crack him open and read his bones like tea leaves. his flaws make him so much more interesting than the candy floss man he tries to present himself as, but then he dies in a really predictable and unhelpful way, which is absolutely fucking tragic, but it doesn't really go anywhere.... gah!!! i have high hopes for this to change in the hell arc, but not... that high

not as deep as they seem/they got too much screen time: in spite of all of this deliciously interesting flawed material sitting seemingly just beneath the surface, ukitake then goes on to become Nice Guy: The Husband for a lot of his appearances. it's like the royal court guard squads are introduced as villains and then becomes the protag cast, and their war crimes are just like... funny. cute. the murders were justified in fact ect. kubo loves the deaths actually. i'm starting to sound like a broken record here: the first arc of the gotei is heinously interesting, but after that bleach loses a lot of steam in general. the blorboification of the gotei did almost every one of them a massive disservice to their complexity, as bleach moved from a story to a serialized performance. i know a lot of this is in fact the pressure of kubo's studio's fault, but it still is tragic

i'm mentally ill about them: ^^^^

they're like a blorbo to me: in spite of all of this i really do like him. he's cute. i like watching him do things on screen even if his flaws got lost in the gotei's move from "flawed military institution we must fight" to "it's fine they were just a little confused we love them now!!". like, what was THAT about

#spoilers for: bleach #i maybe came off as really critical of these two but they are in fact my little guys. little gay guys. i care them really i do