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mikansei · 1 year ago

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the frustrating part of writing a canonical genius is that i myself am not a genius, and to make some of kisuke's science-speak believable i find myself stumbling thru wikipedia articles on particle physics like a bull in a china shop

the fun part of writing a canonical genius is that technically i can make kisuke say little bastard words like "dark matter and dark energy are just reishi and reiryoku" anyway, b/c bleach worldbuilding is like 'whose line': the magic's made up so the physics don't matter

#my notes doc is full to bursting of magiscience bullshitting (affectionate) even if 90% of it isn't going into the actual fic #bc it's not really about the science - but this IS kisuke #he needs to go on caffeine-fueled science binges every once in a while or he'll wither and die #like an amphibian that needs water to survive (except the water is stale coffee drunk from a dubiously clean beaker)#his science binges need topics even if they're filtered thru the pov of someone who has no fucking idea what he's talking about lol #i also wind up with a lot of notes on historical stuff he (and the visored) might've picked up since 1900 #finding ways to distort that thru the viewpoint of a centuries-old ex-shinigami is always fun #the duality of kisuke: keeps up to date on the bleeding edge of string theory but thinks freon was banned 'recently'#💚🤍💚🤍💚#oh that reminds me - i figured out where his 'atashi' came from and i DESPERATELY want to put that in the fic somehow #but like. i'm writing the fic in english. but technically they would all be speaking japanese #and i haven't found an elegant way to talk about the actual japanese pronouns thru the lens of technically-a-translation english #even with ichigo's linguistics nerdery i'm not quite there yet...#adventures in fic writing #bleach #kisuke

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