#icybreaths

[panterasnarl]

he only had a few seconds to locate the aforementioned restaurant before that flaming ball of head reached him, but he was always fast - and that head ricocheted off his own boot and into the intended goal with a loud crash.

"Will that be enough to make it catch fire, ya think?"

“Hah! Now we’re talkin’.”

she floated around the sculpture with a pleasantly humored grin —- shunpōed to ground level beside the massive burning head and called up to him.

“We got a restaurant sized goalie! Informally requesting the King ta go far-!” she reared her boot and launched the Colonel’s head back at him like a giant flaming soccer ball.

[wild-pineapple-butt]

@icybreaths continued from here

"Steal?" Renji huffed unbelievably. "I don't steal!"

Well. Technically he didn't. He liked the word borrow better. He just happened to know that the 11th and the 8th had a party last night and there had been some extras, shall he say.

He resumed his grin. "Ya wanna... partake?"

[fantasybots]

(@ Hibiki) "You could always bite your zanpakuto to assert dominance--"

"W.... with my teeth? Wouldn't that be... bad?"

[mxguruma]

@icybreaths replied to your post “(remember when I said I'd take that nap?? That...”:

grampa needed his nap-- //shot

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"You got somethin' to say?"

[midnightactual]

7. what character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because how how the fandom acts about them?

[ For Choose Violence Ask Game ]

7. I do my best not to actually hate him, but it's impossible not to come off as hating Aizen when people glaze him as the second greatest anime villain of all time. I appreciate what he is, but I hate what people want him to be, which he isn't.

He is not the ultimate planner—he moves first, gets his enemies off-balance, and makes stuff up as he goes. He isn't curious about things outside of his scope of knowledge, and is smugly certain in his own superiority. A good quote for him is by (probably) Karl Rove, and you can see how it panned out for him IRL too:

The aide said that guys like me were “in what we call the reality-based community,” which he defined as people who “believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.” I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. “That’s not the way the world really works anymore,” he continued. “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”

He is not the ultimate intellect—he openly and directly admits Kisuke is smarter than him, and the person constantly escaping Kisuke's expectations and knowing what he's up to is Yoruichi, so you can readily say she's smarter than him too.

He is not the ultimate social engineer—he routinely fails to identify others' motivations and relationships, such as assuming that Ichigo "works for" Kisuke and was "ordered" to go to Soul Society, because that's how he (Aizen) would've done it.

He is not the ultimate tactical analyst—he misidentifies or fails to understand every single thing happening in the final fight with Ichigo, repeatedly misreading and misunderstanding the situation and frankly having no idea what is going on. He also cannot identify basic facts like say, Kisuke being Yoruichi's subordinate.

He is not the ultimate fighter—he openly admits he would've lost to Yamamoto, and later, to Isshin. Prior to absorbing the Hōgyoku, he was very strong, but only on the level of Jūshirō, with having very high reiatsu, an overpowered Shikai, and good mastery of fundamentals. But he wasn't orders of magnitude more powerful than everyone else, or even factors. That's why he needed all these plans and gambits and traps and counters and why he absorbed the Hōgyoku as a failsafe.

Aizen is, ultimately, not that impressive. He is a jack of all trades, master of none, who moved first and through subterfuge got everyone on the back foot. He is not The Greatest Anime Villain Of All Time™ and I'm absolutely sick and tired of people acting like he is.

Canon Aizen is fine, Fanon Aizen is an overblown work of imagination.

[hirak0s]

Send ♡ to see what my muse thinks of yours (boops Shinji's forehead)

"Ain'cha a cutie?"

●●●●○ | ATTRACTION ●●●○○ | AFFECTION ●●●●○ | INTEREST ●●●○○ | LOYALTY ●●●○○ | TRUST

LOW | ●●●●● | HIGH

"We coul' work on it."

[characternerdocs]

What’s the story behind Mashke? o:

Mashke the turtle (or tortoise) came about from the Sandbox RP that I had in high school with my friend. Early in the story, Heather and my friend's character, Cheyenne, got really drunk, probably off vodka. Vincent was less than amused. And then suddenly, struck with an inebriated epiphany, Heather spoke one word with vital importance;

Turtle.

I don't recall if she ever actually got a turtle in the RP, but Heather's non-existent pet turtle was named Mashke, which is yiddish for vodka.

I know once you asked about Mashke and I joked that Heather would just pick up any random turtle or tortoise and say that's Mashke. But once she was distracted Vincent would return the animal to its habitat. And eventually Heather would grab another wild turtle or tortoise and declare them her Mashke, resulting in Mashke have been many different breed of turtles/tortoises, box turtle to galpigos tortoise, from snapping turtle to sea turtle.

But I think canonically Heather doesn't actually have a pet turtle or strives to have one while being secretly thwarted by Vincent, but I still find it a funny concept.

Thanks for the ask @icybreaths 🐢

[senboago]

(Inbox call) What traits does Chinatsu find likeable in other people? What would draw her to a person to want to befriend them, or does she not care for friendships very much?

Loyalty, determination, independence, and swordsmanship are the most impressive traits to Chinatsu.

I wouldn't say Chinatsu doesn't care about friendship. It's a matter of making lasting friendships. As daughter of the former captain-commander, it's important those around her are there for her, not her status. Once she does make a connection, their friendship is highly valued.

As it is, her most beloved friends are Shunsui and Juushirou (when he was alive). She would even consider them her brothers, having grown up with them.

[oschvank]

“Watch your step.”

three words. @icybreaths

Nelliel seldom partakes in copious amounts of drinking, but she supposes this night can be an exception. After months and months of going back and forth between Las Noches and Seireitei, there was finally a bit of progress to be seen regarding the reparations of her home and of the arrancar bodies the shinigmai known as Mayuri Kurotsuchi was in possession of.

Jewel had proposed the outing idea, and Nelliel didn't have any means to oppose her. So drink after drink, she let herself fall into the lull of stories and laughter. This moment of careless joy was light and fleeting, and when their silence became comforting, they knew it was time to return to their respective places.

On their way back, Nelliel slips.

The misstep is small, but between the drinks, her blurry gaze, and muddled thoughts, she's momentarily brought back to the moment when she was thrown off the ledge of Las Noches, skull newly cracked and the perpetrator of the attack growing further and further from her reach.

This time, though, she doesn't hit the ground.

"Thank you, Jewel..." with her help, she steadies herself and blinks away the memory, gaze focusing again, "for not letting me fall."

[burdenedreverence]

“It's the things we love most, that destroy us.”

To love something so deeply, and fully, without it loving you back. It was a different type of obsession, hellbent on wringing every drop of sweat and blood out of you. Giving everything that you have for nothing in return. All that remains in the end is bones and scars.

"And yet, we keep on loving, don't we?"

Hayden laughs, that deep rumbling laugh that he is known for. The way his eyes close, scrunching at the edges to banish away the pain, the dull ache that exists to him. A lonesome sadness. But he will persist on, driving forward with all the might that he can summon until the work he must accomplish is complete.

Because the work must be completed, if not in this life then the next. The world is a beautiful place with many problems and imperfections that exist. If his love for it destroys him, then that cannot possibly be the worst way to go, no?

[criticalcrux]

@icybreaths asked:

[for Grimmjow] Jewel shaved away at a small ice sculpture as she idly watched him. After a few glances between her project and him, she inquired quietly, “What cha thinkin’ about?”

Not this talkin' shit again.

"Ya got somethin' against things bein' quiet?"

Anytime he'd let her linger around, she always seemed to start up with him. He spoke when he needed to during down time; to rally his squad or to tell people what they were doing wrong. He never shirked away from using his voice as a driving force-- when there was a cause worth some appeal.

"Actions get more done 'an words."

[panterasnarl]

@icybreaths from this

unfortunately, he'd planned to come bother her as he'd been bothered numerous times before, so when she'd left, damn near sealed away, he'd decided that was the best way to bother her - find out what she's hiding. how she didn't notice him was beyond him, but maybe he'd kept enough of a distance that she could dismiss it..

whatever the reasoning, it didn't take him long to hone in on her, as much as he.. strongly changed his mind about wanting to be there, actually. too cold for his liking, but he'd come this far, and she'd located him soon enough. too late to go back to somewhere warmer by that point.

"Well, you definitely did your best to make it difficult. The hell are you doin' all the way out here anyway? The hell's all this for.."

[wild-pineapple-butt]

"Why do you hide yer hairline?" :u

Unprompted Asks ||| Always Accepting @icybreaths

Appalled! Simply astonishing! What a question. How dare. To imply that he was hiding his hairline. What shameful behavior was this?

"What d'ya mean hide?? I don't hide it, ya fool! It's clearly cuz wearin' bandanas is the way t'go. SO unfortunately my cool ass hairline is hidden."

(I totally think Renji shaves his hair into those god awful widows peaks himself. He started tatting his eyebrows, then naturally they just got higher and higher until he was running out of space, so OBVIOUSLY his hairline had to go. No hairline = more skin to tattoo. And then after he started tatting his face, he found the joy of those cool ass goggles that he always wears. So even though he put in so much effort to shave his hairline to put cool ass tattoos there, goggles are CLEARLY COOLER. BUT. He was breaking them too often, and given how expensive they are, he temporarily switched to bandanas until he could afford another cool ass pair of goggles. End of headcanon lmaooo)

[baiika]

@icybreaths says: jewel: can't blv you took this moment to make a cOCK JOKE

Someone had to, it's not my fault it has to be me!

[hirak0s]

10. Is your OC sentimental or pragmatic? Do they keep mementos or only what they need to survive? Have they always been this way or did something happen to make them change? (for Ayame)

(Oh dear, Silk and I were just talking about this... She had been called pragmatic in the past. But she's also very softhearted! I can't find the post or the reference...)

Oh, she keeps momentos alright! Ask her how many puppets she's kept... how many small trinkets she had from the 5th before Aizen's take-over... She even has a yarn doll Kisuke made when they were much younger... from when they first met. And she's always been a bit of a bleeding heart. Always been that way!