#isshin the 12th

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Baby Haruka chose Violence

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Something comforting about Kubo letting us see Ichigo and the gang 10 years later in the manga. I hope the anime does it too. Like you get to see little Kazui amd Ichika and all of the gang. Also it's canon that Ichigo misplaces his literal child 😭 Dad of the year.

Tho i dont agree w Sado becoming a boxer tbqh. Using his fists for profit just doesn't seem like something he'd do.

Anyway, 15 y/o me got to crush on 17 y/o Ichigo. And 27 y/o me gets to crush on 27 y/o Ichigo who has a doofy haircut. I also crush on Keigo in his lil ramen shop. Go little silly entrepreneur.

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Running gags in AEIWAM, a list:

Uryuu is bad at being a Quincy. Mizuiro is worse.

Sneezecut

Ichigo having calling literally anybody BUT Isshin in an emergency.

Leading actions (instead of theme music, a specific thing happens just before/when a character enters the scene) that are also jokes.

~*BIRD TIIIIIME*~ At the [location]!

Plot-Relevant Middle School Girl Drama

Exactly Three people actually speak German and all of them insist the other two have terrible accents

Fibercraft Discourse

People repeatedly getting the very wrong idea that Kenpachi is secretly Byakuya's biological father, until someone manages to get it even wronger.

The Karakura Gang is sure that Chad is a delicate flower who must be protected, despite him literally never losing.

Tousen's ongoing battle to keep the Seireitei Bulletin Horoscope-free.

Yamamoto's Poor Hiring Decisions

12th division is the Denny's of the Gotei-13

The Jushiro Ukitake Minimum Security Institute For Pyromaniacs

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once again piggybacking off this post; it's wild that fter all that shit I had to comb thru, this is basically the full extent of women as background and barely-characters in Bleach. I put all the actual named characters up top, and bundled the ones that actually come back after an extended period of time, and don't just exist exclusively in the confines of a single scene/chapter.

In row 3, 5th-6th from the left, is the girl Orihime mugge for her shihakusho disguise during the original ss infiltration(which we later learn was in 12th division when her and Uryuu's cover is blown), and then a girl who showed up in the TYBW arc operating equipment during the second Quincy invasion

In the last row there, 2nd-3rd from the left, is the woman who served tea to Kaien and Ukitake, and then the girl Rangiku borrowed an identical serving tray from to throw at Isshin; are they the same girl like 100 years apart still stuck serving drinks??? Who can say...

super awkward that the entire 4th row are girls who show up to like, kinda fawn over more central characters?

The two barely visible girls blush and say hi to Renji on his way to visiting' Rukia's jail cell.

The one girl blushes and says hi to lt.Aizen.

The three girls in the helljaws oneshot are giggling about Atau playing with animals.

Funny enough 5th row, 4th from the left, is actually the one person not swooning over Unohana in the scene she's in, while the 3 guys she's with are.

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Let's make things easier for all of us, shall we?

If you're new here, welcome. This is a blog full of shitposts about BLEACH, the masterpiece created by Tite Kubo. I do post/reblog actual quotes from the manga or scenes from the anime, but only like 0.1% of the time.

Below are the main categories you can use to find specific interactions between various characters. It probably won't lead you to find every single thing that's been posted in this blog (for example, Espada-Shinigami interactions, etc.) but you can at least get almost all the incorrect quotes via this hashtag -> #incorrect bleach

Quotes which I think the characters would highly likely say can be found here -> #things they'd totally say

Everything Karakura Town:

» Karakura Gang (includes Ichigo & his schoolmates, Ichigo's family, Rukia & Kon, Ikumi-san & her son, everyone associated with Urahara's Store, as well as the Visoreds & Fullbringers too) » Karakura High School students » The Kurosaki Family » Urahara Shop (specifically those in Urahara Shop, including Yoruichi, and yes RENJI too) » Visored » The Ishida Family » Fullbringers » Mayuri's Washing Machine Inspiration Backstory au » Zaraki's Squad in Karakura Town au » Grimmjow (g)raveyard party in Karakura Town au » Karakura High School English Lesson au

Everything Soul Society:

» Gotei 13 Captains only » Gotei 13 » Royal Guard/Squad 0 » 1st Division �� 2nd Division • 3rd Division • 4th Division • 5th Division • 6th Division • 7th Division • 8th Division • 9th Division • 10th Division • 11th Division • 12th Division • 13th Division » Shinigami Women's Association » Shinigami Men's Association » Shin'ō Academy au » Turn Back the Pendulum arc au » Yamamoto's Past au » "Accidents happen, don't they?" - Shunsui Kyoraku au » Washing Machine isn't for humans, Kurotsuchi-taicho! au » Keigo cuts hair in Soul Society au » Mayuri discovers Spottyfy [Spotify] au

Everything Las Noches:

» Arrancar, in general » Espadas » Espadas trying to hack Aizen's personal computer series au » Featuring the 'troublemaker trio' - aka Nnoitra, Grimmjow & Szayelaporro

Everything Wandenreich:

» Sternritters

Lists of other AU that I've made up or taken inspiration from popular/known sources:

» Adventures of Renji, Rangiku, Toshiro, Ikkaku & Yumichika au (spinoff from "The Shinigami Have Come!" episode) » Gin, Rangiku & Toshiro live together under one roof au » Shinji's Cooking Show au » "I wasn't that drunk last night" series au » Nnoitra committed the "7 Deadly Sins" under an hour au » Isshin, Car & Reservations au » Overprotective papa Toshiro au » Puns for Fun! » "It's 3 AM go to bed" series au

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Bleach OCs (Batch One)

I have a whole bunch of Bleach OCs because this is where my brain is. Now everyone can meet these Horrible Rascals (Affectionate). Hopefully, getting it all out makes it easier to switch back to my regularly scheduled programing. All of their information is set maybe two weeks max after the Ryoka Invasion and during the Winter War. I also have a lot of headcanons for how the Seireitei, Gotei 13, etc work and will elaborate on that later on. Basically, I took a bunch of worldbuilding I liked and went, “I can make these even better!”

Name: Tayasu, Shinobu “Nobu” Race: Shinigami Nationality: Japanese Birthday: January 13, 1845 Death Day: January 20, 1865 Gender: Non-binary (She/Her cause they’ve not realized they’re trans yet) Sexuality: Bisexual Height: 5’5” (165 cm) Weight: 115 lbs (52.2 kg) - Affiliation: Seireitei, Shiba Clan Previous Affiliation(s): Shinsengumi, Tayasu Clan Profession: Shinigami, Retainer Position: Acting Captain Previous Position(s):    - Seat 18th-3/Onmitsukido (2nd)    - Seat 15 (12th)    - Seat 12 (4th)    - Seat 8, Seat 3/Onmitsukido (2nd)    - Seat 7 (4th)    - Seat 4 (13th) Division: 5th Previous Division(s): 2nd, 4th, 12th, 13th Base of Operations: 5th Division - Relative(s):    - Tayasu, Ayumu - Third Cousin, Husband when human (Alive)    - Tayasu, Noburu - Father (Deceased)    - Tayasu, Yukimi - Mother (Deceased)    - Tayasu, Shigeo- 2nd Cousin Once Removed, Father-in-law (Deceased)    - Tayasu, Kameko - 2nd Cousin Once Removed by Marriage, Mother-in-Law (Deceased) Education: Shin’o Academy - Shikai: Tatakai no Chuushin (Heart of Battles) Bankai: Tatakai no Chuushin: Ryuuketsu no Yuuwa (Bloody Appeasement) - Notes: - Nobu was aware of ghosts their entire human life. - They remember their human life which makes for funny moments. - They’re Polyam. - They’re AFAB and were raised as an onna-musha by their doting father. Noburu didn’t have a male heir and decided that firmly was not a problem. His baby girl would be his heir. - While in a relationship with Ayumu then (and now) they don’t really consider their marriage to have carried over. So, they do romantically pursue others and share about it. - They’re a retainer for the Shiba Clan under Shiba, Isshin (along with Ayumu) but actually attended the Shin’o Academy with his nephew, Kaien, for two years. They knew each other beforehand and shared a class and quick graduation too.

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Name: Tayasu, Ayumu Race: Shinigami Nationality: Japanese Birthday: March 03, 1840 Death Day: January 20, 1865 Gender: Male (Gender Non-Confirming) Sexuality: Homoflexible Height: 5’7” (170.2 cm) Weight: 125 lbs (56.7 kg) - Affiliation: Seireitei, Shiba Clan Previous Affiliation(s): Tayasu Clan Profession: Shinigami, Retainer Position: 9th Seat Previous Position(s): Various Seated and Unseated Division: 4th Previous Division(s): n/a Base of Operations: 4th Division - Relative(s):    - Tayasu, Shinobu - Third Cousin, Wife When Living (Alive)    - Tayasu, Noburu - Father (Deceased)    - Tayasu, Yukimi - Mother (Deceased)    - Tayasu, Shigeo- 2nd Cousin Once Removed, Father-in-law (Deceased)    - Tayasu, Kameko - 2nd Cousin Once Removed by Marriage, Mother-in-Law (Deceased) Education: Shin’o Academy - Shikai: Utau Senshi (Singing Warrior) Bankai: Not Yet Achieved - Notes - He was born seeing but went blind from a fever when he was 12. Considering it almost took his life he can handle this. - From birth he was aware of spirits. When Nobu’s mother died in birth he saw her spirit before her konso. - He remembers his human life and is pretty chill about most of it. Would rather have forgotten him and Nobu drowning but details. - Even though he was born into a samurai family he didn’t really care for battle. It was something he did and learned because it was tradition. Not to say he was bad but he just didn’t have the passion for it. Battle and Leading was always Nobu’s forte. He was always happy to support them. - He’s happily polyam but doesn’t really want a relationship outside of Nobu for the moment. - When he attended the academy he was year mates with Kaien’s future wife, Miyako. They were thick as thieves from the get go and spent all six years together.

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Name: Yoshinaga, Kiku (Kuroda, Shungiku at birth) Race: Shinigami (Gemischt Quincy when alive) Nationality: Japanese Birthday: February 14, 1800 Death Day: June 21, 1806 Gender: Female Sexuality: Queer Height: 4’7” (139.7cm) Weight: 75 lbs (34 kg) - Affiliation: Seireitei, Shihouin Clan Previous Affiliation(s): N/A Profession: Shinigami Position: 3rd Seat/Onmitsukido Previous Position(s): 8th, 13th, 18th-1 Division: 2nd Previous Division(s): N/A Base of Operations: 2nd Division - Relative(s):    - Shihouin, Yoruichi - Older Sister Figure (Alive)    - Urahara, Kisuke - Older Brother Figure (Alive)    - Tsukabishi, Tessai - Older Brother Figure (Alive)    - Kuroda, Fumiyo - Mother (Echt Quincy)(Dead)    - Kuroda, Masato/Yoshinaga, Nori (Spiritually Aware Human)(Dead) Education: Shin’o Academy - Shikai: Hoshizora (Starry Sky) Bankai: Hoshizora: Fukushuunoowari (Starry Sky: Vengeful End) - Notes - Kiku died from being struck by lightning. As a result, she has the lichtenberg scars on the entire left half of her body. They seemed to only solidify when she was konsoed. - She honestly knew nothing of her Quincy Heritage until she met Ishida, Uryuu. Her father pretended he got her ability to see spirits from him. Because her mother was killed in the Quincy Extermination in 1801. She was the head of the Kuroda Clan and led them into battle, giving her life so her husband and daughter could escape. When her father told her about the monsters in black and white she assumed they were the hollows she sometimes saw, not the shinigami. - Gives exactly zero fucks about being polite when it comes to names and honorifics. She calls most people by their first name or nicknames, skips most honorifics, and lets that be someone else’s problem. - For several decades after her death she lived in North 75th District regarded as something of a yokai. The Shinigami ignored a lot of the chatter from the locals because nothing about their yokai shared no hollow characteristics. Urahara and Yoruichi found her by chance. For them it was easy to piece together things like her “eating people's lives” was her reiatsu (and future shikai) seeking out reishi and reiryoku to fuel it. - She’s published several highly successful serial novels in the Seireitei Communication. When she was alone she made up stories to amuse herself then refined it when she found out her best friend, Nanao, loves to read. They’re her little love letters to Nanao for being her best friend since they’ve met. - Because she’s a ward of the Shihouin Clan her attending the Shin’o Academy was a formality. It was known almost from the start she would join the 2nd Division and Onmitsukidou with Yoruichi and Co. But, she stayed all six years because of Nanao. They were both the only “little girls” in the Academy and she worried about her being alone. So, she stayed so they could have as much time together as possible.

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Bleach stuff

Okay, apparently the 10th Division captain who had recently died in Turn Back The Pendulum is actually the first 10th Division captain, who we now know was Furuoki Otogawa, and that’s kind of hilarious.

Like, the 10th Division has had three entire captains in its thousand year long history, one of which was a child. 33.3% of all 10th Division captains are children. Isshin’s predecessor served for nearly nine-hundred years, and then Isshin served for maybe about twenty. 

This might not even be that unusual. Obviously, the 1st has had one captain until Yamamoto dies. It’s entirely plausible that there’s only been two 4th Division captains (not counting Isane). It seems more than likely that Shunsui and Ukitake, as Yamamoto’s students, were the second captains ever of their respective divisions. Given that Ginrei was 6th Division captain and was pretty damn old when he retired, he could very easily have been only the second 6th captain, making Byakuya the third. 

This would make the 11th Division (11 captains) a huge outlier, but it’s the division where you become captain by murdering your predecessor, so of course it is. Weirdly, it’d also make the 12th Division an outlier -- it has at least four captains (Uhin Zenjoji, Kiria Hikifune, Urahara Kisuke, Mayuri Kurotsuchi) and probably had at least one more, since it seems dubious that Kiria ‘like a mother’ ‘powerset involving magical food’ Hikifune came immediately after Uhin ‘literally a monster clown’ Zenjoji. 

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BLEACH FANFIC RECS

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TYPE OF READER

Shinigami Reader

CHARACTER

1ST DIVISION

Kyoraku Shunsui

2ND DIVISION

Sui-Feng

Shihoin Yoruichi

3RD DIVISION

Ichimaru Gin

4TH DIVISION

Unohana Retsu

5TH DIVISION

Aizen Sosuke

Hirako Shinji

6TH DIVISION

Abarai Renji

Kuchiki Byakuya

9TH DIVISION

Hisagi Shuhei

Muguruma Kensei

Tosen Kaname

10TH DIVISION

Hitsugaya Toshiro

Kurosaki Isshin

Matsumoto Rangiku

11TH DIVISION

Ayasegawa Yumichika

Madarame Ikkaku

Zaraki Kenpachi

12TH DIVISION

Kurotsuchi Mayuri

Urahara Kisuke

13TH DIVISION

Kuchiki Rukia

Ukitake Jushiro

OTHERS

As Nodt

Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez

Ishida Ryuken

Ishida Uryu

Kurosaki Ichigo

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Bleach TYBW: Episode 10

Another incredibly well-done episode. I think manga readers have been anticipating this since the anime was announced.

This episode covers chapters 524 to 527 with the first page of Chapter 528: Everything but the Rain. It also has Chapter 522 and part of 523.

Looks like I’m wrong… or rather, I’m right. Since they have already announced episode 11 title.

I don’t know if they will be able to fit that many chapters into episode 11. There has also been the announcement that 12th and 13th episode will be an hour long.

But first, let’s discuss episode 10. 

Episode 10 starts back in Muken with the Kenpachi battle and was incredibly well done. Arguably better than the manga. Not sure why but in the manga, Unohana’s death didn’t feel as earned. However here, thanks to the excellent work of the VA, the fight has been elevated. They also extend the battle, which was sorely needed.

I must say Unohana’s Bankai call, dragging her hand over her sword, was amazing and spine-chilling.

The rest of the Oetsu stuff was great as well.

Now for Episode 11… I am not sure if they can put the entire 10 chapters into episode 11.

But considering they are announcing that Episodes 12 and 13 will be merged I wonder if they will try to put at least two-thirds of the Everything but the Rain in it.

I feel like there is a chance that the Ikumi section might get cut. They could decrease the dialog between Isshin and Ichigo. I wonder if they will end with the Blade is Me or with the Last Nine Days. Both are excellent points to end this cour.

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the 'Kon :)' in the list of things you're pleased about in aeiwam has be EXCITED please tell us more (if you want to)!

Soon after Masaki died, Isshin Kurosaki moved his family. It's mostly because the original clinic didn't feel haunted- if Masaki's spirit were still here, Isshin would know what to do, but instead he felt like his heels were dogged by the hole where she used to be.

It didn't hurt that the new place was larger, in a better school district, and closer to his friend Ryukken. He's almost feeling cheerful about the new place when Ichigo runs up the stairs and from room to room before calling dibs on one, because he's a big kid now and doesn't want to sleep where he has to listen to his dad snoring all night >:(.

Isshin felt slightly less cheerful when he looked out the big window in Ichigo's room to determine if he needs to put up some child safety grates, and realized their new neighbor was a taxidermist.

"I feel like it gives them a sort of dignity- A Life After Life, if you will." she said when he went by to make sure his neighbor was only eccentric and not something out of a horror movie. He wasn't entirely sure which, actually- Ms. Tanaka was an octogenarian with skin like tissue paper and a back like a question mark, but her living room was a veritable zoo of reconstituted animals, many of them former pets, if the number of domestic cats was anything to go by.

"Oh. Yeah!" Isshin grinned, terrified, and was struck by the idea of some goon in the 12th division slavering in the afterlife, desperate for her to shuffle off the mortal coil and bring her undoubted skills with dead bodies to R&D. "We've always been very spiritual people."

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"Oh, just like the nice young man who used to live in your house!" said Ms. Tanaka, sitting down in her armchair that was adorned by an ostentatious past-tense peacock perched on the back. "Odd fellow. Worked nights, spoke like he was born in the Sengoku Era or something, but very nice."

"He's BEAUTIFUL!" said Ichigo, staring in awe at an enormous Ginger Tabby Cat by the window, mounted in repose on a emerald velvet cat bed. Ms. Tanaka had done an excellent job conveying a sense of benevolent egotism on his whiskered face, but Ichigo's growing fascination with the Macabre was beginning to worry his father- Ichigo had seen the taxidermy stoat in the back window and INSISTED on coming along.

"Isn't he?" beamed Ms. Tanaka. "His name is Bostov! He was my very best friend for many years."

"Wow! Can I pet him?" Ichigo asked, eyes wide with delight.

"Ichigo, that's uh- that's not a real kitty-" Isshin began to sputter.

"Of course he's a real kitty!" Ms. Tanaka laughed, a noise like an ungreased gate. "You can pet him if you're very gentle." Ichigo stroked the deceased animal with exceptional delicacy for an overexcited Kindergartner. "He's so soft!" he gasped.

"Do you like him?" asked Ms. Tanaka.

"I LOVE HIM!" Said Ichigo, cheeks flushed and eyes bright for the first time in months now. Perhaps having a distant relative of the Addams family for a neighbor isn't so bad, if her creepy hobby cheers Ichigo up... Isshin sighed.

"In that case, why don't you take him home with you?" Smiled Ms. Tanaka. "I'm sure he'll be a good friend to you too."

"UH." Isshin blurted out, nearly spilling his tea on a flock of quail under the side-table.

"I have SO MANY friends in my home with me- it's bordering on a fire hazard!" Ms. Tanaka chuckled. "I'd be delighted to send him to a home where he'll be loved. Please- consider him my housewarming present!"

"CAN WE? CAN WE TAKE HIM HOME? PLEASE DAD??PLEEEEEEEASE-!!" Ichigo asked, stars in his eyes.

Isshin froze, horrified at the prospect of having... That. In his house. Watching him. ...and at the same time, completely unwilling to dash his little boy's dreams.

"yEaH oKaY." Isshin grimaced, soaked in a cold sweat.

*****

Bostov The Former Cat was bad enough, but at least the taxidermy beast 'lived' on Ichigo's bedroom dresser and not down in the living room where Isshin would have to look at it's green glass eyes, which seemed to follow him around the room. It wasn't right having a hollow thing in the house like that- any wandering spirit could decide to climb in there! He resolved to have it warded, but Kisuke said he was on a trip to the Caribbean for "Botanical Research" , and wouldn't be back until "After the Big Holiday on the 20th". Isshin hung up the phone, groaned and rubbed his face. It was fairly late, and he was still at the kitchen table, going through all of the licensing paperwork to get the clinic up and running.

"Hey Dad?" Ichigo asked, holding up a small plastic toy. "What's 'Soul Candy'?"

"Soul Cand-?" Isshin frowned, turned to look at the toy and nearly jumped out of his skin, swiping it away from the boy. "WHERE DID YOU FIND THIS? DID YOU EAT ANY??"

"...it was upstairs, in the back of my closet." Ichigo pouted. "-and no, I didn't eat any strange closet candy. I'm not stupid."

"Oh thank the Gods..." Isshin sighed, sitting back down at the table and shaking the small, duck-headed pill dispenser. Empty. "-I'm sorry I yelled Ichigo, but this is Very Dangerous stuff."

Ichigo arched an incredulous Eyebrow at him. "Really? Is this the same kind of dangerous that the half my Halloween candy you confiscated and ate was?"

"Ah- well. No. That was Dad Tax. This is actually dangerous. Here, come sit with me a minute." he pulled out the other chair at the kitchen table. "Remember how I told you about the ghost that lived in my attic when I was your age?"

"The Shinigami?" Ichigo asked.

Isshin did not *enjoy* lying to his children, but a little knowledge was a dangerous thing, and not enough even more so, so he'd concocted a little fantasy to explain why he knew all about ghosts and why the children never saw their grandparents, so he could tell them about the dangers of this world without telling them too much.

"That's right- His name was Kaien Shiba, and he was a Soul Reaper. At night, he'd turn into a ghost and leave his body behind, and go escort spirits to the afterlife or fight hollows." Isshin said. he'd named the fictional soul reaper after his favorite nephew in a fit of inspiration- he'd started telling Ichigo a tale from his days as a Shinigami one night after slightly too many drinks and had to convince Ichigo that that was only a distant acquaintance.

"...Like what killed Mom." Ichigo muttered.

"Um. Yeah." Isshin nodded.

They were silent for a moment.

"-Anyway, the way he turned into a ghost was that he'd swallow one of these little candies that would come in these tubes-" Isshin pulled the duck's head back to show Ichigo the mechanism. "-and Poof! he'd jump out of his body as a ghost so he could use magic to save people! But-there was a little soul inside the candy that would come out and take care of his body while he was away! Like a babysitter, but for his own butt! After a few hours, the little soul would stop working, and Kain would be home to climb back in."

Ichigo blinked at the mechanism, thinking. "So. There's a little person in these candies?"

"If there were any in here, yeah." Said Isshin. "They're not like. Whole people. Just little collages of behaviors and phrases. You know, like the fake voice that talks on the phone when you call to refill a prescription!" Ichigo frowned, considering something. "...There weren't any candies in this thing, were there?" Isshin asked, suspicious.

"No." Said Ichigo, frowning at him. "It'd be really lonely, being just a little soul, stuck in a candy, wouldn't it?" he asked.

"I suppose so, but I don't think the little souls are aware while they're in there. It's like being asleep for them." Isshin shrugged, lying to himself as much as his son about that.

Ichigo still frowned. "...What happens if the candy goes into a body without a soul in it? Like a dead body?" "Huh." Isshin frowned. "I dunno, actually. I guess the little soul would run around and operate it for a while, until it faded out, like it did with a normal body?"

Ichigo nodded, still preoccupied.

"Why?" Isshin tried.

"...No reason." Ichigo muttered, kicking his little feet. "Just thinking."

"Alright. Promise me if you find anything else weird or see any random candies to not touch them and tell me right away, okay?"

"Yeah okay." Ichigo nodded, only sort of paying attention. "I'm gonna go to bed. G'night dad." he muttered, getting up from the table and handing the dispenser to Isshin before giving him a quick hug and stomping up the stairs.

Isshin watched him go, aching a bit. I wondered how old he was gonna be when he started keeping secrets from me. He sighed, looking down at the Soul Candy Dispenser. Not that I'm being a Paragon of Honesty for him to follow...

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"GIRLS? ICHIGO? HAVE ANY OF YOU SEEN MY STETHOSCOPE?" Isshin hollered, searching fruitlessly under the couch cushions.

"NO!" Hollered Karin from where she and Yuzu were playing in the small front yard.

"TRY ICHIGO'S ROOM, HE TOOK A BUNCH OF LAUNDRY UP TO SORT." called Yuzu.

"THANKS GIRLS!" he called back stomping up the stairs. Ichigo was at karate- he'd finally returned to classes, or at least, Tatsuki had finally physically dragged him back into the Dojo. "Man I hope I didn't put it through the washing machine-" he muttered, opening the door to the boy's room and started searching through the basket of laundry on his bed.

Isshin stopped, and stood up, frowning around the room. Something was off.

Ichigo was a tidy boy, somehow, and his room was usually in order save for whatever video game he had out to play and the bed he never made but... Isshin turned fully around trying to figure out what was off before his eyes finally landed on the top of the Dresser.

The Emerald Green Velvet Cat bed, home of Bostov The Cat, was empty.

"Did he take the cat out of the bed to play with?" Isshin wondered aloud, hoping that that, and not several other horrible scenarios, was what was happening. He could hear Karin and Yuzu giggling through the window, and he peeked down at them- they appeared to be having a tea party on the thin strip of grass, and the guest of honor amongst the dolls and stuffed animals was a familiar-looking ginger tabby. "Oh! The GIRLS took him out to play with." he sighed with relief, leaning against the window to watch them.

...and watch a strange man approaching down the street, who stopped at the garden fence. Isshin frowned- maybe he was just watching the girls play, in a normal, wholesome way like he was doing right now. ...or he could be taking candy out of his pocket and waving the girls to come through the gate.

Isshin jumped on the bed, tore open the window with such force it jumoed out of it's track and was halfway out to jump down at the man from the second floor when the most EXTRAORDINARY thing happened.

Bostov, Who by all accounts had been deceased for the better part of a decade and was made of little more than a skin and some glass stretched over a wood-and-cotton frame, Suddenly leapt up from his chair, claws and teeth drawn like swords and leapt upon the man, battering him visciously with a stream of einvective so foul it made Isshin's barrack-hardened linguistic sensibilities blush, before chasing him back down the street like a short, furious, ass-seeking missile.

"GIRLS!" he shouted, jumping down anyway. "-ARE YOU OKAY?"

"DON'T GET MAD AT ICHIGO OR KON!!" Shouted Yuzu, tears in her eyes.

"...ichigo or who?" Isshin blinked.

"Way to spill the beans, Yuzu." Karin groaned. "Yeah Dad, we're FINE- Kon was here, he'll beat the crap out of anything."

"Who's Kon?" Isshin repeated.

"HEY DAD." Shouted Ichigo, skidding into the garden in his karate gi, and out of breath, clutching an unconvincingly stiff Mr. Bostov under his arm. "SO. UH- WELL MR. BOSTOV CAN MOVE NOW. FOR SOME REASON."

"Uh-huh?" Isshin glared at the cat, who glanced away nervously. "Why do you think that is?"

"...it's a Christmas Miracle?" Tried Ichigo.

"Ichigo, it's fucking April." groaned Karin.

"...Passover?" tried Ichigo.

"-This wouldn't have anything to do with that Soul Candy Dispenser you found, would it?"

"uhhhhhhh..." said Ichigo. Honesty might not have been one of the boy's virtues, but at least he was a terrible liar.

"PLEASE DADDY DON'T GET ANGRY!!" Sobbed Yuzu, throwing herself around his calf and wailing. "MR. KON IS THE MOST NICEST KITTY IN THE WHOLE WORLD! HE PLAYS TEA TIME AND DRESS-UP WITH US AND TELLS JOKES AND CHASES AWAY DOGS AND SCARY MEN AND HE ALWAYS WAKES UP ICHIGO WHEN HE'S HAVING A NIGHTMARE-!"

"Yeah, actually, Kon's like. the first thing to make me laugh since. Well." Mumbled Karin, plodding over to Isshin's other leg and leaning heavily on him. "Please? he's weird, but he's a good guy."

Isshin sighed, then glared back down at the cat. "Alright. Who are you?" he demanded.

Ichigo and the formerly immobile cat glanced at each other and the feline unfolded as Ichigo set him down, shaking himself out and sitting on the walkway.

"So, uh- Hi. My name's Kon. Kon Bostov, if you wanna be formal, in honor of the beast whose body I currently inhabit." He nodded, waving a paw evocatively. "-And, uh. Well, how much do you know about the afterlife?"

"-Being from a long line of psychic mediums and prone to hauntings, my parents rented out our attic to a Shinigami when I was a child, and he told me pretty much everything." Said Isshin, and Kon winced. "So. Is 'Kon' short for 'Mod Konpaku'?"

"Ehh... well, Yeah." Kon winced. "-But hey! It wasn't my idea to be cooked up in a lab by some maniac and then put to death minutes later for something I didn't even do!" he snarled, fur bristling.

"What?" asked Karin.

"Kids I- Look, I didn't mean to lie, there just wasn't a good time to bring it up but. Technically, I'm wanted by the law. I'm an artificial soul created for battle to be put into dead bodies, but literally four and a half minutes after I woke up, the soul society- where all the Shinigami are from- condemned me to die, because they didn't like how strong some of the other Mod Souls were. I managed to roll myself off of the table and into a box of normal bodyminders to hide, Got put in a dispenser and then the shinigami that had been here accidentally left me behind." Kon explained.

"COOL!" Shouted Karin.

"NOT COOL. BAD!" Shouted Isshin. "Okay, okay I- I mean you're right, I never- I mean, the way Kaien told it, the whole Mod Soul program was pretty shady and it sounded really unfair. But why would a Shinigami just leave an important and dangerous tool lying around?"

"...I don't know how much spiritual sense you have my guy, but this town doesn't have a Hollow problem so much as the Hollowpocalylse goin' on." Kon grimaced. "-I really hope that guy's okay, he seemed pretty cool from what I could tell. I don't actually remember hearing him get called back to soul society." Kon muttered. "-Anyway, about three weeks ago, your brother found me in the dispenser in the back of his closet and put my candy body into this taxidermy cat, and I've been hanging out with the kids since then! You know, like a cat is supposed to do!"

Isshin stared blankly at Kon. The girls hugged his legs, lips wobbling, but he closed his eyes and inhaled deeply, firming up his resolve- no matter how nice he seemed, a Mod Soul was a dangerous thing- and one crafty enough to live right under his nose for the better part of a month? No, absolutely n-

Isshin opened his eyes to see Ichigo had picked up Kon, cradling the cat to his tiny body, eyes wide and beginning to glisten with tears.

"...Ah. What the hell. You make the kids laugh." Isshin sighed, and all four cheered, thanking him profusely and promising to be extra-good and take good care of Kon- "But you put so much as a Whisker out of line and you're in deep trouble, got it?" Isshin leaned into the cat's face, scowling menacingly and shaking his finger at Kon.

"Understood sir!" Kon Saluted. "So when's dinner? Ichigo's been sneaking me scraps but I could really go for some chicken, or maybe ham-" he asked, tail thrashing excitedly.

"You can eat?" Isshin asked. "I thought you were all... Whatever they stuff taxidermy animals with?"

"-Might've been, but I'm all complete now? Fluff, guts, claws-the works!" Kon shrugged, hopping up on Isshin's shoulder. "-Between you an' me, I ain't even neutered! But that ain't a problem- Plenty of hot pussy around, if you know what I mean, especially that sweet little tuxedo bobtail just up the street- Me-YOW, huh?"

"Oh gods." Groaned Isshin, covering his face. "What am I letting into my house?"

"An intact male cat is called a 'Tom' Dad." Karin called over her shoulder.

"Alright Kon, a few rules- No more swearing in front of the kids, no bringing ladies around the house and for goodness sake DON'T TELL ANYONE YOU'RE HERE!" Isshin snarled at him.

"Alright, alright!" Kon sighed, rolling his eyes. "Out of curiosity though- What rank was your guy Kaien?"

"Hm?" Isshin asked.

"Only that I thought only the captains and a few lieutenants ever knew about project Spearhead." Kon glanced at Isshin, arching an orange-striped brow at him. "-funny thing, having a seated officer doing routine patrols, isn't it?"

"I dunno?" Shrugged Isshin, trying to keep his shoulders from tensing up, "-He didn't actually tell me all that much about how the soul society is governed."

"Huh." Kon nodded, smirking just a bit. "Interestin' guy, this Kaien. You should tell me about him sometime!"

"KOOOOONN!" Yuzu called. "My Dollie's shoe got under the fridge!"

"Coming Sweetie!" Kon called, jumping off Isshin's shoulder to reach his skinny little cat arm under the fridge and swat the missing accessory out from under the appliance. Yuzu applauded with delight and hugged him, laughing for the first time in ages.

Isshin watched them play for a bit and sighed. He not a bad guy, this Kon. All the same- Isshin took out his phone and dialed a number.

"~Urahara Shoten, home of Karkura Town's finest Candies, Cell Phones and Card Games! I'm on sabbatical 'til the end of the month or so, so if it's an emergency, hang up and call the Kurosaki Clinic! Or die! If it's not an emergency, leave me a message with what you need and I'll hook you up when I get back! Bye!~" Urahara's voicemail recording sing-sang over the line.

"Kisuke. It's me, Isshin. You will not fucking believe what my kids found in the new house. Call me as soon as you get back."

[ryndicate]

The Only Calendar That Matters (to me<3)

January

18th :: Todoroki Touya

25th :: Suna Rintarō

27th :: Hanamaki Takahiro

February

10th :: Uchiha Obito

March

1st :: Matsukawa Issei

10th :: Itadori Yuuji, Eren Jaeger

11th :: Kunigami Rensuke

18th :: Hoshigaki Kisame

April

2nd :: Hidan

4th :: Ojiro Aran

7th :: Jean Kirstein

20th :: Bakugou Katsuki

May

2nd :: Conny Springer

10th :: Draken

26th :: Haitaini Ran

June

6th :: Morrow Hisoka, Kindaichi Yūtarō

9th :: Uchiha Itachi

10th :: Iwaizumi Hajime

11th :: Kyoraku Shunsui

12th :: Mitsuya Takashi

30th :: Oliver Aiku

July

1st :: Shinso Hitoshi

3rd :: Sanzu Haruchiyo

5th :: Shinsuke Kita

7th :: Ryusei Shidou

15th :: Togata Mirio, Izuku Midoriya

20th :: Oikawa Tooru

24th :: Wakasa Imaushi

30th :: Muguruma Kensei

31st :: Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez

August

1st :: Sano Shinichiro, Todoroki Natsuo, Reiner Braun, Zeke Yeager

10th :: Yamato/Tenzo

16th :: Kogami Shinya

20th :: Sano Manjiro

31st :: Abarai Renji

September

10th :: Ichimaru Gin

15th :: Hatake Kakashi

16th :: Hanemiya Kazutora

17th :: Sukehiro Yami

October

5th :: Miya Atsumu, Miya Osamu

10th :: Itoshi Sae, Kurosaki Isshin

11th :: Raichi Jingo

16th :: Kirishima Eijirou

19th :: Uchiha Shisui

20th :: Haitani Rindou

27th :: Hanma Shuuji

31st :: Uzui Tengen

November

3 :: Baji Keisuke

11th :: Jiraiya, Porco Galliard

December

1st :: Ulquiorra Cifer

7th :: Gojo Satoru

10th :: Matsuno Chifuyu

22nd :: Fushiguro Megumi

To be added:

[cherubsoda]

im still rambling god im dying i keep repeating myself but

tldr: im making aizen lonely and s/i stuff in tags

[rayshippouuchiha]

In the RMF AU (for Urahara) I am extremely curious about how the Gotei 13 would react when they actually meet the elder sister of the twins - because, 1), she's so powerful even Yamamoto himself would probably do a double take, and 2), she looks so much like Kaien Shiba it's terrifying

I honestly high key want it to be a bit of a comedy of near misses for the Gotei 13 for a while when it comes to Ichigo being full-out revealed.

Like, Kisuke's been watching the twins more often now that Ichigo trusts him with them so they win over the 12th Division pretty quickly and it ripples out from there because the twins favorite subject is absolutely how awesome and cool their Ichi-nee is.

And they tell some buck ass wild stories about her.

But no matter how people linger around the 12th Division and Kisuke himself on the days he has the twins, something always happens to where no one actually gets to see the mythical Ichigo much less outright meet her.

(Isshin is also like stuck in a hole somewhere or something so he's one of the very few who doesn't hear the gossip and bets about Urahara's mysterious lady love, or at least he never runs across the twins and never hears Ichigo's name being spoken)

Things escalate, people start taking bets, and eventually, it snowballs into people actively hunting for her.

Which in turn does nothing but piss Ichigo off once she catches wind of what's going on.

So the day everyone finally meets her is when she rocks up pissed off about everything that's going on.

Needless to say, Kisuke ends up even more smitten than before somehow and everyone else is low-key to high-key traumatized.

[littleeyesofpallas]

You still havent talked about the "magic pants" properties of the Shuhakusho. Ayon tore half of Rangiku´s shuhakusho (alongside her torso) but after she was healed her robes were intact. After Ichigo almost fully hollowified trainning with the vizards the "shell" around Ichigo fell apart, but he had a new set of clothes under it, when the shell had formed under his original set. Are these just artistic concession for modesty or are the shinigami uniforms magic? (there you have an excuse to talk about Shutara again)

Yeah... I don't know that Kubo was ever consistent enough to draw any real conclusions about it, but for sure there are some examples of odd cases with the shihakushou we can look at.

For one, the first example of it we really get is pretty specific: Ichigo takes his original substitute powers from Rukia, and while he suits up, she's left in only the white underrobe. And when Ichigo gains his own powers in the shattering shaft, he's materialized his robes with no contact with Soul Society. It really seems like it's just a part of the powers. Originally Zangetsu himself was dressed in shihakusho as he was clearly meant to be the embodiment of Ichigo's shinigami powers. (It was only in later appearances that Kubo simplified his look into just the loose single white collar.)

But at the same time, Renji shows up in a casual nonuniform kimono, so it seems like Shinigami can just wear regular clothes; and that kind of thing shows up semi frequently during the SS arc. By itself doesn't mean much, but all I can really do here is build some kind of context... Yoruichi also doesn't wear a shihakusho very often, even in flashbacks, but also doesn't wield her zanpakutou, but also definite had one... but also never "lost" any of her shinigami powers.

Urahara sort of counts as well, although he's kind of(?) implied to be in a physical human/gigai form while on Earth --although he can still access and wield his zanpakutou that way... I guess originally Urahara was kind of excused as there was some implications that having been exiled included somehow stripping him of some form of his shinigami powers, although much later developments contradict that. Visored, I maintain, weren't meant to be proper shinigami in the first place, but humans with bootleg powers like Ichigo's, which would excuse them from not having uniforms originally... But if we count the later developments it does become weird that they can just remove their robes or put them back on and it doesn't seem to really mean anything or have any effects? Isshin also retains his uniform after 20 years, which isn't explicitly odd, but it just feels like another instance worth noting.

Like you mentioned there's the kinda vague nature of how healing does or doesn't work in relation to the robes. We frequently see people in bandages while receiving medical attention, and we're told that Ichigo's bankai's incorporation of the robes as part of it are unusual... But they do still seems to just regenerate along with healing at times. And there's the weird moment in the final arc where some of the Visored just put on shinigami robes, which again, isn't used to indicate anything really, but it feels like it should??

Anyway there's also other non-shihakusho that shinigami wear, usually the faceless underlings of non Gotei specific groups. But there's also the conspicuous parallel of the Arrancar uniform, which would seem kind of silly if the shinigami robes had a unique inimitable function that Aizen just opted to not bother with in favor of aesthetic... And again going back to shinigami who can just remove their uniforms with not apparent consequence, making it seem like the uniforms don't actually do anything... Aizen's own shinigami just swaps uniforms.

Oh and then there are a few weird times People either put on or take off their uniforms in ways you'd think wouldn't really work if they're metaphysically/spiritually linked to them and/or their powers at all? When Uryuu shoots Ikanzaka in his random pressurepoints and says he'll never be a shinigami again... His robes stay on. Orihime and Uryuu straight up steal the clothes off some 12th division unseated's backs. For all of like a flicker of a scene inbetween Ichigo fighting Byakuya and then everyone turning attention to Aizen, for some reason all the non shinigami invasion team has donned shihakusho???? Ikkaku fought Zaraki with a zanpakutou but didn't have a shihakusho on, which is odd. When Mayuri juices himself his robes don't go with him. When Komamura's werewolf form wears off though... his robes vanish along with his powers... Tousen's lover had a zanpakutou but died and was buried not in shinigami robes...

Again though, Shutara's thing is clearly clothes. If she contributed something to the foundations of soul society, it could only sensibly be the shihakusho, although that also implies shinigami existed before the uniforms. But if her contribution was a big deal, surely it must do something, right? And as fun as it is to pin all these disparate scraps onto the big crazy cork board to make a big conspiracy web out of, there's really just nothing here. Would definitely have been something nice to get any actual clarity on in the series. And it's a fun arena for fanfic and headcanon to try and iron out to be sure.

I dunno how I thought I was going to end this...