Happy CrocHawkSmas!! Here's my piece for the crochawk server's Secret Santa, my beloved giftee is @/eriochromatic who requested Western AU CrocHawk (with Mihawk being a bounty hunter-type of cowboy, and Crocodile being a corrupted businessman) <3
[Ulquiorra Cifer Cosplay, Resurrección Segunda Etapa]
I love Ulqui, we all know that by now and is someone I always wanted to cosplay... and, of course after some digital edition (and please, the heart is a prop from Flying Tiger Copenhagen) and spending 4 hs to clean off the eyeliner here it is! The heart is symbolic, is that his heart? Is that Inoue's heart? which one is it?
“Oh it’s Ulquiorra’s birthday... huh, he’s a Sagittarius? Geez that’s not accur- wait”
*flips my ancient astro-notes*
So, Sagitarius are ruled by Jupiter - you know, Zeus, the Ruler of Gods, the guy also known for throwing some powerful Lanza del Relanpagos of his own. Now, Jupiter is considered to be the planet of growth, expansion, broader purposes, searches, and belief.
As such, Sagittarius are often associated with philosophers and adventurers - the Archer’s arrow pointing forward represents this reaching out to “what is out there”. Lots of people automatically associate this with travellers, extroverts, risk takers and more dynamic personalities - like, let’s say, Isshin, the other significant Sagittarius representative in Bleach-verse. But Ulquiorra is the definition of seeking, growth and expansion: the entire search for meaning, his fixation with Orihime and Ichigo, achieving Segunda Etapa. It’s just... a dark-mirror version of the Great Benefic that Jupiter ought to be.
And this when my brain makes some brr-noises and segways to Ichigo and his Hollow (and a tad of politics because I can’t help myself):
The Archer symbol is a reference to the Centaur -- whose name could be read as Kentauros, meaning, piercing bull.
But the best thing here is that the Centaur is brought up for Maquiavelli’s the Prince (chapter 18: on How a Prince Should keep Faith/his Words) in which he emphasizes how rulers ought to perform both reason and violence - a Prince needs to be both men and beast to be able to exercise power. King and his Horse? King and his Horse.
And the coolest thing is that through Ulquiorra, Ichigo lets violence rule over during Lust Arc. It is through Isshin - our other Sagittarius - that Ichigo is able to get more knowledge of himself to exercise his full power, all his inner energies - be both men and beast, reason and violence, under his lead, his ruling.
Ulquiorra was such a fundamental piece of Bleach I cannot stress enough how much I appreciate Kubo for his character, Lust Arc, Ichigo & Orihime x Hollowfication x Humanity, and Ichigo’s development.
Ulquiorra has been dead so long yet still remains one of the most prominent characters to be used for promoting Bleach even today and it's so funny to me because he's gone from being depicted as a scary powerful bat/demon guy battling an existential crisis to a high schooler with a dead expression and a possible crush on the bread girl
♰ D!ED, D3AD, G0NE¡! ¦ a spooky october masterlist.
WELCOME¡! to seneon's graveyard archives where she stores her spookiest pieces here. featuring mashle, bnha, bleach, and blue lock. pieces in this masterlist includes a lot of spookiness, dark or suggestive content, and romance.
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O1 ¦ TARANTULA GIRL, RAYNE AMES
she is not afraid of spiders, especially tarantulas.