#there is no 'enemy mine' here so much as aizen having a very grudging tolerance for kisuke

[keikakudori]

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Send a 👫and I’ll write four headcanons I have about our muse’s relationship | NOT ACCEPTING

1. aizen and kisuke are absolutely a pair of men who are polite to each other's faces but if you read between the lines, it's very clear that aizen dislikes kisuke immensely. this has been a proponent of their relationship from the first time that aizen laid eyes on him and from the night that he heard shinji giving him advice of a kind that was meant for both of them in a fashion. however, aizen did not take the lesson the way shinji likely meant for it to. it was, after all, a lesson not tailored for him -- yet he heard it all the same. does he want to choke the man out for some things? oh yes.

2. truthfully, at his core, aizen despises kisuke in any canon-compliant verse with a passion bordering on a hatred so pure it's holy. why would he hate him so much -- ? because kisuke stood back and watched aizen burning until he showed himself there before the other shinigami. now, aizen doesn't tend to care what people think of him, but his loathing of kisuke is cemented in the fact that he knows kisuke was there, watching. he knows that kisuke maintained that distant study of what was ensuing. it means that urahara kisuke was there and did not lift a single hand in order to provide aid and assistance towards gin. kisuke allowed gin to die and aizen will never forgive him for that. he will never forgive him for standing back and being passive and allowing gin to die. why should his gin have perished when hiyori, who was bisected, LIVED? because of this, aizen will not hesitate to try and rip kisuke apart in any way that he can accomplish.

3. though aizen hates kisuke with all of his soul, there is an ability to choke down his anger and work with him on things if it is required of him. he knows full and well how dangerous kisuke is; he confirmed it for himself on the night he broke the soul of not just his own captain but others who were swept up into collateral damage. what happened that night was aimed entirely at shinji and everyone else just got swept up in it. yet aizen has seen first hand how intelligent kisuke is ( it's rather galling in a sense. ) and knows what he's done. aizen found kisuke's research in the archives, after all, and got inspired into pursuing it. but if push comes to shove and the situation calls for it, there is little doubt that they can work well together. kisuke will never be able to read aizen the way gin can, but he and aizen are both intelligent enough that any scenario that means they must join forces will likely wind up with them winning that situation.

4. if, for any reason, kisuke decides to free aizen from his confines in muken after the blood war and smuggle him back to the world of the living? he's going to find himself dealing with a broken man. muken has done aizen no favors and kisuke will be forced to look into the face of the man he's bound day in and day out. muken has left aizen broken in many ways but perhaps kisuke might be the one person who aizen would make great pains to hide the fact that he is haunted from as well. aizen does not mind being stationed at the shop overly much, because ururu and jinta are there and aizen does not mind ururu's nearness. she's quiet and doesn't pester him. but he does make a point of keeping his distance from people as much as possible but with enough time and effort, it might be possible for kisuke to get aizen to stir from his apathy and begin speaking again. that's one of the few scenarios in which aizen might find any tolerance for kisuke within himself.

/ @shikzue