#zommari rureaux

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BLEACH - Espada

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Espada Captain

[marsuro]

Wordtober day 30: Espada 🇪🇸

The swords of Hueco Mundo

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(Extra line and sketch versions under the cut!)

[incorrctbleach]

Zommari: Were you guys born AMAB or AFAB? Luppi: Bold of you to assume I was born at all. Szayel: I personally was created in a lab. Aaroniero: I just straight up spawned.

[swan2swan]

I know no one talks about Zomarri Rureaux (apparently that's how you spell his surname officially? See how little we talk about him? I didn't know?), but I want to take a moment to do so, because I figured out his backstory recently and it's SICK.

So, you may remember this guy: he's one of the Espada, and he appears in three scenes: his introduction at the table, one tease where he's meditating, and then his appearance on the battlefield. He's a bit of a nobody. He has no flashbacks, no backstory, and no W's.

But Kubo still gave us all the clues to his backstory...the two most important clues being one delivered long after his death:

Ulquiorra reveals that Arrancars sacrifice their Hollow abilities for others (and it is VERY interesting that they sacrifice healing, which grants them theoretical immortality, I see what Kubo did). We can combine this with another major hint:

...and understand that when the Hogyoku turns a Hollow into an Arrancar, it's actually Realizing Their Desires. They essentially enter a Character Creation Screen and adjust their stats according to their soul's desires. For most of the Arrancars, it was for more strength and power: Grimmjow to destroy, Harribel to create and not have to kill, Nnoitra to be invincible and be able to crush those in front of him, etcetera.

So, let us return to Zommari, and study what he may have desired:

Speed.

Mobility.

He can move so fast that he can create clones of himself. Now, what would drive a man to crave speed above all else? Well, we turn to our final clue:

When he releases his sword and restores his full Hollow powers, he gains the ability to control others around him.

Have you figured it out yet? Final chance!

Conclusion: in a dark valley of Hueco Mundo, there lived a terrifying urchin-like Adjuchas with myriad eyes and no legs. The creature could not move, but all those who caught sight of its eyes would lose their will. They would walk, slowly, step by step, until the Menos devoured them and continued to live. None who approached that valley ever returned, but so also, no one could ever warn people to escape. So the creature lived there, immobile and alone, only capable of consuming those he met, and only capable of seeing that around him. He longed to see the rest of this empty world, and wondered where these creatures came from, but never could he find an answer.

Until one day a powerful Soul Reaper appeared. Try as he might to cast his power of Sovereignty upon him, the Adjuchas could not make the man obey him: but instead of slaying him, the Soul Reaper made him an offer: serve him, and he would grant him the power of movement.

The Menos accepted, and in an instant, he was transformed: his body vanished, sealed within a sword, and he was granted legs! He could move! He could move faster than anyone around him!

And forevermore, he pledged his allegiance to this Soul Reaper, nay, this Deity who came to him and blessed him with the gift of Freedom...even to his dying breath.

[bleach-smashorpass]

bonus:

[ficticiousdelicious]

What if...Yammy ripped ass at one of the Espada meetings?

*after the room stops shaking...*

🕶️ [Aizen] *was interrupted while talking-*

😡 [Yammy] *deadpan*

💀 [Baraggan] *MASSIVE SIDE-EYE*

👀 [Zommari] *sonído'd tf outta there - speed flex*

🦇 [Ulquiorra] *hasn't moved other than closing his eyes irritably*

🐺 [Starrk] "PHEW! That stinks..!" *waving a hand around trying to chase the smell away*

🦗 [Nnoitora] *burst into laughter so hard he's crying and gagging* "AAAAHHAHAAAAAA-! UUUGH!!! I CAN TASTE IT IF I OPEN MY MOUTH."

🦈 [Tier] *tolerance of male hollows is gone...gets up, leaves swiftly with sonído*

💙 [Grimmjow] *was smirking until the stench reached him* "UGH- F-ckin' nasty ass..." *gets up to walk out-*

⚖️ [Tosen] *trips Grimmjow outright* "You are not missing another meeting." *gasmask*

👹 [Aaroniero] "It was only a short earthquake... Where is everyone going?" *can't smell in this form*

🔬 [Szayel] *already applied a balm under his own nose to mask the noxious fumes, he's used to it*

🤍 [Gin] "By Seireitei's sphincter...that's awful! Yammy!" *pinching nose*

😡 [Yammy] *flushed and angry* "THAT'S WHY I ASKED IF THERE WAS TIME FOR A BREAK!"

🕶️ [Aizen] "We'll arrange hall passes for this later, Yammy..."

🤍 [Gin] "That'll get abused immediately."

⚖️ [Tosen] *gasmask still on, stepping on Grimmjow* "I will ensure it does not."

💙 [Grimmjow] *thankfully can't smell with a busted nose from hitting the floor* "GET OFF."

🦗 [Nnoitora] *coughing* "So! What did the arrancar say when he farted so hard it shook the room?"

🦇 [Ulquiorra] "Do not-"

🦗 [Nnoitora] "'Aw shit, I think I fractured my ass!'"

💙 [Grimmjow] *immediately trying not to laugh*

🔬 [Szayel] *small smirk*

🐺 [Starrk] "Pffft... Hey, Szayel! Can I have some-"

🔬 [Szayel] "Should have brought your own~"

👹 [Aaroniero] *bubbling indifferently*

💀 [Baraggan] *rubbing his temples irritably*

😡 [Yammy] "CAN I GO TO THE F-CKING RESTROOM NOW?!"

🕶️ [Aizen] "Just go, Yammy..."

meeting ruined~

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I'm in the Winter War(?) arc of Now You Feel Like Number None and I love how Aizen and the three most loyal Espada he let have powerups all cut themselves off from everyone for different reasons.

Szayel's terrified of everyone around him. He'd only feel safe if the entire world could never hurt him, but since that's impossible he holes up in his lab where he controls everything and pretends that's the entire world instead. The fact that he bets getting everything he ever wanted on people hurting him because that's the most certain thing he can think of... AAGH. The PATHOS.

And yet he's desperate to have someone he can trust because he not only falls for Nemo's fake friendship (she convinces a lot of people she's no threat but I don't remember her tricking anyone else into thinking she's a FRIEND), he takes it to True Companion status in his mind. I'd feel horrible for him if he hadn't tortured all those people.

Zommari wants to have all the answers without having to live. His ideal life is sitting up in the sky giving people advice like a cosmic choose your own adventure game. He wants to be wise so badly he tries to skip to the part where he is, so he plays priest and therapist even though, as Luppi points out, he hasn't been human any longer than the rest of them. He doesn't know himself (he's stunned how much he loves fighting), he reads Aizen as a saint and a guide when he might be the least enlightened man in Hueco Mundo.

His goal is noble, but he doesn't have the tools to accomplish it and can't admit that to himself, so he'll never get anywhere. He loves everyone in Las Noches and he has no friends.

And I think we all know what Ulquiorra's about since he's the only one of these three who was fleshed out in canon. He's mostly the same, so afraid of his own feelings he pretends he doesn't have any. Of course, here he has an inferior-turned-rival to hate and a Fraccion, which makes it more interesting for his relatively short screentime. I haven't actually finished his story yet so maybe I'll update this.

And of course, Aizen. Aizen's the same nothing on the inside he is in canon, but this time it's actually set up before the very end of his arc, and the book format means we get to see more of what he's thinking. At least, what he THINKS he's thinking, since he's not emotionally literate enough to know how he's really feeling without someone to tell him. I enjoy how he kinda has a point about the Arrancar being ungrateful and using the humanity he gave them as the reason to fight him, but how he's also completely incapable of wondering if he did anything wrong.

Again, haven't finished his arc, but the part where Harribel symbolically welcomes him to the Espada for his Hollow-like heart is AMAZING, and unlike canon where he gets beat like an hour after he steps out to fight, here he'll have enough time to actually process what he gave up for power. I'm interested to see how that goes.

[turnbackthependulum]

Halibel: Hey guys, Yammy is missing. Starrk: *sleeping* Aaroniero: Pass me the sandwich! Zommari: Ulquiorra: *sips tea* Barragan: Nnoitra: Hm. Szayel: Oh. Grimmjow: Finally.

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BLEACH chapter 255

[soulless-bleach]

Zommari is the birthday day boy!!! AND on Friday the 13th??? An icon

[lizztoons]

Behold! They will soon become buttons!

Also if anyone can guess the significance behind the colors surrounding each character you get a cookie.

[lucook]

All of Byakuya's individual fights involve situations or opponents about understanding your own feelings.

Zommari with your power called "AMOR" (that means LOVE) made Byakuya understand that loved his sister.

Against Tsukishima, Byakuya saw your weakness and the weakness of his Zanpakuto.

Ichigo made Byakuya understand his concepts about rules and swallow your pride.

Äs Nödt made Byakuya know your fears, and left him on the death row with this insecurity. That's why he attacks Äs Nödt such desesperate after the flies.

And PePe again with love, but this time it was for the love of your Zanpakuto "Why did you throw away your Zanpakuto?"

For me, he should have died against Äs Nödt. It would give Ichigo a lot focus and Rukia a better development. But I understand that your mature on the serie is so good.