#zommari rureaux

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BLEACH - Espada

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Espada Captain

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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.

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Can you write some cute personal headcanons you have for the espadas excluding yammy and barragan

Of course i can! Thank you for requesting! I hope you enjoy!

Personal espada hcs (without yammy and barragan)

Starrk:

He talks in his sleep, the things he mainly talks about are lilynette, how tired he is and his loneliness. Lilynette sometimes teases his about this (except for when his rambling is sad)

He steals pillows and blankets from the world of the living. He just finds them so soft so he takes them

He enjoys hot cocoa, he tried it once in the human realm out of curiosity and loved it

Harribel:

She knows who to sew and teaches her fraccion how to as well. She once sewed a blanket for starrk who was extremely grateful

Shes cares a lot about the safety of her fraccion and would do anything to protect them and I mean anything

Shes nice to other fraccion as well, this has lead to her being extremely popular within the fraccion and most of them saying that if they weren't serving their current espada they'd go to her except for tesla who's scared nnoitra might kill him if he says that

Ulquiorra:

Despite his monotone appearance and personality he's actually really ticklish, grimmjow found this out after accidently poking him in the side and ulquiorra threatened him to keep quiet grimmjow told nnoitra and yammy

He actually doesn't enjoy aizens tea, its too strong for him but he pretends it doesn't bother him everyone knows

He's actually somewhat nice to wonderweiss, he'll let him follow him for around 15 minutes before getting annoyed and telling wonderweiss to go away

Nnoitra:

Actually doesn't treat tesla that bad, he cares for his fraccion but he won't ever tell him that or make it obvious

He once found a stray cat in the human realm and took it back to hueco mundo, it took 5 minutes for him to kill it out of annoyance it was supposed to annoy grimmjow but he couldn't find him and got bored of searching

Actually likes aizens tea, he wont ever admit it tho and if you even suggest that he does then he'll kill you

Grimmjow:

Treats his fraccion like brothers who annoy him, especially di roy who he treats exactly like an annoying little brother

Feels a little bad for the granz brothers hating each other, this is only because he thinks its making yylfordt weak

Goes to the human world just to chill, he actually kind of likes it there and ever since he discovered bars and wrestling it was hard to get him back to hueco mundo

Zommari:

The only espada who actually tries to talk to and befriend aaroniero, he's tried to get the 9th espada to mediate with him but it always ends in rejection, he wont stop trying tho

Went to the human world and had a custom made poster of aizen with the quote 'do it for lord aizen'

Is nice to szayelaporro's fraccion, he knows how the mad scientist treats them and he pities them

Szayelaporro:

Doesn't hate his brother as much as he says he does, he does it as to not look weak in front of others

Like ulquiorra he also doesn't like aizens tea but instead of pretending to like it he brings his own special ingredient to put in it nobody knows what it is

Gets along with gin well, the two tend to talk about random stuff it's mostly gin asking questions about arrancars and Szayelaporro jokes about how gin must be making some kind of arrancar encyclopedia

He has an outfit for every occasion

Aaroniero:

Has secretly always wanted a fraccion but is too scared to actually get one

He's scared of wonderweiss but at the same time he doesn't completely hate him, he'll let the odd arrancar hang around him for a bit

Actually enjoys espada meetings since its the only time this many arrancars are near him without being outwardly disgusted by him

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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.

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

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BLEACH chapter 255

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Behold! They will soon become buttons!

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

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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.

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Seireitei Smashability Showdown: (Loser's) Round 1, Match 99

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Hello, nice to see the requests are open again and thank you for your hard work <3 If it's possible, do you think you could write something about zommarie with a partner who is very careful about his wants and needs please ? Have a nice day !

Zommari isn't used to that level of attentiveness. Though he's had it better than a lot of Hollows, in terms of being left alone, someone having any particular investment in what he wants is a completely new concept. For a while, he tries to dismiss it. Taking advantage of your consideration would surely be stepping into some kind of trick. He doesn't trust that you're being fully genuine; or at least, that this attentiveness could come without a cost. However, as the efforts remain consistent, it's hard not to unconsciously slip into a pattern of letting you do as you please.

It feels safe, in a way, to have you looking out for his wellbeing. Zommari doesn't directly admit that, but as he comes to trust your intentions more and more, it brings him some peace to know that you're legitimately trying to be kind to him. That's a rare luxury afforded to an Arrancar, and you surely know that as well.