heaven is an indignant girl

and it's got a way of knowing when to haunt me

sfw, ichiruki

Rukia thinks it is best to leave Ichigo be after his powers fade, believing she ruined his life. She takes some small consolation in the part of his fighting spirit she is convinced she is now carrying with her, inspiring her to become strong like he was. She does not, of all things, expect to wind up hosting his inner Hollow. The Hollow expects to fade away and die when Ichigo’s powers disappear, without his king ever learning the truth about him. He is used to being abandoned and forgotten, and where exactly is he supposed to go now, anyway? And yet he lingers on, tossed against all reason into Kuchiki Rukia’s inner world. (In which two people, both separated from and haunted by Ichigo, eventually find a surprising amount of solace in each other’s company.)

JIROU AZUMA 弐郎 我妻 

BLACK TORCH (2026)

"Pushing Your Luck"

painted with acrylic gouache and every shade of green paint marker i got lying around :^) painted on the mat frame too and it came out better than i thought!

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- getting run through with rukias zanpakuto in order to gain soul reaper powers

- getting his soul chain cut by urahara

- being punched into soul reaper form with Rukia’s glove

-what Kon does with his body while he’s off busy fighting

- losing his human sentience and becoming full-on hollow at various points— especially in his fight with Ulquiorra

- getting backed into a corner to far he has no choice but to pursue hollowfication

- getting Hollow Ichigo forcibly coerced out of him by muramasa

- there’s more

It’s just interesting to me that despite the power and capability that he obviously has (that other characters have identified in him) he’s never called a prodigy like Hitsugaya. He’s still just either “ryoka-boy” or the gotei 13’s ace up their sleeve.