#hitsuichi

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because it felt good. I know I said some stuff about the puns for abilities which I was inordinately pleased with, but I don’t think I said anything about plot

the premise is: Toshiro drops all his ice crystals when the arrancar invade Karakura town and he’s forced into his mature bankai form—and then gets stuck there when Orihime heals him

the end result is Toshiro can’t exert spiritual pressure while in his matured form and has to move in the Kuroakis. Cue big reveals and Isshin’s theatrics and Ichigo having a perpetual bisexual crisis. after that Toshiro has some school adventures, an encounter with Don Kanonji which I thought was fucking hilarious, and possibly slapped in the movies for good measure, although the only major plot adjustments would need to be made for Diamonddust as opposed to Memory. Kusaka is too ripe not to at least reference otherwise

anyway, Toshiro eventually gets kidnapped and subs for Orihime’s role as damsel in distress. while he’s there he gets thrown head first into Espada politics. there’s a few scenes with him and Ulquiorra that I really enjoyed but the specifics of their philosophical argument kept straying out of character. a moment with an ice sculpture that reminds Ulquiorra of that negative space in that tree he likes

the rescue crew would come on through and I’m still on the fence about whether Hinamori would come along. I think I settled on yes because it balanced out into pairs with her there? either way, they burst in and gradually get the picture that Aizen used the hogyoku on Toshiro and now he’s the Cero Espada (Yammy is suitably pissed about this)

cue big fight. Ichigo holds the front line and the group does a takedown with... I think I had Ishida using some Quincy technique to carry a spell and then the arrow would stab Ichigo and kickstart his Quincy heritage, but I’d have to go read my notes

uh... yeah then they go back. oh, right, since Ulquiorra is in Karakura town, he has to fight someone, probably Isshin. anyway, that all happens and then Ichigo rolls back up with his posse and Aizen tells Ulquiorra he needs to clean up the mess

Ulquiorra gets tRiGgEREd by Ichigo saying something doesn’t matter. then he drops Segunda Etapa and Barraigan just froths at the fucking mouth

shit shit shit. I forgot. while they're in Hueco Mundo, after Toshiro chews everyone out for rescuing him and Ichigo stalks off in a huff, they’re get a moment alone together and Toshiro looks up at the sky and says ‘the moon is beautiful tonight’ and Ichigo gets hit with Feels™

uh yeah. Aizen fight. Ichigo bankai breaks... wait that doesn’t work. shit I forget. BUT that aside, after Aizen then it’s dating time and field trips to Soul Society while Las Noches gets a makeover from Halibel with her court of advisors: Starrk, Nelliel, and Ulquiorra. Grimmjow and Luppi are alive too and they hate each other which is so much fun

god. I hadn’t even fucked with TYBW or Fear Your Own World much, but I know I wrote some stuff. like that scene where Ichigo learns that Sasakibe has an original signed Shakespeare folio from a visit he made to Reverse London

Do I even want to know that this means?

No, you really don’t want to. And shouldn’t you be resting, Shiro?

I’m sitting down, aren’t I? Doesn’t that count as resting?

No, not recently we haven’t. Toshiro’s been recovering, so he’s not up to the task of going out and about for too long yet.

*whispering harshly* Would you be quiet?! Shiro’s asleep in the other room!

You can call it something like that.