to me darumi is very much the kind of person who can. choose to love someone and i think this is even more true in a way where she believes that people who are strongly invested in her should be rewarded for their time and effort. because if she can make it an incentive then maybe they'll keep caring about her.
this shows most blatantly (and most ugly) in her relationship with hiruko where it's fairly obvious that darumi is playing her dog in the hope for continued sex offscreen and is dependant on the attention. tsubasa also wins her loyalty this way, though i think it's notable that given this is after she was already with hiruko darumi has probably even more deeply internalized that this is how she should covet romantic attention.
but i also think to an extent this manifests with retsnom takumi where her initial feelings are gratitude and a sense of loyalty to him for making a choice that saved her at his own emotional, psychological and social expense. she hasn't known him that long by the time she's making him breakfast and trying to cheer him up.
i do kind of see takudaru as being like. basically canon from her side but in her mind he's too good for her and he likes nozomi and he hasn't given her any signals to the contrary. and she helps him get his friendship with nozomi back because she loves him and her loyalty is with him and not her own desires (which would evidently be to keep him to herself given her lonely jealousy)
to darumi love is loyalty and it's giving the people who give her love what they want so they'll keep loving her. and because she loves them.
she is also vaguely a sex worker so using her body as a currency to maintain a stable life around her is no new idea to her
so for daruei there is absolutely this angle where i think she feels obligated to return his feelings. but i also don't think it would spiral that unhealthily given that she can in fact genuinely choose to love someone so it's not like. fake. and that eito is himself not really the type who will initiate anything on earth ever so its in her lap basically.
but it is a little ick as like, a treat. tf am i talking about-
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A knee length dress he wears to a rave (with shorts underneath so he can tuck it in to look like a shirt when he gets home so his parents won't know he wears dresses)
Firstly on a irl level, very good information to know for being involved in activist spaces.
Now secondarily, this does a good job explaining the sort of mindset my spy/intelligence agents, hardcore activist, and otherwise covert muses approach sensitive information with. It is not a personal matter when they don't share everything going on with them or what they're up to, it's a matter of safety for both them and the other party involved.
Thereās a lot to unpack here when it comes to discussing the piece of the Soul King that is fused with Rangiku ā per Canāt Fear Your Own World (CFYOW). While CFYOW is both recognized and unrecognized as canon, I do incorporate it into my interpretation of Rangiku and therefore accept that Rangiku did hold a fragment of the Soul King until it was forcefully removed by Aizen along with a large portion of her soul.
With that being said, there are a few headcanon/meta concepts that I want to expand further upon thanks in part to being asked by some delightful, creative, and amazing individuals for my personal perspective on Rangikuās part in all this.
Aizen and his men forcefully extracted the fused fragment of the Soul King that dwelled inside Rangikuās soul, with it though they also took a large major of her soul itself as per CFYOW.
There are a few interesting points here, one if that Rangiku is the only shinigami stated to have one of the Soul King Nails fused with her. The others are stated to mainly be human/fullbringers and they are eventually used by Aizen and Tokinada in their respective experiments. Ā
Additionally, other beings that are fused with parts of the Soul King, it seems to be a fundamental concept of their existence. If the piece is removed/ taken/activated from them it would potentially bring about their death/cease to exist as they once had. Ukitake is bonded with the Right Arm, allowing him to live but once he allows Mimihagi dominance of his body, it brings about his death. Itās safe to assume that had Mimihagi been forcefully extracted prior, Ukitake would have died as Mimihagi had removed Ukitakeās diseased lungs as a child and bonded with him. Ā The Left Hand is literally its own entity and the Quincy Pernida. His body is literally the hand, simple enough to say, no hand, no body, no Pernida.
And yet, Rangikuās fragment was forcefully extracted, and she still lived ā not just lived, thrived, became a shinigami, became a fukutaichou. Even with a large part of her soul and the Soul King fragment taken ā so how? Because Aizen and his men were not able to extract the entire piece. The process of removing the fragment fractured it, as well as fracturing her soul in general. Iāll expand more upon this later.
Aizen and his men were inexperienced at this point, extracting and stealing pieces of a soul is one thing but the forceful removal of a fused piece of the Soul King is another thing entirely. @uraharashoutenĀ helped with expanding upon this theory, with the idea that the Soul King fragment that Aizen took from Rangiku was the first piece needed in creating his HÅgyoku. If Soul King fragments can fuse with souls, whatās better to have as the foundation when youāre literally collecting and gathering souls. How else are multiple pieces of individual souls meant to be fused together?
Now, Aizen and his men believe to have extracted the Soul King fragment and the majority of Rangikuās soul and leave her for dead ā but she doesnāt die, because a piece still remains. This is essentially The Hercules rule from the Disney movie. Baby Hercules didnāt drink every last drop and so he still retained an ounce of his god-like strength? Remember that? Yeah, thatās basically the idea here.
They didnāt take the whole fragment, she didnāt die, and she still retains her strength. Just throwing it out there that if she hadnāt had that fragment removed and most of her soul, it would be over for all yāall. New Protagonist.
Thereās one last thing I want to touch upon related to this and that actually is Rangikuās Bankai. I will gladly eat crow if Kubo ever for whatever reason shows us Rangikuās Bankai (but itās been over twenty years I aināt holding my breath). I personally headcanon that Rangiku will not achieve Bankai (although I have also written and thought out her Bankai) because of the damage done to her soul and the amount that was removed during Aizenās assault on her as a child. Her soul is too damaged, fractured and broken. She lost most of it, goes off and becomes a Shinigami. To have a Zanpakuto, you essentially bond a piece of your soul with an Asauchi, so Rangikuās soul creates Haineko. Either this girl has way more reiryoku than like anyone period or sheās getting close to running on empty. Her achieving Bankai would put too much strain on her, spiritually.
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Just a wee nsfw head canon that Iāve been trying to figure out a way to articulate, but here we go, letās give it a shot:
Mattās body is ridiculously sensitive all over, and where the average person is particularly sensitive, Matt is even more so. I think heās just very easy, easy to turn on, easy to keep his interest, easy to get him off. He just really likes sex the way some people like pizza. ie: No such thing as bad pizza, for Matt thereās no such thing as bad sex. Obviously some experiences are better than others, but by nature partner satisfaction is a part of his own, and as mentioned, itās not hard for Matt to find his way to an orgasm.
20+ Icons for Stormvermin (Warhammer Fantasy/Vermintide) below the cut. These are for public use; feel free to use them and edit them as you like. Credit would be nice, but itās not neccesary (like my post if you use tho? :3c) . All from canon sources.