After reading more and more about AEIWAM’s division four, I feel like more posts about Yura and his relationship to the division he ends up joining and its members. I’ll make each of the three most notable characters in division 4 (Unohana, Isane, Hanataro) their own posts.
As always, dedicated to the lovely/handsome/distinguished @gallusrostromegalus and their fic AEIWAM.
(Gallus I’m sorry if any characters mentioned are OOC for your vision of them, let me know if that’s the case.)
So let’s get started with
Unohana
Unohana is one of the first to advocate for Yura’s continued existence during the captain’s meeting called upon Yamamoto discovering those rumors about Yura being Aizen or some sort of creation of his were true.
AEIWAM’s Aizen is TERRIFIED of Unohana, and Yura is no different. Unohana can hear Yura’s hammering heart every time he walks by her office.
Entering the division headed by a captain he fears above all else in the soul society may seem a strange choice, but Yura has his reasons.
One of them is while Unohana scares him in a deep, primal way, that makes him ADMIRE her. One of the defining features of Yura’s character is how much of a stranglehold Aizen’s perceptions have on his psyche.
While Aizen was a dangerous threat to the soul society, in AEIWAM’s canon, he was nowhere near the threat he or Yura thinks he was. To Yura, Aizen is terrifying, due to the threat AIZEN thought he posed, which has affected Yura’s perceptions of him.
For Unohana to terrify Aizen, the greatest of all threats in his mind, she must be a shining beacon of morality, power, and hope, and as such, while he is terrified of her, he also idolizes her, and puts her on a pedestal so high it would make the most hardcore fandom Stan blush.
Unohana’s interactions with Yura have done nothing to dull this perception of her. Following his joining of the 4th division, He’s given a plague doctor’s mask and a hood by Unohana, to conceal his face. To Yura; The mask being like the ones worn by those who fought one of the deadliest diseases known to man, despite many lacking either the means or the knowledge to treat the afflicted, symbolized Unohana’s trust that he could truly be the complete opposite of Aizen: Someone who’s compassion manifested was trying to truly help those in need, even if he at present lacked the knowledge.
(While Yura is totally imagining the meaning behind the mask, in that there is none other than Shinigami being treated might be disconcerted by Aizen’s face standing over them, the mask stops any drama before it starts upon his transfer.)
