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Just for y'all, here's like a near-traumacore aesthetic/moodboard I did a looong long time ago back around Legion coming out when I was still struggling a lot myself a lot (and had no idea I had borderline + bipolar etc etc) and was Coping

Prospero:

If his and Mayuri’s respective modifications were any indication, each and every Zanpakutō had their own unique way of being worked on.  Mayuri hadn’t said much about his, other than a few mutterings about gold and insect guts, some kind of gilded vivisection, whereas his own had been a matter of thread, an infinitely complex cat’s cradle of crimson-bright strings.  Neither here in reality nor there, in the Zanpakutō’s inner world, it was something of a liminal space, a connector between the two.  It would be interesting to investigate someday – an entire new field of research devoted to the unique and intricate guts of a Shinigami’s most intimate bond.

Yet that subject, just like the space itself, was neither here nor there.  What mattered were his own guts – or threads, rather – and exactly what he’d cut.

-Urahara reflecting on zanpakutou modification, from Imperfect (by meeee)

So yah I've been wanting to draw that scene ever since I wrote it. I'd strongly suggest opening the image up in a new tab, since the detail is fucking absurd. Like I was about to post it this morning and randomly decided I needed to paint a hyperdetailed eyeball like it was no biggie

which comparativrely speaking, it really wasn't. Oh, the weird colorful stuff above the eye and throughout is supposed to be a zoomed in Madagascan sunset moth, I wanted zoomed in Jizo wings but my attempt just kinda looked like roof shingles

more Fun Facts (and art snippets, including the upside down version) below the cut:3