I don’t have a lot with Tatsuki drafted out yet, but she does play a prominent role in the fic, starting with going to Seireitei with the gang instead of Uryuu in the soul society arc. Have this bit with her and Uryuu:
— Inside urahara Shoten, a few days before everyone* leaves for Seireitei to rescue Rukia:
“Ichigo.” Uryuu glared magnificently at him, glasses shining in the dingy flourescent lights inside the display room of the Urahara Shoten. “I’m coming with you.”
“…Uhhhh-” Ichigo began.
“I know- I have not behaved… rationally, as of late. Setting off an entire pack of hollow bait in the middle of a heavily populated city in some kind of demented dick-measuring contest with a classmate who is only peripherally involved in the cult bullshit my family is trying to escape was. Not the most hinged behavior.” Uryuu started.
“That’s putting it mildly.” Muttered Keigo.
“-But you were right that my anger was misplaced, and you and Rukia both have been so kind to me, that- Look, this grudge between Quincy and Shinigami has gone on long enough- it’s gone on so long I don’t even really understand why it got started!”
“-Yeah, okay but-” Ichigo tried to speak up.
“So I’m coming with you. If Rukia hadn’t stepped in with the portal closure device I don’t know what would have happened, and I- I owe her just as much as you do, Ichigo!”
“You do, but-”
“Dammit Ichigo I’m sorry! I’m sorry for what I did and I need to make it up to her and bury this stupid fucking hatchet between our people and-”
“DUDE!” Ichigo shouted, slapping both hands against Uryuu’s cheeks and smooshing his face until he looked like an alarmed goldfish with Hyperopia-corrective glasses. “Uryuu- It’s okay. You and I are cool. You are Rukia are cool. I don’t know all of what’s going on with your family and soul society, but I feel like they could eventually be cool too.”
Uryuu smiled as best he could with his face compressed like this, tears in his eyes.
“…However-” Ichigo sighed. “Rukia’s Bosswho runs the whole Soul Society is apparently the kind of maniac that sends people’s own family members to arrest and imprison them for minor accidents in the field, which is, as you say, not the most hinged behavior, and not someone who I expect to be cool about anything, but especially not my friend, the son of people who were involved in something called a ‘Thousand Year Blood War’ with said boss, coming to said boss’s house, specifically to commit crime. I feel like that’s antithetical to the whole 'No more blood feud’ movement.”
“…I shee yourg poind.” Uryu mumbled, face still smooshed in Ichigo’s hands.
“Also, didn’t you get hit by a truck?” asked Tatsuki.
AEIWAM question! I know you have already answered an ask about what the captains know of Unohana and her massmurderer past, but I gotta ask: what does Isane know and think?? Is she aware that her boss is an ex-massmurderer, but does she just put it aside cause she is a great doctor too? Like 'Sure she might have killed tens of thousands but hey she has saved more than that and so lets set the past aside to learn more', or?? I haven't read Bleach in like a decade but from what I retain Isane seemed gentle and surprisingly normal by Bleach standards? What's her deal here?
Also i love everything you have been doing with the characters, i adore seeing how you flesh them out, explain old quirks and give them new ones! Can't wait to read the whole thing like 20 times. I am already stocking up on tissues for whatever you have done to Kaien.
Oh no, Isane is perfectly aware of Unohana’s past. Maybe moreso than anyone else alive, Possibly even Kenpachi and Yamamoto.
The thing is… Isane is a bit like a Lake Baikal Seal.
If you’re not familiar with the world’s most fucked up body of fresh water, this is lake Baikal:
Pretty, huh? Also rather long, as you can see it stretching right to the horizon in the distance! In fact, Lake Baikal is 395 Miles long! the lake is so enormous, it even has it’s own species of adorably round and anime-eyed freshwater seal:
Huh. You might think. Those are some really big eyes, even for a seal, nature’s most O_O animals. What are they using them for?
Well you see, the Lake Baikal Seal hunts primarily either at night or in the Mesopelagic zone up to 1,300ft below the surface, where there is very little sunlight, so it needs them Big Ol’ Eyes to see the fishes, and the extremely long whiskers to echolocate for them when the light fails entirely.
Sorry, HOW deep?
See, the thing about Lake Baikal is that it’s not only the world’s largest lake by surface area and volume, it’s also the world’s deepest lake, at 5,397 feet deep. Yes. a little over a mile deep. That’s not even counting the 4-8 miles of silt underneath the “bottom” of the lake, that has slowly filled in the Geological rift because this lake is also sitting directly on top of where two chunks of the earth’s crust are pulling apart.
:)
What the fuck. You might say. Also, why are you using a Bleach Fanfic Post to talk about a fucked up lake and it’s fucked up Seals?
Because I have several special interests and like to combine them in fun ways, but to answer your question:
You are right! Isane is gentle! She is Kind and takes care of people at their worst! She’s a hard worker who absolutely devotes herself to the service of others through healing. Like. Really Devotes herself to Service.
(Things get psychological and freaky after the cut)
Ducky and her friends, 2008 | Kate and Laurel, 2007 | Princeton and Lena, 2009 | Ronnie and Jo, 2005 | Simon and West, 9AM | Damian and Daughters, 2009 | Cat and Brittany, 2009 | Jentleman of Distinction, 2009 | Mandy, 2005 | David and Isaac, 2007
Imagine my shock as a neurodivergent teen when I first realized that using large vocabulary and eloquent speech doesn’t make you less likely to be misinterpreted, rather it adds an entirely new layer of misinterpretation I had never even realized existed in the form of people thinking you’re being snobbish or condescending when you’re just trying to be specific
when you think about it tho pliny the elder is kind of the funniest guy in the world like. he wrote all these books about natural history that he was wrong about where he confidently claims things like “some animals only have blood during certain parts of the year” and then when mt. vesuvius erupted and destroyed pompeii and herculaneum he said “oh mt vesuvius is exploding? let me go check it out” and then he died
the man was committed to science. he wasn’t very good at it. but he was committed
Y'all ever get so excited about a scientific paper you’re reading that you get chills???
So I thought to myself
Huh, a lot of our invasive species come from China and Japan
And then I thought, huh, I should look up what Kudzu is like in its natural habitat
And I found this article by a team of scientists investigating the history of Kudzu in China
And ohhhhh my goddddd. I’m vibrating with excitement over how cool this is.
The first bombshell that turned my brain inside out:
KUDZU IS NOT WILD. IT IS SEMI-DOMESTICATED.
In China, Kudzu has been a fundamentally important plant for food and textiles throughout history. We have Kudzu cloth that is 6,000 years old!
THIS PLANT CLOTHED AND FED ONE OF THE MOST POPULOUS AND MOST ENDURING HUMAN CULTURES ON EARTH
and in turn
HUMANS SHAPED AND SELECTED FOR ITS TRAITS
*AND*
in its natural range, humans are the main “predator” of kudzu
“Harvest by humans appears to be the major control mechanism in its native areas.”
Kudzu is like that because it co-evolved with humans.
WHAT
YALL
This means
That Kudzu is so highly invasive because—just like most plants evolved to be grazed by herbivores and/or eaten by caterpillars, keeping them in balance with everything else—Kudzu basically evolved to be harvested by humans
The other half of the ecological partnership that keeps Kudzu in balance with everything else isn’t a caterpillar or a hoofed beast. It’s us.
