Re-reading The Final "battle" For Bleach Again, Because I'm A Masochist Avoiding Writing My Own Projects

How to show emotions

Part II

How to show happiness

big smile

eyes going wide

corners of the mouth going up

showing teeth

squealing

speaking rapidly

laugh lines appearing

smiling

being animated

direct eye contact

How to show sadness

shoulders slumped

looking down

turning head away

frowning

not seeing properly anymore

slow movements

corners of the mouth going downwards

quivering lips

eyes filled with tears

running nose

breathing fitfully

How to show disgust

wrinkled nose

gagging

eyes narrowing

no eye contact

upper lip pulled up

How to show fear

wide eyes

heart pounding

feeling paralyzed

shaking / clammy hands

trying to close eyes

open mouth

heavy breathing

cold and clammy hands

clenched hands

tensing up

eyesbrows going together

trying to look for an exit

How to show surprise

raised eyebrows

jaw going slack

open mouth

eyes widening

gasp

How to show frustration

groaning

rolling eyes

throwing arms in the air

pacing up and down

huffing

tapping your foot

tapping your fingers

crossing your arms

stomping

checking watch

More: Part I + Part III

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and you know what!? maybe ichigo WAS supposed to destroy the balance between the worlds. maybe he SHOULD have gone the bastard buffy route and ended it all devilman style.

Random new year thought that I might make into a fanfic at some point:

Ichigo is meant to be this perfect culmination-slash-combination of everything but imagine an AU where Ichigo's contradicting origins (Shinigami/Hollow/Human/Quincy gag) actively handicapped him. Not the lazy 'Yhawch parasite holding him back' explanation. Simply by his very nature, its impossible for any of his powers to manifest to advanced levels without threatening to implode.

Try to advance his Hollow powers? His Quincy powers deteriorate.

Try to advance his Quincy powers? His Hollow powers deteriorate.

Try to advance his Shinigami powers? His Hollow powers love every second but his Quincy side weakens dramatically.

Try to advance Shinigami and Quincy together? Hollow wants a slice of the pie.

Try to advance Hollow and Quincy? Gets no where slowly because they're anathema - very nearly killing himself in the process.

No amount of 'achieving inner balance' would help him with it because by the nature of his existence, he lacks capacity to do these things. The only reason Ichigo managed to gain a high tier shinigami technique like Bankai in the first place? Yoruichi used a doll to force out a twisted malformed parody out of him.

Which would place a whole new spin on the asauchi trial when he fails: O'etsu reveals Ichigo's bankai shattered so easily because he was never supposed to have one in the first place.

Ichigo can never obtain a true Bankai or Vollstandig or Resurrección because the other aspects of his powers violently reject that from happening. At best he can mix-max his base stats to levels far beyond anything others could achieve but he would never obtain the advanced techniques of a pure Shinigami, Hollow or Quincy.

Ichigo could be like Luke Skywalker from Star Wars. Compared to the powerhouses of Kyle Katarn or Starkiller aka. Galen Marek, Luke is actually quite weak. But he brought balance to the force, he brought down an empire and his very name has the ability to shakes worlds (before Disney ruined him).

In my mind, that is the ultimate power Ichigo should've had. Not copious amounts of actual power piled upon him by being a cosmic paradox and freak of nature. His power comes from his symbolism, his feats of will, his ability to inspire change and unshakeable loyalty through sheer force of personality.

Especially since one themes of Bleach is how power shackles and isolates a person. The complete opposite of that theme would be not necessarily the most powerful character, but one with the greatest ability to forge bonds despite that?

It'd be interesting to see how Bleach's narrative would change from that perspective.

guys guys, look I just realized an interesting thing!

This is the position of kid hand in front of many people:

and this is the position of the kid hand to conan:

does this have any meaning? or just a coincidence? ️🤔🤭

Soul society arc: Ichigo finds out Urahara lied to him and is partly to blame for what happened to Rukia. Still he forgives him.

Hueco mundo arc: Ichigo finds out that Orihime is missing and suspected of betraying everyone. Ichigo still believes she’s good and is proven right.

Karakura battle arc: Ichigo finds out his dad is a soul reaper and has been lied to for most of his life. Still he’s the bigger person and lets his dad explain it when he’s ready.

Fullbring arc: Ichigo has a breakdown because all his friends seems to have turned against him.

Anything but the rain arc: Ichigo finds out that his mum was a quincy and everything he thought he knew was a lie. Still he didn’t hold it against anyone. + Ichigo finds out that old man Zangetsu wasn’t his zanpakuto and the one he always thought was his closest ally was in fact holding back his power. Still he accepted both sides of his powers.

Blood war arc: Ichigo finds out that Ishida is working with the enemy. Still he believes in his friend’s goodness and is proven right.

Honestly Ichigo’s biggest achievement is how he’s still kind and trusting of other people. With all he’s gone through I would not fault him for becoming cynical.

Ichigo after yuhwa’s defeat: ”Anyone else? Any more lies or ploys involving me I should know about?”

Kyouraku sweating and avoiding eye contact thinking about how his backup plan was to make Ichigo the new soul king: ”Nope.”

honestly i think ichigo knew from the beginning that soul society didn’t really trust him - he wasn’t at all surprised to find out that ukitake was spying on him. i think, ultimately, ichigo’s greatest strength is that he can always see the good in other people. he doesn’t let their wrongdoings slide, but he doesn’t try to demonize them more than they demonize themselves either.

even after aizen was defeated, ichigo made an effort to try and understand why he was Like That. after gin was killed, ichigo seemed to understand that he’d had another agenda all along - it didn’t excuse what he’d done, but it was enough for ichigo to finally understand him a little, something ichigo himself had already implied he wanted to do.

he’s able to work with ishida, byakuya, renji, urahara, aizen, isshin, the fullbringers, grimmjow, etc., even after everything. it’s not that he’s forgiven and forgotten, because he clearly hasn’t. it’s just that he understands that he doesn’t know everything about everyone and is willing to work with past enemies to accomplish a shared goal.

in other words, he keeps moving forward.

How to show emotions

Part I

How to show annoyance

slightly shaking their head

rolling their eyes

looking to the side

closing their eyes for a moment

sighing

taking a deep breath

clucking their tongue

huffing

crossing their arms in front of their chest

tapping their foot

How to show hurt

turning away

avoiding eye contact

closing eyes

lips pressed together

eyes filled with tears

breathing deeply

How to show anger

clenching their fists

pressing their lips on each other

breathing loudly through their nose

eyes getting smaller

clenching their teeth

clenching their jaw

looking away to calm themselves

speaking with clenched teeth

whole body is tense

screaming

throwing things around

stomping

moving around a lot, can’t keeping still

open body language, like they are ready to attack

frown wrinkles on their forehead

prominent veins

grabbing someone they are angry with to get them to understand why they are angry

becoming violent

non-stop talking, ranting

shaking their head

throwing their arms in the air

eyes either going from one point to another while ranting or completely fixating on the person they are angry with

How to show excitement

jumping up and down

not being able to stand still

clapping their hands

bright eyes

grinning

squealing

giggling

flushed face

bouncing

dilated pupils

tapping their foot

How to show boredom

biting nails

leg bouncing

sighing

playing with everything close by

twiddling your thumbs

spinning around

grumbling

staring into the distance

propping your head on your hand

Part II + Part III

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Thinking about how Yhwach seeing his father again after thousands of years solidified the sheer hypocrisy of his existence and morals and further solidified his self-hatred.

He says he loves peace, but does he really? Or was that his father. The shinigami are weak with peace. Soul Society is pathetic with it. But that’s good for him, for his army, for his war. Peace, only so far as you can throw it.

How much is his plan motivated by peace, really? If he thinks about it, really looks with his all seeing eyes, he knows it’s more about revenge. For his people. For himself. For his father. For the war before.

How much of who he is in front of his Quincy is who his father was? How much does it hurt to stand in front of a frozen corpse and feign superiority when quincies are effectively dead as a group and cruelty of people has flown so freely before his all seeing eyes that he is infected with it?

What good are those eyes, really, when his people are gone and he stands on his father’s bones, looking at the corpse of a kingdom. Peace, but only for Yhwach. Only so he can finally shut his eyes for good. Rest for good. Say goodnight and wake up to see his father, instead of a ghost. To see his Quincy, too—he’s taking them with him, after all.

His father’s humiliation is his too. So he cuts Yamamoto in half and tears down the Seireitei with sacrifices dressed up like soldiers. Because he loves the kind of peace it gives him to see it done.

So he can end his father’s suffering, he rattles the bones the shinigami stand on and watch them struggle and fall and fight.

He thinks ‘everything good in me, I took. And everything good I don’t have left, you gave me’. Father in blood, in bone, in memory.

It isn’t fair that they got peace. It isn’t right. To live is to suffer—to see suffering.

But what if he closes everyone’s eyes? What if everyone goes to sleep.

Oblivion, but the kind that makes him and the world new.