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Now You Feel Like Number None [Bleach Arrancar Quest]

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[X] The Coming of the King.

My understanding is that publishers can afford to carry books like highbrow literary fiction and dry nonfiction because they have trashy romance novels or whatever that gets sold the truckload.
 
random_npc said:
wait, that big weird monster thing? what's so messed up about it?
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In Number None canon, Hooleer is basically Ungoliant. The ancient horror every Hollow fears, who bleeds gillians and threatens a looming apocalypse over all. It's existed as long as anyone can remember, and even the Espada fear it immensely.

And then Aizen captured it, bound it in chains, and it lives right under the city. Imagine having a live nuclear warhead under you, at all times. Except the nuclear warhead is also a thing of shadows from ancient myth, which once nearly ate Satan and required all his armies of fallen angels to save him from the folly that was trying to deal with Ungoliant.

Hooleer in Number None is fantastic.

Back me up @Omicron!
 
gonna be honest, i bet aizen didnt even realy capture it, just lead it under the place, or it was already under the place.
cause i dont think aizen can fuck with someone that can break old man genocides shit, i realy kinda dont.
 
dredloki said:
gonna be honest, i bet aizen didnt even realy capture it, just lead it under the place, or it was already under the place.
cause i dont think aizen can fuck with someone that can break old man genocides shit, i realy kinda dont.
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It's not a someone, it's a some thing, and Omicron has, if I recall correctly, said that Aizen brought it to Las Noches in chains. He does, in fact, control it. That's why everyone is terrified.

*For a certain value of control, at least, I'm sure.
 
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It occurs to me there is actually an explanation to how it could blow away yamotos flames, and die to one kick. It can be unbeatable against soul reapers or hallows, but not at the same time. It has either a toggle to be unbeatable to one at a time, or it can counter any energy that's only one kind, But is very vulnerable to mixed energies. Sort of a prophecy thing, "neither hallow nor soul reaper, not Quincy shall fell you" so when a vizard showed up they just straight up ignored its defenses and killed it.
 
random_npc said:
It occurs to me there is actually an explanation to how it could blow away yamotos flames, and die to one kick. It can be unbeatable against soul reapers or hallows, but not at the same time. It has either a toggle to be unbeatable to one at a time, or it can counter any energy that's only one kind, But is very vulnerable to mixed energies. Sort of a prophecy thing, "neither hallow nor soul reaper, not Quincy shall fell you" so when a vizard showed up they just straight up ignored its defenses and killed it.
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Arrancars are half soul reaper half hollow.
 
[x] The Coming of the King.
-Pros: On a surface level, an easy crowd-pleaser, especially among those who particularly hate Shinigami or love great battles. On a deeper level, a subtle reminder that your Lord is not one of your kind.
-Cons: Possibly displeasing to Aizen. Ulquiorra will not be fooled.

I know what I want. And what I want is fight scenes and CREEPY MURDER-SKELETONS.
 
Phigment said:
Our target audience is basically the Espada, the Privarons, and the fraccion. Those are the only people of high enough social rank that they're likely to get invited to a gala thrown by the Quinta Espada. The guest list is likely to be:
Starrk + Lilynette
Barragan + 7 fraccion
Halibel + 3 fraccion
Cirucci + 2 fraccion
Ulquiorra
Grimmjow + 3 fraccion
Zommari
Szayel
Aaroniero
Gantenbainne
Dordoni + maybe Elyssa?

Option 1 runs the risk of not entertaining Grimmjow, and by extension his fraccions, and annoying Barragan, and his notoriously obsequious and prickly fraccions. Which is up to a dozen attendees. Which is also something like 50% of the possible guests, depending on whether Szayel clones up a date for himself.

Option 2 annoys the Shinigami, who aren't even invited and nobody likes anyhow, and Ulquiorra, who believes socializing is squandering crucial moping time, and Starrk, who will probably come to the next show anyhow, if he's awake, because he's all about the socializing for its own sake.

Option 3 depresses potentially everyone, and we don't have enough alcohol available for that.
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Well, you convinced me, even if your math is a little off. If you can't please everyone, please the most people. Or the most strategically useful and while Nemo hates Barragan, he's maybe a slightly better ruler than Aizen in the long term (though here's hoping they both get themselves offed against Soul Society).

[X] The Coming of the King.

dredloki said:
gonna be honest, i bet aizen didnt even realy capture it, just lead it under the place, or it was already under the place.cause i dont think aizen can fuck with someone that can break old man genocides shit, i realy kinda dont.
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My guess is he captured it but he didn't fight it. Hooleer probably has no idea who Aizen is or even where it's at, being lost in some kind of illusion.
 
random_npc said:
Ren told the story, and mentioned a moth who took her mantis friend and fled, that appears in some versions of the story. Luppi knos exactly one moth, and he knows that she's both sneaky and the kind to make friends. Moths are not super common so he at least suspects. Oh god, if we'd told him the story from the past that day he'd know for sure, sharing a type with a hollow is suspicious, but being able to match two types would clinsich it. Luppi is fishing, so it's a good thing Nemo has no tells.
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See, my read on that was that Luppi didn't even know himself why he picked that one out. He knows the story, though not anything about a moth specifically. While he was flipping through all the possibilities, he was going by feel, rejecting anything that didn't feel intuitively like a story he could tell - and it's his nature to sow discord, so "stories he could tell" translates as ones which cut at someone in the subtext.

And in considering the Doom that Came to the Hundred-Armed Duke, it twanged, and he felt "this could work; I could tell this story". But I honestly like to think he didn't know why it did. His nature drew him to it, and he knew from experience that meant it would cut at someone - and he may well have suspected that someone was Nemo, hence the probing - but I'm pretty sure he had no idea of why or what exactly the connection there was. Only, at an instinctual level arising from the nature that is - as he said - wired into him, that there was one.
 

[X] The Coming of the King.
-Pros: On a surface level, an easy crowd-pleaser, especially among those who particularly hate Shinigami or love great battles. On a deeper level, a subtle reminder that your Lord is not one of your kind.
-Cons: Possibly displeasing to Aizen. Ulquiorra will not be fooled.
 
Kaiya said:
In Number None canon, Hooleer is basically Ungoliant. The ancient horror every Hollow fears, who bleeds gillians and threatens a looming apocalypse over all. It's existed as long as anyone can remember, and even the Espada fear it immensely.

And then Aizen captured it, bound it in chains, and it lives right under the city. Imagine having a live nuclear warhead under you, at all times. Except the nuclear warhead is also a thing of shadows from ancient myth, which once nearly ate Satan and required all his armies of fallen angels to save him from the folly that was trying to deal with Ungoliant.

Hooleer in Number None is fantastic.

Back me up @Omicron!
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No :V

Don't get overinvested in some ideas I was tossing around in chat the other day and definitely don't advance them as gospel in thread it makes it awkward when I suddenly and radically change everything I told you because I had a better idea. Or I don't. Or I tweak a bunch of things. Or deliberately try to write a character in its own special way and not as Literally Reskinned Ungoliant.

The part about bound in chains was probably me being figurative! Or maybe not! You don't know how Hooleer got brought to Las Noches. Maybe Aizen just left a trail of tasty snacks aaall the way from the depths of Hueco Mundo (probably not).

Who knows.
 
Omicron said:
Maybe Aizen just left a trail of tasty snacks aaall the way from the depths of Hueco Mundo (probably not).
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Aizen: "What nonsense. Do you know how much that many snacks would cost? It's not like snacks grow on trees. Of which there are nearly none of in Hueco Mundo anyway."

Uliquorra: "Snacks or trees, my lord?"

Aizen: "Yes. On that note, prepare a raiding party. Invade the human world. My stomach has the rumblies that only snacks can quieten."

Uliquorra: "Yes, my lord. Your will be done."

Aizen: "Take Espadas Five, Six, and Luppi. Three Espadas. And Luppi."
 
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