Bleach: Derailed

"It's gin. I want gin, not wine!"

"Gin, right."

SNRK

The woman stops, turns to look you in the eye, and nods. "Yes. The captain found out that I was poisoning the ones who just sat around all day, and made me stop."

Welp. Nojimura is now my favourite character. She's overworked and has completely run out of fucks to give.

The officer sighs. "Damn. Why'd you have to have a good reason, Kurosaki? I can't get mad with a reason like that."

I know that souls frequently (but not universally) lose their memories of life upon being purified and entering Soul Society, but I imagine there've been a few other people with the same plan as Ichigo here. It's also an easy one to sympathise with, so we've seen more than a few shinigami react similarly.

The overworked woman groans dramatically, but then perks up. "You still want to learn how to heal people though, right? If you stop by after you get a posting I'll give you a few pointers, if you'll do a few shifts for me. I'll work out the details with whoever your officer is."

Building dem positive relationships with other squads. Aw yeah.

" He demands, voice hot with passion, before devolving into what you're coming to understand as one of his characteristic rants on the zanpakuto. He might have a bit of a fixation.

Yeah, the rank and file shinigami might be relatively normal, but all the experienced ones are professionally weird.

I have concerns about the management of 4th squad.

It speaks poorly of them that the healers have to be ordered to stop poisoning their subordinates.

Well I think it speaks fantastically of them. There's a thing with medical professionals developing rather, ah, grim senses of humour.

I'm now imagining all the seated officers in the 4th basically being sleep-deprived chain smokers who creep the other squads out with their jokes about horrible injuries.

Just a bunch of jaded individuals who ran out of patience with all the other injury-prone shinigami centuries ago.

...Did we ever find out how Ichigo died? 'Cuz I'm thinking a car crash did him in.

Been mentioned a couple times in the thread so far, got hit by a truck.
 
MUH MAMORU and ULTIMATE POWER are nice and all, but if I squint one of these options suggests illusory/sensory/spirit-corporealization stuff, AND is heavily in line with Ichigo's core goal.

[X] Being able to interact with your family again, as if you were alive.

If this vote determines anything about Zanpakuto abilities, this seems the most interesting/Canon divergent.

Also, there're Kido for protect people (healing/barriers) and all that - dunno about any to let a Shinigami skip Gigai for mortal normalcy stuff.
 
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[X] How you'd shove your sisters away from harm's way again in a heartbeat.
 
We have not seen much of the tomodachis.

Chad must be in the dumps man. And Tatsuki! Shiiiit man. Keio and bomb guy too.

But Chad. From what I can remember of Chad, he didn't have anyone that really got him like Ichigo did. He lost his grandfather and got avoided until Ichigo didn't give a shit. Ouch.
 
All of Ichigo's friends deserved better and more screen time. Chad even got powers but nooooo, he was like, the literally who of the main group.

Keigo and Mizu guy needed more screen time too! Everyone, fight against the mangaka and destroy the confines of limited ink! Become main characters for victory and great justice!
 
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