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Now You Feel Like Number None [Bleach Arrancar Quest]

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That chapter was worth the wait.

I'm glad the Six Pack are going with a non-murder plan for the Gatekeepers. I hope this doesn't mean too much throwing of the invaders into a meatgrinder named Szayel, but we're pretty committed to throwing them into a meatgrinder and hoping they can make it choke, so, there you go.

Jack is good people, and Nemo is fortunate to have him onboard.

Besties have a link to Ichigo's soul. I'm sure that can only result in good things.


I really wasn't expecting to see the Dancers or the Salar again, and that whole sequence was good. Tousen seeing more of Nemo's story, seeing even basic, non-arrancar hollows in a situation more complicated than bestial monsters, getting to see them dance, talking philosophy...all very satisfying.

Tousen as the captain who has to make up for his lack of raw talent with hard work is an interesting take, and fits well. Distinguishes him from Gin, too, who is his peer in experience.

Nemo knows Gin's shikai power now, for all the good it does her. Not convinced that Gin doesn't also realize she was there spying, but anything is possible.

Tousen is on-board with the rebellion now. That's pretty amazing. And he's got an idea.



For voting options, well, I think I know what we all want to see:

[X] Spider-Friend, who runs quickly and makes friends quickly, trying to figure out what to do with these ragged misfits who just fell into his metaphorical lap.
 
[X] Sarugaki Hiyori, the Short and Terrible, justifiably (and permanently) angered at a world which conspired to vex you, and already tuning out all these jokers.

Got a soft spot for Hyori.
 
[x] Kuchiki Rukia, level-headed and professional Shinigami officer, absolutely not distracted by personal grudges and the adorable punch-child accompanying you.
 
[X] Sarugaki Hiyori, the Short and Terrible, justifiably (and permanently) angered at a world which conspired to vex you, and already tuning out all these jokers.
 
[X] Sarugaki Hiyori, the Short and Terrible, justifiably (and permanently) angered at a world which conspired to vex you, and already tuning out all these jokers.
 
[X] Kuchiki Rukia, level-headed and professional Shinigami officer, absolutely not distracted by personal grudges and the adorable punch-child accompanying you.
 
[X] Sarugaki Hiyori, the Short and Terrible, justifiably (and permanently) angered at a world which conspired to vex you, and already tuning out all these jokers.
 
On another track, it's interesting how Tousen was putting the various pieces together incorrectly.

He knows Nemo is up to something. He saw her with the crazy nuclear abomination, and then he saw her with Beauty-Of-A-Falling-Leaf, and concluded that Nemo was on some kind of mad quest to create a god.

Possibly to oppose Aizen, or to replace him, or possibly just out of sheer megalomania because Tousen's social circle includes far too many megalomaniacal outliers and he's started to think that sort of thing is common.
 
[X] Sarugaki Hiyori, the Short and Terrible, justifiably (and permanently) angered at a world which conspired to vex you, and already tuning out all these jokers.

Outside and deciding it's not worth it looking in. Cuz' they all crazy.
 
[X] Sarugaki Hiyori, the Short and Terrible, justifiably (and permanently) angered at a world which conspired to vex you, and already tuning out all these jokers.
 
Phigment said:
On another track, it's interesting how Tousen was putting the various pieces together incorrectly.

He knows Nemo is up to something. He saw her with the crazy nuclear abomination, and then he saw her with Beauty-Of-A-Falling-Leaf, and concluded that Nemo was on some kind of mad quest to create a god.

Possibly to oppose Aizen, or to replace him, or possibly just out of sheer megalomania because Tousen's social circle includes far too many megalomaniacal outliers and he's started to think that sort of thing is common.
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Tousen is approached by a genial figure with more power and wisdom than they should have, whispering words of betrayal in his ear
there's no surprise he's experiencing deja vu
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Writing Tousen's perception of Nemo was a lot of fun :V
 
[X] Kuchiki Rukia, level-headed and professional Shinigami officer, absolutely not distracted by personal grudges and the adorable punch-child accompanying you.

Voting this just because of the "adorable punch-child" bit.
 
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[X] Kuchiki Rukia, level-headed and professional Shinigami officer, absolutely not distracted by personal grudges and the adorable punch-child accompanying you
 
[X] Sarugaki Hiyori, the Short and Terrible, justifiably (and permanently) angered at a world which conspired to vex you, and already tuning out all these jokers.
 
Omicron said:
Writing Tousen's perception of Nemo was a lot of fun :V
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To be fair, he's seen Nemo at her sneaky best.

He got to literally watch her enact a multi-layered scheme to con one of the strongest, wisest, most legendary of her sworn enemies into healing her crippling injuries that she had managed to hide from everyone else. Resulting in an overall power-up for herself, while dispensing some long-awaited vengeance and sowing confusion and doubt amongst her enemies.

And he knows that she's one of the few people in existence he can't just trivially read the secrets of. She can actually poker-face him, and he knows.

And previously, what's he seen from her? There's that time she killed Ruddborne, which no one thought she was capable of, and nearly got away with the perfect crime, except he himself caught her. And then, him arresting her and her confession lead directly to Nemo's lover climbing a bunch of ranks in the Espada, Nemo's close friend Jackalton becoming the center of the new Exequias, Luppi losing any shot at an Espada position and cementing himself loyally to Cirucci and Nemo, the first cracks of dissension in his personal loyalty to Aizen...


It wasn't all a plan, but when your previous experience at underhanded schemes includes watching Sosuke Aizen manipulate Soul Society for a century or two, it doesn't seem impossible that it could be a plan. And that would suggest Aizen and Nemo secretly playing high-stakes poker for the fate of the universe.
 
[X] Arisawa Tatsuki, indomitable kung fu expert, doomed to use a superpower lottery to protect all the loveable idiots around you from getting themselves killed.
 
[X] Arisawa Tatsuki, indomitable kung fu expert, doomed to use a superpower lottery to protect all the loveable idiots around you from getting themselves killed.


.... how long ago was the salt plains?

Cause damn sometimed the choice ls we make have knock on effects
 
Phigment said:
To be fair, he's seen Nemo at her sneaky best.
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Ahh, but the reverse (inverse?) is also true: He's seen her at her most embarrassing, too!

With the recent canonization of SatelliteFool's omake, Tousen has watched Nemo geek out over a smoothie, forget how to use boxes, and crush her toes trying to lift a car. Not exactly the most dignified way for a scheming mastermind to act, wouldn't you agree?

(Unless that was her plan the entire time! But no... not even Aizen could be that sneaky... Right?)
 
[X] Kuchiki Rukia, level-headed and professional Shinigami officer, absolutely not distracted by personal grudges and the adorable punch-child accompanying you.

This - it gets all of my yes.

Also, that update was just... too perfect. I always do like to see the conflicting views of people who aren't getting the same perspective, and seeing them actually both be forced to think due to interacting with someone from outside of their own story, rather than stubbornly insisting everything in their belief is right and perfect without flaws. Nemo kind of needs her blind friend to help keep her from being blinded in her vision for the future, more than just his aid in the rebellion. He'd make a very good advisor now that he's not quite as blinded by range towards Soul Society, really, for any ruler willing to debate and listen and actually accept that they need other points of view like that.
 
[X] Arisawa Tatsuki, indomitable kung fu expert, doomed to use a superpower lottery to protect all the loveable idiots around you from getting themselves killed.

I'd rather stick to the character who's had a prior and ongoing subplot.
 
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