This is how it ends: in pain and rage and despair, standing atop a rise and staring up-up-up at the Soul King’s Palace so far overhead, acknowledging the truth of his life, the truth of his existence, and the inevitability of everything he’s worked to become and— This is how it ends: shoving-shoving-shoving until his …
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Kisuke sighed and propped his chin on a hand, glowering down at the bottle that still wouldn’t open no matter what he’d tried. “You really are stubborn, aren’t you?” he murmured as he reached out and poked it, then frowned when the bottle responded with exhaustion-resignation-acceptance. “Or… maybe not you, precisely,” he amended as he …
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Nier wakes slowly, comfortable in a way he hasn’t been… ever, actually; there’s no drafts across his face, no cold stone leeching his warmth, no rough cloth against his skin, nothing. He can hear the soft rustle of Weiss’ pages as his friend moves about, standing watch just like always, and he mumbles a rough …
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The minute Kisuke notices Kurosaki’s reiatsu flaring and then vanishing, he curses and launches one final, devastating attack, no longer interested in playing around with the Quincy. “Grimmjow!” Kisuke barks, even as he braces himself and then allows his bankai to fall. “With me,” he orders as soon as Grimmjow looks up from the dead …
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Uryuu claws his way to consciousness, body exhausted and brain numb and eyes aching in an uncomfortably familiar way. He forces his eyes open and stares blearily at the ceiling overhead — unfamiliar, oddly old-fashioned — trying to figure out what the hell happened. And where he is now. He remembers… accepting Yhwach’s power. Remembers …
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Jyuushiro hummed softly to himself as he navigated the quiet maze of shelves deep in the heart of the First Division; he’d gotten himself a bit lost after talking with the Soutaicho, but… it was fine. He didn’t particularly need to be anywhere any time soon, and Yamamoto wasn’t going to hunt him down either, …
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Bazz breathes a quiet sigh of relief as he reaches his personal room, opens the door, and peers carefully into it, taking a moment to assess things before daring to step inside. No one’s there, though, and there’s no evidence that anyone invaded his space while he was out, so… in this, at least, things …
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Bazz scowls up at the stage — at the snot-nosed brat on the stage — and listens with half an ear as Yhwach drones on about the boy having survived ‘great adversity’ in order to ‘return to the fold’ and ‘take his rightful place’ as Yhwach’s successor. His successor, Bazz mentally scoffs as he takes …
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Uryuu can’t quite focus on whatever Yhwach is saying, too distracted by the way the man’s power is crawling through his veins, slow and sticky like cold syrup. It feels gross, feels invasive, and it takes everything in his power to not react to it, to not fight back, to just let it happen— Distantly, …
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The world is quiet when Erich swims back to awareness: no gunfire, no shouting, no noise, just quiet-safety-peace. (Quincy wards hum in the back of his mind, protection-reassurance-warmth.) (He’s home.) (He home, he’s home, he home!) Erich takes a careful, shallow breath, braced for pain, but— it doesn’t come. Just a slight tugging at his …
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Erich wakes abruptly, hand going immediately to his pistol, and listens— “Morning, sir,” Degurechaff greets him as she stalks closer, her spiritual presence prickly with exhaustion-annoyance-exasperation as she comes to a stop a bare foot from his head. “I have the troops breaking camp already after a cold breakfast. Here’s yours. Major Schwarz will be …
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Kisuke’s wings are an aberration in that they don’t seem to exist. Yet he can absolutely still fly and it confuses the hell out of people. What is actually happening is his wings are made of energy that isn’t normally visible to humans/shinigami but hollows can see it. Ichigo also ends up being able to …
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The thought of kisuke building wings for himself is stuck in my brain for reasons beyond me or my control. ddxcrow on tumblr Kisuke frowns at the mess of mechanical and magical parts scattered across his workbench, trying to make the bits and bobs resolve into something logical; when he’d started this project, he hadn’t …
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((A random prequel that I wrote specifically thinking about the Okami AU version of werewolf!Erich, but more or less canon for every werewolf!Erich version I’ve written.)) Gregor knocks on the door to Rerugen’s office, then pauses to listen for Rerugen to call him in. Seconds pass in silence and Gregor sighs. Knocks again. Waits— Nothing. …
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He showered as quickly as he could manage, taking care of his — too long, too messy — hair and then scrubbing his body and especially his back. All in all, he was in and out in under half an hour, not exactly a record but still fairly decent given how obnoxious his hair was …
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