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Ukitake Jūshirō | 13th Division Admirer of fish | Connoisseur of fine tea | Bonsai tree enthusiast Please, Ask Me Anything! | Friends Are a Good Thing | Won't You Stay A While?

[abarai-renjisuggestions]

Sound off! Who is Present?

It's roll call time!

It has been requested by my esteemed captain that I make a list of active service members and known enemies. So, here's who I think I got: (If I missed anyone let me know!! Or, if I put you in the MIA list, but you are still interested in being active, let me know! My captain will kill me if I fuck screw this up!)

GOTEI OFFICERS / SUBSTITUTE & FORMER PERSONELL:

Kurosaki Ichigo: @kurosakisuggestions

Abarai Renji: @abarai-renjisuggestions

Aizen Sousuke: @aizensamasuggestions

Ayasegawa Yumichika: @yumichika-suggestions

Hiyori Sarugaki : @hiyorisuggestions

Ise Nanao: @nanaosuggestions

Kotetsu Kiyone: @kiyonesuggestions

Kuchiki Byakuya: @seaweedsuggestions

Kurotsuchi Mayuri: @mayurisuggestions​

Kusajishi Yachiru: @yachirusuggestions

Madarame Ikkaku: @ikkakusuggestions

ZANPAKUTO SPIRITS:

Zangetsu: @zangetsu-ggestions

HUMANS / MOD SOULS / FULLBRING

Asano Keigo: @willpowerramensuggestions

Asano Mizuho: @mizuhosuggestions

Tsumugiya Ururu: @ururusuggestions

Yasutora "Chad" Sado: @chadsuggestions

ARRANCAR / ESPADA / FRACCIONE

Coyote Starrk: @starrkandgingerbucksuggestions

Baraggan Louisenbairn: @barragansuggestions

Tier Harribel: @harribel-suggestions

Nnoitra Gilga: @nnoitra-suggestions

Grimmjow Jeagerjaques: @grimmjow-suggestions

Zommari Rureaux: @zommari-suggestions

Ggio Vega: @ggiovegasuggestions

Tesra Lindocruz: @lindocruz-suggestions

Lilynette Gingerbuck: @starrkandgingerbucksuggestions

QUINCY

Bazz-B: @bazz-bsuggestions

MIA (maybe??), BUT NOT DEACTIVATED:

Arisawa Tatsuki: @tatsukisuggestions

Don Kanonji: @donkanonjisuggestions

Kurosaki Isshin: @isshinsuggestions

Inoue Orihime: @orihimesuggestions

Kojima Mizuiro: @mizuirosuggestions

Urahara Kisuke: @uraharasuggestions

Hinamori Momo: @hinamorisuggestions

Hirako Shinji: @hirakosuggestions

Kotsubaki Sentarō: @sentarosuggestions

Hitsugaya Toshirō: @hitsugayasuggestions

Izuru Kira: @kiraizurusuggestions

Kuna Mashiro: @mashirosuggestions

Kyōraku Shunsui: @shunsuisuggestions

Matsumoto Rangiku: @matsumotosuggestions

Unohana Retsu: @unohanaretsusuggestions

Shiba Kūkaku: @kukakusuggestions

Shihōin Yūshirō: @yushirosuggestions

Tōsen Kaname: @tousensuggestions

Ukitake Jūshirō: @ukitakesuggestions

Ukitake Jūshirō: @jushirosuggestions

Yamamoto Genryūsai Shigekuni: @yamamotosuggestions

Zaraki Kenpachi: @kenpachisuggestions

Aikawa Love: @aikawasuggestions 

Ōtoribashi Rōjūrō: @roujuurousuggestions

Yadōmaru Lisa: @lisasuggestions

Aaroniero Arruruerie: @aaronierosuggestions

Grimmjow Jeagerjaques: @grimmjowsuggestions

Nelliel Tu Odelschwanck: @nellielsuggestions

Szayelaporro Granz: @szayelsuggestions

Ulquiorra Schiffer: @ulquiorraschiffersuggestions

Ulquiorra Schiffer: @ulquisuggestions

Dokugamine Riruka: @rirukasuggestions

Katagiri Kanae: @katagirisuggestions

Yhwach: @yhwachsuggestions

Benihime: @benihimesuggesti0ns

Sogyo no Kotowari: @sogyonokotowarisuggestions

Aizen’s Chair: @chairkunsuggestions​

The Hōgyoku: @hogyokusuggestions​

Urahara’s Hat: @uraharashatsuggestions

Tsukabishi Tessai: @tessaisuggestions​

//Also, let this be a call for anyone who wants to join the suggestions community. If you want to play a character who is already "claimed" go ahead! We are happy to rp with multiple versions of characters. There are no hard and fast rules other than, you know, don't be a dick!

[jushirosuggestions]

//Sounding off!! Thanks for this!!

//I’ve missed y’all, and missed this. I’d love to be involved with this community again. @ me if ya need me, and my DMs are open!

//In other words - do you ever just,, go away altogether for like five years and then pop up outta nowhere as if you’re back from the dead because something interesting is happening? Lololololol same

[aizensamasuggestions]

The more I learn about SS, the more disgusted I am. There’s so much that just get ignored! Like the Quincy genocide & letting Mayuri experiment, Killing Sojiro Kusaka for having the same Zanpakuto as someone else, Asauchi is made from merging lots of Shinigami souls, spying on & potentially killing substitute Shinigami who aren’t “beneficial”. There’s probably more that I can’t recall. I don’t like the way you keep trying to kill people, but at least you admit to the horrible things you do

A backhanded compliment, Anonymous, but I will accept it nonetheless.

And, I was unaware that @jushirosuggestions‘s… interactions with the Human World were common knowledge. 

Ah yes… all that ugly business with Ginjō Kūgo is rather surprising, isn’t it, given the ever-so cultivated, kindly demeanor that Captain Ukitake likes to project. Yet, here it is revealed that he encouraged and employed a man who may have murdered multiple shinigami in order to steal their power…. why, that’s almost villainous, isn’t it? Oh, forgive me. Our frail, sick Captain Ukitake is beyond reproach. He’s such a nice, old, harmless man.

People thought of me as kindly once, too.

It’s almost as if I might not be the only wolf in sheep’s clothing.

I’m just the only one who stopped pretending not to have fangs.

[jushirosuggestions]

…rest assured, Sōsuke-kun, I’m hardly harmless. I’m a soldier, remember?

It’s possible for a person to be kind to others, and to make difficult decisions and sacrifices. I don’t believe that much in this life is black and white - even the uniforms we Captains wear are lined with color, aren’t they? Perhaps there’s a reason for that.

[aizensamasuggestions]

Oh, I remember you’re a soldier, @jushirosuggestions, but do your legions of admirers? I think they imagine you as some kindly uncle and forget the things you’ve done because you hide it under that affable, kindly demeanor…. 

By reminding us that you’re a soldier, are you admitting that the terrible business with Ginjo was Gotei business? Just doing your job, were you? Following orders?

That excuse wouldn’t stand you in the Human World, you know, Captain. 

Funny you should mention the color your haori hides. It’s blood red for you, is it not?

[jushirosuggestions]

With all due respect to my... um, so-called admirers... if they choose to... um, admire me...  that’s their prerogative, isn’t it?

What’s more, I... don’t try to hide who I am. I don’t think so, anyway. I truly do care for others, and I like to think that I live my life in a way that reflects that care.

And sometimes, care requires sacrifices, too.

I am a soldier in the Gotei because I believe that serving the Gotei is how I can best serve others. I’m not perfect - not by any means - but I’m very good at my job, and I won’t pretend otherwise in this case. You say that my reasoning won’t hold water in the human world... but I’m not so sure. Look around at the human world sometime, Sōsuke-kun. Most humans, just like us, are only trying to do the very best they can.

You seem rather fixated on the idea of hiding things, it seems to me, and I wish I could say I were surprised. But, I suppose that when a man keeps so many secrets for so long, thinking about things that way likely becomes second nature. My haori is lined with red, yes, but I don’t hide anything about that - nor, of course did I choose the design. (You must know who did, Sōsuke-kun; you must know, too, that she fell defending the Soul King, only to rise again, stronger than before.)

It’s as I said before; nothing is truly black and white. Nothing is perfect. No one is perfect. I stand by that, and proudly.

[aizensamasuggestions]

The more I learn about SS, the more disgusted I am. There’s so much that just get ignored! Like the Quincy genocide & letting Mayuri experiment, Killing Sojiro Kusaka for having the same Zanpakuto as someone else, Asauchi is made from merging lots of Shinigami souls, spying on & potentially killing substitute Shinigami who aren’t “beneficial”. There’s probably more that I can’t recall. I don’t like the way you keep trying to kill people, but at least you admit to the horrible things you do

A backhanded compliment, Anonymous, but I will accept it nonetheless.

And, I was unaware that @jushirosuggestions‘s… interactions with the Human World were common knowledge. 

Ah yes… all that ugly business with Ginjō Kūgo is rather surprising, isn’t it, given the ever-so cultivated, kindly demeanor that Captain Ukitake likes to project. Yet, here it is revealed that he encouraged and employed a man who may have murdered multiple shinigami in order to steal their power…. why, that’s almost villainous, isn’t it? Oh, forgive me. Our frail, sick Captain Ukitake is beyond reproach. He’s such a nice, old, harmless man.

People thought of me as kindly once, too.

It’s almost as if I might not be the only wolf in sheep’s clothing.

I’m just the only one who stopped pretending not to have fangs.

[jushirosuggestions]

...rest assured, Sōsuke-kun, I’m hardly harmless. I’m a soldier, remember?

It’s possible for a person to be kind to others, and to make difficult decisions and sacrifices. I don’t believe that much in this life is black and white - even the uniforms we Captains wear are lined with color, aren’t they? Perhaps there’s a reason for that.

[kiyonesuggestions]

Happy Birthday Captain @kurotsuchisuggestions and Vice Captain Kurotsuchi!

[kurotsuchisuggestions]

Thank you, Kiyone.

[jushirosuggestions]

Seconded! In fact - on behalf of the entire Thirteenth Division, a very, very happy birthday to you both!

We even baked you a cake! See? The frosting even matches your makeup, Kurotsuchi-kun!`

[kurotsuchisuggestions]

Thank you, Jushiro. Just so long as it isn’t poisoned… now, where’s Nemu?

[jushirosuggestions]

Poisoned? Why, no! I certainly don’t think so, at any rate?

If anything, it might be a bit overdone? I admit, I did pass out halfway through the baking process, and @kiyonesuggestions ended up taking the cake out of the oven about half an hour after I was supposed to…

[kurotsuchisuggestions]

… so, is there any blood in it?

That seems now like the more imperative question.

[jushirosuggestions]

I’m going to say... probably not...? I certainly hope not...!

In my defense, it’s a bit difficult to tell. It is a red velvet cake, after all...

[kiyonesuggestions]

Happy Birthday Captain @kurotsuchisuggestions and Vice Captain Kurotsuchi!

[kurotsuchisuggestions]

Thank you, Kiyone.

[jushirosuggestions]

Seconded! In fact - on behalf of the entire Thirteenth Division, a very, very happy birthday to you both!

We even baked you a cake! See? The frosting even matches your makeup, Kurotsuchi-kun!`

[kurotsuchisuggestions]

Thank you, Jushiro. Just so long as it isn’t poisoned… now, where’s Nemu?

[jushirosuggestions]

Poisoned? Why, no! I certainly don't think so, at any rate?

If anything, it might be a bit overdone? I admit, I did pass out halfway through the baking process, and @kiyonesuggestions ended up taking the cake out of the oven about half an hour after I was supposed to...

[kiyonesuggestions]

Happy Birthday Captain @kurotsuchisuggestions and Vice Captain Kurotsuchi!

[kurotsuchisuggestions]

Thank you, Kiyone.

[jushirosuggestions]

Seconded! In fact - on behalf of the entire Thirteenth Division, a very, very happy birthday to you both!

We even baked you a cake! See? The frosting even matches your makeup, Kurotsuchi-kun!

[jushirosuggestions]

(The Mimihagi anon from Aizen) Granted, my initial question was more of the relationship(?) between your knowledge and what Mimihagi-sama was willing to tell you given that the Right Arm is essentially also your lungs. Probably not my business but ey, got curious. But thinking of it in that way does ease my mind a bit. Using what power you have to change things for the better is a noble cause. Heck, thats what Ichigo and a good number of the others do, right?

Hello, Anon-san! No trouble at all. Curiosity is a good thing, and I’m always happy to answer questions.

I’m glad and grateful that you support the decisions I made. Though, quite frankly, I would act the same way again and again, regardless of what those around me thought and felt about it. The destruction of the universe can often be a slow and subtle thing, surprising thought that might seem. I’ve known about it since I was a boy, and as far as I’m concerned, that knowledge coupled with my unique abilities gave me a chance - however scant - to try and put things right.

As for the relationship between Mimihagi-sama and myself? It’s quite simple, actually.

Mimihagi-sama is not my lungs, Anon-san. Not exactly. Rather, my lungs belong to Mimihagi-sama, and have ever since I was three years old. That’s the reason I’m still sick - and will always be, until the end - despite what Mimihagi-sama did for me. Mimihagi-sama, as the right hand of the Soul King, governs stagnation. My lungs will never deteriorate further, but they will never heal. They exist perpetually in the same compromised state that they did two thousand years ago. The rest of my body has learned to compensate, and my reiatsu has grown, and has adapted to support me physically. This has given me a few surprising advantages - I’m far stronger than I appear, for example! - but I will never be a well man. Long life was in my stars, but never health. And I give thanks every day even for that. 

Not long before I became a man, my parents told me about the power that saved my life, and about why my body was the way it was. They brought me to Mimihagi-sama’s shrine, if you recall - and they knew exactly what they were doing, and exactly why Mimihagi-sama was worshiped the way it was. Countless others had been brought before the shrine before me, but never before had Mimihagi-sama emerged to accept a living Soul’s sacrifice. When I l earned of this, I was confused. I was angry. I was distraught. I didn’t understand why I had been saved instead of another. I thought I had nothing to offer. My parents could give me no answers, and I could not find them within myself.

And so, after some deep reflection, I decided to ask the God dwelling within me.

Mimihagi-sama told me that, thanks to the workings it had glimpsed of my young heart, it had understood that I would one day make a willing sacrifice to reunite the Soul King’s fallen Right Hand with the rest of its body and being. No other who had visited the shrine before me had such workings in their heart. I was the first, and perhaps, the only.

I looked within myself and saw that this was true.

I was willing. I was more than willing. I was eager. I was happy. This way, I knew I could make something of myself; I could make something of the life I was never supposed to live in the first place.

…and the rest, I suppose, is history. Of a sort.

Perhaps this reply is more than you bargained for, Anon-san? If so, I apologize for having rambled.

Thank you for your question, my friend. And if you continue to be curious - as, indeed, I hope you will - never hesitate to reach out.

[jushirosuggestions]

aizensamasuggestions‌:

Indeed, Ultimately, that’s precisely why I told that Quincy madman @yhwachsuggestions that I was uninterested in joining his cause.

I see I’ve broken you, @jushirosuggestions. You won’t even play the game of speculation about my psychology. But then, stamina is not your strong suit, is it?

And of course, you begin from a place of ignorance. I might have known love? Do you know for certain I never did? Others might have joined me in my quest? I was NOT in the least bit alone when I left the Soul Society, or do you consider @gin-suggestions and @tousensuggestions not worthy of your notice?

Perhaps you’re feeling unwell, Captain Ukitake. Hide out in Ugendo until the worst has blown over. It does seem to be a favorite strategy of yours.

…ah. Very well, then. Did you know love, @aizensamasuggestions​? I apologize. I was unaware. If that’s so, then I am happy for you. Truly.

I am happy, also, that you consider both @tousensuggestions​ and @gin-suggestions​ true allies to your cause. Certainly, Tousen Kaname had no motivations of his own. Certainly, Ichimaru Gin stuck by your side all the way to the end.

Finally, I thank you for your concern, Sousuke. As it happens, I do feel a touch under the weather just now. My poor stamina is showing, and not for the first time. Though I confess, my heart has troubled me more than my lungs, of late…

If you’d care for a cup of tea, my door is always open.

…not that you’re in much position to cross its threshold on your own two feet, I suppose. Forgive me. Silly old man that I am, I’d quite forgotten.

[jushirosuggestions]

I love Ukitake so much I don't know what to do How can someone be cute and hOT AT THE SAME TIME

Oh! Goodness me! You certainly are... enthusiastic... @forkarmads!

Unfortunately, I’m not sure I’m qualified to help you. I’m... afraid I don’t quite understand what you mean? Surely you’re talking about some other Ukitake...? There are quite a few of us, after all...!

[jushirosuggestions]

Captain you are so cute and so precious! You are one of my favorite captains You are such a sweet heart you are very caring and you are have a big beautiful heart! I made you these heart shaped cookies I made way to many so I thought I would by.

Oh! My goodness, @alebear34! They look delicious! You certainly didn’t have to do that, you know!

Nonetheless, I appreciate it very, very much. You seem quite big-hearted yourself.

All the very best to you, my friend. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart. I hope you have a wonderful day!

[aizensamasuggestions]

How about some recommended human world reading, Aizen-sama?

Recommending books is a little like recommending a lover. I do need to know something about your preferences, Anonymous.

Fiction or nonfiction? Genre or not? Or are you omni in your reading pleasures?

Books I have enjoyed myself include, The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli, Paradise Lost by John Milton, The Art of War by Sun Tzu, and for something lighter, but still to my interests: The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon.

But, I will, in point of fact, read anything. I like popular novels, science fiction/fantasy, science texts, philosophy, psychology, thrillers, mysteries, and even the occasional romance, though I can not stand that drivel that @shunsuisuggestions publishes in the Seireitei Communique. 

How about yourself? Any recommendations for me?

[jushirosuggestions]

...between you and me, @aizensamasuggestions, no one particularly likes @shunsuisuggestions‘s... um, colorful... publications... not even me, I’m afraid...

...but I still love you dearly, Shunsui! I promise...!

[jushirosuggestions]

(The Mimihagi anon from Aizen) Granted, my initial question was more of the relationship(?) between your knowledge and what Mimihagi-sama was willing to tell you given that the Right Arm is essentially also your lungs. Probably not my business but ey, got curious. But thinking of it in that way does ease my mind a bit. Using what power you have to change things for the better is a noble cause. Heck, thats what Ichigo and a good number of the others do, right?

Hello, Anon-san! No trouble at all. Curiosity is a good thing, and I’m always happy to answer questions.

I’m glad and grateful that you support the decisions I made. Though, quite frankly, I would act the same way again and again, regardless of what those around me thought and felt about it. The destruction of the universe can often be a slow and subtle thing, surprising thought that might seem. I’ve known about it since I was a boy, and as far as I’m concerned, that knowledge coupled with my unique abilities gave me a chance - however scant - to try and put things right.

As for the relationship between Mimihagi-sama and myself? It’s quite simple, actually.

Mimihagi-sama is not my lungs, Anon-san. Not exactly. Rather, my lungs belong to Mimihagi-sama, and have ever since I was three years old. That’s the reason I’m still sick - and will always be, until the end - despite what Mimihagi-sama did for me. Mimihagi-sama, as the right hand of the Soul King, governs stagnation. My lungs will never deteriorate further, but they will never heal. They exist perpetually in the same compromised state that they did two thousand years ago. The rest of my body has learned to compensate, and my reiatsu has grown, and has adapted to support me physically. This has given me a few surprising advantages - I’m far stronger than I appear, for example! - but I will never be a well man. Long life was in my stars, but never health. And I give thanks every day even for that. 

Not long before I became a man, my parents told me about the power that saved my life, and about why my body was the way it was. They brought me to Mimihagi-sama’s shrine, if you recall - and they knew exactly what they were doing, and exactly why Mimihagi-sama was worshiped the way it was. Countless others had been brought before the shrine before me, but never before had Mimihagi-sama emerged to accept a living Soul’s sacrifice. When I l earned of this, I was confused. I was angry. I was distraught. I didn’t understand why I had been saved instead of another. I thought I had nothing to offer. My parents could give me no answers, and I could not find them within myself.

And so, after some deep reflection, I decided to ask the God dwelling within me.

Mimihagi-sama told me that, thanks to the workings it had glimpsed of my young heart, it had understood that I would one day make a willing sacrifice to reunite the Soul King’s fallen Right Hand with the rest of its body and being. No other who had visited the shrine before me had such workings in their heart. I was the first, and perhaps, the only.

I looked within myself and saw that this was true.

I was willing. I was more than willing. I was eager. I was happy. This way, I knew I could make something of myself; I could make something of the life I was never supposed to live in the first place.

…and the rest, I suppose, is history. Of a sort.

Perhaps this reply is more than you bargained for, Anon-san? If so, I apologize for having rambled.

Thank you for your question, my friend. And if you continue to be curious - as, indeed, I hope you will - never hesitate to reach out.

[aizensamasuggestions]

A noble story, @jushirosuggestions.

It leads me to a question of my own, however. When you spoke to your god, why did you ask such a mundane and selfish question?

You had, in your possession, the Right Hand of the Soul King and you never thought to ask it WHY–why did it wish to be reunited with the rest of its body? How was it that it became separated in the first place? What would it do, once reunited, once the throne was theirs once again? 

Though perhaps, Mimihagi-kami picked YOU because it knew you would never ask such troublesome questions.

[jushirosuggestions]

@aizensamasuggestions…

I was a boy.

I was in pain of both body and heart. I did not know why I was alive. I was the eldest son of a noble house, and I was a disgrace to my father. I had no friends, because more often than not, I couldn’t leave my bed to play. I had no answers and no purpose.

Somewhere within me, I think I suspected I was supposed to be dead.

Can you blame a boy for asking questions like that? Can you blame any man for seeking purpose?

And, can you blame that same boy - even now that he is grown - for keeping his promise to the God who saved him?

[aizensamasuggestions]

Of course I can blame you.

I have no sympathy for your noble family or their plight. Like so many nobles before them they marched into the Rukongai and took what did not belong to them in the least. 

How far out did your god fall? Seventy-Eight districts out.

The people in Sakahone District don’t even have shoes, Taicho. Did you arrive in palanquin?

The very least you could do was to think ask sensible questions of your stolen goods when you had the chance.

And, @jushirosuggestions we–all of us–live with the consequences of our actions of our desires. Don’t beg me, of all people, for mercy in this regard. Have any of you looked at my life and said, “Ah, poor Aizen, he was born with such massive reiatsu, perhaps his life was difficult, we should rush forgive his trespasses.”

No, you have not.

Nor would I expect you to.

[shimizushinsuggestions]

… yes, hahaha… poor Aizen…

Sigh.

Listen, @nanaosuggestions … I’m going in there.

[aizensamasuggestions]

Oh, are you, @shinshimizusuggestions? 

I’m not looking for a “poor Aizen” from you or anyone. That was, in fact, my POINT. 

[shimizushinsuggestions]

I’m not judging you, Aizen. And I know you aren’t, but perhaps you need one, or something similar. Hug, maybe?

[jushirosuggestions]

...hugs are nice. That’s my two cents here, anyway!

But, um, Shimizu-kun? Please... be careful...?

[jushirosuggestions]

(The Mimihagi anon from Aizen) Granted, my initial question was more of the relationship(?) between your knowledge and what Mimihagi-sama was willing to tell you given that the Right Arm is essentially also your lungs. Probably not my business but ey, got curious. But thinking of it in that way does ease my mind a bit. Using what power you have to change things for the better is a noble cause. Heck, thats what Ichigo and a good number of the others do, right?

Hello, Anon-san! No trouble at all. Curiosity is a good thing, and I’m always happy to answer questions.

I’m glad and grateful that you support the decisions I made. Though, quite frankly, I would act the same way again and again, regardless of what those around me thought and felt about it. The destruction of the universe can often be a slow and subtle thing, surprising thought that might seem. I’ve known about it since I was a boy, and as far as I’m concerned, that knowledge coupled with my unique abilities gave me a chance - however scant - to try and put things right.

As for the relationship between Mimihagi-sama and myself? It’s quite simple, actually.

Mimihagi-sama is not my lungs, Anon-san. Not exactly. Rather, my lungs belong to Mimihagi-sama, and have ever since I was three years old. That’s the reason I’m still sick - and will always be, until the end - despite what Mimihagi-sama did for me. Mimihagi-sama, as the right hand of the Soul King, governs stagnation. My lungs will never deteriorate further, but they will never heal. They exist perpetually in the same compromised state that they did two thousand years ago. The rest of my body has learned to compensate, and my reiatsu has grown, and has adapted to support me physically. This has given me a few surprising advantages - I’m far stronger than I appear, for example! - but I will never be a well man. Long life was in my stars, but never health. And I give thanks every day even for that. 

Not long before I became a man, my parents told me about the power that saved my life, and about why my body was the way it was. They brought me to Mimihagi-sama’s shrine, if you recall - and they knew exactly what they were doing, and exactly why Mimihagi-sama was worshiped the way it was. Countless others had been brought before the shrine before me, but never before had Mimihagi-sama emerged to accept a living Soul’s sacrifice. When I l earned of this, I was confused. I was angry. I was distraught. I didn’t understand why I had been saved instead of another. I thought I had nothing to offer. My parents could give me no answers, and I could not find them within myself.

And so, after some deep reflection, I decided to ask the God dwelling within me.

Mimihagi-sama told me that, thanks to the workings it had glimpsed of my young heart, it had understood that I would one day make a willing sacrifice to reunite the Soul King’s fallen Right Hand with the rest of its body and being. No other who had visited the shrine before me had such workings in their heart. I was the first, and perhaps, the only.

I looked within myself and saw that this was true.

I was willing. I was more than willing. I was eager. I was happy. This way, I knew I could make something of myself; I could make something of the life I was never supposed to live in the first place.

…and the rest, I suppose, is history. Of a sort.

Perhaps this reply is more than you bargained for, Anon-san? If so, I apologize for having rambled.

Thank you for your question, my friend. And if you continue to be curious - as, indeed, I hope you will - never hesitate to reach out.

[jushirosuggestions]

aizensamasuggestions‌:

It’s not that you’re unintelligent, @jushirosuggestions. It’s that you’re naïve.

Or willfully blind to the ugliness of the world we inhabit.

There is a place, @uraharasuggestions knows well, though perhaps you do not, were the Gotei imprisons guiltless souls for the crime of POTENTIALLY being a danger. 

And yet, somehow, you imagine that if I had only unburdened my soul, I’d be fine.  Do you now realize that if I blithely let slip one tenth of the power I had at my command as a boy your precious Gotei would have locked me up as a child and thrown away the key, EXACTLY as they have done now? 

Perhaps the idea that children–innocent children, Captain Ukitake–are already in the Nest of Maggots, under lock and key, imprisoned for life, comes as a shock to you.

Perhaps you won’t even believe me, as it sounds far too horrific.

I understand that I’m not easily trusted, so I suggest you speak to @akonsuggestions about what it’s like to be no more than a slip of a boy in a PRISON.

So, can you understand now why my particular burden was not easily shared when such a threat hangs like the sword of Damocles over one’s head at very breath? 

Do you wonder why I learned to keep my true self hidden? 

You like to think of me as the evil one, seeking power for power’s sake. But, I didn’t ASK to be born with this monstrous reiatsu. I only chose to make it my birthright.  But it seems that despite my efforts, I couldn’t avoid imprisonment for this so-called crime. After all, it’s power that even now, you prefer to have sealed away in darkness, forever.

So, yes, I lied when you asked me if I was all right. No no can be all right in a world such as this. 

Now I ask this as well–can you blame me for wanting to burn it all to the ground?

And what of your god, Taicho? Is the the world your god wishes to burn and build anew, as well–with its phoenix sword in hand?

...I could say much.

I could speak wishfully, wistfully. I could tell you that there is no guarantee that prison would have been your fate. I could tell you that you sit where you do now because of your actions, rather than your potential. I could tell you that you might have known love, and that others might have joined you in your quest for change, if you had only opened yourself to them.

But this is all mere speculation. It serves little purpose, if any at all.

And so, all I will say, @aizensamasuggestions​, is this:

How can we change the world we live in if there is no world left to change?

[jushirosuggestions]

(The Mimihagi anon from Aizen) Granted, my initial question was more of the relationship(?) between your knowledge and what Mimihagi-sama was willing to tell you given that the Right Arm is essentially also your lungs. Probably not my business but ey, got curious. But thinking of it in that way does ease my mind a bit. Using what power you have to change things for the better is a noble cause. Heck, thats what Ichigo and a good number of the others do, right?

Hello, Anon-san! No trouble at all. Curiosity is a good thing, and I’m always happy to answer questions.

I’m glad and grateful that you support the decisions I made. Though, quite frankly, I would act the same way again and again, regardless of what those around me thought and felt about it. The destruction of the universe can often be a slow and subtle thing, surprising thought that might seem. I’ve known about it since I was a boy, and as far as I’m concerned, that knowledge coupled with my unique abilities gave me a chance - however scant - to try and put things right.

As for the relationship between Mimihagi-sama and myself? It’s quite simple, actually.

Mimihagi-sama is not my lungs, Anon-san. Not exactly. Rather, my lungs belong to Mimihagi-sama, and have ever since I was three years old. That’s the reason I’m still sick - and will always be, until the end - despite what Mimihagi-sama did for me. Mimihagi-sama, as the right hand of the Soul King, governs stagnation. My lungs will never deteriorate further, but they will never heal. They exist perpetually in the same compromised state that they did two thousand years ago. The rest of my body has learned to compensate, and my reiatsu has grown, and has adapted to support me physically. This has given me a few surprising advantages - I’m far stronger than I appear, for example! - but I will never be a well man. Long life was in my stars, but never health. And I give thanks every day even for that. 

Not long before I became a man, my parents told me about the power that saved my life, and about why my body was the way it was. They brought me to Mimihagi-sama’s shrine, if you recall - and they knew exactly what they were doing, and exactly why Mimihagi-sama was worshiped the way it was. Countless others had been brought before the shrine before me, but never before had Mimihagi-sama emerged to accept a living Soul’s sacrifice. When I l earned of this, I was confused. I was angry. I was distraught. I didn’t understand why I had been saved instead of another. I thought I had nothing to offer. My parents could give me no answers, and I could not find them within myself.

And so, after some deep reflection, I decided to ask the God dwelling within me.

Mimihagi-sama told me that, thanks to the workings it had glimpsed of my young heart, it had understood that I would one day make a willing sacrifice to reunite the Soul King’s fallen Right Hand with the rest of its body and being. No other who had visited the shrine before me had such workings in their heart. I was the first, and perhaps, the only.

I looked within myself and saw that this was true.

I was willing. I was more than willing. I was eager. I was happy. This way, I knew I could make something of myself; I could make something of the life I was never supposed to live in the first place.

…and the rest, I suppose, is history. Of a sort.

Perhaps this reply is more than you bargained for, Anon-san? If so, I apologize for having rambled.

Thank you for your question, my friend. And if you continue to be curious - as, indeed, I hope you will - never hesitate to reach out.

[jushirosuggestions]

aizensamasuggestions‌:

Of course I can blame you.

I have no sympathy for your noble family or their plight. Like so many nobles before them they marched into the Rukongai and took what did not belong to them in the least. 

How far out did your god fall? Seventy-Eight districts out.

The people in Sakahone District don’t even have shoes, Taicho. Did you arrive in palanquin?

The very least you could do was to think ask sensible questions of your stolen goods when you had the chance.

And, @jushirosuggestions we–all of us–live with the consequences of our actions of our desires. Don’t beg me, of all people, for mercy in this regard. Have any of you looked at my life and said, “Ah, poor Aizen, he was born with such massive reiatsu, perhaps his life was difficult, we should rush forgive his trespasses.”

No, you have not.

Nor would I expect you to.

...I’m not sure one can take a god, @aizensamasuggestions​. At least, in my understanding, that isn’t what happened.

I was led to believe that Mimihagi-sama saved me willingly, of its own accord. Others tried. My parents succeeded. I don’t believe our noble status had anything to do with that.

As for how I arrived?

I’m afraid I don’t recall. I was three years old, unconscious, and on the brink of death. You’re right in assuming I didn’t walk to Mimihagi-sama’s shrine on my own two feet, at any rate.

I don’t believe I begged for your mercy, or for your forgiveness.

I begged - and I beg now - for your understanding. I am flawed. I act emotionally, rather than rationally, from time to time. In this case, I considered what knowledge I had, and I asked the questions that came to my mind, and I acted.

Perhaps I’m not as clever as you are. In fact, I’m very happy to grant you that; it’s almost certainly true.

I did what I thought was right. Can you ask more of any man?

...I am sorry for your plight, Sousuke. I mean that sincerely. But how much of your suffering did you let us see? I don’t believe you reached out for help in the days when I considered us friends - did you? Indeed, how did you respond when we asked you how you were faring? Perhaps it is shameful for me to admit it now, but I couldn’t sense the depth of your distress. And... I do pride myself on having some skill when it comes to things like that.

You could have leaned on me if you had needed to, you know. It seems to me you chose to do otherwise.

[jushirosuggestions]

(The Mimihagi anon from Aizen) Granted, my initial question was more of the relationship(?) between your knowledge and what Mimihagi-sama was willing to tell you given that the Right Arm is essentially also your lungs. Probably not my business but ey, got curious. But thinking of it in that way does ease my mind a bit. Using what power you have to change things for the better is a noble cause. Heck, thats what Ichigo and a good number of the others do, right?

Hello, Anon-san! No trouble at all. Curiosity is a good thing, and I’m always happy to answer questions.

I’m glad and grateful that you support the decisions I made. Though, quite frankly, I would act the same way again and again, regardless of what those around me thought and felt about it. The destruction of the universe can often be a slow and subtle thing, surprising thought that might seem. I’ve known about it since I was a boy, and as far as I’m concerned, that knowledge coupled with my unique abilities gave me a chance - however scant - to try and put things right.

As for the relationship between Mimihagi-sama and myself? It’s quite simple, actually.

Mimihagi-sama is not my lungs, Anon-san. Not exactly. Rather, my lungs belong to Mimihagi-sama, and have ever since I was three years old. That’s the reason I’m still sick - and will always be, until the end - despite what Mimihagi-sama did for me. Mimihagi-sama, as the right hand of the Soul King, governs stagnation. My lungs will never deteriorate further, but they will never heal. They exist perpetually in the same compromised state that they did two thousand years ago. The rest of my body has learned to compensate, and my reiatsu has grown, and has adapted to support me physically. This has given me a few surprising advantages - I’m far stronger than I appear, for example! - but I will never be a well man. Long life was in my stars, but never health. And I give thanks every day even for that. 

Not long before I became a man, my parents told me about the power that saved my life, and about why my body was the way it was. They brought me to Mimihagi-sama’s shrine, if you recall - and they knew exactly what they were doing, and exactly why Mimihagi-sama was worshiped the way it was. Countless others had been brought before the shrine before me, but never before had Mimihagi-sama emerged to accept a living Soul’s sacrifice. When I l earned of this, I was confused. I was angry. I was distraught. I didn’t understand why I had been saved instead of another. I thought I had nothing to offer. My parents could give me no answers, and I could not find them within myself.

And so, after some deep reflection, I decided to ask the God dwelling within me.

Mimihagi-sama told me that, thanks to the workings it had glimpsed of my young heart, it had understood that I would one day make a willing sacrifice to reunite the Soul King’s fallen Right Hand with the rest of its body and being. No other who had visited the shrine before me had such workings in their heart. I was the first, and perhaps, the only.

I looked within myself and saw that this was true.

I was willing. I was more than willing. I was eager. I was happy. This way, I knew I could make something of myself; I could make something of the life I was never supposed to live in the first place.

…and the rest, I suppose, is history. Of a sort.

Perhaps this reply is more than you bargained for, Anon-san? If so, I apologize for having rambled.

Thank you for your question, my friend. And if you continue to be curious - as, indeed, I hope you will - never hesitate to reach out.

[aizensamasuggestions]

A noble story, @jushirosuggestions.

It leads me to a question of my own, however. When you spoke to your god, why did you ask such a mundane and selfish question?

You had, in your possession, the Right Hand of the Soul King and you never thought to ask it WHY–why did it wish to be reunited with the rest of its body? How was it that it became separated in the first place? What would it do, once reunited, once the throne was theirs once again? 

Though perhaps, Mimihagi-kami picked YOU because it knew you would never ask such troublesome questions.

[jushirosuggestions]

@aizensamasuggestions...

I was a boy.

I was in pain of both body and heart. I did not know why I was alive. I was the eldest son of a noble house, and I was a disgrace to my father. I had no friends, because more often than not, I couldn’t leave my bed to play. I had no answers and no purpose.

Somewhere within me, I think I suspected I was supposed to be dead.

Can you blame a boy for asking questions like that? Can you blame any man for seeking purpose?

And, can you blame that same boy - even now that he is grown - for keeping his promise to the God who saved him?

[ikkakusuggestions]

I totally ship u with Yumichika like aiwnbshdisk

 Ship? Where are you shipping us? @yumichika-suggestions do you know where they want to ship us?

[jushirosuggestions]

...oh! @ikkakusuggestions! I think I know! @darkkidplaidopera wants to send you and @yumichika-suggestions away on a vacation together! That sounds like fun, don’t you think?

[jushirosuggestions]

(The Mimihagi anon from Aizen) Granted, my initial question was more of the relationship(?) between your knowledge and what Mimihagi-sama was willing to tell you given that the Right Arm is essentially also your lungs. Probably not my business but ey, got curious. But thinking of it in that way does ease my mind a bit. Using what power you have to change things for the better is a noble cause. Heck, thats what Ichigo and a good number of the others do, right?

Hello, Anon-san! No trouble at all. Curiosity is a good thing, and I’m always happy to answer questions.

I’m glad and grateful that you support the decisions I made. Though, quite frankly, I would act the same way again and again, regardless of what those around me thought and felt about it. The destruction of the universe can often be a slow and subtle thing, surprising thought that might seem. I’ve known about it since I was a boy, and as far as I’m concerned, that knowledge coupled with my unique abilities gave me a chance - however scant - to try and put things right.

As for the relationship between Mimihagi-sama and myself? It’s quite simple, actually.

Mimihagi-sama is not my lungs, Anon-san. Not exactly. Rather, my lungs belong to Mimihagi-sama, and have ever since I was three years old. That’s the reason I’m still sick - and will always be, until the end - despite what Mimihagi-sama did for me. Mimihagi-sama, as the right hand of the Soul King, governs stagnation. My lungs will never deteriorate further, but they will never heal. They exist perpetually in the same compromised state that they did two thousand years ago. The rest of my body has learned to compensate, and my reiatsu has grown, and has adapted to support me physically. This has given me a few surprising advantages - I’m far stronger than I appear, for example! - but I will never be a well man. Long life was in my stars, but never health. And I give thanks every day even for that. 

Not long before I became a man, my parents told me about the power that saved my life, and about why my body was the way it was. They brought me to Mimihagi-sama’s shrine, if you recall - and they knew exactly what they were doing, and exactly why Mimihagi-sama was worshiped the way it was. Countless others had been brought before the shrine before me, but never before had Mimihagi-sama emerged to accept a living Soul’s sacrifice. When I l earned of this, I was confused. I was angry. I was distraught. I didn’t understand why I had been saved instead of another. I thought I had nothing to offer. My parents could give me no answers, and I could not find them within myself.

And so, after some deep reflection, I decided to ask the God dwelling within me.

Mimihagi-sama told me that, thanks to the workings it had glimpsed of my young heart, it had understood that I would one day make a willing sacrifice to reunite the Soul King’s fallen Right Hand with the rest of its body and being. No other who had visited the shrine before me had such workings in their heart. I was the first, and perhaps, the only.

I looked within myself and saw that this was true.

I was willing. I was more than willing. I was eager. I was happy. This way, I knew I could make something of myself; I could make something of the life I was never supposed to live in the first place.

...and the rest, I suppose, is history. Of a sort.

Perhaps this reply is more than you bargained for, Anon-san? If so, I apologize for having rambled.

Thank you for your question, my friend. And if you continue to be curious - as, indeed, I hope you will - never hesitate to reach out.

[aizensamasuggestions]

Been mulling things over regarding the "Great Emptiness" as you call it (and given its fate and what's in plied happens to Ywatch, does anyone /really/ want to be sentient in that state??) and ran into a sort of uncomfortable question: With the Mimihagi-sama being part of Ukitake, did he know about the Truth? Or if he did, do you think he would act the way he does? Not that Mimihagi-sama is required to tell his hosts anything, just curious.

Mimihagi is the RIGHT HAND of the Soul King, my Anonymous friend.  Do you truly think this is a case of the right hand not knowing what the left is doing? Really?  When @jushirosuggestions was the very one to steal–excuse me, SEAL the Sokyoku.

Do you know what the Sokyoku is? 

Oh… no, of course you don’t. I mean, all we know for a fact is that it contains the POWER of ten thousand zanpakutō, not that it could possibly BE the Soul King’s very zanpakutō.

That would be conjecture.

Speculation.

And, at any rate, why would someone who has the RIGHT HAND, the sword hand, of the Soul King want with a zanpakutō? 

I mean, of COURSE, we all know that what Captain Ukitake was truly after was rescuing his unseated officer from execution. I’m sure the rest is simply coincidence. 

Perhaps, one might wonder what the Soul King would be like if it were all together, in one piece. Perhaps, if one had the right hand and the zanpakutō one could fight and reclaim the Quincy bits–the heart, the left hand… Then, with a zanpakutō ever so reminiscent of a Phoenix, a creature that has the ability to REGENERATE… 

Why, it’s almost as if all the puzzle pieces are there.

My, my it’s almost as if I might not be the only Shinigami with designs on a seat at the top of heaven, is it, Captain Ukitake?

Did I not tell you that no one should sit there? NOT YOU, I said, not I.

[jushirosuggestions]

If I may…

Sometimes, one must make sacrifices, Anon-san. I have to tell you… Sousuke-kun isn’t far off the mark.

The Soul King was broken before I was born. And a broken being cannot sustain the universe forever.

As for my part, think of it this way…

If a person had the knowledge and the power to alleviate the suffering of millions by suffering themself, don’t you think that person ought to do it? To put everything they had into saving others, especially if - just perhaps - they alone could take up that task?

I know what I chose.

Or - what I tried to choose, anyway.

It’s no easy task, I’m afraid.