I started thinking about this, mainly with how different Kensei and Tousen and Shinji and Aizen's captain styles are, and this bloomed forth.
- The supreme king of foul mouthed shinigami. Kenpachi came from the roughest place in the Rukongai and all his subordinates are rough and rowdy guys. Nobody gives a flying fuck about cussing.
- Unlike some of his subordinates, Kenpachi doesn't swear every sentence, he just doesn't care when or where he does it. Collectively refers to his division as "motherfuckers" or "bastards".
- Yachiru doesn't really swear as much, just mild stuff like "damn" or "hell". She does know the more extreme words, she just doesn't say them because Kenpachi bribed her with sweets - he doesn't need Yachiru shrieking "fuck!" over and over again in his ear.
- He doesn't care if people swear at him. He's used to it. He will mock you relentlessly if you use words like "heck" or "darn" and call you a pussy.
- Not only does Kensei swear, but he will swear at his subordinates. Mashiro gets called "Dumbass" as much as her own name. While Kensei still does adhere to basic etiquette, especially places as rigid as Soul Society, he's generally more informal and his time in the World of the Living has shaped that as well.
- It took Hisagi a little time to adjust - Tousen never swore so at first he's a little shocked to hear a Captain speaking so bluntly, but he secretly gets a little giddy thrill like "Omg Muguruma-taicho swore!
- I mean, drill sergeants are pretty famous for being foul-mouthed and that's Kensei's general captaining style. And chefs - Kensei's cursing gets 100% worse in the kitchen, and a lot more creative.
- Gets very sweary in bed. Especially if you're doing something that especially turns him on, like licking and sucking on his neck - he'll groan and mutter a throaty, "Fuck, babe..."
Lisa Yadomaru:
- Not only does Lisa read porn out in the open, she also swears like a sailor. She has no sense of shame or decorum and gives no shits who's in earshot.
- Lisa's not a person to swear out of anger, she just has a generally crass, laidback way of talking and she prefers to call a spade a spade. She's not going to shy away from perfectly suitable words just for the sake of some outdated idea of manners. If you don't like how she speaks, you don't have to copy her, but she won't be censored by anyone.
- People who try to correct her to being more PG will find themselves roasted and psychoanalysed and Lisa diagnosing you with some kind of hidden kink that makes you scared of any kind of degeneracy.
- The kind of person to use "bitch" as a compliment or will describe your outfit as being "so cunty", much to the glee of Yuyu and horror of Nanao.
- Like Lisa, Shinji doesn't swear because he's angry or feeling hostile in general, but he's just a casual guy who chafes under too much restriction and stuffiness. So he'll casually ask someone "what the fuck's yer problem?" without batting an eye, usually delivered in that deadpan way he has.
- Like Hisagi, Momo is a bit shocked by Shinji's uncouth mouth at first because of course Aizen never swore when he was a shinigami, but she might giggle at some of Shinji's more creative insults. He refers to Aizen as "that motherfucker" and manages to pack a fair amount of loathing into it.
- The only time Shinji doesn't swear if he's annoyed is around Hiyori - mostly because Hiyori already screams insults at people at max volume, repeatedly and won't stop until she gets a reaction, so he and the other Vizards have gone out of their way to prevent her learning any swear words beyond "damn" or "crap."
Like Kensei, he also gets more foul-mouthed during bedroom activities, and his accent gets more pronounced as well.
"S-shit, darlin', yer driving me crazy..."
- Son of a very wealthy family he may be, but Shunsui is lackadaisical by nature and that includes his mouth. He doesn't go out of his way to swear but the words come very easily to him.
- He does try to reserve the cussing for more appropriate situations - he got smacked upside the head by Yama-jii enough as a youth for speaking too informally to his superior officers, so he does know when and where to allow the filth to be verbalised.
- Would NEVER swear at a woman, even if she's an enemy he has to fight. That's not gentlemanly!
- Well, unless it's in the bedroom and you ask him to, but even then it's mostly to tell you how "fucking good" you make him feel. If you cuss at him he'll just chuckle and take it in good humour. He finds it cute and he's too old to be upset by a little blue language.
Rose Otoribashi:
- Rose is a pretty laidback guy and rarely feels much in the way of feeling angry or belligerent, so he's unlikely to swear up a storm.
- He has no problems with other people swearing - he lived with Shinji, Kensei and Lisa for a century when they had very good reasons to vent out their angry, but overall he's not particularly foul-mouthed.
- He does include swearing in his songs if it rhymes and feels appropriate to the mood, though. He's an artist and won't be bound by decorum when there's lyrics to be written!
- Mayuri is generally very rude, not because he swears or uses crude language but because he's so relentlessly condescending. I think he views cussing as language of people with poor vocabulary.
- Not to say he won't swear if the situation calls for it, but he's insulting enough without needing them. In generally it's reserved for when he's really annoyed or really excited.
- Nobody in his division would dare swear at him, though people to swear if they fuck up an experiment or whatever. He'll mostly just roll his eyes or demand to know what all "the commotion" is.
- Enjoys kicking back and watching Kenpachi and Byakuya argue back and forth during Captain's meetings about the former's dirty mouth, occupying a median between the two.
Soi Fon:
- I know, she's surprisingly low on this list. But Soi Fon grew up in a very traditional family who value discipline and order greatly - speaking rudely before your superiors is a massive no-no, so I doubt she's been exposed to a lot of cussing growing up.
- At heart Soi Fon is still pretty young for shinigami standards, she was a starstruck fangirl back in Turn Back The Pendulum, and unlike Byakuya she's terrible at reining in her temper.
- This is also partly due to Yoruichi's influence - before Soi Fon met Yoruichi she would never have considered swearing, but when Yoruichi would casually swear in front of her it started to break that taboo a little bit. She doesn't do it in front of her own subordinates, feeling she needs to set an example, and won't stand for them swearing around her, but she has been known to let loose when especially frustrated.
- There are two people who do frequently drive Soi Fon to swearing - Omaeda and Urahara. Unfortunately for her, only the former is around for her to smack.
- Byakuya views himself as everything a shinigami should strive to be. Disciplined, logical, graceful, strictly adhering to rules and keenly aware of social graces. So naturally he does not cuss.
- ...In public. Byakuya isn't a fan of people like Kenpachi who swear all damn day, but he does still have that temper he did as a kid, he's just good at masking it.
- So he has cussed before when nobody is around or in the privacy of his own quartets. He manages to do it elegantly, but Byakuya Kuchiki has said "fuck." under his breath after stubbing his toe on the coffee table.
- He never does so in public, though, and he'll outright mock people who do cuss in formal settings and ask if they were raised in a barn (he's bickered with Kenpachi many times over this). Kenpachi, Yoruichi and Ichigo are normally the only people who cuss at Byakuya and he despairs at the lot of them.
Unohana Retsu:
- I don't know for sure how Unohana spoke during her days as the first Kenpachi. Likely she had a much more crass manner of speech to go with her more outwardly bloodthirsty ways, so she probably had a foul mouth in her early years.
- But, swearing up and down the corridor isn't really good bedside manner and Unohana had a complete overhaul of her aesthetic, mannerisms, attitude, etc when she became the Unohana we know. So she's likely not been publicly swearing for centuries, nor does she really need to - even captains older and more powerful than her like Shunsui and Ukitake still step lightly around her and her own division are scared of her despite her soft-spoken manner.
-I'd say Unohana only swears now when indulging in her bloodthirsty side, and probably only sparingly for extra impact. Kenpachi is probably the person who's heard her swear the most out of anyone.
Sajin Komamura:
- Given his honourable personality, Komamura probably doesn't like to swear much, especially not in the hearing of his subordinates. As the captain, he has to set a good example for his pack squad.
- However, he does have a cheat code: when he gets angry and does want to cuss, he does...in dog language. So sometimes he'll be reading a mission report and he'll suddenly start snarling over some bad news, perhaps some people in his squad are MIA...
- Cue barking and growling coming from his office. The only one who knows why he sometimes does this is Iba, who considers it a violation of his manly code to blab his captain's secrets - so he leaves his captain to bark his frustrations.
- Komamura does send his dog out of the room if this happens - he doesn't want to besmirch his innocent ears.
- I know what you're going to say - this pure cinnamon roll would never swear! However, remember Ukitake is still a grown man, he's not going to have an asthma attack over one f-bomb. His best friend is Shunsui, after all.
- But yes, Ukitake himself does not cuss. Firstly he's a noble, albeit not as high ranking as Shunsi or Byakuya, and secondly he has a horde of impressionable younger siblings. And thirdly, he was practically raised by Yamamoto who takes a hardline stance on such things. These factors mean he's habitually clean-mouthed.
- The kind of guy who shushes people if they swear around kids, though he doesn't police people's language like Byakuya does - he just looks slightly scandalised.
- The only time he voluntarily swears is under extreme emotional duress. That's how you know shit is serious. Also, he blushes slightly when he swears even if he's feeling extremely upset or angered, like he's internally clutching his pearls but having to compartmentalise.
- Unsurprisingly the least foul mouthed since he's still a kid by shinigami standards. And he's still haunted by his granny washing his mouth out with soap when she heard him and Momo cuss once as kids.
- Not only does he not swear but nobody in his division swears unless he's out of earshot - even Rangiku tries to watch her language around her cute lil captain. (This doesn't apply if she's drunk but luckily most of what she does say when hammered is incoherent or rambling about Gin.)
- He also blushes if he does hear swearing and will hiss about "you kiss your mother with that mouth?!", but if it's one of the older captains doing it then he can't really lecture them.
- Even in his older form, swearing just doesn't sound natural coming from him, he sounds hilariously stiff and stilted with it. He tries to emulate Byakuya's dignified way of speech, unaware Byakuya swore because he burned his finger when his tea was too hot last week.
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