I love the fact that despite the fact that the squad 11 is supposed to be the most dangerous company of the Gotei 13, it's still a bunch of warriors obeying (and fearing) a little girl with pink hair. :D
And in their own ways, they take care of her.
Kenpachi is there to protect her, to defend her no matter what, to bring her anywhere she wants, to bend to all her wishes.
Ikkaku is, after Kenpachi, the one who interact the more with her as what she is: a little girl (more than a vice-captain). He's also the one who learn her how to control her reiatsu. And he's also the one, with Yumichika, who learn her how to read, to write and to count playing games with her (it was the only way for her to learn something).
Yumichika is the more deferent with her, calling her "Kusajishi-sama" all the time (when Ikkaku often calls her Yachiru (Kenpachi doesn't care by the way)). He's the one who's there to comb her hair, to read her stuff (not necessarily fairy tales) and to chat for hours with her.
They won't say it explicitely but they love her (and they are wrapped around her fingers).
(Fun fact, the first drawing is a redraw of an old one... and the old sketch looks better to me. XD)
|"What are you talking about? We're still fighting! One of us will die before it's over! I, Ikkaku Madarame, 3rd Seat of Zaraki's Division, will never walk away from a fight like a coward!"|
—Ikkaku Madarame. 3rd Seat of the 11th Division.
(Btw this is also dedicated to @shadowsnlace I was going to do four more moodboards but I had to help in the kitchen since yesterday bc we've been making the Christmas tamales in my house)
It's always tricky to draw people sleeping from above because the perspective is weird. But I wanted to draw them like that.
Because the boys don't have much opportunity to sleep side by side. In the 11th barrack, they have to sleep in their own bedrooms, because they have no right to be together (both military, different grades). So they have to split up right after their sexual stuff.
So, each time they spend a few days into the real world, they take that chance to enjoy the night together from A to Z. Like they did in Rukongai, when the weather was cold or when the place was safe enough.
I've got that idea in mind that when Yumichika discovers that Ikkaku has the right to his own place (as lieutenant and/or as vice-captain), Ikkaku immediately starts to build his house. And of course, he does a bedroom with a king size bed, so he can sleep side by side with Yumichika like he always wishes to. :)
And the last drawing I've made for Pride Month, this time in an AU in which Yachiru is a real person and she becomes a grown-up.
I imagine she could go in World of the Living with her "uncles". They arrive right during a parade and discover a whole new world of vocabulary and stuff they were not aware of.
Anyway, Yachiru is really proud of her "uncles", no matter who they are. And they don't care. Most of the time, at Seireitei, they stay quite silent about their feelings for each other. But in World of Living, they don't give a d*mn. Especially when they're off duty.