kavkakat replied to your post: Our Attain[AB]le Dreams: Drinking Together
I have to admit, I just about *die* with happiness when you write these sorts of tactile queerplatonic scenes with this group. (Yes, Uryuu *does* need all the hugs, and that means everyone else needs to give them to him so they can get hugs too.)
The whole teenaged Bleach cast minus Tatsuki need all the hugs, I’m not kidding. I love writing the group being cuddly and loving with eachother, and that’s become basically about 80% of my reason for desperately wanting to write the werewolf AU because after reading that book I just see ALL THE OPPORTUNITIES for cuddles and the group being very tactile with each other. It’s gunna be rot-your-teeth-fluff, I think.
My headcanon for why Tatsuki doesn’t get involved in canon Bleach shenanigans isn’t because she’s too weak or anything dumb like that, but it’s because Tatsuki Has Extant Parents Who Care.
We never see them, but They Exist. They Love Her. And because of that stabilizing influence, she’s a lot less involved in the Crazy because she loves them back and doesn’t really want to worry them. So while Ichigo and the others are perfectly fine with all the things they get up to -- or don’t even consider “all the things they get up to” to be a bad thing -- Tatsuki is caught between helping her friends and not worrying her parents. It means she misses out on a lot of things, and essentially just sorta... stagnates a bit? She can’t grow the same way the others are, because she doesn’t have the same disregard for herself that they do, but she’s also a teen so she’s already starting to pull away a bit from her parents (via the natural growing up process that healthy parent-child relationships evolve through).
So it’s awkward for her until she reaches an age where she can Actually Start Helping without feeling guilty. Which is a few years before the crossover to Nier: Automata happens. And it’s not like she’s not doing anything while she’s waiting to grow up -- she’s spending time training and learning and supporting the others as best she can, but she also knows that She Can’t Be Responsible For Them. Because her parents have raised her right, and she has a healthy view on relationships and life. It’s just that she isn’t going into combat every couple weeks/months in the latest Save The World shenanigans until she’s an Adult.
