#skyvar

[despairforme]

My first time drawing her.. When I think about Harribel I always think about @skyvar so Snow, consider this a lil gift <5

[deivorous]

Starter || @skyvar​ - Semi continuing from here

“Well, well, well.” Grimmjow trundles over the piles of debris and shattered concrete to stop near the feet of the battered quincy. “If it isn’t ‘Letter ‘piece of shit nobody’’.”

He recognizes the bright mohawk of reddish hair, despite the briefness of their encounter. Though Grimmjow was much more interested in hunting down Askin Nakk Le Varr at the time, the poison hasn’t scrambled his brain so badly that he can’t remember such a noticeable feature.

He honestly hadn’t expected to find any quincies still alive. The Shinigami had been executing them with incredible prejudice, seems odd for them to have missed this one. He absently considered putting the sorry shit out of his misery.

“Which shinigami cut you down in the end, huh?” One foot roughly nudges at the sole of Bazz-B’s boot.

[littlenekosfan]

gib memes

i posted these on my twitter only... but here have some more i just made for ya

my brain is going downhill with inspo i apologize dfjhgsdf

[heavenxpiercing]

💖💖💖Happy Birthday Snu 💖💖💖

@skyvar i cant draw but i hope you like this lil doodle

[windbxtch]

     @skyvar Grimm: 👀 so cuddling huh    contd.

 Finally, she’d managed to fight out some place next to him, layered kosode slightly let loose for comfort, a leg rested upon his, as he did not care to move an inch. She shifts to face him, eyes roll at his teasing. “I didn’t take you for the cuddling type.” She sure as hell wasn’t. Fingers make their way up from his chest to his chin, a thumb tracing the line of his lips. “I promised you a bite though. I like to keep my word sometimes, just to confuse people.” One bite of her flesh wouldn’t cause much harm, she’d heal by the time she woke up.

[lefossile]

compare anime & manga mu🔪🔪🔪

The one that gets me every time, besides Pierrot adding tons of “extra” stuff is also how the animation twists original impact the chapters had, for example the whole Rukia suspense was lost, bc not only did they voice her which is a big spoiler, but also showed her face right away. That is a mood killer. We can talk about poor narrative takes with more extra time to some fullbringers such as Ginjo saving Ichigo and Yuzu or the whole ordeal with Jackie, where they just did contradict themselves, but nooo, we're gonna go straight to the point that kills me a lot.

We’re talking about Ichi’s lowest breaking moment and how it was handled differently in anime and manga by both parties. I was both time unsatisfyingly short tbh, but alas. 

In manga everything goes kinda of rushed, Ginjo just extracts Ichigo’s power and leaves and narrative wise it feels mirroring Ginjo’s own situation, even though we don’t know that context at said point. I told it before, all of this was orchestrated in this way not only of mere practical reasons, but because of harsh lesson Ichigo learns that way. Ginjo literally puts him in the same pit of despair he most likely was himself after losing the original fullbringer group. He wants Ichigo to suffer that kind of pain, pain of wrong choice and its consequences, pain of powerlessness. And what makes it worse, he just leaves, making no long excuses or whatever, he gives Ichigo no time to recuperate or gather any moral strength.

What do we get in anime?

Well firstly everyone is having a nice little chat while Ichigo kneels in stupor. 

We get a whole lot of flashbacks with dramatic music, to stretch the episode to its logical conclusion. Even if technically it wasn’t really necessary. After seeing Ginjo absorbing (finally after what? 15 minutes) Ichigo’s fullbring, we follow pretty close to the page with Ichigo’s inner monologue and here is where things GO ASTRAY.

From artistic choice to represent Ichigo alone, at “end of all bonds” while Tsukishima and Ginjo already walk away we get this poetic cinema shot. (Who allowed them, bc it makes zero sense for them just to chilly stand there and gloat, as they should made haste and just go on with their stuff, as they “mercifully” are letting Ichigo and his friends go.)

Even Uryuu’s initial bewilderment changed into trying to shut down his own failure ends up kinda a lot more dramatic shojo style stuff?

So we get different pacing, bc neither Tsukishima nor Ginjo move before Ichigo starts wailing, but technically they are already on their way and Tsukishima TURNS to cast a glance on another person’s despair. Which can either hint that he finds pleasure in the suffering or idk, is a normal human being who reacts to peoples tears.

And now when it gets worse.

In the manga Ichigo is still in denial about what happened, as he chants one phrase. Ginjo still walkis away but stops in his tracks to just side eye a mentally broken teen. (In case of any confusion the left speech bubbles are both Ginjo’s words, as he literally says that Ichigo got his fullbring because of Ginjo, so the power he gained with Ginjo’s help belongs to the one who helped achieve it).

What we get: no satisfaction, no standing up, straight up trauma out there as Ichigo is even drawn without blicks in his eyes to represent his lowest, desperate self. He sees Ginjo’s back, tall, unreachable and soaks in his failure, screaming in a final, futile attempt to action. It's the actions of a child.

Meanwhile, virgin anime gives us this:

Straight out of nowhere, as artistic choice we see Ichigo’s inner world which he shouldn’t be even able to access, where he, “chained by despair”, reaches eh, bottom and tragically lies there as sack of potatoes, thinking, “Is that it, what can I do?”

BUT SUDDENLY without further ado, light shines at the edge of water, and the memories flood in how he “wanted to become strong” and HIS CHAINS ARE RIPPING APART! God. As we couldn’t get enough of the same sentiments as of all the arcs before. And don’t get me wrong protecting others is what drives Ichigo, but don’t deny him any kind of growth like that, please? Let him live and process stuff not just coming back to his senses after two or three cliche sentences.

Spoiler: he does anyway.

And we’re coming to what completely destroys the original impact manga had.

So Ichigo says “Give it back”. But not in a way he chants and pleads it on his knees in the rain. No, he demands it with willpower to stand up. Ginjo stops in shock to hear him utter those words before rebuffing it, because it completely disregards the original setting of this scene. Here Ginjo, who served Ichigo despair akin to his own, witnesses him standing up, not losing any will to fight.

And we get extra pieces of dialogue, which just wasn’t there, which shows that Ichigos stubborness annoys Ginjo a lot, so much he asks him extra questions, giving some kind of extra care to somebody “useless” to him. While this serves to the point I was making earlier and we can guess that this kind of question Ginjo probably often asked himself and he accepted the situation happened to him or at least tried to, so that’s why the different approach shown by your overage shounen protagonist iffs him so much; it still turns the situation upside down. God, Ichigo even stands up himself.

AND as if it wasn’t enough to completely dismiss the WHOLE POINT OF THIS SCENE, they added this and I had to make a gif bc I am PISSED.

Can you believe they couldn’t let the protagonist hit the bottom, they had him, this 17 y.o. traumatized teen completely morally dominate old ass man who is SUPPOSED to be, at this exact moment, not giving a shit and being in the winning position.

There’s no tension, there’s no catharsis, there’s just same “I wanna be strong” agenda and zero character growth. Rukias arrival later feels absolutely bland, bc she doesn’t save Ichigo he already saved himself. 

It does rob Ginjo of some of his real iconic moments, when he, a mentor figure and a character specifically made in contrast with Ichigo (also in their age, so he kinda has more life experience, that archetype) has won, as experience wins against naivete. 

I’m smad//

Don’t let me get started at what they missed at his death sequence-

[equipoised]

@skyvar​ continued from here

‘What are you hoping to achieve here exactly, Bazz-B? Starting a commotion has always proven to get one so far in the past, hasn’t it.’ You’d think in a 1000 years Bazz would  have had time to learn his lessons, but it seemed aged had instead ripped him of any bits common sense he may have had. Jugram sighed in frustration, he could usually be indifferent to these antics; over the years, he’d taught himself not to give Bazz's taunts too much importance, but tonight his patience was wearing thin. It was enough that of a blow His Majesty had to appoint this child, brought out nowhere, as His successor, another yet pointless altercations with Bazz-B might as well be the straw that broke the camel. And every bit of forbearance he had left in him 

Bazz-B was probably very much enjoying this, though, like the petty and vindictive child he was. To watch Jugram be publicly humiliated, in front of everyone under his command, and be discarded in such brutal fashion. Oh the Schadenfreude that must be. So why not rub some salt into the wound? ‘Had His Majesty wished for your input on the subject, I reckon you would have known by now.’ He said sarcastically. 

[ilusionis]

Pls tell me something out of his childhood

sosuke is the name his zanpakuto spirit called him by when they began to communicate; possibly his actual name from his past life. aizen is the name of one of the many gods worshipped in rukongai, that he actively chose for himself. considering the importance given to names in bleach, i think that choosing his name was one of the many turning points during the process of construction of aizen’s self-awareness. 

i already mentioned this here and there, but because of the magnitude of his spiritual power and due to the dire conditions aizen lived under in his youth, he was constantly tormented by a haunting feeling of hunger. this pushed him to sometimes consume other souls. he would not actively kill anybody, feeling effectively too weak for it, but even without trying any time he got close to anyone his reiatsu would crush them almost instantly ... leaving aizen to feed on the leftovers. goes without saying, this gave him lasting trauma, but it was another crucial point in the building of his character.

i’m sure aizen’s morality was already pretty skewed by the time he got to join the academy. there was never a ‘good’ aizen. his experience of the world before entering seireitei is that of an isolated child, with too much power and only the eerie presence of some ghost-like spirit to raise him, thrown in a dog-eat-dog environment. aizen’s first experience of the world was one of cruelty and hunger, and solitude. he was never good.

his first killings were accidental. as soon as he started grasping the extent of his power, he began taking advantage of it to defend himself and even kill quite liberally.

the choice of his birthday date was also absolutely arbitrary. 

even as a kid, and even living in a place as fucked up as outer rukongai, aizen was never afraid. the first time he encountered a hollow, he felt relief.