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Looking for a nerd from the beloved Twelfth Division who is clumsy and loves hamsters? Well look no further! Niko Kuna is here to fulfill your hamster needs and help keep your curiosity door open!
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Blog started in 2014, but it has been revamped yesterday to keep up with the character’s recent official updates.
codename-freya:
~*~ The revelation that there was someone that the researcher could trust made the tiniest shred of hope worm its way into Kaisa’s heart. Maybe, just maybe, she really would be safe from prying eyes or worse. She didn’t want to let herself hope. No. If she’d hoped then something terrible would happen to her if not to both of them. Kaisa didn’t know much about Niko’s captain but she’d heard that he was cruel and didn’t like it when things didn’t go his way. The thought scared her. Even if Niko had a safe place, how long would it be safe?
Kaisa wiped at her tears again, hating that she actually cried. There weren’t many things that had made her cry in her short life, but the fear had been too hard to push back. She was still shaking, but the tears were finally slowing enough to not be streaming down her pale and gaunt cheeks.
She wanted so much to trust that Niko was telling the truth. Yet she was so scared to know if it would be all for naught.
“Will he find us there?” Kaisa asked softly.
Niko gulped and hoped that she was able to swallow the last bit of her lingering anxiety together with it. Of course, it was just hope for she knew just how capable the people of the Twelfth Division was in terms of mass surveillance-- she was certainly not about to underestimate the prowess of Captain Kurotsuchi, but she felt like her cause would be justifiable enough. At this point, she was beginning to acknowledge that her notions were being driven more by intuition than actual evidence.
“I’d be lying if I said he wouldn’t.” Niko confessed softly, yet her tone was not devoid of the grimness that acknowledged the possibility. “The best we can do is rely on the autonomy of other squads. I will admit, most Divisions are not keen on the Institute peering into their little nuances.”
codename-freya:
~*~ If she hadn’t been so broken before this her reaction would’ve been so much different. Instead she was filled with a fear that the substitute couldn’t control the tears that had formed. Kaisa felt so weak and vulnerable. At least right now that feeling and the tears were keeping her safe. Before becoming a substitute they didn’t, they only brought more strife and pain. Her bottom lip quivered against her will.
“Th-thank you,” she stuttered out, the tears that formed starting to stream down her cheeks. Pathetic. She chided herself. Kaisa looked up at her, wondering how a place would be safe. The teen knew the basics that people here could sense reiatsu and wondered if she really could hide where Niko said it would be safe.
Niko promised her safety and Kaisa wanted so much to believe the promise. She took a breath and nodded. Maybe she should trust the woman. The woman hadn’t actually tried to harm her and she even looked as though she really didn’t want to. Kaisa swallowed, trying to force back the tears that streamed. She wiped them away with the backs of her hands, somehow looking even more vulnerable.
“Will it really be safe there?” Kaisa finally asked. Her voice was still so broken, “won’t someone else find me and try to take me to your captain?”
“I know someone who I could trust. It would take a fool to underestimate someone like her.” Niko started proudly, a small smirk appeared on her countenance as she entertained the proposal that lingered in her mind. “You can trust me on this one.”
Niko thought to herself, those tears would be repaid with the treatment and protection that was warranted for the young Soul Reaper. However, the threat of the consequences that would befall the two of them lest anyone from the Twelfth Division catches wind lingered like undetectable insects. There was also the possibility that the person she had in mind would reject their plight for varying reasons.
But it was too late now. Niko had made her oath. What came next would be left for the winds to unravel.
codename-freya:
~*~ Kaisa cast her gaze to the ground, not sure what to do. The woman was trying to be so gentle and comforting even though she had tried to take Kaisa without permission. She chewed her bottom lip and swallowed hard. What did the woman mean? Would someone else really do more damage to her? She was barely eighteen, still a child to most around her. The thought of someone hurting her elicited a shudder down her spine.
As soon as Niko’s hand touched Kaisa’s slender almost fragile shoulder she stiffened. Kaisa wasn’t a fan of being touched and these circumstances exacerbated that.
“I don’t want to be a research or test subject… I’m a person, not an object,” Kaisa finally whispered. Her voice was so weak. There was no resolve in her frail voice, just fear. She looked up and her voice cracked, “please don’t let anyone hurt me…”
Niko’s eyebrows furrowed while her gaze slightly strayed away, she felt pity for the girl-- so helpless and desperate in her pleading.
The feeling of the blonde Shinigami’s form tensing under her touch almost made Niko swipe her hand away as if afraid that she would cause the girl to crumble into smithereens, but another part urged her that that simple move was brewing proof of her sincerity.
“I understand, I will treat you as the person that you are, nothing less.” She reassured softly and soon, gently withdrew her hand. “I think I know a place where you will be safe from prying eyes.”
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codename-freya:
~*~ The pregnant silence between them had those deep haunted emerald green eyes searching Niko’s face for anything that indicated that the elder wouldn’t promise her safety. What would actually happen if she went with her? Kaisa still feared the worst and those expressive eyes of hers continued to give her fear away.
Niko sounded like she was serious in her promise and her countenance appeared just as genuine. Could Kaisa trust her? She had been sent to retrieve the substitute shinigami and had tried to grab her. Kaisa doubted how much the woman would be able to keep the promise. With what little she knew about the Junibantai’s captain it would only be a matter of time before he got his hands on her. At that point there was no telling what really would happen to her.
“Do I really have a choice in the matter anyway?” She murmured softly.
Niko’s hand tempted to close at the dwindled resolved that emanated from the other girl. She swallowed what felt like an invisible lump in her throat, she was clearly unsure as to how to reply to the Substitute Shinigami. It appeared that the blonde had already gotten a good grasp of just how cornered one would really be in Soul Society without at least some sort of inside companionship-- that much was true for the Ryoka invasion and whatnot.
“Believe me, it’s better that you’re with me than somebody else.” The scientist cleared her throat and carefully rested her hand on the other female’s shoulder. Her voice was soft and clear in its attempt to console. “Who knows what other people might do?”
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Truth be told, Senna never enjoyed being within the area of squad 12. With all of the captain’s strange experiments and atmosphere, there was no telling what was going on within these walls.
Almost as if on queue, a loud scream echoed throughout the lab, sending a shiver down Senna’s spine. She quickly turned and rushed toward the source of the loud wail. There was no way she could ignore something like that. For all she knew, someone could have wound up hurt.
Rushing through the doorway, the first person she spotted was a young woman with glasses. “Are you alright?! What happened?!”
Trial Number Nineteen, a failure-- nay, a total disaster! Niko screamed the admonishment in her mind, but all that manifested was a scream of pain and surprise as the monstrous claw of the Hollow reached from the experimental gate which the Twelfth Division had been testing, and ripping the flesh of her left leg just as she was about to reach for her zanpakutō, causing her to drop on one knee while crimson streamed from her open wound.
The Hollow squinted, eyeing the injured researcher with fleeting interest before spreading its wings and flying through the ceiling of the laboratory. Niko stumbled on her backside and shielded her head with her arms while debris fell and followed in the wake of the monster’s flight. Had she engaged the Hollow any sooner then she would have been buried under the rubble herself.
Niko’s eyes darted towards the doorway, tense at first but slightly easing at the sight of another Shinigami whose approach was nothing short of urgent. At that moment, the adrenaline was beginning to be drained by fatigue. “A Hollow,” She managed between weary huffs while her pained gaze shifted to the gaping hole which defaced the room’s ceiling. “It went through there...”
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The lieutenant tilts her head slightly in respose, curious about what kind of questions the researcher had that only she could answer. She gives a small nod then, her faint smile remaining for now. “I’ll answer whatever questions you have the best that I can.” She replies.
She attempts to sit up, but the pain in her chest swiftly forces her back down with a wince and a frown. It seemed it would still take some time before she could move around freely again. Either way, she was lucky to be alive.
Niko heaved a deep breath then sighed, the apprehension she held within exited together with her exhalation. This person was her only link to her sister’s disappearance and delaying any further would prolong any suffering that roiled within them.
“Have you heard about the mysterious Shinigami disappearances from around a hundred years ago?” Nothing would be gained from further hesitation, she understood that, and so she brought forth her query while her nervous, cyan orbs scrutinized the sensitive countenance of the other girl.
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~*~ Those expressive eyes of hers cleared slightly at Niko’s suggestions of explaining what was done. She still didn’t trust the woman in front of her. That mistrust was something she’d been conditioned to feel, especially with those she really didn’t know. Kaisa mentally kicked herself, angry that her present self was so scared and in her mind childish with it. She caught Niko’s hand gently being outstretched, as if the woman was trying to silently tell her she meant no harm. Her bottom lip trembled ever so slightly, not reaching for Niko’s hand.
“I do want to understand… but that’s not the issue,” she murmured softly. There were so many things about the shinigami and hollows that she did not understand and yet her own traumas still were intrusive to her thoughts most of the day and night. Kaisa’s emerald eyes met Niko’s, “promise I won’t be harmed again?”
The emphasis on the word again highlighted her fears. Her voice was so soft, almost frail with a shred of fear leaking through. If she did go with the shinigami in front of her would she be unscathed or would she end up in a place she couldn’t leave, afraid of what would come next? Kaisa’s too thin torso was shaking as her mind quickly went over the scenarios her mind could come up with. Each one had a feeling of dread making its home deep in the pit of her stomach.
She didn’t look like she was eighteen with the expression on her face. She looked much younger, much more innocent. Kaisa knew it was pathetic to be this scared and weak, yet the logical part of her refused to hold this child-like countenance back.
“Promise me I’ll be safe.”
Niko’s lips softly pressed against each other as she took in the blonde’s desperate request. She would do all she could to keep her safe, that much was certain, however the potential protests of her Division and most importantly, her Captain, may be much more difficult to quell. Nevertheless, she had to try something besides analysis through calculated brutality the way her Division was accustomed to.
Dissection would take place not with the blade, but through assessment , observation, and inference. After all, was a scientist who shed their morals and reveled in the revelations of agony and the scalpel still a true seeker of knowledge or a slave to their own intellectual lust? Captain Kurotsuchi forbid from hearing such a notion for Niko knew it to be a spell for her own grave. However, if there was something Niko gained from her sister’s return, it was the strength to stand by her own conviction even if she were the minority in the matter.
“I will do my best to keep you from harm.” Niko kept her hand outstretched for Kaisa, fingers curled slightly、never once coercing in their appearance. “Let me protect you.”
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@theresearchermegane said: 「No way… You like those too?」for Rin
The petite shinigami instantly perked up from his work, a little bit surprised at the question. Most people hardly paid attention to the snacks he had hidden in his pockets during work. Or teased him for his terrible sweet tooth.
“I love them! I didn’t know that you had a taste for sweet things too! D-do you want some? I’ve got lots!”
“Oh, I’d love to!” Niko was elated at Rin’s generous offer. The moment she saw the bright colors of the plastic and the candy’s name written in lively, bold text, she instantly recognized the sweet like a long-lost piece of treasure. She had only gotten to have a taste of the candy once when she gained the privilege of a field study in the Living World, but the taste it had was something that she believed she would carry for millennia.
“You’ve got a lot,” She echoed in awe. “I wish I could get my hands on them as much as you do.”
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By now, Momo had recovered enough to receive visitors whilst she was awake. A few had visited her so far, namely those closest to her, but she was somewhat surprised when a researcher from the S.R.D.I came to see her. Turning her head to glance towards the other, she blinks before offering a weak smile.
“Is there... Something you need?” She inquires. Naturally she assumed that the researchers needed something from her, or that they had come to talk to her about some new kind of treatment.
The bespectacled scientist was driven more by a need for personal satisfaction and reassurance than any sort of scientific inquiry in her visit to the Fourth Division’s healing quarters. She had gotten her fair share of awkward stares from the Shinigami she passed by. After all, when was the last time they had seen a member of the S.R.D.I out and about, and appearing as if in a hurry like Niko did? She did not think about it as she briskly walked the halls and only entertained the notion once she was reluctantly directed to the quarters of Lieutenant Momo Hinamori who had recently faced injury after injury-- first, in her scuffle against Captain Hitsugaya, and the latest yet most tragic one, the betrayal of Captain Aizen. She reckoned that the lieutenant would have a fair sense of surprise at the sight of a Twelfth Division member of all people.
Niko anxiously waited for the unconscious Lieutenant to return to her senses and when she did, Niko straightened-- tensed even as she pressed her lips against each other, meeting the other’s faint gaze with her own. Her cyan hues told of numerous questions that struggled to leave yet could not.
“Lieutenant Hinamori,” Niko started tentatively, testing the waters with the softness of her tone. “I’m Kuna. Niko Kuna of the Twelfth Division's S.R.D.I. I apologize if my visit came as a surprise, however, there is something that has been bothering me for a long time and I believe that you are the only person who can truly answer my questions.”
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~*~ She’d only heard small things about the twelfth division and what she’d heard made her not want to go with. Not everything she’d heard was bad, but she didn’t trust that she wouldn’t end up more hurt. Kaisa already had too many scars to count she didn’t want more added if she could help it. The blonde didn’t move back again. She waited at watched.
Her own eyes caught how Niko’s had brightened. Who was that for? She narrowed her eyes slightly, unsure if she should push that. It did seem like it caught her off guard and maybe Kaisa could use that to her advantage.
“I don’t understand the mechanics of it. All I know is that Kira’s zanpakuto went through my chest they got me to hear my zanpakuto’s name, days of training went by and the short of it is I’m here staying with a noble family because Kira banned me from the Third until I’m given the okay to go back.” She replied. Her tone turning bitter at being banned from the Third. She’d been Kira’s charge, but he passed that responsibility off to another.
Kaisa hadn’t noticed Niko getting closer to her. In fact her eyes seemed to glass over as she recounted the short of what happened. There was still so much she didn’t understand. She hated not understanding.
Sometimes Niko would reassure herself that perhaps if an outsider were to come across a member of the Twelfth Division, it would be either her or Rin. She felt that the two of them would be a little more discrete in their approaches that perhaps they could lessen the eccentric reputation the whole Division had in a way.
The procedure that the blonde relayed was insight that was all too familiar for Niko, given that it was the same transfer that Rukia did for the Substitute Ichigo some time before-- a rather controversial moment in Soul Society history, one she recalled all too closely with how much a mess it literally stirred in the Seireitei. The blonde’s case was apparently a little more subdued than what happened Kurosaki; it was not like she forcefully breached the Seireitei’s barriers.
Niko’s slender digits that inched their way closer to the silky hilt of the zanpakutō tentatively withdrew back into the drape of her white coat’s sleeves the more she gazed into the troubled and confused hues of the other Shinigami. She was not like the brutes of the Eleventh Division to draw her sword first, better not make a change like that in a time where things do not demand such escalations.
“I know exactly what Lieutenant Kira did.” Niko brought that hand back out and offered it for Kaisa to take hold of if she so wished. She recalled the approach working on creatures as cautious as cats, perhaps it would work in her own favor. “I can explain it to you, if you wish. It may make you feel better than you possibly are right now.” She suggested in a hushed manner, careful not to let her own apprehension surface on her demeanor and tone.
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Niko often prods Mashiro to take her to the Living World and give her a tour around the place. (which would actually be easier for Niko to do since, chances are, the SRDI has its own hidden senkaimon for field research purposes)
Niko longs for the day when she could bring Mashiro to an idol concert in the Living World. She tentatively hides her fascination for idol groups from anyone besides herself and (to some extent) is also apprehensive about going all out about it with her sister. Nevertheless, Niko attempts to keep calm and introduce groups she found as casually as possible without hinting any form of her rather otaku characteristics in hopes of getting her sister to join in her little idol skiff.
Mashiro and Niko somewhat silently agreed not to regularly loiter in the 12th Division’s barracks for the following reasons: - 12th Division members’ interest in Vizards - Captain Mayuri Kurotsuchi The only time they would unhesitatingly do so is if they wish to sneak off somewhere by means of the technology in the Institute, but not without careful consideration on Niko’s part lest they commit a haphazard decision.
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