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sugar-gun · 3 days

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Remember to water the flowers!

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gallusrostromegalus · 16 hours

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ok I need elaboration on pretty much all of those bankais that you haven't already talked about but for now i'm probably most curious about ichigo and hanataro? please, a measly few crumbs of context

The short version of Ichigo's sword situation is that he is D'artanigan to Zangetsu's Three displaced-during-the-fuckery-surrounding-his-parent's-meet-cute-slash-manslaughter-thing Musketeers. We got his dad's half-starved family Zanpakuto, The Family Ghost from his Mom's side, and a guy made in an evil instapot that wandered in here on accident and precipitated the whole enfuckening. They are untied in their goal of "Keep Ichigo Alive" but unfortunately they also have a collective IQ of Negative Four.

Reader: Gee Ichigo, why does the author let you have THREE Zanpakuto spirits?

Ichigo: That's nothing! Orihime has SIX!

Ichigo and Orihime's nonsense is connected to how The Almighty operates:)

Meanwhile, short summaries of Unohana and Byakuya's Bankai under the cut:

Minazuki is a sword primarily about the manipulation of flesh- healing injury, making better fighters by pushing the flesh to it's limits- This is a spirit that is distinctly VISCERAL in nature. It has mass. It has a very distinct body.

Unohana:

So it follows that, in order to supply injured patients with blood and drugs and new flesh and everything else, Minazuki is giving up some of her Mass. Consequently, the Stingray form of Minazuki is the SECOND one- she cannot create her elixirs and make new flesh from nothing. First she must FEED.

Which is why Minazuki's liquid format is acidic blood that devours anything organic. It's why Kenpachi!Unohana's bloodthirst was so bloodthirsty: she was literally starving for biomass to complete her sword's two forms and finally put her Soul in Balance.

Senbonzakura has been with the Kuchiki family for generations, passed from one head of the clan to the next in a sacred ritual that allows the Zanpakuto to bond to its new weilders and grant them the power accumulated with generations.

In the fic, Ukitake is one of a handful of people old enough to remember "Yachiru" Unohana, and until Zaraki's arrival, probably the closest to understanding her. That Unohana and Retsu both understand the horrors of the flesh he lives with every day more intimately than anyone else in his life, and it's the basis of an almost sacred friendship between them. He knows perfectly well where the emergency transfusions and drugs she creates come from, and they have a standing agreement that if he predeceases her, she is to feed his body to Minazuki so he can pay forward at least some of the debt given to him.

He will not be the first of Unohana's friends that have been willingly devoured by her sword.

Byakuya:

But for course, everything has it's cost.

Byakuya was not the head of the Kuchiki clan when his father Sojun died prematurely and make Byakuya the orphan heir apparent as an adolescent. He was not the head when he met Hisana in a grove of cherry trees in the middle of harvest, and fell in love with her He was not the head when he had a terrible row with his grandfather Ginrei and the rest of the clan elders about his elopement. He was not the head five years later, when on a cold spring morning before the plum trees had blossomed, Hisana died of a miscarriage.

One week later, when the plum trees bloomed and the cherry trees had budded, Byakuya came to his grandfather, head bowed and heart broken, and agreed to take up the mantle of Clan Head. His soul had already been torn in half, what was another half?

Everything has it's cost, and the price of Senbonzakura's power is the sacrifice of the weilder's own original Zanpakuto spirit, and by transference, the imminent death of the previous head.

He had known this day was coming, ever since his own native Zanpakuto spirit failed to awaken at the academy. At the time, he'd thought it a mercy that the poor thing wouldn't awaken and be aware of being devoured. But now, as he held the tiny, warm body of the spirit out to Senbonzakura, he could only think of the child he never got to hold.

...with Senbonzakura, at least, she'd be at rest with something beautiful that loved her.

Because Senbonzakura loves it's family, and in particular it adores Byakuya. It has, ever since Byakuya fearlessly climbed it's branches as a small boy, since he partook of the sword's fruits as a young man, and now, when Byakuya offered the most precious parts of himself to the sword with a sense of peace and profound trust. And Senbonzakura repays that trust in kind.

The sword's shikai release is the same, or at least similar for all it's wielders, but long-term friends of the family note that that is a LOT MORE blades than the sword ever summoned for Ginrei or any other head.

The Bankai is different every time. Senbonzakura is ready to give Byakuya whatever Bankai he wants immediately, but it's not until after he adopts Rukia and sees her fooling around in the family orchards when she thinks he isn't watching that he realizes the shape it should be.

It's name is "Senbonzakura: Sakura no Kaju-en" and it is beautiful and terrible.

Sakura no Kaju-en requires only that Byakuya pierce the flesh of his enemy or the terrain around him with one or more of his petal-blades. Once in the ground or embedded in flesh, the blade is transformed into a seed and an entire magical cherry tree grows from it, converting the Reishi and spiritual energy around it into its own mass. Since Byakuya is effectively wielding somewhere around 10,000 petal blades in his shikai alone, he can summon up to 10,000 devouring cherry trees, which will radically alter the landscape of battle and blossom into millions and millions of new petal-blades.

That is, unless his foe is unfortunate enough to have the blades penetrate their flesh. Then the trees will devour them as they grow. Even a truly massive opponent like Yammy can be mulched in minutes.

The trees initially blossom almost white, but as his enemies are felled and Senbonzakura drinks, the blooms grow pinker and then redder until they transform into deep crimson fruits.

It's a brutal Bankai, but a beautiful one. When Byakuya looks out upon the blooming landscape and tastes the sweet fruits of his efforts, it brings him peace to know the small, sleeping spirit he had to sacrifice is playing somewhere within, they way he saw Rukia playing in the family orchards that day.

#AEIWAM #An Elephant Is Warm And Mushy #bleach #bleach fanfic #ichigo kurosaki #retsu unohana #yachiru unohana #byakuya kuchiki #minazuki #zangetsu #senbonzakura

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korallart3 · 2 days

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Bleach, please comment.

#bleach #ichigo x orihime #orihime inoue #ichihime

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thirstywaffles · 3 days

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Been listening to bleach opening songs again

#doodley #um my favorite is asterisk; velonica; & ranbu no melody #i also REALLY enjoy rapport haha #anyways haha halfway through i realized that my artstyle is kinda influenced by bleach lol #and it's kinda insane despite of that i actually never drew any of its characters #artists on tumblr #digital art #sketch #bleach #ichigo kurosaki #ulquiorra cifer #grimmjow jaegerjaquez

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elyonholic · 3 days

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Ichigo and Orihime

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rukiadriedhisrain · 3 days

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||◤BLEACH THE HIGH SCHOOL WARFARE: SUKEBAN◢||

#bleach #rukia kuchiki #my edit #bleachedit #orihime inoue #rangiku matsumoto #*mine #my april fools edit for you guys ;3c

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crime-size-tonight-arm · 6 hours

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#comic book art #brittany renner #bleach #messy icons #desiblr #falsettos #chyler leigh #ben hardy #sleep #kyman

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sashi-ya · 3 days

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Klub Outside Artbook. Byakuya sketch.

#beautiful creature #my sweet husband #byakuya #kuchiki byakuya #byakuya kuchiki #tite kubo #bleach #bleach art #bleach anime

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punkeropercyjackson · 3 days

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Sorry 2 burst a loooot of bubbles but if someone in your fandoms says they hate a ship because the dynamic involves a lot of insulting and general mean-spirited attitude between the characters maybe even one-sidedly and you tell that they're overreacting and don't know what friends are like,you are in fact the loser in that situation and no amount of 'it's normal!' is gonna make up for the ratio that you just bragged that your friends aren't soft and gentle with you 'because you can handle it'

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xkpzx · 1 day

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#renruki #renji abarai #rukia kuchiki #my art #bleach fanart #bleach

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artemisgaz · 3 days

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grimmjow jeagerjaquez from volume 23 of bleach

#art #digital art #my art #bleach #bleach fanart #bleach manga #grimmjow jaegerjaquez #bleach coloring book

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criminal-sen · 2 days

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speaking of wips, here's an almost-exact-redo (but not really a redo, more of an alternate version idfk) of that one art I spent fucking forever on a while back. Cuz. Cuz the other art didn't convey what it was supposed to, which is that the viewer has been fucking Spotted, and I was thinking of it in the context of a video game, like with a little HUD and shit, and then it'll shift into a horror series (yes it's a series) and uhhhh yknow, you get captured and experimented on and shit. and I have a thousand other things I should be doing instead of this lmfao

#mayuri kurotsuchi #bleach #my art #wip #i don't plan on spending a shit ton of time on each pic (hence the b&w)#but in my haste. i didn't use enough layers. now it's this messy... painting... thing...

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everbloomly · 2 days

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happy birthday 💚🐐

#nelliel tu odelschwanck #bleach #bleach fanart #fanart

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bleach-smashorpass · 2 days

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As a bonus, Kubo's concept sketches:

#bleach #anime only #shinigami #i always thought this guy was kinda cool tbh

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nemsdraws · 2 days

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This is what happens when me and a friend decide to reread bleach from the beginning

#bleach #ichigo kurosaki #bleach fanart #artist on tumblr #nemsdraws

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ulneisch · 2 days

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I wanted to share this drawing here, I have been planning to draw myself with this version of Ulquiorra for a long time and I was finally able to capture it 💙💚 in this AU when Ulquiorra is close to me and feels very intense love for me, he unconsciously generates a breeze/rain of his own reiatsu

#f/o #f/o community #self insert #self shipping #self shipping community #selfship positivity #digital drawing #self shipper #selfship bleach #bleach #ulquineil #ulquiorra cifer #self insert x canon #bleach brave souls #self ship #self ship art #self insert community

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