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deivorous · 3 years

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@colmilos replied: @deivorous where were you when they annihilated everyone then :/

Oh I am so glad you asked. I’ve been brewing this headcanon for whole three days (legit. It’s super new.)

There’s really only two viable options for why Grimmjow wasn’t present during the Quincy massacre of the remaining arrancar.

1) He wasn’t in Las Noches and likely hadn’t been for some time.

This isn’t unlikely. Grimmjow owes no loyalty to Hallibel or Nelliel, he projects the facade of a solitary hunter, and without Aizen acting as a lynch pin to hold the Las Noches hierarchy in place, having that many strong hollows around is probably acts agaisnt his instincts. Conflict is bound to break out between such strong hollows in close proximity, territory boundaries would be pushed and tested, and until a natural hierarchy is reinstated, there is a massive power vacuum that other hollows would be vying to fill.

At the end of the Winter War, Grimmjow was grievously injured and fracción-less. The same can not be said for either Hallibel or Nel/liel. It’s not improbably that Grimmjow simply never returned to his territory in Las Noches...

However, I think he would have.

His desire to be the King is innate. It’s not a lust for power or authority but rather a survival instinct that drives him to seek safety in being at the top of the food chain. If he is the strongest then no one else can threaten his existence. To give up his seat at Las Noches is the equivalent of abdicating his claim to the throne. Even battered, defeated, and on the brink of death, his instincts would never allow that concession.

This forces us to seek an alternative reason for his not being present.

2) He had been present.

If we are to conclude that Grimmjow would not leave Las Noches because of his desire to be King then he must have been there when the Quincy invaded. He clearly seeks to protect Hueco Mundo (though he disguises it as a threat to Kurosaki’s life), because he’s accepted some sort of responsibility over the realm. Though the Espada have been abolished he and Hallibel (Nel is excluded because we have no evidence that she spent any time in her adult form over the time skip) are still the two most powerful individuals in any sort of ‘leadership’ position over Hueco Mundo.

Furthermore, in CFYOW he exhibits no objection to Nelliel’s desire to rescue Hallibel, and in fact, aids in her extraction from the Royal Realm. He shares Nelliel’s goal in rescuing her. The paragraphs below show Grimmjow creating a diversion from the more injured Hallibel so that he can cover their escape back to Hueco Mundo, which he states in as many words “take the dead weight of yours and go back to Hueco Mundo ... You think the Soul Reapers will actually turn a blind eye to us? I’m not going to let them stab us in the back on the way out.” (Thank you @mindinmuken for the pages!)

This clearly indicates that Grimmjow and Hallibel have developed some sort of camaraderie or at least a mutual understanding - and he is willing to fight for her.

Therefore, excuses such as ‘he was away hunting’ and ‘he didn’t feel the need to fight’ when the Quincy attacked simply didn’t hold up. If his territory (Hueco Mundo inclusive), and Hallibel (his newest goal) and his throne were under threat, he would fight. He’s never been shown to be the person who backs down from a battle, no matter how suicidal (see Grimmjow vs Ulquiorra & Grimmjow vs Ichigo).

So if he was fighting along side Hallibel during the invasion, and only she was defeated in battle, where was he?

Simple. She told him to go. One of them needed to survive.

The Quincy were not shy about their goal - the total annihilation of the Soul Society AND it’s system. This system is clearly not a great thing for hollows - seeing as it creates them - but it does have some benefits. Death by shinigami permits the souls to re-enter the cycle of reincarnation. Shinigami are regarded as a Hollows natural enemy. But this isn’t true. Where a shinigami purifies a hollow, a quincy annihilates it and all the multitude of souls it contains.

This balance of the worlds was a concept that was introduced very early in Bleach, and just about anyone who’s anyone seems to be aware of it (the narrator in this scene is Rukia). It’s not a stretch to believe that the Arrancar are also aware of this to some extent - either innately or via Aizen - and the Espada in particular are made of a huge amount of souls.

Grimmjow himself states that he’s eaten 3000 hollows - adjuchas - and those hollows would have eaten a vast number of souls too. Even if you keep that number small and say that on average eat 500 other hollows, that still means Grimmjow is comprised of 1.5 Million Souls, and that’s not including all the souls he ate as a gillian and before he became menos, and that’s likely to be low-balling the average gross size of the adjuchas he’s consumed. Hallibel and Nelliel are Vasto Lorde (at least one is canonically) and are likely even larger than he is.

A quincy killing even one Vasto Lorde strength hollow obliterates an enormous number of souls from the balance.

Furthermore, the Arrancar are likely unaware of the animosity between the Quincy and the Shinigami. As far as Hallibel, Grimmjow, and Nelliel know, the Quincy simply aim to destroy the current system then the solution is simple:

Kill Hallibel, Grimmjow, and Nelliel.

If these three and their contained souls were destroyed then there would not be a war to destabilize the realm system. The Quincy would have won before the Shinigami could do anything to oppose them.

This is a sentiment that is shared by Ichibe.

“If we carelessly purify or eradicate you... the balance of the three worlds WOULD collapse.”

That is strong language. Though there is some wiggle room in including ‘as things currently are’, if the Quincy eradicated the three surviving Espada they needed do much more to win the war.

Considering all of this, the moment Hallibel and Grimmjow realized the Quincy’s goal the strategy to their fighting would have changed completely. Nel was fortunately already hidden and protected as a child, however, neither Grimmjow or Hallibel likely know exactly how many souls needed to be destroyed to unbalance the world.

The goal became survival at all costs. Live to fight another day. Do not throw this war away by careless action.

Grimmjow was absent when the Quincy were anihillating the surviving Arrancar because he obeyed for the first and only time, the one order Hallibel has ever given him:

Run.

#[ meta ]#[ ooc || out of control ]#[ hc || pry open the armour plating and get at the soft meat ]#i can genuinely keep writing bc this gives me so many surviving espada feelings about their relationship but this is already too long #tl;dr grimm wasnt there bc if he and harri were killed the whole world might have ended and hes not so arrogant to risk that over a fight #long post #SORRY THAT I TOOK UR SNAPPY COMEBACK AND TURNED IT INTO HC

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