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Six Hearts vs. Fullbringers: Uryu vs. Giriko

Look Uryu fans, I’m one of you. I don’t like this either. But somebody has to take care of this guy.

Giriko poses a big problem for anybody who wants to write a fight scene involving him: his powers make no sense. His Fullbring, formed by his love/association/relationship with pocketwatch, allows him to make a contract with the (possibly metaphorical? There’s zero worldbuilding here) God of Time that if violated causes the subject to be destroyed and is more powerful the simpler it is. In-story, he uses it to set a timer on Ichigo’s training session, and to become super buff, and in a flashback he uses it to kill his wife.

This is a complete mess, and also not particularly visually interesting. Rather that scrounge for a way to turn it all into something coherent, the story just throws him at Zaraki, whereupon he gets bisected with the quickness. And that was probably the best way of dealing with him! Cut your losses. Unfortunately, that also means one of our six hearts will also be ruthlessly squashing Giriko, and so won’t get the most interesting fight.

Uryu is the best candidate for this job. Unlike Orihime and Chad, he actually does have a few character moments in these final fights, providing emotional support for Ichigo in his battle with Ginjo. And if Uryu beats his opponent in just a couple of minutes, he’ll have time to hop over to Ichigo’s fight and dramatically shout at him, which is good, because I liked those interactions and thought they added something to the story.

Uryu also needs character development a little less because (spoilers) our next arc is about the Quincies, and so we can’t get ahead of ourselves in his character growth. But what we can do is use this fight to build up the Quincy rep a little, using Uryu’s demonstration of strength to make the audience quake when a whole bunch of evil Quincies show up.

Ideally what I’d like to see here would be Giriko giving a power-mad speech to Uryu, similar to the one he gave Zaraki, and then...idk, doing something with his vague-ass powers. I thought it was kind of weird he never uses those floating clocks he has around him after upgrading his powers, so maybe they’re bombs? That slow down time around them so the victim can’t get away?

But of course, Giriko’s powers don’t kill Uryu. They don’t even hurt him. He won’t explain why (it’s Blut, but we want that to be a surprise). He just tells him that the God of Time doesn’t compare to the God of the Quincies, and shoots him in the face.

Then he runs off to find Ichigo.

#Bleach #Troius fantasy books Bleach #I feel like this would do a lot to make that early part of TYBW more foreboding #not just with making Quincies look strong #but reminding the reader that Uryu really does think of himself as a Quincy #would add some nice drama around his allegiances

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