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phoenixcatch7 · 2 years

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Something I find mildly amusing (absolutely hysterical and not nearly talked about enough) is Zangetsu's likely reception if they ever appeared in soul society (ala the way most of them were hanging out during the Muramasa arc).

(Spoilers) Because not only have we 2 (2!) spirits, which previously ONLY kyoraku and shunsui had, we've got a) a very obvious hollow and b) literally soul society's biggest mortal enemy and the reason for the gotei's formation.

If either of them were spotted on their own without context, it would be ON SIGHT for both of them.

Granted, probably no one but like, four people absolute max would even recognise ossan, but they're all the oldest, most powerful, most influential captains and it might take a hot second to remember where they'd seen his face but honestly then they'd probably speed run bankai and try and take his head off screaming, and that would get people's attention if the yells to mobilise the whole seireitei didn't.

Shiro? Hollow. Obvious, blatant, hollow. Way more blatant than even the arrancar. With his mask on, no one would see the resemblance to Ichigo, and he would almost certainly be engaging in 'hollow' activities (ie antagonising someone). Any soul reaper not wondering what a humanoid hollow was doing wandering around in fully warded shinigami central in broad daylight would immediately try and kill him.

Ichigo?? Exhausted. Fed up. He let these guys out of his sight for two seconds. For crying out loud, there was a giant ancient ice dragon storming around a few days ago and people barely reacted to that.

#bleach #zangetsu #ichigo kurosaki #zanpakuto #zanpakutou #I just think there's a reason they didn't stick around once they got ossan back #Unlike literally every other zanpakuto bar ryuujin jakka #Obviously we hadn't had the reveal yet but it' provides such good theories #Because now we can't say for certain that people wouldn't have reacted #AND THEY REALLY WOULD #Ichigo kurosaki is a walking biohazard and it's not because of anything he's done for once XD #But because of his zanpakuto's PREVIOUS AFFILATIONS #Who has to factor in identity politics for their SWORDS?#Poor Ichigo that's who

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johannepetereric · 2 years

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How about a fic where Ichigo strikes a deal where the Three of them rotate who controls Ichigo’s body on the daily, who stays behind in the body, who goes fighting Hollows in the area, etc.

I think it’d be funny if on some days they see the Hollow (Shiro) or a fuckin’ 40-year-old chainsmoker-sound Bitch or a teen a little too into emo goth running’ around? Shiro’s using his Hollow thing, Ossan/Tensa’s doing Quincy shit, and Ichigo’s a basic bitch as a Shinigami

#bleach #ichigo kurosaki #hollow zangetsu #ossan #quincy zangetsu #tensa zangetsu

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getsusun · 11 months

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Over the years, sword spirit without an owner became a legend among the shinigami, other zanpakuto, spirits and whoever else inhabited the spirit world and its surrounding areas. Over less than a hundred years the sight of the second person near him also becomes part of the legend.

They walk together. Until the end and further, because death never stopped Getsu from coming back, and Nova… Nova will follow Getsu into the Hell and back.

(He actually did once, but this is the story for another time)

#bleach #bleach nova #Getsu #bleach headcanons #fanart #old man zangetsu #bleach omz #bleach noba #zangetsu ossan

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kittiemitties · 1 year

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I never posted it but my entry to last year’s @tanabatazine!

Role/Power swap with some backstory and Ichigo’s exposed midriff under the cut :3c

The idea was a Rukia that found/transfered power to Hime instead of ichigo! Since she's not the bottomless pit for energy like he is, Rukia would've been able to cover her ass, and also take her time training a Very interested in protecting people Hime.

The horns are from a discarded effect of Home's power! Kubo wanted her to sprout horns+ a tail when she used her power but his editor said it wasn't becoming of a love interest/herione. If she's the star, she can sprout what she wants!

It'd also mean Ichigo's reaper power staying dormant for considerably longer, which I think would result in his fulbring activating like Chad' and Hime's did, but it'd do so to fit his scrappier habits, since his history is with martial arts and street fighting.

In my heart, Zangetsu would have room to grow and flourish without the strain of having to hold himself together or compete with Ossan for Ichigo's acceptance. Ichigo inheriting Hime's tybw tit window was a Must. Urahara is an Equal Opportunity Meddler.

Something that didn't make it into the art is since Rukia's got a worn type bankai, she still passes that on to Hime. The reaper power would change the forms or her Rikka and allow her to fly with their wings and take on their powers >:3c

#IchiHime #Kurosaki Ichigo #Inoue Orihime #Tanabata Zine #Zines #PowerSwap AU #Bleach #draws #digital #fanart

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rayshippouuchiha · 1 year

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Patron Strawberry of 1A AU

Imagine if Muramasa was also in Ichigo's mindscape

Mandalay trying to connect during Summercamp arc

Shiro Zangetsu, lying on his hammock: Yo yo yo Aibou ain't in at the moment, this be his sword speaking. He'll get back to ya so stop botherin'. You lucky I ain't hungry.

Muramasa, filing his bigass nails: Please leave a message after the beep(the beep is an ear splitting hollow screech because he would)

Zangetsu Ossan, sighing: I'll put you through. Please wait a moment

Ichigo: Oh hey Mandalay what's up?

Mandalay......softly but with immense feeling: what the fuck?

Years later when the OFA vestiges become more powerful and Mandalay happens to hear the vicious Monopoly game going on in Izuku's head all the while said boy looks like sunshine incarnate though his head is filled with the most graphic death threats

Mandalay: Holy shit there's two of them

Mandalay just rocking back and forth on the ground because that's not how her quirk works, how are they doing this?, what aRE THEY???

#RayRambles #Bleach #Patron Strawberry Of 1A AU #EraserBerry #AizawaIchigo

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getsusekaii · 24 days

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Tidbit I noticed since rewatching Bleach is how many nuggets of info and teasers are places since the beginning of the show. Like Ichigo's Quincy abilities being used through Ossan Zangetsu 🤔

#✦ ・ rubii is a gem

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walks-the-ages · 1 year

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What would be VERY funny is if evil dude discovered he had accidentally taken some of Zangetsu into himself when he stole some of his powers.

Because I think that would be *absolutely hilarious*

Zangetsu goes on a rampage in the guys inner world while Ossan just shrugs and says "what did you expect to happen?"

While Ichigo gets to point and laugh at someone else being on the receiving end of Zangetsu

#bleach #Fullbringer arc

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sparklemagazine · 1 year

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Retards who keep comparing best ossan Juha to fugly cuck Zangetsu have zero brains and need to be punched hard.

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thedigitalpen · 6 years

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I can’t even tell you how much I love this old man. Sure, it gets a bit complicated once you find out who he really is, but whenever the chips were down and Ichigo was almost out of options, the one “person” he could always count on and the one he would rely on was Zangetsu-ossan. And you know I love me hot, powerful, sexy ossan.

#bleach #anime #zangetsu #ossan #kurosaki ichigo #love when he shows up

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phoenixcatch7 · 5 months

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Because my brain has three fanfic ideas on rotation, I have of course gotten struck by the idea of reincarnating Ichigo Kurosaki into someone from ff7. But I'm torn - I can't decide which character to choose!

Obviously, I can't have him overwrite someone too different from him; it'll take out all the tension and character relationships. No one around him would believe it's the same person as before, and no one would trust him nor could he 'continue' to fill the original role. There'd be an intervention of some type, he'd lose his job, and be pretty quickly shunted out of the story, thematically (and literally). The dissonance would be too great. On the other hand, anyone too similar might lead to negligible differences to their original role in the story, bar the new overwhelming power, which again doesn't make for very good stakes.

You've got to achieve a good blend of before and after, to achieve that perfect sweet spot of believable assumptions and explanations for the change. 'We think he had amnesia' or 'we don't really know what happened, but trauma changes everyone' or even 'I wonder what happened when he was gone?'. You want to achieve that down but not gone energy, unintentional on the arriving character's side or not. So:

Options and explanations under the cut! (kinda long lol)

Aerith: Unconventional but huge potential!! Would be very cool indeed! Good parallels, good plot relevance to enter the final fight - there'd be some snags, mostly with the flowers and turks, and she's way more smiley than Ichigo lol. But the determination to help the community and (most of) the individuals in it remains, either through his help at the clinic or stubbornly maintaining and defending memorials to the dead. He's used flowers before, heck it's his opening scene. It's easy to imagine him seeing the affect greenery has in this new world and throwing his all into working with it like aerith did. Her connection to the lifestream, which is basically the reiatsu/afterlife of the world, would translate seamlessly to his sensory abilities. Heck, his full bring has green light effects!! It's perfect! And even if he followed canon and got killed he's got his shinigami form and copious amounts of bloodlust.

But fr imagine, it's cloud v sephiroth, the fate of the world hangs in the balance, sephiroth is obsessed with cloud - but what's this! It's aerith with a steel chair and a giant glowing sword!

(also I really don't care about the gender difference lol, so here Ichigo wouldn't either!)

Sephiroth: visually their ideal/true designs are very similar (long statement colour hair, very long thin sword, inhuman eyes, big billowing black coat/trousers) and it'd be annoying to have two people with such similar designs and bloodline selling points, but on the other..... I can't NOT have an Ichigo vs sephiroth, come on! If I went this route I wouldn't even bother changing the hair colour lmao, and it'd combine with his hollow characteristics perfectly! Wings AND horns!!! Strong 'I can be your angel or your devil' energy, new sword combos, his job is basically being the biggest scariest threat out there, which Ichigo excels at. But as an equivalent captain role, he'd also get stuck with the paperwork LMAO. Sucks to suck, pretty boy. And of course the jenova issue would just result in Ichigo and Co (zangetsu and ossan) eating her for breakfast, let's be real. He finds those papers he's burning the mansion to the ground himself, not nibleheim. Of course that means no world ending threat to kick-start the story, but hey, shrinras still around, which is basically the same thing.

They've got so many parallels; hybrid entities specially engineered to be (in)human weapons, raised oblivious to their true heritage, mothers purposely infected with monsters that got passed on to them, weapon and fighting prodigies of insane proportions rapidly out classing everyone around the despite their young age, a human shaped mf of a villain who claimed they did this on purpose to forge them into what they are today... Falling to their monstrous forms in rage and pain, voices whispering cruelty in their heads... But where sephiroth fell to madness and cruelty Ichigo responded with unexpected maturity, determination and was able to accept his demons as his own, and not be consumed. He came out the other side a better person. The potential is IMMENSE.

But.... Ichigo vs sephiroth. And the personality change would basically be an inversion XD.

Angeal: he was who I originally considered - a side character enough to be interesting, honour bound like Ichigo, big black special broadsword with special origins, down to adopt small children (like teenage (?) super soldiers) and would actually take very good care of them (if with a... Unique training style XD). Perfectly positioned to massively affect the story through small changes or be an amazing wildcard. The story would be able to be SOLDIER 1st domesticity too, which I love, and there'd be a wonderfully interesting dynamic with the other two as his massive new strength and skills become known, throwing off the long established power balance and getting the attention of Science. His own storyline in crisis core is ripe for aus. I had the idea of his old orange bleeding into his black hair and making it look like tiger stripes, but genesis has bright orange hair already and it'd be too similar lmao.

You could do so much with the similar codes of honour and how that plays into fighting people so much weaker than you and just comporting yourself when you're capable of that much damage. Angel's loyalty and honour being bound to shinra and SOLDIER vs Ichigos notorious and categoric refusal to bend the knee to authority and his history of stubbornly toppling similarly injust regimes. Not to mention the modern general loathing for... The very foundation of shinra, really lol. And the circumstances when that honour falls apart. Angel dropped it like a hot potato when his degradation started setting in (which, under the circumstances understandable if not to that degree) vs Ichigo who will go down with this ship UNTIL you touch a hair on his protected's heads and even then you'll get a proper burial.

But... I just can't make him work thematically. Out of everyone in the list, he's got the weakest connection to the world's fate. What satisfying ending could I use?? What would it be working towards? Curing the degradation, perhaps?

Genesis: I just... Don't like him as a character, I confess. His bull headed 'rivalry' and lack of care for collateral (even before the degradation) and constant sniping never endeared himself to me. It reminds me more of grimmjow or noitra than anything else. But I couldn't consider the other two and not also him, and he does come with the orange hair already! And the love of theatre! Ichigo loves Shakespeare especially, so I can definitely see him giving loveless a go and loving it (pun intended). He'd for sure be compelled by the lack of ending, especially given his own thoughts on fate. His ability with materia would differ greatly from Ichigo's norm, he who is horrendous at kido but fantastic at breaking it, so that'd be a problem. And again he suffers from lack of narrative weight on the world scale, but maybe something could be done with the G cells?? Them and S cells were both very similar after all. But nothing that wouldn't already be happening with sephiroth.

Taking this role would probably be the hardest for Ichigo of the three, but it'd be very interesting to see him stretch his literary analysis muscles (which, again - this is a Japanese teenage boy reading Shakespeare in the original middle English in his own time who then occasionally gives hard hitting monologues on the nature of fate and humanity and his hollow sure didn't that verbose and metaphorical from nowhere lol). The amnesia plot line would be very interesting indeed to work with, as long as he got a hair cut.

Zack: Zack is a Shiba through and through. He's fiercely loyal, capable, goofy and hardworking, a shooting star in the ranks and friends with the most unlikely people. He would and does endure the worst torture and saves Cloud. He leaves an enormous legacy, and dies a hero. If it weren't for his chill, happy go lucky golden retriever energy I'd have chosen him over the rest, but it's not a good match for Ichigo, it'd be a crying shame to lose that and have zack go unmourned. I think Ichigo and zack would get on EXCELLENTLY.

If Ichigo did reincarnate into him, I'd have to put it either right when he enters shinra, or surviving hojos lab with cloud. But Ichigo would probably just turn and leave if he wasn't solidly integrated, but by that point zack would have made too many friends XD! Surviving the lab would be the perfect cover for the new super insane strength/abilities and his new reticence, and he'd pretty quickly adopt Cloud so that'd be all well. He'd still be stuck with the effects of heavy mako poisoning like cloud, but hey. I feel he'd overshadow Cloud a LOT though in every way, which is a huge part of the story and the cloud-sephiroth thing isn't something I'm too happy to replace? Idk. It'd be very cool to see, admittedly. He could have tiger hair too!

Cloud finding out Zack isn't who he used to be would be heartwrenching though, possibly replacing a good chunk of the sephiroth gaslighting subplot that would be dropped. An identity reveal in these kinds of fics are rare, but it'd have so much payoff here.

Vincent: ok listen listen listen. Vincent gets a fresh start in a way very very few other characters do. With him Ichigos original personality could shine through the strongest, without any pre conceived notions from the people around him. However! His past and connections make him very well rooted in the grand scheme, should we use it right. He's already used to one feral op monster living rent free in his head (and the interplay of Chaos and Zangetsu, the hollow one especially, would be hilarious lol) and he wouldn't have to explain ANYTHING to anyone lmao. And his hair could do the tiger thing, he could do pretty much anything he wanted in regards to his powers! Hollow bits like horns and eyes? Sure! Quincy stuff with his gun? Why not! And he'd certainly join avalanche, given they woke him up. Ichigo already knowing of ff7 would work fantastically too, but it'd work great even if he went in blind. Vincent's main gun weapon and his solitary ways could remain or go, but it'd also be a good opportunity for Ichigo to flex his meagre quincy abilities, with old man zangetsu as his teacher. And he'd be a good choice (along with sephiroth) to portray Ichigo's feelings of being an outsider in this new and crazy world. Vincent's pretty out of place normally.

But either way you play sephiroths father he'd be so ready to try and save sephiroth once he finds out about lucrecia. Whether sephiroth would be willing to be saved, however... Also he could probably kill jenova lbr. I mean the hardest thing would be getting her head back from sephiroth. Also he'd love that tattered cape coat thing.

Cloud: and of course the most obvious for last - protagonist to protagonist! Letting his new friends assume his 'amnesia' isn't for the reason it actually is, a grouchy but loyal underdog beloved and trusted by the eclectic friends he leads, trying to uncover the truth of this body's past simultaneously before it comes back round to bite him and to discover who it is he's replaced to mourn, guessing at what he can't intuit, clueless as to basic world mechanics. Traumatised by the death of his mother. Struggling with identity issues and something in his head and so so so ready to kill g-d OR BECOME HIM. Spikey hair.

But it's just too obvious and it makes me unhappy. I like unconventional or weirdly fitting options, and well, is it weird I don't want to deprive Cloud of his growth and life in general? Ichigo's had his time as protagonist, I just feel it wouldn't be the best we could do. Ichigo would be such a guiding light for Cloud, an equal in ways so few others can be. They'd be able to connect on so many levels. There's great potential, yes, but I feel it'd almost be too easy. Ichigo would be swept along by the plot rather than being able to change it from the outside. What do you think?

Guest mentions:

Tifa: probably the best match for Ichigo personality wise, and I love the martial arts stuff, but too much of her story revolves around cloud. If she forgets, even with the best intentions, how is anyone going to help restore cloud's memory??

Tseng: it'd be so cool to have a spy Ichigo, admittedly, and also the 'I have super powers that put me on par with sephiroth' reveal would be insane, but Ichigo would probably be sacked if he took over Tseng XD. He is NOT cut out for that sort of subtlety.

Nanaki: I'm a sucker for people turned into creatures when they enter a new time/dimension, and Nanaki being another hojo victim would give him the thematic right to also fight sephiroth with cloud. Also with Ichigo's hollow form we could get a giant monster transformation!! Come on! He'd also be a good fit for Ichigo's sensory skills with reiatsu (listen I know Ichigo is renowned for being kinda bad if it's not intent or people he knows well but it's miles above what normal people have).

Rufus: this would be hilarious. Poor, poor Ichigo. He'd stage a coup. Finding and cleaning up deep ground too would be a very entertaining story lol.

Jenova: okay I know this is bizarre but this is the closest ff7 has to the soul king and Ichigo's soul is pure concentrated reiatsu, which is a pretty one to one equivalent of mako. Like, the life stream as the afterlife instead of a place would freak him out, but come on. Alien King Ichigo. 2000 yo or arriving during sephiroths meltdown or even just before hojo gets hold of her, it'd be so cool to explore. He'd be so not ready to parent a grown mass murderer traumatised lab experiment but man would he be willing to try.

Also, this would be one of the only timelines where sephiroth is saved/talked down. Ichigo being of equal strength already would get even stronger, he'd be able to handle sephiroth, probably take the attention off Cloud at least. You could take any point on the sephiroth spectrum from 'totally unwilling and mind controlled' to 'very eager to continue killing everything and will throw hands with whatever dares get in his way including jenova herself' and it'd work so well! Also I could finally give Ichigo wings. Him vs the WEAPONS would also be super cool. Maybe he could bargain with the planet? And the idea of her and sephiroths hair suddenly flushing neon orange for no discernable reason would be funny lmao.

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johannepetereric · 2 years

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Ok, there are MCU fics where Petey, MJ, and Ned have their team Twitter account alongside their own; and the same goes for Nelson, Murdock, and Page.

NOW I need a textfic where The Zangetsu Gang is one of the Three [something] memes for a user or “Three [Xs] in a Trench Coat” joke.

And it’s for if they swap shotgun or fight over the driver’s seat, so to speak!

..............................................

Ichigo:

We are Number One @threeswordsinatrenchcoat

he/they, maybe he/they/it

Edit: And the bio rotates pronouns depending on who’s on that day

Edit: And also speaks in Royal We (mostly Ossan/Tensa cuz Soul King Offspring, last I checked)

Edit: omg ELDRITCH TEXT SHIRO!!!

#bleach #ichigo kurosaki #ossan #hollow ichigo #hollow zangetsu #shiro #quincy zangetsu #peter parker #mj #ned leeds #foggy nelson #matt murdock #karen page

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getsusun · 2 years

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So I started watching new bleach series

...And I am still totally sure, that these two pictures are the pictures of different characters. So thanks to my wild imagination, in parallel with watching one plot I am inventing the other, matching my AU headcanons...

#bleach #zangetsu ossan #yhwach #bleach tybw #old man zangetsu #spoiler #may be #technically there can be people who waited six years to see all plot in anime #or may be just started watching #but whatever

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the-zangetsu-gang · 3 years

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Please ask us anything—fuck off, Shiro!—Ossan, thank you.

My pronouns are they/them. Shiro’s are he/they/it. Ossan and Tensa are he/they.

Yes, you can ask for Kazui. They co-parent him *gestures to Zangetsu* with me and Orihime.

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rayshippouuchiha · 2 years

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I always go kinda feral over Bleach fics where Ichigo shelters Muramasa cos it has like so much potential? Muramasa and his crazy would fit in so well with Ichigo's Ichigo-ness!

Muramasa and Shiro-Zangetsu: raccoons fighting in a trashcan dynamic

Muramasa and Zangetsu Ossan: Prissy judgemental bitches dynamic

Muramasa and Tensa: Mean Girls(tm)

Muramasa and Ichigo: Gremlin vibes

Absolutely yes to all of the above. These are the exact vibes and why I love it too

#RayRambles #Bleach

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