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[regasssa]

I have - this afternoon - finished the two apps I've been working on. I'm pretty sure role playing samples shouldn't be between 1-1.5k, though... But even though I've gone over it several times, I cannot whittle it down. I just don't think that the character is convincingly enough them if I start trimming bits out, especially given the prompt. Does that mean I don't have the characters down well enough, or that I'm trying too hard? I think I really want to play this game, for sure; that might be all there is to it.

Anyway, I will beta them properly before I send them, and catch up on my tags. Hum!

MY INTERNET BROKE FOR LIKE 3 HOURS EARLIER. It destroyed my evening, seriously. I had to go do housework instead. Now I'm sulking.

What else~ Er...the weather is truly horrible, and has been for the last four days. There is wind and rain pounding at my windows again, and you can get tired of the weather being like this. *sigh*

Ooh. Shiny episode of shiny. Maybe I'll watch it now.

That reminds me; I finally watched Diamond Dust Rebellion the other day because I realised when I started rping Toushirou with SeeMe that I didn't understand much about his character at all. Now I have absolutely no idea what is real and what isn't, and it's bothering me. Does DDR count as canon? A lot of the content actually disturbed me, because I remembered some of the terrible things Central 46 has decreed etc. Of that, what happened in the film is probably the worst thing, and that really, really bothers me. That they don't listen. That they judge without evidence, or don't want to see the evidence. Guilty until proven innocent, and nothing but tools to be used. And they picked on Hitsugaya, which is unforgiveable. *sniffle*

So...what? Disregard? Or is it as canon as Isshin's 'Good Morning Ichigo!' pleasedon'tletitbeIwouldcry

Comments

[regasssa.livejournal.com]

I knew that about Ashido, and I really, really liked that part of the series. It didn't let up on the action, and it made it more believable somehow; that they weren't just dropped in and managed to more or less get straight to the action unhindered. I mean...it's Aizen, right?

Plus it explains where all the normal hollows are, which I was having trouble with otherwise...

Anyway! The thing is only that I've been having a harder and harder time...well...wanting to be on the Shinigami's side. Aizen is a cold bastard too, and Urahara is a pitiful beast -- rewatching the end of the SS arc where he apologises to them, I'm almost certain he didn't apologise enough. I mean -- what kind of coward sends kids to fix his mistakes? And then Central 46 is wickedly corrupt, and Yamamoto constantly ceases to amaze me in how much of a bastard and an idiot he is despite being thousands of years old. Um...

So yeah. It's just another arrow to add to the quiver of 'Well maybe Aizen's not doing a bad thing trying to clean this place up', and then you remember that he wants to kill hundreds of thousands of people...

Soul Society is clearly not a nice kind of place. It's amazing Ukitake can still smile like he does at all. I think they must have him on happy pills.

It's just...ah, I don't know. I guess when you explain it like that about Hyourinmaru, then it's fine. But I don't see why the loser, a loyal Shinigami, even if his way of achieving it might at some point have been questionable, has to be murdered... There's a lot in Bleach about following rules without question, or without consulting your moral compass; Byakuya is like that, too.

And then, hahah, I watched the new episode, and I genuinely, genuinely felt sorry for the Arrancar in it. Might have been the music, though. It was cold, if you know what I mean. Businesslike. Kenpachi even gave Nnoitra a chance...but clearly not all Shinigami are like that. Can you tell that I am not sure I like Soi-Fon so much any more?

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Honestly, I agree with you whole-heartedly.

That's something I've always enjoyed about Bleach--the "good guys" aren't really that good. If anything, I think they're more like the lesser of two evils--Hueco Mundo is the more 'primal' side of it, and Soul Society is the more 'calculated' side.

I've never really fully agreed with what kind of society they have--if they're supposed to defend souls, and send them to a peaceful place, why is Rukongai in the shape that it is? Rukongai is anything but peaceful when you get past the first few districts that border Seireitei.

And I also agree with the statement about Kusaka. Why did he have to die? Hyourinmaru may have chosen Hitsugaya for his spirit, yes, but just because Kusaka didn't receive it doesn't mean he should perish for it. But, it brings me back to what Kisuke said in the Maggot's Nest--the Gotei 13 are an elite organization--and once a person has qualified to be a member, incompatibility and non-conformance are impermissible." Part of me thinks this is what happened to Kusaka, but on a grander scale.

To keep up their ruse of infallibility, they had to take an element like him out--even though he was a loyal shinigami--they couldn't have something that even slightly went out of the realm of 'tradition'. It's a terrible state of affairs. The following of the rules blindly goes along with this too--it's as if people are too afraid of the 46 making a mistake to question their rulings; that Seireitei and all of Soul Society will fall apart if they do. I feel like Yamamoto, sadly, is just a product of this--he's too set in his ways--and by the same token, their ways--to remember how to think for himself.

Oh, I thought it was neat a zanpakutou could choose two wielders is what I meant by 'I thought that was neat'--not the fact that Kusaka had to die, because that wasn't cool at all.

And about the episode--I feel badly for the Arrancar, and even the Hollow to a degree as well. Hollows act upon instinct, and if you remember what Zommari said in chapter 302: The Shinigami feel it's their righteous duty, spoken by providence, to levy judgment on the hollows and arrancar.

Some of them seem so smug, almost happy to do it--like Soi Fon with Ggio--it's almost as if she feels she's so much above him, just due to the fact that he's got the blood of a hollow, and she thinks nothing of slaughtering him. This may be a war--but the Arrancar at least have tried to, in some ways, be sporting--while the Shinigami are killing with cold, emotionless intent. It's actually seemed that way to me throughout the entirety of the dealings between the Arrancar and Shinigami--the latter seem a lot more pompous in some of the fights than the former.

I think Ichigo and Kenpachi are the only ones who have really seen the arrancar on common ground, as another combatant, and not a monster needing to be slaughtered.