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Run boy run

I love Sky, look at his face X'D

He hates running but he has to in order to get answers

Poor guy

The new Ashoka serie smells more and more like a "we have to save soldier Ezra" serie.

Not that I mind, I love Ezra and his feral energy.

(It's funny how much Jedi survived when they were supposed to be instinct.)

(And Luke who though he was the last ! Maybe he joined the secret Jedi club where everybody has a code name)

What If (Bleach)

What if reiatsu has a similar way of working as magic in HP.

It would be awesome to have a talking portrait of dead (really dead) people, giding you and providing a glimpse of the past.

The reiatsu of the person could be incorporated in the painting/drawing with Kido spells and seals. It would survive the person's death and be self sufficient.

But it would be a very precious and pricy thing (money, ressources, talent...) , only affordable by the nobles or the higher levels of the Gotei 13. The more you pour reiatsu in the object during your lifetime, the more realistic the reactions would be. The reiatsu is engraved in a time and it would take time and a lot of effort to put a profound way of thinking into it (the chiefs of the noble houses and the captains would have a duty to implement regularly their reiatsu in their ceremonial portrait).

The family's shrines and some workdesks would be very noisy.

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Hisana's funeral portrait telling Byakuya he's a massive dumbass (and becoming fast friend with Ichigo when Rukia showed up with him).

Kaien doing his best to help Rukia and the Shibas. Him being extatic at meeting Ichigo (and trashing Isshin). His portrait would be side by side with Isshin's and Miyako's so they could converse easily.

Unohana smiling on Kyone's desk. Kyoraku and Rukia having one of Ukitake on theirs.

Rangiku ranting at Gin's ceremonial portrait for him being a bastard and abandoning her.

There would be no fair portrait of Aizen, as he was always lying (and couldn't afford a portrait that looked like the real him).

Zelda's tears, Link's suffering

How frustrating will it be for Zelda and Link when they will learn that the sacrifices made during BOTW Where for naught.

The useless praying

The guardians

The divine creatures

The soldiers death

The champion's and the king's death

Link's death (and 100 years nap)

Zelda's 100 years of arm-wrestling with Ganon (and lost of her divine powers)

All of this to hold back and beat a sliver of the real deal.

That what was depicted in the ancient mural was not what happened. (It was so much worse)

Their role isn't finished, they don't get to have their happily either after yet.

They will have to fight and to suffer and to sacrifice and to struggle in order to get stronger and to win (to finally rebuilt the kingdom and live in peace).

They will probably hope that the price to pay won't be too high (Not like last time).

Bleach Logistics

Karakura is not that big of a city. Just big enough to not know everybody and have a variety of people and characters, some shady some not.

It got me thinking but Ichigo seems to be kind of famous : he has ginger hair, because of that a lot of thugs know him and challenge him and he has a reputation (Keigo knew his name and reputation before even meeting him).

Then there was the whole shinigami business and Ichigo got a new I'm-not-even-paid-for-this-shit job.

His reiatsu output kickstarted his friends spiritual awareness (and we were robbed with Tatsuki) while he was dealing with hollows.

It's always funny to remember how, from an outside point of view, he was randomly dying before acquiring Kon.

Now, how weird would it be for his classmates and teachers to find out that strong and independant Kurosaki, the same one that could (and would) fight a group of thugs without problem, had a 'condition' that made him kick the bucket and come back from the dead regularly.

He was weird. He got weirder (and he still didn't give a fuck about it).

Unknow to all of them, it was only the beginning.

Because soon, some of them started seeing weird things : a strange shadow, movement in the corner of the eye, a blured figure...

They didn't give it much thoughts (they had other shit to think about) but it was still strange and the phenomenon was increading as the days passed.

Even worse, it seemed as if some people were involved in the weirdness. Without surprise, Kurosaki Ichigo was one of them (when wasn't he). His medium powers were disclosed by the ones who knew him in kindergarten (Tatsuki was furious and had beaten the crap out of them).

Now, how weird would it be to see him run away from class to go to the toilets (indigestion profesor !) and then run on thin-fucking-air with a giant sword and a black kimono.

How weird would it be to see some nightmarish monster going on a rampage, to see Kurosaki appearing out of nowhere (sometimes alone, sometimes with friends) and start beating the shit out of them before disapearing again.

It wasn't a shock to see Kurosaki involved in all of that violence, but seeing the student representant Uryuu Ishida destroy a hollow was. It was a little more disturbing to see the sweet Orihime Inoue tanking without a flinch an attack from those monsters. And seeing all of those new transfer students was a humbling sight.

Some choose to follow the saying 'ignorance is bliss' and kept the illusion that they saw and knew nothing of the parallel plane. Others just kept it low but they were loosing it on the inside.

All of them thought the same thing : What the fuck was going on ?

Almost all of them got their answer, on way or another.

For some it was seeing a recently deceased soul on the road.

For others it was looking at Kurosaki helping a soul pass on : a stranger, a friend, a family member.

For a few it was having a first hand experience with him.

Yuki was sick. She had been for some time.

She knew she didn't have a lot of time so she took it upon herself to organize her possessions. She didn't have a lot of family or friends but did everything to see them and make a lot of memories.

She tried to stay positive but she was worried. Death isn't a little thing, everybody meet it, nobody can run away from it but it's not a formality. So she was a little scared of what awaited her.

In the end, she shouldn't have.

It was late in the afternoon when she died. She hadn't felt well and ended up unconscious after lunch, fighting a loosing battle against her body.

Now she was looking at her face wistfully. She wasn't sad nor happy to be dead, she didn't leave a lot of regrets behind but she left people she cared about behind. She hoped they would be okay.

The sun was setting when someone entered her bedroom. She was surprised to see Kurosaki in a traditional outfit. She felt alarmed when she spoted the huge sword on his back.

He looked at her and gruffly told her to calm down. With a patience and kindness she didn't know he possessed, he explained evrything to her : how he was a (part-timer) shinigami sent here to help her move on, how the afterlife was, the procedure to sent her on... He answered her questions, listened quietly to her and waited for her to be reeady (it didn't take long).

She left him with a last message for her best friend and let him do his job without much fussing.

It was her last day on earth but she was happy to be sent away by a familiar (if unknown) face and new knowledge. She hoped she would see his face someday in Soul Society and could repay him his kindness.

She would soon discover she wasn't the only one of Karakura people to think this way.

Chad's supporters (and how they became invested in his best friend whereabouts)

I'm still laughing myself sick thinking that Chad ended up the most famous of the group.

Seriously, the guy is an international celebrity (with a face that reminds me of Kyourakou but that's beside the point).

He's strong, he's famous. There must be a fanclub and paparazzi on his back.

(Let's be real, Karakura city would be insufferable about his career and put photos and interviews of him everywhere).

So imagine some groupies or paparazzis trying to get more information about this quiet guy. He doesn't talk much and is super discreet despite his massive body.

So they search info on his younger years and they find Karakura. Extatic, they keep digging information. And then they find something new and weird : he was a (sort of) delinquent, alongside a ginger and violent boy, that kicked yakuzas and deliquents asses regularly.

Some even dig up videos of some fights (with a quality so horrible it makes eyes cry).

When they bring it up to the champion, he simply hums and smiles. So the researchers are out on a mission : they have to find the ginger dude.

(Is he an athlete too ? Or did he end up with yakuzas ?)

What they find is a little disapointing : the ginger boy that made full grown yakuzas look over their shoulder and tremble in fear is an average man working on translations.

Well, they learn really quickly that he's not so average after all.

Upon closer inspection, he still has brighly coloured hair and a nice complexion (tanned skin and a slim figure).

After a few weeks of stalking, they also see him kick a group of yakuza's asses without breaking a sweat.

The interest grows with each new information.

(Ichigo feels a few eyes following him regularly but he can't pinpoint from where it goes. It unnerves him but it doesn't seem to have bad consequences so he suck it up).

((Chad is deeply amused when he finds out his fanclub curiosity for his friend. As a good celebrity, he doesn't hesitates to deliver when an opportunity arises.)

One day (between two competitions), he finds himself back in Karakura and chooses to go visit his friends. He stops by the Karakura clinic, where Orihime greets him with a smile and her bubbliness. Ichigo is on a tight schedule because of his deadlines so Chad accompagnies Orihime to get Kazui back from school. By the time diner is ready, Ichigo greets them with a tired but winning smile.

The next morning, he and Chad go to Tatsuki's dojo to talk and play fight. Chad knows that some of his fans are in the crowd, or trying to hide behind bushes while searching for the best way to get a look at him (and at Ichigo who is getting extremely popular amongs them).

Scheming, he offers to fight with and oblivious Ichigo who accepts.

They warm up and get on the ring, they smile at each other while they get in position. And then Tatsuki ring the beginning of the fight.

Let it be said that it was at that moment that the hidden groupies adopted Ichigo as a permanent fixture in their obsession. (the whole fight was filmed and is still showed on multiple occasions)

They fought hard and fast for a very long time. Ichigo, for his lean boddy and more petite frame, held his own against a medalled champion and even gave a good fight. They didn't hold back and punched with everything they had. Chad still won in the end and heleped a sweating and laughing Ichigo off the floor ("man, I'm so out of practice!"). Chad hummed and patted him with a smile.

He leaves a few days later to get back on his training, Ichigo none the wiser of his scheming. (His sisters are not, they see photos and videos of their brother blossom on the internet, along side Chad's. They see the fandom's mindblow after the fight's video. Like good sisters, they keep their mouth shut in front of Ichigo, but find the situation hilarious).

Ichigo, the hot translator, ends up with a solid fanbase without even trying (and is the last one to find out). Chad is still smug about it, years later.