（ hard to tell at this distance — his sensory abilities have never been great. could it have been that quincy bastard? he was pretty sure grimmjow had opted against a direct confrontation, not to mention the fact that ichigo can tell he walked away from the fight.
then again, if the quincy's reiatsu had been knocked out in the fight, it would have been pretty one-sided... shit.
he isn't in the habit of sharing his business with other people, especially near-strangers, but the circumstances of his knowing uchiha have been weird from the word go. and he clearly considers himself at least on par with grimmjow after their fight. there's a chance that if he learns about the quincy, he'll seek him out on purpose too just like he did with ichigo. except that ichigo can't guarantee the guy wouldn't just straight up kill him. ）
there's another person from my world it could be, but he's one of my enemies. said his name was （ uh. what was it again? ichigo types out several guesses, deleting each one in turn and then: ） jugo, i think. tall guy, long blonde hair, german. kind of an austere prick.
[Concern spikes, recalling his conversation with Sakura not long ago. I can get stronger, too. It is hypocritical of him to consider frustration when he's never communicated any of his own encounters or battles here, even seeking out the fraught lands outside Stygia. But still.]
Jugo. [His mind goes to his own Jugo, far away from this place.] Your description is familiar, I encountered someone like that briefly.
[what is german tho]
There's another from my world as well. I'll check on her. [...] I don't like the idea of her fighting Grimmjow.
grimmjow's an asshole most of the time, but he's not a bad person, and he isn't going to kill anyone. if they fought, he would have left your friend alive.
（ but it is a technicality. just because he wouldn't have killed her directly necessarily mean there were wounds someone might succumb to later... even if he thinks it would be done more out of ignorance than deliberation. grimmjow wouldn't derive any satisfaction from someone dying of their wounds.
he needs to put that idiot on a leash, stg.
as for the rest, well. he's already committed. he's explained that he's powerful, and there's no point hiding the specifics of what he is. if nothing else, uchiha is going to see tensa zangetsu at some point. pre-empting any questions that might later arise will be one avenue of trust between them. ）
first, you probably need some context. i'm a shinigami. he's something called a quincy, a race of living humans with reiatsu — that energy you sensed in me — that was nearly eradicated in a war a millennia ago.
quincy have been at odds with shinigami well before that war. both shinigami and quincy can see spirits. shinigami can perform a ritual that sends spirits to the afterlife, cleansing corrupted spirits and permitting them to return to their place in the reincarnation cycle.
quincy destroy them.
（ he's pretty sure he doesn't have to describe the specifics to someone from a culture that aligns with his own. why that's as horrifying as it is. ）
the shinigami aren't blameless. they tried to commit genocide, and almost succeeded. it was way before my time, but that sin is part of my heritage. （ on both sides. shinigami and quincy both. he thinks of his mother, who he'd known so little and holds so few precious memories of, and wonders what she might have thought of her son fighting against the quincy's king. his jaw tightens faintly, and then he continues typing: ） until a few months ago i didn't know there were more than a few surviving quincy. but he's part of an army that was amassed to destroy the barriers between the realms of the dead and the living. shinigami are called balancers. we make sure the realms are in check. without those checks... my world will consume itself.
jago or whatever is the right hand man of the quincy king, yhwach. we've agreed to a ceasefire here, but i don't trust him. he'd probably say the same of me. you can believe whatever you want or ask him. i don't think he'd lie, but we see things differently.
this serious tag about genocide and ichigo just like "jugo" "jago" "jello"
[He's not a bad person carries more weight than Ichigo implies. As much as he dislikes Grimmjow on principle of being obnoxious to deal with, in addition to the bloodlust that reminds him of defeated shinobi in his past — he'll take Ichigo's word for this now. And check on Sakura himself.
It also doesn't escape Sasuke's notice how much is revealed in the process of what he's then told.]
Quincy and Shinigami. [The latter is familiar, as well as that cultural reference to souls. Of course it's distasteful; Sasuke, unseen, is frowning. He doesn't comment further on the reference to genocide, even if it feels sore to hear.] I understand carrying that sort of heritage, but...
Why would they want to tear down the divide between those realms? What is the purpose?
A year ago, in my own dimension, we were at war. I wouldn't have wanted to be taken from that. [The state of insanity he was in notwithstanding.] At least you know a powerful adversary is trapped here with you. He can't help your opponent back there.
There's nothing to get into. [TCH......] If you're going to help ensure I don't become overwhelmed by my Shadow, then we should understand each other better. That's all.
Also, what is this pressure. Fine... he will tell the first person ever about what he is... it only took the game closing to get here.]
I'm a shinobi. My abilities utilize chakra, a life force that can be manipulated by my body. Due to the genetics of my clan, the Uchiha, I have an affinity for fire nature as well as the inheritance of a kekkei genkai — a bloodline limit — called the Sharingan.
If we are at battle, your first priority should be to disable my eyes.
（ well, literally none of that's any weirder than 'shinigami', so he just. takes it all in stride. ）
i can fight blind, if that helps.
（ he made a point of it, after ginjō. he'd fought panicked and scared before, but never without his vision. that fear had carried over into his training, and while he wouldn't call himself proficient, he's decent enough. ）
how's your healing? i wouldn't want to do anything permanent.
（ he's made peace with that — or what passes as peace, anyway. even before he knew his heritage in full, he was still different. normal kids don't see ghosts. ）
most of them are. the youngest one i know is seventy or so. the oldest...
（ old man yama comes to mind. he didn't know the guy well enough to grieve, but the impact of his loss echoed throughout seireitei. he's never forgotten that urahara's spirit blade was forged on his order. ）
probably like 3000 or so i guess.
but i was born in the human world. aged normally. went to school. i thought i was human until not too long ago.
and yeah, they do. but a shinigami is born in the spirit world and ages there. it just wasn't the path of my life.
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（ hard to tell at this distance — his sensory abilities have never been great. could it have been that quincy bastard? he was pretty sure grimmjow had opted against a direct confrontation, not to mention the fact that ichigo can tell he walked away from the fight.
then again, if the quincy's reiatsu had been knocked out in the fight, it would have been pretty one-sided... shit.
he isn't in the habit of sharing his business with other people, especially near-strangers, but the circumstances of his knowing uchiha have been weird from the word go. and he clearly considers himself at least on par with grimmjow after their fight. there's a chance that if he learns about the quincy, he'll seek him out on purpose too just like he did with ichigo. except that ichigo can't guarantee the guy wouldn't just straight up kill him. ）
there's another person from my world it could be, but he's one of my enemies. said his name was （ uh. what was it again? ichigo types out several guesses, deleting each one in turn and then: ） jugo, i think. tall guy, long blonde hair, german. kind of an austere prick.
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Jugo. [His mind goes to his own Jugo, far away from this place.] Your description is familiar, I encountered someone like that briefly.
[what is german tho]
There's another from my world as well. I'll check on her. [...] I don't like the idea of her fighting Grimmjow.
Why is that man your enemy?
cw: genocide refs
（ but it is a technicality. just because he wouldn't have killed her directly necessarily mean there were wounds someone might succumb to later... even if he thinks it would be done more out of ignorance than deliberation. grimmjow wouldn't derive any satisfaction from someone dying of their wounds.
he needs to put that idiot on a leash, stg.
as for the rest, well. he's already committed. he's explained that he's powerful, and there's no point hiding the specifics of what he is. if nothing else, uchiha is going to see tensa zangetsu at some point. pre-empting any questions that might later arise will be one avenue of trust between them. ）
first, you probably need some context. i'm a shinigami. he's something called a quincy, a race of living humans with reiatsu — that energy you sensed in me — that was nearly eradicated in a war a millennia ago.
quincy have been at odds with shinigami well before that war. both shinigami and quincy can see spirits. shinigami can perform a ritual that sends spirits to the afterlife, cleansing corrupted spirits and permitting them to return to their place in the reincarnation cycle.
quincy destroy them.
（ he's pretty sure he doesn't have to describe the specifics to someone from a culture that aligns with his own. why that's as horrifying as it is. ）
the shinigami aren't blameless. they tried to commit genocide, and almost succeeded. it was way before my time, but that sin is part of my heritage. （ on both sides. shinigami and quincy both. he thinks of his mother, who he'd known so little and holds so few precious memories of, and wonders what she might have thought of her son fighting against the quincy's king. his jaw tightens faintly, and then he continues typing: ） until a few months ago i didn't know there were more than a few surviving quincy. but he's part of an army that was amassed to destroy the barriers between the realms of the dead and the living. shinigami are called balancers. we make sure the realms are in check. without those checks... my world will consume itself.
jago or whatever is the right hand man of the quincy king, yhwach. we've agreed to a ceasefire here, but i don't trust him. he'd probably say the same of me. you can believe whatever you want or ask him. i don't think he'd lie, but we see things differently.
this serious tag about genocide and ichigo just like "jugo" "jago" "jello"
It also doesn't escape Sasuke's notice how much is revealed in the process of what he's then told.]
Quincy and Shinigami. [The latter is familiar, as well as that cultural reference to souls. Of course it's distasteful; Sasuke, unseen, is frowning. He doesn't comment further on the reference to genocide, even if it feels sore to hear.] I understand carrying that sort of heritage, but...
Why would they want to tear down the divide between those realms? What is the purpose?
he's calling him jello next mark my words
he doesn't seem to realize that you can fear more than just death. or not fear death at all.
good
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So you were trying to stop him, but then you were forced here. ... You must be worried.
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my friends will do their best, but that fight should have been mine.
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A year ago, in my own dimension, we were at war. I wouldn't have wanted to be taken from that. [The state of insanity he was in notwithstanding.] At least you know a powerful adversary is trapped here with you. He can't help your opponent back there.
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that's dangerously close to an optimistic outlook, uchiha. you sure you want to get into that with a near stranger?
( he recognizes that it's meant as comfort, and you know what? he's grateful. )
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There's nothing to get into. [TCH......] If you're going to help ensure I don't become overwhelmed by my Shadow, then we should understand each other better. That's all.
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sure.
so then tell me something about yourself.
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Also, what is this pressure. Fine... he will tell the first person ever about what he is... it only took the game closing to get here.]
I'm a shinobi. My abilities utilize chakra, a life force that can be manipulated by my body. Due to the genetics of my clan, the Uchiha, I have an affinity for fire nature as well as the inheritance of a kekkei genkai — a bloodline limit — called the Sharingan.
If we are at battle, your first priority should be to disable my eyes.
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i can fight blind, if that helps.
（ he made a point of it, after ginjō. he'd fought panicked and scared before, but never without his vision. that fear had carried over into his training, and while he wouldn't call himself proficient, he's decent enough. ）
how's your healing? i wouldn't want to do anything permanent.
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[Don't make me bring Sakura into this.]
Fighting blind will help, but I have abilities that can work despite that.
What does it mean to be a shinigami?
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（ hahaha... ha... ha. ）
i guess are you asking in terms of offensive or defensive capabilities?
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Never mind. You shouldn't tell me anything I could use against you.
... Are you still human?
[are we human or are we dancer]
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（ he's made peace with that — or what passes as peace, anyway. even before he knew his heritage in full, he was still different. normal kids don't see ghosts. ）
it's complicated.
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How old are you?
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You're only a year younger than me.
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[BY A FEW??? CENTURIES???]
You said shinigami send spirits into the afterlife.
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（ old man yama comes to mind. he didn't know the guy well enough to grieve, but the impact of his loss echoed throughout seireitei. he's never forgotten that urahara's spirit blade was forged on his order. ）
probably like 3000 or so i guess.
but i was born in the human world. aged normally. went to school. i thought i was human until not too long ago.
and yeah, they do. but a shinigami is born in the spirit world and ages there. it just wasn't the path of my life.