Fanfic Rec: Meifu's Gate

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v  Meifu’s Gate (Source: Fanfic.net)

Ø  https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4730338/1/Meifu-s-Gate-Prequel

Ø  Bleach

Ø  There’s more than just the prequel, but it’s easy enough to find the others using the author’s profile.

If you can't get enough of the Soul Society pre-Turn Back the Pendulum (i.e. me), you should check out Meifu's Gate.  You'll get hours of entertaining reading out of it (but, uh, be more intelligent than me and start when you actually have time vs when you should be working on homework.  It's nice that it's broken up into volumes, but I didn't find that helped much because I got to the end of one and just kept saying 'but I need to know what happens next'.  So, yeah, block out time).  It is longer and without the shipping of the later work Cat's Cradle, so I'd say it has a wider audience. 
The characterization is amazing and I love the worldbuilding in, well, Bleach and even more so here, because I get that Bleach is shounen but I'm here for the awesome world that you're just using as a backdrop for your fights, Kubo. 
This was one of two fics that formed my headcanons which is an amazing feeling (you've probably noticed by now that I love fics with awesome plot and yet more worldbuilding that add a lot to the original story).