madimpossibledreamer

The similarities between Xander’s story in I Hope Tomorrow’s a Better Day and Ichigo’s in Bleach are entirely coincidental, and no, I’m not joking. Mostly, it was based around the antagonist and the Soul Society Kamelot Bleach AMV. Everything else just followed off that, and it somehow turned out to be a twisted reflection of Ichigo’s story, which, well, given her inner world, that’s rather appropriate.

Also I feel like Asura/Taisha is the unhinged version of Ukitake/Shunsui? Like, don’t get me wrong, Ukitake and Shunsui are both capable of being feral murder machines, but Asura and Taisha take it to the next level (and sometimes pointing it at each other). But their dynamics are very, very similar.

BBS. Keigo: “Ichigo, let’s go look at the cherry blossoms perfectly platonicly!” While whining about how they haven’t seen each other enough recently. What do I do with this, BBS.

If City of Emptiness Shiro and Ichi got forced to go to Hogwarts there would be There May Be Collateral Damage hijinks, but also, Shiro would get sorted into Slytherin and then just stage a full rebellion.    Like, deciding that putting half of his house in the hospital, while fun and probably good for taking down a few of their egos, is not a good idea, so he’d hang out in other House common rooms for a bit then decide to make his own House entirely, stealing those who also don’t feel like they fit in their House.    Purple and copper, maybe, and definitely a chimera as a symbol, but he hasn’t decided on a name yet. “There are tons of empty rooms around.    I bet we could just steal one.”    Which he absolutely skips class to do, because he’s bored and hasn’t gotten to fight yet.    Ichigo, being the slightly more logical one, points out that they could get in trouble without a Head of House teacher who knows where they are in case of something like an emergency evacuation, and Shiro narrows his eyes, thinking.
“Hmm.    I’ll ask around.    If all else fails I can probably bully Binns into it.”
And he absolutely would stand up against the teachers, even Dumbledore, if he has to, because screw this pitting kids against each other for no reason noise.

xander also has things in common with shunsui—bad relationship with family, lazy so as not to have other people expect things from them, likes to goof around, loses an eye at some point....

( something ain't right )

I got real life in my iso fic. (warning: covid mention)
Shunsui and Shun Akiyama actually do have a lot in common, personality-wise. It’s kind of a cool coincidence. (He is, by the way, lying about the origin of the name, but it’s a story he came up with while he was creating the character.) Early Shunsui also has things in common with early Tony Stark—desperate and almost angry to prove himself against his father and everyone else who thinks he can’t do it, but also living down to their worst expectations.
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