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AnotherSpoonyBard on Chapter 2 Wed 03 Aug 2016 02:20AM UTC

1. Grimmjow's got a lot of crap to reconcile. Like... he straight up thinks his underlings are cowards and really doesn't like that. But I mean... they're also his underlings. They all stuck together, and clearly he likes them more than he likes most people. I think I'm going to have fun forcing him to kind of get a handle on some of his own contradictions.
2. Gah; I seem to struggle a lot with Rangiku for some reason. I've edited that beginning part a fair bit. Hopefully it's better now.
3. Zaraki's personality was thankfully made pretty apparent in canon; only minimal extrapolation required. :) Also, of course.
4. You know, I hadn't intended it originally. I mean, I did with Shuren. But I just subbed Karin in for Ikkaku here, completely forgetting that Eduardo was the fire guy, and decided I was just gonna roll with it when I remembered.
5. Dgaf... and also doesn't wanna know. She's never actually killed someone with a face before...
6. Heh. To a point, I'm down for Calling Your Attacks as a trope. I can even justify it as better focusing a technique--something I'm sure someone will have to explain to someone else eventually. But if you're just releasing a seal, it seemed unnecessary. Also, I think probably the Onmitsukidō would protest if it was that obnoxious. :)
7. I've seen it both ways, I think? Sometimes for drama, the three panels go [name] [ban] [kai]. Or maybe I'm remembering wrong.
Grammar: eesh. Fixed.

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1. BiblioMatsuri (Biblioteque) on Chapter 2 Wed 03 Aug 2016 02:52AM UTC
  
  1. *nods* Yeah. 'What is /up/ with Grimmjow?' is one of those questions fans can get confused about, because... he seems to want to have people around, and he's got some kind of standards, but hangonwait he doesn't gaf about anything but fighting after all? :?
  And, well, contradictions in a character (especially when they're /consistently/ contradictory) - that's what char-study/-dev is /for/.
  Also, I forgot this earlier: When they run into the advance group, Toushirou says/narrates Grimmjow's underlings all have "a similar feel" to their reiatsu. Is that just bc they're all Arrancar, and Toushirou isn't familiar with the difference between stable Arrancar and normal Hollow reiatsu?
  2. *rereads* Yes, that's much better. :)
  I think part of it might be that Rangiku is (when she's not being deliberately OTT) actually quite plain-spoken. There's no 1-2 outstanding traits to focus the narration around; unlike Renji's rougher speech, or Karin's near-constant stream of deadpan sarcasm, or Yuzu's very evident case of Nice and Polite.
  And your default is 'formal/academic'; so you go to default, and then you end up with something like Rangiku narrating 'she'd never heard of such a thing' instead of 'never heard of that before'.
  4. "just go with it" is a perfectly legitimate way to write side plot points / running gags. :)
  5. Yep.
  
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2. 1. AnotherSpoonyBard on Chapter 2 Wed 03 Aug 2016 03:16AM UTC
    
    1. Actually, the similar reiatsu was meant to be a small worldbuilding point. If hollows get power from consuming souls, then I expect their reiatsu will be "flavored" in accordance with the souls they consume. These guys have been a gang for a long time, and formed one for the express purpose of cannibalizing other Hollows. Which means they've probably eaten a lot of the same other Hollows, which would mean their reiatsu is unusually similar. Not unlike the way a zanpakutō has a similar reiatsu to the shinigami that wields it. :)
    2. As a psychological explanation of why I mess this up, I suspect you're spot-on.
    4. Lampshades will follow.
    
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