[Bleach]Stray Cat Strut

[SkyeFire]

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What, you mean the clue about Yuuko's own hitsuzen coming around in chapter 5 wasn't enough to suggest that, yes, Watanuki would be making further appearances?

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Well, you moved him out of Kanakura so *smoothly*....

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Quote:Where's Uryuu? Oh, wait -- he won't have motive to show up until... oh. Oh, dear. If Uryuu's vendetta leads him into going after Ichigo's sister the way he originally went after Ichigo... yikes. I hope things work out, since I like Uryuu, but I suspect poor U's gonna get beat to a *pulp* first....
He deserves that much after pulling the blatant idiocy that was that whole Hollow hunting contest at the very least.

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Yeah, can't deny that. Although I *like* Uryuu -- once the Hollow-bait thing went wrong, he turned out to be a pretty stand-up guy pretty fast (making allowances for how prickly he is). Standing up to Renji to protect Rukia pretty much clinched it for me.
I just hope he doesn't end up premanently on Team Ichigo's crap list (people have a tendency to develop permanent antipathies in your work, I've noticed).

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Zangetsu? What is this Zangetsu you speak of? This Ichigo isn't canon!Ichigo, his life hasn't been much like the life of canon!Ichigo, and so the mirror of his soul isn't going to be all too much like canon!Ichigo's. Let me put it like this - the shikai still includes an oversized blade ... it basically oversizes the balisong until it's of a more impressive size. A bigass balisong with a Damascus-steel blade. I think you can guess the personality from there. It _is_ pretty damn obvious.

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Ah. Wasn't sure just how strongly "rooted" the "Zangetsu" proto-persona was in Ichigo's makeup. At least in Season 1, it seemed as if they were hinting at a deeper history there.

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Quote:Speaking of which... I wonder how Ichigo's *other* powers (the Hollow-ish ones) are going to play out in this venue...?
Yeah, those were basically the side effect of Urahara fucking around when he was trying to make Ichigo get his Shinigami groove back on. Not happening in this one. Considering who he's been training with, it's not like he needs them.

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Really? Again, it seemed (to me) that whatever is making Ichigo produce Hollow Masks out of thin air and flare Mask-like projections when his reiatsu boosts (ref his fight with Zaraki), along with his Photo-Negative Twin, were something Urahara just tripped over (accidentally or otherwise is debateable) while trying to unlock Ichigo's native Shinigami powers. Then again, I've only seen up to the end of the Soul Society arc so far.