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* ICannotSelfTerminate: [[spoiler: Poor,Poor, poor Nemu...]]
** [[spoiler: Senbonzakura, observed by Kazeshini as he keeps trying and failing to kill himself.]]
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: The chapters titles are of the format "[POV character]: [Title]", or "Ensemble: [Title]" for most of the chapters with multiple narrators. (Chapter 13 is "Karakura: Waiting" along the same principle.)
* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: [[spoiler: [[ReverseMole Hisagi]]]] thinks that this is what Aizen intends with Pagally; it turns out that he is actually giving him a Fraccion. [[spoiler: He was willing to go through with it - which shows just how messed up he was after a large amount of time undercover.]]
* IfWeGetThroughThis: When she gets home, Lisa plans to wear her Hueco Mundo uniform boots to every club in Roppongi, then burn them and every other white article of clothing she owns.
** Kaede, Hinamori, and Shirogane promise to get a proper revenge later for Iba and Rikichi's attempt to spy on their attempts to give Shirogane a convincing imitation of Rangiku's build. [[spoiler: Shirogane then dies in battle against Gin.]]
* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Several shinigami try this on [[spoiler: Ichigo]]. [[spoiler: Orihime's]] [[RealityWarper method]] works better.
** Doubly subverted by Hinamori. ''Twice.'' She intends to try this on [[spoiler: Kira]] and [[spoiler: Hitsugaya]]. Both times she gives up almost immediately, because it doesn't (and couldn't) work... and THEN it works - in a way which leaves her desperately wishing it wouldn't (especially the second time).
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: This is how [[spoiler: Aizen]] finally dies, at the hands of [[spoiler: Ichigo.]]
* ImprovisedWeapon: [[spoiler: Karin]] kills several hollows with [[spoiler: ''a soccer ball''.]]
* InMediasRes: When the story begins, the Winter War is already long lost. Then we are told (along with present-time events), piece by piece, just how exactly it was lost. And then plot splits into four subplots, giving us a multidimensional timeline. And who knows what else authors have in store...
* {{Irony}}: LaResistance are (among other things) rescuing Orihime and her rescue party, invading the Seireitei, and practicing [[CombatPragmatist Combat Pragmatism]]. Then there's the repeated role reversals...
* ItsPersonal: The fight against [[spoiler: the Barragan fragment]] contains both a subversion and an example. [[spoiler: Soi Fong plays it straight against the remains of the enemy who cost her her arm and killed her lieutenant. Hachi subverts the trope, because he doesn't want to waste the special strategies he thought up for fighting Barragan- who killed two of his friends- on a mere "shade". And the fight against Szayel becomes personal for Ryuuken when Szayel reveals that he killed Ryuuken's son.]]
* ItsQuietTooQuiet: [[spoiler: Hisagi]] [[YouJustHadToSayIt says it aloud]] right after LetsSplitUpGang - the result is equally spectacular and predictable.
* IWantGrandkids: Iba Tetsuzaemon's mother, Iba Chikane, really wants him to get married and have kids, if his imagined version of her in his "WhatWouldXDo" moment is anything to go by. He promises his mental version of her to "get married within the year, or the decade, or the century at the very most, assuming that he survived the next ten minutes".
* IWillFindYou: Several characters are motivated by a desire to find their captured/MIA friends, or at least find out what happened to them. [[ItsPersonal This is why]] two of the top people in the resistance go to Hueco Mundo. Subverted, in that both of these two people know that their friends may be BrainwashedAndCrazy [[FateWorseThanDeath or worse]], and at least one of them goes in intending to kill said friend (who he knows by then is either BrainwashedAndCrazy or an actual traitor).
* KickedUpstairs: Aizen got rid of traumatized and crazed (and thus uncontrollable) Gin... by giving him the whole Seireitei to play with.
* KilledByTheAdaptation: List in progress: Yamamoto, Oomaeda, Komamura, Hitsugaya, Matsumoto, Kenpachi, Kiyone, Uryuu, Shinji, Hiyori, [[spoiler: Rukia, Kira, Love, Ogidou and Shirogane (yeah they’re canon), Harribel, Nemu, Tatsuki, Ryuuken, Ikkaku and Yumichika, Aizen.]]
* LaResistance: Led by Ukitake, the loyal remnants of the Gotei 13 have spent the last months fighting Ichimaru and his collaborators from hiding.
* LateArrivalSpoiler: A stealthy one. The chapters are usually marked with POV character- "Nanao: Winter", etc. With the exception of the second chapter occurring well before the first, they seem to be in more or less sequential order. A chapter is headed with [[spoiler: Byakuya's]] name... several chapters after another POV character remembered witnessing [[spoiler: his]] death. If you happen to read the chapter titles before the fic, you will probably assume that the character is alive, even though [[spoiler: his]] survival is a big surprise in context.
* LesCollaborateurs: Gotei-13 is following orders of 'Ichimaru-sotaichou' at the beginning of the fic. One can only wonder what those orders actually are, because we know for sure they don't involve ''anything'' of common shinigami duties. Large part of Seireitei nobility also qualifies.
* LeeroyJenkins: Grimmjow will abandon whatever he is supposed to be doing if he suspects there is a fight available elsewhere. Ikkaku [[spoiler: and Yumichika]] are able to resist the urge, due to CharacterDevelopment.
* LetsSplitUpGang: The Hueco Mundo party does this at one point, but they do it reasonably sensibly- no one goes off by themselves, each group has at least one powerful fighter, and all remain close enough to each other to hear the noise if there's a fight.
** Later they do this again, leaving some weak and/or injured party members in a reasonably secure location. This is less foolish than it sounds- the secure location is [[spoiler: Gin's observation room, so they will be able to tell if someone is coming towards them]] and they would never have survived another fight, so leaving them behind prevented them from developing into TheLoad. [[spoiler: Also, they might be able to alert the main group if Aizen is nearby, since Sora has never seen his shikai and could not be fooled by his illusions.]]
* LightEmUp: Hoshibana has this as his shikai power.
* LoveAtFirstPunch: Well, not exactly love, but Grimmjow definitely seems a lot more interested in [[HandicappedBadass Kuukaku]] after she punches him through a wall.
* MadnessMantra: "Justice. Justice. '''Justice!'''"
* MeaningfulName: Kage ("shadow"), one of the [[{{Ninja}} Onmitsukidou]].
* MentalWorld: Suzumushi's (which may or may not have also been Tousen's) is a seriously weird-looking place.
-->The world was all black and white. There was a white moon in the black sky, and the grass was grey. Or possibly there was a black moon in the white sky, and the grass was a different shade of grey. Her vision slid between the two extremes from one moment to another, and she couldn’t be sure which one was dominant: they both seemed to exist simultaneously, in an optical illusion like those pictures that were both a young woman and a skull at the same time.
* MercyKill: [[spoiler: Kazeshini to Nemu, Byakuya to Rukia. Ikkaku to an unidentified victim of Aizen's experiments. Isshin to Tatsuki (sort of- she was already dead, and he performed konso to get her ghost away from the battle).]]
* MilesToGoBeforeISleep: Ukitake. He has considered a HeroicSacrifice twice- first against [[spoiler:Gin]] and later against [[spoiler: the Barragan fragment]]- the first time it wasn't necessary, and the second Isane talked him out of it.
* MissionControl: An improvised one. When you're deep into enemy territory, it would be a crime not to use enemy equipment.
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: Little Pagally [[SarcasmMode isn't exactly thrilled]] with 'Aizen-sama', Grimmjow doesn't give a damn about him; both betray him to side with first strangers which had been relatively nice to them. Of course, said strangers are [[EnemyMine their natural enemies]], but at least they aren't going to use them as lab rats, sexual slaves or something else just as pleasant and healthy.
* MoralityPet: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed.]] Yes, Gin loved Rangiku; no, that did not make him a good person. He alternates between an obsessive desire to find her and casual malice to everyone and everything in his vicinity. Caring for one person does not make him one whit less nasty to anyone else. He's also in the later stages of VillainousBreakdown, and the combination of short temper, meanness, and eroding sanity... it really isn't safe to be anywhere near the guy.
* MotivationalLie: Yoruichi decides not to tell Ryuuken that she knows for sure his son is dead, judging that his mental state is too precarious for her to inform him during a lull in the battle against Mayuri and Szayel. [[spoiler: Kyorakou tells Byakuya that his memory of killing Rukia [[MindRape is one of Aizen's illusions]], so that he'll stop [[DeathSeeker trying to get himself killed]].]] In both cases, the person lied to is already very fragile mentally, and the liar is trying to keep them steady in a situation where if they aren't, they could easily get themselves and their allies killed.
* MotorMouth: Kaede, TheMedic of the recon squad.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: [[spoiler: Hollow Kira wants to kill Rangiku because Gin is obsessed with her and he’s obsessed with Gin.]]
* MutualKill: During the Fake Karakura Town battle, Hisagi does not intervene in Tousen and Komamura's fight and they kill each other.
* MyFistForgivesYou: Ikkaku to [[spoiler: Yumichika, about Yumichika’s hiding his real shikai.]] Considering [[BloodKnight what they’re both like]], it’s actually kind of moving.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Subverted - several characters keep asking themselves, [[MoralEventHorizon what else]] they are willing to do in next ten minutes in order to try and win an unwinnable fight. Usually they find the answer to this question. Or answer finds them.
** Also played painfully straight by Hisagi and Isane.
* NeverFoundTheBody: Many characters, but most notably Captain Kyouraku. Only time will tell if they’re really dead. [[spoiler: As of Chapter 43, Kyouraku seems to be alive. (Wow.)]]
* NeverLiveItDown: Invoked. Momo worries that she'll never live down her behavior after Aizen's initial betrayal. While her fellow Resistance members trust her now, they originally weren't too sure about her- and a large part of the reason she's kept in Rukongai with Ukitake rather than being sent on the Seireitei mission is that a lot of people in Seireitei wouldn't trust her.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Aizen [[spoiler: imprisoned Hachi in Seireitei, which allowed him to help fight the Barragan fragment]]. If it hadn't been for that, things might have gone much worse in that particular episode.
* TheNicknamer: Ikkaku, immitating the still-missing Yachiru.
* NonActionGuy: Hanatarou and Kon remain this from canon. Another example is Sora- although he's said to be pretty good for a soon-to-graduate Academy student, this means very little in the situations he ends up in, and the other characters do their best to protect him when things get dangerous.
* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: Isane refuses to let [[spoiler: Ukitake]] sacrifice himself [[spoiler: in the hopes of controlling the Barragan Fragment.]]
* NotInThisForYourRevolution: Grimmjow. He doesn’t care about either side- he just wants to regain his strength after [[spoiler: Orihime rejects his Hollow nature.]]
* NotSoDifferent: Even though Grimmjow joins up with LaResistance out of convenience (see above), he gets on with and is remarkably similar to the former Eleventh Division members.
** Urahara fully realizes that he and Kurotsuchi Mayuri are NotSoDifferent in their obsessive search for knowledge for its own sake- and concludes that the only thing holding him back from Mayuri's worse excesses is that he likes people and wants them to like him back.
* NowYouTellMe: Urahara manages to tell his team that he took a few liberties with his part of operation plans just minutes before said liberties start to fall right on their heads (some of them literally). Cue reaction:
--> "You 'may possibly' have made a ''mistake''? <...> There's no 'may possibly' about it, Kisuke!"
* OCStandIn: Shirogane and Ogidou are canon characters, but appeared only in the omakes- and not many of those, either. The fic therefore makes up a lot about them- particularly Ogidou, who goes from a rather forgettable member of the Fourth Division to a scary DeadlyDoctor who creeps out most of his allies.
* OddFriendship: Ikkaku and Momo.
* OhMyGods: Hoshibana swears by the King of Heaven in a moment of great stress [[spoiler: when he reports that Aizen is headed towards the main Hueco Mundo party with two Vasto Lordes.]]
* OmnicidalManiac: Aizen has set events in motion that will, if left unchecked, lead to the destruction of Soul Society, Hueco Mundo, and the living world. The protagonists don't know his motivation, but their speculations about the matter are in line with this trope.
--> Isshin: He’s actually so arrogant that he would just-- No. Unless he’s gone completely insane, he’d have to realize what was happening. He’s smarter than that.
--> Ryuuken: Unless it’s on purpose. Perhaps he wants this. Wants to see it all fall apart.
* OnlyAFleshWound: Averted early on, when [[spoiler: Ito]] dies by bleeding out from a wound sustained a little earlier in the fight.
* OnlyTheKnowledgableMayPass: While meeting in an occupied Seireitei, Soi Fong and one of her Onmitsukidou use lines from a Tang Chinese poem as a password, switching off in the middle of lines and then skipping to the end. While someone sufficiently learned might know the poem, they probably wouldn't know when to switch off, or recognize what was going on based on the first phrase. (The authors provide a link to the whole thing, since Soi Fong and Kage only use the first two and last two lines: [[http://www.chinese-poems.com/d26.html Facing Snow, by Du Fu]].)
--> Kage: After battle...
--> Soi Fong: Many new ghosts cry. The solitary old man...
--> Kage: ...worries and grieves. (''Pause'') To many places, communication is lost. I sit straight at my desk but cannot read my books for grief.
* PetTheDog: Ikkaku and Grimmjow comforting [[spoiler: Hanatarou]] (genuinely - and it ''did'' work).
* PhlebotinumOverload: [[spoiler:Yumichika absorbing Ulquiorra's power healed him, but it left him physically and mentally unstable. Rather than face [[PhlebotinumBreakdown those consequences]], he purged every ounce of his energy to help Ikkaku land a fatal blow on Yammi, [[Main/HeroicSacrifice killing all three of them.]]]]
* PlayingPossum: [[spoiler: Iba]] does this during attack on the mansion to get close enough to the [[spoiler: main body of Rudobon]] to kill it.
* PlayingWithSyringes: Aizen, Mayuri, and Szayel are engaging in this, the latter two in direct competition with each other.
* PoisonedWeapons: [[spoiler: At Isane's suggestion, Ukitake and Soi Fong coat the tips of their zanpakutous with the Barragan fragment's blood, which has the effect of "decaying" its slow-things-down power and allows them to kill it. Unfortunately, in this case the "poison" is so corrosive that it also eats away at the zanpakutous while they're fighting.]]
* PowerIncontinence: Barragan's power can also "decay" the barrier between a Visored and their Inner Hollow. Mashiro has periods of normalcy, but she loses control of her transformation without warning despite having a PowerLimiter. Rose is in even worse state, and is apparently stuck in the transformed/out of control state all the time.
* PrecisionFStrike: The polite and formal Hoshibana Akira (third seat of Sixth division since before Byakuya became captain), while defending his division-mate Rikichi's motives for a particularly foolish action:
-->Hoshibana: "The Eleventh Division may have its code of honor, but the Sixth has its own, and I would dare to say that while I have come to some understanding of yours over the past few months, my friend, I can safely say you know ''shit'' about ours."
** There's also the very formal Sasakibe in Chapter 6, warning Grimmjow not to provoke Ikkaku:
-->Sasakibe: ""At your present strength, he could put your spine through your skull, Jaegerjaques. Stop fucking around."
** Yoruichi gives a mental one after she realizes that [[spoiler: Szayel- of whom she knows just enough to be sure that he's very bad news- is in Karakura]].
* PrettySpryForADeadGuy: An odd example. LaResistance - and the reader - know all along that Rangiku is dead, [[TheDragon Gin]] refuses to believe it, [[spoiler: and LaResistance takes full advantage of that refusal.]]
* PsychopathicManChild / TheUnfettered: All Hollowfied shinigami who had the dubious luck of surviving the process and not having been broken into mindless beasts by it are the mixture of this (with varying proportions). They are very simple-minded and often childish (just look at [[spoiler: Kira]]'s POV), perfectly obedient to orders of whatever master they have, regardless of how much of messy killing said orders involve; and, to add insult to injury, their personalities are reduced and condensed to whatever had been their greatest passion/desire in their previous lives (and, naturally, stripped of everything else). [[TearJerker Not pretty]].
* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler: Gin. He survives Takano blowing up the library with him inside, a sword wound from Shirogane, and and clings to life after being hit by Hinamori's fireball reflected and magnified by Ukitake's shikai, just long enough to release the Barragan fragment on his enemies, killing himself in the process.]]
* RazorWings: Pagally's Resureccion gives her these.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Nanao delivers a very effective one to [[spoiler: Suzumushi]], both pointing out her past failures and explaining exactly why her current scheme [[spoiler: to [[DemonicPossession take over Nanao's body]]]] would not work.
-->Nanao: Let me be entirely frank, [[spoiler: Suzumushi]]. You're incompetent.
** Gin throws one into Hinamori's face. [[EvilIsPetty Just because he feels like that]].
* RebelLeader: Ukitake, although he subverts most of the particulars, such as by being seriously injured, not yet- if ever- recovered, and consequently sidelined from most of the fighting. At one point, when setting up a first meeting with someone who doesn't know much about the Gotei 13's upper ranks, he has Sasakibe do the talking and listens from behind a screen (along with most of his lieutenants) because he knows he would give the wrong impression.
* RedOniBlueOni: Ikkaku (red) and Nanao (blue), the co-leaders of the Hueco Mundo mission.
* ReplacementScrappy: In-story, Karin regards Kon as this, resenting him for taking Ichigo's place. Also, she's worried about Ichigo but because everyone else (as far as she knows) accepts Kon as Ichigo, she can't talk about it openly. Naturally, her resentment of that situation spills over to her reactions to Kon. It doesn't particularly help that Ichigo [[LockedOutOfTheLoop didn't tell her]] that he was going to go off and leave someone else to inhabit his body while he was gone. [[invoked]]
* RePower: [[spoiler: Jirobou Ikkanzaka, Jidanbou’s little brother, who lost his powers to Ishida in canon]] voluntarily underwent hollowfication to gain new abilities. There's also [[spoiler: Grimmjow, who loses his hollow powers when Orihime "purifies" him and gains shinigami ones instead.]]
* ReverseMole: [[spoiler: Hisagi]]. He’s been there a while, and it’s worn on him to the extent where he can barely function. Eventually, [[spoiler: his EmpathicWeapon has to take over his body to keep him alive.]]
* SacrificialLion / TooCoolToLive: [[spoiler: Takano Dan]], despite being an OC. He gets a lot of characterization- including two POV segments and a more detailed backstory than ''any'' of the other [=OCs=]- and his death is one of the first as the Rukongai fight starts.
* SanitySlippage: In the first Oririme's POV it's basically "holding the last shreds of sanity together with sheer willpower". This being [[CloudCuckooLander Orihime]], she imagines herself and people around her as a cartoonish robots/magical girls/whatever when under particularly heavy stress, loves Ulquiorra's company [[StockholmSyndrome because he did her no harm so far]], and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick constantly reminds herself that she can't, and won't, contemplate suicide]].
** Hisagi, when we first meet him, is [[HeroicBSOD emotionally numb]], has growing problems with keeping track of time, and suffers from memory lapses. It gets more and more complicated after that.
** Lisa [[spoiler: and Love]] has to watch Gin undergoing SanitySlippage process in real-time mode. All while being interrogated by him.
* SayItWithHearts: Invoked in one of Ikkaku's early POV sections:
-->He was vaguely aware of Peaches piping up cheerfully that he should wait for Rikichi and the two of them could catch up later. He could almost ''hear'' a little heart at the end of the sentence.
-->Then she did him proud by screeching at the others like the little harpy he knew she was, telling them to ''go go go you lazy maggots now now now!''
* SenselessSacrifice: Subverted when Rikichi [[spoiler: runs away to be caught by Gin's people and serve as 'unvoluntary' source of information about Rangiku 'being alive']] - it ''might'' even have worked... but most likely it would've ended as a disaster for the whole Resistance instead (and fortunately he was stopped before he could do it anyway). Played straight (bordering on StupidSacrifice) with [[spoiler: Suzuki, who, against direct orders from Shirogane, breaks the retreat and faces twenty or so Arrancars alone, just because she cannot leave Iba's 'dead body' to their mercy. She is almost instantly overwhelmed and killed. And NotQuiteDead Iba [[TearJerker has to watch, unable to do anything to save her]].]]
* SheatheYourSword: When the Hueco Mundo group confronts [[spoiler: a hollowfied Renji]], some of them move to attack... until [[spoiler: Byakuya]] realizes what's going on and orders them to stand down, and a fight is avoided.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Kon claims that he and Mashiro are "just friends." Kensei is not convinced.
** On a much grimmer note, there's also this exchange, [[spoiler: after Grimmjow, Kazeshini-controlling-Hisagi, and Hanatarou discover Nemu Prime]]:
-->Grimmjow: You’re in a mood to fight. Was she your woman, or something?
-->Hisagi[[note]]that is, Kazeshini[[/note]]: No. Not her. [[spoiler: It’s just – some things are monstrous. Even by your standards, maybe.]]
* ShellShockedVeteran: Technically, no one: the war's not over yet, so the "veteran" part doesn't quite apply. The "shell-shocked" part ''does'': Hisagi is probably the most extreme example, but he's not the only one. Assuming anyone survives at all, some of them will definitely be [[ShellShockedVeteran Shell-Shocked Veterans]].
* ShootEverythingThatMoves: [[spoiler: Ishida Ryuuken]] during the assault on Karakura.
* SirSwearsALot: Grimmjow, Ikkaku, and Kazeshini are all notably more foul-mouthed than the rest of the cast.
* SnowMeansDeath: With that snowy Karakura winter, this was bound to happen. After [[spoiler: Ryuuken's]] death, snow covers his body and the signs of his last battle.
* SpitefulSpit: Ikkaku spits on the floor when mentioning that Gin's forces refer to him as soutaichou. Kuukaku agrees with the sentiment, but tells him not to do it in her house.
* SplitPersonalityTakeover: [[spoiler: Ichigo's Hollow]] takes over his body and becomes arguably the most powerful of Aizen's army. [[spoiler: It's reversible, but only via Orihime's RealityWarper powers.]]
* SpotOfTea: One of the few things Aizen and LaResistance can be said to share is a fondness for tea. Almost all moments of leisure, civility, or pre-mission planning include tea. Isane even brews one last pot before a battle starts.
--> Isane: There's always time for tea.
* TheSquad: The recon squad, led by Ikkaku, which has been carrying out missions and drawing fire away from the Resistance's actual bases ever since this war started. It's actually dissolved very early in the fic, and functions largely to (re)establish several characters, including [[OriginalCharacter OCs]] like Hoshibana and Takano, [[AscendedExtra Ascended Extras]] like Ogidou, Shirogane, and Rikichi, and this fic's drastically changed versions of Hinamori and Ikkaku himself.
* TheSquadette: Three of them in the recon squad itself- Hinamori, [[TheMedic Kaede]], and [[IaijutsuPractitioner Shirogane]], and more in the rest of LaResistance.
* StepfordSmiler: Ogidou. Moved from Type B to the nice, clear Type C. [[spoiler: And the attitude is exactly what gets him killed eventually.]]
* StormingTheCastle: Since Seireitei is occupied by Aizen's forces, retaking it is of course a goal of the resistance. [[spoiler: Now accomplished by Soi Fong, Kuukaku, Sasakibe, Chad, the remaining [[{{Ninja}} Onmitsukidou]] and the gathered forces of the noble clans.]]
* SternTeacher: Kuukaku has this attitude towards the shinigami students at her base.
* StuffBlowingUp: Kuukaku makes explosives which she and the other members of LaResistance use in battle.
* SwitchingPOV: The third-person limited POV varies between ''35 characters'' as of Chapter 43. (Granted, some narrators reappear much more frequently than others- Nanao and Ukitake particularly- and some only get sections in ensemble chapters.)
* SymbioticPossession: [[spoiler: Kazeshini and Hisagi, eventually. It starts out with Kazeshini taking over Hisagi's body periodically to save both their lives, but without his knowledge or consent. After Hisagi finds out and they reach an accord of sorts, Hisagi lets Kazeshini possess him in battle because, unlike him, Kazeshini can tell where Kyouka Suigetsu is even when Aizen is using his powers.]]
* TakeThat: Intended or not, chapter 31 features the following gem:
-->Orihime's POV: (S)ometimes the princess had to save the dragon, and sometimes she had to save the prince as well, and sometimes the princess and the dragon and the knight all teamed up together and [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall went to argue with the person who’d written the story and complain about how they never got anything interesting and new to do.]]
* TakeUpMySword: Tousen literally took up his friend’s [[EmpathicWeapon zanpakutou]] after her murder, using her powers to pursue her goals and avenge her death. [[spoiler: After Tousen’s death (which she blames on Aizen's betrayal), Suzumushi actively tries to get Nanao to “take her up”... by attempting to [[DemonicPossession possess her]]. She fails, and Nanao persuades Suzumushi to give her access to Tousen’s bankai for their one common goal: "justice" in the form of Aizen Sousuke's death.]]
* TakingYouWithMe: Ukitake considers doing this to kill Gin, but as it turns out [[spoiler: Gin unleashes a weapon of mass destruction based on Barragan’s BattleAura when Ukitake and company have defeated him.]] It’s pretty clear that [[spoiler: Gin]] was already dying- he was just too vindictive to leave it at that.
* TalkingWeapon: Kazeshini, who keeps up a running commentary/response to his wielder Hisagi's thoughts. All [[EmpathicWeapon zanpakutou]] ''can'' talk to their wielders, but most of the others in the fic are relatively quiet. Kazeshini is noted as having gotten much more talkative since Hisagi's move to Hueco Mundo, probably due to his [[HeroicBSOD mental state]].
** [[spoiler: Pantera]] is becoming this as of the latest chapters. [[spoiler: And now Suzumushi is talking to Nanao, who isn't even her wielder...]]
* ThereWasADoor: Averted (mostly) by Harribel, who actually enters through the door to [[spoiler: Hisagi's]] quarters, although the door does not survive the experience. Others in Hueco Mundo play this trope straight (and over the top), including [[spoiler: Ichigo]], who destroys a whole wall to get into the room the shinigami party is in.
* TheUnintelligible: [[TearJerker See "Tortured Abomination."]]
* ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself: It is understood that Ikkaku will fight [[spoiler: Yumichika]] alone, despite the fact that the fic usually avoids one-on-one duels. (By the time it actually happens, everyone else is busy fighting another opponent, so Ikkaku’s personal fight actually makes their lives easier by removing the second antagonist.)
* [[spoiler:TogetherInDeath]]: Implied with Ikkaku and [[spoiler:Yumichika]], since they talk about fighting.
* TookALevelInBadass: Hinamori. Mostly it’s an attitude change rather than an actual increase in power, though.
* TorsoWithAView: Pagally and [[spoiler: the hollowfied Kira and Rukia]] have their Hollow holes in their chests.
* TorturedMonster: Hollowfied Shinigami. Special mention goes to [[spoiler: Hitsugaya]], who got broken so badly that he's left as a [[spoiler: "jumble of icy wings and cruel claws" that can't even talk, [[TheBlank nor does he have a face.]] Momo]] [[TearJerker was not amused.]]
** And now we have [[spoiler: Renji, described as a hodge-podge creature seemingly composed of patchworks of fur, scales, and bare muscle, with a half-flesh/half-skull "face."]] Oh, and apparently [[spoiler: his]] every movement makes it look like [[spoiler: he's]] in pain. [[spoiler: Byakuya]] only recognizes [[spoiler: him]] because [[spoiler: he already killed a Hollowfied Rukia]].
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Gin's fondness for dried persimmons is so well known that Ikkaku is able to identify Gin's [[spoiler: spyroom]] because he left a bowl of them there.
* TragicKeepsake: Rangiku's necklace for Momo, Yumichika's scarf for Ikkaku. At first. [[spoiler: The necklace ends up being a key element in the Rangiku impersonation scheme... and as for the scarf, well, Yumichika's alive, so it's no longer tragic. [[AnyoneCanDie For now, anyway]].]]
* TrustPassword: After being imprisoned by [[MasterOfIllusion Aizen]] for several months, [[spoiler: Kyorakou]] refuses to believe that his rescuers are who they appear to be. They convince him by [[spoiler: returning his zanpakutou, which Lisa had been carrying.]]
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: "Ichimaru-soutaichou's" rule in Seireitei.
* VillainousBreakdown: Gin is noticeably less stable than in the series proper, and he gets much, much worse when he realises [[spoiler: that Rangiku really is dead and her apparent survival was a ruse by the resistance.]]
* WarFic: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Of course.]]
* WarIsHell: This fic is ''not'' shy about the physical and mental costs of fighting a near-hopeless war. People die- not just in HeroicSacrifices, but in foolish ones, or just because they're not good enough fighters for the situation they're in- or even just from sheer bad luck. Those captured by the enemy are tortured and experimented on with very few exceptions. And even the survivors- even the ones who are alive and still trying to fight- are worn down by everything that's happened. Ukitake, Iba, and Soi Fong may be [[HandicappedBadass Handicapped Badasses]], but their injuries have a very real cost, in day to day life as well as in battle. And the psychological costs of the war are just as stark. [[BreakTheCutie Orihime]], [[MilesToGoBeforeISleep Ukitake,]] [[spoiler: ReverseMole Hisagi]] and many others who've lost friends or [[DirtyBusiness done things they're not proud of]] are soldiering on for now- but some of them have come perilously close to breaking, and even assuming a given person makes it through the war, that doesn't mean they'll be all right.
* WhatWouldXDo: Iba considers and rejects Komamura, Zaraki, Ikkaku, Yumichika, and Renji’s probable solutions to a problem, before finding the right person to “ask”: his mom, former Vice-Captain of Third Division Iba Chikane. Who then “tells” him exactly what to do... and follows up by [[IWantGrandkids wanting to know how long it’ll be until he gets married and gives her some grandkids]].
* WhamLine: Many of the reveals of [[spoiler: the Hollowfied shinigami]] come under this.
--> ''He'd found [[spoiler: Hitsugaya-taichou]], but he'd been turned Hollow and was on Gin's leash''
--> [[spoiler:'''Byakuya:''']] ''It seems you are all fools and blind. [[spoiler: Renji.]]''
** There's also this one, somewhat later:
--> ''Not sure yet... there seem to be two Vastolorde heading in your direction. One matches the description we received of... Oh. King of Heaven...'' [[spoiler: ''Aizen's with them.'']]
* WhatTheHellHero: Ikkaku delivers one to Ichigo/his hollow, crossed over with IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight. Basically, his idea of getting Ichigo to retake control of his body is to spell out to him exactly what he allowed to happen to his friends by losing it in the first place.
** Katen Kyokoutsu also delivers one to Kazeshini, regarding [[spoiler: him taking over Hisagi's body, as well as their general failure to work together.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: Yes, Aizen would. He would also [[spoiler: imprison them, torture them, and/or [[BrainwashedAndCrazy force them to serve him]] by turning them into entries under the TorturedMonster section.]] Note that [[Really700YearsOld given his age]], a majority of the cast [[FridgeHorror can be listed under the "child" section.]]
* WorldBuilding: The role and abilities of zanpakutou are expanded on in some very interesting ways.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Pagally, Hisagi's fraccion, has lavender hair.
* YouHaveFailedMe: Aizen and Gin just ''love'' this, each in his own way. Sometimes it [[TheDogBitesBack backfires]].
** One example of how badly they react when their soldiers piss them off: Barragan ran a bit amuck in the Karakura battle, killing someone Aizen would have much preferred to capture. In Lisa's POV chapter, Gin offhandedly mentions that Aizen ''really'' wasn't happy about that. Next we hear of Barragan? [[spoiler: He's been reduced to "a shade"- a fragment Gin releases, that blindly seeks to devour the strongest reiatsu signature it can find. It ultimately regains a humanoid form, but never acts with intelligence or personality.]]
* YouShallNotPass: [[spoiler: Ikkaku, Yumichika, and Lisa separate from the rest of the group to take on Yammi and Ulquiorra while the rest of their group face Aizen.]] They're not sacrificing themselves to allow the others to escape, though- they're just keeping the enemy's reinforcements from arriving until the main battle is over. Winning their fight, or ''anyone's'' survival, is secondary.
* ZeroApprovalGambit: [[spoiler: Hisagi]] sets one in motion by orders of his superiors, 'betraying' Soul Society to gain a potential chance to save it later (and a less-than-potential chance to be executed for war crimes anyway if that even succeeds).
** [[spoiler: Senbonzakura, observed by Kazeshini as he keeps trying and failing to kill himself.]]
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: The chapters titles are of the format "[POV character]: [Title]", or "Ensemble: [Title]" for most of the chapters with multiple narrators. (Chapter 13 is "Karakura: Waiting" along the same principle.)
* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: [[spoiler: [[ReverseMole Hisagi]]]] thinks that this is what Aizen intends with Pagally; it turns out that he is actually giving him a Fraccion. [[spoiler: He was willing to go through with it - which shows just how messed up he was after a large amount of time undercover.]]
* IfWeGetThroughThis: When she gets home, Lisa plans to wear her Hueco Mundo uniform boots to every club in Roppongi, then burn them and every other white article of clothing she owns.
** Kaede, Hinamori, and Shirogane promise to get a proper revenge later for Iba and Rikichi's attempt to spy on their attempts to give Shirogane a convincing imitation of Rangiku's build. [[spoiler: Shirogane then dies in battle against Gin.]]
* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Several shinigami try this on [[spoiler: Ichigo]]. [[spoiler: Orihime's]] [[RealityWarper method]] works better.
** Doubly subverted by Hinamori. ''Twice.'' She intends to try this on [[spoiler: Kira]] and [[spoiler: Hitsugaya]]. Both times she gives up almost immediately, because it doesn't (and couldn't) work... and THEN it works - in a way which leaves her desperately wishing it wouldn't (especially the second time).
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: This is how [[spoiler: Aizen]] finally dies, at the hands of [[spoiler: Ichigo.]]
* ImprovisedWeapon: [[spoiler: Karin]] kills several hollows with [[spoiler: ''a soccer ball''.]]
* InMediasRes: When the story begins, the Winter War is already long lost. Then we are told (along with present-time events), piece by piece, just how exactly it was lost. And then plot splits into four subplots, giving us a multidimensional timeline. And who knows what else authors have in store...
* {{Irony}}: LaResistance are (among other things) rescuing Orihime and her rescue party, invading the Seireitei, and practicing [[CombatPragmatist Combat Pragmatism]]. Then there's the repeated role reversals...
* ItsPersonal: The fight against [[spoiler: the Barragan fragment]] contains both a subversion and an example. [[spoiler: Soi Fong plays it straight against the remains of the enemy who cost her her arm and killed her lieutenant. Hachi subverts the trope, because he doesn't want to waste the special strategies he thought up for fighting Barragan- who killed two of his friends- on a mere "shade". And the fight against Szayel becomes personal for Ryuuken when Szayel reveals that he killed Ryuuken's son.]]
* ItsQuietTooQuiet: [[spoiler: Hisagi]] [[YouJustHadToSayIt says it aloud]] right after LetsSplitUpGang - the result is equally spectacular and predictable.
* IWantGrandkids: Iba Tetsuzaemon's mother, Iba Chikane, really wants him to get married and have kids, if his imagined version of her in his "WhatWouldXDo" moment is anything to go by. He promises his mental version of her to "get married within the year, or the decade, or the century at the very most, assuming that he survived the next ten minutes".
* IWillFindYou: Several characters are motivated by a desire to find their captured/MIA friends, or at least find out what happened to them. [[ItsPersonal This is why]] two of the top people in the resistance go to Hueco Mundo. Subverted, in that both of these two people know that their friends may be BrainwashedAndCrazy [[FateWorseThanDeath or worse]], and at least one of them goes in intending to kill said friend (who he knows by then is either BrainwashedAndCrazy or an actual traitor).
* KickedUpstairs: Aizen got rid of traumatized and crazed (and thus uncontrollable) Gin... by giving him the whole Seireitei to play with.
* KilledByTheAdaptation: List in progress: Yamamoto, Oomaeda, Komamura, Hitsugaya, Matsumoto, Kenpachi, Kiyone, Uryuu, Shinji, Hiyori, [[spoiler: Rukia, Kira, Love, Ogidou and Shirogane (yeah they’re canon), Harribel, Nemu, Tatsuki, Ryuuken, Ikkaku and Yumichika, Aizen.]]
* LaResistance: Led by Ukitake, the loyal remnants of the Gotei 13 have spent the last months fighting Ichimaru and his collaborators from hiding.
* LateArrivalSpoiler: A stealthy one. The chapters are usually marked with POV character- "Nanao: Winter", etc. With the exception of the second chapter occurring well before the first, they seem to be in more or less sequential order. A chapter is headed with [[spoiler: Byakuya's]] name... several chapters after another POV character remembered witnessing [[spoiler: his]] death. If you happen to read the chapter titles before the fic, you will probably assume that the character is alive, even though [[spoiler: his]] survival is a big surprise in context.
* LesCollaborateurs: Gotei-13 is following orders of 'Ichimaru-sotaichou' at the beginning of the fic. One can only wonder what those orders actually are, because we know for sure they don't involve ''anything'' of common shinigami duties. Large part of Seireitei nobility also qualifies.
* LeeroyJenkins: Grimmjow will abandon whatever he is supposed to be doing if he suspects there is a fight available elsewhere. Ikkaku [[spoiler: and Yumichika]] are able to resist the urge, due to CharacterDevelopment.
* LetsSplitUpGang: The Hueco Mundo party does this at one point, but they do it reasonably sensibly- no one goes off by themselves, each group has at least one powerful fighter, and all remain close enough to each other to hear the noise if there's a fight.
** Later they do this again, leaving some weak and/or injured party members in a reasonably secure location. This is less foolish than it sounds- the secure location is [[spoiler: Gin's observation room, so they will be able to tell if someone is coming towards them]] and they would never have survived another fight, so leaving them behind prevented them from developing into TheLoad. [[spoiler: Also, they might be able to alert the main group if Aizen is nearby, since Sora has never seen his shikai and could not be fooled by his illusions.]]
* LightEmUp: Hoshibana has this as his shikai power.
* LoveAtFirstPunch: Well, not exactly love, but Grimmjow definitely seems a lot more interested in [[HandicappedBadass Kuukaku]] after she punches him through a wall.
* MadnessMantra: "Justice. Justice. '''Justice!'''"
* MeaningfulName: Kage ("shadow"), one of the [[{{Ninja}} Onmitsukidou]].
* MentalWorld: Suzumushi's (which may or may not have also been Tousen's) is a seriously weird-looking place.
-->The world was all black and white. There was a white moon in the black sky, and the grass was grey. Or possibly there was a black moon in the white sky, and the grass was a different shade of grey. Her vision slid between the two extremes from one moment to another, and she couldn’t be sure which one was dominant: they both seemed to exist simultaneously, in an optical illusion like those pictures that were both a young woman and a skull at the same time.
* MercyKill: [[spoiler: Kazeshini to Nemu, Byakuya to Rukia. Ikkaku to an unidentified victim of Aizen's experiments. Isshin to Tatsuki (sort of- she was already dead, and he performed konso to get her ghost away from the battle).]]
* MilesToGoBeforeISleep: Ukitake. He has considered a HeroicSacrifice twice- first against [[spoiler:Gin]] and later against [[spoiler: the Barragan fragment]]- the first time it wasn't necessary, and the second Isane talked him out of it.
* MissionControl: An improvised one. When you're deep into enemy territory, it would be a crime not to use enemy equipment.
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: Little Pagally [[SarcasmMode isn't exactly thrilled]] with 'Aizen-sama', Grimmjow doesn't give a damn about him; both betray him to side with first strangers which had been relatively nice to them. Of course, said strangers are [[EnemyMine their natural enemies]], but at least they aren't going to use them as lab rats, sexual slaves or something else just as pleasant and healthy.
* MoralityPet: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed.]] Yes, Gin loved Rangiku; no, that did not make him a good person. He alternates between an obsessive desire to find her and casual malice to everyone and everything in his vicinity. Caring for one person does not make him one whit less nasty to anyone else. He's also in the later stages of VillainousBreakdown, and the combination of short temper, meanness, and eroding sanity... it really isn't safe to be anywhere near the guy.
* MotivationalLie: Yoruichi decides not to tell Ryuuken that she knows for sure his son is dead, judging that his mental state is too precarious for her to inform him during a lull in the battle against Mayuri and Szayel. [[spoiler: Kyorakou tells Byakuya that his memory of killing Rukia [[MindRape is one of Aizen's illusions]], so that he'll stop [[DeathSeeker trying to get himself killed]].]] In both cases, the person lied to is already very fragile mentally, and the liar is trying to keep them steady in a situation where if they aren't, they could easily get themselves and their allies killed.
* MotorMouth: Kaede, TheMedic of the recon squad.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: [[spoiler: Hollow Kira wants to kill Rangiku because Gin is obsessed with her and he’s obsessed with Gin.]]
* MutualKill: During the Fake Karakura Town battle, Hisagi does not intervene in Tousen and Komamura's fight and they kill each other.
* MyFistForgivesYou: Ikkaku to [[spoiler: Yumichika, about Yumichika’s hiding his real shikai.]] Considering [[BloodKnight what they’re both like]], it’s actually kind of moving.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Subverted - several characters keep asking themselves, [[MoralEventHorizon what else]] they are willing to do in next ten minutes in order to try and win an unwinnable fight. Usually they find the answer to this question. Or answer finds them.
** Also played painfully straight by Hisagi and Isane.
* NeverFoundTheBody: Many characters, but most notably Captain Kyouraku. Only time will tell if they’re really dead. [[spoiler: As of Chapter 43, Kyouraku seems to be alive. (Wow.)]]
* NeverLiveItDown: Invoked. Momo worries that she'll never live down her behavior after Aizen's initial betrayal. While her fellow Resistance members trust her now, they originally weren't too sure about her- and a large part of the reason she's kept in Rukongai with Ukitake rather than being sent on the Seireitei mission is that a lot of people in Seireitei wouldn't trust her.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Aizen [[spoiler: imprisoned Hachi in Seireitei, which allowed him to help fight the Barragan fragment]]. If it hadn't been for that, things might have gone much worse in that particular episode.
* TheNicknamer: Ikkaku, immitating the still-missing Yachiru.
* NonActionGuy: Hanatarou and Kon remain this from canon. Another example is Sora- although he's said to be pretty good for a soon-to-graduate Academy student, this means very little in the situations he ends up in, and the other characters do their best to protect him when things get dangerous.
* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: Isane refuses to let [[spoiler: Ukitake]] sacrifice himself [[spoiler: in the hopes of controlling the Barragan Fragment.]]
* NotInThisForYourRevolution: Grimmjow. He doesn’t care about either side- he just wants to regain his strength after [[spoiler: Orihime rejects his Hollow nature.]]
* NotSoDifferent: Even though Grimmjow joins up with LaResistance out of convenience (see above), he gets on with and is remarkably similar to the former Eleventh Division members.
** Urahara fully realizes that he and Kurotsuchi Mayuri are NotSoDifferent in their obsessive search for knowledge for its own sake- and concludes that the only thing holding him back from Mayuri's worse excesses is that he likes people and wants them to like him back.
* NowYouTellMe: Urahara manages to tell his team that he took a few liberties with his part of operation plans just minutes before said liberties start to fall right on their heads (some of them literally). Cue reaction:
--> "You 'may possibly' have made a ''mistake''? <...> There's no 'may possibly' about it, Kisuke!"
* OCStandIn: Shirogane and Ogidou are canon characters, but appeared only in the omakes- and not many of those, either. The fic therefore makes up a lot about them- particularly Ogidou, who goes from a rather forgettable member of the Fourth Division to a scary DeadlyDoctor who creeps out most of his allies.
* OddFriendship: Ikkaku and Momo.
* OhMyGods: Hoshibana swears by the King of Heaven in a moment of great stress [[spoiler: when he reports that Aizen is headed towards the main Hueco Mundo party with two Vasto Lordes.]]
* OmnicidalManiac: Aizen has set events in motion that will, if left unchecked, lead to the destruction of Soul Society, Hueco Mundo, and the living world. The protagonists don't know his motivation, but their speculations about the matter are in line with this trope.
--> Isshin: He’s actually so arrogant that he would just-- No. Unless he’s gone completely insane, he’d have to realize what was happening. He’s smarter than that.
--> Ryuuken: Unless it’s on purpose. Perhaps he wants this. Wants to see it all fall apart.
* OnlyAFleshWound: Averted early on, when [[spoiler: Ito]] dies by bleeding out from a wound sustained a little earlier in the fight.
* OnlyTheKnowledgableMayPass: While meeting in an occupied Seireitei, Soi Fong and one of her Onmitsukidou use lines from a Tang Chinese poem as a password, switching off in the middle of lines and then skipping to the end. While someone sufficiently learned might know the poem, they probably wouldn't know when to switch off, or recognize what was going on based on the first phrase. (The authors provide a link to the whole thing, since Soi Fong and Kage only use the first two and last two lines: [[http://www.chinese-poems.com/d26.html Facing Snow, by Du Fu]].)
--> Kage: After battle...
--> Soi Fong: Many new ghosts cry. The solitary old man...
--> Kage: ...worries and grieves. (''Pause'') To many places, communication is lost. I sit straight at my desk but cannot read my books for grief.
* PetTheDog: Ikkaku and Grimmjow comforting [[spoiler: Hanatarou]] (genuinely - and it ''did'' work).
* PhlebotinumOverload: [[spoiler:Yumichika absorbing Ulquiorra's power healed him, but it left him physically and mentally unstable. Rather than face [[PhlebotinumBreakdown those consequences]], he purged every ounce of his energy to help Ikkaku land a fatal blow on Yammi, [[Main/HeroicSacrifice killing all three of them.]]]]
* PlayingPossum: [[spoiler: Iba]] does this during attack on the mansion to get close enough to the [[spoiler: main body of Rudobon]] to kill it.
* PlayingWithSyringes: Aizen, Mayuri, and Szayel are engaging in this, the latter two in direct competition with each other.
* PoisonedWeapons: [[spoiler: At Isane's suggestion, Ukitake and Soi Fong coat the tips of their zanpakutous with the Barragan fragment's blood, which has the effect of "decaying" its slow-things-down power and allows them to kill it. Unfortunately, in this case the "poison" is so corrosive that it also eats away at the zanpakutous while they're fighting.]]
* PowerIncontinence: Barragan's power can also "decay" the barrier between a Visored and their Inner Hollow. Mashiro has periods of normalcy, but she loses control of her transformation without warning despite having a PowerLimiter. Rose is in even worse state, and is apparently stuck in the transformed/out of control state all the time.
* PrecisionFStrike: The polite and formal Hoshibana Akira (third seat of Sixth division since before Byakuya became captain), while defending his division-mate Rikichi's motives for a particularly foolish action:
-->Hoshibana: "The Eleventh Division may have its code of honor, but the Sixth has its own, and I would dare to say that while I have come to some understanding of yours over the past few months, my friend, I can safely say you know ''shit'' about ours."
** There's also the very formal Sasakibe in Chapter 6, warning Grimmjow not to provoke Ikkaku:
-->Sasakibe: ""At your present strength, he could put your spine through your skull, Jaegerjaques. Stop fucking around."
** Yoruichi gives a mental one after she realizes that [[spoiler: Szayel- of whom she knows just enough to be sure that he's very bad news- is in Karakura]].
* PrettySpryForADeadGuy: An odd example. LaResistance - and the reader - know all along that Rangiku is dead, [[TheDragon Gin]] refuses to believe it, [[spoiler: and LaResistance takes full advantage of that refusal.]]
* PsychopathicManChild / TheUnfettered: All Hollowfied shinigami who had the dubious luck of surviving the process and not having been broken into mindless beasts by it are the mixture of this (with varying proportions). They are very simple-minded and often childish (just look at [[spoiler: Kira]]'s POV), perfectly obedient to orders of whatever master they have, regardless of how much of messy killing said orders involve; and, to add insult to injury, their personalities are reduced and condensed to whatever had been their greatest passion/desire in their previous lives (and, naturally, stripped of everything else). [[TearJerker Not pretty]].
* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler: Gin. He survives Takano blowing up the library with him inside, a sword wound from Shirogane, and and clings to life after being hit by Hinamori's fireball reflected and magnified by Ukitake's shikai, just long enough to release the Barragan fragment on his enemies, killing himself in the process.]]
* RazorWings: Pagally's Resureccion gives her these.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Nanao delivers a very effective one to [[spoiler: Suzumushi]], both pointing out her past failures and explaining exactly why her current scheme [[spoiler: to [[DemonicPossession take over Nanao's body]]]] would not work.
-->Nanao: Let me be entirely frank, [[spoiler: Suzumushi]]. You're incompetent.
** Gin throws one into Hinamori's face. [[EvilIsPetty Just because he feels like that]].
* RebelLeader: Ukitake, although he subverts most of the particulars, such as by being seriously injured, not yet- if ever- recovered, and consequently sidelined from most of the fighting. At one point, when setting up a first meeting with someone who doesn't know much about the Gotei 13's upper ranks, he has Sasakibe do the talking and listens from behind a screen (along with most of his lieutenants) because he knows he would give the wrong impression.
* RedOniBlueOni: Ikkaku (red) and Nanao (blue), the co-leaders of the Hueco Mundo mission.
* ReplacementScrappy: In-story, Karin regards Kon as this, resenting him for taking Ichigo's place. Also, she's worried about Ichigo but because everyone else (as far as she knows) accepts Kon as Ichigo, she can't talk about it openly. Naturally, her resentment of that situation spills over to her reactions to Kon. It doesn't particularly help that Ichigo [[LockedOutOfTheLoop didn't tell her]] that he was going to go off and leave someone else to inhabit his body while he was gone. [[invoked]]
* RePower: [[spoiler: Jirobou Ikkanzaka, Jidanbou’s little brother, who lost his powers to Ishida in canon]] voluntarily underwent hollowfication to gain new abilities. There's also [[spoiler: Grimmjow, who loses his hollow powers when Orihime "purifies" him and gains shinigami ones instead.]]
* ReverseMole: [[spoiler: Hisagi]]. He’s been there a while, and it’s worn on him to the extent where he can barely function. Eventually, [[spoiler: his EmpathicWeapon has to take over his body to keep him alive.]]
* SacrificialLion / TooCoolToLive: [[spoiler: Takano Dan]], despite being an OC. He gets a lot of characterization- including two POV segments and a more detailed backstory than ''any'' of the other [=OCs=]- and his death is one of the first as the Rukongai fight starts.
* SanitySlippage: In the first Oririme's POV it's basically "holding the last shreds of sanity together with sheer willpower". This being [[CloudCuckooLander Orihime]], she imagines herself and people around her as a cartoonish robots/magical girls/whatever when under particularly heavy stress, loves Ulquiorra's company [[StockholmSyndrome because he did her no harm so far]], and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick constantly reminds herself that she can't, and won't, contemplate suicide]].
** Hisagi, when we first meet him, is [[HeroicBSOD emotionally numb]], has growing problems with keeping track of time, and suffers from memory lapses. It gets more and more complicated after that.
** Lisa [[spoiler: and Love]] has to watch Gin undergoing SanitySlippage process in real-time mode. All while being interrogated by him.
* SayItWithHearts: Invoked in one of Ikkaku's early POV sections:
-->He was vaguely aware of Peaches piping up cheerfully that he should wait for Rikichi and the two of them could catch up later. He could almost ''hear'' a little heart at the end of the sentence.
-->Then she did him proud by screeching at the others like the little harpy he knew she was, telling them to ''go go go you lazy maggots now now now!''
* SenselessSacrifice: Subverted when Rikichi [[spoiler: runs away to be caught by Gin's people and serve as 'unvoluntary' source of information about Rangiku 'being alive']] - it ''might'' even have worked... but most likely it would've ended as a disaster for the whole Resistance instead (and fortunately he was stopped before he could do it anyway). Played straight (bordering on StupidSacrifice) with [[spoiler: Suzuki, who, against direct orders from Shirogane, breaks the retreat and faces twenty or so Arrancars alone, just because she cannot leave Iba's 'dead body' to their mercy. She is almost instantly overwhelmed and killed. And NotQuiteDead Iba [[TearJerker has to watch, unable to do anything to save her]].]]
* SheatheYourSword: When the Hueco Mundo group confronts [[spoiler: a hollowfied Renji]], some of them move to attack... until [[spoiler: Byakuya]] realizes what's going on and orders them to stand down, and a fight is avoided.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Kon claims that he and Mashiro are "just friends." Kensei is not convinced.
** On a much grimmer note, there's also this exchange, [[spoiler: after Grimmjow, Kazeshini-controlling-Hisagi, and Hanatarou discover Nemu Prime]]:
-->Grimmjow: You’re in a mood to fight. Was she your woman, or something?
-->Hisagi[[note]]that is, Kazeshini[[/note]]: No. Not her. [[spoiler: It’s just – some things are monstrous. Even by your standards, maybe.]]
* ShellShockedVeteran: Technically, no one: the war's not over yet, so the "veteran" part doesn't quite apply. The "shell-shocked" part ''does'': Hisagi is probably the most extreme example, but he's not the only one. Assuming anyone survives at all, some of them will definitely be [[ShellShockedVeteran Shell-Shocked Veterans]].
* ShootEverythingThatMoves: [[spoiler: Ishida Ryuuken]] during the assault on Karakura.
* SirSwearsALot: Grimmjow, Ikkaku, and Kazeshini are all notably more foul-mouthed than the rest of the cast.
* SnowMeansDeath: With that snowy Karakura winter, this was bound to happen. After [[spoiler: Ryuuken's]] death, snow covers his body and the signs of his last battle.
* SpitefulSpit: Ikkaku spits on the floor when mentioning that Gin's forces refer to him as soutaichou. Kuukaku agrees with the sentiment, but tells him not to do it in her house.
* SplitPersonalityTakeover: [[spoiler: Ichigo's Hollow]] takes over his body and becomes arguably the most powerful of Aizen's army. [[spoiler: It's reversible, but only via Orihime's RealityWarper powers.]]
* SpotOfTea: One of the few things Aizen and LaResistance can be said to share is a fondness for tea. Almost all moments of leisure, civility, or pre-mission planning include tea. Isane even brews one last pot before a battle starts.
--> Isane: There's always time for tea.
* TheSquad: The recon squad, led by Ikkaku, which has been carrying out missions and drawing fire away from the Resistance's actual bases ever since this war started. It's actually dissolved very early in the fic, and functions largely to (re)establish several characters, including [[OriginalCharacter OCs]] like Hoshibana and Takano, [[AscendedExtra Ascended Extras]] like Ogidou, Shirogane, and Rikichi, and this fic's drastically changed versions of Hinamori and Ikkaku himself.
* TheSquadette: Three of them in the recon squad itself- Hinamori, [[TheMedic Kaede]], and [[IaijutsuPractitioner Shirogane]], and more in the rest of LaResistance.
* StepfordSmiler: Ogidou. Moved from Type B to the nice, clear Type C. [[spoiler: And the attitude is exactly what gets him killed eventually.]]
* StormingTheCastle: Since Seireitei is occupied by Aizen's forces, retaking it is of course a goal of the resistance. [[spoiler: Now accomplished by Soi Fong, Kuukaku, Sasakibe, Chad, the remaining [[{{Ninja}} Onmitsukidou]] and the gathered forces of the noble clans.]]
* SternTeacher: Kuukaku has this attitude towards the shinigami students at her base.
* StuffBlowingUp: Kuukaku makes explosives which she and the other members of LaResistance use in battle.
* SwitchingPOV: The third-person limited POV varies between ''35 characters'' as of Chapter 43. (Granted, some narrators reappear much more frequently than others- Nanao and Ukitake particularly- and some only get sections in ensemble chapters.)
* SymbioticPossession: [[spoiler: Kazeshini and Hisagi, eventually. It starts out with Kazeshini taking over Hisagi's body periodically to save both their lives, but without his knowledge or consent. After Hisagi finds out and they reach an accord of sorts, Hisagi lets Kazeshini possess him in battle because, unlike him, Kazeshini can tell where Kyouka Suigetsu is even when Aizen is using his powers.]]
* TakeThat: Intended or not, chapter 31 features the following gem:
-->Orihime's POV: (S)ometimes the princess had to save the dragon, and sometimes she had to save the prince as well, and sometimes the princess and the dragon and the knight all teamed up together and [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall went to argue with the person who’d written the story and complain about how they never got anything interesting and new to do.]]
* TakeUpMySword: Tousen literally took up his friend’s [[EmpathicWeapon zanpakutou]] after her murder, using her powers to pursue her goals and avenge her death. [[spoiler: After Tousen’s death (which she blames on Aizen's betrayal), Suzumushi actively tries to get Nanao to “take her up”... by attempting to [[DemonicPossession possess her]]. She fails, and Nanao persuades Suzumushi to give her access to Tousen’s bankai for their one common goal: "justice" in the form of Aizen Sousuke's death.]]
* TakingYouWithMe: Ukitake considers doing this to kill Gin, but as it turns out [[spoiler: Gin unleashes a weapon of mass destruction based on Barragan’s BattleAura when Ukitake and company have defeated him.]] It’s pretty clear that [[spoiler: Gin]] was already dying- he was just too vindictive to leave it at that.
* TalkingWeapon: Kazeshini, who keeps up a running commentary/response to his wielder Hisagi's thoughts. All [[EmpathicWeapon zanpakutou]] ''can'' talk to their wielders, but most of the others in the fic are relatively quiet. Kazeshini is noted as having gotten much more talkative since Hisagi's move to Hueco Mundo, probably due to his [[HeroicBSOD mental state]].
** [[spoiler: Pantera]] is becoming this as of the latest chapters. [[spoiler: And now Suzumushi is talking to Nanao, who isn't even her wielder...]]
* ThereWasADoor: Averted (mostly) by Harribel, who actually enters through the door to [[spoiler: Hisagi's]] quarters, although the door does not survive the experience. Others in Hueco Mundo play this trope straight (and over the top), including [[spoiler: Ichigo]], who destroys a whole wall to get into the room the shinigami party is in.
* TheUnintelligible: [[TearJerker See "Tortured Abomination."]]
* ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself: It is understood that Ikkaku will fight [[spoiler: Yumichika]] alone, despite the fact that the fic usually avoids one-on-one duels. (By the time it actually happens, everyone else is busy fighting another opponent, so Ikkaku’s personal fight actually makes their lives easier by removing the second antagonist.)
* [[spoiler:TogetherInDeath]]: Implied with Ikkaku and [[spoiler:Yumichika]], since they talk about fighting.
* TookALevelInBadass: Hinamori. Mostly it’s an attitude change rather than an actual increase in power, though.
* TorsoWithAView: Pagally and [[spoiler: the hollowfied Kira and Rukia]] have their Hollow holes in their chests.
* TorturedMonster: Hollowfied Shinigami. Special mention goes to [[spoiler: Hitsugaya]], who got broken so badly that he's left as a [[spoiler: "jumble of icy wings and cruel claws" that can't even talk, [[TheBlank nor does he have a face.]] Momo]] [[TearJerker was not amused.]]
** And now we have [[spoiler: Renji, described as a hodge-podge creature seemingly composed of patchworks of fur, scales, and bare muscle, with a half-flesh/half-skull "face."]] Oh, and apparently [[spoiler: his]] every movement makes it look like [[spoiler: he's]] in pain. [[spoiler: Byakuya]] only recognizes [[spoiler: him]] because [[spoiler: he already killed a Hollowfied Rukia]].
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Gin's fondness for dried persimmons is so well known that Ikkaku is able to identify Gin's [[spoiler: spyroom]] because he left a bowl of them there.
* TragicKeepsake: Rangiku's necklace for Momo, Yumichika's scarf for Ikkaku. At first. [[spoiler: The necklace ends up being a key element in the Rangiku impersonation scheme... and as for the scarf, well, Yumichika's alive, so it's no longer tragic. [[AnyoneCanDie For now, anyway]].]]
* TrustPassword: After being imprisoned by [[MasterOfIllusion Aizen]] for several months, [[spoiler: Kyorakou]] refuses to believe that his rescuers are who they appear to be. They convince him by [[spoiler: returning his zanpakutou, which Lisa had been carrying.]]
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: "Ichimaru-soutaichou's" rule in Seireitei.
* VillainousBreakdown: Gin is noticeably less stable than in the series proper, and he gets much, much worse when he realises [[spoiler: that Rangiku really is dead and her apparent survival was a ruse by the resistance.]]
* WarFic: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Of course.]]
* WarIsHell: This fic is ''not'' shy about the physical and mental costs of fighting a near-hopeless war. People die- not just in HeroicSacrifices, but in foolish ones, or just because they're not good enough fighters for the situation they're in- or even just from sheer bad luck. Those captured by the enemy are tortured and experimented on with very few exceptions. And even the survivors- even the ones who are alive and still trying to fight- are worn down by everything that's happened. Ukitake, Iba, and Soi Fong may be [[HandicappedBadass Handicapped Badasses]], but their injuries have a very real cost, in day to day life as well as in battle. And the psychological costs of the war are just as stark. [[BreakTheCutie Orihime]], [[MilesToGoBeforeISleep Ukitake,]] [[spoiler: ReverseMole Hisagi]] and many others who've lost friends or [[DirtyBusiness done things they're not proud of]] are soldiering on for now- but some of them have come perilously close to breaking, and even assuming a given person makes it through the war, that doesn't mean they'll be all right.
* WhatWouldXDo: Iba considers and rejects Komamura, Zaraki, Ikkaku, Yumichika, and Renji’s probable solutions to a problem, before finding the right person to “ask”: his mom, former Vice-Captain of Third Division Iba Chikane. Who then “tells” him exactly what to do... and follows up by [[IWantGrandkids wanting to know how long it’ll be until he gets married and gives her some grandkids]].
* WhamLine: Many of the reveals of [[spoiler: the Hollowfied shinigami]] come under this.
--> ''He'd found [[spoiler: Hitsugaya-taichou]], but he'd been turned Hollow and was on Gin's leash''
--> [[spoiler:'''Byakuya:''']] ''It seems you are all fools and blind. [[spoiler: Renji.]]''
** There's also this one, somewhat later:
--> ''Not sure yet... there seem to be two Vastolorde heading in your direction. One matches the description we received of... Oh. King of Heaven...'' [[spoiler: ''Aizen's with them.'']]
* WhatTheHellHero: Ikkaku delivers one to Ichigo/his hollow, crossed over with IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight. Basically, his idea of getting Ichigo to retake control of his body is to spell out to him exactly what he allowed to happen to his friends by losing it in the first place.
** Katen Kyokoutsu also delivers one to Kazeshini, regarding [[spoiler: him taking over Hisagi's body, as well as their general failure to work together.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: Yes, Aizen would. He would also [[spoiler: imprison them, torture them, and/or [[BrainwashedAndCrazy force them to serve him]] by turning them into entries under the TorturedMonster section.]] Note that [[Really700YearsOld given his age]], a majority of the cast [[FridgeHorror can be listed under the "child" section.]]
* WorldBuilding: The role and abilities of zanpakutou are expanded on in some very interesting ways.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Pagally, Hisagi's fraccion, has lavender hair.
* YouHaveFailedMe: Aizen and Gin just ''love'' this, each in his own way. Sometimes it [[TheDogBitesBack backfires]].
** One example of how badly they react when their soldiers piss them off: Barragan ran a bit amuck in the Karakura battle, killing someone Aizen would have much preferred to capture. In Lisa's POV chapter, Gin offhandedly mentions that Aizen ''really'' wasn't happy about that. Next we hear of Barragan? [[spoiler: He's been reduced to "a shade"- a fragment Gin releases, that blindly seeks to devour the strongest reiatsu signature it can find. It ultimately regains a humanoid form, but never acts with intelligence or personality.]]
* YouShallNotPass: [[spoiler: Ikkaku, Yumichika, and Lisa separate from the rest of the group to take on Yammi and Ulquiorra while the rest of their group face Aizen.]] They're not sacrificing themselves to allow the others to escape, though- they're just keeping the enemy's reinforcements from arriving until the main battle is over. Winning their fight, or ''anyone's'' survival, is secondary.
* ZeroApprovalGambit: [[spoiler: Hisagi]] sets one in motion by orders of his superiors, 'betraying' Soul Society to gain a potential chance to save it later (and a less-than-potential chance to be executed for war crimes anyway if that even succeeds).
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* AchillesHeel: Turns out [[spoiler: Yumichika's]] seemingly unbeatable shikai power does have a downside. [[spoiler: In canon, he [[VampiricDraining absorbs his oponent's reiatsu]], weakening or killing them. However, in this fic if he tries it on someone who's too powerful- namely Harribel, a vasto lorde class arrancar- rather than killing her, he gets overwhelmed and ends up essentially BrainwashedAndCrazy, unable to separate his own reiatsu and personality from hers.]]
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* AchillesHeel: Turns out [[spoiler: Yumichika's]] seemingly unbeatable shikai power does have a downside. [[spoiler: In canon, he [[VampiricDraining absorbs his oponent's reiatsu]], weakening or killing them. However, in this fic if he tries it on someone who's too powerful- namely powerful—namely Harribel, a vasto lorde class arrancar- rather arrancar—rather than killing her, he gets overwhelmed and ends up essentially BrainwashedAndCrazy, unable to separate his own reiatsu and personality from hers.]]
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* AnimalMotifs: Pagally's zanpakutou is Cernicalo, Spanish for "kestrel", and her resureccion gives her sharp-feathered wings. Also, [[spoiler: Pantera]] compares people to animals in his conversations with [[spoiler: Grimmjow]]- for example, referring to Ikkaku as a wounded dragon and Hanatarou as a mouse.
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* AnimalMotifs: Pagally's zanpakutou is Cernicalo, Spanish for "kestrel", and her resureccion gives her sharp-feathered wings. Also, [[spoiler: Pantera]] compares people to animals in his conversations with [[spoiler: Grimmjow]]- for Grimmjow]]—for example, referring to Ikkaku as a wounded dragon and Hanatarou as a mouse.
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* ApocalypseHow: Early on, Urahara warns that the lack of shinigami doing their actual job has resulted in the balance of souls in the worlds getting so skewed that the living world, Soul Society, and Hueco Mundo will all be destroyed if something doesn't change soon. This is part of why the characters give over all their resources to a very risky scheme based on information from someone that they can't be sure is even really on their side- they know that they're running out of time.
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* ApocalypseHow: Early on, Urahara warns that the lack of shinigami doing their actual job has resulted in the balance of souls in the worlds getting so skewed that the living world, Soul Society, and Hueco Mundo will all be destroyed if something doesn't change soon. This is part of why the characters give over all their resources to a very risky scheme based on information from someone that they can't be sure is even really on their side- they side—they know that they're running out of time.
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* AscendedExtra: Shirogane and Ogidou, from the canon omakes. Arguably, most of the cast is this- some of the main cast eventually comes into play, but this fic is almost entirely about the secondary characters.
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* AscendedExtra: Shirogane and Ogidou, from the canon omakes. Arguably, most of the cast is this- some this—some of the main cast eventually comes into play, but this fic is almost entirely about the secondary characters.
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* BadBoss: ...Pretty much all the villains. Kurotsuchi Mayuri deserves special mention for his treatment of his own daughter and former lieutenant- but Grimmjow has no illusion about what's likely to happen to him if [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he's no longer useful to Aizen]], and Gin isn't anyone you'd want to work for either. What are LesCollaborateurs ''thinking?''
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* BadBoss: ...Pretty much all the villains. Kurotsuchi Mayuri deserves special mention for his treatment of his own daughter and former lieutenant- but lieutenant—but Grimmjow has no illusion about what's likely to happen to him if [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he's no longer useful to Aizen]], and Gin isn't anyone you'd want to work for either. What are LesCollaborateurs ''thinking?''
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** Subverted when Yoruichi decides to tell [[spoiler: Ryuuken]] that she doesn't know what happened to [[spoiler: his son, who she knows is dead.]] He's already acting fairly unstable at that point, and she doesn't want to run the risk that knowing the truth would make him snap.
* TheBechdelTest: Passes, starting from the very first chapter- the war is introduced through a conversation between Nanao and Soi Fong about the current state of the Resistance.
* BecomingTheMask: After months in Hueco Mundo, [[spoiler: ReverseMole Hisagi]].He takes things for granted that he would have been horrified before, and has been killing at Aizen's orders so long that it no longer even causes him much soul-searching. While he doesn't ''like'' Hueco Mundo or his supposed allies, his efforts to preserve his cover and keep himself alive are gradually turning him into what he's pretending to be. On a much lighter note, Kon- after posing as Ichigo for a similar amount of time- finds himself thinking of Karin and Yuzu as ''his'' little sisters.
* TheBechdelTest: Passes, starting from the very first chapter- the war is introduced through a conversation between Nanao and Soi Fong about the current state of the Resistance.
* BecomingTheMask: After months in Hueco Mundo, [[spoiler: ReverseMole Hisagi]].He takes things for granted that he would have been horrified before, and has been killing at Aizen's orders so long that it no longer even causes him much soul-searching. While he doesn't ''like'' Hueco Mundo or his supposed allies, his efforts to preserve his cover and keep himself alive are gradually turning him into what he's pretending to be. On a much lighter note, Kon- after posing as Ichigo for a similar amount of time- finds himself thinking of Karin and Yuzu as ''his'' little sisters.
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** Subverted when Yoruichi decides to tell [[spoiler: Ryuuken]] that she doesn't know what happened to [[spoiler: his son, who whom she knows is dead.]] He's already acting fairly unstable at that point, and she doesn't want to run the risk that knowing the truth would make him snap.
* TheBechdelTest: Passes, starting from the very firstchapter- the chapter—the war is introduced through a conversation between Nanao and Soi Fong about the current state of the Resistance.
* BecomingTheMask: After months in Hueco Mundo, [[spoiler: ReverseMole Hisagi]].He takes things for granted that he would have been horrified before, and has been killing at Aizen's orders so long that it no longer even causes him much soul-searching. While he doesn't ''like'' Hueco Mundo or his supposed allies, his efforts to preserve his cover and keep himself alive are gradually turning him into what he's pretending to be. On a much lighter note,Kon- after Kon—after posing as Ichigo for a similar amount of time- finds time—finds himself thinking of Karin and Yuzu as ''his'' little sisters.
* TheBechdelTest: Passes, starting from the very first
* BecomingTheMask: After months in Hueco Mundo, [[spoiler: ReverseMole Hisagi]].He takes things for granted that he would have been horrified before, and has been killing at Aizen's orders so long that it no longer even causes him much soul-searching. While he doesn't ''like'' Hueco Mundo or his supposed allies, his efforts to preserve his cover and keep himself alive are gradually turning him into what he's pretending to be. On a much lighter note,
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* BigBrotherInstinct: Inoue Sora, to Orihime. To the point that had LaResistance not included him on the Hueco Mundo mission, he would probably have tried to sneak in anyway to rescue his little sister. Subverted in that he is not able to do much more for her than offer emotional support- he's barely out of the Academy and by far the weakest member of the group. (They anticipated he would be more or less TheLoad, but brought him anyway because they needed someone who Orihime knew well enough to tell if she was on the edge of a FreakOut.) [[spoiler: Orihime reciprocates. When Hollow Ichigo shows up and starts fighting the shinigami, she basically freezes. Then he tries to hurt her brother, and she responds by rejecting his SplitPersonalityTakeover and restoring Ichigo to control of his body.]]
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* BigBrotherInstinct: Inoue Sora, to Orihime. To the point that had LaResistance not included him on the Hueco Mundo mission, he would probably have tried to sneak in anyway to rescue his little sister. Subverted in that he is not able to do much more for her than offer emotional support- he's support—he's barely out of the Academy and by far the weakest member of the group. (They anticipated he would be more or less TheLoad, but brought him anyway because they needed someone who whom Orihime knew well enough to tell if she was on the edge of a FreakOut.) [[spoiler: Orihime reciprocates. When Hollow Ichigo shows up and starts fighting the shinigami, she basically freezes. Then he tries to hurt her brother, and she responds by rejecting his SplitPersonalityTakeover and restoring Ichigo to control of his body.]]
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---> [[spoiler: '''Orihime''': Don’t you remember what you told Kuchiki-kun- the person who’s being saved doesn’t get any say in the matter...]]
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---> [[spoiler: '''Orihime''': Don’t you remember what you told Kuchiki-kun- the Kuchiki-kun—the person who’s being saved doesn’t get any say in the matter...]]
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* CantLiveWithoutYou: Invoked AND lampshaded at the same time by [[spoiler: real!Nemu - as all clone!Nemus are technically [[AnatomyOfTheSoul her soul/personality]] [[FateWorseThanDeath sliced into tiny pieces]] and [[LiteralSplitPersonality placed separately into thirty or so bodies]], you only have to kill the original one (or what has left of her) to erase all her copies from existence...]] and she asks her former colleagues to do exactly that. And calmly explains just how and why it's going to work.
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* CantLiveWithoutYou: Invoked AND lampshaded at the same time by [[spoiler: real!Nemu - as real!Nemu—as all clone!Nemus are technically [[AnatomyOfTheSoul her soul/personality]] [[FateWorseThanDeath sliced into tiny pieces]] and [[LiteralSplitPersonality placed separately into thirty or so bodies]], you only have to kill the original one (or what has left of her) to erase all her copies from existence...]] and she asks her former colleagues to do exactly that. And calmly explains just how and why it's going to work.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: When good guys don't just fight glorious one-on-one five-episodes-long battles for our entertainment, and bad guys don't just conveniently stand there and brag about their brilliant plans and general evilness until being properly defeated by good guys (again, for our entertainment), it becomes much harder to ignore that prolonged warfare is quite an ugly business. Not only [[WarIsHell war indeed is hell]] - it's a particularly unattractive and non-romantic hell. And right along with the loss of PlotArmor and the associated tropes, this story takes already disturbing parts of Bleach canon, puts a light and a magnifying glass to them, asks, “How could this be made worse?”- and ''does it''. One example is the new form of hollowfication shown in the fic (or not-so-new - it looks and is implied to be the same as hollow!form of Tousen both in canon and in WW continuity. In canon, though, Tousen was the first and the last shinigami subjected to it, and in WW he has a BIG company). While the hollowfication shown in canon with the Vizards is nasty and scary, they're able to overcome it and remain themselves. The new form of hollowfication apparently ''can't'' be fought in that way (possibly because this time there is no Urahara around to help in the first place), and turns several canon characters into [[TorturedMonster Tortured Monsters]]. At the same time, the villains lose whatever sympathetic traits they had in canon- Gin, for example, goes from merely having a sadistic streak to being pure evil (it is explained and justified in text, but we can safely assume his victims don't care much for the justification).
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* DarkerAndEdgier: When good guys don't just fight glorious one-on-one five-episodes-long battles for our entertainment, and bad guys don't just conveniently stand there and brag about their brilliant plans and general evilness until being properly defeated by good guys (again, for our entertainment), it becomes much harder to ignore that prolonged warfare is quite an ugly business. Not only is war indeed [[WarIsHell war indeed is hell]] - hell]], it's a particularly unattractive and non-romantic hell. And right along with the loss of PlotArmor and the associated tropes, this story takes already disturbing parts of Bleach canon, puts a light and a magnifying glass to them, asks, “How could this be made worse?”- and worse?”—and ''does it''. One example is the new form of hollowfication shown in the fic (or not-so-new - it not-so-new—it looks and is implied to be the same as hollow!form of Tousen both in canon and in WW continuity. In canon, though, Tousen was the first and the last shinigami subjected to it, and in WW he has a BIG company). While the hollowfication shown in canon with the Vizards is nasty and scary, they're able to overcome it and remain themselves. The new form of hollowfication apparently ''can't'' be fought in that way (possibly because this time there is no Urahara around to help in the first place), and turns several canon characters into [[TorturedMonster Tortured Monsters]]. At the same time, the villains lose whatever sympathetic traits they had in canon- Gin, canon—Gin, for example, goes from merely having a sadistic streak to being pure evil (it is explained and justified in text, but we can safely assume his victims don't care much for the justification).
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* DeadlyDoctor: Ogidou, a Fourth Division member who fights using healing kidou reversed to reopen old wounds. The other members of LaResistance are more than a little squicked out, to the point where Hinamori and Iba agree that they would ''not'' want him healing their wounds- but no one is trying to get him to stop.
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* DeadlyDoctor: Ogidou, a Fourth Division member who fights using healing kidou reversed to reopen old wounds. The other members of LaResistance are more than a little squicked out, to the point where Hinamori and Iba agree that they would ''not'' want him healing their wounds- but wounds—but no one is trying to get him to stop.
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* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler: Byakuya, after killing Hollow Rukia. Kyorakou eventually convinces him to stop trying to die by lying and telling him that his memory of killing Rukia is one of Aizen's illusions, and that she died under completely different circumstances.]]
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* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler: Byakuya, after killing Hollow Rukia. Kyorakou Kyouraku eventually convinces him to stop [[DeathSeeker trying to die die]] by lying and telling him that his memory of killing Rukia is one of Aizen's illusions, and that she died under completely different circumstances.]]
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: [[FishOutOfWater Takano]] was a Navy SEAL in life, and still isn't entirely used to women being in front line combat. Much as he ''knows'' that they're capable soldiers, he still feels like he ought to be protecting them. (Thankfully, Takano realizes this isn't a rational reaction under the circumstances-, and keeps it under control- it's only really apparent in his POV.)
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: [[FishOutOfWater Takano]] was a Navy SEAL in life, and still isn't entirely used to women being in front line front-line combat. Much as he ''knows'' that they're capable soldiers, he still feels like he ought to be protecting them. (Thankfully, Takano realizes this isn't a rational reaction under the circumstances-, circumstances and keeps it under control- it's control—it's only really apparent in his POV.)
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* DueToTheDead: Nanao makes a point of bowing to the grave [[spoiler: in Suzumushi's inner world]]. She can't be sure whose grave it is (and one of the possibilities is someone she has no reason to respect), but she does it because "the dead deserved their due honor"- and because of the likely reaction if she doesn't.
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* DueToTheDead: Nanao makes a point of bowing to the grave [[spoiler: in Suzumushi's inner world]]. She can't be sure whose grave it is (and one of the possibilities is someone she has no reason to respect), but she does it because "the dead deserved their due honor"- and honor"—and because of the likely reaction if she doesn't.
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* FakeKillScare: Ikkaku used it once - partly as a punishment, partly to beat some sense in [[spoiler: Rikichi's]] overly-enthusiastic head.
* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: All over the place, but especially [[spoiler: Gin’s]] death scene. In this case it’s made worse by the fact that the other side doesn’t have anyone strong enough to fight him one-on-one- so he’s slowly worn down by several weaker opponents, taking several of them with him.
* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: All over the place, but especially [[spoiler: Gin’s]] death scene. In this case it’s made worse by the fact that the other side doesn’t have anyone strong enough to fight him one-on-one- so he’s slowly worn down by several weaker opponents, taking several of them with him.
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* FakeKillScare: Ikkaku used it once - partly once—partly as a punishment, partly to beat some sense in into [[spoiler: Rikichi's]] overly-enthusiastic head.
* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: All over the place, but especially [[spoiler: Gin’s]] death scene. In this case it’s made worse by the fact that the other side doesn’t have anyone strong enough to fight himone-on-one- so one-on-one—so he’s slowly worn down by several weaker opponents, taking several of them with him.
* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: All over the place, but especially [[spoiler: Gin’s]] death scene. In this case it’s made worse by the fact that the other side doesn’t have anyone strong enough to fight him
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** "Not like working with Taichou, right?" [[spoiler: --Ito, to Ikkaku]]
** "Aizen may have turned us into monsters, but there's nothing he can do to take our honor from us. And nothing ''you'' can do." [[spoiler: -- Love, to Gin]]
** "Just a few more things to take care of, and we're done here, [[spoiler: Yamada-san]]." [[spoiler: --Ogidou, before trying to kill Hisagi.]]
** "You would have saved me. It is not your fault that I cannot be saved. I thank you. I thank you all. You are setting me free." [[spoiler: --Nemu, to Hisagi (really Kazeshini).]]
** "Heh. So I'm finally worth noticing, huh? Good to know." [[spoiler: --Tatsuki]]
** "Aizen may have turned us into monsters, but there's nothing he can do to take our honor from us. And nothing ''you'' can do." [[spoiler: -- Love, to Gin]]
** "Just a few more things to take care of, and we're done here, [[spoiler: Yamada-san]]." [[spoiler: --Ogidou, before trying to kill Hisagi.]]
** "You would have saved me. It is not your fault that I cannot be saved. I thank you. I thank you all. You are setting me free." [[spoiler: --Nemu, to Hisagi (really Kazeshini).]]
** "Heh. So I'm finally worth noticing, huh? Good to know." [[spoiler: --Tatsuki]]
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** "Not like working with Taichou, right?" [[spoiler: --Ito, — Ito, to Ikkaku]]
** "Aizen may have turned us into monsters, but there's nothing he can do to take our honor from us. And nothing ''you'' can do." [[spoiler:-- — Love, to Gin]]
** "Just a few more things to take care of, and we're done here, [[spoiler: Yamada-san]]." [[spoiler:--Ogidou, — Ogidou, before trying to kill Hisagi.]]
** "You would have saved me. It is not your fault that I cannot be saved. I thank you. I thank you all. You are setting me free." [[spoiler:--Nemu, — Nemu, to Hisagi (really Kazeshini).]]
** "Heh. So I'm finally worth noticing, huh? Good to know." [[spoiler:--Tatsuki]]— Tatsuki]]
** "Aizen may have turned us into monsters, but there's nothing he can do to take our honor from us. And nothing ''you'' can do." [[spoiler:
** "Just a few more things to take care of, and we're done here, [[spoiler: Yamada-san]]." [[spoiler:
** "You would have saved me. It is not your fault that I cannot be saved. I thank you. I thank you all. You are setting me free." [[spoiler:
** "Heh. So I'm finally worth noticing, huh? Good to know." [[spoiler:
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* GenFic: While there is a bit of sex and romance in this fic, it's very much in the background- except background—except for Gin's feelings for Rangiku, which are played as scary and creepy rather than romantic.
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* HeKnowsTooMuch:[[spoiler: Iemura figures out that Hisagi is a FakeDefector.]] Said person panics and kills him to prevent him from leaking the information- despite the fact that they're (technically) on the same side and the guy was offering to help him. However, the killer is massively screwed up because of this, fluctuating between desperately trying to justify his action and obsessing over it, to the point where he can hardly function. Finally [[spoiler: [[EmpathicWeapon Kazeshini]] has to take over his body to prevent him from being killed when he hesitates to fight [[ExpendableClone the Nemu]] partly because of his guilt over Iemura's murder.]] The killer's allies ultimately do find out, and while they have decided to withhold any punishment for now, they are ''not'' okay with it.
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* HeKnowsTooMuch:[[spoiler: Iemura figures out that Hisagi is a FakeDefector.]] Said person panics and kills him to prevent him from leaking the information- despite information—despite the fact that they're (technically) on the same side and the guy was offering to help him. However, the killer is massively screwed up because of this, fluctuating between desperately trying to justify his action and obsessing over it, to the point where he can hardly function. Finally [[spoiler: [[EmpathicWeapon Kazeshini]] has to take over his body to prevent him from being killed when he hesitates to fight [[ExpendableClone the Nemu]] partly because of his guilt over Iemura's murder.]] The killer's allies ultimately do find out, and while they have decided to withhold any punishment for now, they are ''not'' okay with it.
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* HopeSpot: After killing several clone!Nemu, Grimmjow, Hanatarou, and Hisagi [[spoiler: with Kazeshini piloting]] venture into Mayuri's labs. There they discover [[spoiler: the original Kurotsuchi Nemu]]- who had been given up for dead in-story and out. She's in bad shape, but they hope Orihime can heal her. She explains otherwise: [[spoiler: her zanpakutou has been severed and her soul is being drained into her clones... which would remain even if Orihime tried to reject the damage.]] She [[ICannotSelfTerminate asks them to kill her]]. Reluctantly, [[spoiler: Kazeshini]] agrees. The kicker? If he hadn't hesitated quite so long, [[spoiler: Tatsuki]] would probably not have been killed.
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* HopeSpot: After killing several clone!Nemu, Grimmjow, Hanatarou, and Hisagi [[spoiler: with Kazeshini piloting]] venture into Mayuri's labs. There they discover [[spoiler: the original Kurotsuchi Nemu]]- who Nemu]]—who had been given up for dead in-story and out. She's in bad shape, but they hope Orihime can heal her. She explains otherwise: [[spoiler: her zanpakutou has been severed and her soul is being drained into her clones... which would remain even if Orihime tried to reject the damage.]] She [[ICannotSelfTerminate asks them to kill her]]. Reluctantly, [[spoiler: Kazeshini]] agrees. The kicker? If he hadn't hesitated quite so long, [[spoiler: Tatsuki]] would probably not have been killed.
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* ICanStillFight: Ukitake - not out of pride, but because there’s no other choice. He goes into battle fully expecting to die, and hoping to take Gin with him.
* ICannotSelfTerminate: [[spoiler: Poor, poor Nemu...]]
** [[spoiler: Senbonzakura, observed by Kazeshini as he keeps trying and failing to kill himself.]]
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: The chapters titles are of the format "[POV character]: [Title]", or "Ensemble: [Title]" for most of the chapters with multiple narrators. (Chapter 13 is "Karakura: Waiting" along the same principle.)
* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: [[spoiler: [[ReverseMole Hisagi]]]] thinks that this is what Aizen intends with Pagally; it turns out that he is actually giving him a Fraccion. [[spoiler: He was willing to go through with it - which shows just how messed up he was after a large amount of time undercover.]]
* IfWeGetThroughThis: When she gets home, Lisa plans to wear her Hueco Mundo uniform boots to every club in Roppongi, then burn them and every other white article of clothing she owns.
** Kaede, Hinamori, and Shirogane promise to get a proper revenge later for Iba and Rikichi's attempt to spy on their attempts to give Shirogane a convincing imitation of Rangiku's build. [[spoiler: Shirogane then dies in battle against Gin.]]
* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Several shinigami try this on [[spoiler: Ichigo]]. [[spoiler: Orihime's]] [[RealityWarper method]] works better.
** Doubly subverted by Hinamori. ''Twice.'' She intends to try this on [[spoiler: Kira]] and [[spoiler: Hitsugaya]]. Both times she gives up almost immediately, because it doesn't (and couldn't) work... and THEN it works - in a way which leaves her desperately wishing it wouldn't (especially the second time).
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: This is how [[spoiler: Aizen]] finally dies, at the hands of [[spoiler: Ichigo.]]
* ImprovisedWeapon: [[spoiler: Karin]] kills several hollows with [[spoiler: ''a soccer ball''.]]
* InMediasRes: When the story begins, the Winter War is already long lost. Then we are told (along with present-time events), piece by piece, just how exactly it was lost. And then plot splits into four subplots, giving us a multidimensional timeline. And who knows what else authors have in store...
* {{Irony}}: LaResistance are (among other things) rescuing Orihime and her rescue party, invading the Seireitei, and practicing [[CombatPragmatist Combat Pragmatism]]. Then there's the repeated role reversals...
* ItsPersonal: The fight against [[spoiler: the Barragan fragment]] contains both a subversion and an example. [[spoiler: Soi Fong plays it straight against the remains of the enemy who cost her her arm and killed her lieutenant. Hachi subverts the trope, because he doesn't want to waste the special strategies he thought up for fighting Barragan- who killed two of his friends- on a mere "shade". And the fight against Szayel becomes personal for Ryuuken when Szayel reveals that he killed Ryuuken's son.]]
* ItsQuietTooQuiet: [[spoiler: Hisagi]] [[YouJustHadToSayIt says it aloud]] right after LetsSplitUpGang - the result is equally spectacular and predictable.
* IWantGrandkids: Iba Tetsuzaemon's mother, Iba Chikane, really wants him to get married and have kids, if his imagined version of her in his "WhatWouldXDo" moment is anything to go by. He promises his mental version of her to "get married within the year, or the decade, or the century at the very most, assuming that he survived the next ten minutes".
* IWillFindYou: Several characters are motivated by a desire to find their captured/MIA friends, or at least find out what happened to them. [[ItsPersonal This is why]] two of the top people in the resistance go to Hueco Mundo. Subverted, in that both of these two people know that their friends may be BrainwashedAndCrazy [[FateWorseThanDeath or worse]], and at least one of them goes in intending to kill said friend (who he knows by then is either BrainwashedAndCrazy or an actual traitor).
* KickedUpstairs: Aizen got rid of traumatized and crazed (and thus uncontrollable) Gin... by giving him the whole Seireitei to play with.
* KilledByTheAdaptation: List in progress: Yamamoto, Oomaeda, Komamura, Hitsugaya, Matsumoto, Kenpachi, Kiyone, Uryuu, Shinji, Hiyori, [[spoiler: Rukia, Kira, Love, Ogidou and Shirogane (yeah they’re canon), Harribel, Nemu, Tatsuki, Ryuuken, Ikkaku and Yumichika, Aizen.]]
* LaResistance: Led by Ukitake, the loyal remnants of the Gotei 13 have spent the last months fighting Ichimaru and his collaborators from hiding.
* LateArrivalSpoiler: A stealthy one. The chapters are usually marked with POV character- "Nanao: Winter", etc. With the exception of the second chapter occurring well before the first, they seem to be in more or less sequential order. A chapter is headed with [[spoiler: Byakuya's]] name... several chapters after another POV character remembered witnessing [[spoiler: his]] death. If you happen to read the chapter titles before the fic, you will probably assume that the character is alive, even though [[spoiler: his]] survival is a big surprise in context.
* LesCollaborateurs: Gotei-13 is following orders of 'Ichimaru-sotaichou' at the beginning of the fic. One can only wonder what those orders actually are, because we know for sure they don't involve ''anything'' of common shinigami duties. Large part of Seireitei nobility also qualifies.
* LeeroyJenkins: Grimmjow will abandon whatever he is supposed to be doing if he suspects there is a fight available elsewhere. Ikkaku [[spoiler: and Yumichika]] are able to resist the urge, due to CharacterDevelopment.
* LetsSplitUpGang: The Hueco Mundo party does this at one point, but they do it reasonably sensibly- no one goes off by themselves, each group has at least one powerful fighter, and all remain close enough to each other to hear the noise if there's a fight.
** Later they do this again, leaving some weak and/or injured party members in a reasonably secure location. This is less foolish than it sounds- the secure location is [[spoiler: Gin's observation room, so they will be able to tell if someone is coming towards them]] and they would never have survived another fight, so leaving them behind prevented them from developing into TheLoad. [[spoiler: Also, they might be able to alert the main group if Aizen is nearby, since Sora has never seen his shikai and could not be fooled by his illusions.]]
* LightEmUp: Hoshibana has this as his shikai power.
* LoveAtFirstPunch: Well, not exactly love, but Grimmjow definitely seems a lot more interested in [[HandicappedBadass Kuukaku]] after she punches him through a wall.
* MadnessMantra: "Justice. Justice. '''Justice!'''"
* MeaningfulName: Kage ("shadow"), one of the [[{{Ninja}} Onmitsukidou]].
* MentalWorld: Suzumushi's (which may or may not have also been Tousen's) is a seriously weird-looking place.
-->The world was all black and white. There was a white moon in the black sky, and the grass was grey. Or possibly there was a black moon in the white sky, and the grass was a different shade of grey. Her vision slid between the two extremes from one moment to another, and she couldn’t be sure which one was dominant: they both seemed to exist simultaneously, in an optical illusion like those pictures that were both a young woman and a skull at the same time.
* MercyKill: [[spoiler: Kazeshini to Nemu, Byakuya to Rukia. Ikkaku to an unidentified victim of Aizen's experiments. Isshin to Tatsuki (sort of- she was already dead, and he performed konso to get her ghost away from the battle).]]
* MilesToGoBeforeISleep: Ukitake. He has considered a HeroicSacrifice twice- first against [[spoiler:Gin]] and later against [[spoiler: the Barragan fragment]]- the first time it wasn't necessary, and the second Isane talked him out of it.
* MissionControl: An improvised one. When you're deep into enemy territory, it would be a crime not to use enemy equipment.
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: Little Pagally [[SarcasmMode isn't exactly thrilled]] with 'Aizen-sama', Grimmjow doesn't give a damn about him; both betray him to side with first strangers which had been relatively nice to them. Of course, said strangers are [[EnemyMine their natural enemies]], but at least they aren't going to use them as lab rats, sexual slaves or something else just as pleasant and healthy.
* MoralityPet: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed.]] Yes, Gin loved Rangiku; no, that did not make him a good person. He alternates between an obsessive desire to find her and casual malice to everyone and everything in his vicinity. Caring for one person does not make him one whit less nasty to anyone else. He's also in the later stages of VillainousBreakdown, and the combination of short temper, meanness, and eroding sanity... it really isn't safe to be anywhere near the guy.
* MotivationalLie: Yoruichi decides not to tell Ryuuken that she knows for sure his son is dead, judging that his mental state is too precarious for her to inform him during a lull in the battle against Mayuri and Szayel. [[spoiler: Kyorakou tells Byakuya that his memory of killing Rukia [[MindRape is one of Aizen's illusions]], so that he'll stop [[DeathSeeker trying to get himself killed]].]] In both cases, the person lied to is already very fragile mentally, and the liar is trying to keep them steady in a situation where if they aren't, they could easily get themselves and their allies killed.
* MotorMouth: Kaede, TheMedic of the recon squad.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: [[spoiler: Hollow Kira wants to kill Rangiku because Gin is obsessed with her and he’s obsessed with Gin.]]
* MutualKill: During the Fake Karakura Town battle, Hisagi does not intervene in Tousen and Komamura's fight and they kill each other.
* MyFistForgivesYou: Ikkaku to [[spoiler: Yumichika, about Yumichika’s hiding his real shikai.]] Considering [[BloodKnight what they’re both like]], it’s actually kind of moving.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Subverted - several characters keep asking themselves, [[MoralEventHorizon what else]] they are willing to do in next ten minutes in order to try and win an unwinnable fight. Usually they find the answer to this question. Or answer finds them.
** Also played painfully straight by Hisagi and Isane.
* NeverFoundTheBody: Many characters, but most notably Captain Kyouraku. Only time will tell if they’re really dead. [[spoiler: As of Chapter 43, Kyouraku seems to be alive. (Wow.)]]
* NeverLiveItDown: Invoked. Momo worries that she'll never live down her behavior after Aizen's initial betrayal. While her fellow Resistance members trust her now, they originally weren't too sure about her- and a large part of the reason she's kept in Rukongai with Ukitake rather than being sent on the Seireitei mission is that a lot of people in Seireitei wouldn't trust her.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Aizen [[spoiler: imprisoned Hachi in Seireitei, which allowed him to help fight the Barragan fragment]]. If it hadn't been for that, things might have gone much worse in that particular episode.
* TheNicknamer: Ikkaku, immitating the still-missing Yachiru.
* NonActionGuy: Hanatarou and Kon remain this from canon. Another example is Sora- although he's said to be pretty good for a soon-to-graduate Academy student, this means very little in the situations he ends up in, and the other characters do their best to protect him when things get dangerous.
* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: Isane refuses to let [[spoiler: Ukitake]] sacrifice himself [[spoiler: in the hopes of controlling the Barragan Fragment.]]
* NotInThisForYourRevolution: Grimmjow. He doesn’t care about either side- he just wants to regain his strength after [[spoiler: Orihime rejects his Hollow nature.]]
* NotSoDifferent: Even though Grimmjow joins up with LaResistance out of convenience (see above), he gets on with and is remarkably similar to the former Eleventh Division members.
** Urahara fully realizes that he and Kurotsuchi Mayuri are NotSoDifferent in their obsessive search for knowledge for its own sake- and concludes that the only thing holding him back from Mayuri's worse excesses is that he likes people and wants them to like him back.
* NowYouTellMe: Urahara manages to tell his team that he took a few liberties with his part of operation plans just minutes before said liberties start to fall right on their heads (some of them literally). Cue reaction:
--> "You 'may possibly' have made a ''mistake''? <...> There's no 'may possibly' about it, Kisuke!"
* OCStandIn: Shirogane and Ogidou are canon characters, but appeared only in the omakes- and not many of those, either. The fic therefore makes up a lot about them- particularly Ogidou, who goes from a rather forgettable member of the Fourth Division to a scary DeadlyDoctor who creeps out most of his allies.
* OddFriendship: Ikkaku and Momo.
* OhMyGods: Hoshibana swears by the King of Heaven in a moment of great stress [[spoiler: when he reports that Aizen is headed towards the main Hueco Mundo party with two Vasto Lordes.]]
* OmnicidalManiac: Aizen has set events in motion that will, if left unchecked, lead to the destruction of Soul Society, Hueco Mundo, and the living world. The protagonists don't know his motivation, but their speculations about the matter are in line with this trope.
--> Isshin: He’s actually so arrogant that he would just-- No. Unless he’s gone completely insane, he’d have to realize what was happening. He’s smarter than that.
--> Ryuuken: Unless it’s on purpose. Perhaps he wants this. Wants to see it all fall apart.
* OnlyAFleshWound: Averted early on, when [[spoiler: Ito]] dies by bleeding out from a wound sustained a little earlier in the fight.
* OnlyTheKnowledgableMayPass: While meeting in an occupied Seireitei, Soi Fong and one of her Onmitsukidou use lines from a Tang Chinese poem as a password, switching off in the middle of lines and then skipping to the end. While someone sufficiently learned might know the poem, they probably wouldn't know when to switch off, or recognize what was going on based on the first phrase. (The authors provide a link to the whole thing, since Soi Fong and Kage only use the first two and last two lines: [[http://www.chinese-poems.com/d26.html Facing Snow, by Du Fu]].)
--> Kage: After battle...
--> Soi Fong: Many new ghosts cry. The solitary old man...
--> Kage: ...worries and grieves. (''Pause'') To many places, communication is lost. I sit straight at my desk but cannot read my books for grief.
* PetTheDog: Ikkaku and Grimmjow comforting [[spoiler: Hanatarou]] (genuinely - and it ''did'' work).
* PhlebotinumOverload: [[spoiler:Yumichika absorbing Ulquiorra's power healed him, but it left him physically and mentally unstable. Rather than face [[PhlebotinumBreakdown those consequences]], he purged every ounce of his energy to help Ikkaku land a fatal blow on Yammi, [[Main/HeroicSacrifice killing all three of them.]]]]
* PlayingPossum: [[spoiler: Iba]] does this during attack on the mansion to get close enough to the [[spoiler: main body of Rudobon]] to kill it.
* PlayingWithSyringes: Aizen, Mayuri, and Szayel are engaging in this, the latter two in direct competition with each other.
* PoisonedWeapons: [[spoiler: At Isane's suggestion, Ukitake and Soi Fong coat the tips of their zanpakutous with the Barragan fragment's blood, which has the effect of "decaying" its slow-things-down power and allows them to kill it. Unfortunately, in this case the "poison" is so corrosive that it also eats away at the zanpakutous while they're fighting.]]
* PowerIncontinence: Barragan's power can also "decay" the barrier between a Visored and their Inner Hollow. Mashiro has periods of normalcy, but she loses control of her transformation without warning despite having a PowerLimiter. Rose is in even worse state, and is apparently stuck in the transformed/out of control state all the time.
* PrecisionFStrike: The polite and formal Hoshibana Akira (third seat of Sixth division since before Byakuya became captain), while defending his division-mate Rikichi's motives for a particularly foolish action:
-->Hoshibana: "The Eleventh Division may have its code of honor, but the Sixth has its own, and I would dare to say that while I have come to some understanding of yours over the past few months, my friend, I can safely say you know ''shit'' about ours."
** There's also the very formal Sasakibe in Chapter 6, warning Grimmjow not to provoke Ikkaku:
-->Sasakibe: ""At your present strength, he could put your spine through your skull, Jaegerjaques. Stop fucking around."
** Yoruichi gives a mental one after she realizes that [[spoiler: Szayel- of whom she knows just enough to be sure that he's very bad news- is in Karakura]].
* PrettySpryForADeadGuy: An odd example. LaResistance - and the reader - know all along that Rangiku is dead, [[TheDragon Gin]] refuses to believe it, [[spoiler: and LaResistance takes full advantage of that refusal.]]
* PsychopathicManChild / TheUnfettered: All Hollowfied shinigami who had the dubious luck of surviving the process and not having been broken into mindless beasts by it are the mixture of this (with varying proportions). They are very simple-minded and often childish (just look at [[spoiler: Kira]]'s POV), perfectly obedient to orders of whatever master they have, regardless of how much of messy killing said orders involve; and, to add insult to injury, their personalities are reduced and condensed to whatever had been their greatest passion/desire in their previous lives (and, naturally, stripped of everything else). [[TearJerker Not pretty]].
* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler: Gin. He survives Takano blowing up the library with him inside, a sword wound from Shirogane, and and clings to life after being hit by Hinamori's fireball reflected and magnified by Ukitake's shikai, just long enough to release the Barragan fragment on his enemies, killing himself in the process.]]
* RazorWings: Pagally's Resureccion gives her these.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Nanao delivers a very effective one to [[spoiler: Suzumushi]], both pointing out her past failures and explaining exactly why her current scheme [[spoiler: to [[DemonicPossession take over Nanao's body]]]] would not work.
-->Nanao: Let me be entirely frank, [[spoiler: Suzumushi]]. You're incompetent.
** Gin throws one into Hinamori's face. [[EvilIsPetty Just because he feels like that]].
* RebelLeader: Ukitake, although he subverts most of the particulars, such as by being seriously injured, not yet- if ever- recovered, and consequently sidelined from most of the fighting. At one point, when setting up a first meeting with someone who doesn't know much about the Gotei 13's upper ranks, he has Sasakibe do the talking and listens from behind a screen (along with most of his lieutenants) because he knows he would give the wrong impression.
* RedOniBlueOni: Ikkaku (red) and Nanao (blue), the co-leaders of the Hueco Mundo mission.
* ReplacementScrappy: In-story, Karin regards Kon as this, resenting him for taking Ichigo's place. Also, she's worried about Ichigo but because everyone else (as far as she knows) accepts Kon as Ichigo, she can't talk about it openly. Naturally, her resentment of that situation spills over to her reactions to Kon. It doesn't particularly help that Ichigo [[LockedOutOfTheLoop didn't tell her]] that he was going to go off and leave someone else to inhabit his body while he was gone. [[invoked]]
* RePower: [[spoiler: Jirobou Ikkanzaka, Jidanbou’s little brother, who lost his powers to Ishida in canon]] voluntarily underwent hollowfication to gain new abilities. There's also [[spoiler: Grimmjow, who loses his hollow powers when Orihime "purifies" him and gains shinigami ones instead.]]
* ReverseMole: [[spoiler: Hisagi]]. He’s been there a while, and it’s worn on him to the extent where he can barely function. Eventually, [[spoiler: his EmpathicWeapon has to take over his body to keep him alive.]]
* SacrificialLion / TooCoolToLive: [[spoiler: Takano Dan]], despite being an OC. He gets a lot of characterization- including two POV segments and a more detailed backstory than ''any'' of the other [=OCs=]- and his death is one of the first as the Rukongai fight starts.
* SanitySlippage: In the first Oririme's POV it's basically "holding the last shreds of sanity together with sheer willpower". This being [[CloudCuckooLander Orihime]], she imagines herself and people around her as a cartoonish robots/magical girls/whatever when under particularly heavy stress, loves Ulquiorra's company [[StockholmSyndrome because he did her no harm so far]], and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick constantly reminds herself that she can't, and won't, contemplate suicide]].
** Hisagi, when we first meet him, is [[HeroicBSOD emotionally numb]], has growing problems with keeping track of time, and suffers from memory lapses. It gets more and more complicated after that.
** Lisa [[spoiler: and Love]] has to watch Gin undergoing SanitySlippage process in real-time mode. All while being interrogated by him.
* SayItWithHearts: Invoked in one of Ikkaku's early POV sections:
-->He was vaguely aware of Peaches piping up cheerfully that he should wait for Rikichi and the two of them could catch up later. He could almost ''hear'' a little heart at the end of the sentence.
-->Then she did him proud by screeching at the others like the little harpy he knew she was, telling them to ''go go go you lazy maggots now now now!''
* SenselessSacrifice: Subverted when Rikichi [[spoiler: runs away to be caught by Gin's people and serve as 'unvoluntary' source of information about Rangiku 'being alive']] - it ''might'' even have worked... but most likely it would've ended as a disaster for the whole Resistance instead (and fortunately he was stopped before he could do it anyway). Played straight (bordering on StupidSacrifice) with [[spoiler: Suzuki, who, against direct orders from Shirogane, breaks the retreat and faces twenty or so Arrancars alone, just because she cannot leave Iba's 'dead body' to their mercy. She is almost instantly overwhelmed and killed. And NotQuiteDead Iba [[TearJerker has to watch, unable to do anything to save her]].]]
* SheatheYourSword: When the Hueco Mundo group confronts [[spoiler: a hollowfied Renji]], some of them move to attack... until [[spoiler: Byakuya]] realizes what's going on and orders them to stand down, and a fight is avoided.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Kon claims that he and Mashiro are "just friends." Kensei is not convinced.
** On a much grimmer note, there's also this exchange, [[spoiler: after Grimmjow, Kazeshini-controlling-Hisagi, and Hanatarou discover Nemu Prime]]:
-->Grimmjow: You’re in a mood to fight. Was she your woman, or something?
-->Hisagi[[note]]that is, Kazeshini[[/note]]: No. Not her. [[spoiler: It’s just – some things are monstrous. Even by your standards, maybe.]]
* ShellShockedVeteran: Technically, no one: the war's not over yet, so the "veteran" part doesn't quite apply. The "shell-shocked" part ''does'': Hisagi is probably the most extreme example, but he's not the only one. Assuming anyone survives at all, some of them will definitely be [[ShellShockedVeteran Shell-Shocked Veterans]].
* ShootEverythingThatMoves: [[spoiler: Ishida Ryuuken]] during the assault on Karakura.
* SirSwearsALot: Grimmjow, Ikkaku, and Kazeshini are all notably more foul-mouthed than the rest of the cast.
* SnowMeansDeath: With that snowy Karakura winter, this was bound to happen. After [[spoiler: Ryuuken's]] death, snow covers his body and the signs of his last battle.
* SpitefulSpit: Ikkaku spits on the floor when mentioning that Gin's forces refer to him as soutaichou. Kuukaku agrees with the sentiment, but tells him not to do it in her house.
* SplitPersonalityTakeover: [[spoiler: Ichigo's Hollow]] takes over his body and becomes arguably the most powerful of Aizen's army. [[spoiler: It's reversible, but only via Orihime's RealityWarper powers.]]
* SpotOfTea: One of the few things Aizen and LaResistance can be said to share is a fondness for tea. Almost all moments of leisure, civility, or pre-mission planning include tea. Isane even brews one last pot before a battle starts.
--> Isane: There's always time for tea.
* TheSquad: The recon squad, led by Ikkaku, which has been carrying out missions and drawing fire away from the Resistance's actual bases ever since this war started. It's actually dissolved very early in the fic, and functions largely to (re)establish several characters, including [[OriginalCharacter OCs]] like Hoshibana and Takano, [[AscendedExtra Ascended Extras]] like Ogidou, Shirogane, and Rikichi, and this fic's drastically changed versions of Hinamori and Ikkaku himself.
* TheSquadette: Three of them in the recon squad itself- Hinamori, [[TheMedic Kaede]], and [[IaijutsuPractitioner Shirogane]], and more in the rest of LaResistance.
* StepfordSmiler: Ogidou. Moved from Type B to the nice, clear Type C. [[spoiler: And the attitude is exactly what gets him killed eventually.]]
* StormingTheCastle: Since Seireitei is occupied by Aizen's forces, retaking it is of course a goal of the resistance. [[spoiler: Now accomplished by Soi Fong, Kuukaku, Sasakibe, Chad, the remaining [[{{Ninja}} Onmitsukidou]] and the gathered forces of the noble clans.]]
* SternTeacher: Kuukaku has this attitude towards the shinigami students at her base.
* StuffBlowingUp: Kuukaku makes explosives which she and the other members of LaResistance use in battle.
* SwitchingPOV: The third-person limited POV varies between ''35 characters'' as of Chapter 43. (Granted, some narrators reappear much more frequently than others- Nanao and Ukitake particularly- and some only get sections in ensemble chapters.)
* SymbioticPossession: [[spoiler: Kazeshini and Hisagi, eventually. It starts out with Kazeshini taking over Hisagi's body periodically to save both their lives, but without his knowledge or consent. After Hisagi finds out and they reach an accord of sorts, Hisagi lets Kazeshini possess him in battle because, unlike him, Kazeshini can tell where Kyouka Suigetsu is even when Aizen is using his powers.]]
* TakeThat: Intended or not, chapter 31 features the following gem:
-->Orihime's POV: (S)ometimes the princess had to save the dragon, and sometimes she had to save the prince as well, and sometimes the princess and the dragon and the knight all teamed up together and [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall went to argue with the person who’d written the story and complain about how they never got anything interesting and new to do.]]
* TakeUpMySword: Tousen literally took up his friend’s [[EmpathicWeapon zanpakutou]] after her murder, using her powers to pursue her goals and avenge her death. [[spoiler: After Tousen’s death (which she blames on Aizen's betrayal), Suzumushi actively tries to get Nanao to “take her up”... by attempting to [[DemonicPossession possess her]]. She fails, and Nanao persuades Suzumushi to give her access to Tousen’s bankai for their one common goal: "justice" in the form of Aizen Sousuke's death.]]
* TakingYouWithMe: Ukitake considers doing this to kill Gin, but as it turns out [[spoiler: Gin unleashes a weapon of mass destruction based on Barragan’s BattleAura when Ukitake and company have defeated him.]] It’s pretty clear that [[spoiler: Gin]] was already dying- he was just too vindictive to leave it at that.
* TalkingWeapon: Kazeshini, who keeps up a running commentary/response to his wielder Hisagi's thoughts. All [[EmpathicWeapon zanpakutou]] ''can'' talk to their wielders, but most of the others in the fic are relatively quiet. Kazeshini is noted as having gotten much more talkative since Hisagi's move to Hueco Mundo, probably due to his [[HeroicBSOD mental state]].
** [[spoiler: Pantera]] is becoming this as of the latest chapters. [[spoiler: And now Suzumushi is talking to Nanao, who isn't even her wielder...]]
* ThereWasADoor: Averted (mostly) by Harribel, who actually enters through the door to [[spoiler: Hisagi's]] quarters, although the door does not survive the experience. Others in Hueco Mundo play this trope straight (and over the top), including [[spoiler: Ichigo]], who destroys a whole wall to get into the room the shinigami party is in.
* TheUnintelligible: [[TearJerker See "Tortured Abomination."]]
* ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself: It is understood that Ikkaku will fight [[spoiler: Yumichika]] alone, despite the fact that the fic usually avoids one-on-one duels. (By the time it actually happens, everyone else is busy fighting another opponent, so Ikkaku’s personal fight actually makes their lives easier by removing the second antagonist.)
* [[spoiler:TogetherInDeath]]: Implied with Ikkaku and [[spoiler:Yumichika]], since they talk about fighting.
* TookALevelInBadass: Hinamori. Mostly it’s an attitude change rather than an actual increase in power, though.
* TorsoWithAView: Pagally and [[spoiler: the hollowfied Kira and Rukia]] have their Hollow holes in their chests.
* TorturedMonster: Hollowfied Shinigami. Special mention goes to [[spoiler: Hitsugaya]], who got broken so badly that he's left as a [[spoiler: "jumble of icy wings and cruel claws" that can't even talk, [[TheBlank nor does he have a face.]] Momo]] [[TearJerker was not amused.]]
** And now we have [[spoiler: Renji, described as a hodge-podge creature seemingly composed of patchworks of fur, scales, and bare muscle, with a half-flesh/half-skull "face."]] Oh, and apparently [[spoiler: his]] every movement makes it look like [[spoiler: he's]] in pain. [[spoiler: Byakuya]] only recognizes [[spoiler: him]] because [[spoiler: he already killed a Hollowfied Rukia]].
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Gin's fondness for dried persimmons is so well known that Ikkaku is able to identify Gin's [[spoiler: spyroom]] because he left a bowl of them there.
* TragicKeepsake: Rangiku's necklace for Momo, Yumichika's scarf for Ikkaku. At first. [[spoiler: The necklace ends up being a key element in the Rangiku impersonation scheme... and as for the scarf, well, Yumichika's alive, so it's no longer tragic. [[AnyoneCanDie For now, anyway]].]]
* TrustPassword: After being imprisoned by [[MasterOfIllusion Aizen]] for several months, [[spoiler: Kyorakou]] refuses to believe that his rescuers are who they appear to be. They convince him by [[spoiler: returning his zanpakutou, which Lisa had been carrying.]]
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: "Ichimaru-soutaichou's" rule in Seireitei.
* VillainousBreakdown: Gin is noticeably less stable than in the series proper, and he gets much, much worse when he realises [[spoiler: that Rangiku really is dead and her apparent survival was a ruse by the resistance.]]
* WarFic: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Of course.]]
* WarIsHell: This fic is ''not'' shy about the physical and mental costs of fighting a near-hopeless war. People die- not just in HeroicSacrifices, but in foolish ones, or just because they're not good enough fighters for the situation they're in- or even just from sheer bad luck. Those captured by the enemy are tortured and experimented on with very few exceptions. And even the survivors- even the ones who are alive and still trying to fight- are worn down by everything that's happened. Ukitake, Iba, and Soi Fong may be [[HandicappedBadass Handicapped Badasses]], but their injuries have a very real cost, in day to day life as well as in battle. And the psychological costs of the war are just as stark. [[BreakTheCutie Orihime]], [[MilesToGoBeforeISleep Ukitake,]] [[spoiler: ReverseMole Hisagi]] and many others who've lost friends or [[DirtyBusiness done things they're not proud of]] are soldiering on for now- but some of them have come perilously close to breaking, and even assuming a given person makes it through the war, that doesn't mean they'll be all right.
* WhatWouldXDo: Iba considers and rejects Komamura, Zaraki, Ikkaku, Yumichika, and Renji’s probable solutions to a problem, before finding the right person to “ask”: his mom, former Vice-Captain of Third Division Iba Chikane. Who then “tells” him exactly what to do... and follows up by [[IWantGrandkids wanting to know how long it’ll be until he gets married and gives her some grandkids]].
* WhamLine: Many of the reveals of [[spoiler: the Hollowfied shinigami]] come under this.
--> ''He'd found [[spoiler: Hitsugaya-taichou]], but he'd been turned Hollow and was on Gin's leash''
--> [[spoiler:'''Byakuya:''']] ''It seems you are all fools and blind. [[spoiler: Renji.]]''
** There's also this one, somewhat later:
--> ''Not sure yet... there seem to be two Vastolorde heading in your direction. One matches the description we received of... Oh. King of Heaven...'' [[spoiler: ''Aizen's with them.'']]
* WhatTheHellHero: Ikkaku delivers one to Ichigo/his hollow, crossed over with IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight. Basically, his idea of getting Ichigo to retake control of his body is to spell out to him exactly what he allowed to happen to his friends by losing it in the first place.
** Katen Kyokoutsu also delivers one to Kazeshini, regarding [[spoiler: him taking over Hisagi's body, as well as their general failure to work together.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: Yes, Aizen would. He would also [[spoiler: imprison them, torture them, and/or [[BrainwashedAndCrazy force them to serve him]] by turning them into entries under the TorturedMonster section.]] Note that [[Really700YearsOld given his age]], a majority of the cast [[FridgeHorror can be listed under the "child" section.]]
* WorldBuilding: The role and abilities of zanpakutou are expanded on in some very interesting ways.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Pagally, Hisagi's fraccion, has lavender hair.
* YouHaveFailedMe: Aizen and Gin just ''love'' this, each in his own way. Sometimes it [[TheDogBitesBack backfires]].
** One example of how badly they react when their soldiers piss them off: Barragan ran a bit amuck in the Karakura battle, killing someone Aizen would have much preferred to capture. In Lisa's POV chapter, Gin offhandedly mentions that Aizen ''really'' wasn't happy about that. Next we hear of Barragan? [[spoiler: He's been reduced to "a shade"- a fragment Gin releases, that blindly seeks to devour the strongest reiatsu signature it can find. It ultimately regains a humanoid form, but never acts with intelligence or personality.]]
* YouShallNotPass: [[spoiler: Ikkaku, Yumichika, and Lisa separate from the rest of the group to take on Yammi and Ulquiorra while the rest of their group face Aizen.]] They're not sacrificing themselves to allow the others to escape, though- they're just keeping the enemy's reinforcements from arriving until the main battle is over. Winning their fight, or ''anyone's'' survival, is secondary.
* ZeroApprovalGambit: [[spoiler: Hisagi]] sets one in motion by orders of his superiors, 'betraying' Soul Society to gain a potential chance to save it later (and a less-than-potential chance to be executed for war crimes anyway if that even succeeds).
* ICannotSelfTerminate: [[spoiler: Poor, poor Nemu...]]
** [[spoiler: Senbonzakura, observed by Kazeshini as he keeps trying and failing to kill himself.]]
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: The chapters titles are of the format "[POV character]: [Title]", or "Ensemble: [Title]" for most of the chapters with multiple narrators. (Chapter 13 is "Karakura: Waiting" along the same principle.)
* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: [[spoiler: [[ReverseMole Hisagi]]]] thinks that this is what Aizen intends with Pagally; it turns out that he is actually giving him a Fraccion. [[spoiler: He was willing to go through with it - which shows just how messed up he was after a large amount of time undercover.]]
* IfWeGetThroughThis: When she gets home, Lisa plans to wear her Hueco Mundo uniform boots to every club in Roppongi, then burn them and every other white article of clothing she owns.
** Kaede, Hinamori, and Shirogane promise to get a proper revenge later for Iba and Rikichi's attempt to spy on their attempts to give Shirogane a convincing imitation of Rangiku's build. [[spoiler: Shirogane then dies in battle against Gin.]]
* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Several shinigami try this on [[spoiler: Ichigo]]. [[spoiler: Orihime's]] [[RealityWarper method]] works better.
** Doubly subverted by Hinamori. ''Twice.'' She intends to try this on [[spoiler: Kira]] and [[spoiler: Hitsugaya]]. Both times she gives up almost immediately, because it doesn't (and couldn't) work... and THEN it works - in a way which leaves her desperately wishing it wouldn't (especially the second time).
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: This is how [[spoiler: Aizen]] finally dies, at the hands of [[spoiler: Ichigo.]]
* ImprovisedWeapon: [[spoiler: Karin]] kills several hollows with [[spoiler: ''a soccer ball''.]]
* InMediasRes: When the story begins, the Winter War is already long lost. Then we are told (along with present-time events), piece by piece, just how exactly it was lost. And then plot splits into four subplots, giving us a multidimensional timeline. And who knows what else authors have in store...
* {{Irony}}: LaResistance are (among other things) rescuing Orihime and her rescue party, invading the Seireitei, and practicing [[CombatPragmatist Combat Pragmatism]]. Then there's the repeated role reversals...
* ItsPersonal: The fight against [[spoiler: the Barragan fragment]] contains both a subversion and an example. [[spoiler: Soi Fong plays it straight against the remains of the enemy who cost her her arm and killed her lieutenant. Hachi subverts the trope, because he doesn't want to waste the special strategies he thought up for fighting Barragan- who killed two of his friends- on a mere "shade". And the fight against Szayel becomes personal for Ryuuken when Szayel reveals that he killed Ryuuken's son.]]
* ItsQuietTooQuiet: [[spoiler: Hisagi]] [[YouJustHadToSayIt says it aloud]] right after LetsSplitUpGang - the result is equally spectacular and predictable.
* IWantGrandkids: Iba Tetsuzaemon's mother, Iba Chikane, really wants him to get married and have kids, if his imagined version of her in his "WhatWouldXDo" moment is anything to go by. He promises his mental version of her to "get married within the year, or the decade, or the century at the very most, assuming that he survived the next ten minutes".
* IWillFindYou: Several characters are motivated by a desire to find their captured/MIA friends, or at least find out what happened to them. [[ItsPersonal This is why]] two of the top people in the resistance go to Hueco Mundo. Subverted, in that both of these two people know that their friends may be BrainwashedAndCrazy [[FateWorseThanDeath or worse]], and at least one of them goes in intending to kill said friend (who he knows by then is either BrainwashedAndCrazy or an actual traitor).
* KickedUpstairs: Aizen got rid of traumatized and crazed (and thus uncontrollable) Gin... by giving him the whole Seireitei to play with.
* KilledByTheAdaptation: List in progress: Yamamoto, Oomaeda, Komamura, Hitsugaya, Matsumoto, Kenpachi, Kiyone, Uryuu, Shinji, Hiyori, [[spoiler: Rukia, Kira, Love, Ogidou and Shirogane (yeah they’re canon), Harribel, Nemu, Tatsuki, Ryuuken, Ikkaku and Yumichika, Aizen.]]
* LaResistance: Led by Ukitake, the loyal remnants of the Gotei 13 have spent the last months fighting Ichimaru and his collaborators from hiding.
* LateArrivalSpoiler: A stealthy one. The chapters are usually marked with POV character- "Nanao: Winter", etc. With the exception of the second chapter occurring well before the first, they seem to be in more or less sequential order. A chapter is headed with [[spoiler: Byakuya's]] name... several chapters after another POV character remembered witnessing [[spoiler: his]] death. If you happen to read the chapter titles before the fic, you will probably assume that the character is alive, even though [[spoiler: his]] survival is a big surprise in context.
* LesCollaborateurs: Gotei-13 is following orders of 'Ichimaru-sotaichou' at the beginning of the fic. One can only wonder what those orders actually are, because we know for sure they don't involve ''anything'' of common shinigami duties. Large part of Seireitei nobility also qualifies.
* LeeroyJenkins: Grimmjow will abandon whatever he is supposed to be doing if he suspects there is a fight available elsewhere. Ikkaku [[spoiler: and Yumichika]] are able to resist the urge, due to CharacterDevelopment.
* LetsSplitUpGang: The Hueco Mundo party does this at one point, but they do it reasonably sensibly- no one goes off by themselves, each group has at least one powerful fighter, and all remain close enough to each other to hear the noise if there's a fight.
** Later they do this again, leaving some weak and/or injured party members in a reasonably secure location. This is less foolish than it sounds- the secure location is [[spoiler: Gin's observation room, so they will be able to tell if someone is coming towards them]] and they would never have survived another fight, so leaving them behind prevented them from developing into TheLoad. [[spoiler: Also, they might be able to alert the main group if Aizen is nearby, since Sora has never seen his shikai and could not be fooled by his illusions.]]
* LightEmUp: Hoshibana has this as his shikai power.
* LoveAtFirstPunch: Well, not exactly love, but Grimmjow definitely seems a lot more interested in [[HandicappedBadass Kuukaku]] after she punches him through a wall.
* MadnessMantra: "Justice. Justice. '''Justice!'''"
* MeaningfulName: Kage ("shadow"), one of the [[{{Ninja}} Onmitsukidou]].
* MentalWorld: Suzumushi's (which may or may not have also been Tousen's) is a seriously weird-looking place.
-->The world was all black and white. There was a white moon in the black sky, and the grass was grey. Or possibly there was a black moon in the white sky, and the grass was a different shade of grey. Her vision slid between the two extremes from one moment to another, and she couldn’t be sure which one was dominant: they both seemed to exist simultaneously, in an optical illusion like those pictures that were both a young woman and a skull at the same time.
* MercyKill: [[spoiler: Kazeshini to Nemu, Byakuya to Rukia. Ikkaku to an unidentified victim of Aizen's experiments. Isshin to Tatsuki (sort of- she was already dead, and he performed konso to get her ghost away from the battle).]]
* MilesToGoBeforeISleep: Ukitake. He has considered a HeroicSacrifice twice- first against [[spoiler:Gin]] and later against [[spoiler: the Barragan fragment]]- the first time it wasn't necessary, and the second Isane talked him out of it.
* MissionControl: An improvised one. When you're deep into enemy territory, it would be a crime not to use enemy equipment.
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: Little Pagally [[SarcasmMode isn't exactly thrilled]] with 'Aizen-sama', Grimmjow doesn't give a damn about him; both betray him to side with first strangers which had been relatively nice to them. Of course, said strangers are [[EnemyMine their natural enemies]], but at least they aren't going to use them as lab rats, sexual slaves or something else just as pleasant and healthy.
* MoralityPet: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed.]] Yes, Gin loved Rangiku; no, that did not make him a good person. He alternates between an obsessive desire to find her and casual malice to everyone and everything in his vicinity. Caring for one person does not make him one whit less nasty to anyone else. He's also in the later stages of VillainousBreakdown, and the combination of short temper, meanness, and eroding sanity... it really isn't safe to be anywhere near the guy.
* MotivationalLie: Yoruichi decides not to tell Ryuuken that she knows for sure his son is dead, judging that his mental state is too precarious for her to inform him during a lull in the battle against Mayuri and Szayel. [[spoiler: Kyorakou tells Byakuya that his memory of killing Rukia [[MindRape is one of Aizen's illusions]], so that he'll stop [[DeathSeeker trying to get himself killed]].]] In both cases, the person lied to is already very fragile mentally, and the liar is trying to keep them steady in a situation where if they aren't, they could easily get themselves and their allies killed.
* MotorMouth: Kaede, TheMedic of the recon squad.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: [[spoiler: Hollow Kira wants to kill Rangiku because Gin is obsessed with her and he’s obsessed with Gin.]]
* MutualKill: During the Fake Karakura Town battle, Hisagi does not intervene in Tousen and Komamura's fight and they kill each other.
* MyFistForgivesYou: Ikkaku to [[spoiler: Yumichika, about Yumichika’s hiding his real shikai.]] Considering [[BloodKnight what they’re both like]], it’s actually kind of moving.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Subverted - several characters keep asking themselves, [[MoralEventHorizon what else]] they are willing to do in next ten minutes in order to try and win an unwinnable fight. Usually they find the answer to this question. Or answer finds them.
** Also played painfully straight by Hisagi and Isane.
* NeverFoundTheBody: Many characters, but most notably Captain Kyouraku. Only time will tell if they’re really dead. [[spoiler: As of Chapter 43, Kyouraku seems to be alive. (Wow.)]]
* NeverLiveItDown: Invoked. Momo worries that she'll never live down her behavior after Aizen's initial betrayal. While her fellow Resistance members trust her now, they originally weren't too sure about her- and a large part of the reason she's kept in Rukongai with Ukitake rather than being sent on the Seireitei mission is that a lot of people in Seireitei wouldn't trust her.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Aizen [[spoiler: imprisoned Hachi in Seireitei, which allowed him to help fight the Barragan fragment]]. If it hadn't been for that, things might have gone much worse in that particular episode.
* TheNicknamer: Ikkaku, immitating the still-missing Yachiru.
* NonActionGuy: Hanatarou and Kon remain this from canon. Another example is Sora- although he's said to be pretty good for a soon-to-graduate Academy student, this means very little in the situations he ends up in, and the other characters do their best to protect him when things get dangerous.
* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: Isane refuses to let [[spoiler: Ukitake]] sacrifice himself [[spoiler: in the hopes of controlling the Barragan Fragment.]]
* NotInThisForYourRevolution: Grimmjow. He doesn’t care about either side- he just wants to regain his strength after [[spoiler: Orihime rejects his Hollow nature.]]
* NotSoDifferent: Even though Grimmjow joins up with LaResistance out of convenience (see above), he gets on with and is remarkably similar to the former Eleventh Division members.
** Urahara fully realizes that he and Kurotsuchi Mayuri are NotSoDifferent in their obsessive search for knowledge for its own sake- and concludes that the only thing holding him back from Mayuri's worse excesses is that he likes people and wants them to like him back.
* NowYouTellMe: Urahara manages to tell his team that he took a few liberties with his part of operation plans just minutes before said liberties start to fall right on their heads (some of them literally). Cue reaction:
--> "You 'may possibly' have made a ''mistake''? <...> There's no 'may possibly' about it, Kisuke!"
* OCStandIn: Shirogane and Ogidou are canon characters, but appeared only in the omakes- and not many of those, either. The fic therefore makes up a lot about them- particularly Ogidou, who goes from a rather forgettable member of the Fourth Division to a scary DeadlyDoctor who creeps out most of his allies.
* OddFriendship: Ikkaku and Momo.
* OhMyGods: Hoshibana swears by the King of Heaven in a moment of great stress [[spoiler: when he reports that Aizen is headed towards the main Hueco Mundo party with two Vasto Lordes.]]
* OmnicidalManiac: Aizen has set events in motion that will, if left unchecked, lead to the destruction of Soul Society, Hueco Mundo, and the living world. The protagonists don't know his motivation, but their speculations about the matter are in line with this trope.
--> Isshin: He’s actually so arrogant that he would just-- No. Unless he’s gone completely insane, he’d have to realize what was happening. He’s smarter than that.
--> Ryuuken: Unless it’s on purpose. Perhaps he wants this. Wants to see it all fall apart.
* OnlyAFleshWound: Averted early on, when [[spoiler: Ito]] dies by bleeding out from a wound sustained a little earlier in the fight.
* OnlyTheKnowledgableMayPass: While meeting in an occupied Seireitei, Soi Fong and one of her Onmitsukidou use lines from a Tang Chinese poem as a password, switching off in the middle of lines and then skipping to the end. While someone sufficiently learned might know the poem, they probably wouldn't know when to switch off, or recognize what was going on based on the first phrase. (The authors provide a link to the whole thing, since Soi Fong and Kage only use the first two and last two lines: [[http://www.chinese-poems.com/d26.html Facing Snow, by Du Fu]].)
--> Kage: After battle...
--> Soi Fong: Many new ghosts cry. The solitary old man...
--> Kage: ...worries and grieves. (''Pause'') To many places, communication is lost. I sit straight at my desk but cannot read my books for grief.
* PetTheDog: Ikkaku and Grimmjow comforting [[spoiler: Hanatarou]] (genuinely - and it ''did'' work).
* PhlebotinumOverload: [[spoiler:Yumichika absorbing Ulquiorra's power healed him, but it left him physically and mentally unstable. Rather than face [[PhlebotinumBreakdown those consequences]], he purged every ounce of his energy to help Ikkaku land a fatal blow on Yammi, [[Main/HeroicSacrifice killing all three of them.]]]]
* PlayingPossum: [[spoiler: Iba]] does this during attack on the mansion to get close enough to the [[spoiler: main body of Rudobon]] to kill it.
* PlayingWithSyringes: Aizen, Mayuri, and Szayel are engaging in this, the latter two in direct competition with each other.
* PoisonedWeapons: [[spoiler: At Isane's suggestion, Ukitake and Soi Fong coat the tips of their zanpakutous with the Barragan fragment's blood, which has the effect of "decaying" its slow-things-down power and allows them to kill it. Unfortunately, in this case the "poison" is so corrosive that it also eats away at the zanpakutous while they're fighting.]]
* PowerIncontinence: Barragan's power can also "decay" the barrier between a Visored and their Inner Hollow. Mashiro has periods of normalcy, but she loses control of her transformation without warning despite having a PowerLimiter. Rose is in even worse state, and is apparently stuck in the transformed/out of control state all the time.
* PrecisionFStrike: The polite and formal Hoshibana Akira (third seat of Sixth division since before Byakuya became captain), while defending his division-mate Rikichi's motives for a particularly foolish action:
-->Hoshibana: "The Eleventh Division may have its code of honor, but the Sixth has its own, and I would dare to say that while I have come to some understanding of yours over the past few months, my friend, I can safely say you know ''shit'' about ours."
** There's also the very formal Sasakibe in Chapter 6, warning Grimmjow not to provoke Ikkaku:
-->Sasakibe: ""At your present strength, he could put your spine through your skull, Jaegerjaques. Stop fucking around."
** Yoruichi gives a mental one after she realizes that [[spoiler: Szayel- of whom she knows just enough to be sure that he's very bad news- is in Karakura]].
* PrettySpryForADeadGuy: An odd example. LaResistance - and the reader - know all along that Rangiku is dead, [[TheDragon Gin]] refuses to believe it, [[spoiler: and LaResistance takes full advantage of that refusal.]]
* PsychopathicManChild / TheUnfettered: All Hollowfied shinigami who had the dubious luck of surviving the process and not having been broken into mindless beasts by it are the mixture of this (with varying proportions). They are very simple-minded and often childish (just look at [[spoiler: Kira]]'s POV), perfectly obedient to orders of whatever master they have, regardless of how much of messy killing said orders involve; and, to add insult to injury, their personalities are reduced and condensed to whatever had been their greatest passion/desire in their previous lives (and, naturally, stripped of everything else). [[TearJerker Not pretty]].
* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler: Gin. He survives Takano blowing up the library with him inside, a sword wound from Shirogane, and and clings to life after being hit by Hinamori's fireball reflected and magnified by Ukitake's shikai, just long enough to release the Barragan fragment on his enemies, killing himself in the process.]]
* RazorWings: Pagally's Resureccion gives her these.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Nanao delivers a very effective one to [[spoiler: Suzumushi]], both pointing out her past failures and explaining exactly why her current scheme [[spoiler: to [[DemonicPossession take over Nanao's body]]]] would not work.
-->Nanao: Let me be entirely frank, [[spoiler: Suzumushi]]. You're incompetent.
** Gin throws one into Hinamori's face. [[EvilIsPetty Just because he feels like that]].
* RebelLeader: Ukitake, although he subverts most of the particulars, such as by being seriously injured, not yet- if ever- recovered, and consequently sidelined from most of the fighting. At one point, when setting up a first meeting with someone who doesn't know much about the Gotei 13's upper ranks, he has Sasakibe do the talking and listens from behind a screen (along with most of his lieutenants) because he knows he would give the wrong impression.
* RedOniBlueOni: Ikkaku (red) and Nanao (blue), the co-leaders of the Hueco Mundo mission.
* ReplacementScrappy: In-story, Karin regards Kon as this, resenting him for taking Ichigo's place. Also, she's worried about Ichigo but because everyone else (as far as she knows) accepts Kon as Ichigo, she can't talk about it openly. Naturally, her resentment of that situation spills over to her reactions to Kon. It doesn't particularly help that Ichigo [[LockedOutOfTheLoop didn't tell her]] that he was going to go off and leave someone else to inhabit his body while he was gone. [[invoked]]
* RePower: [[spoiler: Jirobou Ikkanzaka, Jidanbou’s little brother, who lost his powers to Ishida in canon]] voluntarily underwent hollowfication to gain new abilities. There's also [[spoiler: Grimmjow, who loses his hollow powers when Orihime "purifies" him and gains shinigami ones instead.]]
* ReverseMole: [[spoiler: Hisagi]]. He’s been there a while, and it’s worn on him to the extent where he can barely function. Eventually, [[spoiler: his EmpathicWeapon has to take over his body to keep him alive.]]
* SacrificialLion / TooCoolToLive: [[spoiler: Takano Dan]], despite being an OC. He gets a lot of characterization- including two POV segments and a more detailed backstory than ''any'' of the other [=OCs=]- and his death is one of the first as the Rukongai fight starts.
* SanitySlippage: In the first Oririme's POV it's basically "holding the last shreds of sanity together with sheer willpower". This being [[CloudCuckooLander Orihime]], she imagines herself and people around her as a cartoonish robots/magical girls/whatever when under particularly heavy stress, loves Ulquiorra's company [[StockholmSyndrome because he did her no harm so far]], and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick constantly reminds herself that she can't, and won't, contemplate suicide]].
** Hisagi, when we first meet him, is [[HeroicBSOD emotionally numb]], has growing problems with keeping track of time, and suffers from memory lapses. It gets more and more complicated after that.
** Lisa [[spoiler: and Love]] has to watch Gin undergoing SanitySlippage process in real-time mode. All while being interrogated by him.
* SayItWithHearts: Invoked in one of Ikkaku's early POV sections:
-->He was vaguely aware of Peaches piping up cheerfully that he should wait for Rikichi and the two of them could catch up later. He could almost ''hear'' a little heart at the end of the sentence.
-->Then she did him proud by screeching at the others like the little harpy he knew she was, telling them to ''go go go you lazy maggots now now now!''
* SenselessSacrifice: Subverted when Rikichi [[spoiler: runs away to be caught by Gin's people and serve as 'unvoluntary' source of information about Rangiku 'being alive']] - it ''might'' even have worked... but most likely it would've ended as a disaster for the whole Resistance instead (and fortunately he was stopped before he could do it anyway). Played straight (bordering on StupidSacrifice) with [[spoiler: Suzuki, who, against direct orders from Shirogane, breaks the retreat and faces twenty or so Arrancars alone, just because she cannot leave Iba's 'dead body' to their mercy. She is almost instantly overwhelmed and killed. And NotQuiteDead Iba [[TearJerker has to watch, unable to do anything to save her]].]]
* SheatheYourSword: When the Hueco Mundo group confronts [[spoiler: a hollowfied Renji]], some of them move to attack... until [[spoiler: Byakuya]] realizes what's going on and orders them to stand down, and a fight is avoided.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Kon claims that he and Mashiro are "just friends." Kensei is not convinced.
** On a much grimmer note, there's also this exchange, [[spoiler: after Grimmjow, Kazeshini-controlling-Hisagi, and Hanatarou discover Nemu Prime]]:
-->Grimmjow: You’re in a mood to fight. Was she your woman, or something?
-->Hisagi[[note]]that is, Kazeshini[[/note]]: No. Not her. [[spoiler: It’s just – some things are monstrous. Even by your standards, maybe.]]
* ShellShockedVeteran: Technically, no one: the war's not over yet, so the "veteran" part doesn't quite apply. The "shell-shocked" part ''does'': Hisagi is probably the most extreme example, but he's not the only one. Assuming anyone survives at all, some of them will definitely be [[ShellShockedVeteran Shell-Shocked Veterans]].
* ShootEverythingThatMoves: [[spoiler: Ishida Ryuuken]] during the assault on Karakura.
* SirSwearsALot: Grimmjow, Ikkaku, and Kazeshini are all notably more foul-mouthed than the rest of the cast.
* SnowMeansDeath: With that snowy Karakura winter, this was bound to happen. After [[spoiler: Ryuuken's]] death, snow covers his body and the signs of his last battle.
* SpitefulSpit: Ikkaku spits on the floor when mentioning that Gin's forces refer to him as soutaichou. Kuukaku agrees with the sentiment, but tells him not to do it in her house.
* SplitPersonalityTakeover: [[spoiler: Ichigo's Hollow]] takes over his body and becomes arguably the most powerful of Aizen's army. [[spoiler: It's reversible, but only via Orihime's RealityWarper powers.]]
* SpotOfTea: One of the few things Aizen and LaResistance can be said to share is a fondness for tea. Almost all moments of leisure, civility, or pre-mission planning include tea. Isane even brews one last pot before a battle starts.
--> Isane: There's always time for tea.
* TheSquad: The recon squad, led by Ikkaku, which has been carrying out missions and drawing fire away from the Resistance's actual bases ever since this war started. It's actually dissolved very early in the fic, and functions largely to (re)establish several characters, including [[OriginalCharacter OCs]] like Hoshibana and Takano, [[AscendedExtra Ascended Extras]] like Ogidou, Shirogane, and Rikichi, and this fic's drastically changed versions of Hinamori and Ikkaku himself.
* TheSquadette: Three of them in the recon squad itself- Hinamori, [[TheMedic Kaede]], and [[IaijutsuPractitioner Shirogane]], and more in the rest of LaResistance.
* StepfordSmiler: Ogidou. Moved from Type B to the nice, clear Type C. [[spoiler: And the attitude is exactly what gets him killed eventually.]]
* StormingTheCastle: Since Seireitei is occupied by Aizen's forces, retaking it is of course a goal of the resistance. [[spoiler: Now accomplished by Soi Fong, Kuukaku, Sasakibe, Chad, the remaining [[{{Ninja}} Onmitsukidou]] and the gathered forces of the noble clans.]]
* SternTeacher: Kuukaku has this attitude towards the shinigami students at her base.
* StuffBlowingUp: Kuukaku makes explosives which she and the other members of LaResistance use in battle.
* SwitchingPOV: The third-person limited POV varies between ''35 characters'' as of Chapter 43. (Granted, some narrators reappear much more frequently than others- Nanao and Ukitake particularly- and some only get sections in ensemble chapters.)
* SymbioticPossession: [[spoiler: Kazeshini and Hisagi, eventually. It starts out with Kazeshini taking over Hisagi's body periodically to save both their lives, but without his knowledge or consent. After Hisagi finds out and they reach an accord of sorts, Hisagi lets Kazeshini possess him in battle because, unlike him, Kazeshini can tell where Kyouka Suigetsu is even when Aizen is using his powers.]]
* TakeThat: Intended or not, chapter 31 features the following gem:
-->Orihime's POV: (S)ometimes the princess had to save the dragon, and sometimes she had to save the prince as well, and sometimes the princess and the dragon and the knight all teamed up together and [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall went to argue with the person who’d written the story and complain about how they never got anything interesting and new to do.]]
* TakeUpMySword: Tousen literally took up his friend’s [[EmpathicWeapon zanpakutou]] after her murder, using her powers to pursue her goals and avenge her death. [[spoiler: After Tousen’s death (which she blames on Aizen's betrayal), Suzumushi actively tries to get Nanao to “take her up”... by attempting to [[DemonicPossession possess her]]. She fails, and Nanao persuades Suzumushi to give her access to Tousen’s bankai for their one common goal: "justice" in the form of Aizen Sousuke's death.]]
* TakingYouWithMe: Ukitake considers doing this to kill Gin, but as it turns out [[spoiler: Gin unleashes a weapon of mass destruction based on Barragan’s BattleAura when Ukitake and company have defeated him.]] It’s pretty clear that [[spoiler: Gin]] was already dying- he was just too vindictive to leave it at that.
* TalkingWeapon: Kazeshini, who keeps up a running commentary/response to his wielder Hisagi's thoughts. All [[EmpathicWeapon zanpakutou]] ''can'' talk to their wielders, but most of the others in the fic are relatively quiet. Kazeshini is noted as having gotten much more talkative since Hisagi's move to Hueco Mundo, probably due to his [[HeroicBSOD mental state]].
** [[spoiler: Pantera]] is becoming this as of the latest chapters. [[spoiler: And now Suzumushi is talking to Nanao, who isn't even her wielder...]]
* ThereWasADoor: Averted (mostly) by Harribel, who actually enters through the door to [[spoiler: Hisagi's]] quarters, although the door does not survive the experience. Others in Hueco Mundo play this trope straight (and over the top), including [[spoiler: Ichigo]], who destroys a whole wall to get into the room the shinigami party is in.
* TheUnintelligible: [[TearJerker See "Tortured Abomination."]]
* ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself: It is understood that Ikkaku will fight [[spoiler: Yumichika]] alone, despite the fact that the fic usually avoids one-on-one duels. (By the time it actually happens, everyone else is busy fighting another opponent, so Ikkaku’s personal fight actually makes their lives easier by removing the second antagonist.)
* [[spoiler:TogetherInDeath]]: Implied with Ikkaku and [[spoiler:Yumichika]], since they talk about fighting.
* TookALevelInBadass: Hinamori. Mostly it’s an attitude change rather than an actual increase in power, though.
* TorsoWithAView: Pagally and [[spoiler: the hollowfied Kira and Rukia]] have their Hollow holes in their chests.
* TorturedMonster: Hollowfied Shinigami. Special mention goes to [[spoiler: Hitsugaya]], who got broken so badly that he's left as a [[spoiler: "jumble of icy wings and cruel claws" that can't even talk, [[TheBlank nor does he have a face.]] Momo]] [[TearJerker was not amused.]]
** And now we have [[spoiler: Renji, described as a hodge-podge creature seemingly composed of patchworks of fur, scales, and bare muscle, with a half-flesh/half-skull "face."]] Oh, and apparently [[spoiler: his]] every movement makes it look like [[spoiler: he's]] in pain. [[spoiler: Byakuya]] only recognizes [[spoiler: him]] because [[spoiler: he already killed a Hollowfied Rukia]].
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Gin's fondness for dried persimmons is so well known that Ikkaku is able to identify Gin's [[spoiler: spyroom]] because he left a bowl of them there.
* TragicKeepsake: Rangiku's necklace for Momo, Yumichika's scarf for Ikkaku. At first. [[spoiler: The necklace ends up being a key element in the Rangiku impersonation scheme... and as for the scarf, well, Yumichika's alive, so it's no longer tragic. [[AnyoneCanDie For now, anyway]].]]
* TrustPassword: After being imprisoned by [[MasterOfIllusion Aizen]] for several months, [[spoiler: Kyorakou]] refuses to believe that his rescuers are who they appear to be. They convince him by [[spoiler: returning his zanpakutou, which Lisa had been carrying.]]
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: "Ichimaru-soutaichou's" rule in Seireitei.
* VillainousBreakdown: Gin is noticeably less stable than in the series proper, and he gets much, much worse when he realises [[spoiler: that Rangiku really is dead and her apparent survival was a ruse by the resistance.]]
* WarFic: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Of course.]]
* WarIsHell: This fic is ''not'' shy about the physical and mental costs of fighting a near-hopeless war. People die- not just in HeroicSacrifices, but in foolish ones, or just because they're not good enough fighters for the situation they're in- or even just from sheer bad luck. Those captured by the enemy are tortured and experimented on with very few exceptions. And even the survivors- even the ones who are alive and still trying to fight- are worn down by everything that's happened. Ukitake, Iba, and Soi Fong may be [[HandicappedBadass Handicapped Badasses]], but their injuries have a very real cost, in day to day life as well as in battle. And the psychological costs of the war are just as stark. [[BreakTheCutie Orihime]], [[MilesToGoBeforeISleep Ukitake,]] [[spoiler: ReverseMole Hisagi]] and many others who've lost friends or [[DirtyBusiness done things they're not proud of]] are soldiering on for now- but some of them have come perilously close to breaking, and even assuming a given person makes it through the war, that doesn't mean they'll be all right.
* WhatWouldXDo: Iba considers and rejects Komamura, Zaraki, Ikkaku, Yumichika, and Renji’s probable solutions to a problem, before finding the right person to “ask”: his mom, former Vice-Captain of Third Division Iba Chikane. Who then “tells” him exactly what to do... and follows up by [[IWantGrandkids wanting to know how long it’ll be until he gets married and gives her some grandkids]].
* WhamLine: Many of the reveals of [[spoiler: the Hollowfied shinigami]] come under this.
--> ''He'd found [[spoiler: Hitsugaya-taichou]], but he'd been turned Hollow and was on Gin's leash''
--> [[spoiler:'''Byakuya:''']] ''It seems you are all fools and blind. [[spoiler: Renji.]]''
** There's also this one, somewhat later:
--> ''Not sure yet... there seem to be two Vastolorde heading in your direction. One matches the description we received of... Oh. King of Heaven...'' [[spoiler: ''Aizen's with them.'']]
* WhatTheHellHero: Ikkaku delivers one to Ichigo/his hollow, crossed over with IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight. Basically, his idea of getting Ichigo to retake control of his body is to spell out to him exactly what he allowed to happen to his friends by losing it in the first place.
** Katen Kyokoutsu also delivers one to Kazeshini, regarding [[spoiler: him taking over Hisagi's body, as well as their general failure to work together.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: Yes, Aizen would. He would also [[spoiler: imprison them, torture them, and/or [[BrainwashedAndCrazy force them to serve him]] by turning them into entries under the TorturedMonster section.]] Note that [[Really700YearsOld given his age]], a majority of the cast [[FridgeHorror can be listed under the "child" section.]]
* WorldBuilding: The role and abilities of zanpakutou are expanded on in some very interesting ways.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Pagally, Hisagi's fraccion, has lavender hair.
* YouHaveFailedMe: Aizen and Gin just ''love'' this, each in his own way. Sometimes it [[TheDogBitesBack backfires]].
** One example of how badly they react when their soldiers piss them off: Barragan ran a bit amuck in the Karakura battle, killing someone Aizen would have much preferred to capture. In Lisa's POV chapter, Gin offhandedly mentions that Aizen ''really'' wasn't happy about that. Next we hear of Barragan? [[spoiler: He's been reduced to "a shade"- a fragment Gin releases, that blindly seeks to devour the strongest reiatsu signature it can find. It ultimately regains a humanoid form, but never acts with intelligence or personality.]]
* YouShallNotPass: [[spoiler: Ikkaku, Yumichika, and Lisa separate from the rest of the group to take on Yammi and Ulquiorra while the rest of their group face Aizen.]] They're not sacrificing themselves to allow the others to escape, though- they're just keeping the enemy's reinforcements from arriving until the main battle is over. Winning their fight, or ''anyone's'' survival, is secondary.
* ZeroApprovalGambit: [[spoiler: Hisagi]] sets one in motion by orders of his superiors, 'betraying' Soul Society to gain a potential chance to save it later (and a less-than-potential chance to be executed for war crimes anyway if that even succeeds).
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* ICanStillFight: Ukitake - not Ukitake—not out of pride, but because there’s no other choice. He goes into battle fully expecting to die, and hoping to take Gin with him.
* ICannotSelfTerminate: [[spoiler: Poor,poor Nemu...]]
** [[spoiler: Senbonzakura, observed by Kazeshini as he keeps trying and failing to kill himself.]]
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: The chapters titles are of the format "[POV character]: [Title]", or "Ensemble: [Title]" for most of the chapters with multiple narrators. (Chapter 13 is "Karakura: Waiting" along the same principle.)
* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: [[spoiler: [[ReverseMole Hisagi]]]] thinks that this is what Aizen intends with Pagally; it turns out that he is actually giving him a Fraccion. [[spoiler: He was willing to go through with it - which shows just how messed up he was after a large amount of time undercover.]]
* IfWeGetThroughThis: When she gets home, Lisa plans to wear her Hueco Mundo uniform boots to every club in Roppongi, then burn them and every other white article of clothing she owns.
** Kaede, Hinamori, and Shirogane promise to get a proper revenge later for Iba and Rikichi's attempt to spy on their attempts to give Shirogane a convincing imitation of Rangiku's build. [[spoiler: Shirogane then dies in battle against Gin.]]
* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Several shinigami try this on [[spoiler: Ichigo]]. [[spoiler: Orihime's]] [[RealityWarper method]] works better.
** Doubly subverted by Hinamori. ''Twice.'' She intends to try this on [[spoiler: Kira]] and [[spoiler: Hitsugaya]]. Both times she gives up almost immediately, because it doesn't (and couldn't) work... and THEN it works - in a way which leaves her desperately wishing it wouldn't (especially the second time).
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: This is how [[spoiler: Aizen]] finally dies, at the hands of [[spoiler: Ichigo.]]
* ImprovisedWeapon: [[spoiler: Karin]] kills several hollows with [[spoiler: ''a soccer ball''.]]
* InMediasRes: When the story begins, the Winter War is already long lost. Then we are told (along with present-time events), piece by piece, just how exactly it was lost. And then plot splits into four subplots, giving us a multidimensional timeline. And who knows what else authors have in store...
* {{Irony}}: LaResistance are (among other things) rescuing Orihime and her rescue party, invading the Seireitei, and practicing [[CombatPragmatist Combat Pragmatism]]. Then there's the repeated role reversals...
* ItsPersonal: The fight against [[spoiler: the Barragan fragment]] contains both a subversion and an example. [[spoiler: Soi Fong plays it straight against the remains of the enemy who cost her her arm and killed her lieutenant. Hachi subverts the trope, because he doesn't want to waste the special strategies he thought up for fighting Barragan- who killed two of his friends- on a mere "shade". And the fight against Szayel becomes personal for Ryuuken when Szayel reveals that he killed Ryuuken's son.]]
* ItsQuietTooQuiet: [[spoiler: Hisagi]] [[YouJustHadToSayIt says it aloud]] right after LetsSplitUpGang - the result is equally spectacular and predictable.
* IWantGrandkids: Iba Tetsuzaemon's mother, Iba Chikane, really wants him to get married and have kids, if his imagined version of her in his "WhatWouldXDo" moment is anything to go by. He promises his mental version of her to "get married within the year, or the decade, or the century at the very most, assuming that he survived the next ten minutes".
* IWillFindYou: Several characters are motivated by a desire to find their captured/MIA friends, or at least find out what happened to them. [[ItsPersonal This is why]] two of the top people in the resistance go to Hueco Mundo. Subverted, in that both of these two people know that their friends may be BrainwashedAndCrazy [[FateWorseThanDeath or worse]], and at least one of them goes in intending to kill said friend (who he knows by then is either BrainwashedAndCrazy or an actual traitor).
* KickedUpstairs: Aizen got rid of traumatized and crazed (and thus uncontrollable) Gin... by giving him the whole Seireitei to play with.
* KilledByTheAdaptation: List in progress: Yamamoto, Oomaeda, Komamura, Hitsugaya, Matsumoto, Kenpachi, Kiyone, Uryuu, Shinji, Hiyori, [[spoiler: Rukia, Kira, Love, Ogidou and Shirogane (yeah they’re canon), Harribel, Nemu, Tatsuki, Ryuuken, Ikkaku and Yumichika, Aizen.]]
* LaResistance: Led by Ukitake, the loyal remnants of the Gotei 13 have spent the last months fighting Ichimaru and his collaborators from hiding.
* LateArrivalSpoiler: A stealthy one. The chapters are usually marked with POV character- "Nanao: Winter", etc. With the exception of the second chapter occurring well before the first, they seem to be in more or less sequential order. A chapter is headed with [[spoiler: Byakuya's]] name... several chapters after another POV character remembered witnessing [[spoiler: his]] death. If you happen to read the chapter titles before the fic, you will probably assume that the character is alive, even though [[spoiler: his]] survival is a big surprise in context.
* LesCollaborateurs: Gotei-13 is following orders of 'Ichimaru-sotaichou' at the beginning of the fic. One can only wonder what those orders actually are, because we know for sure they don't involve ''anything'' of common shinigami duties. Large part of Seireitei nobility also qualifies.
* LeeroyJenkins: Grimmjow will abandon whatever he is supposed to be doing if he suspects there is a fight available elsewhere. Ikkaku [[spoiler: and Yumichika]] are able to resist the urge, due to CharacterDevelopment.
* LetsSplitUpGang: The Hueco Mundo party does this at one point, but they do it reasonably sensibly- no one goes off by themselves, each group has at least one powerful fighter, and all remain close enough to each other to hear the noise if there's a fight.
** Later they do this again, leaving some weak and/or injured party members in a reasonably secure location. This is less foolish than it sounds- the secure location is [[spoiler: Gin's observation room, so they will be able to tell if someone is coming towards them]] and they would never have survived another fight, so leaving them behind prevented them from developing into TheLoad. [[spoiler: Also, they might be able to alert the main group if Aizen is nearby, since Sora has never seen his shikai and could not be fooled by his illusions.]]
* LightEmUp: Hoshibana has this as his shikai power.
* LoveAtFirstPunch: Well, not exactly love, but Grimmjow definitely seems a lot more interested in [[HandicappedBadass Kuukaku]] after she punches him through a wall.
* MadnessMantra: "Justice. Justice. '''Justice!'''"
* MeaningfulName: Kage ("shadow"), one of the [[{{Ninja}} Onmitsukidou]].
* MentalWorld: Suzumushi's (which may or may not have also been Tousen's) is a seriously weird-looking place.
-->The world was all black and white. There was a white moon in the black sky, and the grass was grey. Or possibly there was a black moon in the white sky, and the grass was a different shade of grey. Her vision slid between the two extremes from one moment to another, and she couldn’t be sure which one was dominant: they both seemed to exist simultaneously, in an optical illusion like those pictures that were both a young woman and a skull at the same time.
* MercyKill: [[spoiler: Kazeshini to Nemu, Byakuya to Rukia. Ikkaku to an unidentified victim of Aizen's experiments. Isshin to Tatsuki (sort of- she was already dead, and he performed konso to get her ghost away from the battle).]]
* MilesToGoBeforeISleep: Ukitake. He has considered a HeroicSacrifice twice- first against [[spoiler:Gin]] and later against [[spoiler: the Barragan fragment]]- the first time it wasn't necessary, and the second Isane talked him out of it.
* MissionControl: An improvised one. When you're deep into enemy territory, it would be a crime not to use enemy equipment.
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: Little Pagally [[SarcasmMode isn't exactly thrilled]] with 'Aizen-sama', Grimmjow doesn't give a damn about him; both betray him to side with first strangers which had been relatively nice to them. Of course, said strangers are [[EnemyMine their natural enemies]], but at least they aren't going to use them as lab rats, sexual slaves or something else just as pleasant and healthy.
* MoralityPet: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed.]] Yes, Gin loved Rangiku; no, that did not make him a good person. He alternates between an obsessive desire to find her and casual malice to everyone and everything in his vicinity. Caring for one person does not make him one whit less nasty to anyone else. He's also in the later stages of VillainousBreakdown, and the combination of short temper, meanness, and eroding sanity... it really isn't safe to be anywhere near the guy.
* MotivationalLie: Yoruichi decides not to tell Ryuuken that she knows for sure his son is dead, judging that his mental state is too precarious for her to inform him during a lull in the battle against Mayuri and Szayel. [[spoiler: Kyorakou tells Byakuya that his memory of killing Rukia [[MindRape is one of Aizen's illusions]], so that he'll stop [[DeathSeeker trying to get himself killed]].]] In both cases, the person lied to is already very fragile mentally, and the liar is trying to keep them steady in a situation where if they aren't, they could easily get themselves and their allies killed.
* MotorMouth: Kaede, TheMedic of the recon squad.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: [[spoiler: Hollow Kira wants to kill Rangiku because Gin is obsessed with her and he’s obsessed with Gin.]]
* MutualKill: During the Fake Karakura Town battle, Hisagi does not intervene in Tousen and Komamura's fight and they kill each other.
* MyFistForgivesYou: Ikkaku to [[spoiler: Yumichika, about Yumichika’s hiding his real shikai.]] Considering [[BloodKnight what they’re both like]], it’s actually kind of moving.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Subverted - several characters keep asking themselves, [[MoralEventHorizon what else]] they are willing to do in next ten minutes in order to try and win an unwinnable fight. Usually they find the answer to this question. Or answer finds them.
** Also played painfully straight by Hisagi and Isane.
* NeverFoundTheBody: Many characters, but most notably Captain Kyouraku. Only time will tell if they’re really dead. [[spoiler: As of Chapter 43, Kyouraku seems to be alive. (Wow.)]]
* NeverLiveItDown: Invoked. Momo worries that she'll never live down her behavior after Aizen's initial betrayal. While her fellow Resistance members trust her now, they originally weren't too sure about her- and a large part of the reason she's kept in Rukongai with Ukitake rather than being sent on the Seireitei mission is that a lot of people in Seireitei wouldn't trust her.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Aizen [[spoiler: imprisoned Hachi in Seireitei, which allowed him to help fight the Barragan fragment]]. If it hadn't been for that, things might have gone much worse in that particular episode.
* TheNicknamer: Ikkaku, immitating the still-missing Yachiru.
* NonActionGuy: Hanatarou and Kon remain this from canon. Another example is Sora- although he's said to be pretty good for a soon-to-graduate Academy student, this means very little in the situations he ends up in, and the other characters do their best to protect him when things get dangerous.
* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: Isane refuses to let [[spoiler: Ukitake]] sacrifice himself [[spoiler: in the hopes of controlling the Barragan Fragment.]]
* NotInThisForYourRevolution: Grimmjow. He doesn’t care about either side- he just wants to regain his strength after [[spoiler: Orihime rejects his Hollow nature.]]
* NotSoDifferent: Even though Grimmjow joins up with LaResistance out of convenience (see above), he gets on with and is remarkably similar to the former Eleventh Division members.
** Urahara fully realizes that he and Kurotsuchi Mayuri are NotSoDifferent in their obsessive search for knowledge for its own sake- and concludes that the only thing holding him back from Mayuri's worse excesses is that he likes people and wants them to like him back.
* NowYouTellMe: Urahara manages to tell his team that he took a few liberties with his part of operation plans just minutes before said liberties start to fall right on their heads (some of them literally). Cue reaction:
--> "You 'may possibly' have made a ''mistake''? <...> There's no 'may possibly' about it, Kisuke!"
* OCStandIn: Shirogane and Ogidou are canon characters, but appeared only in the omakes- and not many of those, either. The fic therefore makes up a lot about them- particularly Ogidou, who goes from a rather forgettable member of the Fourth Division to a scary DeadlyDoctor who creeps out most of his allies.
* OddFriendship: Ikkaku and Momo.
* OhMyGods: Hoshibana swears by the King of Heaven in a moment of great stress [[spoiler: when he reports that Aizen is headed towards the main Hueco Mundo party with two Vasto Lordes.]]
* OmnicidalManiac: Aizen has set events in motion that will, if left unchecked, lead to the destruction of Soul Society, Hueco Mundo, and the living world. The protagonists don't know his motivation, but their speculations about the matter are in line with this trope.
--> Isshin: He’s actually so arrogant that he would just-- No. Unless he’s gone completely insane, he’d have to realize what was happening. He’s smarter than that.
--> Ryuuken: Unless it’s on purpose. Perhaps he wants this. Wants to see it all fall apart.
* OnlyAFleshWound: Averted early on, when [[spoiler: Ito]] dies by bleeding out from a wound sustained a little earlier in the fight.
* OnlyTheKnowledgableMayPass: While meeting in an occupied Seireitei, Soi Fong and one of her Onmitsukidou use lines from a Tang Chinese poem as a password, switching off in the middle of lines and then skipping to the end. While someone sufficiently learned might know the poem, they probably wouldn't know when to switch off, or recognize what was going on based on the first phrase. (The authors provide a link to the whole thing, since Soi Fong and Kage only use the first two and last two lines: [[http://www.chinese-poems.com/d26.html Facing Snow, by Du Fu]].)
--> Kage: After battle...
--> Soi Fong: Many new ghosts cry. The solitary old man...
--> Kage: ...worries and grieves. (''Pause'') To many places, communication is lost. I sit straight at my desk but cannot read my books for grief.
* PetTheDog: Ikkaku and Grimmjow comforting [[spoiler: Hanatarou]] (genuinely - and it ''did'' work).
* PhlebotinumOverload: [[spoiler:Yumichika absorbing Ulquiorra's power healed him, but it left him physically and mentally unstable. Rather than face [[PhlebotinumBreakdown those consequences]], he purged every ounce of his energy to help Ikkaku land a fatal blow on Yammi, [[Main/HeroicSacrifice killing all three of them.]]]]
* PlayingPossum: [[spoiler: Iba]] does this during attack on the mansion to get close enough to the [[spoiler: main body of Rudobon]] to kill it.
* PlayingWithSyringes: Aizen, Mayuri, and Szayel are engaging in this, the latter two in direct competition with each other.
* PoisonedWeapons: [[spoiler: At Isane's suggestion, Ukitake and Soi Fong coat the tips of their zanpakutous with the Barragan fragment's blood, which has the effect of "decaying" its slow-things-down power and allows them to kill it. Unfortunately, in this case the "poison" is so corrosive that it also eats away at the zanpakutous while they're fighting.]]
* PowerIncontinence: Barragan's power can also "decay" the barrier between a Visored and their Inner Hollow. Mashiro has periods of normalcy, but she loses control of her transformation without warning despite having a PowerLimiter. Rose is in even worse state, and is apparently stuck in the transformed/out of control state all the time.
* PrecisionFStrike: The polite and formal Hoshibana Akira (third seat of Sixth division since before Byakuya became captain), while defending his division-mate Rikichi's motives for a particularly foolish action:
-->Hoshibana: "The Eleventh Division may have its code of honor, but the Sixth has its own, and I would dare to say that while I have come to some understanding of yours over the past few months, my friend, I can safely say you know ''shit'' about ours."
** There's also the very formal Sasakibe in Chapter 6, warning Grimmjow not to provoke Ikkaku:
-->Sasakibe: ""At your present strength, he could put your spine through your skull, Jaegerjaques. Stop fucking around."
** Yoruichi gives a mental one after she realizes that [[spoiler: Szayel- of whom she knows just enough to be sure that he's very bad news- is in Karakura]].
* PrettySpryForADeadGuy: An odd example. LaResistance - and the reader - know all along that Rangiku is dead, [[TheDragon Gin]] refuses to believe it, [[spoiler: and LaResistance takes full advantage of that refusal.]]
* PsychopathicManChild / TheUnfettered: All Hollowfied shinigami who had the dubious luck of surviving the process and not having been broken into mindless beasts by it are the mixture of this (with varying proportions). They are very simple-minded and often childish (just look at [[spoiler: Kira]]'s POV), perfectly obedient to orders of whatever master they have, regardless of how much of messy killing said orders involve; and, to add insult to injury, their personalities are reduced and condensed to whatever had been their greatest passion/desire in their previous lives (and, naturally, stripped of everything else). [[TearJerker Not pretty]].
* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler: Gin. He survives Takano blowing up the library with him inside, a sword wound from Shirogane, and and clings to life after being hit by Hinamori's fireball reflected and magnified by Ukitake's shikai, just long enough to release the Barragan fragment on his enemies, killing himself in the process.]]
* RazorWings: Pagally's Resureccion gives her these.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Nanao delivers a very effective one to [[spoiler: Suzumushi]], both pointing out her past failures and explaining exactly why her current scheme [[spoiler: to [[DemonicPossession take over Nanao's body]]]] would not work.
-->Nanao: Let me be entirely frank, [[spoiler: Suzumushi]]. You're incompetent.
** Gin throws one into Hinamori's face. [[EvilIsPetty Just because he feels like that]].
* RebelLeader: Ukitake, although he subverts most of the particulars, such as by being seriously injured, not yet- if ever- recovered, and consequently sidelined from most of the fighting. At one point, when setting up a first meeting with someone who doesn't know much about the Gotei 13's upper ranks, he has Sasakibe do the talking and listens from behind a screen (along with most of his lieutenants) because he knows he would give the wrong impression.
* RedOniBlueOni: Ikkaku (red) and Nanao (blue), the co-leaders of the Hueco Mundo mission.
* ReplacementScrappy: In-story, Karin regards Kon as this, resenting him for taking Ichigo's place. Also, she's worried about Ichigo but because everyone else (as far as she knows) accepts Kon as Ichigo, she can't talk about it openly. Naturally, her resentment of that situation spills over to her reactions to Kon. It doesn't particularly help that Ichigo [[LockedOutOfTheLoop didn't tell her]] that he was going to go off and leave someone else to inhabit his body while he was gone. [[invoked]]
* RePower: [[spoiler: Jirobou Ikkanzaka, Jidanbou’s little brother, who lost his powers to Ishida in canon]] voluntarily underwent hollowfication to gain new abilities. There's also [[spoiler: Grimmjow, who loses his hollow powers when Orihime "purifies" him and gains shinigami ones instead.]]
* ReverseMole: [[spoiler: Hisagi]]. He’s been there a while, and it’s worn on him to the extent where he can barely function. Eventually, [[spoiler: his EmpathicWeapon has to take over his body to keep him alive.]]
* SacrificialLion / TooCoolToLive: [[spoiler: Takano Dan]], despite being an OC. He gets a lot of characterization- including two POV segments and a more detailed backstory than ''any'' of the other [=OCs=]- and his death is one of the first as the Rukongai fight starts.
* SanitySlippage: In the first Oririme's POV it's basically "holding the last shreds of sanity together with sheer willpower". This being [[CloudCuckooLander Orihime]], she imagines herself and people around her as a cartoonish robots/magical girls/whatever when under particularly heavy stress, loves Ulquiorra's company [[StockholmSyndrome because he did her no harm so far]], and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick constantly reminds herself that she can't, and won't, contemplate suicide]].
** Hisagi, when we first meet him, is [[HeroicBSOD emotionally numb]], has growing problems with keeping track of time, and suffers from memory lapses. It gets more and more complicated after that.
** Lisa [[spoiler: and Love]] has to watch Gin undergoing SanitySlippage process in real-time mode. All while being interrogated by him.
* SayItWithHearts: Invoked in one of Ikkaku's early POV sections:
-->He was vaguely aware of Peaches piping up cheerfully that he should wait for Rikichi and the two of them could catch up later. He could almost ''hear'' a little heart at the end of the sentence.
-->Then she did him proud by screeching at the others like the little harpy he knew she was, telling them to ''go go go you lazy maggots now now now!''
* SenselessSacrifice: Subverted when Rikichi [[spoiler: runs away to be caught by Gin's people and serve as 'unvoluntary' source of information about Rangiku 'being alive']] - it ''might'' even have worked... but most likely it would've ended as a disaster for the whole Resistance instead (and fortunately he was stopped before he could do it anyway). Played straight (bordering on StupidSacrifice) with [[spoiler: Suzuki, who, against direct orders from Shirogane, breaks the retreat and faces twenty or so Arrancars alone, just because she cannot leave Iba's 'dead body' to their mercy. She is almost instantly overwhelmed and killed. And NotQuiteDead Iba [[TearJerker has to watch, unable to do anything to save her]].]]
* SheatheYourSword: When the Hueco Mundo group confronts [[spoiler: a hollowfied Renji]], some of them move to attack... until [[spoiler: Byakuya]] realizes what's going on and orders them to stand down, and a fight is avoided.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Kon claims that he and Mashiro are "just friends." Kensei is not convinced.
** On a much grimmer note, there's also this exchange, [[spoiler: after Grimmjow, Kazeshini-controlling-Hisagi, and Hanatarou discover Nemu Prime]]:
-->Grimmjow: You’re in a mood to fight. Was she your woman, or something?
-->Hisagi[[note]]that is, Kazeshini[[/note]]: No. Not her. [[spoiler: It’s just – some things are monstrous. Even by your standards, maybe.]]
* ShellShockedVeteran: Technically, no one: the war's not over yet, so the "veteran" part doesn't quite apply. The "shell-shocked" part ''does'': Hisagi is probably the most extreme example, but he's not the only one. Assuming anyone survives at all, some of them will definitely be [[ShellShockedVeteran Shell-Shocked Veterans]].
* ShootEverythingThatMoves: [[spoiler: Ishida Ryuuken]] during the assault on Karakura.
* SirSwearsALot: Grimmjow, Ikkaku, and Kazeshini are all notably more foul-mouthed than the rest of the cast.
* SnowMeansDeath: With that snowy Karakura winter, this was bound to happen. After [[spoiler: Ryuuken's]] death, snow covers his body and the signs of his last battle.
* SpitefulSpit: Ikkaku spits on the floor when mentioning that Gin's forces refer to him as soutaichou. Kuukaku agrees with the sentiment, but tells him not to do it in her house.
* SplitPersonalityTakeover: [[spoiler: Ichigo's Hollow]] takes over his body and becomes arguably the most powerful of Aizen's army. [[spoiler: It's reversible, but only via Orihime's RealityWarper powers.]]
* SpotOfTea: One of the few things Aizen and LaResistance can be said to share is a fondness for tea. Almost all moments of leisure, civility, or pre-mission planning include tea. Isane even brews one last pot before a battle starts.
--> Isane: There's always time for tea.
* TheSquad: The recon squad, led by Ikkaku, which has been carrying out missions and drawing fire away from the Resistance's actual bases ever since this war started. It's actually dissolved very early in the fic, and functions largely to (re)establish several characters, including [[OriginalCharacter OCs]] like Hoshibana and Takano, [[AscendedExtra Ascended Extras]] like Ogidou, Shirogane, and Rikichi, and this fic's drastically changed versions of Hinamori and Ikkaku himself.
* TheSquadette: Three of them in the recon squad itself- Hinamori, [[TheMedic Kaede]], and [[IaijutsuPractitioner Shirogane]], and more in the rest of LaResistance.
* StepfordSmiler: Ogidou. Moved from Type B to the nice, clear Type C. [[spoiler: And the attitude is exactly what gets him killed eventually.]]
* StormingTheCastle: Since Seireitei is occupied by Aizen's forces, retaking it is of course a goal of the resistance. [[spoiler: Now accomplished by Soi Fong, Kuukaku, Sasakibe, Chad, the remaining [[{{Ninja}} Onmitsukidou]] and the gathered forces of the noble clans.]]
* SternTeacher: Kuukaku has this attitude towards the shinigami students at her base.
* StuffBlowingUp: Kuukaku makes explosives which she and the other members of LaResistance use in battle.
* SwitchingPOV: The third-person limited POV varies between ''35 characters'' as of Chapter 43. (Granted, some narrators reappear much more frequently than others- Nanao and Ukitake particularly- and some only get sections in ensemble chapters.)
* SymbioticPossession: [[spoiler: Kazeshini and Hisagi, eventually. It starts out with Kazeshini taking over Hisagi's body periodically to save both their lives, but without his knowledge or consent. After Hisagi finds out and they reach an accord of sorts, Hisagi lets Kazeshini possess him in battle because, unlike him, Kazeshini can tell where Kyouka Suigetsu is even when Aizen is using his powers.]]
* TakeThat: Intended or not, chapter 31 features the following gem:
-->Orihime's POV: (S)ometimes the princess had to save the dragon, and sometimes she had to save the prince as well, and sometimes the princess and the dragon and the knight all teamed up together and [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall went to argue with the person who’d written the story and complain about how they never got anything interesting and new to do.]]
* TakeUpMySword: Tousen literally took up his friend’s [[EmpathicWeapon zanpakutou]] after her murder, using her powers to pursue her goals and avenge her death. [[spoiler: After Tousen’s death (which she blames on Aizen's betrayal), Suzumushi actively tries to get Nanao to “take her up”... by attempting to [[DemonicPossession possess her]]. She fails, and Nanao persuades Suzumushi to give her access to Tousen’s bankai for their one common goal: "justice" in the form of Aizen Sousuke's death.]]
* TakingYouWithMe: Ukitake considers doing this to kill Gin, but as it turns out [[spoiler: Gin unleashes a weapon of mass destruction based on Barragan’s BattleAura when Ukitake and company have defeated him.]] It’s pretty clear that [[spoiler: Gin]] was already dying- he was just too vindictive to leave it at that.
* TalkingWeapon: Kazeshini, who keeps up a running commentary/response to his wielder Hisagi's thoughts. All [[EmpathicWeapon zanpakutou]] ''can'' talk to their wielders, but most of the others in the fic are relatively quiet. Kazeshini is noted as having gotten much more talkative since Hisagi's move to Hueco Mundo, probably due to his [[HeroicBSOD mental state]].
** [[spoiler: Pantera]] is becoming this as of the latest chapters. [[spoiler: And now Suzumushi is talking to Nanao, who isn't even her wielder...]]
* ThereWasADoor: Averted (mostly) by Harribel, who actually enters through the door to [[spoiler: Hisagi's]] quarters, although the door does not survive the experience. Others in Hueco Mundo play this trope straight (and over the top), including [[spoiler: Ichigo]], who destroys a whole wall to get into the room the shinigami party is in.
* TheUnintelligible: [[TearJerker See "Tortured Abomination."]]
* ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself: It is understood that Ikkaku will fight [[spoiler: Yumichika]] alone, despite the fact that the fic usually avoids one-on-one duels. (By the time it actually happens, everyone else is busy fighting another opponent, so Ikkaku’s personal fight actually makes their lives easier by removing the second antagonist.)
* [[spoiler:TogetherInDeath]]: Implied with Ikkaku and [[spoiler:Yumichika]], since they talk about fighting.
* TookALevelInBadass: Hinamori. Mostly it’s an attitude change rather than an actual increase in power, though.
* TorsoWithAView: Pagally and [[spoiler: the hollowfied Kira and Rukia]] have their Hollow holes in their chests.
* TorturedMonster: Hollowfied Shinigami. Special mention goes to [[spoiler: Hitsugaya]], who got broken so badly that he's left as a [[spoiler: "jumble of icy wings and cruel claws" that can't even talk, [[TheBlank nor does he have a face.]] Momo]] [[TearJerker was not amused.]]
** And now we have [[spoiler: Renji, described as a hodge-podge creature seemingly composed of patchworks of fur, scales, and bare muscle, with a half-flesh/half-skull "face."]] Oh, and apparently [[spoiler: his]] every movement makes it look like [[spoiler: he's]] in pain. [[spoiler: Byakuya]] only recognizes [[spoiler: him]] because [[spoiler: he already killed a Hollowfied Rukia]].
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Gin's fondness for dried persimmons is so well known that Ikkaku is able to identify Gin's [[spoiler: spyroom]] because he left a bowl of them there.
* TragicKeepsake: Rangiku's necklace for Momo, Yumichika's scarf for Ikkaku. At first. [[spoiler: The necklace ends up being a key element in the Rangiku impersonation scheme... and as for the scarf, well, Yumichika's alive, so it's no longer tragic. [[AnyoneCanDie For now, anyway]].]]
* TrustPassword: After being imprisoned by [[MasterOfIllusion Aizen]] for several months, [[spoiler: Kyorakou]] refuses to believe that his rescuers are who they appear to be. They convince him by [[spoiler: returning his zanpakutou, which Lisa had been carrying.]]
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: "Ichimaru-soutaichou's" rule in Seireitei.
* VillainousBreakdown: Gin is noticeably less stable than in the series proper, and he gets much, much worse when he realises [[spoiler: that Rangiku really is dead and her apparent survival was a ruse by the resistance.]]
* WarFic: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Of course.]]
* WarIsHell: This fic is ''not'' shy about the physical and mental costs of fighting a near-hopeless war. People die- not just in HeroicSacrifices, but in foolish ones, or just because they're not good enough fighters for the situation they're in- or even just from sheer bad luck. Those captured by the enemy are tortured and experimented on with very few exceptions. And even the survivors- even the ones who are alive and still trying to fight- are worn down by everything that's happened. Ukitake, Iba, and Soi Fong may be [[HandicappedBadass Handicapped Badasses]], but their injuries have a very real cost, in day to day life as well as in battle. And the psychological costs of the war are just as stark. [[BreakTheCutie Orihime]], [[MilesToGoBeforeISleep Ukitake,]] [[spoiler: ReverseMole Hisagi]] and many others who've lost friends or [[DirtyBusiness done things they're not proud of]] are soldiering on for now- but some of them have come perilously close to breaking, and even assuming a given person makes it through the war, that doesn't mean they'll be all right.
* WhatWouldXDo: Iba considers and rejects Komamura, Zaraki, Ikkaku, Yumichika, and Renji’s probable solutions to a problem, before finding the right person to “ask”: his mom, former Vice-Captain of Third Division Iba Chikane. Who then “tells” him exactly what to do... and follows up by [[IWantGrandkids wanting to know how long it’ll be until he gets married and gives her some grandkids]].
* WhamLine: Many of the reveals of [[spoiler: the Hollowfied shinigami]] come under this.
--> ''He'd found [[spoiler: Hitsugaya-taichou]], but he'd been turned Hollow and was on Gin's leash''
--> [[spoiler:'''Byakuya:''']] ''It seems you are all fools and blind. [[spoiler: Renji.]]''
** There's also this one, somewhat later:
--> ''Not sure yet... there seem to be two Vastolorde heading in your direction. One matches the description we received of... Oh. King of Heaven...'' [[spoiler: ''Aizen's with them.'']]
* WhatTheHellHero: Ikkaku delivers one to Ichigo/his hollow, crossed over with IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight. Basically, his idea of getting Ichigo to retake control of his body is to spell out to him exactly what he allowed to happen to his friends by losing it in the first place.
** Katen Kyokoutsu also delivers one to Kazeshini, regarding [[spoiler: him taking over Hisagi's body, as well as their general failure to work together.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: Yes, Aizen would. He would also [[spoiler: imprison them, torture them, and/or [[BrainwashedAndCrazy force them to serve him]] by turning them into entries under the TorturedMonster section.]] Note that [[Really700YearsOld given his age]], a majority of the cast [[FridgeHorror can be listed under the "child" section.]]
* WorldBuilding: The role and abilities of zanpakutou are expanded on in some very interesting ways.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Pagally, Hisagi's fraccion, has lavender hair.
* YouHaveFailedMe: Aizen and Gin just ''love'' this, each in his own way. Sometimes it [[TheDogBitesBack backfires]].
** One example of how badly they react when their soldiers piss them off: Barragan ran a bit amuck in the Karakura battle, killing someone Aizen would have much preferred to capture. In Lisa's POV chapter, Gin offhandedly mentions that Aizen ''really'' wasn't happy about that. Next we hear of Barragan? [[spoiler: He's been reduced to "a shade"- a fragment Gin releases, that blindly seeks to devour the strongest reiatsu signature it can find. It ultimately regains a humanoid form, but never acts with intelligence or personality.]]
* YouShallNotPass: [[spoiler: Ikkaku, Yumichika, and Lisa separate from the rest of the group to take on Yammi and Ulquiorra while the rest of their group face Aizen.]] They're not sacrificing themselves to allow the others to escape, though- they're just keeping the enemy's reinforcements from arriving until the main battle is over. Winning their fight, or ''anyone's'' survival, is secondary.
* ZeroApprovalGambit: [[spoiler: Hisagi]] sets one in motion by orders of his superiors, 'betraying' Soul Society to gain a potential chance to save it later (and a less-than-potential chance to be executed for war crimes anyway if that even succeeds).
* ICannotSelfTerminate: [[spoiler: Poor,
** [[spoiler: Senbonzakura, observed by Kazeshini as he keeps trying and failing to kill himself.]]
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: The chapters titles are of the format "[POV character]: [Title]", or "Ensemble: [Title]" for most of the chapters with multiple narrators. (Chapter 13 is "Karakura: Waiting" along the same principle.)
* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: [[spoiler: [[ReverseMole Hisagi]]]] thinks that this is what Aizen intends with Pagally; it turns out that he is actually giving him a Fraccion. [[spoiler: He was willing to go through with it - which shows just how messed up he was after a large amount of time undercover.]]
* IfWeGetThroughThis: When she gets home, Lisa plans to wear her Hueco Mundo uniform boots to every club in Roppongi, then burn them and every other white article of clothing she owns.
** Kaede, Hinamori, and Shirogane promise to get a proper revenge later for Iba and Rikichi's attempt to spy on their attempts to give Shirogane a convincing imitation of Rangiku's build. [[spoiler: Shirogane then dies in battle against Gin.]]
* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Several shinigami try this on [[spoiler: Ichigo]]. [[spoiler: Orihime's]] [[RealityWarper method]] works better.
** Doubly subverted by Hinamori. ''Twice.'' She intends to try this on [[spoiler: Kira]] and [[spoiler: Hitsugaya]]. Both times she gives up almost immediately, because it doesn't (and couldn't) work... and THEN it works - in a way which leaves her desperately wishing it wouldn't (especially the second time).
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: This is how [[spoiler: Aizen]] finally dies, at the hands of [[spoiler: Ichigo.]]
* ImprovisedWeapon: [[spoiler: Karin]] kills several hollows with [[spoiler: ''a soccer ball''.]]
* InMediasRes: When the story begins, the Winter War is already long lost. Then we are told (along with present-time events), piece by piece, just how exactly it was lost. And then plot splits into four subplots, giving us a multidimensional timeline. And who knows what else authors have in store...
* {{Irony}}: LaResistance are (among other things) rescuing Orihime and her rescue party, invading the Seireitei, and practicing [[CombatPragmatist Combat Pragmatism]]. Then there's the repeated role reversals...
* ItsPersonal: The fight against [[spoiler: the Barragan fragment]] contains both a subversion and an example. [[spoiler: Soi Fong plays it straight against the remains of the enemy who cost her her arm and killed her lieutenant. Hachi subverts the trope, because he doesn't want to waste the special strategies he thought up for fighting Barragan- who killed two of his friends- on a mere "shade". And the fight against Szayel becomes personal for Ryuuken when Szayel reveals that he killed Ryuuken's son.]]
* ItsQuietTooQuiet: [[spoiler: Hisagi]] [[YouJustHadToSayIt says it aloud]] right after LetsSplitUpGang - the result is equally spectacular and predictable.
* IWantGrandkids: Iba Tetsuzaemon's mother, Iba Chikane, really wants him to get married and have kids, if his imagined version of her in his "WhatWouldXDo" moment is anything to go by. He promises his mental version of her to "get married within the year, or the decade, or the century at the very most, assuming that he survived the next ten minutes".
* IWillFindYou: Several characters are motivated by a desire to find their captured/MIA friends, or at least find out what happened to them. [[ItsPersonal This is why]] two of the top people in the resistance go to Hueco Mundo. Subverted, in that both of these two people know that their friends may be BrainwashedAndCrazy [[FateWorseThanDeath or worse]], and at least one of them goes in intending to kill said friend (who he knows by then is either BrainwashedAndCrazy or an actual traitor).
* KickedUpstairs: Aizen got rid of traumatized and crazed (and thus uncontrollable) Gin... by giving him the whole Seireitei to play with.
* KilledByTheAdaptation: List in progress: Yamamoto, Oomaeda, Komamura, Hitsugaya, Matsumoto, Kenpachi, Kiyone, Uryuu, Shinji, Hiyori, [[spoiler: Rukia, Kira, Love, Ogidou and Shirogane (yeah they’re canon), Harribel, Nemu, Tatsuki, Ryuuken, Ikkaku and Yumichika, Aizen.]]
* LaResistance: Led by Ukitake, the loyal remnants of the Gotei 13 have spent the last months fighting Ichimaru and his collaborators from hiding.
* LateArrivalSpoiler: A stealthy one. The chapters are usually marked with POV character- "Nanao: Winter", etc. With the exception of the second chapter occurring well before the first, they seem to be in more or less sequential order. A chapter is headed with [[spoiler: Byakuya's]] name... several chapters after another POV character remembered witnessing [[spoiler: his]] death. If you happen to read the chapter titles before the fic, you will probably assume that the character is alive, even though [[spoiler: his]] survival is a big surprise in context.
* LesCollaborateurs: Gotei-13 is following orders of 'Ichimaru-sotaichou' at the beginning of the fic. One can only wonder what those orders actually are, because we know for sure they don't involve ''anything'' of common shinigami duties. Large part of Seireitei nobility also qualifies.
* LeeroyJenkins: Grimmjow will abandon whatever he is supposed to be doing if he suspects there is a fight available elsewhere. Ikkaku [[spoiler: and Yumichika]] are able to resist the urge, due to CharacterDevelopment.
* LetsSplitUpGang: The Hueco Mundo party does this at one point, but they do it reasonably sensibly- no one goes off by themselves, each group has at least one powerful fighter, and all remain close enough to each other to hear the noise if there's a fight.
** Later they do this again, leaving some weak and/or injured party members in a reasonably secure location. This is less foolish than it sounds- the secure location is [[spoiler: Gin's observation room, so they will be able to tell if someone is coming towards them]] and they would never have survived another fight, so leaving them behind prevented them from developing into TheLoad. [[spoiler: Also, they might be able to alert the main group if Aizen is nearby, since Sora has never seen his shikai and could not be fooled by his illusions.]]
* LightEmUp: Hoshibana has this as his shikai power.
* LoveAtFirstPunch: Well, not exactly love, but Grimmjow definitely seems a lot more interested in [[HandicappedBadass Kuukaku]] after she punches him through a wall.
* MadnessMantra: "Justice. Justice. '''Justice!'''"
* MeaningfulName: Kage ("shadow"), one of the [[{{Ninja}} Onmitsukidou]].
* MentalWorld: Suzumushi's (which may or may not have also been Tousen's) is a seriously weird-looking place.
-->The world was all black and white. There was a white moon in the black sky, and the grass was grey. Or possibly there was a black moon in the white sky, and the grass was a different shade of grey. Her vision slid between the two extremes from one moment to another, and she couldn’t be sure which one was dominant: they both seemed to exist simultaneously, in an optical illusion like those pictures that were both a young woman and a skull at the same time.
* MercyKill: [[spoiler: Kazeshini to Nemu, Byakuya to Rukia. Ikkaku to an unidentified victim of Aizen's experiments. Isshin to Tatsuki (sort of- she was already dead, and he performed konso to get her ghost away from the battle).]]
* MilesToGoBeforeISleep: Ukitake. He has considered a HeroicSacrifice twice- first against [[spoiler:Gin]] and later against [[spoiler: the Barragan fragment]]- the first time it wasn't necessary, and the second Isane talked him out of it.
* MissionControl: An improvised one. When you're deep into enemy territory, it would be a crime not to use enemy equipment.
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: Little Pagally [[SarcasmMode isn't exactly thrilled]] with 'Aizen-sama', Grimmjow doesn't give a damn about him; both betray him to side with first strangers which had been relatively nice to them. Of course, said strangers are [[EnemyMine their natural enemies]], but at least they aren't going to use them as lab rats, sexual slaves or something else just as pleasant and healthy.
* MoralityPet: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed.]] Yes, Gin loved Rangiku; no, that did not make him a good person. He alternates between an obsessive desire to find her and casual malice to everyone and everything in his vicinity. Caring for one person does not make him one whit less nasty to anyone else. He's also in the later stages of VillainousBreakdown, and the combination of short temper, meanness, and eroding sanity... it really isn't safe to be anywhere near the guy.
* MotivationalLie: Yoruichi decides not to tell Ryuuken that she knows for sure his son is dead, judging that his mental state is too precarious for her to inform him during a lull in the battle against Mayuri and Szayel. [[spoiler: Kyorakou tells Byakuya that his memory of killing Rukia [[MindRape is one of Aizen's illusions]], so that he'll stop [[DeathSeeker trying to get himself killed]].]] In both cases, the person lied to is already very fragile mentally, and the liar is trying to keep them steady in a situation where if they aren't, they could easily get themselves and their allies killed.
* MotorMouth: Kaede, TheMedic of the recon squad.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: [[spoiler: Hollow Kira wants to kill Rangiku because Gin is obsessed with her and he’s obsessed with Gin.]]
* MutualKill: During the Fake Karakura Town battle, Hisagi does not intervene in Tousen and Komamura's fight and they kill each other.
* MyFistForgivesYou: Ikkaku to [[spoiler: Yumichika, about Yumichika’s hiding his real shikai.]] Considering [[BloodKnight what they’re both like]], it’s actually kind of moving.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Subverted - several characters keep asking themselves, [[MoralEventHorizon what else]] they are willing to do in next ten minutes in order to try and win an unwinnable fight. Usually they find the answer to this question. Or answer finds them.
** Also played painfully straight by Hisagi and Isane.
* NeverFoundTheBody: Many characters, but most notably Captain Kyouraku. Only time will tell if they’re really dead. [[spoiler: As of Chapter 43, Kyouraku seems to be alive. (Wow.)]]
* NeverLiveItDown: Invoked. Momo worries that she'll never live down her behavior after Aizen's initial betrayal. While her fellow Resistance members trust her now, they originally weren't too sure about her- and a large part of the reason she's kept in Rukongai with Ukitake rather than being sent on the Seireitei mission is that a lot of people in Seireitei wouldn't trust her.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Aizen [[spoiler: imprisoned Hachi in Seireitei, which allowed him to help fight the Barragan fragment]]. If it hadn't been for that, things might have gone much worse in that particular episode.
* TheNicknamer: Ikkaku, immitating the still-missing Yachiru.
* NonActionGuy: Hanatarou and Kon remain this from canon. Another example is Sora- although he's said to be pretty good for a soon-to-graduate Academy student, this means very little in the situations he ends up in, and the other characters do their best to protect him when things get dangerous.
* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: Isane refuses to let [[spoiler: Ukitake]] sacrifice himself [[spoiler: in the hopes of controlling the Barragan Fragment.]]
* NotInThisForYourRevolution: Grimmjow. He doesn’t care about either side- he just wants to regain his strength after [[spoiler: Orihime rejects his Hollow nature.]]
* NotSoDifferent: Even though Grimmjow joins up with LaResistance out of convenience (see above), he gets on with and is remarkably similar to the former Eleventh Division members.
** Urahara fully realizes that he and Kurotsuchi Mayuri are NotSoDifferent in their obsessive search for knowledge for its own sake- and concludes that the only thing holding him back from Mayuri's worse excesses is that he likes people and wants them to like him back.
* NowYouTellMe: Urahara manages to tell his team that he took a few liberties with his part of operation plans just minutes before said liberties start to fall right on their heads (some of them literally). Cue reaction:
--> "You 'may possibly' have made a ''mistake''? <...> There's no 'may possibly' about it, Kisuke!"
* OCStandIn: Shirogane and Ogidou are canon characters, but appeared only in the omakes- and not many of those, either. The fic therefore makes up a lot about them- particularly Ogidou, who goes from a rather forgettable member of the Fourth Division to a scary DeadlyDoctor who creeps out most of his allies.
* OddFriendship: Ikkaku and Momo.
* OhMyGods: Hoshibana swears by the King of Heaven in a moment of great stress [[spoiler: when he reports that Aizen is headed towards the main Hueco Mundo party with two Vasto Lordes.]]
* OmnicidalManiac: Aizen has set events in motion that will, if left unchecked, lead to the destruction of Soul Society, Hueco Mundo, and the living world. The protagonists don't know his motivation, but their speculations about the matter are in line with this trope.
--> Isshin: He’s actually so arrogant that he would just-- No. Unless he’s gone completely insane, he’d have to realize what was happening. He’s smarter than that.
--> Ryuuken: Unless it’s on purpose. Perhaps he wants this. Wants to see it all fall apart.
* OnlyAFleshWound: Averted early on, when [[spoiler: Ito]] dies by bleeding out from a wound sustained a little earlier in the fight.
* OnlyTheKnowledgableMayPass: While meeting in an occupied Seireitei, Soi Fong and one of her Onmitsukidou use lines from a Tang Chinese poem as a password, switching off in the middle of lines and then skipping to the end. While someone sufficiently learned might know the poem, they probably wouldn't know when to switch off, or recognize what was going on based on the first phrase. (The authors provide a link to the whole thing, since Soi Fong and Kage only use the first two and last two lines: [[http://www.chinese-poems.com/d26.html Facing Snow, by Du Fu]].)
--> Kage: After battle...
--> Soi Fong: Many new ghosts cry. The solitary old man...
--> Kage: ...worries and grieves. (''Pause'') To many places, communication is lost. I sit straight at my desk but cannot read my books for grief.
* PetTheDog: Ikkaku and Grimmjow comforting [[spoiler: Hanatarou]] (genuinely - and it ''did'' work).
* PhlebotinumOverload: [[spoiler:Yumichika absorbing Ulquiorra's power healed him, but it left him physically and mentally unstable. Rather than face [[PhlebotinumBreakdown those consequences]], he purged every ounce of his energy to help Ikkaku land a fatal blow on Yammi, [[Main/HeroicSacrifice killing all three of them.]]]]
* PlayingPossum: [[spoiler: Iba]] does this during attack on the mansion to get close enough to the [[spoiler: main body of Rudobon]] to kill it.
* PlayingWithSyringes: Aizen, Mayuri, and Szayel are engaging in this, the latter two in direct competition with each other.
* PoisonedWeapons: [[spoiler: At Isane's suggestion, Ukitake and Soi Fong coat the tips of their zanpakutous with the Barragan fragment's blood, which has the effect of "decaying" its slow-things-down power and allows them to kill it. Unfortunately, in this case the "poison" is so corrosive that it also eats away at the zanpakutous while they're fighting.]]
* PowerIncontinence: Barragan's power can also "decay" the barrier between a Visored and their Inner Hollow. Mashiro has periods of normalcy, but she loses control of her transformation without warning despite having a PowerLimiter. Rose is in even worse state, and is apparently stuck in the transformed/out of control state all the time.
* PrecisionFStrike: The polite and formal Hoshibana Akira (third seat of Sixth division since before Byakuya became captain), while defending his division-mate Rikichi's motives for a particularly foolish action:
-->Hoshibana: "The Eleventh Division may have its code of honor, but the Sixth has its own, and I would dare to say that while I have come to some understanding of yours over the past few months, my friend, I can safely say you know ''shit'' about ours."
** There's also the very formal Sasakibe in Chapter 6, warning Grimmjow not to provoke Ikkaku:
-->Sasakibe: ""At your present strength, he could put your spine through your skull, Jaegerjaques. Stop fucking around."
** Yoruichi gives a mental one after she realizes that [[spoiler: Szayel- of whom she knows just enough to be sure that he's very bad news- is in Karakura]].
* PrettySpryForADeadGuy: An odd example. LaResistance - and the reader - know all along that Rangiku is dead, [[TheDragon Gin]] refuses to believe it, [[spoiler: and LaResistance takes full advantage of that refusal.]]
* PsychopathicManChild / TheUnfettered: All Hollowfied shinigami who had the dubious luck of surviving the process and not having been broken into mindless beasts by it are the mixture of this (with varying proportions). They are very simple-minded and often childish (just look at [[spoiler: Kira]]'s POV), perfectly obedient to orders of whatever master they have, regardless of how much of messy killing said orders involve; and, to add insult to injury, their personalities are reduced and condensed to whatever had been their greatest passion/desire in their previous lives (and, naturally, stripped of everything else). [[TearJerker Not pretty]].
* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler: Gin. He survives Takano blowing up the library with him inside, a sword wound from Shirogane, and and clings to life after being hit by Hinamori's fireball reflected and magnified by Ukitake's shikai, just long enough to release the Barragan fragment on his enemies, killing himself in the process.]]
* RazorWings: Pagally's Resureccion gives her these.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Nanao delivers a very effective one to [[spoiler: Suzumushi]], both pointing out her past failures and explaining exactly why her current scheme [[spoiler: to [[DemonicPossession take over Nanao's body]]]] would not work.
-->Nanao: Let me be entirely frank, [[spoiler: Suzumushi]]. You're incompetent.
** Gin throws one into Hinamori's face. [[EvilIsPetty Just because he feels like that]].
* RebelLeader: Ukitake, although he subverts most of the particulars, such as by being seriously injured, not yet- if ever- recovered, and consequently sidelined from most of the fighting. At one point, when setting up a first meeting with someone who doesn't know much about the Gotei 13's upper ranks, he has Sasakibe do the talking and listens from behind a screen (along with most of his lieutenants) because he knows he would give the wrong impression.
* RedOniBlueOni: Ikkaku (red) and Nanao (blue), the co-leaders of the Hueco Mundo mission.
* ReplacementScrappy: In-story, Karin regards Kon as this, resenting him for taking Ichigo's place. Also, she's worried about Ichigo but because everyone else (as far as she knows) accepts Kon as Ichigo, she can't talk about it openly. Naturally, her resentment of that situation spills over to her reactions to Kon. It doesn't particularly help that Ichigo [[LockedOutOfTheLoop didn't tell her]] that he was going to go off and leave someone else to inhabit his body while he was gone. [[invoked]]
* RePower: [[spoiler: Jirobou Ikkanzaka, Jidanbou’s little brother, who lost his powers to Ishida in canon]] voluntarily underwent hollowfication to gain new abilities. There's also [[spoiler: Grimmjow, who loses his hollow powers when Orihime "purifies" him and gains shinigami ones instead.]]
* ReverseMole: [[spoiler: Hisagi]]. He’s been there a while, and it’s worn on him to the extent where he can barely function. Eventually, [[spoiler: his EmpathicWeapon has to take over his body to keep him alive.]]
* SacrificialLion / TooCoolToLive: [[spoiler: Takano Dan]], despite being an OC. He gets a lot of characterization- including two POV segments and a more detailed backstory than ''any'' of the other [=OCs=]- and his death is one of the first as the Rukongai fight starts.
* SanitySlippage: In the first Oririme's POV it's basically "holding the last shreds of sanity together with sheer willpower". This being [[CloudCuckooLander Orihime]], she imagines herself and people around her as a cartoonish robots/magical girls/whatever when under particularly heavy stress, loves Ulquiorra's company [[StockholmSyndrome because he did her no harm so far]], and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick constantly reminds herself that she can't, and won't, contemplate suicide]].
** Hisagi, when we first meet him, is [[HeroicBSOD emotionally numb]], has growing problems with keeping track of time, and suffers from memory lapses. It gets more and more complicated after that.
** Lisa [[spoiler: and Love]] has to watch Gin undergoing SanitySlippage process in real-time mode. All while being interrogated by him.
* SayItWithHearts: Invoked in one of Ikkaku's early POV sections:
-->He was vaguely aware of Peaches piping up cheerfully that he should wait for Rikichi and the two of them could catch up later. He could almost ''hear'' a little heart at the end of the sentence.
-->Then she did him proud by screeching at the others like the little harpy he knew she was, telling them to ''go go go you lazy maggots now now now!''
* SenselessSacrifice: Subverted when Rikichi [[spoiler: runs away to be caught by Gin's people and serve as 'unvoluntary' source of information about Rangiku 'being alive']] - it ''might'' even have worked... but most likely it would've ended as a disaster for the whole Resistance instead (and fortunately he was stopped before he could do it anyway). Played straight (bordering on StupidSacrifice) with [[spoiler: Suzuki, who, against direct orders from Shirogane, breaks the retreat and faces twenty or so Arrancars alone, just because she cannot leave Iba's 'dead body' to their mercy. She is almost instantly overwhelmed and killed. And NotQuiteDead Iba [[TearJerker has to watch, unable to do anything to save her]].]]
* SheatheYourSword: When the Hueco Mundo group confronts [[spoiler: a hollowfied Renji]], some of them move to attack... until [[spoiler: Byakuya]] realizes what's going on and orders them to stand down, and a fight is avoided.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Kon claims that he and Mashiro are "just friends." Kensei is not convinced.
** On a much grimmer note, there's also this exchange, [[spoiler: after Grimmjow, Kazeshini-controlling-Hisagi, and Hanatarou discover Nemu Prime]]:
-->Grimmjow: You’re in a mood to fight. Was she your woman, or something?
-->Hisagi[[note]]that is, Kazeshini[[/note]]: No. Not her. [[spoiler: It’s just – some things are monstrous. Even by your standards, maybe.]]
* ShellShockedVeteran: Technically, no one: the war's not over yet, so the "veteran" part doesn't quite apply. The "shell-shocked" part ''does'': Hisagi is probably the most extreme example, but he's not the only one. Assuming anyone survives at all, some of them will definitely be [[ShellShockedVeteran Shell-Shocked Veterans]].
* ShootEverythingThatMoves: [[spoiler: Ishida Ryuuken]] during the assault on Karakura.
* SirSwearsALot: Grimmjow, Ikkaku, and Kazeshini are all notably more foul-mouthed than the rest of the cast.
* SnowMeansDeath: With that snowy Karakura winter, this was bound to happen. After [[spoiler: Ryuuken's]] death, snow covers his body and the signs of his last battle.
* SpitefulSpit: Ikkaku spits on the floor when mentioning that Gin's forces refer to him as soutaichou. Kuukaku agrees with the sentiment, but tells him not to do it in her house.
* SplitPersonalityTakeover: [[spoiler: Ichigo's Hollow]] takes over his body and becomes arguably the most powerful of Aizen's army. [[spoiler: It's reversible, but only via Orihime's RealityWarper powers.]]
* SpotOfTea: One of the few things Aizen and LaResistance can be said to share is a fondness for tea. Almost all moments of leisure, civility, or pre-mission planning include tea. Isane even brews one last pot before a battle starts.
--> Isane: There's always time for tea.
* TheSquad: The recon squad, led by Ikkaku, which has been carrying out missions and drawing fire away from the Resistance's actual bases ever since this war started. It's actually dissolved very early in the fic, and functions largely to (re)establish several characters, including [[OriginalCharacter OCs]] like Hoshibana and Takano, [[AscendedExtra Ascended Extras]] like Ogidou, Shirogane, and Rikichi, and this fic's drastically changed versions of Hinamori and Ikkaku himself.
* TheSquadette: Three of them in the recon squad itself- Hinamori, [[TheMedic Kaede]], and [[IaijutsuPractitioner Shirogane]], and more in the rest of LaResistance.
* StepfordSmiler: Ogidou. Moved from Type B to the nice, clear Type C. [[spoiler: And the attitude is exactly what gets him killed eventually.]]
* StormingTheCastle: Since Seireitei is occupied by Aizen's forces, retaking it is of course a goal of the resistance. [[spoiler: Now accomplished by Soi Fong, Kuukaku, Sasakibe, Chad, the remaining [[{{Ninja}} Onmitsukidou]] and the gathered forces of the noble clans.]]
* SternTeacher: Kuukaku has this attitude towards the shinigami students at her base.
* StuffBlowingUp: Kuukaku makes explosives which she and the other members of LaResistance use in battle.
* SwitchingPOV: The third-person limited POV varies between ''35 characters'' as of Chapter 43. (Granted, some narrators reappear much more frequently than others- Nanao and Ukitake particularly- and some only get sections in ensemble chapters.)
* SymbioticPossession: [[spoiler: Kazeshini and Hisagi, eventually. It starts out with Kazeshini taking over Hisagi's body periodically to save both their lives, but without his knowledge or consent. After Hisagi finds out and they reach an accord of sorts, Hisagi lets Kazeshini possess him in battle because, unlike him, Kazeshini can tell where Kyouka Suigetsu is even when Aizen is using his powers.]]
* TakeThat: Intended or not, chapter 31 features the following gem:
-->Orihime's POV: (S)ometimes the princess had to save the dragon, and sometimes she had to save the prince as well, and sometimes the princess and the dragon and the knight all teamed up together and [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall went to argue with the person who’d written the story and complain about how they never got anything interesting and new to do.]]
* TakeUpMySword: Tousen literally took up his friend’s [[EmpathicWeapon zanpakutou]] after her murder, using her powers to pursue her goals and avenge her death. [[spoiler: After Tousen’s death (which she blames on Aizen's betrayal), Suzumushi actively tries to get Nanao to “take her up”... by attempting to [[DemonicPossession possess her]]. She fails, and Nanao persuades Suzumushi to give her access to Tousen’s bankai for their one common goal: "justice" in the form of Aizen Sousuke's death.]]
* TakingYouWithMe: Ukitake considers doing this to kill Gin, but as it turns out [[spoiler: Gin unleashes a weapon of mass destruction based on Barragan’s BattleAura when Ukitake and company have defeated him.]] It’s pretty clear that [[spoiler: Gin]] was already dying- he was just too vindictive to leave it at that.
* TalkingWeapon: Kazeshini, who keeps up a running commentary/response to his wielder Hisagi's thoughts. All [[EmpathicWeapon zanpakutou]] ''can'' talk to their wielders, but most of the others in the fic are relatively quiet. Kazeshini is noted as having gotten much more talkative since Hisagi's move to Hueco Mundo, probably due to his [[HeroicBSOD mental state]].
** [[spoiler: Pantera]] is becoming this as of the latest chapters. [[spoiler: And now Suzumushi is talking to Nanao, who isn't even her wielder...]]
* ThereWasADoor: Averted (mostly) by Harribel, who actually enters through the door to [[spoiler: Hisagi's]] quarters, although the door does not survive the experience. Others in Hueco Mundo play this trope straight (and over the top), including [[spoiler: Ichigo]], who destroys a whole wall to get into the room the shinigami party is in.
* TheUnintelligible: [[TearJerker See "Tortured Abomination."]]
* ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself: It is understood that Ikkaku will fight [[spoiler: Yumichika]] alone, despite the fact that the fic usually avoids one-on-one duels. (By the time it actually happens, everyone else is busy fighting another opponent, so Ikkaku’s personal fight actually makes their lives easier by removing the second antagonist.)
* [[spoiler:TogetherInDeath]]: Implied with Ikkaku and [[spoiler:Yumichika]], since they talk about fighting.
* TookALevelInBadass: Hinamori. Mostly it’s an attitude change rather than an actual increase in power, though.
* TorsoWithAView: Pagally and [[spoiler: the hollowfied Kira and Rukia]] have their Hollow holes in their chests.
* TorturedMonster: Hollowfied Shinigami. Special mention goes to [[spoiler: Hitsugaya]], who got broken so badly that he's left as a [[spoiler: "jumble of icy wings and cruel claws" that can't even talk, [[TheBlank nor does he have a face.]] Momo]] [[TearJerker was not amused.]]
** And now we have [[spoiler: Renji, described as a hodge-podge creature seemingly composed of patchworks of fur, scales, and bare muscle, with a half-flesh/half-skull "face."]] Oh, and apparently [[spoiler: his]] every movement makes it look like [[spoiler: he's]] in pain. [[spoiler: Byakuya]] only recognizes [[spoiler: him]] because [[spoiler: he already killed a Hollowfied Rukia]].
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Gin's fondness for dried persimmons is so well known that Ikkaku is able to identify Gin's [[spoiler: spyroom]] because he left a bowl of them there.
* TragicKeepsake: Rangiku's necklace for Momo, Yumichika's scarf for Ikkaku. At first. [[spoiler: The necklace ends up being a key element in the Rangiku impersonation scheme... and as for the scarf, well, Yumichika's alive, so it's no longer tragic. [[AnyoneCanDie For now, anyway]].]]
* TrustPassword: After being imprisoned by [[MasterOfIllusion Aizen]] for several months, [[spoiler: Kyorakou]] refuses to believe that his rescuers are who they appear to be. They convince him by [[spoiler: returning his zanpakutou, which Lisa had been carrying.]]
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: "Ichimaru-soutaichou's" rule in Seireitei.
* VillainousBreakdown: Gin is noticeably less stable than in the series proper, and he gets much, much worse when he realises [[spoiler: that Rangiku really is dead and her apparent survival was a ruse by the resistance.]]
* WarFic: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Of course.]]
* WarIsHell: This fic is ''not'' shy about the physical and mental costs of fighting a near-hopeless war. People die- not just in HeroicSacrifices, but in foolish ones, or just because they're not good enough fighters for the situation they're in- or even just from sheer bad luck. Those captured by the enemy are tortured and experimented on with very few exceptions. And even the survivors- even the ones who are alive and still trying to fight- are worn down by everything that's happened. Ukitake, Iba, and Soi Fong may be [[HandicappedBadass Handicapped Badasses]], but their injuries have a very real cost, in day to day life as well as in battle. And the psychological costs of the war are just as stark. [[BreakTheCutie Orihime]], [[MilesToGoBeforeISleep Ukitake,]] [[spoiler: ReverseMole Hisagi]] and many others who've lost friends or [[DirtyBusiness done things they're not proud of]] are soldiering on for now- but some of them have come perilously close to breaking, and even assuming a given person makes it through the war, that doesn't mean they'll be all right.
* WhatWouldXDo: Iba considers and rejects Komamura, Zaraki, Ikkaku, Yumichika, and Renji’s probable solutions to a problem, before finding the right person to “ask”: his mom, former Vice-Captain of Third Division Iba Chikane. Who then “tells” him exactly what to do... and follows up by [[IWantGrandkids wanting to know how long it’ll be until he gets married and gives her some grandkids]].
* WhamLine: Many of the reveals of [[spoiler: the Hollowfied shinigami]] come under this.
--> ''He'd found [[spoiler: Hitsugaya-taichou]], but he'd been turned Hollow and was on Gin's leash''
--> [[spoiler:'''Byakuya:''']] ''It seems you are all fools and blind. [[spoiler: Renji.]]''
** There's also this one, somewhat later:
--> ''Not sure yet... there seem to be two Vastolorde heading in your direction. One matches the description we received of... Oh. King of Heaven...'' [[spoiler: ''Aizen's with them.'']]
* WhatTheHellHero: Ikkaku delivers one to Ichigo/his hollow, crossed over with IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight. Basically, his idea of getting Ichigo to retake control of his body is to spell out to him exactly what he allowed to happen to his friends by losing it in the first place.
** Katen Kyokoutsu also delivers one to Kazeshini, regarding [[spoiler: him taking over Hisagi's body, as well as their general failure to work together.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: Yes, Aizen would. He would also [[spoiler: imprison them, torture them, and/or [[BrainwashedAndCrazy force them to serve him]] by turning them into entries under the TorturedMonster section.]] Note that [[Really700YearsOld given his age]], a majority of the cast [[FridgeHorror can be listed under the "child" section.]]
* WorldBuilding: The role and abilities of zanpakutou are expanded on in some very interesting ways.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Pagally, Hisagi's fraccion, has lavender hair.
* YouHaveFailedMe: Aizen and Gin just ''love'' this, each in his own way. Sometimes it [[TheDogBitesBack backfires]].
** One example of how badly they react when their soldiers piss them off: Barragan ran a bit amuck in the Karakura battle, killing someone Aizen would have much preferred to capture. In Lisa's POV chapter, Gin offhandedly mentions that Aizen ''really'' wasn't happy about that. Next we hear of Barragan? [[spoiler: He's been reduced to "a shade"- a fragment Gin releases, that blindly seeks to devour the strongest reiatsu signature it can find. It ultimately regains a humanoid form, but never acts with intelligence or personality.]]
* YouShallNotPass: [[spoiler: Ikkaku, Yumichika, and Lisa separate from the rest of the group to take on Yammi and Ulquiorra while the rest of their group face Aizen.]] They're not sacrificing themselves to allow the others to escape, though- they're just keeping the enemy's reinforcements from arriving until the main battle is over. Winning their fight, or ''anyone's'' survival, is secondary.
* ZeroApprovalGambit: [[spoiler: Hisagi]] sets one in motion by orders of his superiors, 'betraying' Soul Society to gain a potential chance to save it later (and a less-than-potential chance to be executed for war crimes anyway if that even succeeds).
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* HappinessInSlavery: Unlike most of the Hollowfied shinigami, [[spoiler:Kira]] stays relatively humanoid and retains a fraction of his intelligence. Mixed with amplified loyalties to Gin, he's reduced to a super-powered lap dog until [[spoiler:his demise.]]
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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: This is how [[spoiler: Aizen]] finally dies, at the hands of [[spoiler: Ichigo.]]
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* KilledByTheAdaptation: List in progress: Yamamoto, Oomaeda, Komamura, Hitsugaya, Matsumoto, Kenpachi, Kiyone, Uryuu, Shinji, Hiyori, [[spoiler: Rukia, Kira, Love, Ogidou and Shirogane (yeah they’re canon), Harribel, Nemu, Tatsuki, Ryuuken.]]
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* KilledByTheAdaptation: List in progress: Yamamoto, Oomaeda, Komamura, Hitsugaya, Matsumoto, Kenpachi, Kiyone, Uryuu, Shinji, Hiyori, [[spoiler: Rukia, Kira, Love, Ogidou and Shirogane (yeah they’re canon), Harribel, Nemu, Tatsuki, Ryuuken.Ryuuken, Ikkaku and Yumichika, Aizen.]]
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* PhlebotinumOverload: [[spoiler:Yumichika absorbing Ulquiorra's power healed him, but it left him physically and mentally unstable. Rather than face those consequences, he purged every ounce of his energy to help Ikkaku land a fatal blow on Yammi, [[Main/HeroicSacrifice killing all three of them.]]]]
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* PhlebotinumOverload: [[spoiler:Yumichika absorbing Ulquiorra's power healed him, but it left him physically and mentally unstable. Rather than face [[PhlebotinumBreakdown those consequences, consequences]], he purged every ounce of his energy to help Ikkaku land a fatal blow on Yammi, [[Main/HeroicSacrifice killing all three of them.]]]]
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* GiveMeASword: Subverted. Kazeshini briefly thinks Orihime is trying to pull this, and angrily tells Hisagi not to hand him over (she can have Hanatarou’s if she wants one that badly). Turns out the sword she wants is [[spoiler: Kyoka Suigetsu, so that she can reject its powers.]]
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* SymbioticPossession: [[spoiler: Kazeshini and Hisagi, eventually. It starts out with Kazeshini taking over Hisagi's body periodically to save both their lives, but without his knowledge or consent. After Hisagi finds out and they reach an accord of sorts, Hisagi lets Kazeshini possess him in battle because, unlike him, Kazeshini can tell where Kyouka Suigetsu is even when Aizen is using his powers.]]
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* DyingAlone: [[spoiler: Ryuuken knows that he's dying after the fight against Szayel, and tells Isshin to leave him and save Masaki's daughters instead. He dies very shortly after Isshin and Yoruichi leave.]]
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* ItsPersonal: The fight against [[spoiler: the Barragan fragment]] contains both a subversion and an example. [[spoiler: Soi Fong plays it straight against the remains of the enemy who cost her her arm and killed her lieutenant. Hachi subverts the trope, because he doesn't want to waste the special strategies he thought up for fighting Barragan- who killed two of his friends- on a mere "shade".]]
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* ItsPersonal: The fight against [[spoiler: the Barragan fragment]] contains both a subversion and an example. [[spoiler: Soi Fong plays it straight against the remains of the enemy who cost her her arm and killed her lieutenant. Hachi subverts the trope, because he doesn't want to waste the special strategies he thought up for fighting Barragan- who killed two of his friends- on a mere "shade". And the fight against Szayel becomes personal for Ryuuken when Szayel reveals that he killed Ryuuken's son.]]
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* KilledByTheAdaptation: List in progress: Yamamoto, Oomaeda, Komamura, Hitsugaya, Matsumoto, Kenpachi, Kiyone, Ishida, Shinji, Hiyori, [[spoiler: Rukia, Kira, Love, Ogidou and Shirogane (yeah they’re canon), Harribel, Nemu, Tatsuki.]]
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* KilledByTheAdaptation: List in progress: Yamamoto, Oomaeda, Komamura, Hitsugaya, Matsumoto, Kenpachi, Kiyone, Ishida, Uryuu, Shinji, Hiyori, [[spoiler: Rukia, Kira, Love, Ogidou and Shirogane (yeah they’re canon), Harribel, Nemu, Tatsuki.Tatsuki, Ryuuken.]]
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* ColdBloodedTorture: Going through [[spoiler: Aizen's]] old office reveals that a lot more was done to the captives besides putting the Hogyoku to them. If one didn't know any better, his research notes could very well be describing '''lab rats.''' Even worse for the audience, this is found out after [[spoiler: we have seen at least four of [[TorturedAbomination the "subjects"]] killed.]]
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* ColdBloodedTorture: Going through [[spoiler: Aizen's]] old office reveals that a lot more was done to the captives besides putting the Hogyoku to them. If one didn't know any better, his research notes could very well be describing '''lab rats.''' Even worse for the audience, this is found out after [[spoiler: we have seen at least four of [[TorturedAbomination [[TorturedMonster the "subjects"]] killed.]]
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* DarkerAndEdgier: When good guys don't just fight glorious one-on-one five-episodes-long battles for our entertainment, and bad guys don't just conveniently stand there and brag about their brilliant plans and general evilness until being properly defeated by good guys (again, for our entertainment), it becomes much harder to ignore that prolonged warfare is quite an ugly business. Not only [[WarIsHell war indeed is hell]] - it's a particularly unattractive and non-romantic hell. And right along with the loss of PlotArmor and the associated tropes, this story takes already disturbing parts of Bleach canon, puts a light and a magnifying glass to them, asks, “How could this be made worse?”- and ''does it''. One example is the new form of hollowfication shown in the fic (or not-so-new - it looks and is implied to be the same as hollow!form of Tousen both in canon and in WW continuity. In canon, though, Tousen was the first and the last shinigami subjected to it, and in WW he has a BIG company). While the hollowfication shown in canon with the Vizards is nasty and scary, they're able to overcome it and remain themselves. The new form of hollowfication apparently ''can't'' be fought in that way (possibly because this time there is no Urahara around to help in the first place), and turns several canon characters into [[TorturedAbomination Tortured Abominations]]. At the same time, the villains lose whatever sympathetic traits they had in canon- Gin, for example, goes from merely having a sadistic streak to being pure evil (it is explained and justified in text, but we can safely assume his victims don't care much for the justification).
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* DarkerAndEdgier: When good guys don't just fight glorious one-on-one five-episodes-long battles for our entertainment, and bad guys don't just conveniently stand there and brag about their brilliant plans and general evilness until being properly defeated by good guys (again, for our entertainment), it becomes much harder to ignore that prolonged warfare is quite an ugly business. Not only [[WarIsHell war indeed is hell]] - it's a particularly unattractive and non-romantic hell. And right along with the loss of PlotArmor and the associated tropes, this story takes already disturbing parts of Bleach canon, puts a light and a magnifying glass to them, asks, “How could this be made worse?”- and ''does it''. One example is the new form of hollowfication shown in the fic (or not-so-new - it looks and is implied to be the same as hollow!form of Tousen both in canon and in WW continuity. In canon, though, Tousen was the first and the last shinigami subjected to it, and in WW he has a BIG company). While the hollowfication shown in canon with the Vizards is nasty and scary, they're able to overcome it and remain themselves. The new form of hollowfication apparently ''can't'' be fought in that way (possibly because this time there is no Urahara around to help in the first place), and turns several canon characters into [[TorturedAbomination [[TorturedMonster Tortured Abominations]].Monsters]]. At the same time, the villains lose whatever sympathetic traits they had in canon- Gin, for example, goes from merely having a sadistic streak to being pure evil (it is explained and justified in text, but we can safely assume his victims don't care much for the justification).
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** Far earlier in the fic, LaResistance discovers that at least two Captains are alive and need to be rescued from Los Noches. [[spoiler: And have been Hollowfied into [[TorturedAbomination Tortured Abominations.]] After that reveal, Kira and Hitsugaya [[IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight still manage to recognize Hinamori]]. [[ShootTheShaggyDog And promptly die.]] The Los Noches group has had a good run so far, even running into a non-Hollowfied Byakuya. [[GoMadFromTheIsolation He's not]] [[DeathSeeker all there.]] [[TorturedAbomination Neither is Renji.]]]] [[TraumaCongaLine All of these combined]] can make a [[SchmuckBait second read]] [[UpToEleven even more painful]] [[TearJerker than the first.]]
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** Far earlier in the fic, LaResistance discovers that at least two Captains are alive and need to be rescued from Los Noches. [[spoiler: And have been Hollowfied into [[TorturedAbomination Tortured Abominations.]] {{Tortured Monster}}s. After that reveal, Kira and Hitsugaya [[IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight still manage to recognize Hinamori]]. [[ShootTheShaggyDog And promptly die.]] The Los Noches group has had a good run so far, even running into a non-Hollowfied Byakuya. [[GoMadFromTheIsolation He's not]] [[DeathSeeker all there.]] [[TorturedAbomination [[TorturedMonster Neither is Renji.]]]] [[TraumaCongaLine All of these combined]] can make a [[SchmuckBait second read]] [[UpToEleven even more painful]] [[TearJerker than the first.]]
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* TorturedAbomination: Hollowfied Shinigami. Special mention goes to [[spoiler: Hitsugaya]], who got broken so badly that he's left as a [[spoiler: "jumble of icy wings and cruel claws" that can't even talk, [[TheBlank nor does he have a face.]] Momo]] [[TearJerker was not amused.]]
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* TorturedAbomination: TorturedMonster: Hollowfied Shinigami. Special mention goes to [[spoiler: Hitsugaya]], who got broken so badly that he's left as a [[spoiler: "jumble of icy wings and cruel claws" that can't even talk, [[TheBlank nor does he have a face.]] Momo]] [[TearJerker was not amused.]]
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* WouldHurtAChild: Yes, Aizen would. He would also [[spoiler: imprison them, torture them, and/or [[BrainwashedAndCrazy force them to serve him]] by turning them into entries under the TorturedAbomination section.]] Note that [[Really700YearsOld given his age]], a majority of the cast [[FridgeHorror can be listed under the "child" section.]]
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* WouldHurtAChild: Yes, Aizen would. He would also [[spoiler: imprison them, torture them, and/or [[BrainwashedAndCrazy force them to serve him]] by turning them into entries under the TorturedAbomination TorturedMonster section.]] Note that [[Really700YearsOld given his age]], a majority of the cast [[FridgeHorror can be listed under the "child" section.]]
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* DiseaseBleach: Hisagi's hair had begun to go gray under the stress of the last few months.
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* RePower: [[spoiler: Jirobou Ikkanzaka, Jidanbou’s little brother, who lost his powers to Ishida in canon]] voluntarily underwent hollowfication to gain new abilities.
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* RePower: [[spoiler: Jirobou Ikkanzaka, Jidanbou’s little brother, who lost his powers to Ishida in canon]] voluntarily underwent hollowfication to gain new abilities. There's also [[spoiler: Grimmjow, who loses his hollow powers when Orihime "purifies" him and gains shinigami ones instead.]]
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* FoeYay- If Mayuri's ''highly disturbing'' internal dialogue about how '''excited''' he is at the prospect of capturing Urahara are any indication.
-->Why, if he hadn't excised certain organs as unnecessary, they would have been positively twitching at the very idea.
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* FoeYay- If Mayuri's ''highly disturbing'' internal dialogue about how '''excited''' he is at the prospect of capturing Urahara are any indication.
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* RePower: [[spoiler: Jirobou Ikkanzaka, Jidanbou’s little brother, who lost his powers to Ishida in canon]] voluntarily underwent hollowfication to gain new abilities.
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* FlawExploitation: The Resistance takes advantage of Gin's [[spoiler: obsesion with Rangiku, using it to lure him out of Seireitei a a key moment.]]
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* FlawExploitation: The Resistance takes advantage of Gin's [[spoiler: obsesion obsession with Rangiku, using it to lure him out of Seireitei a a key moment.]]
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* WorldBuilding: The role and abilities of zanpakutou are expanded on in some very interesting ways.
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It Got Worse sinkhole cleanup
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** Doubly subverted by Hinamori. ''Twice.'' She intends to try this on [[spoiler: Kira]] and [[spoiler: Hitsugaya]]. Both times she gives up almost immediately, because it doesn't (and couldn't) work... and THEN it works - [[ItGotWorse in a way which leaves her desperately wishing it wouldn't]] (especially the second time).
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** Doubly subverted by Hinamori. ''Twice.'' She intends to try this on [[spoiler: Kira]] and [[spoiler: Hitsugaya]]. Both times she gives up almost immediately, because it doesn't (and couldn't) work... and THEN it works - [[ItGotWorse in a way which leaves her desperately wishing it wouldn't]] wouldn't (especially the second time).
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* StuffBlowingUp: Kuukaku makes explosives which she and the other members of LaResistance use in battle.
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''[[http://incandescens.livejournal.com/750926.html#cutid1 Winter War]]'' is a very dark {{Bleach}} AU fanfic co-authored by [[http://incandescens.livejournal.com/ incandescens]], [[http://liralen.livejournal.com/ liralen]], and [[http://sophiap.livejournal.com/ Sophia Prester]]. It diverges from canon during the Hueco Mundo and Fake Karakura Town arcs.
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''[[http://incandescens.livejournal.com/750926.html#cutid1 Winter War]]'' is a very dark {{Bleach}} Manga/{{Bleach}} AU fanfic co-authored by [[http://incandescens.livejournal.com/ incandescens]], [[http://liralen.livejournal.com/ liralen]], and [[http://sophiap.livejournal.com/ Sophia Prester]]. It diverges from canon during the Hueco Mundo and Fake Karakura Town arcs.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: When good guys don't just fight glorious one-on-one five-episodes-long battles for our entertainment, and bad guys don't just conveniently stand there and brag about their brilliant plans and general evilness until being properly defeated by good guys (again, for our entertainment), it becomes much harder to ignore that prolonged warfare is quite an ugly business. Not only [[WarIsHell war indeed is hell]] - it's a particularly unattractive and non-romantic hell. And right along with the loss of PlotArmor and the associated tropes, this story takes already disturbing parts of Bleach canon, puts a light and a magnifying glass to them, asks, “How could this be made worse?”- and ''does it''. One example is the new form of hollowfication shown in the fic (or not-so-new - it looks and is implied to be the same as hollow!form of Tousen both in canon and in WW continuity. In canon, though, Tousen was the first and the last shinigami subjected to it, and in WW he has a BIG company). While the hollowfication shown in canon with the Vizards is nasty and scary, they're able to overcome it and remain themselves. The new form of hollowfication apparently ''can't'' be fought in that way (possibly because this time there is no Urahara around to help in the first place), and turns several canon characters into [[TorturedAbomination Tortured Abominations]]. At the same time, the villains lose whatever sympathetic traits they had in canon- Gin, for example, goes from merely having a sadistic streak into CompleteMonster territory (it is explained and justified in text, but we can safely assume his victims don't care much for the justification).
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* DarkerAndEdgier: When good guys don't just fight glorious one-on-one five-episodes-long battles for our entertainment, and bad guys don't just conveniently stand there and brag about their brilliant plans and general evilness until being properly defeated by good guys (again, for our entertainment), it becomes much harder to ignore that prolonged warfare is quite an ugly business. Not only [[WarIsHell war indeed is hell]] - it's a particularly unattractive and non-romantic hell. And right along with the loss of PlotArmor and the associated tropes, this story takes already disturbing parts of Bleach canon, puts a light and a magnifying glass to them, asks, “How could this be made worse?”- and ''does it''. One example is the new form of hollowfication shown in the fic (or not-so-new - it looks and is implied to be the same as hollow!form of Tousen both in canon and in WW continuity. In canon, though, Tousen was the first and the last shinigami subjected to it, and in WW he has a BIG company). While the hollowfication shown in canon with the Vizards is nasty and scary, they're able to overcome it and remain themselves. The new form of hollowfication apparently ''can't'' be fought in that way (possibly because this time there is no Urahara around to help in the first place), and turns several canon characters into [[TorturedAbomination Tortured Abominations]]. At the same time, the villains lose whatever sympathetic traits they had in canon- Gin, for example, goes from merely having a sadistic streak into CompleteMonster territory to being pure evil (it is explained and justified in text, but we can safely assume his victims don't care much for the justification).
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* WouldHurtAChild: Yes, [[CompleteMonster Aizen]] would. He would also [[spoiler: imprison them, torture them, and/or [[BrainwashedAndCrazy force them to serve him]] by turning them into entries under the TorturedAbomination section.]] Note that [[Really700YearsOld given his age]], a majority of the cast [[FridgeHorror can be listed under the "child" section.]]
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* WouldHurtAChild: Yes, [[CompleteMonster Aizen]] Aizen would. He would also [[spoiler: imprison them, torture them, and/or [[BrainwashedAndCrazy force them to serve him]] by turning them into entries under the TorturedAbomination section.]] Note that [[Really700YearsOld given his age]], a majority of the cast [[FridgeHorror can be listed under the "child" section.]]
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* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Several shinigami try this on [[spoiler: Ichigo]]. [[spoiler: Orihime's]] [[IRejectYourReality method]] works better.
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* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Several shinigami try this on [[spoiler: Ichigo]]. [[spoiler: Orihime's]] [[IRejectYourReality [[RealityWarper method]] works better.
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* SplitPersonalityTakeover: [[spoiler: Ichigo's Hollow]] takes over his body and becomes arguably the most powerful of Aizen's army.
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* SplitPersonalityTakeover: [[spoiler: Ichigo's Hollow]] takes over his body and becomes arguably the most powerful of Aizen's army. [[spoiler: It's reversible, but only via Orihime's RealityWarper powers.]]
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* StormingTheCastle: Since Seireitei is occupied by Aizen's forces, retaking it is of course a goal of the resistance. [[spoiler: Now accomplished by Soifon, Kuukaku, Sasakibe, Chad, the remaining [[{{Ninja}} Onmitsukidou]] and the gathered forces of the noble clans.]]
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* StormingTheCastle: Since Seireitei is occupied by Aizen's forces, retaking it is of course a goal of the resistance. [[spoiler: Now accomplished by Soifon, Soi Fong, Kuukaku, Sasakibe, Chad, the remaining [[{{Ninja}} Onmitsukidou]] and the gathered forces of the noble clans.]]
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* LaResistance: Led by Ukitake.
* LateArrivalSpoiler: A stealthy one. The chapters are usually marked with POV character- "Nanao: Winter", etc. With the exception of the second chapter occuring well before the first, they seem to be in more or less sequential order. A chapter is headed with [[spoiler: Byakuya's]] name... several chapters after another POV character remembered witnessing [[spoiler: his]] death. If you happen to read the chapter titles before the fic, you will probably assume that the character is alive, even though [[spoiler: his]] survival is a big surprise in context.
* LateArrivalSpoiler: A stealthy one. The chapters are usually marked with POV character- "Nanao: Winter", etc. With the exception of the second chapter occuring well before the first, they seem to be in more or less sequential order. A chapter is headed with [[spoiler: Byakuya's]] name... several chapters after another POV character remembered witnessing [[spoiler: his]] death. If you happen to read the chapter titles before the fic, you will probably assume that the character is alive, even though [[spoiler: his]] survival is a big surprise in context.
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* KilledByTheAdaptation: List in progress: Yamamoto, Oomaeda, Komamura, Hitsugaya, Matsumoto, Kenpachi, Kiyone, Ishida, Shinji, Hiyori, [[spoiler: Rukia, Kira, Love, Ogidou and Shirogane (yeah they’re canon), Harribel, Nemu, Tatsuki.]]
* LaResistance: Led byUkitake.
Ukitake.
* LateArrivalSpoiler: A stealthy one. The chapters are usually marked with POV character- "Nanao: Winter", etc. With the exception of the second chapteroccuring occurring well before the first, they seem to be in more or less sequential order. A chapter is headed with [[spoiler: Byakuya's]] name... several chapters after another POV character remembered witnessing [[spoiler: his]] death. If you happen to read the chapter titles before the fic, you will probably assume that the character is alive, even though [[spoiler: his]] survival is a big surprise in context.
* LaResistance: Led by
* LateArrivalSpoiler: A stealthy one. The chapters are usually marked with POV character- "Nanao: Winter", etc. With the exception of the second chapter
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* MotivationalLie: Yoruichi decides not to tell Ryuuken that she knows for sure his son is dead, judging that his mental state is too precarious for her to inform him during a lull in the battle against Mayuri and Szayel. [[spoiler: Kyorakou tells Byakuya that his memory of killing Rukia [[MindRape is one of Aizen's illusion]], so that he'll stop [[DeathSeeker trying to get himself killed]].]] In both cases, the person lied to is already very fragile mentally, and the
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* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler: Byakuya, after killing Hollow Rukia. Kyorakou eventually convinces him to stop trying to die by lying and telling him that his memory of killing Rukia is one of Aizen's illusions, and that she died under completely different circumstances.]]
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--> ''Not sure yet... there seem to be two Vastolorde heading in your direction. One matches the description we received of... Oh. King of Heaven...'' [[spoiler: ''Aizen's with them.'']]
--> ''Not sure yet... there seem to be two Vastolorde heading in your direction. One matches the description we received of... Oh. King of Heaven...'' [[spoiler: ''Aizen's with them.'']]
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* MadnessMantra: "Justice. Justice. '''Justice!'''"
