History Roleplay / TheArrancarWars

* FiveManBand - The Hueco Mundo Rescue Team
** TheHero: Takato
** TheLancer: Raizo
** TheBigGuy: Shyū by default; Wonderweiss' BoisterousBruiser fighting style also qualifies him.
** TheSmartGuy: Rukia and Yumichika, being the most analytical fighters of the group.
** TheChick: Hanatarō's personality ends up fulfilling this trope, although he's not nearly as girly as, say, Yumichika.
** TheSixthRanger: Shinji

[[http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/series-related-miscellaneous-role-play/the-arrancar-wars-a-literate-bleach-rp/t.24289283 The Arrancar Wars]] is an AlternateContinuity [[PlayByPostGames play by post game]] on GaiaOnline set two and a half years after ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'''s Soul Society arc, omitting the Hueco Mundo arc and all that followed. Launched March 2007 by user Yamato_Kameyama, [[FunWithAcronyms TAW]] gained a dedicated staff and a fluctuating (but highly active) member-base. Despite the obvious divergence from the the continuity of series proper, it started out very similarly, with the Gotei 7 fighting of [[MonsterOfTheWeek continuous attacks from legions of Hollows, with the occasional Arrancar or two]] before launching into actual story arcs. It became widely known, even amongst those who didn't join, as one of the [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative best Bleach roleplaying forums]] on the site. Sadly, over the course of two years, participation began to drop, culminating with the RP's [[OrphanedSeries final abandonment]] in December 2009, near the end of the story's Hueco Mundo Arc.

[[http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/series-related-miscellaneous-role-play/the-arrancar-wars-a-literate-bleach-rp/t.24289283 The Arrancar Wars]] is an AlternateContinuity [[PlayByPostGames play by post game]] on GaiaOnline set two and a half years after ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'''s Soul Society arc, omitting the Hueco Mundo arc and all that followed. Launched March 2007 by user Yamato_Kameyama, [[FunWithAcronyms TAW]] gained a dedicated staff and a fluctuating (but highly active) member-base. Despite the obvious divergence from the the continuity of series proper, it started out very similarly, with the Gotei 7 fighting of [[MonsterOfTheWeek continuous attacks from legions of Hollows, with the occasional Arrancar or two]] before launching into actual story arcs. It became widely known, even amongst those who didn't join, as one of the [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative best Bleach roleplaying forums]] on the site. Sadly, over the course of two years, [[TooGoodToLast participation began to drop]], culminating with the RP's [[OrphanedSeries final abandonment]] in December 2009, near the end of the story's Hueco Mundo Arc.

->"Two years after the Soul Society Arc of the ''{{Bleach}}'' storyline, the traitor [[BigBad Aizen]] finally made his move. In a completely unexpected turn of events, Aizen’s army of Arrancar launched a massive invasion of Soul Society. The invaders were eventually repelled, but the damage had been done...and the price was high. Seireitei lay in ruins. The Gotei 13 had been all but annihilated; hundreds of shinigami and thousands more souls were killed. In an attempt to replenish their heavily depleted forces, Soul Society decided to consolidate what they had left into a single new organization, the Gotei 7. However, with so few notably powerful shinigami to serve as Captains, Soul Society was forced to recall formerly exiled shinigami to serve as Captains for the Divisions. Together, they stand as the new defenders of Soul Society.\\

[[http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/series-related-miscellaneous-role-play/the-arrancar-wars-a-literate-bleach-rp/t.24289283 The Arrancar Wars]] is an AlternateContinuity [[PlayByPostGames play by post game]] on GaiaOnline set two and a half years after ''{{Bleach}}'''s Soul Society arc, omitting the Hueco Mundo arc and all that followed. Launched March 2007 by user Yamato_Kameyama, [[FunWithAcronyms TAW]] gained a dedicated staff and a fluctuating (but highly active) member-base. Despite the obvious divergence from the the continuity of series proper, it started out very similarly, with the Gotei 7 fighting of [[MonsterOfTheWeek continuous attacks from legions of Hollows, with the occasional Arrancar or two]] before launching into actual story arcs. It became widely known, even amongst those who didn't join, as one of the [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative best Bleach roleplaying forums]] on the site. Sadly, over the course of two years, [[TooGoodToLast participation began to drop]], culminating with the RP's [[OrphanedSeries final abandonment]] in December 2009, near the end of the story's Hueco Mundo Arc.

->"[[RebelLeader Lord Yuan Kafei]] illustrious leader of the [[LaResistance Renegades]], was unhappy with the re-uniting of his worlds and the eternal lost of his dead fiancé. He begins playing with the concepts of planar physics and eventually discovered a method to which he could locate genetic matches to his fiance, Martel, on other worlds far quicker than it would take for Mana to decide her soul could be reborn in the world again. Unfortunately, in a freak accident, Yuan managed to send himself and his brilliant invention, The Bio-Gate, to a strange world. It seemed that little pieces of his world along with other worlds begin to gather on to this new world. Intent in his mission, Lord Yuan began to summon others through the Bio-Gate, hoping to find the one who could replace his lost love, Martel. However, as it has been with his invention so far, it still has a few kinks to work out which includes a GPS in order to find the others he pulled through the Bio-Gate and the random ones that have nothing to do with Martel that are being pulled through...\\
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->"Two years after the Soul Society Arc of the ''{{Bleach}}'' storyline, the traitor [[BigBad Aizen]] finally made his move. In a completely unexpected turn of events, Aizen’s army of Arrancar launched a massive invasion of Soul Society. The invaders were eventually repelled, but the damage had been done...and the price was high. Seireitei lay in ruins. The Gotei 13 had been all but annihilated; hundreds of shinigami and thousands more souls were killed. In an attempt to replenish their heavily depleted forces, Soul Society decided to consolidate what they had left into a single new organization, the Gotei 7. However, with so few notably powerful shinigami to serve as Captains, Soul Society was forced to recall formerly exiled shinigami to serve as Captains for the Divisions. Together, they stand as the new defenders of Soul Society.\\

These are the tales of the Arrancar Wars."

[[http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/series-related-miscellaneous-role-play/the-arrancar-wars-a-literate-bleach-rp/t.24289283 The Arrancar Wars]] is an AlternateContinuity [[PlayByPostGames play by post game]] on GaiaOnline set two and a half years after ''{{Bleach}}'''s Soul Society arc, omitting the Hueco Mundo arc and all that followed. Launched March 2007 by user Yamato_Kameyama, [[FunWithAcronyms TAW]] gained a dedicated staff and a fluctuating (but highly active) member-base. Despite the obvious divergence from the the continuity of series proper, it started out very similarly, with the Gotei 7 fighting of [[MonsterOfTheWeek continuous attacks from legions of Hollows, with the occasional Arrancar or two]] before launching into actual story arcs. It became widely known, even amongst those who didn't join, as one of the [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative best Bleach roleplaying forums]] on the site. Sadly, over the course of two years, [[TooGoodToLast participation began to drop]], culminating with the RP's [[OrphanedSeries final abandonment]] in December 2009, near the end of the story's Hueco Mundo Arc.

Yamato, completely unwilling to let go of [[GloryDays one of the funnest times in his life]], has made plans to [[FanFic finish and novelize]] the story.

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!!Contains Examples Of:

* AchillesInHisTent: Yamamoto, of course. He actually invokes it when he shoots down Takato's plan for a rescue mission, insisting that the risk of losing more forces is too great.
* AfterTheEnd: Not exactly post-apocalyptic, but as much as six months after the attack, Soul Society is in ruins. That giant white sekkiseki tower that Rukia was held prisoner in? ''It's a giant pile of rubble.''
* BigDamnHeroes: Takato gets one such moment when he saves Hitsugaya from Aizen's killing blow. Bonus points in that Takato is [[YouCanBarelyStand already battered to hell]].
* DespairEventHorizon: Hitsugaya, [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend having lost Hinamori in Aizen's attack on Soul Society]], spends much of the story teetering on this. He gradually gets better.
* DopeSlap: Happens to Shyū all the time.
* FiveManBand - The Hueco Mundo Rescue Team
** TheHero: Takato
** TheLancer: Raizo
** TheBigGuy: Shyū by default; Wonderweiss' BoisterousBruiser fighting style also qualifies him.
** TheSmartGuy: Rukia and Yumichika, being the most analytical fighters of the group.
** TheChick: Hanatarō's personality ends up fulfilling this trope, although he's not nearly as girly as, say, Yumichika.
** TheSixthRanger: Shinji
* AHandfulForAnEye: Hanatarō pulls this on [[ArrogantKungFuGuy Pailong]] during their fight in the Hueco Mundo Arc
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: When Takato determines that the missing shinigami officers have most likely been captured and imprisoned, Yamamoto immediately tells him not to go after them. [[ChaoticGood Naturally, he does it anyway]].
* {{Gorn}} - The writers between themselves dish out plenty of gruesome stuff.
* TrainingFromHell: Hanatarō receives this from both [[TricksterMentor Urahara]] and [[DrillSergeantNasty Takato]]
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