Okay so we've seen Lelouch's support group, but what about [[SupportingProtagonist Ichigo's]]? These are the characters that, regardless of what other affiliations they might have, are strongly correlated to his friendship.

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For more information on these characters [[Characters/BleachIchigosCompanions use]] [[Characters/BleachSoulSocietyDwellers these]] and [[Characters/BleachKarakuraTownResidents these]] [[Characters/BleachAnime pages]].

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!! Tatsuki Arisawa
Ichigo's childhood friend. Changes in the timestream have brought her and Ichigo closer than in canon. These changes have impacted Tatsuki greatly in numerous ways. [[spoiler: Because her powers came from Soifon rather than Ichigo, Tatsuki’s powers developed very closely akin to that of a Soul Reaper, but because she isn’t an actual Soul Reaper her body could not naturally store all the extra energy and manifested itself in [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Kaibun]], who is to Tatsuki what Zanpakuto spirits are to their owners. It also explains why her growth rate and strength are higher than Chad’s since Soifon was stronger than Ichigo when he first started out]].

* AnimalMotifs: [[spoiler: A dragon]].
* AscendedExtra
* [[spoiler:BrokenBird: Not as much as Orihime, but still qualifies. Because of Ichigo’s death and because Orihime dropped off the map she sunk into a [[HeroicBSOD deep]] [[DeathSeeker depression]]. TheReveal to her that Orihime is alive helps her cope and stand up on her own again, but it’s clear that Tatsuki is still struggling with what happened to Ichigo]].
* [[spoiler: CastFromHp: Her Healing Flame ability]]
* DrillSergeantNasty: [[spoiler: Her occupation by the time of Wish Fulfillment]]
* FreudianTrio: with [[spoiler: Kaibun and Arisa]]. She’s TheEgo.
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Delivers this to Ichigo during the [[spoiler: Reapers and Heralds]] arc while he [[spoiler: is in his ultimate hollow form]]
* GlassCannon
* [[spoiler: HowlOfSorrow: Produces one when Ichigo is [[TakenForGranite turned to stone]]]]
* [[spoiler: ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice]]: By [[spoiler: Mayuri]] in chapter 44
* [[spoiler: [[ImplacableMan Implacable Woman]]: Becomes something of a terminator when Kaibun takes over her]].
* [[spoiler: IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Almost states this word for word to Ichigo when she finds out that he and Orihime [[RelationshipUpgrade are a couple]]]]
* KickTheSonOfABitch: She punches [[spoiler:Emperor Charles]] in the face. [[Awesome/SoulChess Go Tatsuki]].
* [[spoiler: KungFuWizard: She can not only fight with [[PlayingWithFire fire imbued]] martial arts, but she can create [[KillItWithFire rampaging infernos, blasts of concentrated fire, and fire of energy blasts]] as well.]]
* LeeroyJenkins: You just have to facepalm when Tatsuki [[spoiler:attacks Starrk's Segunda Etapa head on like that]]. Ironically, Lelouch anticipated she would do this and calibrated it as [[ThePlan part of his plan]]
* [[spoiler: MakeMeWannaShout: Her Nageki no Ryu]]
* MeaningfulName: Her nickname as part of the Karakura gang battles is Noble Dragon, which is one particular way of translating the characters used to spell Tatsuki’s name.
* [[spoiler:PlayingWithFire: Her powers]].
* [[spoiler:PowerGivesYouWings]]
* [[spoiler:RoaringRampageOfRevenge: With her parents, Ichigo, and believing Orihime to also be dead[[note]]she’s with Lelouch[[/note]] Tatsuki tears towards Britannia and attempts to assassinate Charles. [[StatusQuoIsGod Status quo]] sees to it that she [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption fails]] of course]].
* [[spoiler: [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Superpowered Morally Ambiguous Side]]: Kaibun]]
* [[spoiler:SurvivorGuilt: She and Lisa are the only ones to survive Daraclu’s onslaught, though Tatsuki thinks Lisa is dead until Rita tells her otherwise. Even so she still felt the effects of this trope.]]
* [[spoiler: TheBerserker]]
* TheDeterminator: Exaggerated when Orihime is nearby.
* TheLancer: To Ichigo's FiveManBand.
* TookALevelInBadass: Upon obtaining her powers.
** Upon [[spoiler: [[YouWillBeAssimilated fusing with]] Arisa]] Tatsuki is now as powerful as [[spoiler: her alter ego Kaibun]].
*** Actually according to WordOfGod [[spoiler: Kaibun is still stronger, but Tatsuki now has the willpower to supress her]]. It's very possible that [[spoiler: we haven't seen the last of Kaibun]].
*** She's taken yet another one in ch 96. [[spoiler: Kaibun finally accepts Tatsuki as her master and Tatsuki has unleashed her final form]].
* WaifFu: while fighting [[spoiler: Jirobo]] who is over 7 feet tall.
* WhatTheHellHero: Gave a huge one to [[spoiler:Ichigo]] for [[spoiler:his role in FakingTheDead for nine years.]]
* [[spoiler: YouWillBeAssimilated: Does this to Arisa.]]

!! Yasutora "Chad" Sado
Ichigo's best friend since Middle School. Chad's as large and quiet as always.

!! Rukia Kuchiki[[spoiler:[=/=]Shiba]]
The reason Ichigo was involved in the affairs of the Soul Society in the first place, [[spoiler: if you don't count that she was [[GambitRoulette a part of]] [[TheChessmaster Aizen's]] [[AllAccordingToPlan plan]]]] of course. [[spoiler: Thanks to her sister still being alive]] and other factors as well Rukia [[spoiler: is currently the vice-captain of Squad 3 (under her sister) and is married to Kaien Shiba]].

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: In chapter 38, during her mission to Karakura Town Rukia starts wishing that [[spoiler: Kaien or Hisana]] would come to help her. Both wind up showing up, but they're not exactly there to make the situation better for her.
* DemotedToExtra: Rukia is pretty much Ichigo’s [[TheLancer sidekick]] in the [[Manga/{{Bleach}} main series]]. Here we certainly don’t see her as often. Though for her it’s not as bad as say [[ButtMonkey Renji]].
* [[spoiler: RelationshipUpgrade: In chapter 74, Rukia marries and is deflowered by Kaien]].
* TookALevelInBadass: Four words: Yottsu no mai, Byakuren.
** [[spoiler: By the end, has made significant progress in materialising her zanpakuto; ie she has nearly acquired Bankai.]]
** [[spoiler: Which happens in canon in 569, yet another example of author foresight.]]

!! Orihime[[spoiler:/Naomi]] Inoue[[spoiler:/Kurosaki]]
The naive, well endowed, classmate of Ichigo's. She has an obvious crush on said protagonist. [[spoiler:She and Ichigo are [[RelationshipUpgrade currently dating]]. In the Lelouch and the Law, she becomes the JUDGE that decides the FATE of Soul Society. After the war with Britannia [[HesJustHiding she is in denial of]] [[OurHeroIsDead Ichigo’s death]] and seeks out to find him because he promised he would come back to her. She dyes her hair blue and crosses paths with Naoto Kozuki and joins his resistance group under the name Inoue [[WhamLine Naomi]]. Culminating in a huge WhatTheHellHero moment to Lelouch for letting it all happen]].[[spoiler: As of 2021, she's married to Ichigo and expecting his baby. At the end of the year Masaki is born and is a cheerful child as shown in 2026]].


* BewareTheNiceOnes: Chapter 124 shows that Orihime can be an extremely competent foe when forced to be so.
** In chapter 160 [[spoiler:Orihime goes from passive to maniacal in seconds when she finds that Chizuru had been captured and sold into slave labor. Those Britannian nobles never stood a chance]].
* BreakTheCutie: Sheesh if you thought [[TheStationsOfTheCanon the Hueco Mundo kidnapping was bad]] wait until you see how she handles [[spoiler:coping with Ichigo’s death.]]
* [[spoiler:BrokenBird: Oh good god where to start? After [[WhamEpisode Ichigo]] [[OurHeroIsDead buys]] [[DyingMomentOfAwesome it]], against [[HeroKiller Cornelia]], Orihime seems like she’s going to be okay and faithfully believes that Ichigo is out there. However, in the chapter where [[TheStationsOfTheCanon Naoto dies]], we are given an insight and possibility that Orihime is mentally ill and that her coping mechanism of dealing with Ichigo’s death is to believe that he’s still out there and to take revenge on Britannia in the process]].
* [[spoiler:BroughtDownToBadass: As a freedom fighter once she loses her hairpins and therefore can’t use her powers. However, she can still fight with conventional weaponry rather effectively]].
** [[spoiler: She's since had them returned to her, and learned A LOT more in the meantime.]]
* BunnyEarsLawyer: In chapter 93 she is tasked with [[spoiler: being the judge for a case that will completely revolutionize the Soul Society]]. The very notion is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by [[spoiler: The Central Forty Six]].
* [[spoiler:ClickHello]]: On the giving end of this trope. [[spoiler:And her target is Lelouch]].
* CoolBigSis: Towards Kallen.
* [[spoiler:FakingTheDead: After the Black Rebellion which originally kills off Naomi, she completely discards her Naomi name and returns to her original name of Orihime Inoue.]]
* [[spoiler: HappilyMarried: To Ichigo.]]
* [[spoiler:HesJustHiding: Her mentality about Ichigo since she NeverFoundTheBody and wants to either locate him or find proof of his demise - turns out she's right after all]].
* [[spoiler:HerHeartWillGoOn: She’s taking Ichigo’s death…sort of okay. At least she’s not breaking down into a big busty ball of tears - good thing too; he's not dead]].
* [[spoiler: HeroicBSOD: Suffers this when she sees Ichigo sealed up and Lelouch tells her that she shouldn’t unseal him]].
* IdenticalStranger: To Shirley.
* [[spoiler: IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight]]: Subverted in that Orihime [[spoiler: wasn’t the one actually the one doing the fight, but she was the one who appealed to Ichigo's heart when he lost control of himself during the first Battle of Karakura Town]].
* TheMedic
* MirrorCharacter: Her [[spoiler:SanitySlippage]] is compared to the same [[spoiler:slow path of self-destruction Cornelia is going through]] in the narration.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In her desire to help Tatsuki, Orihime only succeeds in getting the girl thrown off Acidwire's back.
* [[spoiler: RelationshipUpgrade: With Ichigo in chapter 69. They're now dating]].
** [[spoiler: In chapter 74 they have sex]].
** [[spoiler: In chapter 149, they get engaged, and by 182 are married]].
* RestrainingBolt: Her voice is capable of [[spoiler:keeping Ichigo from letting his SuperpoweredEvilSide take over]].
* [[spoiler: SanitySlippage: How others view her coping mechanism at times. Now proven by using [[FantasticDrug Refrain]].]]
* [[spoiler:SecretSecretKeeper]]: She knew that [[spoiler:Zero was Lelouch]] she only didn’t say anything because [[spoiler:[[TemporalParadox the reason she knows]] would make everyone think she’s [[CloudCuckooLander mental]]. [[BrokenBird Even more so]] [[BreakTheCutie than she already is]].]]
* [[spoiler:StepfordSmiler]]: Oh so much in the Within Zero’s Shadow arc. Poor Hime-chan.
* [[spoiler: TalkingToTheDead: Talks to [[TakenForGranite Ichigo’s statue]] and promises she’ll come by every day until he returns]].
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: When talking about why [[spoiler: Soifon]] isn't around, among other, absurd, guesses, she almost ''correctly guesses exactly what [[spoiler: Soifon]] is''. Also the stuff regarding Ichigo
* TookALevelInBadass: She [[spoiler: cuts off Mayuri's arm for attacking Tatsuki]].
** Orihime shows us just what happens when she’s serious in chapter 124. She is unafraid to [[spoiler: kill the togabito she fights, though she does close her eyes when she kills it]].
** Orihime is forced to toughen up [[spoiler:since she loses her special hairpins]] and [[spoiler:fight with conventional weapons as a freedom fighter. Her resolve and fierce eyes are a result of her determination to make Britannia pay for what they did to Ichigo]].
** [[spoiler:Orihime's Geass can allow to scan the name of her target ([[Manga/DeathNote and their lifespan according to]] WordOfGod), she also gains a fullbring known as Tenshi no Nihon (Angel of Japan), obtains her hairpins back, and can somehow do the [[Franchise/DragonBall Kamehameha Wave]].]]
*** According to WordOfGod [[spoiler: The [[Franchise/DragonBall Kamehameha Wave]] is made possible by the fact that Orihime is able to utilize [[ImaginationBasedSuperpower any energy-based attack she can think of]] within the limitations of her reiatsu. Her wings act as a ManaMeter for this effect]].
* [[spoiler: TookALevelInJerkass: Poor Orihime, she is developing hatred with Britannia because of Ichigo's supposed death. She even acknowledges it with her WhatTheHellHero moment below. This seems to have subsided now that we war is over, and the gang is back together]]
* WhatTheHellHero: Gives a big one to [[spoiler:Lelouch]]. One line says it all.
--> '''Orihime:''' [[spoiler:[[BreakTheCutie I know how to hate]]]].


!! Uryu Ishida
A quincy and the smartest student of the freshman class at Karakura High School. [[spoiler: Thanks to Lelouch, the Quincies instead of being driven to near extinction are now a first response force in the face of a hollow threat making Uryu a [[TookALevelInKindness much nicer person]] what with his aging grandfather alive and all]].

* CharacterTic: Uryu pushes up his glasses like almost every other scene he’s in if not more. Usually it’s to say something smart.
* DiscOneNuke: Obtains Ginrei Kojaku, the bow that let him contend with low level ''espada'' before the fic's version of the Soul Society arc.
* TookALevelInKindness: As a result of the endangered quincies being left alive.

!! Shinji Hirako
The former captain of Squad 5 now is one of Ichigo's closest companions thanks to some meddling from those around him. He's still the same wisecracking perverted overbite blonde everyone remembers. He also oversaw Lelouch's entrance exam into the Shino Academy. [[spoiler:His Bankai is Gyakuten Sakanade (Reversing Counter Stroke).]] [[spoiler:Killed by Daraclu.]]

* InterfaceScrew: The Shikai [[spoiler:itself]] can screw up your perception very badly. [[spoiler:The Bankai is even WORSE, Shinji can CHOOSE which perception he can screw up on his opponent, at ANY TIME, and it doesn't affect him or his chosen allies AT ALL.]]
* [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal]]
** [[spoiler: BoomHeadshot]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Leaving Cirucci alive with a pierced soul chain allowed [[spoiler: Talbumosuke]] to use her powerless body to [[spoiler: [[BackFromTheDead revive Mia]]]].
* [[spoiler:PartingWordsRegret:]] "Look if you want to go and get yourself killed that's fine by me. Don't expect me to be at your funeral." This was the last thing he told [[spoiler:Hiyori]] the morning of the upcoming battle.
* SixthRanger: To Ichigo's FiveManBand
* SpannerInTheWorks: Lelouch's plan against Talbumosuke would've worked flawlessly in the Battle of Karakura Town arc if Shinji hadn't gone into to Hueco Mundo
* WhatTheHellHero: Lisa lays into him by saying that he told them that he was failing to recruit Ichigo, but didn't tell the other Visoreds that [[spoiler: Aizen is dead]].

!! Keigo Asano
Ichigo's hyperactive dumbass of a friend. Ever since [[spoiler: Tatsuki obtained her powers]] he is the only one shown to have spiritual power and not be able to do anything with it and not know what's going on around him. It seems he would like to know though. [[spoiler: He gets the chance to do something about it in the Fullbringer arc where Kendra enlists his help in tracking them down and allowing him to obtain a fullbring of his own. It is a guitar called [[ThePowerOfRock Greatest Guitar Ever]]. Keigo eventually comes to sympathize with his supposed to be enemies and [[FaceHeelTurn turns on the Soul Society and Ichigo]]. After Ginjo's defeat though, he pleads for forgiveness and to [[TheAtoner make it up to his friends]]. Ichigo [[WelcomeBackTraitor accepts]]]].

* AscendedExtra: As of the Fullbringer arc.
* [[spoiler: BewareTheSillyOnes: When you look at Keigo pre-Fullbringer arc and then see what he’s capable of after he’s cut by Tsukishima, you wonder if you’re reading about the same character]].
* CrashIntoHello: How he meets Riruka.
* [[spoiler: DidNotGetTheGirl: Riruka leaves on an airplane along with the rest of the surviving Fullbringers and the last Keigo saw of her she was shot by Yolanda]].
** [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] as of Chapter 201.]]
* [[spoiler: EasilyForgiven[=/=]WelcomeBackTraitor: Isn’t given a single bit of punishment for his actions. Although really the ultimate decision is left up to Ichigo since Keigo was simply an accomplice and it seems his choice to be TheAtoner is enough for the guy]].
* [[spoiler: FaceHeelTurn]]
** [[spoiler: He came back after Ginjo's defeat]].
* [[spoiler:JumpedAtTheCall]]: Not that we'd expect anything less. Just the fact that the opportunity is given is why there is a spoiler tag.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: CONSTANTLY! And he’s none too happy about it. Poor kid. [[spoiler:This is another motivation for his FaceHeelTurn, at least until the Fullbringer arc.]]
* MundaneMadeAwesome: Keigo is the first person to beat the arcade game ''Demons and Devils''. If he wasn't [[WorldOfBadass surrounded by awesomeness]] it might have a bigger efect.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: [[spoiler: Kendra and]] Soifon know that something is up with Keigo because he’s actually paying attention in class for once.
* [[spoiler: RealityWarper: With the combination of ImprovisedWeapon. When Keigo gets into a [[ThePowerOfRock rhythm]] he can distort the space around him and manipulate it with his mind]].
* [[spoiler: RedemptionDemotion: No one seems to take him seriously after he’s back on the good guys’ side. Or at least Tatsuki doesn’t as [[LittleMissSnarker she’s the one poking fun at him most often]].]]
* [[spoiler: TheMole: He’s supposed to function as this for Kendra so that she can get a drop on the Fullbringers, though mostly Ginjo]].
** [[spoiler: [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Unfortunately due to Kendra's thoughtless actions]] (she is not working with a trained soldier, she is working with a high school student), it leads to (solidifies) his FaceHeelTurn.]]
* [[spoiler: ShockAndAwe: Part of his fullbring]].
* [[spoiler: SinisterScythe: His fullbring can transform into one]].
* [[spoiler: TheAtoner: After coming back to Ichigo’s side]].
* [[spoiler: ThePowerOfRock: Also a part of his Fullbring]].
* ThrowTheDogABone: In chapter 52 he gets to spend quality time with Ichigo.
** [[spoiler: In the Fullbringer arc his plot importance is increased heavily]].
* [[spoiler: TookALevelInBadass: Upon getting his Greatest Guitar Ever]].
* [[spoiler: WhatTheHellHero: Gets one from Ichigo for brainwashing all of their friends]].
* WrongGenreSavvy: Keigo! Honestly, did you really think that Ichigo would help you without fuss if you [[spoiler: betrayed the lieutenant of the Onmitsukido and then helped Tsukishima [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwash]] everyone in Karakura Town]]?
** Keigo also seems to constantly think reality works like a video game or a manga seeing how he thinks eating a lot will give him lots of strength.

!! Yoshino Soma
A [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Bount]]. [[spoiler: She was spared from the genocide of her race at the hands of the senior officers of the Second Division]]. Her doll is Goethe. [[spoiler:She is killed by Cornelia in the Ichigo Vs Britannia arc]].

* [[spoiler:DyingMomentOfAwesome: She goes up against 300 of Cornelia’s soldiers. She only fails to take out 49.]]
* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: Heading in this direction
* [[spoiler: [[LastOfHisKind Last of Her Kind]]]]
* [[spoiler: RedemptionEqualsLife: She is a DefectorFromDecadence and has sworn never to kill another innocent human. So far so good as even the Onmitsukido have let her go]].
** [[spoiler:RedemptionEqualsDeath: She may have been spared by the Onmitsukido, but her karma meter catches up and she dies protecting Japan from Britannia.]]