Fanfic / Heirverse

Just a game

A large complicated Aizen and Gin Bleach Alternate Universe Slash Fic series. A love story heavy with humor, suspense and Emotional Torque. Written by TheDrunkenWerewolf. It takes place over the course of a hundred years and is broken into five main story lines which can mostly be read in any order. It focuses on Aizen's arrangement with a hollow and his attempt to fight the ennui with a string of mind-game rife affairs. Gin brings this to an abrupt end and struggles to hold onto his damaged lover.

Phase 0 Chessboards

• Pact- Aizen makes a deal that alters his life forever.

• Cycle - Aizen reaps the fruits of the pact. Written by Timewaster123456789, edited by SesshomaruFreak

• Fast Friends Gin and Ran meet and decide to be friends. Because no friendship is an accident. Not even theirs. Written by TheDrunkenWerewolf, SesshomaruFreak and Timewaster123456789

• Tired Old Game- prequel to Game. Aizen is bored of life and his current partner, Kisuke.

• Encounter - Aizen and Gin meet.

• Looking At You - Aizen and Gin's thoughts on their first meeting. Direct sequel to Encounter. Written by SesshomaruFreak and Timewaster123456789.

Phase 1 Game

• Game – How Aizen and Gin meet. A Lighter and Softer story about a Magnificent Bastard biting off more than he could chew.
  • Safe Harbour - Gin moves in with Aizen. Written by Timewaster123456789 .

  • Love Like You - Gin listens to Aizen play his piano after moving in together.

  • Thunderstorm - Gin waits for Aizen to return home and when he does, he brings a surprise.

  • Teeth Of The Storm - Aizen Finds Tsuku ties into Thunderstorm Written by Timewaster123456789 .

  • Things you don't see - An introspective side piece of Aizen reflecting on Gin

  • The Fox's Wedding - Aizen and Gin are get Married Written by TheDrunkenWerewolf and Salazar Marvolo.

• Say it - Swapped Roles one-shot.
  • Entwined - morning after ''Say It'' Written by Salazar Marvolo.

  • Say it again - Two-shot sequel to Say it with Aizen taking 'revenge'.

• Fisher - WIP
  • New Song Same Old Dance - Aizen tries to push Gin away following the battle with Grand Fisher. Written by Timewaster123456789 and SesshomaruFreak.

  • Negotiations - Rangiku convinces Gin to let her babysit Cherry-chan in exchange for helping him get time alone with Aizen. (Located in Love, War and Tea )

• Copycat - a short Gin Pov prologue to CWST about him contesting Momo for Aizen's attention.

• Circles - Aizen plays his piano for Gin. Connects Game and Lie

Phase 2 Can We Survive This

• Lie - sort of prologue to cwst. Some background/context of why Aizen does what he does.
  • I Love - the mirror piece to Lie. Gin's pov. Gin wants Aizen to see and know how he feels. Jac notwithstanding . Concurrent with Lie and later cwst.

• Can We Survive This? - Darker and Edgier story. Aizen has an affair with Hinamori. Gin finds out, and wonders if they can survive it, and if he can forgive it. In the end, they grow back together.
  • Gravity - poetry. Gin's pov. Concurrent with events in the early chs of 'Can We Survive This?'. Heavy Emotional Torque.

  • Unlove - poetry. Gin realises that try as he might, he cannot unlove Sousuke.

  • Mistress - companion to cwst. Hinamori's side of the affair. Some overlap with events in cwst. An exploration into the darker side of Hinamori.

  • One Love, One Life - when Gin goes to sleep on the couch...and dreams. Kintsugi - the Japanese art of fixing broken pottery by filling the cracks with gold. Written by Salazar Marvolo .

  • Fxxx you - an extra cwst scene. Gin leaves the gladiolus.

  • Crystalline - Gin destroys his mementos of a lifetime with Aizen. Early/mid cwst scene.

  • Growing Back Together: Rainfall - late cwst scene. Gin decides it's time he forgave Aizen and the pair of them start growing back together, sharing a moment watching the rain together.

Phase 3 Sanctuary

• this sequence is meant to be read in order
  • Cold Feet - As time ticks down until they have to leave for the hollow world, Gin tries to cope with his fear Aizen might leave him behind. Meanwhile, in hiding, Aizen is terrified Gin will back out. And Jac starts poisoning his thoughts, making him question whether he deserves Gin in his life.

  • Sanctuary - aftermath of Cold Feet. Aizen and Gin break an 8 decade long cycle of lies and Manipulation to explore something real.

  • Home Sousuke and Gin realise home is where the heart is.

  • Stand By Me - Aizen and Gin arrive in Huecco Mundo.

  • Flowering Dogwood - Sousuke attempts to use the language of flowers to express his gratitude Gin is still with him.

Phase 4 Heir

• Come into the night - Sidestory taking place shortly before Heir but after the defection. Just a quiet romantic night before everything goes south. (Located in Love, War and Tea )
  • Lethal Lunacy - Aizen reflects on his stupidity in cwst and how he feels about Gin. A little Nice job breaking it villain moment. Written by GanymedeLullaby

• Heir -Unfortunately this is currently being rewritten - A drama about manipulation betrayal and forgiveness deconstructing and reconstructing Game . Aizen uses Orihime to give Gin the child he desires. It backfires, badly. ends Ai/Gin Ulq/Hime
  • Decimated Aizen forgets something very important. Mid heir scene.

  • Alignment -Gin's POV on Aizen losing his memory.

  • I Can't Be In There With You - Side story from Aizen's pov taking place in the later chapters of Heir.

Phase X Other

• Love, War and Tea - A bunch of miscellaneous standalones from various times in Heir as well as some AU.

• Vulpecula - An anthology written by TheDrunkenWerewolf and multiple collaborators to celebrate the series 10th aniversery.

• The Sun & the Monkey - A crossover with SesshomaruFreak's fic, Healing the Moon. Set in later Game era. After watching Renji and Byakuya being more open about their relationship, Aizen, feeling envious, and feeling that level of closeness is missing in his own relationship with Gin, enlists Renji's help to change that.
  • Can I Kiss You - a short Sun and Monkey side piece/ prologue

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This series provides examples of:

• Age-Gap Romance: Aizen and Gin in Game and Aizen and Orihime in Heir.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: subtle but a large part of why Aizen stay with Gin also Ulq to Orihime she does not return the favor
• Becoming the Mask: Basically the plot of Game much to Jac's annoyance and rage
• Break-Up/Make-Up Scenario: Over the course of phase two Aizne has an affair, Gin break-up with him understandable vehemence, Gin overtime slowly allows Aizen to earn his Forgiveness.
• Canine Companion: Gin's pet fox Cherry and everyone has Cuteness Proximity Issues with her. To a lesser extent her mate Aizen's Tsuku.
• Character Tics: Aizen will run a hand through his hair as a means of selfcomfort, Gin later picks up the trait.
  • Aizen also has a tendency to touch the scars he got from walking into a lamppost, whenever he's confused or trying to work something out.
• Defrosting Ice King : Oh god and how: Played Straight in Game Subverted in CWST Double Subverted in Lie Played Straight again in CF, Sanctuary and Flowering Dogwood then Deconstructed in Heir and finally Reconstruction.
• Depraved Bisexual: Aizen.
• Desperately Craves Affection: Gin hates the thought of losing Aizen and the simplest favor/gesture/compliment makes him happy. Aizen is absolutely not like this but if he were he'd hide it better.
• Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Gin toward Soul society in general and Kyoraku in particular in CWST.
  • Aizen toward Gin in Cold Feet and Game Ch 25 though Gin isn't actually present.
• Driven to Villainy: Jac after the murder of his wife and son
• Enemy Within: Aizen's hollow Jac. Especially in I love where it attempts to rape Gin and Heir with the general treatment of Ulq.
• Everyone Can See It: Rangiku, the Rumor mill, Kyouka and Shinsou know hell Yamamoto probably knew these two were in love before they accepted it.
• Inelegant Blubbering : Pretty much everyone at some point including Aizen in CF
• Insecure Love Interest: Poor Gin and with good reason Also oddly enough Aizen as well though in a different context.
• Kick the Dog: Aizen in cwst and what he does to Ulq in Heir. Gin spitting vitriol at Orihime over the events that he orchestrated.
• Love Is a Weakness: Exploited by Jac to devastating effect.
• Love Makes You Evil: Jac's backstory and Freudian Excuse. It doesn't make him less of a monster though.
• Love Triangle: Gin/Aizen/Momo and Aizen/Orihime/Ulq/Gin in Heir
• I Love You Because I Can't Control You: Gin does not fall for Aizen's shit.
• Love Hurts: but it's worth it. basically the point of the entire series.
• Magnificent Bastard: Aizen, Jac, and well Gin got what he wanted from Aizen sort of so what does that make him.
• Manipulative Bastard: Aizen again
• Mask of Sanity: Aizen fighting Jac's influence
• Meaningful Echo: Everywhere.
• Mood Whiplash: A staple of the series though particularly notable in Game Ch. 27 which opens with Aizen drowning his Sorrows, moves on to rom-com highjinx and ends with "Ya ever feel like you're drowning?" Made worse by the fact that Gin doesn't understand what he's saying and Aizen refuses to repeat it /
• Morality Pet:Cherry for everyone and Gin to an extent for Aizen Inverted in Heir
• Not Himself: Aizen usually when Jac is getting to him or more rarely if he's emotional. Gin begins to figure this out after CF.
• Platonic Life-Partners: Gin and Rangiku. Particularly notable When she comforts him in Looking At You
  • Also when she helps him deal with the fallout out of Aizen's affair in Phase 2.
• Rape as Drama: Jac rapes Ulq and the power dynamics make Aizen's tryst with Orihime dubious at best. /
  • Averted barely at the end of I Love /
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Interesting version in that Aizen finds Gin's red eyes beautiful but that may very well be because they imply danger.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Gin is the sensitive to Aizen in a very relative sense
• Shower of Angst: Jac weeping in the shower in one of the later Heir chapters.
• Tears of Remorse: Aizen alone when he smashes the chessboard in Ch.5 of cwst
  • Though he doesn't actually cry after Jac attempt to rape Gin in I Love it's heavily implied that he's holding back because he doesn't want to look weak in front of Gin
• Tin Man: Aizen plays with this more than he plays with Gin.
• Villain Protagonist: Neither Aizen nor Gin are exactly humanitarians.
• Weakness Turns Him On: Gin much prefers it when Aizen drops the facade mostly because it's so rare.
• Worthy Opponent: Why Aizen falls for Gin.
• You Make Me Sick: Inverted Jac's view of Aizen for his human weakness and sentiment
• You Do NOT Want To Know: Deconstructed Aizen concerning Jac, comes to a head at the end of I Love
• Why Would Anyone Take Him Back?: Phase 2.

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Episodes of this series provide examples of:

• Attempted Rape: Jac attempts it on Gin in I love
• But Liquor Is Quicker: Averted in Game after their first date.
  • Averted again in LW&T's Just As You Are.
• Meet Cute: The plot of Encounter.
• Precision F-Strike: Meta example in Fxxx You.
• Porn with Plot: Say it, Say It Again and Come Into The Night
• Porn Without Plot: Entwined
• Replacement Goldfish: Orihime for Jac in Heir, Aizen attempts to invoke this with Momo in cwst it fails. Badly
• Revealing Hug: happens when Gin first say he loves Aizen in I love and the mirror fic Lie, and again in Stand By Me when Gin Hugs him and expresses his loyalty. In both cases Aizen takes advantage to hide the fact that he's getting choked up.
• Single Tear: Aizen in Sanctuary while holding Gin
• Start of Darkness: Beginning with Aizen's deal with Jac in Pact and reaching fruition at the end of Cycle where he's the character we meet in Game
• Trying Not to Cry: pretty much everyone at some point though special mention to Aizen in Can't be in there and I Love successfully and to Gin in LW&T ch.6 with it's mirroring of CF, Orihime and Jac in Heir all spectacular failures.
• Unholy Matrimony: in Heir Aizen and Gin are married and doing the world domination thing.
• What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: Intended Audience Reaction to the plot of Heir concerning getting Gin a kid.

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