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* DidntSeeThatComing: She's rather surprised at Nemo's behaviour when she's measuring Jackelton's body to make a new uniform for him. Where normally she is demure and gentle, she becomes assertive and authoritative when undertaking her craft.

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* DidntSeeThatComing: She's Cirucci was rather surprised at Nemo's behaviour when she's she was measuring Jackelton's body to make a new uniform for him. Where normally she is Nemo's demure and gentle, she apparently becomes assertive and authoritative when undertaking her craft.
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* CombatPragmatist: Both Nemo and Cirucci fall into this camp, using tricks and tactics within their fight to let them secure victory against their opponents, who oftentimes outclass them in raw power.

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* CombatPragmatist: Both Nemo and Cirucci fall into this camp, using tricks and tactics within in their fight fights to let them secure victory against their opponents, who oftentimes outclass them in raw power.
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* BloodFromTheMouth: The journey into the Forest of Menos with Yammy results in Nemo accidentally breathing in fire, which damages her lungs. She shrugs it off for a while, but when she starts coughing up blood, she realises that damage isn't getting better, that it's actually getting worse, which prompts her to go to Esmeralda's clinic.


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* DeathGlare: Luppi is given one by Nemo when he suggests putting sugar in green tea, an idea he quickly retracts in response.


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* DoubleEntendre: Whenever Cirucci wants to "rest" or "take a nap" and asks Nemo to join her or close the odor.


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* EntendreFailure: Cirucci has to go through a number of different reasons why Nemo doesn't have to do any more work before the latter understands [[SexyDiscretionShot what she's trying to propose]].
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* {{Cap}}: The skills in Number None are capped at various levels - Legendary for core skills, 4/5 for advanced skills, and Champion for mundane skills.


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* CrushBlush: Di Roy had a crush on Nemo, so when she came to deliver a uniform for Grimmjow he had this reaction, though Nemo mistakes the darkening of his face as possibly being because she offended him at some point.


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* DeathOfAThousandCuts: Cirucci tries this strategy on Yammy, but it proves ineffective. While the hits Yammy land on her are rarer than the ones she lands on him, the ones he lands hit a lot harder and over the same period of time Cirucci ends up taking more damage than him, prompting her to switch strategy.


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* ExperiencePoints: Number None has a number of skills which are levelled up by investing experience points in them, which are earned by completing story arcs and making sidestory content.


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* MagneticHero: Over the course of the story, Nemo manages to forge connections and friendships with many different people thanks to her personality and actions. She's aided in this by the Style skill, which (among other things) helps with maintaining agreeableness and avoiding offence. Thanks to the skill, she was able to quickly establish a friendship with the normally rather hostile group of arrancars known as the Tres Bestias.


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* SkillScoresAndPerks: Number None has three different kinds of skills.
** Core skills are the normal skills that any player character made during character generation would've had access to. Core skills range from Untrained, then go up to Student, Adept, Skilled, Veteran, Master, Champion, and finally Legendary. It takes 100 xp to go from Untrained to Student, at which point the xp cost to reach the level is doubled until it reaches Veteran, after which the xp required to level up increases by 800. Core skills increase the base power level of the character and unlock perks per level up starting at Veteran.
*** At a certain point in the story, the xp costs for three of the seven non-Resurreccion core skills was reduced by 25% while the rest were increased by 50%, representing favoured and unfavoured skills.
** Advanced skills are something that not all player characters necessarily share. Some are, some can only be acquired as options in character generation, and some can only be unlocked through play. Advanced skills are capped at either level 4 or level 5. The cost to level up advanced skills starts at 500 xp and then goes up by 500 every level. Levelling up advanced skills does not increase base power level and have no perks.
** Mundane skills are non-supernatural skills that the player can acquire over the course of the game. They share the same progression as core skills, but the xp requirements are halved, they don't increase power level, they're capped at Champion, and they don't provide perk options until Champion.
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** Tatsuki's exposure to Cirucci's overwhelming spiritual pressure forced her latent powers to the surface, allowing her to awaken them with nothing more than a brief expression of will.
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* NervesofSteel: The Style skill governs, among other things, the ability to maintain one's composure. Nemo's skill in it allows her to stand up socially to the likes of the Espada, whose spiritual pressure would otherwise make it impossible for her to lie to them due to the effects it has on her psyche.

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* NervesofSteel: NervesOfSteel: The Style skill governs, among other things, the ability to maintain one's composure. Nemo's skill in it allows her to stand up socially to the likes of the Espada, whose spiritual pressure would otherwise make it impossible for her to lie to them due to the effects it has on her psyche.
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* Nerves of Steel: The Style skill governs, among other things, the ability to maintain one's composure. Nemo's skill in it allows her to stand up socially to the likes of the Espada, whose spiritual pressure would otherwise make it impossible for her to lie to them due to the effects it has on her psyche.

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* Nerves of Steel: NervesofSteel: The Style skill governs, among other things, the ability to maintain one's composure. Nemo's skill in it allows her to stand up socially to the likes of the Espada, whose spiritual pressure would otherwise make it impossible for her to lie to them due to the effects it has on her psyche.
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* DidYouJustScamCthulhu: Among those Nemo have stolen from are Barragan Louisenbairn and Sosuke Aizen, the latter from ``right under his nose``.

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* DidYouJustScamCthulhu: Among those Nemo have stolen from are Barragan Louisenbairn and Sosuke Aizen, the latter from ``right ''right under his nose``.nose''.
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* BrilliantButLazy: Barragan didn't even think to train his abilities once he was turned into arrancar by the Hogyoku, thinking that the all the potential power the transformation gave was given at the moment of transformation.


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* ForWantOfANail: The presence of a single Numero that does not exist in canon Bleach - Nemo - has resulted in an immense amount of changes to the story, not just because of what she's done directly, but also by the ripple effects her actions have caused.

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* BloodMagic: Blood is used to perform the Gran Rey Cero and is used in Brujeria, a kind of magic that the Tres Bestias can use.



* FunctionalMagic: Emilou Appaci, Franceska Mila Rose, and Cyan Sung-Sun are capable of using a kind of hollow magic called Brujeria, which translates literally to "Witchcraft".

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* FunctionalMagic: There's a number of magic systems in Number None, including not only the Kido of canon Bleach but some original systems as well.
** Nemo, Alphonse, and Alphonse's mistress are practitioners of La Maraña, a magic system based around the creation of magical apparel.
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Emilou Appaci, Franceska Mila Rose, and Cyan Sung-Sun are capable of using a kind of hollow magic called Brujeria, which translates literally to "Witchcraft".


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* InstantRunes: Sung-Sun writes calligraphy in the air with her blood using her sleeves as brushes. Apacci and Mila Rose cut their hands and use the blood to draw ancient glyphs. Combined, they form a spell that turns Szayel's clone Fracciones [[SetAMookToKillAMook against each other]].


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* MagicalIncantation: Brujeria makes use of this, as shown by how Appaci and Mila Rose chant part of a magical incantation that taps into their connection to their mistress, summoning a wave of water.


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* ThePowerOfBlood: Blood is connected to the nature of hollows and allows arrancars to access powerful abilities from their hollow side.


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* SetAMookToKillAMook: The Tres Bestias cast a Brujeria spell to turn the clones Szayel sent out in the Exequias contest against each other, made rather simple because their mindlessness made them easy to manipulate in such a way.


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* TheWeirdSisters: In Number None, Tier's Fracciones style themselves as witches.
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* BadassCrew:
** The Dancers of the Salar de Luna - a band of powerful base hollows who had successfully hunted down ''Gillians'', something that would normally require entire armies of hollows or other Menos Grandes.
** Dordonni's Exequias contenders, who between them all had enough skill and power to meaningfully challenge an Espada-level opponent. Were it not for the fact that the specific opponent they were fighting was specialised in defeating teams and had an aura that disrupted team coordination, it's likely they would've won. While they lost the contest, their performance was enough to warrant official merit and the survivors were given the group title of ''Hidalguia''.


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* IronicNurseryTune: The nursery rhymes the Butchers sing, which principally involve the capture, preparation, killing, and consumption of hollows.


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* MisfitMobilizationMoment: [[ImpliedTrope Implied]] after Dordonni and his escudero discuss how they can recruit arrancars to join them as contenders in the Exequias contest.
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* MagnumOpus: Chapter 9 was about making the uniform that would allow Jackelton to make Calaveras and participate in the Exequias contest. The titles of the chapter parts were even the names of the traditional alchemical steps to achieving the alchemical magnum opus. Chapter 9 involved a significant amount of research, experimentation, and even some life experience to finally complete the uniform and represented the culmination of Nemo's skill in La Maraña.
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* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: As Nemo confesses to Tosen. She would give mercy to enemies and defy the orders she's given if it means doing what's right.


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* TookALevelInCheerfulness: In the beginning of the story, Nemo was a morose woman constantly living in fear of her superiors and with little to occupy herself. As the story progresses, however, she becomes more powerful, forms connections with many different people, gains a number of useful skills which she takes pride in, and even finds love, resulting to a Nemo that's much happier than the one at the beginning of the story.


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* WeakButSkilled: Half of Nemo's fights have had her fight enemies who were superior to her in raw power, and it was only thanks to skillful use of her powers and strategy that she was able to win.

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* ShutUpHannibal: One of the rare few times when Nemo [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness explicitly talks]]. After Luppi had made rather sweeping and condemning statements regarding her character and motives, accusing her of luring him into a battle to uncover his secrets, she verbally tells him to stand back and let her handle the oncoming Exequias herself.


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* ShutUpHannibal: One of the rare few times when Nemo [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness explicitly talks]]. After Luppi had made rather sweeping and condemning statements regarding her character and motives, accusing her of luring him into a battle to uncover his secrets, she verbally tells him to stand back so she can handle the oncoming Exequias herself.

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* BadPowersGoodPeople: For all that Polilla grants immensely useful powers, Nemo releases its power as little as she possibly can even because she hates the monster that emerges when she does. She's only ever released when her life was on the line and there were no other options available to her that could secure her survival.



* BigDamnHeroes: Cirucci, Luppi, and the Tres Bestias serve in this role on the day of the Exequias contest to save Nemo.
* BecomeYourWeapon: The essence of Resurreccion, which returns an arrancars hollow powers back to their bodies.



* CastingAShadow: Polilla has several shadow-based abilities that grow stronger over time. Nemo herself gains the ability to use shadows to cause distractions and disrupt abilities, which she uses in the story to briefly get a glimpse of Luppi's nature in retaliation to his continued sarcasm and casual disrespect towards herself and Ren.
* TheCavalry: Cirucci, Luppi, and the Tres Bestias serve in this role on the day of the Exequias contest to save Nemo.
** During Chapter 7, Cirucci and Ulquiorra (the latter begrudgingly) rescue Nemo from an encounter with Tessai Tsukabishi.

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* CastingAShadow: Polilla has provides several shadow-based abilities that grow stronger over time. Nemo herself gains the ability to use shadows outside Resurreccion to cause distractions and disrupt abilities, which she uses in the story to briefly get a glimpse of Luppi's nature in retaliation to his continued sarcasm and casual disrespect towards herself and Ren.
* TheCavalry: Cirucci, Luppi, and the Tres Bestias serve in this role on the day of the Exequias contest to save Nemo.
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During Chapter 7, Cirucci and Ulquiorra (the latter begrudgingly) rescue Nemo from an encounter with Tessai Tsukabishi.


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* ShutUpHannibal: One of the rare few times when Nemo [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness explicitly talks]]. After Luppi had made rather sweeping and condemning statements regarding her character and motives, accusing her of luring him into a battle to uncover his secrets, she verbally tells him to stand back and let her handle the oncoming Exequias herself.

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* CastingAShadow: Polilla has several shadow-based abilities that grow stronger over time. Nemo herself gains the ability to use shadows to cause distractions and disrupt abilities, which she uses in the story to briefly get a glimpse of Luppi's nature in retaliation to his continued sarcasm and casual disrespect towards herself and Ren.



* CombatPragmatist: Both Nemo and Cirucci fall into this camp, using tricks and tactics within their fight to let them secure victory against their opponents, who oftentimes outclass them in raw power.



* DistractedByTheSexy: Nemo sometimes get distracted while performing tasks thinking about Cirucci.


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* DidntSeeThatComing: She's rather surprised at Nemo's behaviour when she's measuring Jackelton's body to make a new uniform for him. Where normally she is demure and gentle, she becomes assertive and authoritative when undertaking her craft.


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* DistractedByTheSexy: Nemo sometimes get distracted while performing tasks thinking about Cirucci.


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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Although Cirucci was perfectly willing to kill Yammy for no reason beyond ascending to the ranks of the Espada, she was against sending him to Szayelaporro due to what the Octava would do to him, and is appalled when she finally sees what became of him following her fight with Nnoitora.


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* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Luppi has a difficult time understanding the trust and love that Cirucci, Nemo, and those in their circle share for each other. To this end, he decided to become Cirucci's Fraccion so he could gain comprehension.


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* MercyKill: Cirucci begs Ulquiorra to either kill Yammy or allow her to do so instead of take him to the Eighth Espada to be [[FateWorseThanDeath repurposed]], to which Ulquiorra refuses citing his orders.


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* Nerves of Steel: The Style skill governs, among other things, the ability to maintain one's composure. Nemo's skill in it allows her to stand up socially to the likes of the Espada, whose spiritual pressure would otherwise make it impossible for her to lie to them due to the effects it has on her psyche.


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* VillainousBreakdown: Findorr quickly suffers from one during his invasion of Nemo's apartment when she blows a hole out from under him, immediately activating Resurreccion in sheer anger despite already outclassing her by an inordinate amount.


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* VillainTakesAnInterest:
** Aizen, before the start of the story, sees something within Nemo that prompts him to turn her into an arrancar.
** When Nemo runs to Cirucci for protection against Findorr, she takes an interest in her after realising that not only did she force Findorr into Resurreccion without releasing her own, she did so despite being weaker than she could've been for choosing to retain her High-Speed Regeneration.
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** Barragan sent Nemo to recover a stolen crown, something which she did successfully, only for him to drench it in the power of [[RapidAging Senescencia]] and tell Nemo to bury it in the sands. The only reason she didn't die is that she had High-Speed Regeneration to counter its effects, something that Barragan didn't know about.

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** Barragan sent Nemo to recover a stolen crown, something which she did successfully, only for him to drench it in the power of [[RapidAging Senescencia]] and tell tells Nemo to bury it in the sands. The only reason she didn't die is that she had High-Speed Regeneration to counter its effects, something that Barragan didn't know about.
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* BadassBoast: Nnoitra gives one during his duel with Cirucci.
-->'''Nnoitra:''' I am Nnoitra Gilger, Quinta Espada, Death by Despair, and I will keep standing if the fucking sky falls on my head.

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* CallBack: After Nemo defeated Findorr, she had to regain control over her body to avoid eating him. The winning vote to abstain was "Someone is watching", symbolizing how Nemo draws moral strength from Cirucci's expectations for her and presence. Later, Cirucci is fighting Nnoitora and hits a low point, she realizes that "Someone is watching" - namely Nemo, whose presence gives Cirucci a second wind.

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* CallBack: After Nemo defeated Findorr, she had to regain control over her body to avoid eating him. The winning vote to abstain was "Someone is watching", symbolizing how Nemo draws moral strength from Cirucci's presence and expectations for her and presence.her. Later, Cirucci is fighting Nnoitora and hits a low point, she realizes that "Someone is watching" - namely Nemo, whose presence gives Cirucci a second wind.


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* DidYouJustScamCthulhu: Among those Nemo have stolen from are Barragan Louisenbairn and Sosuke Aizen, the latter from ``right under his nose``.


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* PerpetualSmiler: Aizen, something that gets taken notice of by his underlings. Luppi even and [[LampshadeHanging sarcastically references]] it in a conversation with Nemo.
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* ItIsDehumanizing: The phantom image of Mayuri Nemo's Cero Triste creates tells Ururu that she has no name, that she is "Number Four".

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* ItIsDehumanizing: The phantom image of Mayuri Nemo's Cero Triste creates tells Ururu that she has no name, name because she is not a person, that because she is a thing she is "Number Four".

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* HandBlast: The arrancars' Bala, used more in Number None than it was in Bleach.
** FingerGun: How Cirucci fires hers.
*** SmokingBarrelBlowout: After blowing up the teapot Nemo was carrying as part of her training.



* HealingFactor: Nemo is near-unique in being an arrancar who retained High-Speed Regeneration at the cost of power. In the beginning of the story she could heal to full health within a few hours to a day. Eventually the power grew strong enough that Nemo gained the option to heal injuries in seconds by expending energy and naturally regenerates limbs in a few days. Healing internal organs remains impossible, however, a fact that leads to her crippling in her fight with the Exequias.



* HandBlast: The arrancars' Bala, used more in Number None than it was in Bleach.
** FingerGun: How Cirucci fires hers.
*** SmokingBarrelBlowout: After blowing up the teapot Nemo was carrying as part of her training.
* HealingFactor: Nemo is near-unique in being an arrancar who retained High-Speed Regeneration at the cost of power. In the beginning of the story she could heal to full health within a few hours to a day. Eventually the power grew strong enough that Nemo gained the option to heal injuries in seconds by expending energy and naturally regenerates limbs in a few days. Healing internal organs remains impossible, however, a fact that leads to her crippling in her fight with the Exequias.
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* {{Hellgate}}: When Nemo performs Konso on Ishikawa, a Plus that she didn't know committed unforgivable sins in life, the Gates of Hell appear and drag Ishikawa in to be tortured for all eternity.
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* Episode0TheBeginning: Some of the canon sidestory content is set before the start of the story proper, which prompted the creation of Chapter 0 which houses all such content.

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* BlatantLies: When Nemo is caught by Ururu in the Urahara Shop's hidden basement, searching through the locked closet inside and stealing as much as she can, she attempts to convince Ururu that she isn't a thief.
-->'''Ururu:''' Are you a thief?
-->'''Nemo:''' You are, of course, not a thief at all; you were just… Finding your way around the shop, and got lost, because there was no one tending to clients in the front.


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* ItWasWithYouAllAlong: This is the realisation that Nemo has while in the Salar de Luna, when contemplating maiming himself or compromising her ideals in order to get the [[AncientArtifact Mask of Luna]]. Cirucci isn't weak enough that she needs the Mask to win and Nemo isn't so weak that it was worth maiming herself or breaking her ideals for its power.

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* MrExposition: Ren primarily serves as a deep source of information on the wider lore of Hueco Mundo thanks to knowledge gathered over countless years studying its history.



* MrExposition: Ren primarily serves as a deep source of information on the wider lore of Hueco Mundo thanks to knowledge gathered over countless years studying its history.
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* Hypocrite: Cirucci, the wielder of a golden yo-yo whip, calls Ichigo's zanpakuto ridiculous because of its shape. Nemo very careful does not point out this out.

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* BadBoss: Barragan and Aizen.

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* BadBoss: Barragan and Aizen.BadBoss:



** As for Aizen, he sent Nemo on a suicide mission and when she returned successfully having recovered items of immense importance, he berated her for having to be extracted by Espadas at the very end and warned her against "failing" as such in the future.

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** As for Aizen, he Aizen sent Nemo on a suicide mission and when for a slight her mistress committed. When she returned successfully having recovered items of immense importance, he berated her for having to be extracted by Espadas at the very end and warned her against "failing" as such in the future.
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* BadBoss: Barragan and Aizen.
** Barragan sent Nemo to recover a stolen crown, something which she did successfully, only for him to drench it in the power of [[RapidAging Senescencia]] and tell Nemo to bury it in the sands. The only reason she didn't die is that she had High-Speed Regeneration to counter its effects, something that Barragan didn't know about.
** As for Aizen, he sent Nemo on a suicide mission and when she returned successfully having recovered items of immense importance, he berated her for having to be extracted by Espadas at the very end and warned her against "failing" as such in the future.
** Cirucci has sent Nemo on information gathering missions on Espada-tier enemies twice, both times resulting in her near death and severe internal injuries, which her [[HealingFactor regeneration]] can't heal. The first time was understandable, given that she didn't expect Nemo to go as far as she did for her, but the second time not so much. She also mistreats Ren, who she enslaved, making him organise her vault of largely useless trinkets and offering nothing but the occasional abuse in return.


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* Hypocrite: Cirucci, the wielder of a golden yo-yo whip, calls Ichigo's zanpakuto ridiculous because of its shape. Nemo very careful does not point out this out.


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* {{BFG}}: Ururu whips a missile-firing cannon seemingly made out of paper and talismans after engaging Nemo in combat and chases her across town with it.

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