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    Ichigo Kurosaki 
  • 10-Minute Retirement: Ichigo had lost his powers after his fight against Aizen and physically-wise, is utterly spent... And then shortly after he is accosted to go to Honnoji.
  • Absurdly Sharp Blade: Ichigo's Tournesol is said to slowly become this through each life fiber absorbed.
  • Afraid of Needles: Ichigo has an irrational fear of injections after a traumatic incident. Sounds familiar to Ryuko? This is one of the main clues that he is a Life-Fiber Hybrid.
  • Big Damn Heroes: He saves Ryuko from getting killed by the Boxing captain. The same thing happens again when Ryuko confronts Satsuki and is knocked out.
  • Fragile Speedster: Compared to other Kamuis, Ichigo's Mugetsu is not as powerful, but makes up for it by being the fastest.
  • The Protagonist: With Ryuko and Satsuki, Ichigo is the fanfic's main character.
    Ryuko Matoi 
  • Adaptational Wimp: Ryuko doesn't reaches Senketsu's ultimate transformation Senketsu Kisaragi. That honor goes to Satsuki instead.
    Satsuki Kiryuin 
  • Adaptational Badass: She uses Aizen's Life-Fiber Hogyoku to reach Junketsu's ultimate transformation, Junketsu Shinzui.
  • Anti-Heroine: She's more ruthless than Ryuko and Ichigo, but her heart still is in the right place.
  • Arch-Enemy: Satsuki utterly despises her mother Ragyo for more than understandable reasons. Ragyo was just as horrible towards her as she was in Canon (verbal, physical and sexual abuse). Ragyo initially thinks of her daughter as a failure for not being fully human instead of being a Life Fiber hybrid, but underestimates her a lot, and Satsuki shows it by using Aizen's Hogyoku to reach her Kamui's ultimate transformation before Ryuko and Ichigo, who are actual hybrids. Ragyo, taken by surprise, admits she's actually proud of Satsuki for the first time of her life. It's also noted that her fight against Satsuki and Aizen is the first time Ragyo is forced to go all out since her fight against Masaki. Even after Ragyo's defeat and death, Satsuki show how badly her mother underestimated her by outsmarting and personally finishing off the Original Life Fiber without using her Kamui.
  • Enemy Mine: She has no idea why Aizen is fighting against Ragyo, but despite being well aware of his deeds against Ichigo and Soul Society, she teams up with him without hesitation.
    Isshin Kurosaki 
  • Big Good: Isshin is the driving force against Ragyo Kiryuin: he's the only one who can match her in combat and smarts and successfully protected Karakura Town from her influence for nearly two decades.
  • Bumbling Dad: This hasn't changed. In that aspect, Isshin is every bit like his canonical counterpart.
  • The Chessmaster: He matches Ragyo not only in combat but in wits as well. This is best shown through his effortless manipulations of Nui Harime which in part kick-start her long road to a Hazy-Feel Turn. He knows well she'll interrupt Ichigo and Ryuko's fight with the Elite Four, completely sees through her back-up plan to kill Mako in case Ryuko is unaffected by the reveal that Nui is her father's killer and thus sends Orihime to assist the match under the innocuous claim of cheering on Ichigo. As expected, Orihime heals Mako and saves her life. When he reveals that to the trapped Nui during the Karakura Invasion Arc, Nui notes that her plan was pretty much worthless and that Isshin played her like a fiddle.
  • Friendly Enemy: Even after his falling-out with Ragyo, he still has a somewhat friendly dynamic with her at first (which is justified by the fact that a part of him still considers her his old friend), but as their deeds separate them further, the "friendly" part starts dying down, though they still care about each other.
    Kisuke Urahara 
    Isshin Matoi/Soichiro Kiryuin 
    Sosuke Aizen 
  • Adaptational Heroism: Unlike his entirely self-serving canonical counterpart, Aizen has genuinely good intentions.
  • The Chessmaster: Much like his canon counterpart, he's this trope, manipulating people and events to a scale comparable to Ragyo and Isshin.
  • A Day in the Limelight: Aizen is the protagonist of the "Turn Back the Pendulum" chapter, who shows how he discovered the Life Fibers' existence in the 19th century and dedicated his life against it.
  • Faux Affably Evil: His polite tone oozes with condescension and arrogance. (Un ?)fortunately, said arrogance tends to be backed up by his skills.
  • Good All Along: Saying he's a good person is definitely a stretch, but he caught wind of the Life Fibers' existence long before anyone else and was working from day one against them.
  • I Regret Nothing: In the epilogue, Aizen admits he has no regrets : the Original Life Fiber and Ragyo were killed and humanity was saved. As far as he's concerned, his deeds, as horrible as they were, were Worth It.
  • Smug Super: As arrogant as he is, Aizen consistently proves his bite is worse than his bark.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: While much like canon he wanted to kill the Soul King, Aizen also wants to ensure humanity's survival against the Life Fibers, and is ready to commit any crimes and underhanded methods if it means so.
    Ragyo Kiryuin 
  • Abusive Parents: This is Ragyo Kiryuin. What did you expect? Not only she's as horrible towards Ryuko and Satsuki as she is in canon (though nicer to Ryuko for a while), but her cruelty extends to her other daughters Nui, Ururu and Orihime as well.
  • Adaptational Sympathy: Saying this might be a stretch, but Ragyo is more sympathetic than her canon counterpart due to having redeeming qualities, though she's committed more atrocities as well.
  • Adaptational Intelligence: She was already a genius in canon and only gets more opportunities to show it here throughout her tactics against humanity.
  • Adaptational Karma: She commits a Spiteful Suicide in canon, going out with a smile and promising the Life Fibers will return someday. She doesn't get that luxury in that fanfic, dying while having a Villainous Breakdown, about to die to Ichigo and Out-Gambitted by Aizen for the last time.
  • Adaptational Nice Girl: She genuinely loves Isshin, and such loves extends to Ichigo and Ryuko when she learns the latter was alive. Though she lets go of said love for the latter two in the climax.
  • Adaptational Villainy: She has even more crimes on her belt than her canonical counterpart.
  • Affably Evil: To the people who oppose her but whom she genuinely cares about (Isshin, Ichigo and later on Ryuko), she's genuinely amiable towards, hoping to convince them to join her. Towards anyone else, she's Faux Affably Evil.
  • Arch-Enemy: Ragyo's many, many crimes, earn her the enmity of several people, and she returns it in kind to some of them:
    • Her first arch-enemies are her former friends, Isshin and Masaki Kurosaki. An irreparable rift in their friendship was former when Ragyo abducted their baby and her godson Ichigo and experimented on him. However, while Isshin maintained a somewhat distant Friendly Enemy dynamic with her by the time they reunite in the story proper (though he knows well the friend Ragyo once was is no more), Masaki became bitter enemies with her and beat her within a inch of her life for what she did. However, while Ragyo still loves Isshin and considers him a Worthy Opponent, she always resented Masaki even when they were friends for stealing Isshin from her. She admits that if Yhwach and Grand Fisher hadn't got to Masaki, she would've.
    • Her daughter Satsuki wants her dead, and this is more than understandable : Ragyo was just as horrible towards her as she was in canon (verbal, physical and sexual abuse). Ragyo initially thinks of her daughter as a failure for not being fully human instead of being a Life Fiber hybrid, but underestimates her a lot, and Satsuki shows it by using the Hogyoku to reach her Kamui's ultimate transformation before Ryuko and Ichigo, who are actual hybrids. Ragyo, taken by surprise, admits she's actually proud of Satsuki for the first time of her life. It's also noted that her fight against Satsuki and Aizen is the first time Ragyo is forced to go all out since her fight against Masaki. Even after Ragyo's defeat and death, Satsuki show how badly her mother underestimated her by outsmarting and personally finishing off the Original Life Fiber without using her Kamui.
    • At first, Ragyo only saw Kisuke Urahara as a mere annoyance for stealing Life Fibers, hence why she sent Nui Harime to assassinate him. However, him creating a Kamui with ease while being a mere human, successfully faking his death against Nui, nearly successfully sealing the Original Life Fiber made her despise him. By the time of the final fight, he became the person she loathed the most.
    • Sosuke Aizen quickly reached the top of her shit list as well. He endlessly trolls her, frequently outsmarts her and hits hard below the belt, bringing up how it's thanks to his machinations that not only her and Isshin Kurosaki met in the first place, but why he also met Masaki as well as reminding Ragyo of her crushing defeat to Masaki. While Urahara is the man Ragyo hates the most, Aizen quickly reached a close second.
  • Big Bad: She's the fanfic's main antagonist, and the heroes must prevent her from making sure her Assimilation Plot comes to fruition.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: It's revealed that after she tricked Kugo Ginjo into abducting Ichigo, she fought Masaki. Ragyo expected to easily take down Masaki due to Quicies' weaknesses against Life Fibers, but to her surprise Masaki utterly annihilated her and she barely survived the ordeal.
  • False Friend: It's somewhat implied Ragyo was always jealous of her friend Masaki Kurosaki for taking Isshin away from her. Averted with Isshin Kurosaki, whom she genuinely considered a friend: she wanted to be more than Just Friends with him in fact.
  • Faux Affably Evil: To the people she doesn't cares about, Ragyo remains polite but only to hide her domineering, depraved behavior.
  • Friendly Enemy: She has that dynamic with Isshin Kurosaki at first (which is justified by her crush on him), but as their deeds separate them further, the "friendly" part starts dying down, though they still care about each other.
  • Hopeless Suitor: She never had a chance to date Isshin : he was already dating Masaki by the time Ragyo met them.
  • Love Is a Weakness: The Original Life Fiber thinks her love towards Isshin Kurosaki prevents her from being fully committed to her plans.
  • We Used to Be Friends: A good chunk of the story's events can be attributed to the fall-out between Ragyo on one side and Isshin and Masaki Kurosaki on another. They used to be close friends but Ragyo's Unrequited Love towards Isshin, her becoming the Original Life Fiber' prophet while Isshin chose to fight against it, and her experimenting on Ichigo made that friendship fall apart, even though they still care about each other to an extent.
  • Used to Be a Sweet Kid: According to Soroi and Isshin, up until she became the Life Fibers' Psycho Supporter, Ragyo used to be a genuinely good person.
    Nui Harime 
  • Adaptational Sympathy: Nui, beneath her cheery facade, had no redeeming qualities in canon and was a horrendous human being through and through. Here, she is somewhat more sympathetic, ultimately being a victim of Ragyo's abuse as well. Isshin believes she has the potential to become a good person and tries to steer her towards that direction.
  • Ax-Crazy: This hasn't changed from canon. Beneath her cheerful demeanor, Nui is completely nuts and enjoys killing left and right. If anything, she has more trouble hiding her insanity than in canon.
  • Faux Affably Evil: Much like her canon self, she's cheerful most of the time, but causing her to feel pain will make her drop that mask like a hat. She also keeps referring to Ichigo and several others - Ryuko, Satsuki, Orihime, and Ururu - as family members, ignoring their protests as a form of playing hard to get... until her Humiliation Conga in Chapters 57-60, in which Ururu breaks free of Ragyo's brainwashing and disowns her completely; Urahara uses his Bankai to destroy her life fibers; Ryuko subjects her to a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown while simultaneously drilling it into Nui's head that her "family" holds nothing but utter hatred for her.
  • Hazy-Feel Turn: She's still loyal to Ragyo even after the latter's death, but she sides with the heroes against the Original Life Fiber.
  • Karma Houdini: Mixed with Earn Your Happy Ending. Nui does have a Freudian Excuse and is a Tragic Villain, but is still responsible for the deaths of countless nudists. Olivier blatantly tried to have her punished and it's only thanks to Kisuke vouching for her that she instead ended up Happily Adopted by him alongside Ururu.

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