• “We fear that which we cannot see” • 2.23am Friday – Rukia arrives in Karakura Town • “And so fell the sword of fate” • 7.30pm Friday – Ichigo exposes goons to little girl spirit • ICHIGO IS 15 YEARS OLD • What was rukia doing between 2.23 in the morning and 7.30 in the evening • Kurosaki Clinic • Shinigami walk through walls in the physical realm at will • Hell butterflies unbound by normal laws of physics too • As soon as Ichigo mentions ‘invisible woman in samurai gear’ Isshin knows what’s up • “I would kill an insolent fool like you, but the provisional spirit law forbids unauthorized executions.” • Soul Society is where all souls go • Konsou – soul funeral • Whole (Plus) – Normal spirit, standard ghost • Hollows (Minus) – Hollows attack the living and the dead indiscriminately to devour their souls (spirit energy) o Drawn to high levels of spirit energy, but will not hesitate in snacking. • Shinigami in real world have two duties: o Send Pluses to SS via Konsou o “Vaporize” (cleanse?) Hollows • Breaking kidou through force of will possible, but will damage soul to some extent • Rukia turned her back on a Hollow. Bad Idea. • How to become a Shinigami: o Be a human with high spiritual energy levels o Find a Shinigami willing to turn you o Get stabbed through the heart with a zanpakutou o Survive being infused with a portion of the shinigami’s spiritual energy • Ichigo absorbs all of Rukia’s reiatsu, leaving her as little more than a Plus • Urahara shows up after all the ruckus is over o Who else sensed the Hollow?
CHAPTER ONE
• 2.23am Friday – Rukia arrives in Karakura Town
• “And so fell the sword of fate”
• 7.30pm Friday – Ichigo exposes goons to little girl spirit
• ICHIGO IS 15 YEARS OLD
• What was rukia doing between 2.23 in the morning and 7.30 in the evening
• Kurosaki Clinic
• Shinigami walk through walls in the physical realm at will
• Hell butterflies unbound by normal laws of physics too
• As soon as Ichigo mentions ‘invisible woman in samurai gear’ Isshin knows what’s up
• “I would kill an insolent fool like you, but the provisional spirit law forbids unauthorized executions.”
• Soul Society is where all souls go
• Konsou – soul funeral
• Whole (Plus) – Normal spirit, standard ghost
• Hollows (Minus) – Hollows attack the living and the dead indiscriminately to devour their souls (spirit energy)
o Drawn to high levels of spirit energy, but will not hesitate in snacking.
• Shinigami in real world have two duties:
o Send Pluses to SS via Konsou
o “Vaporize” (cleanse?) Hollows
• Breaking kidou through force of will possible, but will damage soul to some extent
• Rukia turned her back on a Hollow. Bad Idea.
• How to become a Shinigami:
o Be a human with high spiritual energy levels
o Find a Shinigami willing to turn you
o Get stabbed through the heart with a zanpakutou
o Survive being infused with a portion of the shinigami’s spiritual energy
• Ichigo absorbs all of Rukia’s reiatsu, leaving her as little more than a Plus
• Urahara shows up after all the ruckus is over
o Who else sensed the Hollow?