Post by Shun Minamoto on Aug 10, 2014 21:27:08 GMT -5
In Bleach Gotei’s ancient history, during the days of Riko Suzumei and others long departed, there was a joke. A running gag like one of the many we have today. Those cursed souls who can remember back that far might already know what I’m thinking about.
Only the women matter on Bleach Gotei.
For the longest time the vast majority of Bleach Gotei’s most powerful characters were all women. Riko, Hikari, Hakuren, Ai, Ryder, and others dominated the top of the list. Men were few and far between.
It seems history has come full circle.
First it was the Nothing twins, then it was Amaya as Severance. Now?
Kiriko Chinda, made famous as the Lieutenant of Second Division and only more so as the Captain, has joined their ranks.
And oh boy has her story taken her places.
Chinda started from a sad place, a place of self-hatred. Even the sternest members of Sixth wouldn’t imagine laying down sentence for Kiriko—she’s her own worst punishment. One would then expect—as this is how these things go on Bleach Gotei—that Kiriko would realize the folly of denying herself her own humanity. Has this woman ever truly lived, we’ve been forced to wonder.
Has she ever indulged in a delicious meal and over ate?
Has she ever stayed out far too late having fun with friends?
Has she ever let herself make the decision that felt the best, not the one expected of her?
Has she ever even loved someone?
If you asked her any of this, she’d laugh at you. And others have tried, of course. Kyousuke and Tokiyo, two sides of the same coin in her life just to name a few. The list goes on. Even Alter Tova Diabló, the man out of his world, forced her eyes wide open. She snapped them back shut.
There is no room for any of that in Kiriko’s life. She doesn’t deserve it, she can’t afford it, and the evolution of her character has not been a departure from this style of thought. It has been a reinforcement of it, slowly gathering evidence and facing challenges that might tell her that she’s wrong, that her way of life isn’t going to achieve that impossible, inhuman goal of hers; and then pushing past them. Each one shoved aside without fail.
When faced with life as a human, as a woman, Kiriko has instead chosen to live like an ideal. Everything in her life strained her, tried her, and pushed her to see the problem in her lifestyle, to see that everything she needs to be a true person is right there at her fingertips.
And then some upstart lieutenant sticks his nose too close to her business. He defeats her Lieutenant, a man she had been molding to her own design, waving a flag exactly opposite to everything she believed. His defeat had been so thorough as to make her Lieutenant turn away, to make him realize the error of her ways, and when he corners her with questions she cannot possibly answer?
She decides that he’s right, she can’t answer them.
So she’ll rip out the very part of her soul that makes her human, she’ll eradicate any trace of her humanity as best she can, so those arguments no longer apply.
Then comes her test. Going to Hueco Mundo to seek the wisdom of Tova, the one man to show her light in a way that she could understand it, she finds instead a new Queen. Her Tova, long dead. A pink-haired tot in his place.
In his place, exactly the instrument she needs.
Amaya “Severance” Kidachi does the honors and cuts her off from her Spirit and Inner Hollow. Their voices, silenced. Their influence, gone.
With it, her humanity.
On Bleach Gotei we have never seen the case of a character who has so steadfastly stuck to their own poison except Kiriko Chinda. No one else has been so set on their own suffering, their own punishment, as her.
For this she has transcended, but to the worst of ends.
Everyone, join me in giving a round of applause to our most impressive Broken Transcendent to date.
May you find your answer, Penance.
Only the women matter on Bleach Gotei.
For the longest time the vast majority of Bleach Gotei’s most powerful characters were all women. Riko, Hikari, Hakuren, Ai, Ryder, and others dominated the top of the list. Men were few and far between.
It seems history has come full circle.
First it was the Nothing twins, then it was Amaya as Severance. Now?
Kiriko Chinda, made famous as the Lieutenant of Second Division and only more so as the Captain, has joined their ranks.
And oh boy has her story taken her places.
Chinda started from a sad place, a place of self-hatred. Even the sternest members of Sixth wouldn’t imagine laying down sentence for Kiriko—she’s her own worst punishment. One would then expect—as this is how these things go on Bleach Gotei—that Kiriko would realize the folly of denying herself her own humanity. Has this woman ever truly lived, we’ve been forced to wonder.
Has she ever indulged in a delicious meal and over ate?
Has she ever stayed out far too late having fun with friends?
Has she ever let herself make the decision that felt the best, not the one expected of her?
Has she ever even loved someone?
If you asked her any of this, she’d laugh at you. And others have tried, of course. Kyousuke and Tokiyo, two sides of the same coin in her life just to name a few. The list goes on. Even Alter Tova Diabló, the man out of his world, forced her eyes wide open. She snapped them back shut.
There is no room for any of that in Kiriko’s life. She doesn’t deserve it, she can’t afford it, and the evolution of her character has not been a departure from this style of thought. It has been a reinforcement of it, slowly gathering evidence and facing challenges that might tell her that she’s wrong, that her way of life isn’t going to achieve that impossible, inhuman goal of hers; and then pushing past them. Each one shoved aside without fail.
When faced with life as a human, as a woman, Kiriko has instead chosen to live like an ideal. Everything in her life strained her, tried her, and pushed her to see the problem in her lifestyle, to see that everything she needs to be a true person is right there at her fingertips.
And then some upstart lieutenant sticks his nose too close to her business. He defeats her Lieutenant, a man she had been molding to her own design, waving a flag exactly opposite to everything she believed. His defeat had been so thorough as to make her Lieutenant turn away, to make him realize the error of her ways, and when he corners her with questions she cannot possibly answer?
She decides that he’s right, she can’t answer them.
So she’ll rip out the very part of her soul that makes her human, she’ll eradicate any trace of her humanity as best she can, so those arguments no longer apply.
Then comes her test. Going to Hueco Mundo to seek the wisdom of Tova, the one man to show her light in a way that she could understand it, she finds instead a new Queen. Her Tova, long dead. A pink-haired tot in his place.
In his place, exactly the instrument she needs.
Amaya “Severance” Kidachi does the honors and cuts her off from her Spirit and Inner Hollow. Their voices, silenced. Their influence, gone.
With it, her humanity.
On Bleach Gotei we have never seen the case of a character who has so steadfastly stuck to their own poison except Kiriko Chinda. No one else has been so set on their own suffering, their own punishment, as her.
For this she has transcended, but to the worst of ends.
Everyone, join me in giving a round of applause to our most impressive Broken Transcendent to date.
May you find your answer, Penance.
