Post by Shinpei Minamoto on Mar 8, 2015 18:25:38 GMT -5
Normally in a Gigai, Shinigami are careful to hide their Reiatsu, their spiritual pressure: it helps them stay hidden. It was a skill that everyone learned--often by necessity--before sallying forth into the Human world; otherwise, Hollows descended on that poor Shinigami like a Southern family on an all-you-can-eat buffet. Shinpei had seen it happen every now and then: the Academy was often harsh to the untrained or careless. They were training soldiers, after all: they didn't have the luxury to pull punches.
This is all to say that it was especially surprising given Shinpei's background that he'd stopped trying to stay hidden. There hadn't seemed to be any drawbacks to it, at least so far; though he'd been taught over and over again that deserters and mutineers were hunted and imprisoned (or killed, if they were foolish enough to resist the "might of the Gotei") without failure and without delay, but he'd been on Earth for... well, surely for months now. He'd lost track. No Shinigami had come for him yet--his family didn't count--so it would be accurate to say he wasn't feeling particularly careful these days.
There were benefits, too, in letting his Spiritual energy seep out. Humans, whom he'd been told had no conception or capacity for the Spiritual, tended to notice. It had surprised him at first: people had turned and stared at him, sometimes quite openly. Well, some did and some didn't. If it was evidence of differing spiritual capability rather than a difference in willingness to stare, that deduction was beyond Shinpei's interest. At the least it was yet more proof that the Seireitei wasn't as right as it thought or pretended to be.
Speaking of what the Soul Society had to say: the most compelling reason he'd heard for why keeping one's Reiatsu firmly under wraps was that doing otherwise led to Hollows, Arrancar and all manner of beasts jumping all over their supposed prey. However, he'd been cautiously increasing how much of himself (his real, spiritual self, which still positively itched at being in a Gigai) he let show, and even now at something like one third revealed, he'd still seen nothing. Nothing at all.
It was enough to shake one's faith--if Shinpei could be said to have any.
This is all to say that it was especially surprising given Shinpei's background that he'd stopped trying to stay hidden. There hadn't seemed to be any drawbacks to it, at least so far; though he'd been taught over and over again that deserters and mutineers were hunted and imprisoned (or killed, if they were foolish enough to resist the "might of the Gotei") without failure and without delay, but he'd been on Earth for... well, surely for months now. He'd lost track. No Shinigami had come for him yet--his family didn't count--so it would be accurate to say he wasn't feeling particularly careful these days.
There were benefits, too, in letting his Spiritual energy seep out. Humans, whom he'd been told had no conception or capacity for the Spiritual, tended to notice. It had surprised him at first: people had turned and stared at him, sometimes quite openly. Well, some did and some didn't. If it was evidence of differing spiritual capability rather than a difference in willingness to stare, that deduction was beyond Shinpei's interest. At the least it was yet more proof that the Seireitei wasn't as right as it thought or pretended to be.
Speaking of what the Soul Society had to say: the most compelling reason he'd heard for why keeping one's Reiatsu firmly under wraps was that doing otherwise led to Hollows, Arrancar and all manner of beasts jumping all over their supposed prey. However, he'd been cautiously increasing how much of himself (his real, spiritual self, which still positively itched at being in a Gigai) he let show, and even now at something like one third revealed, he'd still seen nothing. Nothing at all.
It was enough to shake one's faith--if Shinpei could be said to have any.
