Post by Hazuki Tsukimiya on Dec 1, 2016 13:00:54 GMT -5
alterverses.txt is gone, I must not have saved it after I wrote all the relevant threads and there's no fucking way I'm checking skype logs from three-four years ago
which means I'm going to have to dig through Ask no Questions, Hear no Lies and Unforeseen Consequences again
hm, let's start with the biggest and most fleshed out one, the one good guy Kyousuke came from and died in:
Eight divisions:
First, led by Captain-Commander Kasumi Suzumei (former Second Division captain)
Second, led by Captain Satine Tsukimiya (née Purpureo, former lieutenant), Lieutenant Kiriko Chinda
Third, led by Captain Aizawa Junko
Fourth, captaincy vacant since the defection and subsequent death of Mitsutaka Karahashi (former lieutenant and acting captain)
Fifth, led by Captain Kenshou Ine, Lieutenant Artix von Creg (these two often switched places, an interesting solution to the "who can remain strongest for longest" problem)
Sixth, led by Captain Lessa Kachekiwa (former lieutenant and acting aptain)
Seventh, led by Captain Noaruji Amai
Eighth, led by Captain Kyousuke Tsukimiya (former lieutenant of the Second), Lieutenant Jasper Aizawa
In broad strokes, instead of getting fed up with Seireitei, Kyousuke actually volunteers to "defect" to Hueco Mundo basically in order to impress his future wife (it works), where he meets Tova Diabló... And kills him. Vaizards therefore never become a thing in this particular alterverse, and in an act of retaliation the Espada, led by Queen Riko Suzumei, invade Seireitei and are slaughtered in quite a spectacular fashion—but not before killing Mitsutaka's beloved captain, causing him to go quite mad with grief. He runs off to Hueco Mundo with Cho-Ah Amai in tow, does some really nasty things there to her and to others, and is eventually assassinated by Kyousuke, who feels guilty about not being able to talk his closest friend down from going in the first place and doesn't want to put his (now pregnant) wife at risk even though it's technically her job. Fun fact: Kiriko and Jasper fall for one another hard in this alterverse and spends most nights shacked up together in the Annex (l-lewd). Eventually our good friend Kyousuke from BG shows up and ruins literally everything, but not before learning of at least one more alterverse in which Alter-Alter-Kyousuke is not a very devoted husband (his demise is swift at the hands of FamilymanKyousuke tho so it's all good).
uhhhhhhhhh then there's a few smaller ones, one in particular in which our hero meets Allessandra Ametiel running a very small clinic out in Rukongai and nurses him back to health from when half his chest was removed by aTova's Cero. In this one, there's thirteen divisions:
Only half-listening, he reached for the black lacquered saya and pulled Kannaduki free, checking her for damage. ‘Fourth,’ he murmured, pleased to see that though she was sealed, there was none. ‘Was I carrying this in my hand when you found me?’
‘No, your blade was sheathed. Whoever attacked you must have caught you off-guard.’
Kyousuke doubted the validity of that claim, but said nothing, re-sheathing his blade and propping her up in the corner.
‘I wanted to be in the Fourth when I joined the Academy,’ she continued, ‘but I never ended up graduating. I have to say, you have a lot of scars for being a healer.’ There was a hint of doubt in her voice.
Kyousuke turned back to her, straightening up from his kneel, and shrugged with a pained smile. ‘You know how it is, science isn’t an exact science, it’s an ar—wait. Did you say healer?’
She gave him a quizzical look. ‘Yes, healer. The Fourth Division is the medical division, is it not?’
Kyousuke only stared. ‘I was in Research and Development,’ he finally stated, but he sounded unsure of himself.
‘Oh, so the Twelfth?’
‘The Twelfth Division.’ He didn’t believe what he was hearing.
‘Yes.’
‘Of the Gotei 6.’
‘No, of the Gotei 13.’ She looked concerned.
Kyousuke felt concerned. ‘I must have hit my head harder than I thought,’ he mumbled, feeling a headache and a slight sense of nausea coming on. Something on his lip tickled.
Allessandra gave him a meaningful glance, touching her nose, and then handed him a handkerchief.
Kyousuke brought a hand to his face, almost knowing what he would find on his fingers. Blood. Another nosebleed. There was a faint ringing in his ears, and he reached out to steady himself on the bunk he had been lying on. He clambered onto it and wiped the blood off his lips, applied pressure to his nose, and then closed his eyes.
‘I don’t feel very well,’ he groaned, and he could almost hear Allessandra smirk.
‘I did tell you to stay in bed, didn’t I?’
‘I shall defer to your expertise in the future, Miss Ametiel.’
‘You need rest.’
‘I’m not tired,’ he lied, the revelation nagging at him. ‘I feel like I should try to get my memory back.’
‘It’s nothing you can force, Chinda. It’ll come back to you when it comes back to you—if it comes back at all.’
‘Are you telling me I should wait and see?’ The words felt poisonous in his mouth, somehow, like how too much of a good thing could kill you.
‘Yes, something like that. It’s better you solidify what you already know. Why don’t you tell me about yourself?’
Kyousuke sighed. ‘Not much to tell, really.’
‘You said your name was Chinda. Are you related to the Bone Empress?’
The headache had hit him in full force now, and Kyousuke was having second thoughts about sleep. ‘Who’s the Bone Empress?’
‘One of the rebelling captains, you know? The Bone Empress? Kiriko Chinda?’
Kyousuke’s eyes shot open in an instant.
‘Oh, that’s right, I suppose there was no way for you to know. You were unconscious while it was happening,’ she continued.
Kyousuke’s heart was racing, and he struggled to keep his voice even. ‘Why don’t you tell me about it?’
Allessandra was seated at her desk with her back to him, and she seemed to be fiddling with something, but she took a deep breath all the same and began to speak.
‘After the failed war in Hueco Mundo, it seems five of the captains felt displeased with the way it had been run, and the reasons for waging it. They rose up in rebellion, and their goal was to remove the nobility, who they viewed as conspiratorial, and the Central 46, who they viewed as corrupt.’
‘Remove?’
‘Kill, of course. The five captains were the Second Division’s Bone Empress, the Sixth Division’s Storm Princess, the Swordbreaker of the Eighth, the Demon King of the Eleventh, and the Lioness of the Thirteenth.’
Kyousuke’s blood ran cold.
‘Their actual names, if I’m not completely mistaken, were—’
But Kyousuke already knew. ‘Kiriko Chinda, Lessa Kachekiwa, Kyousuke Tsukimiya, Artix von Creg and Satine Purpureo.’ Some part of him wanted to scream.
‘Yes, that’s right. See? You remember their titles. Anyway, they got what they wanted—kind of. Seireitei was in flames for about a week, the entirety of the Central 46 perished, and all but one of the nobility was slain. I hear they’re making him the next Captain-Commander.’
‘And the casualties on the other side?’
‘All five of them died. Kachekiwa, von Creg and Purpureo were all killed during the rebellion, but Chinda and Tsukimiya were executed two days ago.’
‘And you said the Captain-Commander needed replacing?’
‘Yes, Mitsutaka Karahashi fought the Storm Princess and the Swordbreaker, and the Swordbreaker only managed to kill him once the Storm Princess was dead.’
Kyousuke covered his face and gritted his teeth, and he could hear how Allessandra wondered aloud how Tsukimiya had managed.
Under his breath, he muttered an impossibly soft few words. ‘Couldn’t have been anything but dumb luck.’
She didn’t hear him, and continued. ‘Eventually, they quelled the uprising, and captured Chinda and Tsukimiya, who had fled to Earth. They were sentenced to prison for the rest of their lives, but apparently Tsukimiya made it very clear that he would eventually break free and kill the rest of them. They didn’t like that very much, so they sent them both for execution right then and there. They say his last words were I’m sorry.’
Kyousuke could imagine who the apology had been directed at.
‘You know, you kind of remind me of him.’
‘Plain face,’ replied Kyousuke, almost automatically. ‘You aren’t the first person to say so.’
uhhhhhh then of course there's the one Alter Tova came from, where Alter Tova basically kills any Shinigami he can get his hands on unless they agree to be turned into Vaizards. In this one, I believe Kyousuke was actually Kyouko, a young Shinigami woman who in much the same way Kyousuke went to Hueco Mundo in our timeline, goes to Hueco Mundo and gets chatted up by Tova. She doesn't survive Hollowification, however, and basically this turns Tova into a really bitter kind of dude and he takes out his sexual frustration on more or less everyone. Lessa basically runs the Resistance to aTova's sick and dystopian totalitarianism. Most others are dead.
These were all places Kyousuke actually ended up visiting. Then there's ones he sorta hallucinated when he was going insane after he invaded Hueco Mundo, these are all much smaller and far less complete:
One in which he's married (probably to Kiriko tbh) and has a daughter named Kasumi
One in which he's genderbent to Kyouko again (I keep coming back to this idea for some reason, really makes u think)
and a few others which escape me
You may have noticed a pattern, which is that Kyousuke ends up dying—a lot. I like to think of Transcendence as being a sort of "last man standing" phenomenon wherein out of the infinite multitudes of alternate reality versions of oneself, only one remains. Alter Tova was a bit of a cosmic fluke, really, and was eventually corrected. There were no other Tovas. There were no other Mitsutakas. Kyousuke ended up killing the last remaining version of himself. I can sorta look through my fingers at Hanabi (perhaps her existence is a doomed one?) but that's more or less what I consider the canonical conclusion to alter versions of BG characters once they hit White.
There's also a sort of effect on transdimensional travelers which takes the form of an unearthly sort of compulsion to return to whence they came: chains, in a sense, that are meant to keep you where you belong. Kyousuke had these once, but they stretched to the breaking point and snapped the first time he really invoked his Hollow mask, which caused his onset of dimensional insanity in the buildup to his Transcendence. It's the kind of thing that will really fuck a person up, make them borderline useless until they go back to where they belong or the bonds are severed by stretching them too far.
which means I'm going to have to dig through Ask no Questions, Hear no Lies and Unforeseen Consequences again
hm, let's start with the biggest and most fleshed out one, the one good guy Kyousuke came from and died in:
Eight divisions:
First, led by Captain-Commander Kasumi Suzumei (former Second Division captain)
Second, led by Captain Satine Tsukimiya (née Purpureo, former lieutenant), Lieutenant Kiriko Chinda
Third, led by Captain Aizawa Junko
Fourth, captaincy vacant since the defection and subsequent death of Mitsutaka Karahashi (former lieutenant and acting captain)
Fifth, led by Captain Kenshou Ine, Lieutenant Artix von Creg (these two often switched places, an interesting solution to the "who can remain strongest for longest" problem)
Sixth, led by Captain Lessa Kachekiwa (former lieutenant and acting aptain)
Seventh, led by Captain Noaruji Amai
Eighth, led by Captain Kyousuke Tsukimiya (former lieutenant of the Second), Lieutenant Jasper Aizawa
In broad strokes, instead of getting fed up with Seireitei, Kyousuke actually volunteers to "defect" to Hueco Mundo basically in order to impress his future wife (it works), where he meets Tova Diabló... And kills him. Vaizards therefore never become a thing in this particular alterverse, and in an act of retaliation the Espada, led by Queen Riko Suzumei, invade Seireitei and are slaughtered in quite a spectacular fashion—but not before killing Mitsutaka's beloved captain, causing him to go quite mad with grief. He runs off to Hueco Mundo with Cho-Ah Amai in tow, does some really nasty things there to her and to others, and is eventually assassinated by Kyousuke, who feels guilty about not being able to talk his closest friend down from going in the first place and doesn't want to put his (now pregnant) wife at risk even though it's technically her job. Fun fact: Kiriko and Jasper fall for one another hard in this alterverse and spends most nights shacked up together in the Annex (l-lewd). Eventually our good friend Kyousuke from BG shows up and ruins literally everything, but not before learning of at least one more alterverse in which Alter-Alter-Kyousuke is not a very devoted husband (his demise is swift at the hands of FamilymanKyousuke tho so it's all good).
uhhhhhhhhh then there's a few smaller ones, one in particular in which our hero meets Allessandra Ametiel running a very small clinic out in Rukongai and nurses him back to health from when half his chest was removed by aTova's Cero. In this one, there's thirteen divisions:
‘Which division are you in?’ she asked, as Kyousuke rummaged through what remained of his belongings. His kosode had been more or less shredded, the edges torn and frayed, with massive burns that matched the wounds he was carrying. It reminded him of the fox in the sands of Hueco Mundo, but the Noveno’s Cero had been a mere tickle compared to whatever had torn through his uniform this time.
Only half-listening, he reached for the black lacquered saya and pulled Kannaduki free, checking her for damage. ‘Fourth,’ he murmured, pleased to see that though she was sealed, there was none. ‘Was I carrying this in my hand when you found me?’
‘No, your blade was sheathed. Whoever attacked you must have caught you off-guard.’
Kyousuke doubted the validity of that claim, but said nothing, re-sheathing his blade and propping her up in the corner.
‘I wanted to be in the Fourth when I joined the Academy,’ she continued, ‘but I never ended up graduating. I have to say, you have a lot of scars for being a healer.’ There was a hint of doubt in her voice.
Kyousuke turned back to her, straightening up from his kneel, and shrugged with a pained smile. ‘You know how it is, science isn’t an exact science, it’s an ar—wait. Did you say healer?’
She gave him a quizzical look. ‘Yes, healer. The Fourth Division is the medical division, is it not?’
Kyousuke only stared. ‘I was in Research and Development,’ he finally stated, but he sounded unsure of himself.
‘Oh, so the Twelfth?’
‘The Twelfth Division.’ He didn’t believe what he was hearing.
‘Yes.’
‘Of the Gotei 6.’
‘No, of the Gotei 13.’ She looked concerned.
Kyousuke felt concerned. ‘I must have hit my head harder than I thought,’ he mumbled, feeling a headache and a slight sense of nausea coming on. Something on his lip tickled.
Allessandra gave him a meaningful glance, touching her nose, and then handed him a handkerchief.
Kyousuke brought a hand to his face, almost knowing what he would find on his fingers. Blood. Another nosebleed. There was a faint ringing in his ears, and he reached out to steady himself on the bunk he had been lying on. He clambered onto it and wiped the blood off his lips, applied pressure to his nose, and then closed his eyes.
‘I don’t feel very well,’ he groaned, and he could almost hear Allessandra smirk.
‘I did tell you to stay in bed, didn’t I?’
‘I shall defer to your expertise in the future, Miss Ametiel.’
‘You need rest.’
‘I’m not tired,’ he lied, the revelation nagging at him. ‘I feel like I should try to get my memory back.’
‘It’s nothing you can force, Chinda. It’ll come back to you when it comes back to you—if it comes back at all.’
‘Are you telling me I should wait and see?’ The words felt poisonous in his mouth, somehow, like how too much of a good thing could kill you.
‘Yes, something like that. It’s better you solidify what you already know. Why don’t you tell me about yourself?’
Kyousuke sighed. ‘Not much to tell, really.’
‘You said your name was Chinda. Are you related to the Bone Empress?’
The headache had hit him in full force now, and Kyousuke was having second thoughts about sleep. ‘Who’s the Bone Empress?’
‘One of the rebelling captains, you know? The Bone Empress? Kiriko Chinda?’
Kyousuke’s eyes shot open in an instant.
‘Oh, that’s right, I suppose there was no way for you to know. You were unconscious while it was happening,’ she continued.
Kyousuke’s heart was racing, and he struggled to keep his voice even. ‘Why don’t you tell me about it?’
Allessandra was seated at her desk with her back to him, and she seemed to be fiddling with something, but she took a deep breath all the same and began to speak.
‘After the failed war in Hueco Mundo, it seems five of the captains felt displeased with the way it had been run, and the reasons for waging it. They rose up in rebellion, and their goal was to remove the nobility, who they viewed as conspiratorial, and the Central 46, who they viewed as corrupt.’
‘Remove?’
‘Kill, of course. The five captains were the Second Division’s Bone Empress, the Sixth Division’s Storm Princess, the Swordbreaker of the Eighth, the Demon King of the Eleventh, and the Lioness of the Thirteenth.’
Kyousuke’s blood ran cold.
‘Their actual names, if I’m not completely mistaken, were—’
But Kyousuke already knew. ‘Kiriko Chinda, Lessa Kachekiwa, Kyousuke Tsukimiya, Artix von Creg and Satine Purpureo.’ Some part of him wanted to scream.
‘Yes, that’s right. See? You remember their titles. Anyway, they got what they wanted—kind of. Seireitei was in flames for about a week, the entirety of the Central 46 perished, and all but one of the nobility was slain. I hear they’re making him the next Captain-Commander.’
‘And the casualties on the other side?’
‘All five of them died. Kachekiwa, von Creg and Purpureo were all killed during the rebellion, but Chinda and Tsukimiya were executed two days ago.’
‘And you said the Captain-Commander needed replacing?’
‘Yes, Mitsutaka Karahashi fought the Storm Princess and the Swordbreaker, and the Swordbreaker only managed to kill him once the Storm Princess was dead.’
Kyousuke covered his face and gritted his teeth, and he could hear how Allessandra wondered aloud how Tsukimiya had managed.
Under his breath, he muttered an impossibly soft few words. ‘Couldn’t have been anything but dumb luck.’
She didn’t hear him, and continued. ‘Eventually, they quelled the uprising, and captured Chinda and Tsukimiya, who had fled to Earth. They were sentenced to prison for the rest of their lives, but apparently Tsukimiya made it very clear that he would eventually break free and kill the rest of them. They didn’t like that very much, so they sent them both for execution right then and there. They say his last words were I’m sorry.’
Kyousuke could imagine who the apology had been directed at.
‘You know, you kind of remind me of him.’
‘Plain face,’ replied Kyousuke, almost automatically. ‘You aren’t the first person to say so.’
uhhhhhh then of course there's the one Alter Tova came from, where Alter Tova basically kills any Shinigami he can get his hands on unless they agree to be turned into Vaizards. In this one, I believe Kyousuke was actually Kyouko, a young Shinigami woman who in much the same way Kyousuke went to Hueco Mundo in our timeline, goes to Hueco Mundo and gets chatted up by Tova. She doesn't survive Hollowification, however, and basically this turns Tova into a really bitter kind of dude and he takes out his sexual frustration on more or less everyone. Lessa basically runs the Resistance to aTova's sick and dystopian totalitarianism. Most others are dead.
These were all places Kyousuke actually ended up visiting. Then there's ones he sorta hallucinated when he was going insane after he invaded Hueco Mundo, these are all much smaller and far less complete:
One in which he's married (probably to Kiriko tbh) and has a daughter named Kasumi
One in which he's genderbent to Kyouko again (I keep coming back to this idea for some reason, really makes u think)
and a few others which escape me
You may have noticed a pattern, which is that Kyousuke ends up dying—a lot. I like to think of Transcendence as being a sort of "last man standing" phenomenon wherein out of the infinite multitudes of alternate reality versions of oneself, only one remains. Alter Tova was a bit of a cosmic fluke, really, and was eventually corrected. There were no other Tovas. There were no other Mitsutakas. Kyousuke ended up killing the last remaining version of himself. I can sorta look through my fingers at Hanabi (perhaps her existence is a doomed one?) but that's more or less what I consider the canonical conclusion to alter versions of BG characters once they hit White.
There's also a sort of effect on transdimensional travelers which takes the form of an unearthly sort of compulsion to return to whence they came: chains, in a sense, that are meant to keep you where you belong. Kyousuke had these once, but they stretched to the breaking point and snapped the first time he really invoked his Hollow mask, which caused his onset of dimensional insanity in the buildup to his Transcendence. It's the kind of thing that will really fuck a person up, make them borderline useless until they go back to where they belong or the bonds are severed by stretching them too far.