Post by Hazuki Tsukimiya on Jun 1, 2017 12:42:41 GMT -5
not sure why you need to know my base and my last legendary challenge request anymore given how these work nowadays but Hazuki’s at 7,000 BGP and the last request of this nature I made was the aptly named ayo gimme gp
as you can see I have continued this esteemed naming tradition
I’m not going to waste your time trying to convince you that anything that occurred in Judge, Jury, Executioner changed Hazuki in any particular way. It would be disingenuous of me to attempt it. What I’ve done is crystallize Hazuki’s current direction and bring attention to her particular brand of justice. She hasn’t really changed so much as gone all-in on this newfound approach to her life in the situation she finds herself in. This is, by far, the weakest segment of the request and I’ve used the thread more to illustrate who she is now as opposed to the actual change. If I felt comfortable requesting legendary challenge status for Bruised, that’s where you’d find it. In many ways, Executioner is a follow-up to that thread. Perhaps you’ll keep that in mind when you grade this.
A great deal more time has been spent on setting the stage for the clash, however. Hazuki fights and kills two (2) people during her jaunt to Hueco Mundo: a wanted criminal and the queen (who insists she’s the former queen yet mysteriously none have risen to take her place). As you may remember, the former made a rather unsuccessful attempt at grabbing the vacant captain-commander slot, thwarted by Hazuki’s pointed objection and intervention with Nagisa and Kasumi’s aid. He foolishly decides to brand himself a traitor and a half-breed in front of pretty much everyone and seals his fate, a sentence is passed and ultimately carried out in this thread. It isn’t much of an appearance, to be honest—he shows up, thinks he’ll be able to fall back on honor or pity or whatever it was that his former opponents have displayed but unfortunately for him Hazuki is the unsympathetic type and takes his legs and then his head without much ceremony. Ostensibly, he’s the entire reason Hazuki is in Hueco Mundo to begin with; Nagisa’s reports have indicated that’s where he is and Hazuki (unlike most Shinigami) acts on the information with her usual enthusiasm. She did the same with Shinpei once upon a time. His jaw is probably still a little sore.
For the second time in her life, Evelynn is used as bait—the first time Hazuki wasn’t all too pleased with Shun’s antics and when the situation devolved you’ll recall she was the first to actually attempt to see things through. Hazuki is about to get up close and personal to put the prisoner out of her misery when Evelynn is saved by what certainly appeared like divine intervention—which precipitated (apparently) some much-needed change in the Arrancar. In the end, however, inevitability catches up with Evelynn, too. With her past crimes still unpunished and in a far more tasteful environment, Hazuki makes the most of the situation and decides to dispense more justice.
Reading the thread I hope you’ll catch the bits of introspection that better highlight what I’m talking about when it comes to the finer points of my statements; this is a request, not a dissertation and the source material really must be allowed to speak for itself.
The third and final aspect of the thread is what I feel firmly plants it in legendary challenge territory. With the short, quick, and gory aside out of the way in the first few posts of the thread, Hazuki is free to use her Bankai for the first time, which is something I envisioned would really add fuel to the creative fire of fight choreography. Able to change the arena at whim as well as introduce an aspect of uncertainty and mysticism, I felt using it to bring a close to Evelynn’s story was a good decision despite not really needing to. It does, however, paint Hazuki in the kind of light I’d like to paint her in—not necessarily one that seeks to "honor" her opponents by going all-out so much as one that wishes to truly make them understand the extent of the power which they are about to succumb to. She didn’t unleash Bankai out of respect—she feels none for either of her opponents in Executioner—but rather she wants to make sure Evelynn understands that there are certain lines you don’t cross (namely turning Shinigami into half-breeds) without incurring the wrath of the powers that be and have everything taken from you. Her first opponent was dispatched with an almost cavalier disdain: he was just a traitor who had traded good sense for an inflated opinion of self and it didn’t take much to humble him in a very permanent fashion.
You may remember in my very very very first requests on Hazuki (zanjutsu master and grandmaster) that she tailors her fighting style to her opponents in more than just her application of violence—even her attitude changes depending on who she faces. A curt sort of professionalism sparring with Nagisa, vicious taunting to remind Miyuki that she is unworthy, dirty tricks against Shinpei, and more importantly that all this crumbles when she becomes emotionally invested in the fight as with both Jasper and Kyousuke.
For the opponents in Executioner, she has continued her trend: for the disappointment of a man who could never amount to anything but a base criminal, she reserves merely a passing interest. It’s nothing but disdain. He talks and talks, with his clever little interjections, but it’s all just white noise, not worth responding to with anything but a swift cut to end his life and a mocking set of photos. For Evelynn, however, Hazuki must resort to more extreme measures. This is a woman who broke taboo multiple times and fancied herself a queen, and Hazuki goes out of her way to remind her just how small she really is in the face of larger ideals. Justice, propriety, even morality in a way (but between you and me, Hazuki certainly isn’t one to talk about morality). Her end must be suitably bombastic. And all in all, as the closing line of the thread points out, it’s about sending a message to both Seireitei’s ne’er-do-wells and Hueco Mundo that Shinigami laws are not to be fucked with without consequence.
A suzerain rules even where there are other rulers. His authority countermands local judgements.
I expect (or hope, rather) that this will be a refreshing experience in particular for members of the hollow-breed factions. It feels as though they have forgotten what real fear is, and for a race that is so intrinsically tied to the baser instincts of men and beasts, it would serve them well to remember that they are not the apex predators many of them imagine themselves to be.
But then again, BG has a way of disappointing me, so who can say for sure?
anyway I gotta go return some videotapes and this request is almost at 1.2k words so
as you can see I have continued this esteemed naming tradition
I’m not going to waste your time trying to convince you that anything that occurred in Judge, Jury, Executioner changed Hazuki in any particular way. It would be disingenuous of me to attempt it. What I’ve done is crystallize Hazuki’s current direction and bring attention to her particular brand of justice. She hasn’t really changed so much as gone all-in on this newfound approach to her life in the situation she finds herself in. This is, by far, the weakest segment of the request and I’ve used the thread more to illustrate who she is now as opposed to the actual change. If I felt comfortable requesting legendary challenge status for Bruised, that’s where you’d find it. In many ways, Executioner is a follow-up to that thread. Perhaps you’ll keep that in mind when you grade this.
A great deal more time has been spent on setting the stage for the clash, however. Hazuki fights and kills two (2) people during her jaunt to Hueco Mundo: a wanted criminal and the queen (who insists she’s the former queen yet mysteriously none have risen to take her place). As you may remember, the former made a rather unsuccessful attempt at grabbing the vacant captain-commander slot, thwarted by Hazuki’s pointed objection and intervention with Nagisa and Kasumi’s aid. He foolishly decides to brand himself a traitor and a half-breed in front of pretty much everyone and seals his fate, a sentence is passed and ultimately carried out in this thread. It isn’t much of an appearance, to be honest—he shows up, thinks he’ll be able to fall back on honor or pity or whatever it was that his former opponents have displayed but unfortunately for him Hazuki is the unsympathetic type and takes his legs and then his head without much ceremony. Ostensibly, he’s the entire reason Hazuki is in Hueco Mundo to begin with; Nagisa’s reports have indicated that’s where he is and Hazuki (unlike most Shinigami) acts on the information with her usual enthusiasm. She did the same with Shinpei once upon a time. His jaw is probably still a little sore.
For the second time in her life, Evelynn is used as bait—the first time Hazuki wasn’t all too pleased with Shun’s antics and when the situation devolved you’ll recall she was the first to actually attempt to see things through. Hazuki is about to get up close and personal to put the prisoner out of her misery when Evelynn is saved by what certainly appeared like divine intervention—which precipitated (apparently) some much-needed change in the Arrancar. In the end, however, inevitability catches up with Evelynn, too. With her past crimes still unpunished and in a far more tasteful environment, Hazuki makes the most of the situation and decides to dispense more justice.
Reading the thread I hope you’ll catch the bits of introspection that better highlight what I’m talking about when it comes to the finer points of my statements; this is a request, not a dissertation and the source material really must be allowed to speak for itself.
The third and final aspect of the thread is what I feel firmly plants it in legendary challenge territory. With the short, quick, and gory aside out of the way in the first few posts of the thread, Hazuki is free to use her Bankai for the first time, which is something I envisioned would really add fuel to the creative fire of fight choreography. Able to change the arena at whim as well as introduce an aspect of uncertainty and mysticism, I felt using it to bring a close to Evelynn’s story was a good decision despite not really needing to. It does, however, paint Hazuki in the kind of light I’d like to paint her in—not necessarily one that seeks to "honor" her opponents by going all-out so much as one that wishes to truly make them understand the extent of the power which they are about to succumb to. She didn’t unleash Bankai out of respect—she feels none for either of her opponents in Executioner—but rather she wants to make sure Evelynn understands that there are certain lines you don’t cross (namely turning Shinigami into half-breeds) without incurring the wrath of the powers that be and have everything taken from you. Her first opponent was dispatched with an almost cavalier disdain: he was just a traitor who had traded good sense for an inflated opinion of self and it didn’t take much to humble him in a very permanent fashion.
You may remember in my very very very first requests on Hazuki (zanjutsu master and grandmaster) that she tailors her fighting style to her opponents in more than just her application of violence—even her attitude changes depending on who she faces. A curt sort of professionalism sparring with Nagisa, vicious taunting to remind Miyuki that she is unworthy, dirty tricks against Shinpei, and more importantly that all this crumbles when she becomes emotionally invested in the fight as with both Jasper and Kyousuke.
For the opponents in Executioner, she has continued her trend: for the disappointment of a man who could never amount to anything but a base criminal, she reserves merely a passing interest. It’s nothing but disdain. He talks and talks, with his clever little interjections, but it’s all just white noise, not worth responding to with anything but a swift cut to end his life and a mocking set of photos. For Evelynn, however, Hazuki must resort to more extreme measures. This is a woman who broke taboo multiple times and fancied herself a queen, and Hazuki goes out of her way to remind her just how small she really is in the face of larger ideals. Justice, propriety, even morality in a way (but between you and me, Hazuki certainly isn’t one to talk about morality). Her end must be suitably bombastic. And all in all, as the closing line of the thread points out, it’s about sending a message to both Seireitei’s ne’er-do-wells and Hueco Mundo that Shinigami laws are not to be fucked with without consequence.
A suzerain rules even where there are other rulers. His authority countermands local judgements.
I expect (or hope, rather) that this will be a refreshing experience in particular for members of the hollow-breed factions. It feels as though they have forgotten what real fear is, and for a race that is so intrinsically tied to the baser instincts of men and beasts, it would serve them well to remember that they are not the apex predators many of them imagine themselves to be.
But then again, BG has a way of disappointing me, so who can say for sure?
anyway I gotta go return some videotapes and this request is almost at 1.2k words so
