Bleach: First Blood

[Portrait of a Sociopath]

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[Feyblue]

...Huh. A fandom RP... for a mainstream anime... written by somebody who actually seems to be fairly literate...? Seems too good to be true.

Color me interested, although first, I'd have to see more about where this is going. At what level, exactly will this RP be taking place? I.E. which world will things primarily happen in, around what ranks will the Shinigami characters be, and about what "power level," as it were, will things be concentrated at? I think I should be just about prepared for anything, but it's good to know beforehand, regardless.

[Portrait of a Sociopath]

...Huh. A fandom RP... for a mainstream anime... written by somebody who actually seems to be fairly literate...? Seems too good to be true.

Color me interested, although first, I'd have to see more about where this is going. At what level, exactly will this RP be taking place? I.E. which world will things primarily happen in, around what ranks will the Shinigami characters be, and about what "power level," as it were, will things be concentrated at? I think I should be just about prepared for anything, but it's good to know beforehand, regardless.

Sorry for the late response, I tend to forget to check the OoC tab. This RP had initially started as a private RP between me and 2 other friends, but we then decided that we may uproot it to another site/community we were part of if the mods there would let us, or keep it here and open it to all if we get turned down. We're still in the process of world-building so everything's a mess.

As for what we were planning for ranks, we are really trying to emphasize character growth and development. The whole Bleach universe isn't developed. The Gotei 13 doesn't exist yet (we are around year 1000 give or take), we are rewriting history and taking quite a lot of creative freedom. Characters will most likely start at the level of (nonexistent) Academy Student level for Shinigami, akin to Ichigo in the first few chapters when he first learned to use his powers, and the equivalent for spiritual human and hollows.

The story will most likely start in a rural village of Japan. Travel between worlds isn't common, but still possible albeit quite hazardous. The 3 worlds (Hueco Mundo, Soul Society, and the World of the Living) have only just started breaking apart from each other so events in one are directly translated into the others, mainly in the form of yokai sightings or individuals being spirited away.

[Feyblue]

Fascinating. Seems like a really unique approach to an already interesting setting. I'm especially glad to see that it's not just another instance of "Here's your Bankai, now go fire giant lasers at people," and people actually have to earn their power. Keeping things lore and character focused also encourages originality rather than simply doing things for the sake of hype. Overall, this seems right up my alley.

If you'd be willing to let me join, then I'd love to. As far as characters are concerned, I'd probably end up playing as the Plus ghost of the daughter of some minor samurai, newly incarnated into the proto-Soul Society and have her either end up conscripted into the ranks of one of the 13 factions as a low level Shinigami or otherwise just return to hunt Hollows on her own, possibly for revenge.

Would that fall somewhere in line with what you had in mind?

[nosyfatguy]

Is this rp open then? If so are we able to reserve hollow characters and eventually work their way up aswell. If not then i'd rather take a shinigami character who i can't really flesh out straight away but i'll come up with something soon enough ^>^

[Portrait of a Sociopath]

At this rate I don't want to get anyone's hopes up. The two peeps I am working on have been spirited away by real life and holiday celebrations. Shame on them for having a social life. I think our end-goal may still be to move this RP to another website, so I don't want to let your characters go to waste (unless you guys wouldn't mind moving there).

We had also decided to keep Hueco Mundo and Soul Society as a single "Spirit World" for the purpose of keeping RPCs, Hollow or not, together. We just haven't had time to really develop any plans for Hollow RPC growth.

[Feyblue]

That's completely fine, Portrait. I've been fairly busy recently myself, and can completely understand any and all delays. And, if you move to another website, I'd be more than willing to follow suit, assuming you'd be willing to have me. If you want this to be a private roleplay, I'd equally gladly bow out. It's just that I've always enjoyed the worldbuilding of the Bleach universe, had some ideas I wanted to try using, and felt like most RPs - and even to an extent the manga itself - don't do justice to how interesting the setting and such could truly be. As such, I'm a bit hyped at the prospect of trying my hand at it in a roleplay written by competent people.

Also, as for the workings of the Spirit World, isn't that, to an extent, how things were already? I know it was possible to slip between the edges of the Soul Society and Hueco Mundo. That's why the outer Rukongai were so dangerous, since Hollows could slip in and Shinigami didn't really have much of a presence there. So, having the two connected seems perfectly fine.

[Kato]

The more I read the better it sounds. :3 I also agree with everything Feyblue said. There's a lot more to the setting than the manga covers, espcially from a historical POV. I do want to point out though, that I have been in (and still am in) some great, well-written, modern day Bleach RPs! They aren't all just bankai-spam fests. :)

[Portrait of a Sociopath]

They're having fun without me D: *commence butthurt*

I'll be honest and say that Rukongai has always interested me more than the Shinigami vs Arrancar shenanigans in the canon series. I guess it's both a curse and a blessing that Kubo ended the series without going too much into details about a lot of stuff. o/

And from what I remember, the general consensus is that Hueco Mundo is another dimension/world. Like Shinigami, the Hollows occasionally have the ability to visit Soul Society and the Human World.

[nosyfatguy]

I would also be fine with moving websites, it'd be quite exciting for me since this is the only one i know ^>^

[Kato]

I haven't a problem with playing on a different website. I do RPs outside of RPGateway a lot. :)

I think the problem with the worldbuilding in Bleach is that a lot of it, including the Rukongai and what happens to ordinary souls, was never actually thought through properly. It leaves a lot of gaps that would be interesting to fill. I get the impression that a lot of it was left vague because it actually doesn't make any sense once you scratch the surface... like the size Rukongai would need to be is akin to a continent, where we're given the impression it's more like Rio de Janeiro with its shanty towns or something. XD

Gotta love Bleach, but so much of it is just jury-rigged together with duct tape. :3