Skittering Hollow (Bleach/Worm)

[x][Let go] Nothing.
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[x][Let go] Nothing.

 

[X][Let go] Nothing.
-[X] You are the-human-who-was-khepri and shall not discard the sun that lock the heaven or the moon that brings the night.
--[X] You remember now that you need not alone to carry the Sun and Moon alone after all you have a partner, she who you became so close to that the lines between had blended together until there was no way to tell where one began and the other ended—and never had that unity so violently torn apart, self-hood and individuality unwillingly restored when the lines between them were cut by the brutal edge of death. She knew on some level that that unity they found was not a good one, as she had never been meant to be a Shard anymore than Queen had been meant to be a human, but in that moment they’d been both and she could still feel the ache of the loss a hole in her chest that had followed her in death
---[X] With this memory comes understanding and you reach out to the-shard-who-was-khepri for though your separation was sad the bond between your separate half cannot be erased

 

[X][Let go] The Moon.

 

Did you mean that you are not going to vote, or you are voting for the option "[x][Let go] Nothing."
If it is the latter, you need to type it exactly as I have in the quotations.

 

[x] [Let go] nothing.

 

I didn't mean actually put in quotations. Just type the words without them.

 

[x][Let go] The Sun.

 

[X][Let go] Nothing.

Blend and make stars?

 

[X][Let go] Nothing.
-[X] You are the-human-who-was-khepri and shall not discard the sun that lock the heaven or the moon that brings the night.
--[X] You remember now that you need not alone to carry the Sun and Moon alone after all you have a partner, she who you became so close to that the lines between had blended together until there was no way to tell where one began and the other ended—and never had that unity so violently torn apart, self-hood and individuality unwillingly restored when the lines between them were cut by the brutal edge of death. She knew on some level that that unity they found was not a good one, as she had never been meant to be a Shard anymore than Queen had been meant to be a human, but in that moment they’d been both and she could still feel the ache of the loss a hole in her chest that had followed her in death
---[X] With this memory comes understanding and you reach out to the-shard-who-was-khepri for though your separation was sad the bond between your separate half cannot be erased

 

Personally, I think she could become something much greater than both the sun and moon provided she doesn't just discard a part of herself once more. Basically this is her chance to redo a turning point in her life once more but as an Hollow with half-forgotten memories of herself choosing one option that saw her breaking piece by piece.

 

It's Bleach. There are no limits. Ichigo kicks off Arc 2 by becoming a Shinigami/Hollow hybrid naturally, when all previous examples were created by the Hogyoku(Ultimate Wish MacGuffin). He gets Bankai in three days. He stomps Aizen for a brief period. He and Uryu killed God. Once again, Bleach is a world barren of true hard limits.

 

I'm not saying she has limits just saying that become even greater provided she doesn't throw any parts of herself away once more. And that she has a chance to not make the same mistakes she did in life just to accomplish her goals.

 

[x][Let go] Nothing.

 

[x][Let go] Nothing.

 

[X][Let go] Nothing. You are what you are, all of it. Discarding a part is discarding a part of yourself and you refuse. You’ll make it work… somehow.


My thoughts process literally summoned the Flexmaster Himself to voice the answer to that line:

Taylor be like:

She has given of herself for so long, it is time to be selfish just for once. why cannot SHE have something good happen to herself? Why does SHE have to suffer? She is all of those things, she acnowledges that, so why should she give parts of herself away? Just BECAUSE?
NO! She has suffered enough and it is all right be greedy just for once.

 

Alright ladies and gents, votes are now closed!

This time's winner is...

[X][Let go] Nothing.

Spoiler: Vote Tally

Vote Tally : Skittering Hollow (Bleach/Worm) | Page 27 | Questionable Questing [Posts: 792-856]
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---[X] With this memory comes understanding and you reach out to the-shard-who-was-khepri for though your separation was sad the bond between your separate half cannot be erased
No. of Votes: 8
[X] mattsaber
[X] Arbitbit39
[X] Harpy81
[X] Iceflame55
[X] MahoGuy
[X] Phasehand
[X] Scottyzelsnyder
[X] Shaper47
--[X] You remember now that you need not alone to carry the Sun and Moon alone after all you have a partner, she who you became so close to that the lines between had blended together until there was no way to tell where one began and the other ended—and never had that unity so violently torn apart, self-hood and individuality unwillingly restored when the lines between them were cut by the brutal edge of death. She knew on some level that that unity they found was not a good one, as she had never been meant to be a Shard anymore than Queen had been meant to be a human, but in that moment they'd been both and she could still feel the ache of the loss a hole in her chest that had followed her in death
No. of Votes: 8
[X] mattsaber
[X] Arbitbit39
[X] Harpy81
[X] Iceflame55
[X] MahoGuy
[X] Phasehand
[X] Scottyzelsnyder
[X] Shaper47
-[X] You are the-human-who-was-khepri and shall not discard the sun that lock the heaven or the moon that brings the night.
No. of Votes: 6
[X] Arbitbit39
[X] Harpy81
[X] Iceflame55
[X] MahoGuy
[X] Phasehand
[X] Scottyzelsnyder
-[X] You are the-human-who-was-khepri and shall not discard the sun that locks the heaven or the moon that brings the night.
No. of Votes: 2
[X] mattsaber
[X] Shaper47

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Task: Let go
[X][Let go] Nothing.
No. of Votes: 37
[x] MrMig
[x] abyssmal_kismet
[x] Aerrow
[X] Arbitbit39
[X] Arksurek
[x] Autist4Hugh
[x] bobbya1
[x] CrimsonFate
[x] daimahou
[x] Demetric
[x] Demonlorddraco91
[x] DilonVokun
[x] Flavy02
[X] Harpy81
[X] Iceflame55
[X] Jarrarad
[x] joneik3
[x] jrbiohazard
[x] KuroOkami
[X] LokKi
[X] MahoGuy
[x] mariuswinter
[X] mattsaber
[x] OldClueless
[X] Phasehand
[X] R.A.G.
[x] Ratatoskr
[x] redaeth
[X] Scottyzelsnyder
[X] Shaper47
[x] SoldMars
[x] spidermonkey
[x] Syphi
[X] The_Collection
[x] Umbra99
[x] werdzerg13
[x] Zakara
[X][Let go] Nothing. You are what you are, all of it. Discarding a part is discarding a part of yourself and you refuse. You'll make it work… somehow.
No. of Votes: 6
[X] Jubjub3000
[X] A-Salt-N-Battery
[X] Its_a_cauldron_plot!
[X] Ljapaubeaves
[X] Naddakka741
[X] Rock_on_5002
[X][Let go] The Sun.
No. of Votes: 5
[x] Prama
[x] Bloodalchemy
[x] CatOnFire
[x] ELRue
[x] Minion #Q
[X][Let go] The Moon.
No. of Votes: 3
[x] Metoto21
[X] Agmus
[x] globalwarmth
[X][Let go] Both get out!
No. of Votes: 1
[x] JadeSpear
[X][Let go] Both.
No. of Votes: 1
[x] Kraotop

Total No. of Voters: 53

With an overwhelming 43/53... you greedy bastards .

No interlude this time, played with a couple of ideas but my heart wasn't on it, next chapter should be up tomorrow around this time at the latest (please note the 'should' I'm really good at miscalculating.).

 

Lol. In my case, it’s less about greed and more like this: Here and now, Taylor can throw away a part of herself that conflicts with another, throw them both away and start fresh, or keep both despite the conflict and try to make it work. My problem with the former two is this: If she throws away an intristic part of her soul simply because it conflicts with another, equally intristic part, where will she stop? In my mind it’s a slippery slope that she practically sledded down when she was alive, and I’m not eager to see Being Taylor Hebert is Suffering 2, Electric Boogaloo. She left enough of herself behind last time, for so many reasons, that I feel it’ll be too easy to start doing again. So I say that she should hold onto everything she is, damn the consequences. If they won’t work together naturally, then Taylor will make them work together. whether they like it or not. That’s the Hebert Way.

 

The burden is not just hers to take the Queen that was once apart of her can help after all the become intertwined near her end and shards love there hosts and do you really think as a fragment of a being that technically exists in multiple versions of the same planet in particular such a key fragment sight would be stopped by a unstable fragments of a planet no the queen is going to reunite with its Taylor and so the onyx sun rises while the queen grasp the moon and so the eclipse of there union shall herald the end of this abomination of a status quo of these worlds

 

is it overwhelming enougth for a perk?
also just to put it out there I want to see her acidentaly rune all planes by being happy and oblivious

write in [X] when she is a biped she randomly skips when happy.

 

I agree and sorry had to point out the likely Autocorruptions.

 

Probably not a good idea. The one quest I ever saw that gave perks as rewards for Landslide Votes died before it finished the first Arc.

Messing with the Forest Guardian, nomming Grand Fisher, cluing Yuzu and Karin in, getting a legit Fullbringer to stick around, and knocking Ichigo and Uryu's competition off the rails is very much small stuff. Even Tatsuki and Chizuru getting swallowed whole isn't really much of a derail, since they never really contribute anything meaningful, beyond hanging around in the mortal world as friends of the MCs that they have to hide the supernatural from. Whatever Taylor's doing with Masaki's soul though is very much a significant derail, as even if none of the four have intact memories, Taylor knows Tatsuki and Chizuru are from Karakura, and will probably bring them back with Masaki and Fortuna along for the ride. That'll probably reveal Isshin's supernatural nature and Ichigo's Qunicy heritage, months ahead of schedule. And from there, we're pretty much into the realm of tossing dynamite onto the tracks, because given just how intricate Bleach's plots are, this much divergence royal screws everything, so we might as well see how far we can push the buck.

I love that and I'm absolutely going to steal it for personal usage. Fucking spellcheck man.

 

When I consider how off the rails on how things are compared to canon with Weaver involvement at the moment. For some reason I feel like this could've happen without the Weaver Butterfly Effect impacting the cast of Bleach. It could be consider a small miracle that Strawberry & Friends all made it out alive in one piece during the canon story events.

 

Oh yeah, that bit was a genuine fucking miracle. Not counting Ichigo’s initial idiocy in trying to treat the Gillian as an exercise in lumberjacking that Weaver narrowly averted here, the only ones on hand to deal with it were Ichigo and Uryu, with Urahara and Rukia in the back as moral support. Both here and in Canon there was the serious danger of the city getting leveled by the dumb-as-a-post Gillian. We just got Tatsuki and Chizuru getting nommed in exchange for Ichigo’s Zanpaktou starting to explode.

 

Overwhelming votes can, depending on the circumstances, influence the plot. Gainig perks outside of defining moments like birth and evolutions will be hard.

Since most of the conversation involves speculation of the future, I'll refrain from commenting on anything else.

Instead, I'll as a question I'm really curious about.

Who or what do you guys think is the red voice? I want to hear your reasonable and crazy theories both.

 

I’ll freely admit that I have no earthly idea. I kinda lost interest in Bleach at the point it began turning into a complete and total bishounen-fest, even for the girls, so I’m only well versed on Pre-Timeskip plot and characters, plus the first and fourth movies. Yhwach, the Zero Squad, the Soul King, and all those other insanely ancient remnants of Bleach’s primordial times are completely and utterly out of my wheelhouse and meta-knowledge beyond the blindingly obvious.

Going by what Red is saying and some of the context, Red is definitively Ancient, and rather well versed on the mechanics of Hollow Gestalts and Hollows in general to boot. They mention talking to others in the past, but also say that it has been quite some time since they last did so, and when an Ancient Entity says “It’s been a while.”, it’s really been a while. They refer to Hollows as “your kin” meaning they aren’t a Hollow themselves. They also say that “you know where to find me” though, implying that this is perhaps something obvious in hindsight.

The big clue though is that during the choice between the Sun and Moon, Red says to “Let me go” implying that no matter which we pick to let go of, we’ll be banishing their voice from Taylor’s perception all the same. This means that Red isn’t the Moon, and isn’t the Sun. Perhaps... they’re both? Somehow? The coin on which the Sun and Moon are two sides of? I have no idea how that would work, but it’s the only thing I can think of.


Edit: Wait, Red said to “let go of one of us” and then said to “let me go” followed by “embrace the pragmatic choice”. So I think that Red is the Sun, which hasn’t been able to talk to people for quite some time, and is prompting Taylor to take the pragmatic option of keeping the Moon and its boon to her EE. That’s my theory.

 

At first I thinking it was Weaver potential sword spirit. Then some entity of power like the Soul King, or maybe some random god or a devil.

But my favorite theory is that it some sort of test for Weaver and the question is that did she fail it or pass it? Or maybe there was no true answer to this test.

 

A red ribbon represents the power of a soul reaper, sword spirits are not really explained much in bleach but there was that whole issue with two soul reapers one of them being Tōshirō Hitsugaya having the same sword spirit.

 

[x][Save] One for All

I didn't choose just to be forced to let them go. They are within me therefore mine.

I'll do whatever I want with what is mine.