a. .Kyouraku will nap anywhere -- tatami floor, shingled roof, wooden table, random spot of grass -- but he actually doesn't sleep that well in his own futon. He spends a lot of nights staring at the ceiling. (Or else drunk and sound asleep.) .Lately, Kyouraku tries not to visit Ukitake when he's too sick to get out of bed. It's just getting too difficult as they get older to watch him while he's essentially crippled. .Kyouraku's previous lieutenants were the kind of people who enjoyed being independent and not having a captain peering over their shoulder. He thought, when he picked Nanao, that she would be like that. For some reason (maybe unfortunately, but also interestingly) she proved more interested in making him do his own work.
b. Kyouraku sucks because he is one of those characters who muddles up the aging issue even more than it already was.
c. Kyouraku is awesome because he's Kyouraku of his loyal friendship to Ukitake and his steadfast principles, because he's compassionate and insightful and also a drunken manwhore, and he'll stick poisonous grass in his mouth and just leave it there to wait for Nanao to set up his pitiful puppydog punchline.
d. -Kyouraku has never thought he was friends with someone when he wasn't -- not even Aizen et al. -He's never told anyone about the brief period of his life during which he was engaged. (Ukitake knows.) -He's never been so angry or so so upset that he'll "burden" a woman with the sight of his agitation. (Nanao wishes he would.) -He's never been far enough on a lake or on the sea etc that he lost sight of the shoreline. -He's never forgotten the first time he lost a soldier in his division.
e. -Kyouraku never fell in love with Rangiku. He'll flirt and he'll leer, but she's too close to Nanao; too tangled up in her own heart. Secretly, he's just kind of benevolently fond of Rangiku, like one might be of a child.
-Never fell in love with Hinamori. He likes it when cute girls blush and stammer, so he'll flirt with her, but she's too young and too respectful, and that doesn't jump out at him.
-Never fell in love with Unohana. He'll play at it a little, joke about how he's been pining for her company since the last captain's meeting, but she's a little too in-control, a little too secure, and he has seen her save his dearest friend's life more than once from the disease no one can defeat or control. That would cool any ardor to respect -- and gratitude.
no subject
.Kyouraku will nap anywhere -- tatami floor, shingled roof, wooden table, random spot of grass -- but he actually doesn't sleep that well in his own futon. He spends a lot of nights staring at the ceiling. (Or else drunk and sound asleep.)
.Lately, Kyouraku tries not to visit Ukitake when he's too sick to get out of bed. It's just getting too difficult as they get older to watch him while he's essentially crippled.
.Kyouraku's previous lieutenants were the kind of people who enjoyed being independent and not having a captain peering over their shoulder. He thought, when he picked Nanao, that she would be like that. For some reason (maybe unfortunately, but also interestingly) she proved more interested in making him do his own work.
b. Kyouraku sucks because he is one of those characters who muddles up the aging issue even more than it already was.
c. Kyouraku is awesome because
he's Kyourakuof his loyal friendship to Ukitake and his steadfast principles, because he's compassionate and insightful and also a drunken manwhore, and he'll stick poisonous grass in his mouth and just leave it there to wait for Nanao to set up his pitiful puppydog punchline.d.
-Kyouraku has never thought he was friends with someone when he wasn't -- not even Aizen et al.
-He's never told anyone about the brief period of his life during which he was engaged. (Ukitake knows.)
-He's never been so angry or so so upset that he'll "burden" a woman with the sight of his agitation. (Nanao wishes he would.)
-He's never been far enough on a lake or on the sea etc that he lost sight of the shoreline.
-He's never forgotten the first time he lost a soldier in his division.
e.
-Kyouraku never fell in love with Rangiku. He'll flirt and he'll leer, but she's too close to Nanao; too tangled up in her own heart. Secretly, he's just kind of benevolently fond of Rangiku, like one might be of a child.
-Never fell in love with Hinamori. He likes it when cute girls blush and stammer, so he'll flirt with her, but she's too young and too respectful, and that doesn't jump out at him.
-Never fell in love with Unohana. He'll play at it a little, joke about how he's been pining for her company since the last captain's meeting, but she's a little too in-control, a little too secure, and he has seen her save his dearest friend's life more than once from the disease no one can defeat or control. That would cool any ardor to respect -- and gratitude.