Yachiru nicknames everyone. EVERYONE. There are no exceptions. If we interact in camp, sooner or later, she'll nickname your character. (Later being when the player can't think of anything off the top of her head and just doesn't use names at all!)

Nicknames she uses in canon: 'Enpitsu' (pencil) for Ishida which still makes me crack up even now, 'Bururun' (early-bloomer/big-booby) for Orihime, 'Pachinko-Head' for Ikkaku, 'Maki-Maki' for Aramaki Makizou (11th Division thuggie), 'Ken-chan' for Kenpachi, 'Icchy' for Ichigo, and Byakuya is 'Byakuya-oniichan.' Also, Yumichika is 'Funny-Brow', and I have no idea if that is canon or fanon, but it's the only one I've ever seen used for him. XD;

( massive list under cut; includes dropped characters yachiru has met. she gets around. )

HI GUYS. REVERSE DIRTY SEXUAL FANTASY MEME.

Comment here to find out WHY YACHIRU, YUMA, CIELO AND THOMAS WOULD NOT DO YOU.

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My review of canon really goes along the lines of 'let's pick up the latest volume WHO CARES if it's 175 chapters or so behind la la la.'

That said, volume 15 gives me some stuff on Yachiru and the rest of 11th (four pages, but highly informative ones) to chew on because I'd forgotten it ages ago. Has it really been over a year since I picked up Bleach?

Nearly a direct transcript, but I changed names back around because I hate it when translators flip them.

( volume 15, ch. 128 - The Great Joint-Struggle Union )

So this tells me two things that have some bearing on my play: Yachiru can forget nicknames. Which works, because occasionally I forget and change what she calls people because I haven't recorded it in the Giant Nicklist of Doom.

The second is that she can apparently pinpoint and differentiate spiritual pressure better than I thought she did. Ackpbbt. So now I'm not sure what bearing this has on her terrible sense of direction anymore. Because if the difference in ryoka and shinigami spirit energy is dramatically different, then all the ryoka should have been unable to hide in Seireitei. It's canon that you can tell what direction someone is in from their spirit energy, so does this mean she could actually focus? On the other hand, she couldn't detect Aramaki, whose level of power was lower than Orihime's. Hmm.

Either Yachiru can a) find someone if they're fairly strong, distinct and she knows exactly what to look for, or b) she spent the whole afternoon wandering around, got close enough to Maki-Maki and Orihime (who would have been heading to 11th's quarters anyway, come to think of it), and went 'ping!' Or even c) she was sitting with Kenpachi the whole time and went to investigate when Maki and Hime entered the building.

In conclusion, CANON WHY ARE YOU SO VAGUE. More on this when I get serious about rereading Bleach.

I can't ask if you're a wolf 'cos you're not a wolf.

( tarot results: the sun/the fool )

And they both make tons of sense. 8D

- 109 cm
- 15.5 kg
- D.O.B. February 12

- 11th Company crest symbol: Nokogirisou (yarrow plant)
- Motto: "Fight"

- The shortest and lightest member of the thirteen court guards companies.

- From Kusajishi, the 79th district of North Rukongai.

- Similar to Kenpachi, she's the only person ever to become an assistant captain of the thirteen companies without taking the enlistment exam.

- Her sword isn't very long, but its scabbard has training wheels because she pulls it behind her with a string, instead of wearing it at her waist. Ikkaku, who is good with tools, made it for her after she pestered him for it.

- Her favorite food is konpeito (a candy made from crystallizing sugar around a poppy seed core.) Given the chance, she'll gulp it down like it's water.


- Theme song: "Yoo-Hoo!" by Sora Izumikawa. Recorded in "Sora He."

Yachiru's biggest appearance in the Bleach canon so far. Only changes are 'Kenny' back to 'Ken-chan' and 'Ichi' to 'Icchy.'

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So Yachiru, ever since the first camp family tree post went up, calls certain people 'brother' or 'sister' or 'father' or 'mother.' This...is slightly misleading as to the way she views them. S-SO. This is how she actually sees her 'camp family' and it's sort of like a relationship list, only...I dunno. HANDY-DANDY CATEGORIZATION AND EVERYTHING. Because it's 2 AM and I'm starting to confuse myself. D:

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How to play a Kusajishi Yachiru! ...because her voice has been a bit off lately and I know it and you know it so it's time for a reminder. LOLIOLIOLIOLIOOO.

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Thank you, and good night. ♥

So yes, Vash-mun's essay on 'what can/can't be seen' reminded me I had to do a couple of small ones of my own for Yachiru. First one's not an essay on how well she can fight, but one concerning her other abilities as a shinigami and how I play those out in camp. Second one explains her attitude towards magic.

( death god shiznit. )

Now for the next one.

( on yachiru, camp and magic. )

IRC CAUSED THIS HEY.

Comment here and I'll tell you why Yachiru picked the nickname she did for your characters. 8D REASONS MAY SOMETIMES BE INCREDIBLY WEIRD.

For the full nickname list (which I have to add a few names to, actually), go here.

Drabble meme! I don't mind writing for fandoms outside CFUD -- see the list here, if that's more your thing.

Hit me up, ducks. ♥

So Ikkaku-mun did an essay on 11th Division and on their powers which was quite possibly the Best Read Ever. And I realized there were reasons for why I played Yachiru the way I did, and that there was. Stuff. That had to be filled in. So here, have some thoughts on Yachiru's powers. Not as eloquent. Rambly. Disconnected. BUT it explains a lot of things.

( If she has a shikai, it will be the pinkest thing ever to kill you. )

Request-a-doodle goes here 8D; (Be warned: most of them will be silly chibis!)

I crave concrit for my playing very badly, because I barely RPed Yachiru before CFUD and get pretty shaky on her character sometimes.

So! Anon meme! Comments? Criticisms? Stop chewing the squirrel tail, it'll give me rainbow-colored teeth? :)

Notes--

1. I forgot about that whole bit where shinigami can't normally be seen by the living. ^^ To solve that: Yachiru is officially in a gigai, or artificially-made human body, which was altered somewhat by the barrier so it doesn't limit her ability as severely as it normally would. And thus Kimimaro could still kick ass when we bodyswitched!

2. I do a mix of English and Japanese nicknames for people, depending on which seems more apt. I would like to stick to one or the other as she does in canon, but a) some expressions in Japanese just won't translate properly, and b) I don't have enough vocabulary to handle giving everybody a Japanese one. I do have a dictionary, but, yanno, I might get the context wrong on about 75% of them. XD

3. It is very, very hard for me to get Yachiru's voice down right, and I'm always afraid I'm making her more immature or naive than she should be. Hrm.

Actually.

Time for anonymous meme.

Because I'll never get around to making a traditional list, whut.

Comment here and I'll tell you what Yachiru thinks of your characters!

Character: Kusajishi Yachiru
Series: Bleach (http://www.bleachportal.net)
Age: a couple of centuries roughly 8?

<sub>Canon: Adoptive daughter and second-in-command of Zaraki Kenpachi, the merciless, battle-loving killer captain of the 11th Division of Soul Society’s shinigami. An adorable pink puffball of a child, Yachiru was originally a nameless infant, found and picked up by Kenpachi in the middle of a field of freshly-killed corpses. As her initial ‘ooo!’ reaction to him and his blade might show, she is perpetually, fearlessly cheery, and doesn’t often take things (including blood, gore and grave disaster) seriously. Although completely harmless-looking, she actually does have the high level of spiritual power needed for her position, not to mention the advantage of being constantly hyper.

Yachiru is the little terror of her squad, both devoted to and constantly indulged by her ‘daddy’, who lets her call him ‘Ken-chan,’ mislead him constantly with her incredibly bad sense of direction intuition, and generally ruin his fearsome reputation. She also likes to give people descriptive nicknames like ‘Baldy-Head’ or ‘Big-Booby,’ and enjoys getting drunk, harrying various 11th Division members, chewing on shiny things, and encouraging strong people to give Kenpachi a good fight.</sub>


Keeeeen-chaaaaaaaan!

Sleepy-old-man was lying when he said we’d find a good fight down here! The squirrels an’ birds that shoot fire an’ the weird purple Hollows are kinda fun to play tag with for awhile, but the funny dead men aren’t strong at all—their legs come off real easy then they just get boring. An’ they don’t have any hair but the one I bit tasted all icky. _{He needs to borrow Baldy-Head’s shiny lemon polish!} I forgot the ink again too an’ they didn’t have any blood, so I used their brains to write the report to sleepy-old-man like you taught me. But they keep getting up an’ following me around asking for them back!

…Ken-chan?

Mou! He must’ve gotten lost again! I keep telling him to wait up ‘cos he needs my intuition to get to places, but he doesn’t listen at all! I have to find him an’ get us both back to the Soul Society…

I didn’t find Ken-chan yet, but I found a lake! I think there’s a really strong Hollow in it (it’s really big an’ has tentacles! ‘Sides, anything that lives in that kinda water’s gotta be either really strong or really weird.) I tried to get it to chase me so I could go find Ken-chan and he could fight it, but it just wiggled a lot and wouldn’t get out of the water. Ne, ne! You’re boring too, Icky-Slimy-Wiggly-Hollow thing!

I’d better go look for Ken-chan so we can go swimming and kill the Hollow dead! Any of you seen him? Wanna help me find him? Or play? If any of you’re strong, come with me! We’ll have lotsa fun together!