Rukia Bankai: fuckin' called it.

Drawn and published on this blog February 15, 2013

Bleach Chapter 570, page 8. Retrieved February 26, 2014

KUBO AND I HAVE THE SAME IDEA OF WHAT LOOKS BEAUTIFUL

Naturally, I love it.
When I saw this, I nearly had a freaking heart attack.

Only you will ever know about my clairvoyance, my blog.

Bleach Chapter 569

Absolutely nobody can tell me that Bleach isn't about Rukia as well as Ichigo.
Her bankai name is Hakka no Togame, which roughly translates to "White Haze" + "Judgement/Reproach"
So basically: Bleach.

Can we just have a fucking shonen style manga with a female as its main character already?
Actually, Kill la Kill may just fit the bill.  It only took until 2013, but it is also superior on many other fronts, such as equal opportunity fan service, wicked soundtrack, and constantly dialling it up to 11.  Kill or be killed, ladies! (and gentlemen.  I'm not sexist)

Hold on to your trapper hat

Have y'all seen my girl Rukia being a total badass in Bleach chapter 566?
There is some hardcore Sternritter retribution coming and I am fangirling so hard.  If Renji won his fight with brute strength, I want to see Rukia win her fight with a combination of strategy, attitude, possibly some magics and a touch of sweet, sweet vengeance.

I am feeling the winter gear, Rukia: it is snowing every other day over here.

memento mori: the conclusion

Yeah, remember how I designed a tattoo of Rukia with memento mori themes?
I got it done!  Yay!  Here is the album.

Biggest tattoo yet, 2 sittings for a total of 4 hrs 45 mins.
I think it turned out great.  The only thing about it was getting used to something so big covering my leg.  But it's pretty much solidified my resolve to become a tattoo covered freak, starting with my legs :) Calves/shins are next!

This will probably be my only 'anime' tattoo, and I don't think I could have chosen a better character.
In my case, my tattoos are about loving something so much and my enthusiasm and belief in them so great that they need to burst out and be manifested into pictures on my skin.  Every one of them gives me kind of a private happiness.
Fuck what anyone else thinks. (unless they think you're a total badass.  That's ok)

memento mori

My mortality tattoo design.  Time flies, beauty is fleeting, etc etc.  There is so much personal symbolism and meaning embedded into this design that when I look at it I get that super-hyper-anxious feeling that I need it tattooed NOW NOW NOW.

I admire the hell out of sugar skull-painted girl tattoos but was never sure if they would suit me, or if I was badass enough to rock one.  But then I realized: why the hell not?!
My only regret with my current tattoos is that I did not go bigger and better.  So I might as well start somewhere.

Wondered briefly if I would regret having Rukia tattooed on me, but my husband brought up a good point: "You will never stop loving anime".  It's true :)
And outside of a Bleach reference, people will see a tattoo of fierce, short-haired asian woman with sugar skull makeup, on a fierce, short-haired asian woman.
That's not going to change :)

Will hopefully have this on my right thigh by the end of the year.  Biggest tattoo yet.

Rukia: Bankai

There is some speculation on what Rukia's bankai would be so I am compelled to do my own take.

Makes sense story-wise for Rukia to gain bankai.  (spoilers) She was chosen to go to the Spirit King's realm after all- I'm assuming- to get some kick ass spirit training.  Go Rukia!  Leveling up is not just a boy's club!

And how else to defeat the new threat that steals bankais except with new and better bankais?

Kuchiki Rukia's bankai?

Not very impressive in black & white but I imagined Sode no Shirayuki's ribbon to encompass the user and act as a versatile and kido-like forcefield (glows with magic, moves on its own initiative and does not get tangled-- inspired by the constant undulating movement of the 'flying scarves' in the video game "Journey") 

The katana turns into more of a glowing holy sword.  It is a defensive rather than offensive bankai-- not enough of those IMO.

Rukia: Death Goddess

Dia de los Muertos style Rukia: Ink and Watercolor

Combining my love for Rukia and tattoo style art.

 Sado Yasutora would approve...?

A note about my art: I don't have much free time to draw and I am a speed demon-- I complete whatever I want to draw in 1-2 hours.  Maybe another 2 hours if I color it completely, like this one.

Almost everything you see here will be in pencil and occasional ink pen.  I very rarely color anything but I prefer colored pencil or watercolor.

Sadly, I just can't compete with all the digital painters and tablet drawings about there-- I'm super duper old school. 

sometimes i sit around in my big black dressing gown and pretend i'm a shinigami

Favorite character time~!

Rukia Kuchiki from Bleach

How I feel about this character:
I don't love Rukia so much as I want to BE her.

All the people I ship romantically with this character: Just Ichigo now.

My non-romantic OTP for this character: Orihime!  A girl needs girlfriends amirite?

My unpopular opinion about this character: she's had a thing with Renji... but it didn't work out. (what?? they need to determine this so that there are no unrequited feelings) Hasn't had a relationship since being adopted as a Kuchiki and NOTHING AS EPIC AS HER AND ICHIGO WILL BE.

Post Soul Society Invasion arc they were teaming up on Ichigo hilariously-- Renji is totally her wingman

One thing I wish would happen/had happened with this character in canon: GET. WITH. ICHIGO!!! AUGH  *flails* If Kubo didn't want any characters to get together he shouldn't have given us so much feels and such sexy characters

I am waiting for the IchiRuki

my het ship/OTP: IchiRuki!!!!!!

I did have a RenRuki phase.  Mostly because I was so pissed with Ichigo not making a goddamn move and Renji is sexy as hell.    Not gonna lie, I stopped reading Bleach when Rukia wasn't in it.  Then BAM- Fullbring arc conclusion-- stabbed him again-- all my feels-- bright and shining OTP once more

my fem/slash ship: Tatsuki would be pretty hot.  Who said that??

my OT3: Ichigo x Rukia x Renji OMG DYING.  I could also accept Ichigo x Rukia x Orihime- equal opportunity threesomes, c'mon- GET IT ICHIGO

my cross over ship: I love crossovers but nyaaaah... Bleach universe is already too much

my kink: FemDom!Rukia

my head canon fact: that she and other soul reapers in general have sex.  As high energy souls they have human needs, albeit less need to fulfill them as often.  I refuse to believe that she is a centuries-year-old virgin like creepy fuckin' Edward Cullen.

my gender bend: NOPE.  Rukia does not need to be made male, she is so perfect.  Bleach is enough of a sausage fest as it is
2nd choice answer: See Byakuya

strikethroughs provided for brevity and less evidence of my pervertedness