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hello, today i’ll be demonstrating the art of deduction and how i narrowed down this lovely chap’s 11 possible countries of origin

okay so in the manga Aguri stated that Korosensei wasn’t Japanese, which made me jump to the conclusion he could be Eastern European. however a lot of background details show why this can’t be true.

okay so the background text is in the Latin alphabet, ruling out any countries using cyrillic or any other alphabet. another important thing is that the policeman’s badge says “Policia”, the term for police in Albanian, Spanish, and Portuguese.

in his flashback, you can see palm trees and a clear sky, which means it’s a warm climate country. this got me thinking of Latin American countries which are stereotyped in the media for the same issues explained in the show and anime.

taking all of this into account (stereotypes, linguistics and scenery), we have:

Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Cuba, Albania and Timor Leste.

obviously the ones that would seem to make the most sense would be the first 9 listed, considering notoriety and even the fact the current most dangerous hit man is in fact a man of Latin heritage. however, Albania and East Timor are probably the two most likely contenders.

Serbia, Irina’s birth place, and Albania share a border. Koro and Irina’s backstories sound quite similar, which would make sense if the two countries were neighbours. i know it isn’t the first place you think of when you hear corruption, but based on what i’ve been told by friends from Albania and even on google, it definitely sounds similar to the place described in his back story. also his fashion most definitely looked European in style. EDIT: he’s canonically described as pale, which is more common for an Albanian man than someone from Latin America.

Timor Leste, isn’t exactly notorious for corruption, but it is plausible; a Portuguese speaking country with some problems with drugs and poverty. one thing that did strike me however was THIS on google images:

when i was researching the country, i thought it was the same building from different angles. but there are more than one and these are actually quite prevalent. side by side:

so yeah there you have it.

thank you for coming to my TED talk x

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"[Name 1]! It's [name 2]! They put bugs in him!"

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pretty pretty please

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then and now

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then and now

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How the Soul Society figured out the "Masked Army" existed

Here's the thing that just hit me from the Hell Arc oneshot of Kubo's. The Soul Society knew 12 years after TBTP that Shinji and the others had to be alive.

Konso Reisai is done 12 years after a captain's death (Bleach ended 10 years after TYBW finished, so this is two years later). Kyouraku mentions that it's something shinigami learn at the academy, and as Renji says, it's not done terribly often, because captains don't die very often.

During TBTP's past arc, Love, Kensei, Rose, and Shinji are all captains infected via hollowfication, and therefore have a spirit class of 1, 2, or 3, based on what Kubo's stating here.

The soul society knows what hollowfication is, because Kubo stated in one of his Klub Outside answers (#548) that there was a loose organization of researchers prior to Kisuke founding the Research and Development department in Squad 12. (It's how Mayuri Kurotsuchi and Senjumaru Shutara from Squad Zero knew each other previously).

Kisuke recognizes what is being done to Hirako and the others as hollowfication immediately, which indicated the Soul Society is already familiar with what the process looks like and what happens to the victims. Since the konpaku prior to that were vanishing without a trace, there was no way to conclusively know that hollowfication and soul suicide was happening.

In other words, the Dai Reisho Kairo likely has tons of records stating conclusively that anybody that's hollowfied is going to have their konpaku break down, resulting in death. There's no known way to save them, all they can do is put them down like animals now.

Except of course, they vanish, along with Kisuke, Tessai, and Yoruichi. No matter. Those hollowfied shinigami are basically as good as dead, and since four of them were spirit class 3 or up, Head Captain Yamamoto is going to know damn well that there has to be Konso Reisai for them, because their reishi is too dense to reabsorb.

Kyouraku knows what a konso reisai is because he's learned it at academy and seen it more than once, but in the Hell Arc, things are behaving differently due to so many captains dying and throwing the balance of Hell off-kilter. Yamamoto also didn't exactly get to hand over the reins and tell him all the secret Head Captain things, so his ignorance of the latter part of that ceremony involving hell makes sense.

Shunsui has never had to do this before, doesn't have all the info from the previous Head Captain, and the ceremony doesn't usually look like this, is what we can infer from those panels.

So what happens when shinigami try to do a ceremony for a captain that's NOT DEAD AKSHULLY?

I think it would also be off in some subtle way. And since he's the only captain that likely knows what one of these ceremonies SHOULD look like, he may have kept quiet about it.

I think Yamamoto got everybody together to send off four captains in 1912 and internally went, "Oh, shit. They're not dead. They've gone renegade." And you can kinda see that concern later on. If Yamamoto's dealing with more than 3 defected captains, he knows he's about to have a bad day and needs to put them down fast.

I also think Kisuke and the others had a genuine "oh shit" moment when they realized they only had about 12 years before the Soul Society started actively looking for all 11 of them, not just Kisuke, Tessai, and Yoruichi.

Now, would Yamamoto admit that openly? Hell no, he's kept things secret before to avoid spreading panic. So by the time people start possibly hearing of these "masked army" folks within the rank and file, a lot of people (like Isshin and most of the captains by the time the story starts) wouldn't know specifically that the masked army was Shinji and the others.

After all... they GAVE them a konso reisai.

Can't be those guys... right?

(And you better believe not everyone took whatever bullshit cover story Central 46 spewed at face value afterwards, either. Our boy Shunsui sure as fuck didn't.)

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Hey, Tumblr. You like non-stereotypical depictions of autism? What about ✨ neurodivergent protagonists ✨ ? Yes? What about asexual neurodivergent protagonists that go on chapters-long rants about their special interests? You want gay characters that are important to the plot too? Then I've got the book for you! The author is gay!!! American Psycho, by Bret Easton Ellis, is

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No reference Bingtraps (in pen!) cuz he’s finally in DBD let’s fucking GOOOO

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POV: mister Devon Price, PhD, telling me that I am right about everything

Source: Unmasking Autism, discovering the new faces of neurodiversity

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Classic Photographs with Pokemon made by AdamDoesArt

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Animation preview!  I’ve got two more gifs to make, roughly 20 frames each, but I’m gonna be smart about it and take my time so as not to kill my wrist.  I think I’ll clean this one up a bit, too

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Missing Link and the like

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WIP

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Guess it's just that time of year where Kingdom Hearts is always on my mind. WIP of a future project I had an idea for. Also sketchin some characters so there might be more of those to come...

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does anyone remember the episode where josh run into brain

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Sora uwu