#not because nemu did anything but specifcially so she could fight mayuri 1v1 and destory his ass

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I was (and still sort of am) in a bad mood. So I drew what I imagine Nemu’s zanpakutō spirit would look like! This is related to my Captain Nemu posts so if you want a smidge more context you can check those out.

It’s her!! It’s Harihana!!

I tried to write the kanji for Harihana (玻璃花) and sort of succeeded. Yeah this is what I imagine Harihana looks like!! I’m not entirely sure why, it just sort of came to me. Maybe the mix of ‘waterlily/flower aspect of the name’ and ‘butterfly inspirations to match Mayuri’s zanpakutō’ just sort of came to my mind as a flower fairy? I’m not usually a super big fan of humanoid zanpakutō spirits but I just got attached to this design I guess :) She was super inspired by Puck from Berserk because they’re my favourite character from that series so far lmao.

Another Harihana, this time bigger!! I wanted to have a little design of what would happen if she magnified herself using her own ability- maybe to protect Nemu from someone. I added the little crystals at the bottom and extended the leaves/flower petals to show the,,, magnification, idk. It looked cool. (Also her wings are probably more translucent but I didn’t feel like drawing Nemu’s full body behind her lmao).

Some design notes!

Harihana is a little flower fairy and I wanted it to be a little less basic than like, a flower-themed girl, so her skin is leaf. That’s what the vein-ish pattern on her face/arms is. Literal flower fairy.

The little things in her head-leaf-dip are quartz gems! I wanted to reference the Hari part of her name more, so I added little gemstones in there!

Her flower skirt is inspired by a waterlily/lotus which is a motif I gave Nemu’s zanpakutō. They could be crystalized or just normal, I can’t really decide- both would look good probably (I’m just bad at drawing crystal textures-)

I was debating whether to give Harihana dragonfly or butterfly wings, but then I remembered that Ashisogi Jizō is a little caterpillar, so I have her butterfly wings to match :)

She has little shine marks around her at all times because she is glittering constantly :) Just a blinding little fairy :)

This was what popped to mind when I thought about Harihana’s design lmao- just a bastard little fairy tempting Nemu to be a little apeshit, as a treat. Also- I drew her sword! I tried to make the tsuba look like a little flower because I thought it’d be cute, and I wanted a super long ribbon because it’s pretty.

That’s it!! I just wanted to share my little sketches!! Because I got emotionally attached to Nemu and her weird little sword fairy!!