#sorry Shutara is a bit of a boomer

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Bandersnatch starters » @de2thletter ( Nanao ) said: is that the best way to work on something like this ?

𝙰𝚃 𝙾𝙽𝙲𝙴, 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙼𝙾𝚅𝙴𝙼𝙴𝙽𝚃 𝙾𝙵 𝙷𝙴𝚁 𝙰𝚁𝙼𝚂 𝙲𝙴𝙰𝚂𝙴𝙳. Gone was the slight creak of her artificial limbs, the gentle swish of her needle through fabric. In its place, silence: as heavy and suffocating as if she had drawn her tapestry over them.

“…Are all your subordinates so insolent, Shunsui?” She said after a moment, speaking past the Lieutenant to her Captain. Slowly, Shutara resumed her work, the steady thunk, thunk, thunk of her needle keeping time with their breaths. “Why, in my day, questions like those would earn you a place in the spirit-sealing pits.” Now, it seemed, even the Soutaichou was beholden to the doubts of his most lowly officers. She tutted her disapproval, snipping the end of an errant thread. 

“I’ve lived a thousand of your lifetimes, girl.” The Seireitei, the Gotei, the very concept of Zanpakuto - Shutara had watched them all come into being. She’d seen the Quincies rise, and fall, and rise again; and in that time she had been tasked with tending to the lynchpin of existence. She would not be questioned by a girl who could not speak the name of her own sword. 

A single arm unfurled to grip Nanao’s chin, and the weaver coaxed her head up to finally meet her gaze. “Tell me: what, exactly, do you believe you know better than me…?”