（ the fear has been burnt away, revealing the bones of adamantine anger beneath the curl of blackening flesh, and he takes that first step forward. it's an unspoken answer to that threat response, a bring it he's grown beyond outright uttering, but writ plain in the bearing of his shoulders and the disdainful look he gives the man's weapon. if one hand happens to tremble, it's easily concealed by twitching into a fist. ）

I don't care what hand he had in my birth or my life. The only father I have is Kurosaki Isshin. And I can tell you that any father worth having would die for his children and never demand it the other way around.

（ he and isshin don't always see eye to eye, but if there is one thing ichigo has never had cause to doubt it's that his father loves him, loves yuzu and karin and would always do his best to stand between them and danger. it's not isshin's fault that ichigo has had to stand on his own two feet before that danger alone. if isshin could have ever spared him that, he knows he would have. ）

You're brainwashed. All for what? Because you're a Quincy? Because he is? Bullshit. He's a coward and a fool.