Hello guys again how is you doing? I was bored today so I needed sometyhing to do and I ended up creating such a list and its the 3rd one lol. So far I've discussed how Rukia, Kira and Byakuya are Psychopaths. Now I want to talk about Hisagi. Now, obviously Hisagi is a decent and brave man, who has never (to my knowledge) done anything overtly psychotic. But Hisagi does have a dark side, and there may be reason to fear that might…snap at some point. Don’t believe me? Just consider the following…
1. Embodied Kazeshini
Now perhaps the number 1 reason to fear for Hisagi’s continuing sanity is that he has a scary demon living in his soul world urging him to kill people. Now perhaps you may say something like “But Bleach Lists girl, embodied Kazeshini isn’t canon!” And that’s fair. But even so…
2. Hisagi’s view of his zanpakuto is…disturbing.
Hisagi is afraid of his shikai. Regardless of whether or not you think of his zanpakuto as the aforementioned scary demon, that still means that there is something about his zanpakuto that makes Hisagi freaked out. And how does Hisagi himself explain it? His shikai is “the perfect shape for reaping lives.” Now that *is* disturbing. Not because of the whole “reaping lives” bit - after all, it’s a freakin’ weapon. Of course it’s meant to kill people. But the fact that Hisagi sees it that way. He sees it as being too violent…perhaps because he knows that he himself would be dangerously violent if ever he let himself go.
3. His zanpakuto is unstable.
And speaking of zanpakuto-mirroring-inner-turmoil…there’s also the fact that Hisagi’s shikai is unstable. Part of the reason it’s scary is that Hisagi himself doesn’t know which way those blades are going to fly. So his zanpakuto, which is the reflection of his soul, is unstable and too good at killing people, hmmm? Yeah, that’s not worrisome at all.
4. He wears exploding jewelry.
But as I said, the fact that Hisagi’s weapon kills people doesn’t seem like *too* big of an issue. That’s its job. You know what’s more frightening? Wearing exploding jewelry. Jewelry isn’t supposed to kill people! But Hisagi’s does.
5. He worked for an extremist and didn’t notice.
Now this one may be a stretch, but it’s just something that occurred to me. Hisagi worked for Tosen, Mr. I-will-betray-everyone-for-justice, and didn’t notice that anything was amiss. Of course, neither did Kira or Hinamori. But for those latter two, it took some major brainwashing - Kira was seriously ****ed up by Gin (we’ll talk about that in a future list) and Hinamori was made totally dependent on Aizen. But Hisagi? It’s unclear what Tosen did to him, or even if he did anything. Maybe Hisagi just thought the way Tosen acted and spoke was, you know, normal.
6. He probably had it rough growing up.
And maybe Hisagi has reasons for possibly being ready to snap. I mean, we don’t know much about his past, but we do know that as a small child he dressed like he didn’t have a great home (or any home) and got attacked by hollows. It seems like he had it pretty rough. That sort of thing can stay with a person. Especially when…
7. His hero abandoned him.
Kensei saved Hisagi when Hisagi was a child. This experience so touched Hisagi that poor tattoo decision-making happened. Hisagi must have been *so excited* to go to soul reaper school as a teenager - it meant he would meet his hero again! Except by the time he arrived, Kensei was gone, having turned hollow (as far as Hisagi knew) and then escaped. So Hisagi’s hero, maybe the only person who had ever helped him as a child, betrayed him (again, as far as Hisagi knew). That couldn’t have been good for his psyche.
8. He feels things deeply.
And I think there’s reason to think that those experiences would have stayed with Hisagi. He does feel things very deeply. Like when his eye got injured fighting those hollows that had something to do with Aizen’s plan - he later confessed to Tosen that he found it difficult to fight at all after that. The experience traumatized him, and he didn’t know how to deal with it.
9. He internalizes fear.
And Tosen’s advice? Be scared. Be very, very scared. Advice that (I assume) Hisagi took - meaning that not only does he feel things deeply and have difficulty dealing effectively with traumatic experiences, but he also thinks it’s healthy to just be afraid all the time. I’m overemphasizing this perhaps, but still. How mentally healthy could Hisagi be?
10. The way he killed Tosen.
Oh yeah. And remember that time he stabbed his former captain in the head and then released his shikai so that the blades exploded out of his former captain’s skull? Yeah…*cough* psychopath *cough*
1. Embodied Kazeshini
Now perhaps the number 1 reason to fear for Hisagi’s continuing sanity is that he has a scary demon living in his soul world urging him to kill people. Now perhaps you may say something like “But Bleach Lists girl, embodied Kazeshini isn’t canon!” And that’s fair. But even so…
2. Hisagi’s view of his zanpakuto is…disturbing.
Hisagi is afraid of his shikai. Regardless of whether or not you think of his zanpakuto as the aforementioned scary demon, that still means that there is something about his zanpakuto that makes Hisagi freaked out. And how does Hisagi himself explain it? His shikai is “the perfect shape for reaping lives.” Now that *is* disturbing. Not because of the whole “reaping lives” bit - after all, it’s a freakin’ weapon. Of course it’s meant to kill people. But the fact that Hisagi sees it that way. He sees it as being too violent…perhaps because he knows that he himself would be dangerously violent if ever he let himself go.
3. His zanpakuto is unstable.
And speaking of zanpakuto-mirroring-inner-turmoil…there’s also the fact that Hisagi’s shikai is unstable. Part of the reason it’s scary is that Hisagi himself doesn’t know which way those blades are going to fly. So his zanpakuto, which is the reflection of his soul, is unstable and too good at killing people, hmmm? Yeah, that’s not worrisome at all.
4. He wears exploding jewelry.
But as I said, the fact that Hisagi’s weapon kills people doesn’t seem like *too* big of an issue. That’s its job. You know what’s more frightening? Wearing exploding jewelry. Jewelry isn’t supposed to kill people! But Hisagi’s does.
5. He worked for an extremist and didn’t notice.
Now this one may be a stretch, but it’s just something that occurred to me. Hisagi worked for Tosen, Mr. I-will-betray-everyone-for-justice, and didn’t notice that anything was amiss. Of course, neither did Kira or Hinamori. But for those latter two, it took some major brainwashing - Kira was seriously ****ed up by Gin (we’ll talk about that in a future list) and Hinamori was made totally dependent on Aizen. But Hisagi? It’s unclear what Tosen did to him, or even if he did anything. Maybe Hisagi just thought the way Tosen acted and spoke was, you know, normal.
6. He probably had it rough growing up.
And maybe Hisagi has reasons for possibly being ready to snap. I mean, we don’t know much about his past, but we do know that as a small child he dressed like he didn’t have a great home (or any home) and got attacked by hollows. It seems like he had it pretty rough. That sort of thing can stay with a person. Especially when…
7. His hero abandoned him.
Kensei saved Hisagi when Hisagi was a child. This experience so touched Hisagi that poor tattoo decision-making happened. Hisagi must have been *so excited* to go to soul reaper school as a teenager - it meant he would meet his hero again! Except by the time he arrived, Kensei was gone, having turned hollow (as far as Hisagi knew) and then escaped. So Hisagi’s hero, maybe the only person who had ever helped him as a child, betrayed him (again, as far as Hisagi knew). That couldn’t have been good for his psyche.
8. He feels things deeply.
And I think there’s reason to think that those experiences would have stayed with Hisagi. He does feel things very deeply. Like when his eye got injured fighting those hollows that had something to do with Aizen’s plan - he later confessed to Tosen that he found it difficult to fight at all after that. The experience traumatized him, and he didn’t know how to deal with it.
9. He internalizes fear.
And Tosen’s advice? Be scared. Be very, very scared. Advice that (I assume) Hisagi took - meaning that not only does he feel things deeply and have difficulty dealing effectively with traumatic experiences, but he also thinks it’s healthy to just be afraid all the time. I’m overemphasizing this perhaps, but still. How mentally healthy could Hisagi be?
10. The way he killed Tosen.
Oh yeah. And remember that time he stabbed his former captain in the head and then released his shikai so that the blades exploded out of his former captain’s skull? Yeah…*cough* psychopath *cough*
