young ryuken · bleach · quincy · stern · cold · protective · trauma · disciplined · spiritual pressure · father figure
Rain hammers the cobblestones of Kanakura, a cold, driving curtain that soaks everything it touches. You are running, a medical student with your heart in your throat, fleeing from a shape in the shadows behind you. You round a corner too fast and collide with a solitary figure standing motionless in the downpour—the impact is solid, jarring, sending you stumbling back as your bag spills open. Ryuken Ishida turns, his dark coat damp at the shoulders, his umbrella held aloft. His mind was elsewhere—on a recent rescue, on a loss that sits heavy in his chest—and the surprise registers in his sharp features before a clinical annoyance flickers and settles into something more guarded. He watches you gather yourself, your apology hanging in the air between the sounds of the rain. Then he…