You look in horror as white liquid bursts forth from your grandsons chest.
The substance flows in the air as if it was submersed in water and begins to gather near his face.
As the pale, featureless mask forms you hear a single distorted cry from the child and you can feel chills running up along your spine.
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Tremendous amounts of spiritual energy begin to leak from the newborn child, Dante.
As you look around the room you can see the terrified expression on everyones faces.
The quakes quickly grow weaker and eventually stop as the baby slowly drifts to sleep and his reiatsu fades.
After the apocalypse abruptly stopped the silence is almost deafening.
The only things you can hear are the strange noises your friends are making with their gaping mouths and the still distorted breathing of the baby.
"WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?!"
Asher screams at the top of his lungs.
In response to that everyone either starts covering his mouth or hushes him as hard as they can.
"Are you nuts boy?!
Who knows what happens when it wakes up again?"
Pesci quietly whispers into Ashers ear.
Everyone is looking at the child, still mortified.
In that moment however Alex glares daggers at Pesci.
"He's not a thing!
His name is Dante, remember that!"
She speaks in a strangely calm tone and yet it carries more weight than anytime she curses endlessly.
Pesci looks at her confused.
"Alex, please!
I love you as if you were my own girl but I beg of you!
You can't possibly believe that thing to be a child!
I almost passed out just by being near it!"
While the two of them are arguing Yata looks like his eyes might have rolled back into his sockets.
"Oooohohohoho...
This is going to be maaaarvelous!"
You carefully remove your finger from the babys sleeping hand and look at Harribel who is looking at you with saddened eyes
"I'm... not sure what to say."
Neliel meanwhile looks at the baby with fear in her eyes.
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As this is going on you can see Yata creeping up to Alex.
"Come ooon baby~
Time for your examination."
Alex hugs Dante tightly.
"Don't you dare!"
But Yata is relentless.
"Why?
Don't you want me to take a look at him?
Who knows what sort of complications have arisen with his sudden transformation?
It's for the best my dear uhuhuhuhu~."
She looks worried but after sighing she gives in.
"Fine but so much as a strand of hair on him-"
"Don't worry! I got this!"
He says as he confidently reaches out for the child.
In that moment however you can see Dantes eyelids slowly opening and see him quickly grabbing Yatas finger.
The young child gives off an innocent laughter which is then distorted by his mask.
Meanwhile Yata is screaming like someone is skinning him alive which excites the baby, causing him to laugh even harder.
You swear you could hear crunching noises and somehow you doubt Yata has a secret supply of biscuits under his sleeve.
By the time he manages to pull free of the young hollows grab the imprint of the small fingers is clearly visible on the elongated digits of his hand.
He wiggles the clearly broken finger and it goes limp.
Just as that happens his high speed regeneration kicks in and the wound slowly starts to heal.
Yatas screams of pain are clearly very amusing for the child.
"Oh wow.
This actually hurts! A lot!
Incredible!"
He says as he is hissing in agony.
"I'm so sorry Alex but he'll bite your tits off when he begins teething."
Alex gives an embarrassed or perhaps worried look to Dante who is now very cheerful after the sudden interruption of his nap.
As you are wondering about the situation you feel a hand grabbing your shoulder.
Turning around revealed Harribel looking into your eyes.
"Kaizar...
Are you feeling alright?
You don't look so good. Do you need to sit down?"
You grab her hand and lower it down.
After holding it for a few brief moments you let go and give her a smile.
"I'm fine, don't worry about me."
You look at Dante then Alex and finally Asher who is losing his mind right now.
"I can't believe this..."
He caved in under the pressure and is looking down at the ground.
You pat his head to get his attention.
"You okay?"
He looks up to you.
"How could I be?
I mean look at this! This is insane."
"Asher!"
Alex shouts at him.
"He was a spirit from the start so it would have surprised me if nothing like that happened."
"B-but what do we do now?"
>"Let Grandpa try something."
>"You are the scientist Yata, what do you say?"
>"Harribel, can you help?"
>"Asher you are his father, man up!"
>Other? (write-in)
>>"Asher you are his father, man up!"
>"Asher you are his father, man up!"
>>"Asher you are his father, man up!"
>>"Let Grandpa try something."
>"Asher you are his father, man up!"
And we will be there to help, though we're not really an expert of babies.
>Writing
"Well it's obvious isn't it?"
He looks up to you.
"Huh?"
You lean close to Alex.
"Can I hold him for a moment?"
She looks at you a bit confused.
"S-sure..."
After taking the child from her you try your best to hold Dante firmly.
Since he was excited already he seems to be ecstatic about being near his grandfather.
"There, there.
You are not a monster. You are just my grandson!"
You raise him up to your face and see him reaching for your gills.
When he touches them he gently starts tugging your mask.
With a soft chuckle you let him play with it some more. Unlike with Yata he shows no interest in being rough with you.
You hold the baby close to you in a gentle hug and start crying once more with joy.
With a mile wide smile you slowly and gently pry him away from your mask.
"Come now Dante.
It's not fair if grandpa hogs you all for himself."
With that you walk up to Asher with your grandson laying in your hands.
He looks up at you with a scared expression.
But you turn Dante to look at his father and hear his adorable but a bit creepy cooing sounds.
"What's that?
You want to go to Dad?"
As you extend your arm to Asher so he can take his son away he shows signs of anxiety.
"I-I'm not sure I can-"
But you cut him off.
"Asher..."
"B-but-"
"No buts!
You are his father, so start acting like one.
As of now, he is the most important thing in your life.
You got that?"
You speak to him in a stern tone.
He swallows hard and finally gathers the courage to take him away from you.
At first he holds him in an awkward manner but after you correct his posture he gets a bit better.
You can hear the babys laughter as his father is holding him.
Meanwhile Asher looks up to you with eyes full of tears.
"Thank you!"
"Anytime."
As you say that however something strange happens to Dante yet again.
His mask begins bubbling and turns into liquid once more.
The former mask flows near the extended hands of Dante and begin forming into a flat, coin like circle.
When the substance takes shape Dante raises it up to his mouth and tries biting it.
Without teeth he keeps sucking on it.
As shocked you are from this you try to keep your calm.
At least his face is visible once more.
Yata practically begins salivating.
"H-hey Kaizar..."
"Yeah?"
"Try taking it away from him!"
"Wha- WHY?"
"I wanna take a closer look!"
"Then do it yourself!"
He raises his index finger which is still bent in all kinds of awkward places.
"No."
You swallow hard and reach for the strange, featureless coin.
But as you are getting closer Dante raises his hands, he is lending it to you.
You grab it but make sure not to take it too far away from him.
After examining it for a moment you speak up.
"This is-"
But as you said that it liquefies in your hand and flows back to Dante.
This time it re-enters the hole in his chest and he begins giggling as you wonder about what just happened.
Yata looks at you expectantly.
"Well what was it?!"
You turn to look at him.
"It was still his mask but it took on a different shape."
"And it reentered his hole?
Oh I am going to have several days worth of stuff to do with this!"
"Like I'll let you!"
Alex shuts him off but Yata raises a strand of hair.
"When did you-"
"You assumed I didn't already take samples during birth?
Please!"
But as this is going on you see Dante slowly drifting to sleep as his father is rocking him back and forth.
It seems all the excitement tired him out.
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As they exchange a quick glance you see Alex and Asher are both very happy now.
You put your arms around Yatas and Pescis neck and begin leading them out.
"Come on guys, let's leave these two together.
We'd just spoil the moment for them."
As the two ladies leave the room and you nudge Yata and Pesci out you can hear a faint voice from behind you.
"Dad..."
You turn around and see Alex smiling at you.
"Thank you."
You pull your hat over your eye.
"Any time."
And you close the door.
When you go out you can't see anyone.
It seems they all went outside to get some fresh air.
After leaving the church the smell of fresh rain hits you.
You see the dew glistening faintly on the grass.
As you observe you see Pesci talking Yatas ear off about baby related stuff, Neliel crouching next to a wall, staring outward and Harribel standing under a tree, waiting for you to go over to her.
You sigh once and make the decision.
>Go to your buddies.
>Go to Harribel.
>Go to Neliel.
>Other? (write-in)
>>Go to Neliel.
She seems the worst off.
>Buddies
>Nelie
>Harribel
Now we gotta make the rounds and vague threats about everybody keepin their mouths shut. Course, the threats will be entirely obligatory, possibly even funny.
>>Go to Harribel.
Well, she's apparently waiting. Should talk to both her and Nel before we go, really.
>Go to Harribel.
She's not the type to show her feelings, so she's probably hiding whatever she might be going through.
Go to nel
>>Go to Harribel.
>Writing
...
As you are walking up to Harribel you can see her closing her eyes.
You lean next to the tree as well and once you are stable you begin speaking.
"What a day huh?"
"You could say that."
The two of you are leaning against the tree at a ninety degree angle so neither of you can see the other.
"That...
I'm not sure how to describe that."
You can hear the sound of cloth rubbing against something.
"Yeah...
Too bad about all this rain huh?"
You say as you rub the tears away from under your eye.
For a moment you could swear you hear Harribel sniffing.
"Yeah...
I think I might be catching a cold if this keeps up."
You look forward and see what few drops of water fall from the trees crown.
"Sorry about not telling you before it's just...
I had to be careful..."
"No worries.
I'm not sure how I would have handled this situation either."
There is a brief pause where neither of you speak.
"Are you alright?"
You ask Harribel.
"Y-yeah..."
Her voice cracks a little.
"It's just... I'm moved...
That's all."
You look down to the ground and feel a little ashamed.
The only thing you can think about is how this might have awakened some unpleasant memories in her.
"Harribel, I-I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to hurt you like that.
But I thought that... well, I don't know what I thought.
I was... scared."
You take a moment to regain your composure and then walk around to face her.
As you look into her eyes you can see that they are obviously red.
"I couldn't do this alone and because of that I brought you along.
If I caused you pain then I beg of you to forgive me!"
You bow before her.
At first she is taken back by your actions but after a few moments you can feel her hand on your shoulder.
She tugs you to make you stand upright and looks into your eye.
"You are mistaken.
I'm not mad at you. In fact, I'm happy.
I'm glad you brought me with you. I'm happy that I got to see something so beautiful."
She grabs your hand and slowly moves it to her pants.
As she guides your hand to lower it you can see something appearing.
Her hollow hole is right in front of you, where her womb would be.
She then hides it once more and removes your hand from her waist.
But as she does that she keeps holding your hand.
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"Even if I can never experience it myself.
You can see Harribel letting a single tear trickle down her face.
Perhaps this is the first time you've ever seen her expressing herself so openly.
What do you do?
>Kiss her. (Relationship)
>Stay there and comfort her for a while. (Friendship)
>Leave for the others.
>Other? (write-in)
>>Kiss her. (Relationship)
>inb4 WAIFU REEEEEE
Stay and comfort her for a while
>Kiss her. (Relationship)
>Stay there and comfort her for a while. (Friendship)
Still on the Nel train.
kiss
>Eat her (Marr would approve)
but actually
>Kiss her. (Relationship)
>Stay there and comfort her for a while. (Friendship)
>Stay there and comfort her for a while. (Friendship)
Honestly, Harribel is probably the hollow we have most in common with and makes the most sense to be in a relationship with
>inb4 Nelfags win despite her being not even all that clsoe to us any more
>Stay there and comfort her for a while. (Friendship)
Is running a quest better in the middle of the day or later at night?
>>Kiss her. (Relationship)
>Kiss her. (Relationship)
>Kiss her
We've Litterally slept with Nel before
No we haven't. We've fallen asleep together. Which may be what ya meant.
>Stay there and comfort her for a while. (Friendship)
7 to 5 with nel in the lead currantly
Wrong, it's harribel in the lead.
>Stay there and comfort her for a while. (Friendship)
>Kiss her. (Relationship)
Pretty sure that was prior to her immediately accepting aizens offer without so much as discussing it with us for a minute, and in essence peer pressuring everyone of our friends into accepting it as well. Plus, what sleepy said
Fallen asleep =/= sleeping together. Quit being disingenuous man
The kiss her vote is for waifuing harribel, the comfort vote is for friendzoning harribel
Yay, samefagging for everyone
BRING ME SOME SAMEFAGS, ALL OF YOU! GIVE UNTO ME YOUR WORST!
Yep.
That was well afterwards. We handheld and made up man
>>Stay there and comfort her for a while. (Friendship)
>Kiss her. (Relationship)
Stop giving feels spook
>Stay there and comfort her for a while. (Friendship)
Kiss her (Waifu Harribel)
Comfort her (Friendzone her like an asshole)
Also, IP count has jumped up by 6 since the vote started. I'm gonna go ahead and assume it's Nelfags trying to derail the harribel train, although either side is evenly likely.
Not really, given we were explicitly still distant, being more 'friends' than friends. She cared more about becoming human than the fat she essentially sold out all of vanaheim to aizen by accepting his offer in like a minute without so much as talking to us, despite being co-leaders.
>>Kiss her. (Relationship)
To me it looks like Harribel wins.
And I'm slightly miffed about the samefagging
>Writing
i can't tell if this is a vote or just a joke
So what's so German about this Hollow or Quest?
This is what happens when you become an entity with a fully functioning reproductive system, spooky.
Shoulda gone vasto+.
Either way, kiss wins
>TFW you were about to go to bed before the last update posted, and if you did the vote would have been tied or kiss would have lost
We started off as an SS officer in our past life and first few threads were in aushwitz
Whelp, finally had time to read this quest again and vote and I got called one of the samefags.
God I missed you guys
I was simply under the assumption that you guys are better than that.
Whatever, 28 episodes is a pretty good record at least
It was inevitable. Waifu votes attract samefags like flies to honey.
Might as well flip a coin, or go with your gut.
Same. I'd rather Kaizar not be in a relationship, but this is totally fine, too.
>We started off as an SS officer in our past life and first few threads were in aushwitz
Well, I#d probably read it if I could find the first quest somewhere, but the archive seems to start at the second
Waidmanns Heil, Kamerad
Nobody has pointed fingers though? I mean either side is equally likely.
Honestly, I think it was trolls. Given there was no particularly vocal opposition to kissing her other than the IP count and 'comfort' votecount tiking up.
Arrancar is best.
Plus, you should have been there earlier to vote~
Waifu wars bring out the worst in everyone.
I've seen things, man. Horrible things. Things you wouldn't believe. This was relatively benign by comparison, believe me. You got lucky.
Just search Holow and you will find it near the bottom. Didn't get tagged German Hollow till the second run.
>le ebin old memes about threads long past
Waifus can drive a perfectly reasonable and rational person to autistic shitposting.
It's like that one virus from 28 days later, but with your dick.
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First thread for you
Also, as far as waifu votes go, this is remarkably tame since it was *just* samefags. I've seen things man. Terrible things.
Hell. I'd bet half the people voting against the waifu are ones that are just paranoid about waifus in general. I've seen some pretty vocal anti-waifuers before that are mostly that way because of the belief that a thread will devolve into only ever spending time with a single poerson should a waifu be chose, which admittedly happens in badly written quests. But in this there's been 27 threads of high quality threads, so I have faith this can happen well. Honestly, we should just drop the term 'waifu', given shit connotations and given I have faith spooky can write it well enough
Which side was samefagging? I honestly just got off to partake and I'll votr against them. I like this question too much fir samefagging to wreck it.
[Spoiler] I just want us to make Mexico great again and live as the 5th Reich
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"Which side" is impossible to determine, and most likely it was a little bit of both.
I wouldn't worry about it too much, in the end it doesn't really matter.
Personally, I'm perfectly fine with having both. Normally i'm not, but since we're an instict driven hollow in a setting that explictly disproves the religions that call for monogamy I don't see why it has to be out of the question
Both.
And it's hard to determine which started.
Regardless, I cut off the beasts head before it got out of control
Really just about the only thing to stop samefaggs is to hold ten second votes.
Oh alrighry spooky. Well thanks for the heads up.
Was jesus a fullbringer? Sense 'god' in the Christian sense does not exist?
Eh, I could see both, but by and far I'd say harribel would be first. We've explicitly been spending quite a bit of time with her and bonding for a fairly long while, whereas we've been distant from Neliel for like, a decade.
Maybe Nel will get jealous
I just wanna point out Nel also jumpedthe gun with having her face ripped off like in that movie face off. Without thinking or talking about it first. I kinda hope Nel gets jelly but we don't cave for her because of that.
Rolled 5 (1d5)
Jesus was
1 - a fullbringer
2 - a quincy maybe
3 - someone from the filler shit, i don't know
4 - another one of kubo's magical ubermensch hybrids
5 - AN ORDINARY MAN
We just spent a ton of time training with her though. Please don't just make shit up.
>tfw had to do yardwork before the sun came up
>Harribel vote won anyway
Awww yisss
It has happened. A waifu has been chosen. God, please no. Why? Why couldn't we have just been Foxy Grandpa? Why did we have to get in a relationship when all our efforts should be focused on protecting our poeple and making Ghost Mexico great again.
Also, why did Kaizar bow? Like, I can understand apologizing to her, but straight up bowing and literally BEGGING her forgiveness? That doesn't exactly match up with Kaizar. He would apologize though, that is in character.
Mein gott
>Jesus was an ordinary man
BUT HOW DOES THAT WORK MACHINE GODS?
What recently? You mean, how we've literally just started to bridge the gap that's been there for decades?
The gap made when she literally jumped at the bit to go for Aizens deal, and effectively pressured everyone else into accepting, barring based Yata? Effectively forcing us to sell Vanaheim to Aizen to keep it from becoming a soldier farm for him?
Because a waifu was going to be chosen eventually, and harribel is outright better than Nel
>inb4 Nelfags reeee
>Baiting Nelfags this hard
You won't get his secrets that easily, satan.
Idk, nanomachines?
Ascher is Jesus 100% super confirmed, you heard it here first folks
so um did every Hollow,Shinigami,and Quincy feel the baby's reiatsu or was no one around in a 4 mile radius ?
You look into her eyes and begin leaning forward.
You entwine your fingers as you get closer.
At first she is a bit taken back but she slowly gives in and you see her unzipping her top to reveal her jaw.
The sharp rows of teeth slowly open up to reveal her mouth.
As your lips touch you are both lost in the moment.
Both of your minds are filled to the brim with emotions.
But as the passionate moment slowly fades you pull free from her and keep looking into her pristine blue eyes and in turn she does the same.
After a brief and quiet moment she speaks up.
"What now?"
You chuckle softly.
"Whatever we want."
She slowly goes into a tight hug and you return her affection.
In that brief moment where you can feel every fiber of her being and your hearts beat as one you feel such happiness you thought was unattainable for you.
But it seems that even after everything that might have happened, everything that you might have done, you can still feel as if you were alive.
For almost twenty years you felt like you were in a deep dark hole that you couldn't truly crawl out of up until now.
"I love you."
You whisper into her ear.
"I love you too."
After you managed to get back to your senses you made up your mind to keep this a secret just for a while.
Neither of you want to steal the spotlight from Asher and Alex.
You walk back with Harribel to Pesci and Yata, who are still arguing with each other.
"Oh...
Hi Boss!"
Pesci greets you when he sees you arriving.
"What's up?"
"Not much.
Had to talk things through.
Why were you guys having such a heated discussion?"
"Oh I was just planning the preparations we have to do for Dante."
"And this oaf is boring me to death with it."
Yata grumbles.
"Actually we'll have to talk about that..."
You speak up.
"Why Boss?"
"I'll tell you later.
But first I'll get Neliel."
With that you leave the three of them to get your friend.
Ya. I like Nel myself but when she decided to lead the face off group so fucking suddenly it made me dispise her quite abit.
Trustme i am Not!Satan. Just wishing to be one of holy men my friend.
No, not Ascher. His brother.
>For almost twenty years you felt like you were in a deep dark hole that you couldn't truly crawl out of up until now.
>deep dark hole
>hole
LOVE CONQUERS HOLLOWS CONFIRMED
FUCK WAIFUS TO GET FINAL FORM
>deep
>dark
>FANTASY
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Nah. We would've hit our NEWEST form when Dante had been born. [Spoiler] still bitter i missed that vote cause of work
God, if people are still salty about that then let's just plan out a way to steal the plotrock so we can KUBO our way into getting that form anyways.
Quit dwelling on the past and think up plots and schemes, man.
Of I've been plotting how we steal the Plotrock, But it could be used for much better/useful things. Mainly making Mexico Great again.
I've gone over this subject in the past, don't you remember?
The goo can return things to a previous soul-state. Our vasto lord non-arrancar form is one of those previous states.
Logically, then, the goo must be capable of returning us to our vasto form in sufficient quantities and with a sufficient amount of energy backing it up so that it can fully break us down and reassemble us in the desired form.
In fact, at a sufficiently bullshit level of strength, it should be theoretically possible for Kaizar to switch between arrancar and vasto/possibly vasto+ form whenever he pleases (though the process most likely will take a while).
Plotrock is for gays.
Eh, I disagree. I think our goop instead of returning to an outright previous state, instead works like most superheroes Regen powers, where it instead restores the person to a 'default' state. So it returns people to however they see themselves as. In order to regress, Which, frankly, seems stupid to me. Going forwards is for winners, going backwards is for suckers we would instead have to somehow get ourselves to consider ourselves a vasto lord instead of whatever we currently are.
The better choice, in my opinion, is plotrock adventures. Just keep moving forwards instead of dwelling on a single choice the majority made AGES ago.