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[moonsheen]

Since I am all about that 'one line posts with random meme' thing of late. Here goes! Comment with a pairing or character from a fandom I know and I will, like, totally talk about it and stuff.

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[worldserpent.livejournal.com]

I'm curious about your ideas on Hisana.

[moonsheen.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, Hisana! I'm glad someone asked me about Hisana. She has not had nearly the page time to warrent my utter fascination with her but curse it, unlike some dead wives in this series this one actually has a name and face so what the heck.

Hisana was a woman all about survival, I think. The things we know about her are basically what drove her for the last five years of her life--not the previous, what? Thirty? Forty? We know though that she was a young girl. And she was a young girl with an infant in Inuzuri-- which, as Abarai Renji notes, was a place where all adults were murderers and thieves and all children were animals. Most children die there, as evidenced by what became of Renji and Rukia's gang. Hisana, somehow, managed to get out of there though. Managed to make it to Seireitei, which is no small feat I think...considering it takes days to get from gate to gate, I can only imagine how long it takes to get to the inner city from the outer reaches of rukongai.

I can't really blame Hisana too harshly for abandoning her sister. It was a terrible thing to do, but it's understandable. She'd just died, most likely horribly and suddenly--if the fact she and her sister were both killed in the same instant is any indication--she was young, frightened, probably desperately hungry (I think it's fair to assume she did have some spiritual power, after all. I like to think her specialities lay in Demon Arts, since that seems to be Rukia and these things seem to be at least partly genetic) people do ugly things in order to survive. And that's what she did. I don't think she thought to regret for a long time afterwards either: she was so focused on just. surviving. living. Reaching a point where she could rest comfortably and eat regularly and not have to live on her toes expecting death to come again around any corner. She didn't give her sister much thought at that time--she didn't give anything much thought. I suspect entering Seireitei and (presumably) the shinigami Academy was something of a depressurization period. She was still driven to success, driven too excel. But suddenly having everything she wanted she realized like a ton of bricks the things she'd given up along the way and she...didn't quite know what to do with that. Nothing she could do about it at that point either. At least, until Byakuya came along.

Which makes me sort of think her five years searching for Rukia weren't really mournful ones. There's every case to be made for a sad, broken hearted Hisana--she seemed a pretty tragic figure. But she does say to Byakuya her time with him was like a dream. And I kinda took it to mean: he let her do what she wanted to do. Whether or not she found her sister... the fact that she was free to look for her. Free to at least try to make it better, was something for her. And she went to it with a great deal of passion and determination. She was making something right that she hadn't realized was eating her for ages so, while she died with some regret at having not been able to acheive what she set out to do, she at least was able to do that. And she was terribly grateful for that chance at least. I think she did love Byakuya, for that (couldn't've done it without the wealth and power of the Kuchiki backing her). But she wasn't able to give him the equivalent in return-- so instead she gave him her sister. The only thing to her former name she could give him. ...so I don't think she died too unhappily, in the end.

Also, um, she was probably a pickpocket and insanely good at playing the 'delicate flower' to pull strings. She could also probably match Byakuya for wit, albeit humbly. And in third person, apparently, because Hisana is just strange like that.

[worldserpent.livejournal.com]

Wow, thanks for the lengthy response.

I wonder if we'll see more of Hisana in the manga in flashback, or if we'll just all have to invent our own backstory....

[moonsheen.livejournal.com]

I tend to think, by way of Shounen Formula, that all depends on if Byakuya's booked for any more harrowing life threatening battles any time soon...

[worldserpent.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I think then that's a yes, because Byakuya seems to be quite popular, so he will probably get more major battles.