[Bleach] A Welcome (not to home) (53)

[valmora]

Title: A Welcome (not to home)
Rating: PG-13
Fandom: Bleach
Pairing: Aizen Sousuke/Ichimaru Gin
Disclaimer: These guys aren't mine.
Warnings: None, really. The slash isn't particularly obvious.
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Notes: Inspired by this image and a conversation with Gali.
Summary: Third returns to Seireitei. Sousuke sees them come back.

ETA: Link may or may not work. If it doesn't, go to the artist's site, http://tsubaci.gozaru.jp/



Ichimaru returns to Seireitei with blood - his own and others', it has to be, because Ichimaru would not bleed so from merely the slice on his shoulder - staining his captain's overcoat. Sousuke can see it from his window - Third trailing in through the gates, fresh from doing battle in the nowhere-places against the Hollows, their uniforms askew and eyes lit from inside with victory. Kira is, quite obviously, dismayed by his captain's injury, but Ichimaru -

Well, Sousuke doubts that Gin has even noticed, too delirious with the smell of blood and steel, and of course what Ichimaru does not know is that Yamamoto has called meeting after meeting since Third was sent out, and Sousuke is tired of it. Tired of interminable, untenably boring hours of eternity spent debating policy without even the opportunity for mischief - for Gin has equal disdain for such procedures and is far more inclined to show it, drawing Sousuke into his small rebellions. And it has been such a time that Sousuke is more than pleased to see him, though he would hesitate to say so.

Kira somehow persuades his captain to visit Fourth, or perhaps it has more to do with Unohana-kun's appearance, but regardless, it is some hours before Ichimaru slams open the door to Sousuke's office, a whirlwind of energy and annoyance countered almost immediately by the heavy solidity of Sousuke's body.

"It's good to see you again," Sousuke murmurs against Gin's neck, arms wrapped around his brittle-boned shoulders, smelling soap and skin and blood.

Comments

[valmora.livejournal.com]

I'm a very flexible pronouncer, unfortunately. My first mental reading was "dry-nee", rhyming with "dry me," but I can also see "drah-ay-nee". (ay rhyming with 'day' and 'ah' like the sound you make for the doctor)

I hope that helped! ^_^;;

[kira-douji.livejournal.com]

haha - well there's a bit of a debate, 's why I asked. When I saw it I thought "drey-nai" rhyming with "grey" and the 'ei' in "either". When a friend of mine saw it he thought "drah-knee" and when someone interviewed the person in charge of developing this race of people they pronounced it "drah-neigh." (Yes, I really don't know phoenetics :( ) Is there some sort of rule that made you think the "ei" was more of a "ii" sound?

[(Anonymous)]

I really don't know phoenetics :(
English isn't. It really doesn't matter, ultimately (and you're right, in English, 'ei' is more likely to be 'grey' but I suffered a mental breakdown. Also, if you pronounce each letter separately it becomes ay-ee (phonetically in my head), which I generally slur into 'ee'. Um. Logical I am not). Also, I am bad with parentheses.

[(Anonymous)]

(that was still Val, by the way, just slacking at school)

[kira-douji.livejournal.com]

I'm beginning to think this is a case of people just randomly throwing in letters that don't belong, but thanks for trying to help me sort through it @_@ I think I'm go with Drah-neigh, then, since that seems to be the most often produce pronounciation. (Egnlish ftl, I swear --; )

Isn't it supposed to be ( [ ] )? Or did I just make that up?

- Kira

[valmora.livejournal.com]

people just randomly throwing in letters that don't belong
Not necessarily. I get aesthetic vibes from letters and spellings, so for me "Draenei" has a different 'feel,' so to speak, than 'Draane'' [e accent aigu - I'm typing on a Mac and alt codes don't work here] (which would probably be pronounced the same way).

(that's probably where entries like this one (http://valmora.livejournal.com/273641.html) come from)

So for me, the differences in the spelling of a word do matter to a certain degree, which makes 'letters that don't belong' somewhat significant. But I'm a little weird and I think that 'p' is entirely possibly the ugliest letter in the English language, so who am I to talk.

Isn't it supposed to be ( [ ] )
Yes, but I forgot that I had soft parentheses to start and then was far too lazy to go back and fix it. ^_^;;

[kira-douji.livejournal.com]

I can understand the aethestic appeal of the spelling. Considering the race it's for, it adds to the feel of nobility.

(that's probably where entries like this one come from)
... *posted there* XD;

- Kira

[valmora.livejournal.com]

it adds to the feel of nobility.
Or something. It's like how Gaelic is cool because it looks unpronounceable. ^_^;

[kira-douji.livejournal.com]

I was saying nobility because 'ae' isn't really used in modern English words, but is in older, earlier forms of the language, thus it feels as though it has an ancestry. :P The comment I made earlier to "people just randomly throwing in letters that don't belong" was actually speaking to a mimicry of Gaelic. XP I don't know about the whole "looks unpronounceable" thing, though, because I sure as hell have issues with a good number of those words x_x

- Kira

[valmora.livejournal.com]

'ae' isn't really used in modern English words
I think it's more common in Britain, but given that I'm Midwestern American, what do I know. Of course, there are some people who like the way the 'ae' looks, so they go out of their way to use it (*coughmecough*) on words like 'synaesthesia'.

speaking to a mimicry of Gaelic
The thing about the Irish/Scots alphabet (I can't speak for the cousins of those languages, because Breton etc. is to Scots/Irish as Swedish is to English - mutually unintelligible but using the same alphabet) is that it doesn't have certain letters - like v. But there's a v sound. So the original way this was written was to have a b with a dot over it, except that when typewriters came out they couldn't stick dots over the b's - so they just slammed h's after them so indicate that it was the related consonant sound. The vowels, though, are mostly just "where is the accent mark?" sort of things, and my usual solution to the vowel problems is to think of a word with the same vowel combination that I do know how to pronounce and use that.