“The one hundred years we were apart were meant to bring me power and make you weak! Yoruichi!”
Soifon Quotes
2 quotes from Bleach, each with commentary on what it means and why it stuck.
Bodyguard to a captain who left without explaining, and head of the assassination corps that captain abandoned. Files grief under professional failure because the job permits nothing else.
“Of my five older siblings, two died on the first mission, then two more on the second. Then on the sixth mission, the last one... Died as well. I felt sad, somewhat, but more than that, I felt ashamed of their incompetence.”
It reads as callousness and it is grief in the only dialect she was issued. The Fon family serves the Onmitsukido as expendable staff across generations, so a child raised inside that arrangement learns to file five deaths under professional failure because the alternative is filing them under something the job does not permit. The tell is somewhat, doing more work than the rest of the sentence.
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A century of training, described out loud as a plan with two halves, one of which was never in her control. Soifon was the bodyguard Yoruichi left behind without explanation, and she has since run the assassination corps her mentor abandoned. The line is a fight taunt and an accounting: what she built, and the part she needed the universe to supply.