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    Default Re: Bleach in The Playground: Renewed Revolution (Setup And Discussion)

    Quote Originally Posted by Frozen_Feet View Post
    That's the canonical name and best description of what they do. What would you suggest? "Order of Eibon" is flavorful, but doesn't sound like something a military Division would officially call itself.

    To give a rough real world analogy: medics are made to swear the Hippocratic Oath, but instead of being "Order of Hippocrates", any real world medical company is just a medical company. I have no other gripes with your write-up, again, it's just a naming issue. Gotei is a military force, and military forces tend to have blunt informative names for their departments. Even the canon follows this, with each Division being called either by a number or their function. ("Kido Corps" doesn't leave much room for guessing, for example.)
    Actually....to give a few examples of Military Orders that did call themselves similar things to the Order of Eibon. The Knights Templar. Order of the Dragon. Teutonic Knights. Livonian Brothers of the Sword, Order of Dobrzyń. The list isn't just these. The Order of the Thistle. The list goes on and on. I'm happy to change them to the Sorcerers of Eibon. It's flavorful and it lets people know what they do. But...ya. Historical precedent proves that Military Orders are more than happy to call themselves utterly silly things given the chance. I just don't like the R&D Division. It's so overused and boring and while it sums up some of what they do...who cares? It's still boring.

    The Canon follows this because Tite Kubo is an utter moron when it comes to more or less anything involving anything.

    As gadgety as Mayuri and Urahara. The guys who have:

    1. Designed Gigais
    2. Designed artificial souls.
    3. Made artificial souls into pretty candies due to customer demands.
    4. Created working regeneration serum
    5. Turned his hand into a wire-guided missile/grappling hook thing.
    6. Hidden a kusari-gama in a headress.
    7. Made an opposite sex clone of themselves.
    8. Created various nasty toxins.
    9. Place antidotes for said toxins inside said clone.
    10. Created a reality-distorting orb.
    11. Created special gauntlets for fighting Aizen.
    12. Placed said reality-distorting orb inside someone's soul.
    13. Experimented on Hollowfication serum.
    14. Invented inflatable dummy Gigai to serve as a combat decoy.


    Hint: the answer is "very".
    Good to know.
    Last edited by Tebryn; 2012-09-17 at 11:31 AM.