CANON AND/OR HEADCANON FACTS MEME

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RANDOM FACTS
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[blackmoonrising]

☀ Ichigo's birthday is July 15; he is currently 18 years old in game.

☀ His name is written 一護 and means "he who protects." He takes his name very literally.

☀ Yes that's his natural hair colour.

☀ He's half Human*, half Shinigami.

☀ He lost his mother in a Hollow attack* when he was nine years old. She gave her life to protect him and he is still not over it.
*This may or may not be about to be changed/expanded on in canon because Kubo is a gigantic dick and there are hints that Masaki might be of Quincy blood.

☀ This is his canon image song.

☀ His favourite food is chocolate. This is canon.

☀ Is a Shakespeareophile. This is also canon.

(☀ His favourite's Hamlet, but he also likes Merchant of Venice. )

☀ Despite vehement protestations and reactions towards boobs in his mid teens, he's now cultivating a reserved appreciation of girls and their curvaceous parts, he just chooses not to broadcast it- shut up Keigo.

☀ He's 5'11" and still growing.

☀ He plays the guitar, though probably not as well as Chad. He also has a nice singing voice, but don't expect him to broadcast that anytime soon.

☀ He really sucks at remembering names and often gets the kanji reading wrong. (See: Ametatsu Ishida)

☀ He's actually a lot smarter than he looks; this is the result of a lifetime of people jumping to conclusions that he's a no good thug because of his hair colour, and the subsequent fights he gets into when people try to start on him for it. He actually works hard at school to try and prove the naysayers wrong on that front.

☀ He used to take karate lessons as a little kid and was eventually one of the best in the class. His friend Tatsuki- who at one point goes on to be reserve Vale Tudo champion at her level in Japan- notes that he was better than her, and she's a black belt at least.

☀ Because of this, his highest paying day job is teaching little kids karate at Portside Dojo.

☀ Speaking of little kids, Ichigo has a pretty big soft spot for the little suckers. He's an older brother to two younger twin sisters after all. We're first introduced to him in the manga when he's beating up some punks for knocking over an offering to a dead girl, who he promises to bring fresh flowers for the next day.

☀ He is really, really tough. His body can take a remarkable amount of punishment and he still keeps on getting up to take more; at one point the only thing that stopped him from getting up to keep on fighting was the fact that he had been practically bisected and his body physically could not function. (He got better).

☀ And for that matter, he has a handy habit of getting better after he dies too.

☀ He's also stupidly powerful, probably more so than he realises. He's chock full of spiritual power, exceeding Captain level, to the extent that his body can't actually keep it all contained and it's constantly leaking out of him. Basically means that Ichigo would suck at anything resembling stealth where other spiritually sensitive beings are concerned because he is essentially a walking beacon of immense spiritual power. We are talking monstrously powerful here, at his most base breaking powerful he can knock down a mountain with just the shockwaves of swinging his sword. At his current level, he can part clouds and take down most of a building with a single Getsuga Tenshou.

☀ God help you if you are an older sibling and being a dick to your little sibling because Ichigo has a special place reserved at the top of his ass-kicking list for those sort of people.

☀ Contrary to the more vocal side of the fandom's belief, Ichigo is not the hero of a romance manga and isn't really focused on dating anybody as it stands.

☀ Boxers.

☀ At the moment, he's thinking about maybe pursuing higher education with the aim of getting into med school to become a doctor. He's almost glad his father isn't here so he can be spared the inevitable embarrassing display of "Oh Masaski! Our useless son has finally chosen to walk the noble path set for him by his father and decided to become a respectable member of society just like meeee!" that would probably follow such an announcement.

☀ That being said, he misses Isshin and the girls terribly.