Tesla x Nnoitra FC [v3]: Reach forth our hands to connect our hearts

[Minerva]

This fanclub is for fans of the Tesra x Nnoitra pairing. If you like this pairing, please join!

Welcome to version 3: "Reach forth our hands to connect our hearts".
The lineart for our banner this version is by Kubo-sensei.

Rules:

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• If you do not like a pairing DO NOT post in that pairing FC. If you read the fanclub and want to discuss something that was said then sort it out via PM or elsewhere, do NOT go into that fanclub and start a war. Anyone posting in a pairing fanclub that isn't a fan will almost automatically recieve a ban.
• You can discuss other pairings but when others discuss your pairing negatively and you don't like it sort it out through pm, if you break the above rule to start a flame war it's an instant ban.
• Neg reps to rival pairing fc posts over such things won't be tolerated. I consider this being in an FC of a pairing you don't like therefore breaking a rule.
• I'd suggest just totally not reading the fc of the pairing you don't like but I know that is never gonna happen. You all wanna be able to talk about other pairings so much well fine but just be prepared for others to do it about your favourite pairing also. These rules were changed as per YOUR wishes so don't come complaining to me when you decide you don't like the change.

FC etiquette:

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Please don't ~

• bash characters you don't like if they come up in conversation.
• make one-line posts. Use rep if you want to say thank-you.
• hotlink graphics from artists' sites. Post a link, not the graphic.
• go off-topic. If it doesn't relate to the pairing in some way, take it somewhere private.

Please do ~

• use spoiler tags until the chapter is posted. Not everyone reads spoilers.
• be polite even if you disagree.
• have fun talking about the pairing!

Thank-you for your cooperation!

Owner: Minerva
Co-owner: Meredith, KittyUlquiorra

Members (41):

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1. 4-NotYourHero-4
2. Aimee
3. Arrancar_Fan
4. ArtisticVizard
5. atsushimistress
6. Azley
7. coconut
8. Colossus
9. Dramafreak
10. Enisy
11. espada_stark
12. EspadaDina
13. flowerpower
14. IchiBerry 15
15. IHATECLOUD
16. ILoveGrimmjow11
17. Jasherk
18. Katarzyna
19. KittyUlquiorra
20. LoveMyWife
21. mangapanda
22. Meredith
23. Minerva
24. Miyona
25. Moorchik
26. Namina
27. Nimyosa
28. renjifkdme852
29. saber1812
30. ShiroChan
31. Silver Fang
32. Slinky
33. smart.deedee
34. Snap0Tobiume
35. Snickerdoodle
36. Steambug
37. tekenblok
38. TsukijiSatsuga
39. Uchiha Madara
40. xell
41. Zura

New member questions:

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Feel free to pick and choose!

Why do you like this pairing?

What question(s) would you most like Kubo to answer about this pairing?

Best (and worst, if you like) case scenarios for their reappearance in the manga?

What's your favourite panels or chapters with them?

Which character do you like more, Nnoitra or Tesla?

Is there a song you consider "their" song?

Favourite fanart of them?

Favourite fanfic about them?

Anything else you'd like to share?

Character stats and facts:

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Nnoitra Gilga (ノイトラ・ジルガ, Noitora Jiruga)

species: Arrancar
birthday: 11 November
height: 215cm (7')
weight: 93kg (205 lbs)
position: Quinto (5th) Espada in Aizen's army
release command: Inore ("pray"), Santa Teresa
appearance: His distinguishing features are the halo-like collar on his uniform jacket and his oversize zanpakuto in the shape of two connected crescents. He is also one of the tallest characters in Bleach. His Hollow hole is through his left eye socket; he customarily covers it with an eyepatch. His mask fragment consists of upper and lower jawbones surrounding his Hollow hole and across his forehead.
personality: While termed a "beast" by characters within the series, his flashbacks indicate that there is more to him than first appearances.

Tesra Lindocruz (テスラ・リンドクルツ, Tesura Rindokurutsu)

species: Arrancar
Arrancar No.: 50
birthday: 13 May
height: 178cm (5'10")
weight: 65kg (143 lbs)
position: Nnoitra's sole Fraccion
release command: Uchifusero ("crush"), Verruga
appearance: His distinguishing features are his military-style uniform and his unusual zanpakuto. He is missing his right eye, and the empty socket is covered with an eyepatch. His mask fragment consists of an upper jawbone across his forehead. He has no Hollow hole.
personality: His defining characteristics are his unquestionable loyalty and devotion to Nnoitra.

About the pairing

Tesra isn’t really an obedient and submissive servant. He tries to follow orders, he really does. If Nnoitra does something Tesra doesn’t approve of, though, he questions him about it. It’s heavily implied that instead of Nnoitra choosing him as a Fraccion, Tesra simply attached himself to Nnoitra. And of course there’s Tesra’s habit of outright disobeying orders in favour of protecting Nnoitra. If Tesra perceives that Nnoitra may be in danger, duty is forgotten in the face of devotion, even if disobeying means that Nnoitra will yell at and threaten him later. He genuinely cares about Nnoitra, no matter how much Nnoitra tries to push him away.

Nnoitra clearly doesn’t mind this insubordination as much as he pretends to. It’s not as though he doesn’t have the means to get rid of Tesra if it was really a problem. If he really annoyed Nnoitra badly enough, Nnoitra would either kill him outright or use the Caja Negacion on him and think nothing more of it. We see, though, that Tesra was obviously following Nnoitra for a long time without major damage. Nnoitra, it seems, only gets violent if there’s someone nearby who might see, and any violence stops just short of actually hurting Tesra. If it’s just them (as we see in a couple of the flashback sequences), Nnoitra is … almost nice to Tesla, and he is actually able to talk without yelling or threatening. He’s a completely different person from the loud-mouthed, short-tempered, violent individual that the Bleach cast (and most of the fandom) perceives him to be.

Birthday flowers

• References list one of two flowers for Nnoitra's birthday: lotus (symbolising life, rebirth, purity of heart and mind, and enlightenment; meaning "estranged love, I love you still") and locust tree (symbolising tenacity under adversity; meaning "love beyond the grave"). Both of these flower meanings pertain to eternal love for the one he lost.
• For Tesra's birthday, his flower is the strawberry. This is a symbol of purity, goodness, sensuality, fertility, perfection, and love. It's also shaped like a heart, and strawberry flowers just happen to have five petals. The language of flowers says strawberries mean "esteemed love, perfection". "Esteemed love" is also called by the Greek term "agape" ("divine love"), which is the purest form of love.

Other interesting tidbits

• The first manga chapter in which they both appear is 263. This chapter was published during Valentine's week (onemanga lists the date as 16 February 2007). That more or less makes Valentine's Day their anniversary.
• Their birthdays are exactly six months apart.
• When Tesra is allowed to fight, the markings across his jacket change from four to six (with six markings appearing on his Resurreccion). In Nnoitra's Resurreccion, he can increase from four to six arms at full power.
• Their eye patches mirror each other. Thus we have one "left-brained" (logical) character and one "right-brained" (emotional) character.

Character FCs: Nnoitra FC + Tesla FC

Translation of their data from MASKED databook: {link}

Volume 33 poem:

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俺達は虫
We are insects

不揮発性の
悪意の下で
這い回る蠕虫
Nonvolatile
Lowly evil
Crawling worms

首をもたげる
月より高く
We lift our heads
Higher than the moon

憐れなお前等が
見えなこなるまで
Your pity
Can no longer be seen

Note: Why is this here? The speaker is "we"; the only person Nnoitra ever includes in his "we" is Tesra (see chapter 313). Nnoitra may be speaking in the poem, but Tesla is metaphorically at his side as he addresses Nelliel et al.

Manga:

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Appearances:

1. ch262 (Unblendable): Nnoitra vs Chad
2. ch263 (Unexpected): Nnoitra and Tesra vs Chad
3. ch286 (Tooth and Nail/Guillotine You Standing): Grimmjow's botched execution
4. ch287 (Don't Forget Till You Die): Nnoitra vs Ichigo
5. ch288 (The Bad Joke): Nnoitra vs Ichigo
6. ch289 (The Scar Mask): Nnoitra vs Ichigo
7. ch290 (The Broken Mask): Nnoitra vs Ichigo
8. ch291 (Thank You For Defend Me): Nnoitra vs Neliel
9. ch292 (Rupture My Replica): Nnoitra vs Neliel
10. ch293 (Urge For Unite): Nnoitra vs Neliel
11. ch294 (If You Call Me Beast, Kill You Like Tempest): Nnoitra vs Neliel, flashback
12. ch295 (The Last Mission): flashback, Nnoitra vs Neliel
13. ch296 (Change Again and Again): Nnoitra vs Neliel
14. ch297 (King of the Kill): Tesra vs Ichigo
15. ch298 (Intruder 3): Nnoitra vs Zaraki
16. ch299 (The Verbal Warfare): Nnoitra vs Zaraki
17. ch304 (The Battle of the Barbarians): Nnoitra vs Zaraki
18. ch306 (Not Perfect Is Good): Nnoitra vs Zaraki
19. ch307 (Bite It, Slash It): Nnoitra vs Zaraki
20. ch308 (Satan From Orbit): Nnoitra vs Zaraki
21. ch309 (Pray for the Mantis): Nnoitra vs Zaraki, Nnoitra's release
22. ch310 (Four Arms to Killing You): Nnoitra vs Zaraki
23. ch311 (The Undead 4): Nnoitra vs Zaraki
24. ch312 (Fervourous-Ferocious/Higher Than the Moon): Nnoitra vs Zaraki, flashback, Nnoitra's defeat
25. ch313 (To Close Your World): Tesra's flashback

Official goodies:

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Gum card:

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Soul Card battle card b-307:

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Heal the Soul 6 promo vid (and Tesla isn't even in the game):

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2010 Bleach calendar:

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ED 23:

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Resources and recs:

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• Doujinshi scanlations
• Icons and banners
• Cosplay recs
• Fan art recs
• Fan fic recs
• Vid recs

Please also visit the pairing club on DA (link), the pairing livejournal community (link), and our youtube channel (link)!

Previous versions: v1, v2

[Abigail]

This FC was Buried~

So Bump...

Congrats on New Version ^^

[Minerva]

Thanks, Abigail!

Quick public service announcement ~

If you haven't done so yet, please join the character FCs for each of them: Tesla FC; Nnoitra FC. New members are always welcome and appreciated!


Now back to our regularly scheduled discussion.

As Colossus said, we need something official about what happened with Nnoitra's zanpakuto. That's too big a change to overlook, so hopefully it gets in a databook at least.

What other sorts of things would you guys hope to see?

[4-NotYourHero-4]

Ah~ Congats to Minerve and Kitty for finishing last version! XD

I'm sorry I haven't been active arround here latelly, I just haven't been in the right mood for this pairing latelly.
(which btw doesn't means I do not like it anymore, c'mon, it my yaoi otp!)
(and yes, my ships go in and out depending on my mood! XDDD)

[Minerva]

I'm sorry I haven't been active arround here latelly, I just haven't been in the right mood for this pairing latelly.
(which btw doesn't means I do not like it anymore, c'mon, it my yaoi otp!)
(and yes, my ships go in and out depending on my mood! XDDD)

Don't worry about it and just drop in when you feel like it.

I'm still hoping they'll turn up before the end of the arc. *crosses every possible body part* We might yet get something to celebrate ....

[KittyUlquiorra]

Don't worry about it and just drop in when you feel like it.

I'm still hoping they'll turn up before the end of the arc. *crosses every possible body part* We might yet get something to celebrate ....

sweet new version,yay!!! want me to repost the link to that song minerva? will have a new vid with at least tesla soon,the tie in my idiol vid was finally broken

[Minerva]

It's good to hear the tie got broken. Sure, repost in case it got lost in the end of thread run.

I have a fanart to rec: http://skadi-skadi-no-mi.deviantart....shed-161438167

And the epilogue of my fanfic is up: http://bleach.lunarshadows.net/?p=1289 . Complete!

[Sir Nimbus]

New version, awesome

[KittyUlquiorra]

New version, awesome

heres the song i found that suits our pair again,lmao i actually found it on accident while looking throu my cds,ironically its by the same group that does the themesong i chose for ulquiorra xd http://<a href="http://www.youtube.c...D_-qEE0snY</a>

[Minerva]

The link's not quite working, Kitty. Can you repost it?


Btw, chapter's up. And may I say, hot damn. I think our couple just gained plot armour. Kindly go read, guys, so we can chat. ^^