Nnoitra FC [v2]: Pray for the Mantis

[Minerva]

This fanclub is for fans of Nnoitra. If you like this character, please join!

Welcome to version 2: "Pray for the Mantis". Lineart for our banner this version is by Kubo-sensei.

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 character 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 character!

Thank-you for your cooperation!

Owner: Minerva
Co-owner: KittyUlquiorra

Members (27):

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1. ChocolateGerbil
2. Colossus
3. debbiechan
4. dkeichan
5. Enisy
6. flowerpower
7. GreenBlack
8. Hinodeh
9. IHATECLOUD
10. Jizō
11. Kitty85
12. KittyUlquiorra
13. Kuchiki Shiba
14. La Mulana
15. LasNochesAizen
16. Meredith
17. Minerva
18. nnoitraxnelielx
19. NOMNOMNOM
20. Princesspada
21. Ramody
22. SantaTeresa
23. SextaEspada
24. Sightspeed
25. Silver Fang
26. YulieAna
27. Zura

New member questions:

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Feel free to pick and choose!

Why do you like Nnoitra?

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

What's your favourite panels or chapters with him?

Is there a song you consider "his" song?

Favourite fanart of him?

Favourite fanfic about him?

Anything else you'd like to share?

Fun 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
aspect of death: Despair
Fraccion: Tesra Lindocruz
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.

Zanpakuto notes

祈れ (inore): pray, wish

聖哭螳螂 (サンタテレサ): “Santa Teresa”
聖 (sei): holy, sacred, saint
哭 (nageku): weep, lament, wail, sorrow
蟷 (to): mantis
螂 (ru): mantis

The last two kanji are read together as “kamakiri” (lit. “scythe-cut” but also “praying mantis”).

Hence, why Nnoitra is wielding a scythe that Sensei refers to as a guillotine in ch 286 ("Guillotine You Standing"). Guillotines behead their targets. Female praying mantises behead their male partners. If this is Nnoitra's personality, his Hollow form is a female mantis.

Translation of Nnoitra's data from MASKED databook: {link}

Volume cover, poem, and name-page:

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Volume cover:

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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

Nnoitra's name-page:

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Other official goodies:

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gum card:

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2009 calendar cover art:

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2009 September/October calendar art (Nnoitra vs Neliel):

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2009 September/October calendar art (Nnoitra vs Zaraki):

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2010 February chibi calendar sketch:

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Best Bouts Poll spread (10th place):

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Santa Teresa keychain:

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Nnoitra plushie:

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ED 23:

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Manga:

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Appearances:

1. ch229 (Howling Tempest): birth of Wonderweiss
2. ch244 (Born From the Fear): Espada meeting
3. ch245 (The Way Without Enemies): Espada meeting
4. ch249 (Back To The Innocent): conversation with Ulquiorra
5. ch261 (Left Arm of the Devil): Nnoitra vs Chad
6. ch262 (Unblendable): Nnoitra vs Chad
7. ch263 (Unexpected): Nnoitra and Tesra vs Chad
8. ch286 (Tooth and Nail/Guillotine You Standing): Grimmjow's botched execution
9. ch287 (Don't Forget Till You Die): Nnoitra vs Ichigo
10. ch288 (The Bad Joke): Nnoitra vs Ichigo
11. ch289 (The Scar Mask): Nnoitra vs Ichigo
12. ch290 (The Broken Mask): Nnoitra vs Ichigo
13. ch291 (Thank You For Defend Me): Nnoitra vs Neliel
14. ch292 (Rupture My Replica): Nnoitra vs Neliel
15. ch293 (Urge For Unite): Nnoitra vs Neliel
16. ch294 (If You Call Me Beast, Kill You Like Tempest): Nnoitra vs Neliel, flashback
17. ch295 (The Last Mission): flashback, Nnoitra vs Neliel
18. ch296 (Change Again and Again): Nnoitra vs Neliel
19. ch297 (King of the Kill): Tesra vs Ichigo
20. ch298 (Intruder 3): Nnoitra vs Zaraki
21. ch299 (The Verbal Warfare): Nnoitra vs Zaraki
22. ch304 (The Battle of the Barbarians): Nnoitra vs Zaraki
23. ch306 (Not Perfect Is Good): Nnoitra vs Zaraki
24. ch307 (Bite It, Slash It): Nnoitra vs Zaraki
25. ch308 (Satan From Orbit): Nnoitra vs Zaraki
26. ch309 (Pray for the Mantis): Nnoitra vs Zaraki, Nnoitra's release
27. ch310 (Four Arms to Killing You): Nnoitra vs Zaraki
28. ch311 (The Undead 4): Nnoitra vs Zaraki
29. ch312 (Fervourous-Ferocious/Higher Than the Moon): Nnoitra vs Zaraki, flashback, Nnoitra's defeat
30. ch313 (To Close Your World): Tesra's flashback

Mentions:

1. ch254 (Leave the Chocolate Here): Dordonii's flashback
2. ch262 (Unblendable): Ulquiorra tells Orihime about Nnoitra and Chad battling
3. ch356 (Tyrant of Skulls): Espada aspects of death
4. ch375 (Execution Extinction): Starrk's flashback
5. ch379 (Falta de Armonia): Ichigo mentions defeating Nnoitra

Fandom goodies:

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Essays

• Prey for the Mantis
• To No Longer See Your Pity

Fanarts
Coming soon ...

Please check out our favourite vids at our fc's youtube channel {link}!

Trivia ~ Nnoitra's previous incarnation:

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In one of Sensei's previous manga (Zombie Powder), there's a character who bears a certain resemblance to Nnoitra: Ulrika Wismar. She's the only other character of his whose hair permanently covers the left eye. She also has similar colouring and body structure to Nnoitra.

Her weapon of choice: a scythe.

Coincidence? Maybe.

Previous version: v1

[Silver Fang]

Yay! I look forward to the Nnoitra converstations to come. And, i'm diggin the banner. I love it.

Here's a little beginer question.

Do you think Nnoitra seemed a bit more uptight and moody in the flshbacks, when he had short hair?

[Zura]

Congratz on the new version

[Minerva]

Yay, new version is up!

Do you think Nnoitra seemed a bit more uptight and moody in the flshbacks, when he had short hair?

Angsty is normal for him, but I think he seems more uptight now actually. He looks far more stressed in current-time. In the flashbacks he looks angry/upset.

What do you think caused the difference?

[Silver Fang]

Angsty is normal for him, but I think he seems more uptight now actually. He looks far more stressed in current-time. In the flashbacks he looks angry/upset.

What do you think caused the difference?

I think him being angry, in the past, had something to do with Nel following him around and pestering him about being a weak beast. I think he seems a bit more relaxed now. I mean, he seems more playful. Like when he tries to start a convo. with Uquiorra about Orihime. I couldn''t imagine past Nnoitra behaving in that manner. Idk why.

[Meredith]

Congratulations!!!!!

Hell yeah for the new version! And Minerva, congrats on being the new owner!

Also here something you should add to the Nnoitra plushie to the official goodie list.^^ Link


Do you think Nnoitra seemed a bit more uptight and moody in the flashbacks, when he had short hair?

Nah, he was a little moody back then, but now he more moody then ever!!!

Also here a song rec. Listening to this song reminds me of him.

Noose By A Perfect Circle (link)

Lyrics-

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So glad to see you well
Overcome and completely silent now
With heaven's help
You cast your demons out
And not to pull your halo down
Around your neck and tug you off your cloud
But I'm more than just a little curious
How you're planning to go about
Making your amends to the dead
To the dead

Recall the deeds as if
They're all someone else's
Atrocious stories
Now you stand reborn before us all
So glad to see you well

And not to pull your halo down
Around your neck and tug you to the ground
But I'm more than just a little curious
How you're planning to go about
Making your amends to the dead
To the dead

With your halo slipping down
Your halo slipping
Your halo slipping down
Your halo slipping down
Your halo slipping down [repeated]

Your halo slipping down to choke you now

Also Minerva, I think you should add to the link of the two Nnoitra FCs from DA. Here and here.

[Ramody]

Congrats on the new version. The banner is ridiculously gorgeous as always.

[Minerva]

Hell yeah for the new version! And Minerva, congrats on being the new owner!

Thank you!

Also here something you should add to the Nnoitra plushie to the official goodie list.^^ Link

I bought one, I'll add a pic when it gets here. And I have another Nnoitra goodie in transit to take a picture of ... Our Nnoitra is getting popular all of sudden.

Noose By A Perfect Circle (link)

Good song, it suits!

Also Minerva, I think you should add to the link of the two Nnoitra FC from DA. Here and here.

Will do. I sense a massive update sometime this weekend.

I think him being angry, in the past, had something to do with Nel following him around and pestering him about being a weak beast. I think he seems a bit more relaxed now. I mean, he seems more playful. Like when he tries to start a convo. with Uquiorra about Orihime. I couldn''t imagine past Nnoitra behaving in that manner. Idk why.

I agree he's acting differently with Neliel out of his hair, he's much less angry and taken to grinning manically like he knows something everyone else doesn't. He doesn't do that in his flashbacks.

I can't imagine him teasing anyone like that before, either. Do you think this might be his "thing"? You know, like Grimmjow said Ulquiorra always stabs his targets through the chest where their heart would be. Nnoitra skulks around trying to figure out relationships and how things work between two people.

[IHATECLOUD]

BAH! I'm off the members list!

This is what I get for ignoring my favorite espada for so long.

Mind adding me again?

And Imma go ahead and answer the question.

To me, he seemed more...scared than how he acts now in the anime. Well, did act. Anyway, I thought he was obviously extremely jealous of Neliel, but also fearful of her as well. If we made a theory about Nnoitra's past, then I would think that where he came from, women were always at the bottom, hence his chauvinistic behavior.

[Silver Fang]

I agree he's acting differently with Neliel out of his hair, he's much less angry and taken to grinning manically like he knows something everyone else doesn't. He doesn't do that in his flashbacks.

Yeah. That's what I mean. in the flashbacks, he seems more serious/hard-nosed. The only time he smiled, that I remember, is when he killed that colony of Hollws.

I can't imagine him teasing anyone like that before, either. Do you think this might be his "thing"? You know, like Grimmjow said Ulquiorra always stabs his targets through the chest where their heart would be. Nnoitra skulks around trying to figure out relationships and how things work between two people

He cool. Maybe get his feelings right, and also to tease people, as he loves to do.