Forum:Tia Harribel

Well I've been thinking that it's a tad odd that in the current matchups we've seen Barragan and then Starrk fight, while Harribel is still to be seen against the vizards. In the previous Gotei - arrancar fights, it went in order of power, so fraccion vs vice-captains, then third espada, second and primera. This time around, when clearly it's for real as shown by the death of Barragan and the near death of Starrk (perhaps), we've skipped the Tres and gone straight to the top two. Showing the weaker fights first to build up to the stronger ones is a popular story telling mechanism and Kubo has followed it almost religiously so far, 9th espada died first, admittedly 6th was defeated next but other then that it has been in numerical order. Which leads me to believe that Harribel has something up her rather small sleeves because otherwise it wouldn't be very entertaining to have the top two killed and then go back to the third and she's just the third still. There's no fun in that.

So what I thought about was the aspects of death that the espada each represent. Funnily enough they haven't really had much influence on anything excpet the espada's personalities up until the top few, Barragan is obvious, and Starrk's power to split himself into seperate bodies to stave off loneliness was an interesting twist. Sacrifice. Maybe, and this is obviously just speculation, but maybe with every death of her compadre's, Harribel gains power. She did attack more ferociously when her Fraccion died, and obviously that was partly due to affection, but maybe there was something to do with their power flowing into her. Anyway, something like that would spice up her fight and ensure that once Starrk bit the dust there was still some point to her duel. BollyW 00:11, September 19, 2009 (UTC)