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[sciencedaughter]

In fulfilling my... new-found capacity as an educator, I recently explained the human topic of pregnancy

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[lady_wandering]

The reproduction is parasitic in nature?

[sciencedaughter]

Yes. At the expense of the host's life, the arrancar is reborn upon the death of the "original" physical body.

[lady_wandering]

And you had modifications to prevent this in your case?

[sciencedaughter]

Precisely. Because I was artificially created by Mayuri-sama, he was able to restore me to perfect health.

[lady_wandering]

And others of your kind they don't have access to such modifications to protect them? Or is this an extremely rare occurrence?

[sciencedaughter]

Though I am a shinigami, I was artificially created, and so I am the only so modified.

[lady_wandering]

Shinigami?

[sciencedaughter]

What you may know as a death god.

[lady_wandering]

I wouldn't actually, I'm familiar with a great many mythologies on many different planets, but I may have missed that particular theological pantheon.

[sciencedaughter]

Are you familiar with a belief system that includes for the cycle of life and death that involves a balance of souls in the human world and a sort of afterlife?

[lady_wandering]

Of various versions, yes.

[sciencedaughter]

In my world, shinigami are those who monitor this balance. At our most basic, we accompany dead souls to Soul Society and eliminate creatures who feed on said souls.

[lady_wandering]

Similar to myths of ferrymen, reapers, harbingers and the like?

[sciencedaughter]

Reaper would be an appropriate comparison.

[lady_wandering]

Interesting.

[sciencedaughter]

"Thank you"?