[Off-Topic] The Akira Saga: Plot Ideas

Hey El. Here are my ideas for the story of Akira, laid out so we can discuss them and refer back to them in a more organized way.

Groups

The Dragon Army: A faction of the Gotei Divisions aspiring to replace the Central Chambers Forty-Six with a full military government. These Divisions and their Commanders are fixated on the idea of "pacifying" Rukongai. Reminded that the experiments of Aizen Sosuke were allowed to happen in the ungoverned space of Rukongai, they see the civilian government of Soul Society as weak and unwilling to exert its power to fully secure the Seireitei by controlling all of Soul Society. They also wish to establish a firmer process of maintaining the soul balance via a more centralized system of procedural executions of the citizens of Rukongai when the balance is deemed to be destabilizing. These Divisions are led by the Twelfth, followed by the Third, the Fifth, and the Ninth. The Twelfth Division Captain is the mastermind and has taken advantage of the fact that the Divisions of the former three Captains who rebelled against Soul Society have been ostracized and alienated over the years by the rest of the Gotei. Using their feelings of resentment, the Twelfth has forged a coalition of angered and motivated fighters to topple the Seireitei. They are not sure of the intentions of the Division that will become the Wisteria Guard. However, they are confident that they can either manipulate their discontent into comradeship, or overwhelm them through sheer force.

The Loyalists: The Divisions of Soul Society loyal to the Central Chambers Forty-Six and the current arrangement of Soul Society. These Divisions are led by the First, followed by the Second, the Fourth, the Sixth, and the Seventh.

The Wisteria Guard: A faction of the Gotei Divisions who believe that Seireitei has become corrupt and lost. They believe that the Central Chambers Forty-Six should be replaced, similar to the Dragon Army. However, their intention is to replace it with a more open, active type of government that cares for the welfare of the souls of Rukongai. While mindful of the soul balance, they do not think the process needs to be so forced or insufferable. These Divisions include the Tenth, the Eighth, the Thirteenth, and the Eleventh. Akira's enigmatic personality will eventually unite their Captains, who are torn between loyalty to a regime they are no longer inspired by and a brutal insurrection they do not support.

The Shinoda: The Clan of Akira and Raizo. A lower-level noble house, it focuses on providing a paramilitary of shinobi-like fighters to Seireitei, acting almost like a police force. In Raizo's absence, a younger member of its retainer clan, the Konoha, named Daishi Konoha, has taken control of his own clan and effectively usurped control of the Shinoda name. He openly calls himself the head of the Shinoda, Daishi Shinoda, and was using its influence to accelerate his progress through the Shinoreijutsuin. He is a skilled and powerful warrior; but, a brash and arrogant man. He is soon to be promoted to the Vice-Captaincy of the Third Division.


Plot

1. Raising Akira
   
   1. Akira is raised by Shuren and trained in Kido and the other Shinigami arts. Oscurra trains her to a higher level of Kido, as well as teaching her how to augment her Shunpo with the methods of Sonido. [1]
   2. During this period she becomes aware of her past and briefly encounters her Zanpakuto, though she does not learn its name.
   3. She learns to commune with Raizo and decides that she wishes to go to Soul Society to continue her father's work.
   
   
2. Return to Soul Society [ENTER AKIRA]
   
   1. Akira returns to Soul Society and arrives to meet the Shinoda clan. She finds it is controlled by Daishi, who insists that she enroll in the Shinoreijutsuin and is "trained" in the ways of the nobility before she take her place as Head of the clan. He insists he is only acting as a temporary "regent" of the clan, but in fact he means to keep Akira out of power until he can attain a high rank in a Division, which will give him the political and military power to seize full control of the Shinoda.
   2. Akira enrolls in the Shinoreijutsuin and displays shocking progress due to her training. She eventually learns her Shikai and is advanced to a Tenth Division position under Harugasaki Entei.
   3. Her Zanpakuto spirit convinces her to challenge Daishi and assert her control of the Shinoda.[DUEL FOR THE SHINODA] She does so and becomes the next Head of the House. in the fight, Daishi is killed, but not before revealing he was part of a larger scheme. Akira vows to find out more. [ WHISPERS OF DRAGONS]
   
   
3. The Third Head of the Shinoda
   
   1. Like her mentors, Akira sees the corrupt nature of a Seireitei which has lost the moral purpose that once drove it to become more than a band of ruthless murderers.
   2. Trying to pursue change through peaceful means, she finds allies in the Divisions that will eventually become the Wisteria Guard.
   3. She also begins investigating evidence that Daishi's rise was part of a larger plot within the Third Division.
   4. Realizes that Daishi was planning to assassinate the Third Division Vice-Captain and make it appear to be an accident so he would be promoted to the position
   5. Upon further investigation, realizes that this was intended to place Daishi at the second-in-command of the Third Division so it would join a rebellious organization called the Dragon Army.
   6. The enlisted members of the Third Division supported Daishi's motivations because the Vice-Captain was unpopular, and intend to kill the Vice-Captain anyways in a false military exercise.
   7. Daishi's collaborators attempt to assassinate Akira before she can inform the Third Division Vice-Captain of the attempt on his life. [HUNTING THE DRAGONS
   8. She survives the attempt, but fails to save the Third Division Vice-Captain.
   
   
4. Civil War Begins
   
   1. Using the emergency protocols that activate after the assassination, the Dragon Army ignites the war by assassinating the Captain-Commander as they report to the Central Chambers Forty-Six.
   2. The Dragon Army reveals its trump card; a superweapon powered with a mixture of Shinigami and recovered Quincy technology that absorbs spiritrons to fire a devastating pulse of energy at a target. It has been hidden, floating high above Seireitei for years, while the Dragon Army plotted. Should it be destroyed, the explosion would damage Seireitei severely. The falling wreckage would irrevocably devastate the city and most likely completely annihilate it.
   3. The superweapon is fired at the center of Seireitei, destroying the Central Chambers Forty-Six and the underground facility contained the Seikotokyorin living quarters, killing the Captain Commander. [ASSASINATION OF THE CAPTAIN-GENERAL]
   4. While the superweapon does not penetrate deep enough to damage the prisons or the Daireishokairo, it does destroy the Senzaikyu and the Sokyoku Hill, as well as the Shinoreijutsuin and the Kido Corps. While not completely destroyed, the Headquarters of the First, Second, and Fourth Divisions are grievously damaged, wiping out close to 90% of their fighters and healers. Their Captains manage to survive, relatively unscathed.
   5. The Dragon Army's Divisions are completely unharmed, having repositioned themselves outside of the blast zone, close to the Nest of Maggots. They overwhelm the Onmitsukido's facility (most of the Detention Branch is unarmed) and set all of the prisoners free. The prisoners are armed with weapons combining the banned Bakkoto and Quincy technology (allowing the user to partially mitigate the harmful effects of the original Bakkoto on the user)[2] and offered the chance to join the rebellion in exchange for freedom and preferred status in the new military government.
   6. The former prisoners, now Dragon Army Auxiliaries, join the Dragon Army and the combined force moves to engage the remaining Divisions. The Dragon Army Auxiliaries, all former Shinigami, amount to an extra Division's worth of troops.
   
   
5. All-Out War: Dragons versus Loyalists
   
   1. The Sixth and Seventh Divisions mobilize, while the Fourth Division tends to the wounded. The remnants of the Second and First Division unite under the leadership of Namahage, Second Division Captain.
   2. Namahage commands the First's troops, but does not enter the field himself, so as to command the battlefield intelligence operations. The Second's remnants do not enter combat to serve the same function.
   3. The battlefield ratio stands as thus (In-Combat/In-Reserve):
      
      1. Divisions: Loyalists: 2.5/4, Dragons: 5/5
      2. Captains/Vice-Captains: Loyalists: 2/4, Dragons: 4/4
      
      
   4. The Loyalists sustain heavy losses against the Auxiliaries, who are deployed first to soften up the disciplined Sixth and Seventh Divisions.
   5. The Seventh Division suffers 50% losses, the Sixth Division suffers 25% losses, and the Auxiliaries suffer 10% losses. The Dragon Army regulars are unscathed.
   6. The Seventh Division Captain is killed, while the Sixth Division Captain withdraws from combat unscathed.
   7. Namahage deploys his intelligence agents to find the Dragon field headquarters.
   
   
6. Dawn: The Wisteria Guard
   
   1. The separate non-Dragon Divisions watch intently, not motivated to act on behalf of either side. At an informal council, Akira pleads to the Captains to see the Dragon Army as worse than the fallen Seireitei government.
   2. They agree to unite under her leadership and deploy against the Dragons.
   3. Assembling their might and slight superiority in numbers, they attack the Dragon Army's rear and flanks. Fierce fighting ensues. Dragon Army Auxiliaries are a new element on the battlefield, and the deployment of the Third, Fifth, and Ninth Divisions' skilled troops makes the fight even harder.
   4. The Captains fight as well, but the Dragon Army Captains are nearly unbreakable while fighting together. The fighting draws to a standstill when Tenth Division Captain Harugasaki is slain, an unexpected development.
   5. The Dragon Army's deployed Divisions suffer 25% casualties, the Wisteria Guard suffers 15% casualties, and the Auxiliaries are reduced to 60%.
   6. (Day One) Unsheathed: Shinkiri vs. Akira(Day Two) Nightmare: Namahage's Rampage
      
      1. Akira begins to despair, having hoped for a better outcome on the first day of the Wisteria Guard's fight and instead receiving a great loss.
      2. Contacted by Raizo and Sajin, Akira takes the plunge and decides to use the Tenshintai to achieve her Bankai in three days.
      3. Namahage receives intelligence revealing that the Twelfth Divison Captain was the cause of his current disfigurement and tortured existence.
      4. Enraged, he abandons his post and enters the battlefield himself.
      5. Activating his Bankai, Namahage slays all of the Dragon Army Auxiliaries and inflicts massive losses on the Twelfth Division as he cuts through them to get to their Captain.
      6. The incredible speed and stealth of Namahage allows him to do all of this silently and nearly unseen within the space of a day until the Twelfth Division Captain notices and activates a kill-switch in Namahage.
      7. The Twelfth Division suffers 95% casualties. The Auxiliaries suffer 100% casualties.
   
   
7. (Day Three) Turn of the Tide
   
   1. This unexpected development invigorates the Wisteria Guard and the Loyalists, who manage to connect their commands via Second Division intelligence operations.
   2. The remaining Loyalists and the Wisteria Guard rally to crush the Dragon Army; the order is all-war once again, with individual Divisions commanded autonomously.
   3. The Loyalists and Wisteria inflict massive losses on the Dragon Army's Third, Fifth, and Ninth Divisions, who are now attacked on all sides.
   4. Akira, infuriated over the loss of Captain, Harugasaki Entei, takes command of the Tenth Division as ranking officer and fights her way to the Twelfth Division Captain.
   5. Final Confrontation
      
      1. Akira and the Twelfth Division Captain duel each other.
      2. Despite her nascent skill and prodigy status, she is confronted by a fighter whose combat style is almost custom-made to counter and defeat hers.[]
      3. The Twelfth Division Captain, unaware of Akira's newly achieved Bankai, activates their own against her.
      4. Akira responds by activating her own Bankai, losing its key advantage by not observing the Twelfth Division Captain's.
      5. However, she manages to create an advantage which she uses to the win the fight.
      
      
   6. The Dragon Army suffers 100% losses. The Wisteria Guard suffers nearly 25% losses, while the Loyalists' Second, First, Divisions have suffered 85% casualties. The Sixth, and Seventh Divisions suffer 75% casualties. The Fourth Division has suffered 60% casualties. The Captains and Vice-Captains of the Divisions meet respective fates. The Seventh, Second, First, and Tenth Division are the only surviving Divisions to have lost their Captains, although Akira is able to act in the place of Captain Entei.
   7. The Kido Corps was 200 in number but sustained 80% casualties in the Assassination, their barracks being near the CC46 Compound.
   8. The Onmitsukido was 100 in number and sustained
   
   
8. Epilogue
   
   1. The remaining Divisions; the First/Second, the Fourth, the Sixth, the Seventh, the Eighth, the Tenth, the Eleventh, and the Thirteenth; and the remaining Captain-level fighters, the Fourth, the Seventh, the Eighth, the Eleventh, the Thirteenth, and Akira, appeal to the Soul King via the Royal Guard to form a more decentralized, regionally-framed government.
   2. The remaining 880 Shinigami from all branches of the Seireitei military, the remaining 6 Captains, and the remaining 7 Vice-Captains are reorganized into five new organizations
   3. New Seireitei Government
      
      1. Government: Soul Senate
         
         1. Four Regional Caucuses: North, South, East, and West
            
            1. District Councils: 1-80
         
         
      2. Military: The Eternal Army
         
         1. Central Command
            
            1. Composed of the remnants of the First, Second, and Fourth Divisions, along with the Onmitsukido and Kido Corps.
            2. Central Division: Led by the Captain-General
               
               1. Senate Battalion: A hardened core of fighters representing the Soul Senate's directly accountable armed forces. It does not change and is answerable only to the Senate (and the Captain-General in times of war). Its immediate commander is a Vice-Captain.
               2. Central Battalion: A rotating contingent of Shinigami tasked specifically with hunting down Hollows in the World of the Living. It answers directly to the Captain-General. Each quarter of its membership is drawn from each of the regional Commands. Its immediate commander is a Vice-Captain.
               
               
            3. Specialist Division: Led by the Vice-General
               
               1. Onmitsukido: An organization with the same functions as its antebellum namesake. It answers directly to the Vice-General. Its immediate commander is a Vice-Captain.
               2. Kido Corps: An organization with the same functions as its antebellum namesake. It answers directly to the Vice-General. Its immediate commander is a Vice-Captain.
               3. Order of Healers
                  
                  1. Soul Society Medical Center: A unified healing center open to Shinigami and common souls alike. It is free of charge and operates regional affiliates. It answers directly to the Vice-General. Its immediate commander is a Head Healer. In times of war, the Center's resources are primarily focused on civilians but are extended to Shinigami at the Vice-General's discretion.
                  2. Medical Battalion: An organization with the same functions as the antebellum Fourth Division. Unlike the former Division, all of its members are required to be expert combatants so they can survive to administer field treatment. It answers directly to the Vice-General. Its immediate commander is a Vice-Captain.
                  
                  
               4. Shinigami Research and Development Institute
                  
                  1. An organization with the same functions as its antebellum namesake. It answers directly to the Vice-General. Its immediate commander is a Head Scientist. Unlike the other Central entities, it is a solely civilian organization with no military training involved in its members' education. Active-duty Shinigami may not join its ranks and must be allowed to retire permanently before applying. Shinigami are involved in its initiatives to a limited degree as advisors.
            
            
         2. North Command: Led by the Captain and Vice-Captain of the North
            
            1. Black Division: The former Eleventh Division and portions of the Seventh Division. Its immediate commander is the Captain. Its symbol is a black tortoise.
            2. North Regional Militia: A regional police force composed of non-Shinigami, some of whom wish to become Shinigami. Its immediate commander is the Vice-Captain.
            
            
         3. South Command: Led by the Captain and Vice-Captain of the South
            
            1. Vermilion Division: The former Eighth Division and portions of the Sixth Division. Its immediate commander is the Captain. Its symbol is a vermilion phoenix.
            2. South Regional Militia: A regional police force composed of non-Shinigami, some of whom wish to become Shinigami. Its immediate commander is the Vice-Captain.
            
            
         4. East Command: Led by the Captain and Vice-Captain of the East
            
            1. Azure Division: The former Tenth Division and portions of the Seventh Division. Its immediate commander is the Captain. Its symbol is an azure dragon.
            2. East Regional Militia: A regional police force composed of non-Shinigami, some of whom wish to become Shinigami. Its immediate commander is the Vice-Captain.
            
            
         5. West Command: Led by the Captain and Vice-Captain of the West
            
            1. White Division: The former Thirteenth Division and portions of the Sixth Division. Its immediate commander is the Captain. Its symbol is a white tiger.
            2. West Regional Militia: A regional police force composed of non-Shinigami, some of whom wish to become Shinigami. Its immediate commander is the Vice-Captain.

Issues
Did I kill off too much of Seireitei?

Notes
[1] While the difference between the two is not well-explained, I'm going to make use of this explanation: https://www.reddit.com/r/bleach/comm...nd_flash_step/. In short: Sonido is better for short-range combat purposes, Hirenyaku is better for long-range traveling, and Shunpo is a balance between the two philosophies of high-speed movement.
[2] Instead of these new weapons, they could be given back their Zanpakuto. I am not sure if a prisoner's Zanpakuto is destroyed when he or she is incarcerated. However, Mayuri has a Zanpakuto despite being released. Unclear if he had Ashisogi Jizo at that point.