Requiem of the Eternal Night: A Hollow's Story

""This is a Self-insert like no other (I hope). Though the name's are different, I play the protagonist but I become a hollow, not a Shinigami like what I assume most Bleach SI's are based on. So I hope you can enjoy this epic story about (me) a lost soul who's fate become's entangled in the world of Bleach.""

- Author's Note at beggining of Requiem of the Eternal Night It sounds a bit arrogant but don't worry, It Gets Better

Supposedly a Self-insert like no other, Requiem of the Eternal Night: A Hollow's Story is a Bleach Fanfic composed by Themulchmeister. As you can already tell it is a Self-insert Fic about an 18 year old boy named Steven Benson who through an unfortunate twist of fate dies and becomes a hollow.

The story is fairly loyal to the canon and basically starts off outlining Benson's troubles as a low-level hollow (finding food, maintaing your individuality and such), his evolution towards becoming a Vasto Lorde and his search for his long lost brother whom we later find out. The rest of the story follows the canon as he  whilst working as an   under. With a staggering 80 chapters it is quite a read.

You can take a read here. Feel welcome to contribute a few tropes as you see fit.

This story provides examples of: ""I open my arms and try to pry the chrysalis open but it doesn't work. I grind the inside walls with my claws creating immensely bright sparks which burn my flesh away, this only seems to trigger more of the white death to ooze from my body. I desperately scratch the walls like a crazed drug addict. I then resort to peeling back my own flesh and bone to stem the inevitable wall from closing in and gaining more cement""
 * Anti-Hero Steven Benson/Banzai Benendes
 * Anti-Villain Michael Benson and Mitzuki Sheehari
 * Awesome McCoolname Banzai Benendes
 * Body Horror the author doesn't spare on some of the more gruesome details of hollow evolution


 * Bond Villain Stupidity in chapter 66 when
 * Captured by Cannibals
 * Demoted to Extra most of the canonical characters of the series have succumed to this trope. Most evident in the Fake Karakura arc when the main belligerents of the Gotei 13 and Vizards (apart from a few lucky ones who get to take on Benendes) aren't even mentioned before they are.
 * Dressing as the Enemy in the Soul Society Arc
 * Evil Is Cool Banzai does a good job at proving how awesome Hollows are
 * Fan Service It is based on an Anime after all
 * Gambit Pileup
 * Harem Seeker
 * If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him In chapter 78 when
 * Just Between You and Me from both  and
 * Kill Steal during the Lust arc when
 * Meaningful Name Kyoyu Unomei literally means 'Shared Fate'
 * Mission Briefing
 * Minor Major Character though Michael Benson is an important character who ends up becoming the Antagonist of the series he only shows up in a couple of scenes.
 * My Master, Right or Wrong Banzai initially swears loyalty towards Aizen and the Espada even though he implies he does not exactly approve of his methods.
 * Protagonist Journey to Villain the first few chapters devote themselves to this trope
 * Possession Sue Banzai seems to gain a new power in each arc
 * Razor Floss
 * Ship Tease Banzai displays somewhat romantic interactions with at least four female characters however they're either too busy somewhere else or die before anything goes further
 * Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism though the majority of the story is heavily cynical surprisingly it ends up being quite idealist as shown when
 * The Nudifier Banzai's claws and  are not only useful for slashing his victims but they also serve as a useful weapon of perversion