Nnoitra Survived

Nnoitra looked up from where he'd thrown Santa Teresa in the floor, and over to the sudden conversation between Ulquiorra and the Hollow. He managed to roll his eyes at the ex-Cuatro's comment about his differences. How were any of them alive...? Well, Nnoitra had a bit of a story behind it. Once he'd been cut down by that Shinigami, he wasn't entirely dead. Certainly unconscious, yes, but far from dead -- a few hours later, he had awoken to find Los Noches mostly empty, and that he could only crawl to what he believed would save his life. Szayelaporro's lab was abundant with all sorts of unfinished things, and he was lucky to find that some of his Fraccione were still about. Despite not being the Octava himself, he managed to kill a couple of them, and found that devouring them as Szayel would resulted in the same regenerative effect. Say what he would about the scientist, that fucker was smart. He laid low for quite a while, journeying out to the outskirts of Hueco Mundo, where -c
he narrowly avoided being spotted by the Quincy invasion, and even managed to grow in power. At least three dozen Vasto Lordes had been devoured in the time between then and now, and he felt incredibly strong compared to before, but he still tried to avoid contact with other people. Particularly any surviving Arrancar -- their kind only attracted troubles. He'd worked out a number of things, however, since the Quincy leader in Los Noches had been killed, and the rest seemingly disappeared. For one, he found some sort of Gigai-type thing Szayel had been working on, one for every Arrancar that existed before the crash, and it seemed like only a few were missing -- namely Szayel's, oddly enough. But once he learned of this, he started heading to the Living World often, trying to remain inconspicuous most of the time. He'd even been controlling his anger, mostly, and only a few others had been hospitalized as a result. Nnoitra was still wary, however, of interaction with those from -c-
before the fall of Aizen. What would they think of him now? Probably not highly. Hell, they didn't think highly of him then. He was arrogant, misogynistic, and a bunch of other nasty things that still lingered in his personality. Now he was mostly calm, and rarely underestimated or tormented people based on gender or otherwise. Of course, this still happened, no doubt about that much -- he was still Nnoitra, deep down, and that wasn't gonna change anytime soon. -e