"Guilty until proven innocent," Apache said, sullenly, rolling her mismatched eyes.

It wasn't fair, really. It also didn't make much sense to her. People like Aizen, terrifyingly powerful people, wouldn't be expected to wear a tag, but Wonderweiss, all but normal if not for his Hollow and his pink eyes, would be tagged so people knew he was dangerous. It was a backwards system of identification, something that groups had been lobbying to can for decades.

Szayel wasn't wrong about Nnoitra, though. Tags were traditionally reviled, often treated as outsiders restricted to menial work, though they were becoming more and more accepted as the years went on, but that didn't mean there wasn't good money to be made as one. She thought of the Totomostro, in Altissia, that allowed Tags to get into the ring with each other, or monsters, and prove their mettle against strong opponents. Nnoitra might not like the scorn wearing the collar brought him, but he'd not turn his nose up at showing off in battle for money. They did pretty well out of it, there.