Uff that is...a lot of info

[In a Las Noches AU where Aizen-sama has his very own garden within the fortress]

Gin, seeing Grimmjow pulling weeds: Oh, Aizen-taicho, you have an assistant today~

Aizen: Grimmjow is serving his punishment for his unruly behavior yesterday.

Gin: Ah, yes, I heard he started quite the party at the graveyard in Karakura Town.

Aizen: *nods, and then turns to Grimmjow* Grimmjow, can you go and get the hoe?

Grimmjow, sighing & standing up: Yeah, sure.

*Several minutes later*

Grimmjow: Here, Aizen-sama.

Aizen & Gin: *turn around to face Grimmjow*

Loly, stammering: Wh- Why am I here?

I just wanted to rant about Orihime

I absolutely HATE the way she was treated in Hueco Mundo, especially for such a sweet and caring girl like her. She was kidnapped against her will, with Ulquiorra making the sick decision to threaten her with the lives of the people she loves, called a traitor for literally being blackmailed, she was physically abused by Loly and Menoly so badly TWICE, with loly punching her in the face, leaving her face disfigured (And there was even BLOOD coming out of her mouth!), for no reason, yet she still healed her abusers out of kindness and Loly and Menoly threatened to tear out her eye and fingernails OVER SOMEONE ORIHIME DIDN'T EVEN LIKE, she was completely psychologically broken by Ulquiorra when he KILLED the man she LOVED just to torture her more, which she even blamed HERSELF for, threatened to rip open her skull and chest and threatened to force feed her and give her intravenous therapy, Nnoitra suggested that he could... you know... and was such a complete vile and disgusting creep to her, calling her his "pet", (Ulquiorra was very hypocritical regarding this, because he called out Nnoitra, yet he himself still was very willing to psychologically torture Orihime) Grimmjow strangled her twice, dragged her around in chains, manhandled her and only wanted Orihime to heal Ichigo so he could hurt him again, and called her names that I don't want to mention. It physically pains me to see someone as kind and gentle as her suffer so much... Aizen and the Arrancars are complete sadistic monsters and they make me sick that they'd do this to poor Orihime. And Aizen didn't even want her powers at all, it was just to distract the strongest fighters while he took over Karakura, so all the trauma she went through was all for NOTHING.

Yet people hate her because of stupid shipping wars. I definitely don't ship UlquiHime (which people ship just to get her out of the way of IchiRuki) because he was manipulative and psychologically tormented her to past breaking point. They're shipping her with her LITERAL MENTAL ABUSER whom she has never even met or even had a single thought about until the fight with Yammy and when he kidnapped her. (And even after that, the only memory she had of Ulquiorra after the Hueco Mundo Arc was when he murdered Ichigo) A gentle girl like her deserves someone who doesn't abuse and torment her so much all the time. People say that she cared more about Ulquiorra than she did Ichigo, but that is definitely not the case, hence all the, "Kurosaki-kuns". (Y'all really want her to stay in HM forever?! With those awful Arrancar monsters and Aizen?!)

People also think that Orihime is far too obsessed with Ichigo, yet with IchiRuki, Ichigo CANNOT FUNCTION without his true love Rukia? He doesn't care about protecting people who aren't Rukia? And all these Yanderes, like Loly, Jaguara (Wolf's Rain), Shiro (Deadman Wonderland) and ESPECIALLY Yuno Gasai (Mirai Nikki) get away with literally harming or MURDERING anyone who even so much as looks at their love interest, or even their love interest themselves because it's 'cute?' They're the ones who are too obsessed if they're going to resort to such extreme lengths for their love interest, or out of jealousy towards their love interest. They're literally saying that a normal, sweet, kind girl is WORSE than these psychos. Orihime was just experiencing a normal crush, which developed into GENUINE LOVE for Ichigo, while these yanderes are complete psychos regarding their love interests, which Orihime is not. Excuse me, Yanderes, resorting to killing for love is not cute in the slightest. Orihime would never murder anyone over Ichigo. She even felt bad for being jealous of Rukia because Orihime LOVES Rukia as a friend and thinks she's amazing. Orihime was even happy for Rukia when she got married to Renji, and cried tears of joy for her (And no, it's not because Orihime finally could have Ichigo all to herself). Not to mention her love for Ichigo was what broke her out of Tsukishima's brainwashing.

And she's even been VILLAINISED too, just because she's in the way of IchiRuki (Which is NOT OK because of the huge age gap, and that Ichigo would have to die in order to be with Rukia, which would be devastating for Orihime because she wants to keep him alive and safe). But that doesn't mean I don't love Rukia, nor do I think that she's in the way of IchiHime. I definitely support RenRuki, which makes way more sense than IchiRuki. Side note, I also don't understand all the bashing that Renji gets, he's still a nice guy. Rukia was very supportive of Orihime and understood her captivity situation, and she's so funny 😄 People have said that Orihime healed more enemies than friends, but Orihime is many things, and a villain is NOT one of them. She healed Loly and Menoly because she just can't stand people getting hurt, no matter who they are, and she only healed Grimmjow's arm because Aizen told her to. And the haters ignore that she always heals her friends ALL THE TIME. That does not mean Orihime is a villain. I mean, Aughra (The Dark Crystal) paid her respects to SkekMal the Hunter, a violent, malevolent beast, even calling him the most 'beautiful' of the Skeksis, but does that make her a villain? No way. She still sacrificed her life/essence in place of Brea, Seladon and Maudra Fara. Kenshiro (Fist of the North Star) made a grave for his friend Shin, who literally tortured Ken by scarring his body and tormented and enslaved innocent people to build an entire city for Yuria, Ken's fiancee, who Shin had kidnapped. Does that make Ken a villain? No way. People claim Orihime is a villain, yet they let the ACTUAL villains get away with what they did to her just because they're attractive. Yes, Orihime healed her enemies, but she also NEVER ATTACKED HER FRIENDS.

Also, Orihime has been called selfish and manipulative, among other things. But here's the thing: She's NOT. She's far from all that. The reason she slapped Ulquiorra, which she had every right to do, was because he taunted her that Chad was supposedly dead, and he was dissing her friends by saying they were stupid and reckless to charge straight into Hueco Mundo. Ulq KNOWS that Orihime cares for her friends, so he deliberately used her love for her friends to kidnap her, manipulate her and completely psychologically break her. Orihime even literally begged to be let out of her cell to go and help Rukia, one of her BEST FRIENDS. When she was restrained by Nnoitra, she didn't care that she was being held back in a really creepy manner by one of the most vile Arrancars in existence. She really cared about Ichigo's and Nel's safety. She even shielded Uryu from Ulquiorra while completely breaking down, tried to help Yachiru, and even tried to heal Zaraki after the Nnoitra fight before getting rekidnapped. Victim blaming or what? (And also someone said that just because Orihime doesn't get a job at a clinic helping people means she FAKING her kindness? It's all an act? Like WHAT?! She can only get a job at a clinic because if not it means her kindness is an act?! She can still have other jobs AND still heal people all the while!!!! I'm not saying that helping people is wrong or bad, because it's not. I'm saying that just because she doesn't work at a clinic doesn't mean she doesn't like helping people!!!)

And there's also the whole Damsel in distress thing. That wasn't Orihime's fault. Aizen and Ulquiorra forced her into that position by threatening the lives of her friends. What else could she do? Not to mention her escorts were horribly killed right in front of her just to prove Ulquiorra's point. Even then, Orihime told THEM to run, because she valued their lives more than her own. Orihime didn't plan her own kidnapping, abuse and trauma, Aizen did. He was the one basically making her submit due to his spiritual pressure. If someone more mentally hardened was kidnapped, and was the type of person to kill their captors and escape from captivity instantly, they get so much praise, but if it's a sweet, pacifistic person like Orihime, who doesn't like to even WOUND people, and only had to comply with their captors because the people they love would have been killed, and having been traumatised to the point of breaking down in tears, they get the blame just for, "being a Damsel/Dude in distress"... like WHAT?!

And then there was her screaming to Ichigo for help. She was completely psychologically broken and traumatised by seeing the man she loved practically dead, so much so, that she couldn't do anything but cry because she loved Ichigo so much, and didn't want him to get hurt. She's left in pain and horror and guilt, yet it's ULQUIORRA who is really to blame here, not her. Captivity and abuse, especially someone as gentle as her, does that to you. He was the one who killed Ichigo and MOCKED her love for him while doing that just to break her even more, and Ulquiorra left behind his Reiatsu on Ichigo, which was too strong for Orihime to possibly reverse. Her LITERAL MENTAL BREAKDOWN was what awakened Vasto Lorde Ichigo. She didn't even blame Ichigo for dying and not protecting her, Uryu for not protecting Ichigo or Ulquiorra for killing him and torturing her - she blamed HERSELF. (I don't blame Ichigo and Uryu, they were literally killed and injured because of that stupid batboy).

Then there's her pacifistic nature and inability to fight. Again, she hates seeing people, friend or foe, being injured. Just because Orihime only heals and shields does not make her weak or useless at all. People are seeing her overkindness as weakness, uselessness and/or even villainy, and want her to have a more aggressive personality. Pacifism is seen as villainy, but aggression isn't? She's even being compared to Sakura. Orihime is WAY nicer than Sakura could ever be. (I'm sorry to those who like Sakura, I understand why you do). Orihime would never stoop so low as to beat up her friends or even say a single mean word to them over the smallest things like Sakura does. (Beating up your friends isn't funny at all, it's just mean).

She mostly gets a bad rep for yelling, "Kurosaki-kun!", but guess what? It's because she CARES about Ichigo, because he's being injured and killed right in front of her. If she didn't care about him, she wouldn't be saying his name worriedly.

And finally, there's her being scared of Ichigo's Hollow Mask. It literally brought back traumatising memories of a Hollowfied Sora/Acidwire, and she was scared FOR Ichigo, not OF Ichigo. She didn't want him to lose himself to his Hollow side like Sora did. That doesn't mean I hate Ichigo for scaring her, I know he was trying to protect her, which he has been doing the whole time. We love you, Kurosaki-kun 💖 (And people said that Ichigo didn't heed Loly's threat to tear out Orihime's eye and Ulquiorra "protected" her by stopping Ichigo, but... Ulquiorra didn't heed Loly's threat either! He told Loly (Who was HOLDING ORIHIME) he didn't stop Ichigo to save Loly, which extends to Orihime as well!)

I'm sorry for this long rant, but I just feel upset with the way Orihime is treated in- and out-of-universe. She's just so sweet. I'm just trying to think about all of this in a logical and pathological way.

TL;DR: I'm upset that Orihime gets so much hate because she has suffered so much and is a sweet girl.

maybe this is a meta mask but why do you think aizen chose loly and melony as his aides? their combat value was incredibly low despite their seeming "closeness" with aizen.

I saw a Reddit post with a similar question a while back. I left a comment on that post, but here's a more extended version of my thoughts:

Aizen was humouring them. It would be too easy for Aizen to kill them (and remember, he loves a good challenge 🤪)

They were self-proclaimed aides. It was either Mila Rose or Appacci that said it (can't remember atm), but one of them said that Loly & Menoly gave themselves those titles, not Aizen.

Loly and Menoly weren’t close at all to Aizen - they were just fan girls at the end of the day who got to be near their idol/crush. It’s why they had such contempt and loathing towards Orihime because they perceived her as a threat to their bond with him (when really there was no bond).

Also most of the arrancar as a whole "respected" Aizen because he was so much stronger than them, so it's really a combination of that with some projection from Loly and Menoly that they feel "worthy" to be with him. In reality, it's just Aizen having better things to do with his time rather than killing them. I'm also of the belief that Aizen doesn't kill willy-nilly lol, but that's another topic for another day.

I made fanart

Jealousy

Soi-Fon

Pretty jealous, but tries not to show it.

Has decent self-control, so that all jealousy in most cases comes down to displeased looks.

However, sometimes she will come almost close and lightly hug you, hinting that you are already busy.

If she fails to maintain her composure, she will prefer to quietly take you away from here, trying not to raise a scandal.

If you decide to talk about her jealousy, she will lie that she has no idea what you are talking about.

Rukia Kuchiki

Also jealous, but to a much lesser extent.

Controls this feeling well, so the most she will do is come closer and hug you from the back.

If she notices that you feel yourself uncomfortable, will add an annoyed look.

When you notice this and offer to leave, she immediately agrees.

May try to find more information on how to deal with jealousy.

Loly Aivirrne

You thought Soi-Fon's jealous? Loly is even worse.

Doesn't even bother herself with hiding her jealousy.

Definitely make a scandal, or even start to fight.

However, if she notices that you are nervous about the upcoming fight, she will leave with you. Yes, she wants to punch the annoyance in the face, but she doesn't want to upset you.

If you talk to her, she will try to learn how to control her jealousy.

Steampunk Sweeties

Loly Aivirrne (Bleach)  » January 27

Finally something to post

55. With Loly, please?

55. “It’s my thigh or nothing, I’m not helping you get off.”

Straddling your lap, your hands on her waist, Loly feels uncomfortably small. She knows there’s no threat here, rationally, but the confidence in how you approach her, in how willingly you put your hands on her skin (and invite the same in return) sparks an instinctive sort of tension, nonetheless.

But your thigh is pressing insistently up between her own, and the resulting sensation distracts her enough to make the creeping distress tolerable. It’s easier not to think about feeling like prey when you’re staring at her with such open adoration— like she really is sweet enough to belong in your lap, getting spoiled in ways that a Hollow doesn’t deserve at all. 

“You can move, sweetheart,” you say coaxingly, nudging your leg up just slightly. Just enough for Loly to feel it (and stifle a gasp in response). 

“C-Can’t you do something?” she snaps back, already resisting the embarrassing urge to squirm. It’d be easy enough to grind against you like this, but when all you’re going to do is sit there and watch... 

“Nope. It’s my thigh or nothing. I’m not helping, this time.”

Biting back the urge to argue, Loly weighs her options. On one hand, being held on display like this is terribly awkward already, and doing what you say would make that even worse. On the other... she wants to get off, and you seem serious about making her do all the work. Another little nudge from your leg has her jaw clenching. Fuck it, if this is what it takes—

The first slow, tentative grind is exactly as embarrassing as she expected— but the resulting friction is motivation enough to try it again. And to keep going, after that, chasing each sharp little shock of pleasure.

“Good girl,” you praise. “Keep going, you’re doing great.” Loly nearly chokes on a squeak, and her thighs reflexively squeeze together. 

It doesn’t take long, like that. Even with the barrier of fabric between her skin and yours, heat builds quickly. Loly ends up closing her eye and resting her forehead against your shoulder, too embarrassed to look at you once she’s all but whimpering with every new spike of sensation between her legs. Everything feels wet down there, by now, and she’s finally figured out the right movement to get mind-melting friction on her clit with each shift.

Through it all, you rub her back; slow, comforting motions that are somehow nearly too much against her oversensitive nerves. Being petted like this always makes her chest go tight— but rather than the usual desperate, greedy want, there’s now a different kind of desire in its place. 

When high, whimpery moans start to escape her, Loly cringes. She’s getting close, and that means there’s no controlling the needy little sounds. 

Your only response, though, is to call her cute. No mockery, no digging for more weakness while she’s already falling apart. Just the same easy, affectionate praise as always. The achy feeling deepens along with a fresh stab of pleasure in her gut— Loly clings to your shoulders and tries to hide.

I can't understand one thing: what were Loly and Menoly even doing in Las Noches, being so close to Aizen and his strongest warriors? They're not Espadas or fracciones, they didn't follow any orders, and they didn't fight. Yammy was surprised when he saw that Loly owned a small zanpakuto. But they weren't servants like Roka either, and they behaved very boldly, especially for someone as weak as them. Loly even dared to speak against Aizen's order to leave him with Orihime (sure, he put her in her place with just a look, but still).

They became useful to Halibel after Aizen left Las Noches, as shown in CFYOW novel. But in the Hueco Mundo arc, all they did was hang around without any purpose other than abusing Orihime. We also didn't see any other Numeros who aren't fighters or servants appear on the screen at all. Those two are kind of the only exception

I tried to write a whole thing about how happy I was to see Loly back after her seeming death at Yammy’s hands, and my hopes for her eventually figuring out what exactly it was about Orihime that made her so angry, and how what she’s doing here, defending her home and the people in it, is a step along that path...but I couldn’t tie it all together. But anyhow she’s great and I love her and I’m very happy that Quilge doesn’t kill her either.

Loly, yelling: You're such a terrible person!! Grimmjow: Like I haven't been told that before.