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Everything surrounding Orihime's kidnapping in the Hueco Mundo arc of "Bleach" feels... weird and underwhelming to me. Like, I'm not fully certain what happened there. Did Ulquiorra hold those two random soul reaper escorts hostage until Orihime returned from saying her invisible goodbye, or was he just threatening her friends generally...?
The invisible goodbye thing has some interesting elements, but... I don't want to call Orihime a pushover for being threatened by genuinely scary people when she's feeling especially isolated, but it does seem to immediately and directly prove Urahara and others right when they said that Orihime is probably unsuited for the battlefield. Even medical / support people have to triage and improvise under fire and work within a greater structure! She (fairly!) does not like weighing lives!
(Though I do think that Urahara and others were very wrong to just tell Orihime to go away. She has no family! All she has left are her friends! And she's too self-sacrificing to ever willingly leave for her own sake! It would have been far better to keep her close and let her train for a medical / support position, so that she wouldn't get kidnapped like this (and would have had the confidence to work out some way to get around Aizen's weird mind games), when Ichigo is fucking notorious now for going apeshit if anything happens to even distant friends.)
When Ulquiorra first appeared in that space between worlds for an ambush, I was like, "OH SHIT, THAT'S COOL." This place is famously dangerous and if she and her escort disappear without a trace here, no one will know what happened. Perhaps Ulquiorra can destabilize whatever safety technology exists here and make it look like some mechanical failure. It's clever! (It also made me imagine Ulquiorra as some kind of deep sea leviathan, cleverly feeding on the plus souls and hollows passing over this trench, where the soul reapers don't think to look. Ulquiorra potentially first meeting Aizen by attempting to ambush him and swallow him whole in this inbetween place would be a great first encounter.)
And then Ulquiorra lets Orihime go to say a weird invisible goodbye? As part of Aizen's mind games to make the Gotei 13 think she left on her own and her feel like this kidnapping was partially her own choice? Unless Ulquiorra was holding those soul reapers hostage at this point in time, I'm really not sure why Orihime went along with this instead of trying to get help (besides her obvious feelings of isolation / depression + plot requires she be the damsel in distress to kick-start the Hueco Mundo arc). (There's REASONING, I'm just not fully persuaded by it.) It feels a little overcomplicated for me on Aizen's end, especially when I haven't yet seen it be paired with any other charisma or compelling persuasion from Aizen, this supposed master manipulator, when Orihime has plenty of buttons to press besides fear.
"Soul Society is broken and doesn't care for the poor people on the outside." "The Gotei 13 are corrupt and will ungratefully turn on people like Ichigo and Rukia as soon as they're no longer useful." "Hollows are people too, aren't they? And the soul reapers don't bother trying to help the people who need them most." "The Soul King is a threat to us all and I'm the only one who can stop him." There are so many lies and half-truths that Aizen could tell! This could be a point in time to showcase how he got so many people to follow him besides spiritual strength, and him being apparently nice to a vulnerable Orihime would be genuinely eerie given what we saw / know happened to Momo.
And this "making the Gotei 13 think that Orihime left of her own choice" story decision could work if Aizen had done more to frame her! But the fact that the Captain Commander immediately makes this assumption with so little evidence makes him look incompetent, when there are so many people who could immediately vouch for her and for the fact that it's way more likely she's been forced into something bad. Of course, maybe the story's point is to make the Captain Commander look bad at reading situations! Rather than simply ruthless for dismissing Orihime as lost and irrelevant. That gets a slight pass, I guess, but it's really such a wild and insulting and unnecessary assumption.
I think what I would have preferred to happen is OPTION 1) Aizen or underling kidnaps Tatsuki first and uses Tatsuki to get to Orihime.
This would bring Tatsuki fully into this arc instead of sidelining her again. It would be a nice culmination to the secrecy straining her friendships with both Ichigo and Orihime, and a nice bop to Ichigo's nose for trying to protect everyone on his own and his utter failure communicating danger to his friends and family. We could have a lot of fun stuff with Orihime and Tatsuki trying to survive together in this place. It would give Orihime some fucking motivation that isn't just "trying to help Ichigo". It would allow Orihime to find her strength by protecting the friend she has always viewed as being tougher and more confident. I need more women in this show who aren't made of relentless boob jokes.
OPTION 2) I would have preferred it if Aizen had found some way to locate Orihime's brother, Sora, and kidnapped him from Soul Society to use against her.
Aizen is supposedly a genius. It would track with the rest of the story if he could invent this technology. It would make the Gotei 13 look really bad if they have a way of helping families reconnect in the afterlife and just don't bother; and it would look really bad for them if Soul Society had utterly failed to be a safe place for Orihime's loved one. If Aizen is interested in Orihime's powers, he would probably be interested in seeing if her brother has any similar potential.
Option 2a is that Sora could be a regular plus soul and remembers Orihime. Aizen could have been experimenting on him and could be threatening to continue experimenting on Sora. Maybe being a regular plus soul in Hueco Mundo without the protection of a soul reaper's cultivation energy is dangerous. The air is toxic to him. He'll undergo hollowficafion again without special medicine from Aizen / Aizen's experiments keeping him as a normal plus soul, and he's terrified of becoming that monster again. Aizen coaxes Orihime to help him by claiming he's trying to find a way to cure hollowfication forever, so that Sora will be safe.
Option 2b is that Sora has no memories of Orihime or they've been suppressed, and Aizen has turned Sora into an Arrancar. Aizen claims that Sora was left vulnerable and starving on the outskirts of the Soul Society, abandoned to become a hollow again, or attacked by a hollow and transformed. Aizen has now used the Hogyoku to take Sora back to a mostly human state and given him Arrancar powers to "protect himself". Sora is grateful to Aizen for having saved him and as loyal as Ulquiorra. Aizen asks Orihime if she's prepared to fight her own brother. Doesn't she want to help him help Sora?
Honestly, I dig Ulquiorra so far and I'd like to keep him (he and Sora could have a weird not-twins thing going on), but you could totally replace his role in the story with Arrancar Sora and then put Orihime through the ringer torn between Ichigo and Sora. It feels so, SO weird to me that Orihime's dead brother never comes up again in this show about dead people and the story barely treats it as relevant.
OPTION 3) is that you bring both Tatsuki and Sora into it! Why not? Have amnesiac Arrancar Sora kidnap Tatsuki while Ulquiorra ambushes Orihime! Have Aizen threatening to turn both Tatsuki and plus soul Sora into hollows if Orihime doesn't cooperate!
I am feeling desperate for Orihime to have anything in her life again that is not her love for Ichigo. They don't have chemistry! The story is not taking the time to develop chemistry and bonding and partnership between them! Ichigo barely seems to remember she exists half the time.
Side note: I can barely fucking believe that Ichigo went off to train with the Visored without telling his family that he was leaving or where he would be. That's not a great sign for good mental health or healthy relationships! Which is probably (hopefully) the point! He could be dead in any alleyway for all his baby sisters know. That's not good big brother behavior! Ichigo has a real problem with not trusting anyone else to protect everyone (not without reason!), including not trusting his loved ones to protect themselves, and I'm not certain yet whether or not the story actually thinks this is a real problem and intends to have Ichigo fix his communication bullshit.
There is so much good, bloody material here if the story was genuinely willing to dig into the mess and make it hurt good. Instead, I'm watching Nel and her little hollow buddies do their fairly repetitive hijinks and Ichigo fight random nobodies who will not be meaningful to the story later. When Rukia finally ran into Aaroneiro pretending to be Kaien, I was like, "Oh, thank fuck, something with SOME emotional weight and compelling psychological turmoil again."
#tossawary bleach#fic ideas#spoilers#orihime inoue#sora inoue#tatsuki arisawa#ulquiorra cifer#sosuke aizen#ichigo kurosaki#arrancar sora inoue au
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I want to know if that frightens you
I'm not afraid. My heart is already with them.
of Bleach and Loneliness, or: why Orihime is the best, she and Kaien would be great friends, Lust arc will always hit, Rukia, Ichigo and Orihime's dynamic is beautiful, and Six Hearts is what's UP.
#bleach#orihime inoue#ichigo kurosaki#rukia kuchiki#sora inoue#ulquiorra cifer#kaien shiba#aizen sousuke#six hearts beat as one#ichihime#renruki#chadishi
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~Happy Birthday Princess, Bread Girl~
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#tite kubo#久保 帯人#BLEACH#ブリーチ#ichigo kurosaki#黒崎 一護#orihime inoue#井上 織姫#tatsuki arisawa#有沢 竜貴#sora inoue#井上昊#acidwire#アシッドワイヤー
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Gravity's Ascension Chapter 13 is now up!
Yep. It's been MONTHS. I finally got the inspiration to finish the chapter! Please enjoy! As always, thank you to @gina-chan1979 and @lowrider-dreams for being there for me. Enjoy, m'loves!
Gravity's Ascension Chapter 13: One Last Plea
#gravity's ascension#ichihime#ichigo kurosaki#orihime inoue#sora inoue#dystopian au#scifi#romance#my fanfiction#gravity's ascension chapter 13
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#sora inoue#hisana kuchiki#yuichi shibata#tybw#bleach tybw#bleach#gdi kubo#tite kubo#bleach hell arc#hell arc#acidwire
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what are the best panels in bleach?
chapter 4 has a few contenders
but one stands high above the rest
some good ones are
these two, ichigo protecting orihime and soras hollow form looming above tatski
but no those aren’t the best even if they’re good
the best is this
orihime getting thrown out of her body by sora
the blank look on orihimes face
the hand growing from the plushie
everything in this panel is just
amazing
#bleach#bleach spoilers#bleach ichigo#ichigo kurosaki#what are the best panels in bleach?#inoue orihime#orihime inoue#sora inoue
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idk why but sibling relationships in media are the highlight of everything for me, i just like seeing siblings being silly little guys, goofsters, goofyy goobers etc
#rukia kuchiki#bleach rukia#byakuya kuchiki#bleach byakuya#kagimine len#kagamine rin#kagamine twins#yuzu kurosaki#karin kurosaki#ichigo kurosaki#hop pokemon#leon pokemon#orihime inoue#sora inoue#yuzu bleach#karin bleach#ichigo bleach#orihime bleach#sora bleach
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Sora is the dad that stepped up to Orihime.
#no but seriously Orihime's parents were abusive?! These hands catch them#orihime inoue#sora inoue#bleach
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Today’s Big Bro is Sora Inoue from Bleach! He loves his little sister!
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#orihime inoue#inoue orihime#sora inoue#bleach#ichigo kurosaki#kurosaki ichigo#rukia kuchiki#kuchiki rukia#soul reaper#shikigami#manga#shounen jump#soul society#shonen#shounen#tite kubo
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I envy because of the heart; I glutton because of the heart; I covet because of the heart; I am prideful because of the heart; I sloth because of the heart; I rage because of the heart.
because
of
the heart
[sometimes i think i'm fine and then bam, as i pour my coffee my brain goes: "hey, remember this?"]
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I am on a quest to make Bleach Hollows look deathly terrifying. I figured I would start with Orihime's brother.
"I was so lonely..."
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Gravity's Ascension Chapter 13 preview
I should have this done as soon as possible for you. This is a long and heavy chapter. Just to let you know, the finished product might require Kleenex and chocolate. or whatever makes you feel better.
The teenager sat across from her brother, her smile radiating as he dug into his meal.
“Good?”
“You could be a chef!” Sora praised. “How was your day?”
“Oh, you know,” Orihime shrugged. “Work, tutoring, talking with Tatsuki.”
“Ah,” he said quietly. “How is she? You haven’t had her over lately.”
The auburn-haired teenager bit her bottom lip, looking oddly uncomfortable.
“What is it?” He pressed gently.
“Her parents aren’t allowing her out much,” she explained with a subtle tinge of sadness. Her fingers tapped on the table anxiously. “Where they live across the river… things are getting worse. There’s more vandalism and mob mentality. Mrs. Arisawa’s dojo was trashed last night. The vandals tore up the tatami floors, broke the windows, and tagged the walls with a symbol.”
“What was the symbol?” Sora felt his gut clench, cramping up with concern and a feeling of dread.
Orihime’s fingers stopped fidgeting but her knee began bouncing with nervous energy.
“A turquoise jaguar.”
Sora held back a curse and tried to calm himself. Orihime didn’t need to know the significance and danger that symbol brought.
“Are the Arisawas alright? Do they need anything?” He chose a path of using a soothing tone instead of anger.
“Yes and no,” she replied quietly. “We’re becoming more isolated. I planned everything for The Festival of Lights, but now it’s hopeless. There’s no way we’d be safe celebrating together. I miss Tats so very much. This has been lonely and difficult.”
Orihime turned her head, but Sora could tell she was trying to hide the tears dripping down her cheeks. The solace he had felt in coming home had evaporated and the heartache of being unable to stop his sister’s sadness and loneliness broke something inside him every day.
When she turned back to look at him, quickly wiping away stray tears, her eyes held a depth of pain that felt wrong and out of place. She had been such a joyful child. The world had become a cruel and unpredictable place, wrenching away innocence and safety from everyone.
“I can't allow this to continue,” his sister said quietly. There was a slight quiver in her voice, revealing both her anger and internal struggle.
Sitting back in his chair, Sora examined her closely. Orihime had always been eerily quick-witted and deeply empathetic. It was not in her nature to seek out justice violently. But, he supposed, everyone had their limits.
“Orihime,” Sora said with a hint of a fatherly warning. “Do not let your emotions rule your decisions. You can’t allow darkness into your heart. It isn’t who you are.”
The teenager winced at the reprimand. She nodded with a sobered look.
“You’re right,” she whispered. “I am sorry.”
Sora let out a soft sigh, shaking his head fondly at his sister.
“I understand that this is very hard for you. You are alone for a considerable amount of time. You see more than most should. If I could wave a wand and make the world whole again, I would do it in a heartbeat. For you and everyone.”
Orihime fidgeted with a lock of auburn hair. Her gray eyes still shimmered with unshed tears and fire within them. She was someone who wore her heart on her sleeve. She was honest even when she tried to hide the bottomless wealth of thoughts and emotions.
“Orihime,” Sora spoke quietly, folding his hands on the table. “It might be a good idea to get you out of the province.”
The teenager whipped her head and looked at him like he’d lost his mind. Sora held up his hand, signaling that he wasn’t done.
#orihime inoue#sora inoue#gravity's ascension#gravity's ascension chapter 13#ichihime#renruki#apocalypse au#sci fi and fantasy#romance
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The Inoues doing their best!!!
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