#brain bug

I was watching a Toy Story marathon and finding myself really drawn to the character of Mr Potato Head, even though I never really gaf about him as a kid. This time around, he was one of my favorite things about the movies.

Then it hit me.

The short stature.

The Brooklyn accent.

The ovular eyes.

The roundness.

The hat.

The mustache.

The big ass nose…

This question is not about shipping. Imagine that you’re some random in the Bleach universe. You have to go and do battle or you get kidnapped. Whom do you take with you as an ally or who is the person that you want to organize your rescue mission.

The catch is that you may only choose between Rukia  and  Orihime.

I personally know that the enemy I’m going to fight isn’t cancer, and I’m not the prisoner oh a horde of  MRSA , Rukia seems the obvious choice, but is she trully?

I mean Rukia is my best girl, but by the end of the series Orihime gets a boost, after all is said and done, she was chosen to accompany the MC to fight the final big bad, and I don’t think that Urahara would have made that choice if he didn’t believed that Orihime at least stood a chance.

Still I would feel safer with Rukia guarding my back, even if I disregard Orihime’s annoying habit of helping our enemies at the most inoportune moments.

Last week I was writing a way to long essay about Orihime and her role in Bleach, outside her relationship with the main character, and it really made me wonder about a lot of things.

I am one of the ichirukis that actually like Orihime, especially in the first arc, but something about her bugs me, and it’s not the fact that she ends up with Kurosaki. I would be genuinely shocked if by some strange alchemy one of the ships I prefer would ever be canonized, so for me it’s not such a big deal.

By reading, rewatching and discussing in a civilized manner, I hope that I would be able, among other things, to put my finger on what exactly is the ball taht was dropped with Orihime, impeding her to reach the fullness of the great potential she displayed as a character when Bleach started.

A creature whose mental capacities have grown to impossible sizes, its brain has fused with its eyes in order to fit it all. This growth has made it too heavy to fly through normal means, so it must rely on its psychic abilities instead to float and move. It no longer hungers for basic flesh and food, but instead thrives off of thoughts and mental energy. Floating with its own telekinesis, it seeks out sapient prey and uses the churning patterns and colors of its eyes to entrance them. With its food immobilized, it attaches its sucking mouth part to the skull and leeches away thoughts and memories. It tends to go after recent memories and stray thoughts, avoiding important parts of the mind so that the prey remains alive and well for future feedings. At the end of every feeding session, it devours the memory of this very encounter and then drifts away. The victim is left to wake up from some weird "daydream" and wonder what they were doing. There will be the sensation that they forgot something important, or that they missed something, but these feelings will soon pass. Whatever it was must not have mattered, as surely they would have remembered it...   ---------------------------------------------------------

“Psi-Fly”

They are very similar in a lot of ways! Ranging from design to scifi concepts.

Inktober day 29 - Brain Bug

05/16/2017