#butyea

Loly hits Orihime almost EXCLUSIVELY in her left Eye. The same eye that she herself is missing. And later on, when Loly becomes a lot less beat-y and a lot more Take-your-clothes-off-y, when threatened by Ichigo’s attention, her immediate reaction and threat, weirdly, is to take Orihime’s Eye out. This is honestly a bit of a stupid threat, any villain, dumb or genius, knows that when you have a hostage, you threaten to kill them, and generally go for the neck. However, Loly immediately goes to threatening Orihime with a loss of her eye.

This seems to imply that, like Ulquiorra with Ichigo, Loly has taken a particular interest in Orihime, and wants to make them just like her. It is entirely possible that this is a very deep instinct in hollows, to take a strong soul and turn it into a hollow, namely: to make it like them. From smaller and weak hollows turning humans into their kind, to Loly and Ulquiorra’s fixation, one has to wonder what exactly the effect of this sort of relation might spawn. But we DO have a clue. As the second time around, Orihime is unable to heal from the attack, and Ichigo recovers on his own from the assault (Which does make one wonder if he would have gotten back up from the first strike as well) and does so in a tremendous fashion, becoming instantly 10x more hollow-like. This change is SO drastic that Rukia later comments, saying that his mask had been changing steadily for a long time but that this was the most considerable change that had ever happened. And one cannot help but wonder if this is a sort of subliminal desire. 

ANOTHER possibility, is that this is a sort of kinship ritual for fullbringers. While Orihime’s abilities are made from the Hogyoku rather than a hollow attack like normal fullbringers, the abilities of her and chad are undeniably still hollow-like, (Chad mentions that his power feels very much like a hollow, and later in the after-book a conversation between Urahara and Hisagi reveals that Urahara has deduced that either by hollow attack or Hogyoku, while the means in which the power is awakaned is different, the origin and the end result are the same.)