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idk if you're still doing these but i'd love if you do a character opinion bingo on orihime and/or renji. i saw your bleach red au art a few months ago when i was reading ahead before the anime premiere and i've been Rotating It In My Mind ever since, i just love your take on both characters
First off, this is just such a nice comment! :D So nice, in fact, that I drew a doodle for it. I'm always surprised when other people engage with my silly AUs. Rotate away! Let's play in this space together! I've actually got a couple of short scene comics in the works for RED that will probably be done around January if I'm being honest with myself. (Iām busy, Iām slow, and comics take a long time!)
Originally, I wasnāt going to do the rest of the bingo memes that I still have asks for- (sorry!!!) itās been a while and it felt like the general Vibe of things had moved on, but youāve shot a friendly arrow into my ass about it so PERHAPS I will!Ā
Iām choosing to just do Orihime for this, because I ended up writing an Essay and Renji... I donāt know if Iām coherent enough about Renji to do a bingo on him without breaking down into garbled eldritch signs and scratched pictograms on cave walls. Orihime is the safer choice. Less of a cognito hazard. More legible. So under the cut she goes! I hope this suffices for you anon.
[Edit: 5/6/2023 cut removed by request for record keeping! <3 ]
LADIES AND GENTLESNAILS WE HAVE OUR FIRST BINGO!
Iād like to preface this by saying Orihime was not one of my favorite characters the first time I read Bleach. What can I say? We are all a series of nesting dolls, and the things we relate to change as we add layers to our hearts. With age, experience, and another read, she is ABSOLUTELY one of my favorite characters in anything period. I have a lot of feelings about her, and a lot of them are āoh god why did you get married so youngā and āwhile I understand where this narrative train is heading I want to get off!!!ā So like any good AU fantasizer... complicated! :DĀ
So letās just take the bullets in order, shall we?
they are soooooo cool looking:
Orihime (circa Soul Society Arc to a vague point somewhere in the Arrancar Arc) has a very unique facial structure! Sheās got a large forehead and downturned eyes that make her seem a little mournful even when sheās smiling brightly. Honestly, itās a VERY neat bit of character storytelling through design, and while I could never beef with an artist for style creep, Iām sad that her unique features seemed to even out and become more standardized as the manga grew loooooooonger and Kubo aged everyone up.
Beyond that, my girl is ADORABLE and I like her slightly off kilter fashion choices; they really speak to someone who both
- had few/strange/ill-equipped adult influences in her life to guide her early clothing choices
- has to tailor her own clothes to fit a body out of place.
Itās just.. I could just go on forever about this! Orihimeās design isnāt complicated, but itās informative, and thatās not something I can take for granted in a visual medium. The choices Kubo made in those areas of her design give us a window into her personality.. Which is to say, a lonely, grieving teenager whoās had to teach herself to Person while hanging onto the razor wire of societal expectation and threat. (not unlike our other protagonists, no? Ha. Our poor Karakura kids.) You can tell something is a little off about her. Her hair is wrong, her face is wrong, her clothes are...wrong. Ish, if not skillfully amended. Like sheās not doing great at camouflaging, but sheās existing in the shadow of the benefit of the doubt and that will just have to do before her star really starts to shine.
wasted potential:
āI reject your version of reality and substitute my own!ā -Orihime at some point, probably.Ā
Thatās insane. Thatās mindbreakingly, hand-twirlingly eye poppingly FUN. In a world full of near misses, sword skill expositions, and by-the-skin-of-your-teeth victories and losses, ONE imaginative girl can just go. āUh. Yāknow, I donāt like this very much. Nope. Nope nope nope.ā And the world reorganizes itself to fit the shape of that NOPE. Her ability to reject the consequences of actions and events she wasnāt even there to witness is just.. Game breaking. But ultimately, those powers are the expression of a personality, and the personality belongs to a person who... really doesnāt care much about power at all- at least, not for its own sake. Orihime is a healer, a time bender, a bastion, a judge who can interact with the binary of the universe at large-- aaand thatās never really expanded on.
Everyone who sees her Do Her Thing universally goes āwhat in the bugfuck is thisā because it Just Does Not Compute. Itās not supposed to be possible! And conveniently, no one ever has to dig into that because Orihime does less on-screen exploration of her abilities and more just... Yaknow. Standard heal-y forcefield-y stuff. Occasionally, resurrect-y stuff. Which is fine I guess because it serves the storyās focus, but for a person who is name twinsies with [VEGA]:
> Vega has been extensively studied by astronomers, leading it to be termed "arguably the next most important star in the sky after the Sun"
HMMMMMMM. The sun, you say? The sun, which serves an important symbolic role in Bleach, The Sun, and The Moon, and -The next most important STAR in the sky- HUH?? HUH???? YOUāRE TELLING ME THESE CELESTIAL SYMBOLS CAN TRIO? IN THIS ECONOMY?
and the mythological figure of āthe daughter of the king of heavenā
Orihime (ē¹å§«, "Weaving Princess"), daughter of the Tentei (天åø, "Sky King", or the universe itself) [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanabata]Ā
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Ā I JUST FEEL LIKE THIS MERITS. YOU KNOW. SOME EXPLORATION. BECAUSE THATāS NOT NORMAL. THAT KIND OF THEMATIC WEIGHT ISNāT NORMAL TO JUST DROP ON A CHARACTER THAT ISNāT GOING TO EXAMINE THE GUN CHEKOV GAVE THEM. AND ITāS JUST A LITANY OF āHUH. SOMETHIN AINāT RIGHT WITH THAT GIRL.ā AND THEN THE SERIES ENDS??? WHATāS UP WITH THAT
theyāre deeper than they seem:
Okay look this is a pet headcanon of mine, but I think Orihime isnāt actually a Fullbringer in the normal sense. Rather, I think she classes closer to Ywhach, Gerard Valkyrie, Ukitake, and Aura as in ābearer of [a] legacy of the Soul King.ā As in a significant chunk to full-organ, or some kind of convoluted lineage/heir thing. Itās the only thing I can think of that makes Her THING make sense to me, unless her personality, her attachments, and the influence of Whatever Hollow Nyoomed by her in utero just... lined up perfectly to create a cosmic loophole big enough to string the Milky Way through. Which would also be cool! I love dark horses yanking the rug out from underneath āplaces where the cool powers are SUPPOSED to come from.ā And we see that Nel, the Hollow most closely associated with Orihime, has healing powers via her ... uh. vomit, so itās not as if there isnāt precedent for a healing-ish factor to come out of Hollow power, but STILL.
(Iām also not touching the whole āThe Hyogoku and/or Ichigo gave them powers part of canon. I recognize it. I also think itās intentional obfuscation of where her powers ACTUALLY come from because Bleach isnāt afraid to give characters conflicting sources of information.)
And also, Uh. I feel like this bingo square may have been referring to personality, perhaps, in which case I suppose I could have been talking about Orihimeās rampant trust issues. She feels so intensely the weight of mutual burden that the moments where sheās open about her problems are vanishingly rare, and then covered up by jokes, minimized. Sometimes- sometimes often- she performs cheerfulness like a thank-you card in exchange for that burden of care. (Itās expected. Itās all she can do. Isnāt it?) IIiii COULD talk about guilt, and envy simmering below the surface, or an aversion to conflict that is 75% moral pacifism, 25% fear (sometimes. percentages are as wiggly as hearts.). And all of that being under the hood of someone who looks like sheās daydreaming mid conversation, when sheās actually clocking 95mph on the Advanced Interpersonal Risk Calculus Highway.
Ā Or I could keep yelling about cool powers, because I think Iāve said this all before?
Unfortunately, Orihimeās proximity to Ichigoās sun (especially in a romantic context) means that her fine details are sometimes blown out or overlooked in favor of making sure everyone knows that hereās a SEXY FEMALE TITS BIG ONES (urahara), but sheās also classical, sheās a moral center, sheās so powerful and tragic and accepts so much sacrifice so gracefully as is her duty and speaking of duty she gets married right out of highschool and has a kid almost immediately ayoo--
And yk. Some of those things are endemic to shounen manga, or are just kind of common in portrayals of Women Who Elevate Those Around Them (much like Masaki, or Kanae). Itās not like those things are inherently bad. But I donāt have to like them either. Weird Girls becoming Mature Women(tm) is something that will never interest me and actively repels me on most days because of the rote, tired way Iāve seen it written. I like messy women and disaster people and complicated, unusual lives. You can be happy without even the semblance of Destined Nuclear Family normalcy and frankly, Iām less interested in Punks And Weirdos becoming well-adjusted and accepted than I am in Punks and Weirdos clawing out a space for themselves and everyone being very uncomfortable but unable to coerce them otherwise. (This is a power fantasy.)
So while Iām (shrugs) on Orihimeās fairytale ending in canon, itās not my bag, it gives me the heeby jeebies, and I donāt really want to work within the framework of that ending for my fan stuff!
I like them enough to project my own issues onto them:
Ah, to fear and envy those who can excel in the system designed around you all as if itās as natural to them as breathing. Ahhh, to feel like the one bright blue piece in the milk puzzle. (Also, if anyone was going to get some of that good olā fashioned MORAL SCRUPULOSITY PANIC, itās going to be Orihime. It has to be her.)
they got done DIRTY by fans:
Must I recite the old magic once again? The ancient curses? The shipping wars of yore? Those ancient battlegrounds of āgirl-ed powerā and āto be feminine is to err?ā Nay, I wish it not upon anyone. The only dirt upon Orihimeās name was that of conflict between humans, for how could anyone say that another personās work made in joy was wrong? I refuse to deride the work of my fellow fans... u_u ⨠āØ
(Which is to say in normal talk, what I hate most about Orihime Fan Zones isnāt any of the art or fic or headcanons people have of her! How could I possibly hate that? Itās just how much damn controversy she stirred up by existing in perceived conflict to Rukia. Waugh!)
iām mentally ill about them:
And Iām not even done yet!! If youāre still reading this, brava!
they work better as part of a dynamic:
This is a funny one. Orihime is actually one of a few characters that I think would stand perfectly well on her own- sheās not a bit character, she doesnāt really rely on any gimmicks for her place in the story- her personality is well-faceted and weāve seen plenty of her internal workings. But the thing is, Orihimeās weirdness is more vibrant when she has someone next to her who has a more rigid sense of propriety. The same is true in the opposite scenario, in which, instead of a straight man to her comedy routine, she has a co conspirator to hype up her shenanigans.
theyāve never done anything wrong in their life <33:
This is derogatory.
I want to see Orihime fuck up, BAD. The bad things around her happen TO her, pretty much universally. Even her social flaws are both relatable and normal and donāt really cause any conflict that isnāt internal and localized to herself. If someone rallies her or rags ON her in a way she canāt relate to, she flinches or stonewalls. Sheās harmless. I would like to see her bite. Or . Step on a bug. Or snap at someone. Iād like to see that fear response cause something to break, irreparably. SOMETHING. PLEASE!!! PLEASE.... But no one really blames her for anything, even avoidance. No one really beefs with her on anything besides propriety, that I remember. Her fighting is a silent resistance. Unfortunately I think this response puts me on a psychic wavelength with Ulquiorra, and now Iām going to go wander the desert about this while I try to recover. (Wait, was that slap she gave him the only time we see her snap?)
Which is mostly just to say, sheās a perfectly nice normal girl, and sheās lovely, but anything I write with her is probably going to explore the consequences of severe avoidance and silence, rather than the virtues of them. Because in a story about ghosts and supernatural powers, I donāt really need my gals to be blameless, and I like to think about how people deal with guilt when itās actually warranted, rather than self inflicted. Ideally, Iād also like it to be more severe than a slap, but you know.
And thatās a bingo!
THANK YOU SO MUCH for coming to my mental illness ted talk about my 1# ANGEL ORIHIME INOUE, MS. STAR ABOVE THE WELL OF TRUTH, BEST GIRL 10,000 HOURS PLAYED!
Please remember that I treat all my favorite characters like chew toys, I enjoy shredding them, and donāt forget to grab your belongings on the way out! Thank you again for the nice comment and bout of motivation anon~
It's the calm before the storm, except I am very much not calm and it's already stormy outside.
okay I have to get ready right now.