Blah blah more on Ishida's foreboding, Ulqui fanart, Hime cosplay

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A babbling sort of entry ....First, a quick contest prize update. I've sent out all prize packages for the bleachness birthdays (november!) contest except ones to vayshti and annieroo2 because I'm still waiting on their prizes from Japan. <.< I just wrapped up a pretty little LoveDrop doujin for the winner of the Valentine's graphics competition in the IchiRuki FC at BA (Winner, why art thou in Malaysia? I'm scared to send a package to Malaysia! I've lost one there before! I'm sending this one registered with holy water sprinkled on it!). Please let me know if and when you get your packages safely if you haven't already.

And I just noticed from an old post that I'd promised a Valentine's contest here--well, I have a plot in the works for a very special all-inclusive Bleach pairings ART CONTEST later this spring so stay tuned. Prizes will be delish. As in edible. As in the theme is love and food... eh, I'll explain more later.

Has everyone calmed down yet or are we still worrying that Orihime is going to die or be horribly wounded soon? Honestly, I've been in agony for my favorite female character ever since she was scooped up by Aizen's forces. I remember the jokes in 2006 about her cooking bad food for the Espada and annoying the hell out of her captors; I really didn't expect such a grim, sad period of confinement for Orihime. I'm nervous as to how low Kubo-sensei can take her, but I've been waiting for character development so my teeth are gritted and I'm holding on to my seat. As usual, some of the best Orihime speculation comes from people who don't really like her character (most of my friends, haha). I enjoyed the comments to metaphore_art's 347 post And for a bigtime IshiHime shipper, I'm hopelessly addicted to UlquiHime speculations--the UlquiHime FC at BA and the 347 post at the UlquiHime community here on LJ got my attention this week as well.

LB7-sensei's art of Ulquiorra colored is my favorite so far of his first transformation. I'm waiting for the arts of his second, that sexy beast look. Dying to know if he materializes or if he's going to be wafting around in a cloud of black angst from the waist down for the rest of the battle.

Oh, my darling yokaitaijiya , the cosplayer who impressed Kubo at SDCC with her Orihime so much that he drew this pic of her, did a few fanservice pics just for me (and Kubo ^^) recently.Here's my favorite one. I hope we see this playful Hime in the manga again soon.

Have I linked enough stuff? RL has been keeping me from writing and drawing much lately but my fangirl brain is seething with ideas I hope I can bring to you eventually. I have so much stuff to finish. Next break I get, I'll either fly to the Bahamas and be entertained nightly by a dozen cabana boys or ... I'll finish up some fandom projects.

What Are The Extent of Orihime's Powers

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This post came about for a couple of reasons.  First of all a couple of my friends hope that Orihime fights Ulquiorra when she gets to the battle.  As an avid Ulquihime shipper (among other reasons), that wouldn't be my first choice of scenarios that could play out in the upcoming chapters.  Still I got to thinking about it and then I read the part in the manga where Orihime first discovers her spirit power (which was the second event that inspired this post).  First of all seeing Orihime in that scene (the "Princess and Dragon" chapters...hey maybe we can get some "Princess and Demon" chapters ;) ), I really started to understand what my friends want to see in these upcoming chapters.  Orihime was so strong and yet herself...she shined so much in these chapters.  This is nerdy, but I found myself getting a little teary-eyed at the scene. ;) So anyway, while I would still prefer Orihime to stop the battle without striking Ulquiorra (who I believe actually has feelings for her, but that is another post entirely ;) ), I can definitely see the satsifaction some fans would get from seeing Orihime power up enough to where Tsubaki would be able to cut through someone like Ulquiorra.

Which brings me to the meat of this post. ;) How strong could Tsubaki get? A lot of people seem to think that he would never be able to cut through a top Espada like Ulquiorra, but after reading the manga chapters where the Rikka fairies are introduced and thinking about it, I think he could for a couple of reasons.  First of all, all of Orihime's abilities have to do with shields that can reject events.  The first three fairies (Hinagiku, Baigon, and Lily) put up shields that reject outside events thus repelling (theorectically) anything from reaching whatever is shielded.  The next two fairies (Shuno and Ayame) put up shields that reject internal events, whatever has happened inside what the shield is on.  Lastly Tsubaki puts up both rejection shields which then reject and cut through whatever he goes through. 

Of course as we have seen not all of Orihime's shields are equal in strength.  Her strongest shield by far is the one that rejects internal events.  This shield is so strong that it has been called a power that infringes on God's domain.  It has been shown to bring people back to life from almost nothing.  So the question then follows, why is this shield so much more powerful than the other two.  I think it has nothing to do with the shields themselves (which all work in exactly the same way), but with Orihime.  She is the type of person in whom the desire to heal people would be the strongest desire out of the three (healing, defense, and attack).  Defense would be her second strongest desire and so that shield is the second strongest, but still no where near as strong as her healing shield.  And of course her attack shield is the weakest of the three since that would be what she would desire to do the least. 

All this to say that I think the three fairies that make up the defense shield and Tsubaki have the innate ability to be so strong that they too tread in God's territory.  Meaning that there would be no attack that she couldn't defend from and no enemy she couldn't take down.  Like I said before the shields all work the same, so if one has the ability to be that strong there is no reason for the other two not to be that strong as well.  It's all up to Orihime.  And I too await the day that no enemy can stand against her (though hopefully that enemy isn't Ulquiorra ;) but I'll take it if it is). 



P.S. Of course I am propbably late to the game here and everyone else had this ephiphany years ago, but it finally all just clicked for me.  Bedsides, I still see lots of posts on BA that state that Hime could never stand against anyone strong because she is not a fighter so I guess other people haven't thought this out yet either. ;)