The only conclusion that I could think for why Orihime didn't use Tsubaki on the dome... is rather simple than I thought. It was:
Orihime just didn't want to attack.
Well, her power based on her will. It's HOW she wanted to do.
As for the reason WHY she didn't help herself to transform into Super Saiyan and attack Ulquiorra to protect/revenge the so-assumed love of her 5 lifetimes named Ichigo, Ulquiorra asked this similar question before. Yet thanks for Ichigo's heroic interruption, no one could get the right answer out of him. So the reason for her odd behavior as for her less-to-nonaction in sin chapters went to the 7 wonders of mystery. Maybe it was because Ichigo kept telling her "stay back" every fricking time when she tried to interfere and saved his ass. So she just sat back on her ass and watched the act of a prince saving the princess from a dragon regardless whatever happened around her <--- I also wondered why Orihime didn't make a sound or lift any fingers to defend herself even when the Loly sisters abused her. This is a girl who have black belt karate that knocked out 2 grow-up shinigami by herself using her pure strength, yet couldn't even deal with two puny sisters. The hell? I didn't want to mention her other magical power.
I agree with Deb's essay that maybe Orihime really did want Ichigo to save her or at least she hoped that Ichigo would do the act that might look like he did save her aka protecting her from ebil everywhere, be it from Ulquiorra, Yammy or Loly, be it her conscious or unconscious desire. But as you can see, Ulquiorra didn't put much his effort on the act as attacking/hurting/harming Orihime while Ichigo would rather be happy to fight from being challenged by Ulquiorra's statement of "the one must be destroyed" than put Orihime as his priority choice of purpose for coming to the fifth tower.
Orihime wanted to see Ichigo act as her prince, but she hadn't seen it. Unfortunately, the time when she got herself in DiD situations, Ichigo had never been her prince... Alas, the first time with Loly, Ichigo attacked Loly together with Orihime with his Getsuga while Ulquiorra saved both of them by stopping Getsuga. The second time with Yammy, Ichigo was stopped by Ulquiorra and Ishida was the one who did the act of a knight shinning in amor saving a maiden from a brute. She hadn't seen an action that proved Ichigo would protect her. I don't really think she wanted Ichigo defeating Ulquiorra... though I guess she did want Ichigo fighting with Ulquiorra for her sake... using his own body to protect her. Well, maybe just to prove her hope that Ichigo did have some romantic feeling toward her and her well-being.
I think that might be why she was so shocked when she witnessed Ichigo's death from Ulquiorra. Because the play of her delusion had been shattered. The prince was laying dead. The knight was being beaten. Orihime didn't understand her own role in the new script which was rewritten by Ulquiorra. So she asked regardless whether Ichigo is laying there dead or not.
Actually, I don't think that she asked the Kurosaki-kun who was laying dead on the dome for "save me" but the Kurosaki-kun-prince version in her head which was supposed to come out everytime the princess in distress. Somebody might said that she was in denial that Ichigo was dead rather than accept the truth that he was dead. Instead of getting her ass up and protecting everybody as a main heroine against Ulquiorra, she chosed to ask the same person who told her what she should do at the beginning of this battle. Just because she had been told "stay back" and she disobeyed for going up to the dome and saw the tragedy.
Sorry for the ranting. I just confused much about her mentality for not acting anything worth to consider her love with Kurosaki-kun on the dome. I guess instead of blaming others for Kurosaki-kun's death, she had been blaming herself for causing his death <-- you see, if she had interfered the battle right at the beginning, this tragedy wouldn't happened.
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Date: 2010-01-10 06:08 am (UTC)Orihime just didn't want to attack.
Well, her power based on her will. It's HOW she wanted to do.
As for the reason WHY she didn't help herself to transform into Super Saiyan and attack Ulquiorra to protect/revenge the so-assumed love of her 5 lifetimes named Ichigo, Ulquiorra asked this similar question before. Yet thanks for Ichigo's heroic interruption, no one could get the right answer out of him. So the reason for her odd behavior as for her less-to-nonaction in sin chapters went to the 7 wonders of mystery. Maybe it was because Ichigo kept telling her "stay back" every fricking time when she tried to interfere and saved his ass. So she just sat back on her ass and watched the act of a prince saving the princess from a dragon regardless whatever happened around her <--- I also wondered why Orihime didn't make a sound or lift any fingers to defend herself even when the Loly sisters abused her. This is a girl who have black belt karate that knocked out 2 grow-up shinigami by herself using her pure strength, yet couldn't even deal with two puny sisters. The hell? I didn't want to mention her other magical power.
I agree with Deb's essay that maybe Orihime really did want Ichigo to save her or at least she hoped that Ichigo would do the act that might look like he did save her aka protecting her from ebil everywhere, be it from Ulquiorra, Yammy or Loly, be it her conscious or unconscious desire. But as you can see, Ulquiorra didn't put much his effort on the act as attacking/hurting/harming Orihime while Ichigo would rather be happy to fight from being challenged by Ulquiorra's statement of "the one must be destroyed" than put Orihime as his priority choice of purpose for coming to the fifth tower.
Orihime wanted to see Ichigo act as her prince, but she hadn't seen it. Unfortunately, the time when she got herself in DiD situations, Ichigo had never been her prince... Alas, the first time with Loly, Ichigo attacked Loly together with Orihime with his Getsuga while Ulquiorra saved both of them by stopping Getsuga. The second time with Yammy, Ichigo was stopped by Ulquiorra and Ishida was the one who did the act of a knight shinning in amor saving a maiden from a brute. She hadn't seen an action that proved Ichigo would protect her. I don't really think she wanted Ichigo defeating Ulquiorra... though I guess she did want Ichigo fighting with Ulquiorra for her sake... using his own body to protect her. Well, maybe just to prove her hope that Ichigo did have some romantic feeling toward her and her well-being.
I think that might be why she was so shocked when she witnessed Ichigo's death from Ulquiorra. Because the play of her delusion had been shattered. The prince was laying dead. The knight was being beaten. Orihime didn't understand her own role in the new script which was rewritten by Ulquiorra. So she asked regardless whether Ichigo is laying there dead or not.
Actually, I don't think that she asked the Kurosaki-kun who was laying dead on the dome for "save me" but the Kurosaki-kun-prince version in her head which was supposed to come out everytime the princess in distress. Somebody might said that she was in denial that Ichigo was dead rather than accept the truth that he was dead. Instead of getting her ass up and protecting everybody as a main heroine against Ulquiorra, she chosed to ask the same person who told her what she should do at the beginning of this battle. Just because she had been told "stay back" and she disobeyed for going up to the dome and saw the tragedy.
Sorry for the ranting. I just confused much about her mentality for not acting anything worth to consider her love with Kurosaki-kun on the dome. I guess instead of blaming others for Kurosaki-kun's death, she had been blaming herself for causing his death <-- you see, if she had interfered the battle right at the beginning, this tragedy wouldn't happened.