PSA: How Not to Do Orihime

[crystaldawn]

I've been bouncing this off a few people for a while, and it's time for another one of those posts - you know, the really fun informative essay kind. Today's topic: Common Weird Things People Do to Orihime in RP and Fics and Why You Shouldn't Do Them.

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[bitter_tea]

I remember when I was 13 or 14 being in the Ronin Warriors/Yoroiden Samurai Troopers fandom, and people had fics with Rowen/Touma being the worst cook ever. It makes no sense, because the guy pretty much raised himself as a child. I can see maybe that he can only cook instant food, but so many fics wrote that he ruined/set ablaze anything in the kitchen by touching it.

Not to toot my horn horn, but the one longer IchiHime fic I did, I really wanted to have Ichigo confused that Orihime did come back from HM and didn't seem like a big emo-ball. Naturally, she's not totally over it, because she didn't really talk to anyone about it, but she's not losing sleep and not eating. It's the ability to open up to people and talk about it that's what really helps her. Not that Ichigo cured her with the magic kiss.

I think people miss the gap been comfort and neediness. Comfort is being there for someone, even if it's just to listen. It gets pushed into unrealistic and unhealthy when you need that person to cure you of your ills, which is a big thing is the IchiRuki camp. That's part of why that plot bugs me as well, because we have people saying that Ichigo needs Rukia to function, while we're out reading fics where it's up to Ichigo to "fix" Orihime. The two fics aren't really all that different.

(The anime is to blame for a lot of things, making Renji into a complete moron is another one that really bugs me.)

[crystaldawn]

That's how they did Akane, too, in Ranma 1/2.

Which one is that? I'm not sure I know your ffnet username |Da

I have nothing to add to that comfort/neediness thing, because you just nailed it. How can we complain about people making Ichigo completely dependent upon Rukia when we make Orihime completely dependent upon Ichigo? It's the same damn thing!

(Oh god, I hate that, too. Poor Renji D:)

[bitter_tea]

It's called "Small Talk." My ff.net username is messington. The first chapter is on my journal. I meant to revise it a bit and post it there. I only made it to the first chapter. -_-