Here we are again, Bleach fandom
I know this arc has been over for awhile, but with the chapters being released in takoubon form, a lot of the old arguments are getting re-hashed.
1) Please stop blaming Orihime for Ulquiorra's death. Yes, I get that her cries to Ichigo caused him to rise up and pound the crap out of Ulquiorra, eventually making him become dust in the wind. However, had Orihime not been there, and somehow Ichigo found another way to become crazy, hollow Ichigo, the same thing would have happened. Pretty much the only way that Ichigo could ever have won his fight and not ended up dead was through the hollow form, which would have still ended with a dead Ulquiorra, Orihime crying-induced or not.
2) She also does not OWE Ulquiorra anything. She is not obligated to "reject" Ulquiorra back from becoming a pile of dust, no matter how much you think he helped her get some backbone. That is, if she can even do that.
3) Yes, Orihime relies on Ichigo, but guess what? He wants her to. There quite a few times in the manga where Ichigo reassures her and tells her not to worry that he'll win or he'll protect her. Please stop lumping all of the blame on Orihime for falling back on him. He has a big old hero complex just as much as she has problems with not standing her ground, yet I don't really see him get even close to the same about of blame that Orihime gets for this whole thing.
I get that this whole fight was not supposed to be an ideal situation, but lumping all the blame on one character for the whole thing is just not cool. When the chapters were coming out, I even saw it written that Orihime "innocently seduced" Ishida to bring her to the top of the dome. I just wonder if there's any other conscious decisions a character made that we can blame her for.
Editing because I accidentally hit the post button (or whatever key combo that = post)
1) Please stop blaming Orihime for Ulquiorra's death. Yes, I get that her cries to Ichigo caused him to rise up and pound the crap out of Ulquiorra, eventually making him become dust in the wind. However, had Orihime not been there, and somehow Ichigo found another way to become crazy, hollow Ichigo, the same thing would have happened. Pretty much the only way that Ichigo could ever have won his fight and not ended up dead was through the hollow form, which would have still ended with a dead Ulquiorra, Orihime crying-induced or not.
2) She also does not OWE Ulquiorra anything. She is not obligated to "reject" Ulquiorra back from becoming a pile of dust, no matter how much you think he helped her get some backbone. That is, if she can even do that.
3) Yes, Orihime relies on Ichigo, but guess what? He wants her to. There quite a few times in the manga where Ichigo reassures her and tells her not to worry that he'll win or he'll protect her. Please stop lumping all of the blame on Orihime for falling back on him. He has a big old hero complex just as much as she has problems with not standing her ground, yet I don't really see him get even close to the same about of blame that Orihime gets for this whole thing.
I get that this whole fight was not supposed to be an ideal situation, but lumping all the blame on one character for the whole thing is just not cool. When the chapters were coming out, I even saw it written that Orihime "innocently seduced" Ishida to bring her to the top of the dome. I just wonder if there's any other conscious decisions a character made that we can blame her for.
Editing because I accidentally hit the post button (or whatever key combo that = post)