Thanks for your kind comment, anon! And thank for your notice that part about Ulquiorra too!
I did think about Ulquiorra's quest of companion, since I did state in my previous post the implication in this backstory that he always wanted a companion and he saw & treated Orihime as his comrade & wanted her to treat him like that also.
The heart is the definition of their connection. Since Ulquiorra alone couldn't figure out anything could connect between him and Orihime. He thought "nothing in you and in me". While he treated her as his companion, his nihilist philosophy and uncertainty rejected the idea. Mainly, because Ulquiorra saw Orihime as totally different from himself, unlike his "comrades" who were born in the place at the bottom of the pit and hollow like him, unlike the brush who had the closet existence as "void" like him.
Then, the moment he reached out for her to search for connection and saw her reaching back at him and realized it's mutual, unlike the time he was rejected by both his comrades and the brush. I guess the instant feeling when he found the heart is similar to the moment when he thought about happiness. Only the ends should be different. He saw the heart because Orihime reciprocated his action unlike the time he dived in the brush thinking about happiness, but found nothing when it didn't reduce him to nothing as he thought.
The heart, IMHO, carries more meaning than it could show. Since it's a word that could transcend between life and death (as in meaning of "spirit" & "soul") It's one of grand theme in Bleach. I believe Ulquiorra had been put at the core of the theme, so whenever KT touched it matter again, he should come back to show us how the heart made him a hollow being more human. or something greater. The bridge between hollow and human in his relationship with Orihime.
I did think about Ulquiorra's quest of companion, since I did state in my previous post the implication in this backstory that he always wanted a companion and he saw & treated Orihime as his comrade & wanted her to treat him like that also.
The heart is the definition of their connection. Since Ulquiorra alone couldn't figure out anything could connect between him and Orihime. He thought "nothing in you and in me". While he treated her as his companion, his nihilist philosophy and uncertainty rejected the idea. Mainly, because Ulquiorra saw Orihime as totally different from himself, unlike his "comrades" who were born in the place at the bottom of the pit and hollow like him, unlike the brush who had the closet existence as "void" like him.
Then, the moment he reached out for her to search for connection and saw her reaching back at him and realized it's mutual, unlike the time he was rejected by both his comrades and the brush. I guess the instant feeling when he found the heart is similar to the moment when he thought about happiness. Only the ends should be different. He saw the heart because Orihime reciprocated his action unlike the time he dived in the brush thinking about happiness, but found nothing when it didn't reduce him to nothing as he thought.
The heart, IMHO, carries more meaning than it could show. Since it's a word that could transcend between life and death (as in meaning of "spirit" & "soul") It's one of grand theme in Bleach. I believe Ulquiorra had been put at the core of the theme, so whenever KT touched it matter again, he should come back to show us how the heart made him a hollow being more human. or something greater. The bridge between hollow and human in his relationship with Orihime.
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