#you're right to be concerned about Byakuya Ichigo

[amrita-gsk]

Ichigo's dreams and IR shenanigans Pt. 4

Even if I got excited at the fact that Ichigo thought wished? that Rukia was trying to seduce him and had no qualms whatsoever about having his energy sucked out ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Rukia is Rukia AND promptly denies it and goes into daydreaming about non other than Byakuya.

I could say that this was awkward because it was implying that perhaps Rukia feels more than just fraternal love for her brother and I guess it's not so bad considering they're not truly related by blood, BUT going back to my main point of these dreams being somewhat of a projection of Ichigo's subconscious it seems to me that in Ichigo's mind his only real competition for Rukia's attention is Byakuya.

I didn't add the screenshots but in the Arabian Nights episode, just as he's poking Rukia they're interrupted by Wakame-san which turns out to be Byakuya in disguise. Needless to say Rukia's reaction is that of awe and admiration at seeing her brother and then we have this scene with her stating that she wouldn't waste her charm on someone like Ichigo, but on someone like Byakuya instead. Pro tip: there isn't anyone else like Byakuya in the whole Ble/ach universe.

So I think that this was low key a representation of what Ichigo feels regarding his vying for Rukia's attention and affections. Such a weird thing we didn't have Ren/ji painted in such a light, but oh well, Pierrot didn't know shit about the manga, right?

Anyway, I'll jump to the end of the episode where after confronting Ryuuken and Isshin, Ichigo looks into the treasure chest where they supposedly had put the Snow Crystal in, which by the way, I forgot to mention but in this story is said to have the power to turn monsters into humans this sounds more like the Hogyouku -but Ichigo is wary of it because he still remembers the one from the Arabian Nights which turned out to be fishcake-, only to find Rukia inside the chest.

Ichigo asks her if she hid the Snow Crystal to which she answers that no, she didn't and then says:

...Finally confirming the theory from the Arabian Nights. Now, I want to go back to these dreams being a loosely representation of Ichigo's perception and focusing on the topic of the Snow Crystal which turns out was Rukia after all, so according to Ichigo's subconscious Rukia is white and shiny, if you touch her she's cold as snow, she's calming and beautiful in appearance, and she's an unparalleled treasure. I'm not even going to quote the succubus description again because I think this is enough and quite frankly, this would be incredibly hard to top.

So like I said at the beginning, I know this is 300% filler but after all that's happened I couldn't care less about canon anymore although we have plenty of that and believe me when I tell you I enjoyed this ten times better now after all these years and I can't still believe Pierrot had the audacity of making these episodes with all this stuff in them. It's just like wow, it's always great to see that it wasn't just us that noticed this in their relationship, because excuse me, filler or not these scripts had to go through a lot of work and get greenlighted before being allowed to be produced and that means a bunch of people at Pierrot said "yeah, let's make Ichigo and friends cosplay in silly costumes and focus his dreams on just how beautiful and precious he thinks Rukia is" and actually went and did that. We're so blessed.

And well, to finish I do know that in the end it turns out these are not Ichigo's dreams but Isane's for the Arabian Nights and Komamura's for the Halloween one, but the fact that Ichigo knew he was inside a dream both times and the fact that during the Arabian Nights a lot of things that Isane didn't know of the SS Arc happened and that Komamura had no way of knowing about Ryuuken and Isshin solidifies my belief that they were indeed from Ichigo's perspective and subconscious. I rest my case.

I invite you to do whatever you might of these rantings of mine, but there are just things I have to take off my chest else I'll go mad over it. Even though, who's to say I haven't lost it already? So thank you for reading if you reached this far, the shipping visor is now deactivated.

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#IchiRuki #IchiRuki in fillers #you're right to be concerned about Byakuya Ichigo #he's not easily handling his sister to you #686 who? #once again Renji gets cucked #why is Ichigo so damn cheesy?