#promptly forgot about it till this year cause I've been in the middle of like 50 manga titles

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As someone who hasn't considered the ship of ichigo and byakuya in more than a "oh that'd be an interesting ship", getting to the whole fullbringer arc really made me interested.

Like Tsukishima is able to place himself in memories and shit, which he does with the important people Ichigo has in his life. And all these people, Ichigo's family, his close friends, and the girl who loves him, instantly turn on him when Ichigo attacks Tsukishima.

The people who care the most about Ichigo and trust him with their lives are unable to break out of the ability or even question it. Orihime and Chad do try and fight it near the end but even they don't manage it before being removed from the situation entirely.

Tsukishima does this too with Byakuya and yet, out of all Ichigo's friends and family, it's Byakuya who actually goes against the enemies ability and cuts him down because anyone who dares to hurt Ichigo, even if they're a friend, must be cut down. And he does this almost instantaneously, without mulling it over unlike Chad and Orihime who only started to question things later.

That's just. . . Very interesting that out of everyone, it was Byakuya who would do such a thing, especially since, up to this point, we've not seen a lot between him and Ichigo.

Anyway I can see why my friend was a bit obsessed with these two when she was reading the manga. I can certainly see the potential even more now than I did and I certainly did earlier.

#yeah yeah I'm late to the party. #i read bleach a long time ago and stopped before the fullbringer arc cause the manga wasn't done and I decided to wait till it was and then #promptly forgot about it till this year cause I've been in the middle of like 50 manga titles #bleach is still definitely up there in my top five favs though. I love it #this couple though is just so interesting. I wish they got more attention now that I'm seeing the possibilities #im sure someone will point out that it doesn't mean shit and byakuya is doing it for 'some other reason' but I don't care too much. #I just think it's an interesting difference between byakuya and Ichigo's family and friends #bleach #byakuya kuchiki #ichigo kurosaki #byaichi #fullbringer arc #tsukishima shukuro #don't mind me obsessing over bleach in my little corner. it's normal #especially since all we've seen with Ichigo and byakuya is their fight. no downtime or anything between em and byakuya has THIS reaction?? #kinda love it to be honest with ya #i think it's one of my favorite scenes from the arc now that I think about it. plus I've been obsessing over this entire scene for like a wk