Well, if they're playing nicely in their corner of the sandbox, I am totes ok with that. I haven't been to BA in a while, I'm kind of afraid to scout out the IshiNemu FC, even though I know some of my cosplay photos have shown up in there.
Truthfully, I was expecting to be disappointed on some level about the character interaction, I just wasn't expecting to have a timeskip on top of it, so I have to literally fill in the blanks myself and figure out why everything's like day one again. I certainly didn't expect 'Hime to mope and sob for ages afterward--she wasn't broken by the bad guy, which I do feel is the greatest strength of her character. She got scared, sad and all that--and if Ichigo had stayed dead, I'm sure we'd have a very different 'Hime right now--but mostly everyone survived and like always, Orihime picked up and moved on.
It even looks like she and Ichigo became a little closer during that time, considering she has had multiple invites to his room...honestly, I was waiting for Kubo to say they were already dating just to be an epic troll, but he decided to go a different direction with his troll-tactics for now.
True--with any popular ship, you are going to get all sorts writing it, even those who aren't particularly great at it. But collectively, IH fics have been a little closer to the actual characters, even the ones that aren't Ichigo and Orihime.
I tried reading IshiNemu fics that had IchiRuki thrown in, and fics with IchiHime thrown in--and overall, I noticed that the fics with IchiRuki felt a bit awkward and forced when handling all the characters--and the pairings were almost completely non-interactive with each other. The IchiHime fics, however, tend to have all four characters interact in some way without jarring the narrative.
So generally speaking, if I'm going to find quality IshiNemu, I'm going to have to find it hidden within a good IchiHime fic. ;D This doubles the difficulty of my search, but you and Enelya have been a fantastic intro to IH.
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Truthfully, I was expecting to be disappointed on some level about the character interaction, I just wasn't expecting to have a timeskip on top of it, so I have to literally fill in the blanks myself and figure out why everything's like day one again. I certainly didn't expect 'Hime to mope and sob for ages afterward--she wasn't broken by the bad guy, which I do feel is the greatest strength of her character. She got scared, sad and all that--and if Ichigo had stayed dead, I'm sure we'd have a very different 'Hime right now--but mostly everyone survived and like always, Orihime picked up and moved on.
It even looks like she and Ichigo became a little closer during that time, considering she has had multiple invites to his room...honestly, I was waiting for Kubo to say they were already dating just to be an epic troll, but he decided to go a different direction with his troll-tactics for now.
True--with any popular ship, you are going to get all sorts writing it, even those who aren't particularly great at it. But collectively, IH fics have been a little closer to the actual characters, even the ones that aren't Ichigo and Orihime.
I tried reading IshiNemu fics that had IchiRuki thrown in, and fics with IchiHime thrown in--and overall, I noticed that the fics with IchiRuki felt a bit awkward and forced when handling all the characters--and the pairings were almost completely non-interactive with each other. The IchiHime fics, however, tend to have all four characters interact in some way without jarring the narrative.
So generally speaking, if I'm going to find quality IshiNemu, I'm going to have to find it hidden within a good IchiHime fic. ;D This doubles the difficulty of my search, but you and Enelya have been a fantastic intro to IH.