Tell me why I searched for ichiruki edits on tiktok and all I see are a bunch of ichihime's crop and highly edited vids and the few ichiruki had a bunch of hate comments.
But they are always accusing ichiruki fans of being aggressive and delusional but once we asked to prove their ship they get so offensive and call us "retards" and "delusional s".
But its funny how they think ichihime made sense since day one because of an old draft Tite drew, where ichigo had feelings for orihime.
They claimed ichigo showed his true feelings went he went to save her in hueco mundo or when he got depressed because he couldn't protect her the first time the arrancars showed up. Or when he was dead and she called out his name and revived to protect her.
Let me disprove all of these and tell you what makes ichiruki different.
1# Hueco Mundo arc - was basically about ichigo's fighting his internal hollow. He swore to protect his family and friends and when he lost the battle with an arrancar he felt useless. His friends (Chad and Orihime) almost die because he was scared to use his hollow since he was afraid he wouldn't be able to control it. Thanks to Rukia (chapter 196), he snapped out of it and he found the Vizards to help overcome his fear. In this arc, Orihime finds herself useless because she couldn't support ichigo (physically and emotionally). And she even points out her jealousy towards rukia (228-229).
So what sets apart rukia's rescue vs orihime's?
Ichigo went to save rukia from being executed. You could say ichigo saved her to return the favor because she saved him and his family by giving him her powers but rukia never asked to be saved. She in fact told him to not do that. But during the time they spent together ichigo developed a strong bond with rukia that it felt wrong to stand by. He told her things he never did to his friends (his mother's death). And when she was gone he felt so out of place (same in thing happened in the fullbringer arc when he lost his powers). Anyway, this boy literally train to get stronger and got a bankai for HER SAKE.
In orihime's rescue, ichigo was struggling to control his hollow. He sorta gets into the idea that he needs to protect everyone because they are weak (happened with Chad and even with rukia too). Rukia even tells him im not hurt because of u and u need to trust your comrades. And in my opinion when ichigo went to rescue orihime, he did it to prove that he overcame his hollow. (280 when he fights grimmjow, grimmjow even tells him if he came for her he could have taken her and run instead of fighting). Also, the part when ichigo dies and orihime calls out for him and he revives...how is that romantic when he also tries to kill uryu and threaten orihime?? (Chapter 352).
In the fulbringer arc, ichigo and orihime got closer as friends but ichigo still kept his distance. Orihime even sense it but couldn't do anything about it. In this arc, ichigo got depressed again because he lost his powers. Rukia doesnt show as much but ichigo still thinks about her (even dreams about it and rukia's face shows up when he activated his fullbringer). Not to mention, when he gets betrayed by Ginjo, he doesnt trust ANYONE but feels relieved when he sees Rukia again.
Also, to say that ichiruki is wrong because rukia is 100yrs old and dead and ichigo is a teenager... did you forget who is ichigo's dad and mom???
And claiming that they are more like siblings but literally ichigo's siblings are not like that with him or byakuya isn't like that with rukia. And honestly, ichigo and orihime look more like siblings (orange hair).
Bestfriends?? Yeah right...
Kinda sad, that even after they got married you dont even see them interact that much. But at least ichigo started calling orihime instead of inoue. Thats romantic i guess...
Ok. SURE. Ichihime became canon, period. I still don't and will never understand why. But the thing the irks me the most is when ichihime shippers continue to say it made sense because "orihime was madly in love" and "ichigo went to rescue her," and "ichigo's mom looks like orihime." Like sure, all those countless panels were ichigo and rukia share glances, support each other emotionally, anime fillers featuring together, even a movie focusing on their relationship are just about two bestfriends. Obviously, a dead girl who is a hundred years older cannot be with a teenager boy. Thats disgusting *coughs sarcastically in inuyasha and vampire knight."
With all honesty, as a Bleach fan I would be fine and move on from this if Kubo actually gave a decent ending. But he just went and said "ichigo won and married orihime. The end." And i found ridiculous that delusional shippers think they won but they have no back up evidence. Anyway, everyone in Bleach deserves a better ending.
First, I have to state that Ichiruki has been my OTP since I started reading Bleach. I used to live for those two cute dorks. So, when Bleach manga finished with the horrible nasty ending I was totally heartbroken. (Lol I'm still in denial but whatever Ichiruki will always be canon in my heart). After I found out about the live action movie I had my doubts about how good it would be since live action movies usually suck. But I decided to give it a try because of the great love I had for Ichiruki. And yes, there were some cute Ichiruki moments and the actors were pretty good but I feel that their connection/relationship was pretty rush. I understand that they had to cut off some parts to fit 17 episodes into 2hrs but I don't know... I feel like I didn't see the spark between this ichigo and rukia. I guess I was expecting too much. I wanted to see them fight hollows as the a team and argue with each other but also make fun of each other.
Also, the ending was emotionally cute but I was also like wtf ichigo, why are you smiling when your queen is about to die...
So... People are whining over Ichihime being canon and... we're supposed to respect that? I may not pay too much attention to bleach, but... no. Fuck that. Fuck that infantile bullshit. Go back to the nursery where you belong.
OK OK I GOT SO MANY CUTE TAGS AND MESSAGES ABOUT THAT ICHIRUKI ML AU SO I DID SOME MORE DOODLES + CAME UP WITH MORE HEADCANONS I HOPE YOU ENJOY
@singasongofstars, @aslan-altan, @flyingpancakes, @harunahimawarimuse and one lovely anon, here are some answers to your questions! and if i haven’t answered them here, I will answer in another post about this AU soon.
Who Tikki and Plagg are:
So ‘Plagg’ in this AU is Sode no Shirayuki and ‘Tikki’ is Fake-Zangetsu
The gimmick here is that they look different for different owners because every person who wields the Miraculous leaves a bit of an imprint of their soul on them
(kind of like bleach and zanpakutous)
Shirayuki is a bit of a tsundere to Rukia, she’s quite sarcastic and prickly and constantly ragging on her
But deep down inside gawd does she love her Chat Noir to bits, anyone else but her say one bad word about Rukia and she’s gonna annihilate them
(Basically, this:
Rukia: *is lost in a crowd and can’t find Shirayuki*
Rukia: ‘This calls for drastic measures.’
Rukia: ‘RUKIA IS A SHITTY CHAT NOIR!’
Shirayuki: ‘what the fUCK DID YOU JUST SAY--’
Rukia: ‘ah, there she is.’)
Rukia meanwhile feels exactly the same way towards Shirayuki as she does in canon Bleach-- she’s in awe of her power and beauty and of the fact that she chose her-- she’s extremely grateful that Shirayuki chooses to be with her, and she’s constantly doubting that she’s good enough to wield her powers. The doubt can get real bad sometimes (usually after Byakuya has said or done something stupid), and when that happens Shirayuki puts aside her sarcastic demeanour to cheer Rukia back up. ‘Of course you’re good enough, Rukia, I chose you to be my Chat Noir. I don’t make mistakes. You’re my Chat Noir this generation, and nobody else.’ (’....!!! but! it’s not like I l-l-like you or anything-- I mean-- it’s just annoying if you’re depressed because it gets in the way of fighting akuma-- don’t misunderstand--’ ‘... thank you, Shirayuki.’)
Zangetsu on the other hand is just... like... a really cryptic annoying old uncle who never gives a straight answer to fuckin anything and it drives Ichigo up the WALL
Like... as an example.. this is how a typical conversation between them will go:
Ichigo: ‘You gotta stock back up on energy, old man! What do you kwami eat, anyway?’
Zangetsu: Kwami are beings of pure magic and energy. We feed off the energy born from the infinite cycle of life and death, as does every other being in the universe.
Ichigo: ......
Zangetsu: .......
Ichigo: ......
Zangetsu: .....
Zangetsu: but that cookie you’re holding will also do.
Also, both Kwami will eat whatever their owner gives to them, but Shirayuki has a fond spot for icecream (of any kind) and Zangetsu... likes sake... which is problematic for Ichigo because he is a seventeen year old bab and not an adult who can buy alcohol...
Even though I ended up going with my original idea, @eating-iron suggested Renji as Tikki and Yoruichi as Plagg and I gotta say I debated real hard about that one because... Renji... Tikki... red... and Yoruichi... black cat... like? appearancewise it’s so perf and beautiful? eating-iron I salute you
Previous Ladybug and Chat Noir:
As I mentioned before, the previous Ladybug and Chat Noir were Masaki and Isshin. I like to think of their dynamic as more similar to the canon Ladynoir dynamic than Ichigo and Rukia’s
as in, Isshin-Chat Noir is hopelessly in love with Masaki-Ladybug, and he’s a ginormous idiot and constantly flirts with her like Adrien-Chat Noir does with Marinette-Ladybug
Masaki would prob be a little nicer to Isshin than canon Ladybug is to canon Chat Noir, but if his flirting was getting in the way of akuma-fighting then lmao no mercy it’s ‘kick his ass into gear’ time
They continued to be Ladybug and Chat Noir well after they got married and had kids (they hid their identities from their kids though), until Masaki was killed in an akuma attack
After that, Isshin gave up on being Chat Noir and focused on raising the kids, hoping that someone else will take up the mantle to continue defending Karakura town from Hawkmoth and the Akuma....
First Mission together:
lmao this part is under a cut because it’s fucking long
After Masaki died and Isshin retired, Karakura town saw eight years of no heroes (and thankfully, no akuma... though Isshin did think that was really fishy. What the hell was Hawkmoth up to?)
Until one day, a mysterious white yuki-onna looking creature shows up in front of a dejected Rukia and claims that ‘you gotta take up the mantle of Chat Noir’.
Now, Rukia was nine when Ladybug and Chat Noir disappeared (the public don’t know that Ladybug died and Chat Noir retired), so she grew up hearing about their heroics -- they were her childhood idols, as they were for many other kids her age, and she’s always felt inadequate as just herself-- so when Shirayuki prompts her with ‘quick! don’t you want to save people?’ she jumps at the chance
Shirayuki leads her to a house that Rukia’s never been to before, and it’s being demolished by some monstrous white skeleton-fish-face thing
and oh shit, there’s some old man lying bleeding and unconscious on the ground, and two little girls caught up in the whole mess, she’s gotta do something-
and she jumps right into the fray and starts fighting
Meanwhile, Ichigo (on his way home from soccer) is also confronted by some old dark flying chibi dude spouting mysterious bullshit about ‘the cycle of fates’ and ‘you have the power’ and ‘this is your sacred duty’, blah blah blah, and he thinks he’s going fucking crazy because no-one in their right minds sees little floating men in broad daylight
And through all of Zangetsu’s bullshit he hears two things: ‘you have been chosen’ and ‘the next Ladybug’ and his response is oh hell no
Because unlike every other kid his age, Ichigo hates those two heroes with a passion.
Because where the fuck were they when his mother died?
His mother died in an akuma attack, and it was their job to stop things like this from happening. His mother was the ONLY casualty of an akuma attack in the past, well, EVER, and he can’t fucking let that slide, why did it have to be his mother, where the hell WERE THEY--
(obviously in this AU ichigo was not with his mother when she died.)
so no, Zangetsu can go shove it, he’s not gonna be Ladybug, take the offer to someone else who gives a damn--
And then he hears Yuzu scream.
So he runs to where he hears her and finds his house in pieces, his father unconscious in a pool of blood, Karin with a broken leg, Yuzu held in the claws of a monstrously huge akuma and some girl-- Chat Noir?!-- leaning knocked out against a telephone pole
and he yells ‘YUZU!’ and runs right at the akuma but it doesn’t even look at him twice, one sweep of its tail and Ichigo is knocked into the nearest brick wall, he’s winded, his chest hurts, and fuck there’s nothing he can do but watch Yuzu get eaten by that thing--
unless.
‘Fuck it, old man, fine! I’ll be your goddamn Ladybug! Just help me save my family--’
And there’s a blinding pink light enveloping him, for some reason his mouth and vocal cords are forming the words ‘Zangetsu! Transform me!’ (he later DIES at how fucking cheesy and shoujo-magical-girl-transformation it all is), and when he opens his eyes again his ears are fucking pierced (’WHAT?! What the HELL, OLD MAN, this wasn’t part of the contra-- oh whatever, they already think I’m a delinquent anyway, what will a few piercings do’) and he’s decked out in red latex. All of this goes into his repression box for him to be embarrassed about later, but for now he’s gotta kick some akuma butt
Which he does. Spectacularly. Zangetsu is hella impressed at how well he manages to do for someone with such little battle experience
Until he fucks up and is right on the verge of being cleaved in half.
And then Chat Noir jumps in front of him.
Chat Noir jumps in front of him!!!!
What the hell, what the hell, why would this girl do this for him, he’s never seen her before in his life, he’s nothing to her, and she’s much smaller and more delicate than him to boot, she didn’t need to sacrifice her life for him--
He doesn’t realise he’s yelling all this at her until he finds himself kneeling in a pool of her blood, trying to keep her conscious, asking her why, why, WHY--
She cracks an eye open (bluer than the sea, bluer than the sky at twilight, bluer than the violets that his friend Tatsuki keeps in her garden) and between her shallow breaths she manages to get out ‘that’s what heroes do, isn’t it?’
he’s speechless for a while, but when she coughs violently and spits up blood, keeling over onto the ground, he stands up again, violence in his eyes, a fire in his heart, fuck this akuma and fuck Hawkmoth or whatever the hell his name was, and most of all fuck himself for thinking this was only about him when everyone around him was trying to keep his miserable skin alive. He’s gonna save everyone. He’s gonna make sure this akuma rots in fucking hell
and Zangetsu mutters ‘now that’s a fighting expression’ and tells him about ‘Lucky Charm’
Which Ichigo uses without a trace of irony or embarrassment... just... oh my god can you imagine Kurosaki Ichigo with his most serious pissed off fighting expression being surrounded by pink hearts as he shouts ‘lucky charm’
anyway, he lucky charms the HELL out of the akuma and when it’s purified, it turns out to be a petty thief who was targeting the Kurosaki house for robbing until Hawkmoth got to him
after all this, Ichigo-Ladybug turns to survey the wreckage of the house and his family, and -- oh shit that Chat Noir girl is not in good shape, shit shit shit she’s gonna die he needs to call an ambulance right now, and even then it was liable to be too late, this is his fault this is all his fault--
and Zangetsu’s like ‘chill bro we got this’
and Ichigo learns about the amazing move that is ‘Miraculous Ladybug’
no injuries! no property damage! no awkward explanations about gas explosions and a truck being driven into his house!
(lmao, i love orihime, can’t wait till i can show her in this AU tbh i have it all thought out)
his entire family comes to and stares at him in awe--.... well, ok, Yuzu stares at him with stars in her eyes (‘OMG! It’s Ladybug! Wait, has ladybug always been a guy?’), Karin is side-eyeing the SHIT out of him (.... ‘that Ladybug looks suspiciously like my brother, who is conveniently absent right now), and Isshin is pretending to be a huge idiot while secretly incredibly proud of his son
and!!! holy crap!!! that Chat Noir girl who just a second ago was bleeding all over his front steps is now standing up! The massive gash in her stomach is gone! She’s grinning at him! This ‘Miraculous Ladybug’ move is a fucking miracle! wtf!
Rukia, meanwhile, is feeling giddy from being brought back from the brink of death and is all hyped up from the adrenaline still rushing through her veins, she’s a hero, she’s a hero, she’s THE Chat Noir, and there’s Ladybug in front of her, they’re gonna be partners like the previous duo and save people and protect the town--
and before she can think twice about what she’s doing (a luxury she hasn’t had in a long, long time) she’s sidling up to her new partner in heroics with her best cheshire cat grin and saying ‘looks like I’ve got you to thank for my life, handsome boy’
and honestly she stops short straight after she says that and yells at herself internally, ‘wtf was that, where the HELL did that come from, hANDSOME BOY?!?!?! What on earth was she thinking--’
Except said handsome boy reacts by blushing beet-red and spluttering things like ‘wha-- I-- thanks-- maybe? I mean-- that’s not what’s relevant here!-- you saved me too--’
.... and it’s just so very amusing
so amusing, in fact, that she just might make a habit of it
so she replies ‘I guess we’re even then, partner?’ and raises her fist to him
which he meets with his own fist, rather hesitantly
and looking at each other, watching the other’s face split into identical grins of victory, they say quietly ‘mission accomplished’.
.... and then after that both of their miraculous items beep and their kwamis warn them that their transformations are about to run out. both of them bolt the hell out of there, Ichigo because he does NOT want his family finding out he willingly donned red latex and Rukia because that moment was PERFECT (despite grievous bodily harm and near-death experience) and she doesn’t want to ruin it by turning back into just plain, unspecial Rukia
and that was the story of their first akuma together
Jesus christ i might as well make this into fanfic?!?!?! I have enough material!?! what the hell I never wanted any of this but i’m in too deep now?! jfc
anyway, more to come on: where their friends all fit into this AU, Hawkmoth-Aizen and his dastardly scheme, Urahara and Yoruichi as ‘Fuu’, the other miraculous holders, etc etc
Tht HSM post you reblogged reminded me tht in the Japanese dub Troy and Gabriella were voiced by Ichigo and Rukia's voice actors and i think thts beautiful
Alright but you can’t send me an ask like this and not expect me to come up with a
HSM AU
…. Except reversed, because honestly, we all know that Ichigo is the nerd in this relationship
So basically, we have Kuchiki Rukia, special honours student for physical education, rising star in her school’s ice hockey team, and Kurosaki Ichigo, Shakespeare connoisseur, winner of several prestigious English competitions with early acceptance offers from various universities’ literature departments despite only being a freshman but has chosen to go through with highschool anyway because ‘normal teenage life’ and all–
–at the same new year’s eve party that their friends/parentals dragged them to, which leads to this–
– and the rest, as they say, is history
…. bonus because this is clearly a very serious AU, really highbrow, full of drama and angst, definitely not crack at all:
