Through season 2 of Bleach

[sincere]

I only started watching Bleach because I was interested in knowing where I would fall in what I knew of only as some massive apocalyptic fandom war of Ichigo/Rukia vs Ichigo/Orihime.

I finished "season 2" tonight, and all I can say is that I don't really care about who Ichigo ends up with half as much as I totally adore Renji/Rukia.

Long story short, everyone is awesome, especially Urahara, except for Ishida Uryuu, who while no longer a complete prick, is still mildly obnoxious, borderline damsel-in-distress at times, and kind of dumb without realizing that he is kind of dumb. (At least Ichigo knows he's not the brightest crayon in the box because crayons don't have hair.)

I see a lot of pairings I am interested in, even pairings that are seemingly contradictory. (Kira/Hinamori, Aizen/Hinamori, and Hitsugaya/Hinamori? Bring it on!) Almost all of them are het. I'm not really seeing any gay here so far. Well-- there's some girl gay. No boy gay though. Unfortunately, I have no idea how I'd, well, find fiction or anything about those pairings since I don't want yaoi. It's not nice and coherent like KH fandom is.

Also, for the record, I'm currently leaning Ichigo/Orihime.

Comments

[kay-willow.livejournal.com]

That's what I heard of in fandom_secrets. I'd never heard anyone advocate Renji/Rukia until I liked it myself, and mentioned it to madfnorder, who admitted it was one of his reasons for preferring Ichigo/Orihime. XD

I'm not crazy about Uryuu in any context, so while I could see him with Orihime, I wouldn't ship them at this point. At the moment I'd rather ship her with Tatsuki and then watch and see where she goes with Ichigo. (I could do Uryuu/Nemu, though. BUT HE'D HAVE TO FIGHT IKKAKU FOR HER.) I like... kind of everything with Hinamori so far, though. She's adorable, and I totally respect her AHHHHH I'M GOING TO EAT YOUR FACE at Gin after what he did. XD

Of your last group, I don't know Soi Fong, Isane, Unohana, and possibly Kuukaku. Unless Unohana is squad four captain with the absurd braid? She healed Renji though, she's okay.

I had a brief moment of liking Orihime/Rukia too, as far as girl-gay goes. X3