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Originally Posted by kagato3
Since it seems the Rukia Ichigo faction keep pointing to Orihime's (and why does eveyone take Orihime's veiws of other relationships as being correct? I mean she thought Ishida was in love with Rukia. Can we realy trust her as a source?) speech here, what word(s) did she use for important person..
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Most proponents of Ichigo/Orihime will be glad to point out how astute Orihime is in understanding Ichigo's thoughts and feelings. Even non-supporters of the pairing will acknowledge this as canon fact. I've long felt that Orihime is an effective tool for Kubo to express Ichigo's thoughts and feelings instead of having Ichigo outright say what's on his mind, as he's so socially awkward and it would be out of character to always say what's on his mind. With Orihime, we can gain insight to Ichigo's thoughts without Ichigo uncharacteristically saying them out loud- he does this with other characters as well.
So to say that Orihime is perceptive to Ichigo but then to turn around and say she's incorrect in regards to his thoughts and feelings towards Rukia is selectively convenient in my eyes. For example, Orihime was especially astute in reading Ichigo's thoughts and emotions after Rukia was brought back to Soul Society by Byakuya and Renji. Despite her own reservations about him going, that Rukia belonged in Soul Society and were Ichigo to go after her he would be taking her away from that, without him saying very much at all, Orihime knew what he was going to do regardless: charge in there and save her anyway.
Again, when in Soul Society and Ishida says that they're saving Rukia because she is their friend, Orihime corrects him and says
"she's not just a friend, to Kurosaki-kun, Kuchiki-san is a very important person! Because Kuchiki-san is the person who changed his world." This is reaffirmed by the author (who names the chapter "that who change the world" and emphasized by Ichigo when the arc concludes and he thanks Rukia for "stopping the rain," the significance of that being that as Zangetsu told him, in his inner world, that it rained often and very easily. Again, this illustrates again how perceptive Orihime is to how Ichigo is feeling.
Moreover, it's silly to compare the scene where Orihime thought Ishida had romantic feelings for Rukia with the more serious scenes when Orihime is saying how important Rukia is to Ichigo or pouring out her heart about her insecurities and jealousies. The first scene is intentionally comedic, Kubo even has a sign that says "way off base!" to reaffirm what we know to be completely ridiculous, but the scenes with Orihime reading Ichigo's feelings, how Rukia is important to him, how he was filled with happiness when Rukia returned, these were serious in tone. While I'm not saying that these things mean that the two are in love with each other (I don't think they are) I do think we should take them as valid observations.
Furthermore, it should be pointed out that another difference is Orihime was inaccurate at perceiving
Ishida's feelings in that dubious but comedic scene where, not Ichigo's, whom she has consistently shown to be in-tune to. So it's not that people are necessarily taking Orihime's views of relations as accurate, it's that people are taking Orihime's views on how and what Ichigo is feeling as accurate given her history.
Ultimately, we all know that Orihime has strong romantic feelings for Ichigo, indeed these are the only romantic feelings that have been explicitly expressed in the series. However, I think it should also be acknowledged that there are also very strong feelings between Ichigo and Rukia, the nature of these feelings is debatable, but they are there, Orihime has pointed them out, and they have caused her distress in the past.
While I still am unwilling to put forward that the feelings between the Ichigo and Rukia are romantic , I do think that there is a legitimate argument to be made for Orihime perceiving Ichigo's feelings to be more than platonic. Not that they definitely are, but if we are to take Orihime's observations on their relationship and knowing what we know of Orihime being perceptive to Ichigo's feelings, and also recognizing that Kubo has repeatedly used other characters to express what both Ichigo and Rukia are unwilling to say to each other, the possibility is certainly there.