If everyone who gets attacked by hollows starts noticing the presence of spirits, like Tatsuki and Orihime, shouldn’t a noticable portion of the world have some knowledge of spirits already, thereby alerting the rest of the world of spirits? Shouldn’t Yuzu be able to see some now, since she was attacked by hollows? Could a character who can kind of see spirits, like Karen or Kanonji, only have that power because they were previously attacked by a hollow?
“YOU MEET SOMEONE FOR THE FIRST TIME AND THE FIRST THING YOU DO IS CALL THEM ‘HIDEOUS’?! NOW, LISTEN! WHAT I FIND TRULY HIDEOUS IN THIS WORLD IS THOSE WHO JUDGE OTHERS BY THEIR APPEARANCES.”
“THEY’RE ALL COWARDS, EVERY DAMN ONE OF THEM. WHATEVER. I’LL JUST CONSUME THEM. AS THEY BECOME MY FLESH AND BLOOD, THEY WILL SEE BEYOND. I… I AM THE KING!”
This is a dangerous world under constant threat from the mysterious calamities known as the “Hollows”, where the old civilization has been destroyed and world order lays in ruins. Fortunately, one city is still capable of dealing with the calamities: New Eridu.
A diverse group of people, each with their various reasons and beliefs gather here to challenge the Hollows.
And you, are their indispensable accomplice who guides them out of the Hollows, their “Proxy”.
Just finished reading Library of Souls, the final book in the “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” series. So good. Much more action and the main character Jacob turns into a bit of a badass. :3 I’m getting better at drawing hollowgasts (at least how I picture them in my head).
I don’t want to leave spoilers so I’m not going to say much of what is happening here, just in case, but anyone who’s read the book will understand.
OKAY I SAW THIS PAGE AND THOUGHT OF ONE OF MY HEADACNONS AND IT FITS.
So, we know that in Hueco Mundo, there is nothing nice or good ever. Everything is suffering and misery and pain. All hollows do is fight and eat each other and try to stay alive just a little bit longer. That attitude, of anyone being an enemy, of the only interaction being to fight or form come kind of unsteady alliance, and even more so, that the only kind of touch they’d get is in battle, when something is literally trying to kill them and doing nothing but causing hurt, leads up to this weird, but accepted idea that contact is only bad.
The only time its safe to or makes sense to even get that close to another hollow is when they’re trying to hurt them. There’s that whole idea imprinted in their heads, and even now that they have human forms and are sort of expected to act like people or Shinigami or something, they still have that idea that touch is threatening, a way of showing intent to harm.
In this panel, Aaroniero getting so close, and acting so unworried, and putting his hand on her head like he isn’t afraid at all that she could lash out at him or use the chance to hurt him, that’s him saying that he’s already won, that she’s in his trap and there’s nothing she can do now. In the panels leading up to this, Rukia had just started to resist him, and when she tried to disobey, he comes over and puts his hand on her head. Rukia has no idea that that’s what that means to him, and to her it’s essentially a comforting gesture. Of course she doesn’t fight back. She’s still shocked and confused, but the touch is not a threat to her in itself. But Aaroniero doesn’t see that. In his mind, he’s saying that he’s stronger and he has already won and she’s completely trapped. And her lack of resistance is saying to him that she gives up, she knows she can’t fight him off, and shes submitting to him.
Taking this idea into account, a lotof the other Arrancar’s actions and behavior become very different.
To start, Szayel’s flirtatiousness. He makes a lot of vaguely sexual comments, particularly to opponents or those in a position he might challenge. Now if we think of touch as equaling aggression in his mind, that turns into him making subtle threats at those people, nasty little comments about how he intends to make them suffer. His interest in Gin makes sense, too. Gin is one of Aizen’s direct subordinates, he’s a person in a position of power, but not so much so that contesting him would be considered direct mutiny. Szayel is basically telling Gin that he as it out for his power, and intends to maybe do something to him so that Szayel could be the one with authority instead.
Nnoitra’snastiercomments become him being as aggressively intimidating as he can. He’s not just being disgusting, he’s making blatant, outrageous threats. In the scene below, it’s obvious he’s being threatening. To him, touching Orihime at all is saying that he wants to hurt her. He’s holding her so she can’t fight back and basically saying that he can do anything he wants to her, he can hurt her and make her suffer and there’s nothing she can do about it. He’s so strong and she’s so weak that he doesn’t have to be afraid of her resistance. He’s getting closeto her, with no fear of being attacked for it. That’s a threat.
Again with Orihime, there was a scene in the anime, where Loly and Menoly were preparing to torture her. Loly has already been extremely threatening. She has verbally and physically attacked Orihime, and is making it very clear that her intent is to do harm. She gently (or as gently as it gets for her) touches Orihime’s face, going on about how she’s going to tear her to pieces. The contact, which seems gentle and harmless to humans, is clearly meant to be a threat. Loly is asserting dominance and making it very clear that she’s the one with the power, she’s not afraid of Orihime in the slightest.
All in all, there are numerouscanon moments that support touch equaling a threat to Hollows. And wow this got long. （⌒▽⌒ゞ
