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chucker44 said:
Okay, okay, I'll answer. I'm not going to try and provide any sorts of "canon" excuses, because what's canon isn't really of great importance to me. These are just my views on the subject.
I don't seriously ship either pairing. In fact, I don't ship either at all. But I have developed views on them.
In my opinion, Rukia and Ichigo's relationship is very...complex. I don't view them as just close friends, but I can't view them in any sort of romance dynamic either. In my opinion, Rukia has a love for Ichigo. And Ichigo has a love for Rukia. But the two "love"s are completely separate. They don't "love each other", in terms of mutually expressing endearment to one another. It's more of a kind of sense of respect and deep friendship. Love doesn't just have to describe romantic and swoony feelings. People love their friends and love their families, and the feelings are all very different, but they're still love. So there's nothing stopping me from saying that Ichigo could love Rukia and vice versa. But that doesn't mean I would be overjoyed if they suddenly became boyfwiend and girlfwiend. I think their relationship is completely different than that, and suddenly being in that kind of a situation would change their dynamic entirely. And not necessarily for the good. As far as love goes, I think they're pretty well off right now, without needing a label like "lovers". Their relationship is almost deeper because of this.
As for Ichigo and Orhime, well, I haven't given as much thought to that. I actually do ship Ulquihime, regardless of canon or not, because I believe that after long enough Ulquiorra could bring out a more mature and serious side to Orihime, and she could bring out some feelings in him. Because of this, I'm probably not going to suddenly fall in love with Ichihime. But I'm not going to try and tell you that it's real because Ulqui wrote a poem and then they reached for each other's hands.
We all know that Orihime loves Ichigo. So at the very least it's a one sided relationship. As far as Ichigo, it seems he has little knowledge of her feeling for him, and if anything his gentleness towards her is because she's so delicate around him. If she and Rukia suddenly swapped personalities, I'm not sure if he would treat Rukia the same way as he treats Orihime, but he would without a doubt in my mind treat Orihime the same as he outwardly treats Rukia. Sarcastic and teasing. As for which of them he's closer to, I'd probably say Rukia, just based on normal human emotions. He's only really started talking to Orihime after Rukia showed up, but during their knowing each other he went through a lot more with Rukia than he did with Orihime. It would only be natural for him to feel closer to her.
So all in all, and this is getting pretty long so I should probably wrap it up, I'd say he's closer to Rukia, but I wouldn't call them "in love", and I can't see Ichigo entering a romantic relationship with either of them any time soon.
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