Michelle Sasaki | Orihime Inoue

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OOC Information:
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IC Information:
Name: Preincarnation: Orihime Inoue; Reincarnation: Michelle Sasaki
Canon and medium: Bleach; manga
Age: 17
Preincarnation Species: Human
Preincarnation Appearance: http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/File:Orihime%27s_Fringe.png pre-timeskip
http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/File:Episode_347_Orihime.png post-timeskip
Any differences: Her hair is a darker reddish auburn color instead of straight-up orange, and she doesn’t wear the flower hairpins.
Starting location: Locke City, NJ
Preincarnated History: wiki

tl;dr KUROSAKI-KUNNNNNNNNNNN

For a slightly more detailed version:

Orihime Inoue was the second child of abusive parents, fifteen years younger than her older brother Sora. When Sora turned eighteen, he ran away from home with Orihime in tow, raising her by himself. This went decently well, and they were happy together until one day Sora died in an accident. She prayed for him every day after that until she met and became friends with Tatsuki Arisawa, and slowly began to pray for him less and less because she wanted him to know she was happy. Unbeknownst to her, however, Sora’s soul has not been able to “pass on” into the next life, and as per her begging him to not leave her as he died, had lingered as a spirit in Karakura town, watching over her as she went about her life. Unfortunately, the longer a spirit lingers in the world of the living, the longer they run the risk of becoming a hollow—either by their chain of fate completely encroaching on its own, or being devoured by other hollows, the latter of which became the fate of Sora. This led him to attack Orihime, tearing her soul from her body so she could see him and blaming his state on her no longer praying for him. Ichigo with his new substitute shinigami powers makes his way onto the scene, fighty times happen, feelings happen, and the incident closes off with Sora’s personality reasserting itself over the hollow and purifying himself with Ichigo’s zanpakutou having reconciled with Orihime and her having finally been able to give him the proper goodbye she never got the chance to the day he died.

Monster of the Week shenanigans go on for awhile, mostly irrelevant to Orihime until she starts developing spiritual power of her own from Ichigo’s overflowing geyser of uncontained spiritual pressure. The Shun Shun Rikka manifest in the hairclips Sora had given her so many years ago, and she kills the shit out of the hollow that injured Tatsuki. Unfortunately, this is pretty much the only badass moment we ever get to have from her because Kubo sucks.

Anyway, a Quincy named Uryuu Ishida ends up joining their group after essentially a dick-measuring contest in terms of who can kill the most hollows between him and Ichigo ends up in him getting injured saving Ichigo’s life (because shonen), Chad develops spiritual power too, and all this spiritual power floating about finally alerts Soul Society to get off their ass and retrieve Rukia and punish her for the crime of giving her power to a human. Except that’s not really what dragging Rukia back is about at all, because Aizen is a giant douchebag and pretty much engineered the entire execution idea so he could get at the Hougyouku that Urahara put inside Rukia (SHONEN…), and a talking black cat named Yoruichi offers to train Ichigo, Orihime, Chad, and Uryuu in their powers alongside Urahara so that they can invade Soul Society to rescue Rukia. (why a cat? Because fucking shonen, that’s why.)

So training stuff happens, most of which is relevant to Ichigo only because he needed to get his shinigami powers back after Byakuya trashed his shit up, and after all that Urahara opens up a senkaimon to the Soul Society. The problem is, they can’t actually get into the Seireitei where Rukia is being held because there’s a giant barrier thing surrounding it from all sides including the air, so obviously the solution is to blow a hole in it with spirit cannonballs (this is exactly what it sounds like I’m not even kidding here). After a lot of shenaniganry and bullshit along with some heartbreaking backstory stuff that’s irrelevant to Orihime, they get on their way. Of course, being shonen, it’s not like their entrance into Seireitei would be smooth or easy, so due to more shenaniganry with Ichigo and Ganju (the younger brother of the lady who came up with the spirit cannonballs) the spirit cannonball explodes into four little spirit cannonballs and the Ichigang gets all separated as Seireitei’s alarms go off and an entire military force of hundreds of death gods come to kill them. Did I mention this was a shonen manga yet?

This is where some serious Kubo writerfail comes in because apparently Orihime can easily knock out a couple of them at once without her powers and steal their uniforms for her and Uryuu to blend in, but the next moment her actual power fails to do anything to a shinigami and Uryuu has to save her. Sighs heavily. She doesn’t get to do anything particularly interesting for the rest of the arc aside from being barrier maiden and occasionally healing, and even that role sort of gets co-opted by Hanatarou, who joins up with Ichigo and Ganju because he wants to save Rukia.

By the end of that arc, though, Yoruichi turns out to be a hot lady, Rukia’s safe, Aizen has gone off to Hueco Mundo with Tousen and Ichimaru and some Menos, Ichigo gets deemed a hero and is given a substitute pass so he can change into a shinigami at will (and also to spy on him oops, though that doesn’t get revealed for several more arcs). Rukia stays behind in Soul Society, Ichigo and friends go home, life is good, right?

Wrong, because this is a shonen manga you’re talking about.

A ~~mysterious transfer student~~ named Shinji appears, tells Ichigo to join his group, and he’s like da fuq are you, and Shinji continues to bait him and be lolmysterious until they end up having a fight, and Shinji has a zanpakutou somehow but he’s Mysterious see, so he can’t reveal anything unless Ichigo joins his group. Ichigo is still like fuck you no, though, which of course bites him in the ass later, when the Espada Ulquiorra and Yammy show up in the World of the Living. Orihime initially runs away with Tatsuki on Chad’s request, but comes back when she sees how badly Chad is being beat up. She gets attacked and tries to fight back with Tsubaki (the offensive Shun Shun Rikka spirit), which gets completely obliterated before Ichigo shows up to save the day but fails and Urahara and Yoruichi have to instead, which makes him depressed! And Orihime gets depressed about not being able to ease Ichigo’s depression in a particularly depressing form of depressionception.

Anyway, the incident causes Soul Society to send a group of shinigami to protect the human world, and two of them (Captain Toshirou Hitsugaya and Lieutenant Rangiku Matsumoto) stay at Orihime’s place. Hitsugaya and the others explain more about the arrancar threat (hollows that have gained shinigami power via the Hougyouku Aizen pulled out of Rukia’s body) and Grimmjow Jaegerjaques and some lesser arrancar attack Karakura Town, and Ichigo gets distressed enough about the outcome to seek out Shinji’s mysterious group of mysteriousness, who apparently all have hollow masks like he does! But of course he does it in the most confrontational way possible and there’s a bunch of fighty bullshit before infodump finally happens that he (and they) are something called vizards, shinigami who’ve gained hollow abilities. Proper training happens after this where he fights each of the vizards while fighting his inner hollow in his inner world to gain control.

So how does this relate to Orihime? Well, at the same time as the fighty bullshit was going on, the shinigami in the World of the Living get a message from Head Captain Yamamoto that they’ve figured out Aizen’s plan. As it turns out, Aizen wants to use Karakura Town to make the ōken so that he can enter the dimension that the King of Soul Society and the Royal Guard inhabit and become the supremest of all supreme beings, and Orihime needs to tell people so they can prepare for the coming war. She follows Ichigo’s spiritual pressure to where the vizard training is happening, meets the vizards, passes on the message, and gets taken to Urahara by Yoruichi, where he tells her to stay out of the coming fights because without her offensive power she’ll be a liability, and she gets upset because way to have zero tact Urahara. Hiyori brings Orihime back to the vizards’ hideout where Hachi explains the nature of her powers and fixes Tsubaki, and she and Rukia go to Soul Society to train together while Urahara reflects on some bullshit about how Orihime’s heart is LOL TOO GENTLE to really fight, which is bullshit, but alas.

Anyway, Aizen decides Orihime’s powers are interesting and decides to have her kidnapped on her way back from the Soul Society, and because he is a Magnificent Bastard, he doesn’t stop at just kidnapping, but decides to make it look like she went of her own volition. Which sucks, because Soul Society doesn’t want to send out a rescue mission for a possible traitor. Never fear, though, for this is a shonen manga, which means the Power of Friendship reigns supreme, and Ichigo and friends go off to Hueco Mundo to save Orihime anyway, and are joined by Rukia and Renji, who are kind of passively given the nod by Byakuya to go be insubordinate and save their friend. Orihime hears wind of her friends coming for her and is FILLED WITH HOPE once again after being certain that coming quietly was the best way to protect her friends. She gets a cool moment where she gets to slap Ulquiorra and almost gets to be badass again as she swears to use her powers to erase the Hougyouku from existence after Aizen claims it to be central to his plan, but she never actually gets to make any sort of significant contribution to that because lol, Ichigo’s the hero over here. Some stuff happens with Grimmjow over the course of the arc where Orihime has to heal his arm on display for the other Espada, then he later kills the arrancar Loly and Menoly while they were beating her up as “thanks” and drags her to where Ichigo is sort-of-but-not-actually dead to heal him so he can fight him again, she heals him, he beats Grimmjow, then has to fight Nnoitra while Tesla holds Orihime captive (by grabbing around her neck, despite her supposedly being black-belt level in karate, idk either man), gets his ass mightily kicked, and the captains arrive in Hueco Mundo because I guess they changed their minds about Orihime being a traitor??? Or just because they need Ichigo not to be dead, who the fuck even knows. Kenpachi wins his battle and Nel (a friendly arrancar who used to be one of the Espada) and Ichigo get healed, with Kenpachi next, but before that can happen Starrk appears and re-kidnaps her (she gets kidnapped a lot in this arc oops). Aizen appears, reveals that Everything Was Part Of His Master Plan once again--i.e. kidnapping Orihime was a ruse to trap as many shinigami in Hueco Mundo as possible while he destroys Karakura Town--and leaves Orihime with Ulquiorra as he goes to the World of the Living. Long story short, Orihime has another of those Power of Friendship speeches, Ichigo sort-of-dies again, doesn’t actually die again, plotbullshits his way to victory and Ulquiorra has an epiphany about heart/the Power of Friendship as he dies. The plot then proceeds to ignore Orihime again until the end of the arc after Aizen’s defeated and Ichigo collapses at his friends’ feet.

Timeskip 17 months, Ichigo is living a normal human life again like he thought he wanted except he’s actually miserable, blah blah weh weh. Mysterious shit is going on that nobody’s sure about at first, Uryu ends up in the hospital and Chad hasn’t been to school in awhile and Orihime gets attacked by a guy called Tsukishima with something called a fullbring. So it turns out a group called Xcution are training Ichigo in Fullbring because his shinigami powers are gone, and a lot more bullshit happens with the fullbringers that I actually don’t know anything about because this is where I stopped following bleach ha-whoops. According to the wiki though she and Chad get memoryfucked by Tsukishima toward the end and fight Ichigo but go back to normal after Tsukishima dies.

Some time after that, it turns out there are a group of Quincy known as the Wandenreich who survived getting massacred by the shinigami two hundred years ago, and now they want their godsdamned revenge. They conquered Hueco Mundo and captured a bunch of arrancar and killed Sasakibe. Tl;dr these are some bad motherfuckers and they want to fuck Soul Society’s shit up. So the Ichigang get called in to help out (though Uryu declines to go) and they go to Hueco Mundo and find a shitton of wreckage and corpses and fighty bullshit ensues as they try to rescue some captured arrancar. Later she treks across the Hueco Mundo desert with Chad to the Negal Ruins and muses on how despite the impending war things are peaceful, with humans like them in Hueco Mundo saving arrancar and trying to help shinigami, and hopes things can be like this forever.

Reincarnated History: Michelle Sasaki’s parents had all the makings of an archetypical “love at first sight” couple. They met at a café on their college campus, fell into a whirlwind romance, and intended to get married as soon as they both graduated. Their friends thought they were soulmates and that they’d be together forever.

…Until Michelle’s mom ended up pregnant, anyway. Her fiancé couldn’t handle the responsibility and commitment of being a father and promptly dumped her before they could get married, disappearing without so much as a contact number left behind.

Despite the burdens that she knew she would face, she decided to carry the baby to term anyway, and raised Michelle herself. She did the best she possibly could as a single mother, picking up a couple of jobs and selling handmade craft pieces on the side to try to make ends meet. Michelle’s mother couldn’t afford a babysitter, so Michelle spent most of the day with her, and they were very close. When she was seven, however, her mother passed away due to complications from pneumonia, and she was sent across the country to live with her grandfather in New Jersey. Their initial relationship was very volatile, each of them blaming the other for [Michelle’s mother’s] death, but eventually their shared grief brought them together, and Michelle came to accept him as her new guardian.

They lived together mostly content for the next four years, until one day he didn’t come to wake her up for school. She found him collapsed in his bedroom and called 911, but by the time the paramedics arrived, it was already too late and he was pronounced dead at the scene. She screamed and threw a fit and called the paramedics stupid and terrible at their jobs, but there was no denying the reality of it—he was gone. With no other living relatives, Michelle was put into the foster care system, and as she got shuffled around from foster home to foster home over the next six years, she came to the unsettling realization that she was all alone in the world.

Perhaps even more unsettling-- at seventeen, working as a waitress in [location] for money as she applies to colleges in the city and months away from aging out of the system and settling down in Locke permanently—she’s realized she doesn’t particularly care for that to change.

First Echo: One day Michelle was alone at her current foster home and her foster parents hadn’t yet gone grocery shopping, so there wasn’t much to eat around the house. She made herself something to eat with red bean paste and bread, which echo’d back her strange sense of taste.

Preincarnation Personality: Strange. Clueless. Ditz. Cloudcuckoolander. At first glance, these might be the words one would use to describe Orihime. And you wouldn’t be wrong, necessarily--Orihime is most definitely someone who marches to the beat of her own drum in nearly every walk of life. She has tastes in food that almost no one else shares, makes bizarre leaps in logic, and lets her imagination run away with her at the slightest provocation.

But much as she might appear as though she doesn’t have a care in the world, her ditzy, airheaded temperament only just scratches the surface. She’s independent, living on her own at a young age with only financial support from a distant aunt, contingent on her academic success. She’s surprisingly intelligent, in the top three in her entire school at one point, and she can read people well, even if she doesn’t always know what to say. She’s a girl with a big heart, one she wears on her sleeve and that bleeds for her friends and enemies alike, crying for Ulquiorra as he disintegrates and even reviving Loly and Menoly after they are killed by Grimmjow, despite them constantly harassing and beating her.

And it is her heart that stands out, as Orihime is a girl who is defined and defines herself by her relationships to the people she loves. A child of abusive parents, her older brother Sora ran away with her when she was only three years old for fear of her life, and from then until his death, he was all she had in life. She grew her hair long because he loved the color, even though she was bullied for it, and when her classmates cut it short, she lied that she “wanted a change” to spare Sora the worry. When she meets him again as a hollow, she intercepts a vicious attack from him just to be able to hug him, to apologize for having asked him to stay with her and then made him so lonely, so that he will be able to pass on. But the interesting thing about that is she prayed for him all the time after his death, in the time between then and meeting Tatsuki, time during which she was completely isolated. It was Tatsuki that allowed her to move on, to become happy again, and she stopped praying for him in the hopes that it would allow his soul to rest in peace knowing that she was. She wears the hairpins her brother gave him every day as a token of how much she loved him; she keeps her hair long as a symbol of her faith in Tatsuki--both signs kept on her person of two of the most important people in her world.

And when she falls for Ichigo? She falls deep and she falls hard. The entire axis of her universe shifts, and Ichigo becomes the center of it, so much so that when she is given only one person to say goodbye to before being taken away to Hueco Mundo, she chooses Ichigo over even Tatsuki, her best friend and rock for years. Ichigo is strong and brave and fights with courage and determination, defends the defenseless and protects his loved ones, his siblings like Sora did his best to protect her. He is everything Orihime wishes she could be, and her feelings for him sometimes better resemble hero worship than a simple crush.

She desperately wants to fight and protect like he and the others do, and she gets upset when the fighting is done and she needed to be protected herself or feels like hasn’t contributed enough. She wonders if she served any purpose at all in Soul Society while they were rescuing Rukia. She gets jealous about Rukia being able to pull Ichigo out of his funk when she couldn’t, and feels guilty for the jealousy. She gets upset when Urahara suggests she stay out of the Winter War for her own safety. This is only exacerbated by the fact that she doesn’t actually care for senseless violence; other characters have remarked on her lack of a killing intent, on her ineffectiveness in combat because of the gentility of her spirit. Orihime is the kind of person who can’t bear to see anyone suffer, after all. She tries to compensate by covering up her feelings with a smile, hiding them away so they don’t bother anyone else.

But even though she can get tunnel-vision and hyperfocus on her weaknesses, one of the most important things about Orihime is she never gives up. She never loses faith in her friends, in Ichigo, in the fundamental good nature of all living things, in the idea that everything will work out in the end. She can see the bright side in a downpour (I wish I could become the rain, so I could touch the hearts of people), and that will always be her greatest strength.

Any differences: Take Orihime’s base temperament and surface traits--the cheerful airheaded ditziness, the overall cloudcuckoolander strangeness. Now imagine that all those things are not merely the first layer of a more complicated individual, and instead, an act altogether. That is Michelle Sasaki in a nutshell.

Michelle is a much more cynical and pessimistic person than Orihime. She does not see the best in people, does not give them the benefit of the doubt or even try to. She blames the father she never met for everything that’s ever gone wrong with her life, and that along with her mother and grandfather’s deaths and being shuffled around in the foster care system have led her to become very bitter and angry. Michelle has lost faith in the point of developing bonds with others--in the end, they’ll either leave or die, so what’s the point? She believes happy endings only exist in fairytales, and those who think otherwise are either naive or deluding themselves.

But though she tries to think she’s above it all, that she’s done with getting close to people, with people in general, she’s incredibly lonely. She wants to love and be loved, and she’s an extrovert at heart. Being around people energizes her, but she’s afraid at the same time, because letting someone in got her mother hurt, and she herself has lost the only two people she’s ever loved. So she pretends to be that ditz, the airhead, the brainless beauty, because if people think that’s all there is to her, they won’t really pay her any attention. She can blend into the crowd and interact with people without any necessity for commitment or personal investment on her end.

And where Orihime wanted more than anything to be a protector so she could fight alongside her friends, Michelle doesn’t really have any such heroic leanings. That’s not to say she is lacking in compassion; she might stop to help an old lady with.her groceries--even if only because she thinks no one else will, and if she sees someone injured she’ll call 911 and even stay with them to make sure they don’t die until help arrives, but when it comes to putting herself at risk for the sake of others? She just doesn’t have that drive. She’s never had that influence of friends like Tatsuki and Ichigo and Rukia and Chad and Uryu, never truly experienced the selfless desire to help people either personally or in someone else, and she considers such things almost as foolish as the idea of ~True Love~ in romance in the real world..

Michelle is also a lot less forgiving than Orihime. She’s quietly judgmental, can take offense easily, and holds grudges that she will carry to the ends of the earth. And while she might let certain transgressions slide if it suits her, if she considers herself wronged, the injuring party might as well be dead to her. Second chances are a rare and elusive thing with her, which seeking may be more trouble than its worth. She’ll never say it out loud, though; it wouldn’t fit with the ditzy mask. But after a while, one does start to question if she’s really managed to not notice you “accidentally” that many times, or why it’s always your things she manages to “trip” over.

Abilities: Orihime’s powers manifest in the form of six fairies that reside within her hairpins: Ayame, Baigon, Hinagiku, Lily, Shun’o, and Tsubaki-- the Shun Shun Rikka. The six fairies represent different part of her personality. She can use their powers in various combinations to “reject” events. There are four canonical uses of the Shun Shun Rikka:

Santen Kesshun - A defensive ability, creating a three-pointed shield between Orihime and an attack. The shield is created by Baigon, Hinagiku, and Lily.

Soten Kisshun - In this ability, Ayame and Shun’o create a sort of enclosure within which Orihime can reject and reverse any damage done. This ability is more like time manipulation than true healing, as it is capable, for example, of reviving the dead and restoring severed limbs without the presence of the original limb to reattach, and the vizard Hachigen Ushoda, who states her powers are much like his own, is able to restore Tsubaki without a single piece of him left. Aizen has referred to this power as The Rejection of Events, and has commented it trespasses on God’s territory.

Koten Zanshun - An offensive ability that creates a shield inside of something, and repels “both sides of the shield”, splitting the enemy in two. Tsubaki has the potential to cut through anything, though his effectiveness is often limited by Orihime’s dislike of combat and lack of killing intent.

Shiten Koshun - Tsubaki is integrated into Hinagiku, Baigon, and Lily’s shield, which becomes pyramidal in shape. It takes the energy of an attack and returns it back on the attacker in the form of a concentrated explosion.

Orihime also is highly skilled at sensing the spiritual energy at others and has a natural talent for precise reiatsu control, such as how she was the first of the group to master creating Kuukaku Shiba’s spirit cannonball when they were preparing to invade Soul Society. She is also said to have equivalent martial arts skill to a black belt in karate.

Roleplay Sample - Third Person: test drive

Roleplay Sample - Network:

omg this is all so cool!!!! (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:・ﾟ✧ i tried the paper trick and everything, i can’t believe this has been around for so long and i didn’t know w(@。@;)w

this means we’re all like superheroes right??? or maybe more like secret agents, since we need to be all sneakyish with the magical superpower echo stuff so the cops can’t get us

or NINJAS

OH!! MAYBE SECRET AGENT NINJA HEROES ☆*:.｡. o(≧▽≦)o .｡.:*☆

we should totally have a neat secret agent ninja hero group name
and a catchphrase
and costumes
oooh and maybe a theme song like in child champs

~~*when there’s trouble you know who to call*~~

it’ll be good for morale!! (⌒▽⌒)☆
btw i'm ai its very nice to meet you all ヽ(‘ ∇‘ )ノ
let’s kick lots of alien booty together (ღ˘⌣˘ღ)

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