#it's just v hard because they're both kinda stubborn imo.
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Can you see an au where Gin reads Orihime like a book when she gets kidnapped by Aizen and understand why she's really there(mostly because he is in a similar situation), convince her to team up with him and take Aizen down together? Maybe Gin still loses his arm but in a less painful way.
out of character. HELLO AGAIN ! Thanks for the ask ! I myself have been guilty of daydreaming all possibilities in terms of what Gin could have done differently, so I’ve certainly thought about this one in particular before. It’s cute, it’s entertaining, it gives Orihime a chance to shine in an otherwise dropped plotline in which she takes away the Hogyoku using her unique powers of rejecting space and time. It’s all really cool ! But I’ve also come to a conclusion...
As fun as that sounds, it’s sadly a tad bit unrealistic to both Gin’s character as well as Orihime’s in that point in canon. She has no reason to trust Gin, SHE MET HIM ONLY BRIEFLY DURING RUKIA’S RESCUE and he was, not surprisingly, absolutely awful and terrifying. Why would Orihime, at canon’s face-value, trust that Gin isn’t simply pulling her leg and making her admit that she has a churning plot to try and negate Aizen’s Hogyoku whilst captured? In her eyes, she’s surrounded by enemies, and the last person I reckon she’d feel safe confessing treason to would be Aizen’s right hand man.
And Gin has no reason to seek a human teenager out in attempt to take Aizen down alongside her; one, he’s not big on involving others in general, he’s a lone wolf type and he’s been validated for decades via Shinji being taken out, Urahara being exiled, that anyone who takes a shot at Aizen with the power of friendship / connections to others, open weaknesses, etc. would simply become manipulated and thus disposed of in various creative ways. Gin involving a girl he hardly knows goes against his strict trust issues, too. Not only that, but that would endanger Orihime instantly by bringing her into a scheme that has been a century in the making up against the most powerful Shinigami yet, whilst she is also a prisoner of war and going through self-doubt, trauma, and life or death scenarios as is. I DON’T SEE GIN EVER WILLINGLY APPROACHING SOMEONE ELSE TO HAVE THEM TEAM UP WITH HIM IN GENERAL.
Yeah, it’s frustrating for us to look back on Gin’s choices, his secrecy, the whole grand thing, but we can’t lose sight of the fact that THERE’S A REASON GIN NEVER TOLD ANYONE, never sought any help.
Aizen kept track of all loose ends. It took Gin meticulously unraveling and obscuring his connections to Rangiku for Aizen to still be, at least somewhat, confused when Gin reported that he had killed her, and had no feelings for her. AIZEN ISN’T DUMB, and the quote “I knew this (that you wanted me dead), but I brought you with me regardless” -- Aizen may not have known Gin’s reasonings, his desires, his heart, but HE KNEW ENOUGH TO BE CAUTIOUS, having never shown Gin his blade within arm’s reach when alone with him because that would be all it’d take for Gin to backstab him. There’s an unspoken threat, as shown with the multiple times Hitsugaya made his move at Aizen only to put Hinamori into harms way, or directly into his blade’s path, via Aizen’s manipulation of the playing board -- that Aizen has no issue playing dirty, jabbing at weaknesses with the courtesy of Kyoka Suigetsu’s warping ways. If Orihime’s ready to take down Aizen and Gin decides to make his move with her there, who’s to say Shinso’s stabbing Aizen and not Orihime, then? It’s tricky. HE NEEDS TO BE ALONE.
Not to mention the extremely unfortunate fact: If Orihime confessed she wishes to negate the Hogyoku, GIN WOULDN’T WANT THAT TO HAPPEN. He is selfishly and self-destructively hellbent on returning Rangiku’s stolen soul piece to her, and destroying the Hogyoku goes against that wish, even if in hindsight it makes the most sense for him to take that route for a better chance at successfully killing Aizen. It’s even hard for me to justify whether or not Orihime was even present to HEAL GIN FROM DYING in Karakura Town, as she wasn’t there yet and had no reason to B-line for anywhere other than where Ichigo was.
THAT AAALLLLLLLLLLLLL BEING SAID....
I fucking love the idea of Gin and Orihime bonding, since it’s shown that Rangiku and Orihime got along great and it’s a very maternal (but in a ‘cool mom’ way) friendship between the two, IT’S NOT TOO FAR OFF TO ASSUME, IN BETTER SETTINGS, GIN WOULD ALSO GET ALONG WELL WITH HER. Gin and Rangiku share a lot of the same likes and dislikes, and actually a lot personality-wise, too, when one half of the coin isn’t committing war crimes and dying. It’s safe to say that outside of the conflicts and betrayal, perhaps, they could have made some form of makeshift family. At least, that’s what I like to tell myself when I’m in a more fluffy hurt/comfort mood with Gin’s canon divergent routes.
Canon-wise, it’s hard to say, it feels inevitable that Gin couldn’t succeed because so much of his character’s flaws rested in the belief that he HAD to do this all in the first place, alone, suicidal in nature, and the only way for him to learn and grow and develop past that would be to fail AND live. That’s why my Redemption Verse exists, to explore his rebirthing and the various connections made thereafter. I CAN CERTAINLY SEE GIN AND ORIHIME MEETING AGAIN AFTER THE WAR, but there would be no talk of conflicts or schemes between them. The priority here would be APOLOGIZING FOR THE HARM SHE WENT THROUGH, regardless of how indirect of a part he had in it, because Gin, if anything, does not enjoy seeing girls cry due to Aizen’s manipulative ways.
From there, they can absolutely team-up for badass moments. I like the idea of Gin visiting the human world and crashing at Orihime’s because Rangiku’s insisted they pop by for a movie night, and things of that nature. I LIKE INCLUDING ORIHIME IN THESE HAPPIER MOMENTS BECAUSE SHE’S JUST A KID, AND GIN DOESN’T WANT TO DRAG HER INTO ANYTHING AWFUL. Orihime’ll have to be the one to be like ‘we’re doing this’ and Gin’ll go along for the ride.
Things are lighter and more possible once the whole Aizen ship has sailed and sank.
#[ out of character ] masquerade; hide your face#[ headcanon ] fresh snowfall; fading footprints mark his path#i have thought about this a lot and i feel like if given the right circumstances and development with an orihime then MAYBE THIS COULD WORK#but gin would need to earn orihime's trust -- which idk how he could.#and not only that but GIN WOULD HAVE TO TRUST ORIHIME to admit for the first time in all his life what he's been gearing up to do --#it's just v hard because they're both kinda stubborn imo.#not about to risk it all with this unlikely ally.#BUT I APPRECIATE YOUR ASK.
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