Hikaru

Website
Name:	Hikaru
Owner/Maintainer:	Crystal (ZerudaORG)
Dates:	2011-present
Type:	Character Shrine
Fandom:	Bleach
URL:	http://rukia.zeruda.org/, Archived version,
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Hikaru is a one-page character shrine for Rukia Kuchiki from the anime series Bleach.

The shrine is listed on Amassment, Emotion and the Badass Bitches directory. It was created in July 2011 for the Amassment One Page, One Month Shrine Marathon.

Extracts from shrine

Rukia is a character that caught my attention right away when I first saw her in the anime with her strength and grace and after watching her and learning more about her character I learned we are a lot alike. She's completely awesome and I love her dearly. Even though I don't follow the series anymore––I do hope to get back into it one day––Rukia still holds a special place in my heart, as does this site, which is why I chose to keep the site online.

I found Rukia's theme song to be rather interesting after looking it up, and although I don't know what thoughts went through the creator's head as to why this song was chosen I thought I would at least share my thoughts on it. Rukia's theme song is Wing-Stock by Ashley MacIsaac which is a rather interesting piece. It is a Celtic song which starts out slow and gradually gets faster. The song reminds me of an evolution or a series of events. Kinda like how Rukia's personality changed from the beginning of the series to later on. Where at the beginning she carries all this blame on herself and thinks of herself as nothing where later on those thoughts change and she begins to rely more on her friends and loose that guilt she'd been carrying (or at least enough that it doesn't control her life near as much).

For some reason I made this site without adding a page on why I like Rukia and so I'm attempting to do this now. Be warned though that I've had nothing to do with Bleach for years so a lot of what I liked about Rukia may have been forgotten. I really should try and get back into this series. But anyway, let's see if I can remember any of my thoughts from when I first made this site. Well, from what I mentioned on the introduction, I loved Rukia when I first saw her because of her strength and grace. Not sure why that is, but those things are greatly appealing to me, especially with female characters (maybe it's because I lack any kind of grace *cough*). After getting to know Rukia more and learning how much alike we were at the time I loved her even more. I once thought myself inferior to everyone, and thought everyone would be better off without me, just like her, but I am slowly learning that I am awesome just the way I am and that I am important, too. I hope Rukia discovers that too, because she has people who consider her to be important to them (why else would Ichigo and company try to rescue her?). Aside from that though we both care strongly about the ones we love, and would do anything for them. I think it's something important to remember as sometimes we can be so wrapped up in ourselves and forget about others.

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