Of Swords and Parasols

I think those occassions of wanting to beat him about the head prove that I at least feel something deeply about him. There is no "meh" quality about me and Byakuya. I either like him or he makes me furious. And he is a deeply flawed character. Probably the most arrogant I've seen out of the good guys, yet you never really doubt that his heart is in the right place in the end. And while he treated Rukia terribly, I have a hard time thinking that he didn't love her sister deeply. Byakuya isn't just emotionally cold, a lot of times he feels emotionally dead, yet I think he did love Rukia's sister to the best of his capacity, which would make her death even harder to someone who is never emotionally vulnerable (Byakuya's "you have to put on a tough face" probably didn't even give him an opportunity to grieve).