Character info for Project Purity!
Character Name: Inoue Orihime
Character Age: 16
Canon + Format: Bleach (manga)
Background: Orihime's Bleach wiki page
Canon Point: chapter 423 (current chapter)
Personality: At first blush, Inoue Orihime is your typical ditzy airhead. She daydreams a lot, giggles a lot, and has a rather obvious crush on the main character, Ichigo. By her own admission, she sometimes daydreams so much that she injures herself by running into things. She also has trouble with technology in general and cellphones in particular; she's been noted not to be able to keep or even understand how to use a cell. And none of this seems to bother her quite that much.
Her daydreams are also often quite vivid. In one memorable sequence, she begins by thinking of a romantic date with Ichigo in the park and winds up with the daydream being about her being a boxing champion that gets assassinated after a title bout. When asked to draw a 'future' version of herself, she instead draws a futuristic Jetsons-esque super-destructive robot version of herself that shoots fire from its mouth and rockets from its boobs. And while all these daydreams showcase Orihime's incredible imagination, they also make some sort of warped sense - there's a logical progression in her park daydream that takes her from racing in the park to racing in the Olympics to winning the gold medal to winning the heavyweight championship to being assassinated as a famous boxer. With her 'future' picture, she doesn't actually believe she'll become a hyper-destructive robot someday - she simply misunderstood the assignment and drew herself in the same 'future' that people refer to when they talk about flying cars.
But when you barely scratch the surface of that ditzy exterior, you'll find that Orihime is actually a fairly intelligent, sensitive girl with a big heart. Not only is she third in her entire class, she seems to know most of the people in it and is quite observant. She's usually the first to notice if something is wrong with one of her close friends; her best friend Tatsuki even comments at one point that Orihime caught something wrong with Ichigo that it took her several years to notice, and she was the one who pointed out to Ichigo that Ishida had lost his powers after the Soul Society arc and probably didn't want anyone else to know. Rukia's memory replacement device also wore off on her relatively quickly, letting her remember being attacked by her brother's hollow; she was also the only one to confront Ichigo about Rukia's absence after she was taken back to Soul Society (at which point she subsequently tells him that he needs to go save 'her friend Rukia').
Behind her smiles and laughter, though, lies an extremely self-conscious and critical person who dwells on her faults and her own perceived uselessness. Regardless of how much she's helped her friends by healing or shielding them, Orihime always fears being a 'burden' and needing protected by her friends. To make matters worse, Orihime's child-like and cheerful nature frequently encourages people to want to protect her; several of her friends and even their team's mentor, Urahara, have gone so far as to say she has no place on a battlefield because of her kind and gentle nature (although at least in Urahara's case, he was simply trying to keep her out of the sights of a much worse threat). And while Orihime doesn't resent any of her friends for it, she does resent needing protection; instead of blaming any of them, she will always turn her resentment inward, blaming herself for being too weak to go without their protection. And while she has come to understand that her friends all want to protect her as much as she wants to protect them, she still does want to become stronger.
No coverage of Orihime would be complete without covering the most important people in her life, and the first of those is her big brother Sora. Sora was born fifteen years before Orihime and suffered a great deal of abuse at the hands of their parents - their father was a drunk and their mother was a whore and both of them were so abusive they'd rather hit a baby than listen to it cry. When Sora turned eighteen, he took his three year old sister out of that home and struck out on his own with her.
From then until the time he died when Orihime was twelve, Orihime was Sora's world. By all accounts she seemed to grow up loved and fairly well-adjusted with Sora, despite the occasional bullying at school because of her hair color. Sora also gave Orihime her trademarked blue hairpins that house her powers; she only takes them off to sleep and to shower, as they're a memento of her beloved Sora.
After Sora's death, Orihime continued to speak to his portrait every day, telling him how her day was, how school went, and what her friends were like. One of the first big clues to Orihime's character comes when she explains that she stopped crying and being sad for her brother because she didn't want him to see her sad, even though he was dead; she preferred to hide her tears from him and put on a smile, even if it hurt her, just so he wouldn't worry.
Unfortunately, her selflessness backfired; instead of seeing how happy Orihime wanted him to believe she was, all Sora's spirit saw was how happy she was without him. Eventually, this ate away at his being until he became a hollow - a fallen soul who hungers for other souls. When he became a hollow, Sora became obsessed with getting Orihime back by his side; so much so that he would rather eat or kill her outright than let Ichigo and her other friends 'have' her. Finally, thanks to Ichigo's intervention, Sora's soul was able to be purified and move on into the cycle of reincarnation (thankfully without killing Orihime).
The second important person in Orihime's life is Arisawa Tatsuki, her best friend. Tatsuki is the tomboy to Orihime's girly girl and the dragon to her princess; in fact, that's exactly what their names mean! Since they became friends in junior high school after Sora's death, Tatsuki has taken over the role of Orihime's protector, fending off jealous girls and amorous advances alike. She's also taught Orihime a few karate moves, which she claims would put her at roughly the level of a black belt or first dan.
For the first part of the manga, these two are inseparable and are always seen together. When Orihime first develops her powers, they come out to protect Tatsuki. Orihime declares that she will never forgive anyone who hurts Tatsuki and then finishes off the hollow that had hurt her. Sadly, as Orihime gets more and more involved in the world of shinigami and hollows, she and Tatsuki seem to grow farther apart. Even though they now seem to inhabit different worlds, Orihime is never far from Tatsuki's heart and vice-versa; indeed, when Orihime disappears to Hueco Mundo, Tatsuki knows she's gone even without any real powers of her own to speak of and with only the barest bit of spiritual awareness.
After Tatsuki, Orihime found another protector in the series' main character, Kurosaki Ichigo. Although Orihime has had a crush on Ichigo since chapter two (and technically before that), their first real interactions can be traced back to the day Sora died; Orihime brought her brother to Ichigo's family's clinic. After that, they were in the same first year high school class together. They seemed to be acquaintances, although nothing terribly close, until Sora's vengeful spirit attempted to kill Orihime. At this point, Ichigo used his new-found shinigami powers to save the day and in doing so drew Orihime irrevocably into the world of shinigami and hollows.
Past that, Ichigo is the one person Orihime wants to protect more than anyone. When trying to access her powers voluntarily for the first time, she is asked why she wants to go to Soul Society and fight; her answer is 'to protect Kurosaki-kun', and this unlocks her powers and makes them free for her to use. Aside from having a crush on him, she also admires his strength and ability to protect others. She wants the kind of power and ability that Ichigo possesses so that she won't have to rely on him or anyone else to help her or get hurt on her behalf. She's even stated that she never wants to be a burden on him and only wants to fight side-by-side with him instead of always seeing his back in battle.
The final person most important to Orihime is Kuchiki Rukia. Rukia and Orihime formed a bond when Rukia originally came to the human world; Orihime was quick to try and include Rukia in her and the other girls' activities at school and even told Ichigo to go rescue 'her friend Rukia' when he was unsure of whether to save Rukia from Soul Society or not. After that arc, Rukia was the only person to stand up and offer Orihime a hand up to help her train when Urahara barred her from fighting; she was the only person to offer Orihime her support in learning to fight and helping her to see herself as not being a burden on the battlefield.
Rukia is everything Orihime wishes she could be (at least as far as Orihime can see): confident, powerful, strong, pretty, and close to Ichigo. In fact, she even admits to Rangiku that she's jealous of her friend; instead of hating Rukia for her perceived flawlessness, though, Orihime turns her hatred inward and blames herself for being inferior and weak. Rukia offering to help train her goes a long way towards diffusing this situation, and by the time Rukia 'dies' in Hueco Mundo in an effort to save her, her last thoughts are of Orihime as Orihime desperately tries to reach her critically wounded friend.
In play, Orihime is a character that would not want others to see her unhappiness or insecurity. While it might peak through from time to time, she should be overall eager and able to make new friends, outgoing, and cheerful. Ideally, most people who talk to her casually should not realize she has any self-esteem issues (although she can be very self-depreciating and humble, this really isn't the same thing) and should only see a happy, outgoing, somewhat ditzy girl. Only very, very few select people that get very close to her should be able to tell that she has worries about herself and issues about being a burden.
Appearance: Orihime is fairly small by Western standards (and average by Japanese ones). She stands about 5'2" and weighs around 99lbs. Most of that figure is taken up with her large breasts; even though she doesn't dress to flatter them, they're one of the most prominent parts of her entire appearance, and one of the first things people usually notice and/or comment on. The other thing that stands out about her is her unusual bright auburn hair; however, this would only be considered odd by Japanese standards - Westerners would hardly find auburn hair to be worth commenting on.
Orihime can usually be found wearing concealing clothing. She favors ankle-length skirts with flower patterns and modest shirts with conservative necklines. Depending on the weather, she might wear a shorter skirt or shorts, but that's about as far as she goes. She's also never seen without the blue flower hairpins given to her by her late brother; the only time she removes them is when she showers and when she sleeps.
Abilities: Orihime has two basic sets of abilities: her spiritual sensitivity and the powers she actually uses for battle, which are based in her hairpins. While her spiritual sensitivity is a result of being in close proximity to Kurosaki Ichigo and his enormous spiritual energy (as evidenced by several of their classmates developing the ability to see ghosts), her exposure to the Hougyoku housed within Kuchiki Rukia's body (coupled with her desperate wish to help protect her friends) caused her to develop her own set of spiritual powers.
Orihime's spiritual sensitivity basically allows her to see ghosts, shinigami, and hollows. In addition to seeing them, she can touch, fight, speak to, and generally interact with them in all ways that she would be able to interact with a normal person. It also allows her to 'feel' the spiritual pressure of others, if they even have any. However, considering that the game environment shouldn't allow for too many bodiless ghosts roaming around, this ability will probably not be very useful.
Orihime's powers can be broken down into the three 'shields' that her hairpins generate. Each shield uses a different number of 'fairies', each representing two petals on her two six-petaled flower hairpins. If a fairy is injured or destroyed, the resulting damage will manifest on the corresponding two petals of that fairy's hairpin.
Theoretically, each of Orihime's shields operates based on her willpower. If she's feeling confident and healthy, her shields will be more effective; if she's upset, distracted, injured, disturbed, or if she's operating in a field of heavy reiatsu, her shields will be less effective. Likewise, just because they're heavily influenced by her willpower does not mean they are infallible or that she can beat anyone simply by wanting to. Her shields can be broken in numerous different ways, largely depending upon the power and ability of the person trying to break them.
Santen Kesshun: This is Orihime's defensive shield. It uses three of the fairies that live in her hairpins - Baigon, Lily, and Hinagiku - to create an orange, triangular barrier.
At its strongest in canon, this shield can stop a fairly powerful blow by a high-level opponent. Often after such a blow, the shield will crack or shatter entirely, but they've also been known to withstand quite a deal of constant pressure. Even after the shield has been broken, it can still be regenerated, albeit most likely at a weaker level than before. This does not mean that Orihime can regenerate shield after shield without weakening; such an effort would likely leave her drained and her shields little better than paper.
At its strongest in project_purity, considering the power cap and the time it would take for her powers to come back at all, I'd say the shields might be good against a single strike from a yao guai or a deathclaw (if she's lucky) before breaking. Considering this, it'd probably be best if she didn't encounter either of those things at all (or at least not by herself).
Souten Kisshun: This is Orihime's healing shield. It uses two of her fairies - Shun'oh, the 'captain' of her fairies, and Ayame - to create an orange, dome-shaped barrier.
According to Aizen, at its strongest in canon, this shield can literally reject any event that Orihime chooses that happened to the object inside the shield. In its most practical application, it can be used to heal wounds and erase damage done to objects and people. Among other things, her healing powers have regenerated limbs, sealed a hole punched through Ichigo's chest, reassembled half of someone's body from scratch, and even brought the dead back to life. It can also be used to trap people inside if she wants to hard enough.
Considering the game-breaking potential for this part of her powers, in the game setting I would have this reduced to the level it was about half-way through the series. I would prefer to have Orihime capable of healing severe wounds, but requiring several hours (or even days) to do it. For instance, when she heals Jidanbo's severed arm in the Soul Society arc, she needed the severed part of his arm as well as roughly 8 hours of concentration to do so. So no more creating new limbs from thin air, no really short healing times, no trapping anyone inside, and no raising the dead.
Kouten Zanshun: This is Orihime's offensive shield. It is comprised of one fairy, Tsubaki. Kouten Zanshun is used to create a shield inside an enemy and then reject whatever's on either side of it, effectively splitting the enemy in two.
Because of the highly destructive capabilities of this power, Kouten Zanshun is virtually guaranteed to result in a one-shot kill... if it hits. However, due to Orihime's generally non-aggressive nature and lack of killing intent, most of the time Tsubaki can't get a shot off on an enemy. In fact, of the three times Orihime has fired him at an opponent in canon, he's only landed a shot once; the other two times saw him heavily injured and destroyed outright, respectively. This may also be because of the power levels of the enemies he's faced; the one enemy he actually managed to kill was incredibly low level. The appearance of her opponent might also factor into his effectiveness; Orihime may be less willing to kill enemies who appear human as opposed to those who look like monsters. The one enemy Tsubaki managed to kill was basically a tentacle monster while the other two were entirely humanoid in appearance.
Most of this is conjecture, though. The fact remains that while Tsubaki might be a very powerful attack, he very rarely ever succeeds in doing anything but getting himself injured.
In the context of the game, Tsubaki would undoubtedly have a great deal of trouble wounding or killing much of anything. At his most powerful, he might be able to take out a Mirelurk solely on the basis of his value as a precision weapon capable of directly targeting their soft facial area, but past that he wouldn't be capable of penetrating their shells. He might also be of use as a distraction technique or to push enemies or knock them off guard long enough for Orihime to escape a fight, but past that he wouldn't really be of much use for anything.
Items/Weapons: The only item Orihime really needs is her set of two blue, flower-shaped hairpins. Aside from housing all of her powers, they hold enormous sentimental value to her as a present from her late brother Sora. Even before she developed her powers, she would only remove them to sleep and shower. Losing them would upset her immensely.
Character Age: 16
Canon + Format: Bleach (manga)
Background: Orihime's Bleach wiki page
Canon Point: chapter 423 (current chapter)
Personality: At first blush, Inoue Orihime is your typical ditzy airhead. She daydreams a lot, giggles a lot, and has a rather obvious crush on the main character, Ichigo. By her own admission, she sometimes daydreams so much that she injures herself by running into things. She also has trouble with technology in general and cellphones in particular; she's been noted not to be able to keep or even understand how to use a cell. And none of this seems to bother her quite that much.
Her daydreams are also often quite vivid. In one memorable sequence, she begins by thinking of a romantic date with Ichigo in the park and winds up with the daydream being about her being a boxing champion that gets assassinated after a title bout. When asked to draw a 'future' version of herself, she instead draws a futuristic Jetsons-esque super-destructive robot version of herself that shoots fire from its mouth and rockets from its boobs. And while all these daydreams showcase Orihime's incredible imagination, they also make some sort of warped sense - there's a logical progression in her park daydream that takes her from racing in the park to racing in the Olympics to winning the gold medal to winning the heavyweight championship to being assassinated as a famous boxer. With her 'future' picture, she doesn't actually believe she'll become a hyper-destructive robot someday - she simply misunderstood the assignment and drew herself in the same 'future' that people refer to when they talk about flying cars.
But when you barely scratch the surface of that ditzy exterior, you'll find that Orihime is actually a fairly intelligent, sensitive girl with a big heart. Not only is she third in her entire class, she seems to know most of the people in it and is quite observant. She's usually the first to notice if something is wrong with one of her close friends; her best friend Tatsuki even comments at one point that Orihime caught something wrong with Ichigo that it took her several years to notice, and she was the one who pointed out to Ichigo that Ishida had lost his powers after the Soul Society arc and probably didn't want anyone else to know. Rukia's memory replacement device also wore off on her relatively quickly, letting her remember being attacked by her brother's hollow; she was also the only one to confront Ichigo about Rukia's absence after she was taken back to Soul Society (at which point she subsequently tells him that he needs to go save 'her friend Rukia').
Behind her smiles and laughter, though, lies an extremely self-conscious and critical person who dwells on her faults and her own perceived uselessness. Regardless of how much she's helped her friends by healing or shielding them, Orihime always fears being a 'burden' and needing protected by her friends. To make matters worse, Orihime's child-like and cheerful nature frequently encourages people to want to protect her; several of her friends and even their team's mentor, Urahara, have gone so far as to say she has no place on a battlefield because of her kind and gentle nature (although at least in Urahara's case, he was simply trying to keep her out of the sights of a much worse threat). And while Orihime doesn't resent any of her friends for it, she does resent needing protection; instead of blaming any of them, she will always turn her resentment inward, blaming herself for being too weak to go without their protection. And while she has come to understand that her friends all want to protect her as much as she wants to protect them, she still does want to become stronger.
No coverage of Orihime would be complete without covering the most important people in her life, and the first of those is her big brother Sora. Sora was born fifteen years before Orihime and suffered a great deal of abuse at the hands of their parents - their father was a drunk and their mother was a whore and both of them were so abusive they'd rather hit a baby than listen to it cry. When Sora turned eighteen, he took his three year old sister out of that home and struck out on his own with her.
From then until the time he died when Orihime was twelve, Orihime was Sora's world. By all accounts she seemed to grow up loved and fairly well-adjusted with Sora, despite the occasional bullying at school because of her hair color. Sora also gave Orihime her trademarked blue hairpins that house her powers; she only takes them off to sleep and to shower, as they're a memento of her beloved Sora.
After Sora's death, Orihime continued to speak to his portrait every day, telling him how her day was, how school went, and what her friends were like. One of the first big clues to Orihime's character comes when she explains that she stopped crying and being sad for her brother because she didn't want him to see her sad, even though he was dead; she preferred to hide her tears from him and put on a smile, even if it hurt her, just so he wouldn't worry.
Unfortunately, her selflessness backfired; instead of seeing how happy Orihime wanted him to believe she was, all Sora's spirit saw was how happy she was without him. Eventually, this ate away at his being until he became a hollow - a fallen soul who hungers for other souls. When he became a hollow, Sora became obsessed with getting Orihime back by his side; so much so that he would rather eat or kill her outright than let Ichigo and her other friends 'have' her. Finally, thanks to Ichigo's intervention, Sora's soul was able to be purified and move on into the cycle of reincarnation (thankfully without killing Orihime).
The second important person in Orihime's life is Arisawa Tatsuki, her best friend. Tatsuki is the tomboy to Orihime's girly girl and the dragon to her princess; in fact, that's exactly what their names mean! Since they became friends in junior high school after Sora's death, Tatsuki has taken over the role of Orihime's protector, fending off jealous girls and amorous advances alike. She's also taught Orihime a few karate moves, which she claims would put her at roughly the level of a black belt or first dan.
For the first part of the manga, these two are inseparable and are always seen together. When Orihime first develops her powers, they come out to protect Tatsuki. Orihime declares that she will never forgive anyone who hurts Tatsuki and then finishes off the hollow that had hurt her. Sadly, as Orihime gets more and more involved in the world of shinigami and hollows, she and Tatsuki seem to grow farther apart. Even though they now seem to inhabit different worlds, Orihime is never far from Tatsuki's heart and vice-versa; indeed, when Orihime disappears to Hueco Mundo, Tatsuki knows she's gone even without any real powers of her own to speak of and with only the barest bit of spiritual awareness.
After Tatsuki, Orihime found another protector in the series' main character, Kurosaki Ichigo. Although Orihime has had a crush on Ichigo since chapter two (and technically before that), their first real interactions can be traced back to the day Sora died; Orihime brought her brother to Ichigo's family's clinic. After that, they were in the same first year high school class together. They seemed to be acquaintances, although nothing terribly close, until Sora's vengeful spirit attempted to kill Orihime. At this point, Ichigo used his new-found shinigami powers to save the day and in doing so drew Orihime irrevocably into the world of shinigami and hollows.
Past that, Ichigo is the one person Orihime wants to protect more than anyone. When trying to access her powers voluntarily for the first time, she is asked why she wants to go to Soul Society and fight; her answer is 'to protect Kurosaki-kun', and this unlocks her powers and makes them free for her to use. Aside from having a crush on him, she also admires his strength and ability to protect others. She wants the kind of power and ability that Ichigo possesses so that she won't have to rely on him or anyone else to help her or get hurt on her behalf. She's even stated that she never wants to be a burden on him and only wants to fight side-by-side with him instead of always seeing his back in battle.
The final person most important to Orihime is Kuchiki Rukia. Rukia and Orihime formed a bond when Rukia originally came to the human world; Orihime was quick to try and include Rukia in her and the other girls' activities at school and even told Ichigo to go rescue 'her friend Rukia' when he was unsure of whether to save Rukia from Soul Society or not. After that arc, Rukia was the only person to stand up and offer Orihime a hand up to help her train when Urahara barred her from fighting; she was the only person to offer Orihime her support in learning to fight and helping her to see herself as not being a burden on the battlefield.
Rukia is everything Orihime wishes she could be (at least as far as Orihime can see): confident, powerful, strong, pretty, and close to Ichigo. In fact, she even admits to Rangiku that she's jealous of her friend; instead of hating Rukia for her perceived flawlessness, though, Orihime turns her hatred inward and blames herself for being inferior and weak. Rukia offering to help train her goes a long way towards diffusing this situation, and by the time Rukia 'dies' in Hueco Mundo in an effort to save her, her last thoughts are of Orihime as Orihime desperately tries to reach her critically wounded friend.
In play, Orihime is a character that would not want others to see her unhappiness or insecurity. While it might peak through from time to time, she should be overall eager and able to make new friends, outgoing, and cheerful. Ideally, most people who talk to her casually should not realize she has any self-esteem issues (although she can be very self-depreciating and humble, this really isn't the same thing) and should only see a happy, outgoing, somewhat ditzy girl. Only very, very few select people that get very close to her should be able to tell that she has worries about herself and issues about being a burden.
Appearance: Orihime is fairly small by Western standards (and average by Japanese ones). She stands about 5'2" and weighs around 99lbs. Most of that figure is taken up with her large breasts; even though she doesn't dress to flatter them, they're one of the most prominent parts of her entire appearance, and one of the first things people usually notice and/or comment on. The other thing that stands out about her is her unusual bright auburn hair; however, this would only be considered odd by Japanese standards - Westerners would hardly find auburn hair to be worth commenting on.
Orihime can usually be found wearing concealing clothing. She favors ankle-length skirts with flower patterns and modest shirts with conservative necklines. Depending on the weather, she might wear a shorter skirt or shorts, but that's about as far as she goes. She's also never seen without the blue flower hairpins given to her by her late brother; the only time she removes them is when she showers and when she sleeps.
Abilities: Orihime has two basic sets of abilities: her spiritual sensitivity and the powers she actually uses for battle, which are based in her hairpins. While her spiritual sensitivity is a result of being in close proximity to Kurosaki Ichigo and his enormous spiritual energy (as evidenced by several of their classmates developing the ability to see ghosts), her exposure to the Hougyoku housed within Kuchiki Rukia's body (coupled with her desperate wish to help protect her friends) caused her to develop her own set of spiritual powers.
Orihime's spiritual sensitivity basically allows her to see ghosts, shinigami, and hollows. In addition to seeing them, she can touch, fight, speak to, and generally interact with them in all ways that she would be able to interact with a normal person. It also allows her to 'feel' the spiritual pressure of others, if they even have any. However, considering that the game environment shouldn't allow for too many bodiless ghosts roaming around, this ability will probably not be very useful.
Orihime's powers can be broken down into the three 'shields' that her hairpins generate. Each shield uses a different number of 'fairies', each representing two petals on her two six-petaled flower hairpins. If a fairy is injured or destroyed, the resulting damage will manifest on the corresponding two petals of that fairy's hairpin.
Theoretically, each of Orihime's shields operates based on her willpower. If she's feeling confident and healthy, her shields will be more effective; if she's upset, distracted, injured, disturbed, or if she's operating in a field of heavy reiatsu, her shields will be less effective. Likewise, just because they're heavily influenced by her willpower does not mean they are infallible or that she can beat anyone simply by wanting to. Her shields can be broken in numerous different ways, largely depending upon the power and ability of the person trying to break them.
Santen Kesshun: This is Orihime's defensive shield. It uses three of the fairies that live in her hairpins - Baigon, Lily, and Hinagiku - to create an orange, triangular barrier.
At its strongest in canon, this shield can stop a fairly powerful blow by a high-level opponent. Often after such a blow, the shield will crack or shatter entirely, but they've also been known to withstand quite a deal of constant pressure. Even after the shield has been broken, it can still be regenerated, albeit most likely at a weaker level than before. This does not mean that Orihime can regenerate shield after shield without weakening; such an effort would likely leave her drained and her shields little better than paper.
At its strongest in project_purity, considering the power cap and the time it would take for her powers to come back at all, I'd say the shields might be good against a single strike from a yao guai or a deathclaw (if she's lucky) before breaking. Considering this, it'd probably be best if she didn't encounter either of those things at all (or at least not by herself).
Souten Kisshun: This is Orihime's healing shield. It uses two of her fairies - Shun'oh, the 'captain' of her fairies, and Ayame - to create an orange, dome-shaped barrier.
According to Aizen, at its strongest in canon, this shield can literally reject any event that Orihime chooses that happened to the object inside the shield. In its most practical application, it can be used to heal wounds and erase damage done to objects and people. Among other things, her healing powers have regenerated limbs, sealed a hole punched through Ichigo's chest, reassembled half of someone's body from scratch, and even brought the dead back to life. It can also be used to trap people inside if she wants to hard enough.
Considering the game-breaking potential for this part of her powers, in the game setting I would have this reduced to the level it was about half-way through the series. I would prefer to have Orihime capable of healing severe wounds, but requiring several hours (or even days) to do it. For instance, when she heals Jidanbo's severed arm in the Soul Society arc, she needed the severed part of his arm as well as roughly 8 hours of concentration to do so. So no more creating new limbs from thin air, no really short healing times, no trapping anyone inside, and no raising the dead.
Kouten Zanshun: This is Orihime's offensive shield. It is comprised of one fairy, Tsubaki. Kouten Zanshun is used to create a shield inside an enemy and then reject whatever's on either side of it, effectively splitting the enemy in two.
Because of the highly destructive capabilities of this power, Kouten Zanshun is virtually guaranteed to result in a one-shot kill... if it hits. However, due to Orihime's generally non-aggressive nature and lack of killing intent, most of the time Tsubaki can't get a shot off on an enemy. In fact, of the three times Orihime has fired him at an opponent in canon, he's only landed a shot once; the other two times saw him heavily injured and destroyed outright, respectively. This may also be because of the power levels of the enemies he's faced; the one enemy he actually managed to kill was incredibly low level. The appearance of her opponent might also factor into his effectiveness; Orihime may be less willing to kill enemies who appear human as opposed to those who look like monsters. The one enemy Tsubaki managed to kill was basically a tentacle monster while the other two were entirely humanoid in appearance.
Most of this is conjecture, though. The fact remains that while Tsubaki might be a very powerful attack, he very rarely ever succeeds in doing anything but getting himself injured.
In the context of the game, Tsubaki would undoubtedly have a great deal of trouble wounding or killing much of anything. At his most powerful, he might be able to take out a Mirelurk solely on the basis of his value as a precision weapon capable of directly targeting their soft facial area, but past that he wouldn't be capable of penetrating their shells. He might also be of use as a distraction technique or to push enemies or knock them off guard long enough for Orihime to escape a fight, but past that he wouldn't really be of much use for anything.
Items/Weapons: The only item Orihime really needs is her set of two blue, flower-shaped hairpins. Aside from housing all of her powers, they hold enormous sentimental value to her as a present from her late brother Sora. Even before she developed her powers, she would only remove them to sleep and shower. Losing them would upset her immensely.