User blog comment:Lia Schiffer/423: Farewell Swords/@comment-1248963-20101009054944

This is just a thought I'd been pondering around. After Rukia disappeared, many have said "well, she can wear a gigai". Which is entirely true, it's not like they can't see each other again. But I think her fading away is a symbolism on the disappearing of Ichigo's power, and how he no longer is part of that world, how he can no longer reach that other world: The spirit world and the Soul Society. Of course this is a personal interpretation that I was mulling over in my nonexistent free time