@Maxi-Ryuu99: But the thing is...even if Ichigo does have Quincy/Vandenreich blood when traveling from the real world to hueco mundo our soul society, his flesh and blood body is replaced by one of reiatsu...this happened to Ishida too in Soul Society's arc...he shouldn't be immune to the Vandenreich powers regardless of his lineage or Zangetsu's powers.

I am not understanding why Ichigo is safe from this power the Vandenreich have. regardless of his power/bloodline/origins, he is a being full of reiatsu and so Opie should be able to absorb him... zangetsu wouldn't be able to protect him since he too manipulates reiatsu... Opie might not be able to absorb him completely since the power is to big, but from his words it doesn't seem that is the problem...Opie is sure he is more powerful than Ichigo...so why?

No wonder Ishida's grandfather broke ties with the Vandereich warrior's...a very powerful and terrifying power... I agree with @Maxi-Ryuu99...the quincy must have developped this power after the attack from Soul Society... wow...

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Well...Isshin's blood tie with Ichigo might come from his unknown mother side...and besides the link between their swords I think goes beyond that of blood ties... Aizen and Masaki as brother and sister is also a good theory...it would explain their power without they being father and son.

Aizen as Ichigo's father...how about this: A young Aizen, who showed amazing skill and power rigth at his start as a shinigami, was allowed a visit to the King's dimension...there he met a woman of royal blood...Ichigo's mother...caught in a forbidden relantioship, Aizen was ordered back to Soul Society where he vowed to return and take his revenge while the woman, managed to intrust her son to a trusted captain of Soul Society named Isshin who fled to the Real World and there met a Quincy/Vandenreich woman names Masaki, fell in love, and both raised Ichigo as if he was their own son.

Well...I won't pick a side just yet. It's not that I want Soul Society to lose...quite the contrary...but I think both sides are far from being innocent...yes we might say that the Quincy were stubborn when they refused to stop killing hollows...but knowing that hollows really love to eat souls with lots of reiatsu and most likely never stopped chasing after them...did they really have a choice? a hollow doesn't stop until it's dead...so what choice did they have...and another thing...it was in their nature to chase hollows...it would be the same as saying to an artist to stop creating art...and being killed for who and what they are would be enough to make any race mad. Yes...Soul Society has the duty to maintain the balance of the worlds regardless of the way they do it...but that doesn't mean the end justifies the means...look at what Mayuri did with the people of soul society...and speaking of Mayuri...he was the sole responsible for the death and torture of the only Quincy who believe in peaceful coexistence...they might be paying for the sins of a few bad apples...but there is that saying that states that for evil to win it only needs that good men do nothing...where were the good men of soul society when the quincy were killed?and how many were killed as them? we know what they did with the fullbringers...we know what they tried to do with the vaizards...how many more?

He didn't want him as a measuring stick...it seemed to me that, to maintain that level of power, and much like what we saw Grimm doing as a adjucha, Aizen needed to feed off others of the same level as him...besides wanting to fight someone of the same level as him,

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If Ichigo was under the spell of Aizen's sword, then he wouldn't have seen the switch between him and Hinamori because it only takes one time for them to be forever under the spell... I do believe it was Grand Fisher who killed Masaki...and Isshin took his revenge...if Aizen had something to do with that it was behind the curtain and not directly...

Well...Kirge is though...he survived Ichigo's attack so everything is possible! I would really like that he told more things about the difference between Ishida's way of doing things and the Vandenreich's way...

The clothes look amazing!! Really cool!

A very sad wallpaper! Well done! The background is stunning...starting with the detail of the broken walls of the church with the living green of the plants...the rocks and stones on the floor...and the beautiful moon that gives light to such desolation and to the chair and her showing all of her sadness. I really like the detail of the rose and what you did with the nightgown!

It seems there was indeed a break within the Quincy to the point that Ishida's grandfather told him that all the rest of the Quincy were dead when they were not...@Elleztim...you might have found out the reason with your idea that the difference between them was Restriction and respect for the world around....but I think you are wrong about Ayon.

I agree with you...it's really strange that arrancars possess the power of the Quincy right from the start...it would be strange that all of the arrancar chosen had been quincy while alive or related to them in some way so something is done to them...

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I like your idea of Opie's words merely being a mistake because of lack of knowledge...but they seem to be well informed. I also think the five special powers they talked about might be Ichigo, Sado and Inoue which leaves two unamed...it might be Ishida and Ryuuken...Urahara and Isshin...or..if they are human...Keigo and Tatsuki because those two showed a lot of potential when Aizen attacked. I don't think the Ishida's are traitors...there might be a lot of secrets where they are mixed in...but Isshin wouldn't trust Ryuuken that much if there was a chance of that. Urahara the same thing...he has a secret agenda that we don't know about...but he isn't a traitor...if he wanted the end of Soul Society he only had to let Aizen win.

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@Maxi-Ryuu99: I don't know why he said it but I doubt it was a taunt. However...do you think Ishida is that good an actor? And if he had this kind of power in his grasp would he really have taken a beating from Mayuri who tortured his loved grandfather and then endure torture from Szayel like he did? My guess is that Ryuuken knows about the Vandenreich...but not Ishida. The reason why he didn't go to Hueco Mundo is that hates hollows. it was hard on his pride to go save a shinigami...but save an arrancar...it was the ultimate stab in to his quincy core. I have no doubt Ryuuken is more powerful than Kirge Opie...and in Ryuuken might be the reason for his words.

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