Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-13237238-20130724132657/@comment-29449108-20140129204951

Asuzano wrote: SternRitterÄs wrote: Some good stuff in here, thanks for posting, I enjoyed reading a lot of this. Heres my Shinigami zanpakuto. Ive only got shikai done with it.

Im not a native Japanese speaker/writer, so names are from google, but my zanpakuto would be Tetsudensen (鉄伝染 – meaning “iron contagion”). It is a katana with orange hilt wrapping and a hexagonal tsuba with a subtle blood splatter pattern on it.

Shikai: Its release call is “tense”, and its form changes to a halberd. Its ability is as follows: When the blade cuts the opponent, specifically when it comes in contact with the bloodstream, it sparks a reaction which causes the blood vessels to contract and become rigid, limiting blood flow.

Victim's circulation being restricted causes two problems. Firstly, while the space the blood can fit in to decreases, the amount of blood stays the same, so blood pressure builds up to dangerous levels. Secondly, it inhibits the delvery of blood and the goodies it carries – oxygen being the one that would have an immediate noticeable effect. Lack of O2 causes fatigue, lightheadedness, poor concentration, unconsciousness, brain damage, ultimately death. Effects take time to take hold, gradually spreading out from the limited area that is cut via the blood vessels in direction of blood flow (eg wrist, spreading first down to the hand and then back up the arm and into chest, eventually reaching heart which would suffer same contraction/rigidness effects).

Very interesting, do you have any ideas of what a bankai would be? If your ability is to control blood vessels, I can picture a bankai that can freely manipulate your enemies' or your own blood to fight

Thank you. A bankai for Tetsudensen right now is just a vague outline of it, mainly derived from myths associatred with blood. How Kubo takes these shikai and turns them to bankai so well is aboce my level of creativity, but here's my best effort. It needs to be refined a lot, but heres the outline (and this is based off actual Japanese myth, I'm not makign this creature up, read here).

In appearance, the halberd becomes more ornate, gaining a red carnelian decoration in the center. All blood spilled on the battlefield turns to a luminescent vapour and swirls around and above jasper outcroppings that spring up from these locations, the earth having been cursed by having blood spilt on it. ( Both jasper and cornellian choosen for their red colour being derived from iron oxide - according to wikipedia anyway. )

When the opponent gets too close to the jasper rocks, the vapour coaleses on top of the rock and forms a malevolent and dangerous spirit resembling a Rokurokubi (human with very long neck (think Stretch Armstrong!)) with sharp claws and serrated teeth which is bound to the outcropping. They grasp at the opponent, impede their movement, spit, claw and bite them, causign great wounds and a much faster actign and more severe version of the shikai effect.

At my command the ornament on the halberd glows and a rock I inidicate will break. When broken, the Rokurokubi's head becomes detached and floats through the air using its oversized ears to propel itself and attacks the enemy whenever it can with its mouth. This can be used for swarm attacks.

Like I said, Tite Kubo is much better at this and doenst always get the credit he deserves! Going the vampire effect route just way too obvious etc