User blog comment:Insistente/Zangetsu - The Impostor/@comment-1043846-20130607043248/@comment-5028409-20130607062636

I think what he meant was that the hollow FUSED to his shinigami powers, so it is now PART of his true Zanpakuto. So Ichigo's zanpakuto(which we thought to be zangetsu) and the hollow are literally one and the same being. He's probably trying to get Ichigo to stop being afraid of it and actually embrace like he should have done all this time.

Ichigo is going to be a monster....he's been dominating with just his quincy side this whole time, i can't wait to see the whole thing. But what I'm curious about is; 1) What will happen to quincy part of his power AKA "Zangetsu"? 2) Won't this leave him vulnerable to the quincy bankai stealing ability if he gains a "true" zanpakuto? Because I'm guessing they couldn't steal his bankai because it wasn't a "real" one. Or is it simply because he's more powerful than the ones who tried to steal it before like Ywach explained to Yamamoto?