Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-32617252-20170927011705/@comment-27392440-20171005073324

Like I mentioned earlier, there's not a single bit of canon evidence that a shinigami can kill with reiatsu alone, though there isn't evidence to prove me right either my speculation seems more correct since hollows naturally hurt things with their touch and even a shinigami like kenpachi, who was known for epically poor reiatsu control and gargantuan reserves of power, wasn't killing weaker shinigami with his mere presence like starrk and lilynette were with hollows. I also have to contest the"fact" that starrk created lilynette. Starrk admits they don't know who came first, just because lilynette is weaker doesn't mean she may not even have been the original (possibly made weak the way a shinigami was vastly weakened by losing their zanpakuto spirit in the muramasa arc, she could have done something like externalized her inner hollow and lost most of her power as a result), and in the first meeting of starrk and lilynette she seems to me to be somewhat less confused by the situation almost as if starrk was the newborn, not her. I'm not even saying she was the original, just that to my knowledge Kubo never revealed anything about their past as a hollow so it's a huge leap to speculate that starrk was the "real" one, especially when an equally good case can be made for her or even neither. Sorry for the tangent, I just don't like people assuming on this issue