Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-36761202-20180909202143

Okay. Let's list all the weird things about Ichigo. That's not supposed to happen, right? Doesn't Hollow reiatsu kill Quincys (Quincies?)? This might have something to do with White being an asauchi-Hollow kind of. How did he inherit any of his father's DNA? Or Soul-stuff? Does the... "Soul"-men "leak" through the gigai?? Am I allowed to say that? Is there some kind of Soul-related part of kishi human procreation I'm not aware of? Is Ichigo even dead? His Chain of Fate was cut, and totally eaten away, but he doesn't appear to use a gigai. I'm pretty sure he's (somehow) still alive. Like, what? Quincys are a kind of human. Humans are no longer humans when they die; they're Souls. Thus, a dead human can not be a Quincy (let's just ignore Pernida Parkingface or whatever for now, okay? That's way too weird to be thinking about). So if he is indeed dead and just using his old body as one would a gigai, then... how can he be a Quincy? This also brings up the question of what happens to Quincies once they die (besides getting eaten by Yhwach, because obviously that didn't happen to Uryu's grandpa, since Mayuri said he experimented with Soken's Soul... which further implies that Souls that used to be Quincys are at least different from other Souls; perhaps Souls that were Quincys in life simply continue to be Quincys in death? So maybe this isn't a weird thing... Idk), which I tried and failed to not get into here. Zangetsu is his Shinigami power, meaning that White kind of... infected his mother twicefold, I guess? He was a unique Hollow that could implant itself into someone, as well as "imprints" on them or something the way a normal Hollow would to a Fullbringer's mother. What's the difference? Why didn't those Hollow stuff-things combine? If Ichigo had never met Rukia, would he be a Quincy-Fullbringer? Ignoring the Quincy half of that, would he even be a normal Fullbringer, considering that his mother was not just imprinted, but kind of "infected" by White? Would he be able to use his Quincy powers and Fullbring at the same time? Fullbrings are supposed to be humans too. Yet again, this begs the question, what happens to them after they die?
 * 1) 1. He has an inner Hollow, and is also a Quincy.
 * 1) 2. His father was a gigai being worn by a Soul Reaper.
 * 1) 3. He's... uh, dead, (maybe?) but still alive.
 * 1) 4. He's a Quincy, even though he's (maybe) dead.
 * 1) 5. He's a Fullbringer with a Quincy mother.
 * 1) 6. He's a Fullbring, even though he's (maybe) dead.
 * 1) 7. He's a Visored-Fullbring-Quincy, even though the Hogyoku was never used on him directly. So the Hogyoku's power can be passed down to offspring, I guess?

There's a lot more I could think of, but this is enough for now. Maybe too much... but I had to get these questions off my chest before I forgot them. Mods please let me know if I should shatter this into like 5 different discussions or not.

Oh yeah, #8. Is he a Shinigami? Or a Substitute Shinigami? Is Substitute Shinigami just a designation, or is it a kind of classification, like "Visored" or "Fullbring" or "Quincy" or "Shinigami" or "Soul" or "Hollow" or whatever? And are there two different types of Substitute Shinigami? Because I don't think you could consider Rukia-reiatsu-empowered Substitute Shinigami Ichigo the same kind of Substitute Shinigami as post-Soul Society Substitute Shinigami Ichigo. Is he a Substitute Shinigami because he's a human with Shinigami powers who's kind of dead but uses his own body like he did before? Or is he a Substitute Shinigami just because he's human with Soul Reaper powers? And don't even get me started on how all those things intersect. 