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Stefan (Shikai - "Rust & Shatter") wrote: Omniguy183 wrote: No Arrancar's tear off their masks to gain shinigami powers and the hogyoku is how Aizen created his Arrancar's. The Hogyoku was not involved in white and as such his isn't an Arrancar. Also,arrancar's already existed and if Kaname meant becoming an Arrancar he would have said it.

Tearing off the mask is just a means to an end; to access the combined powers of both Shinigami and Hollows. This was partially achieved with White, however the inner conflict between the Shinigami soul and the Hollow resulted in Soul Suicide. Hollows do not self-destruct like that.

You might argue that Arrancar seal their powers into a Zanpakutou, but Starrk sealed his power into Lilynette, another Arrancar.

"Its physical appearance is somehow still that of a hollow, but it feels like I'm fighting a Shinigami."... "That's not a Hollow; that's not how a Menos fights." -Isshin's thoughts while fighting White.

After the death of White, Kaname pointed out and Aizen agreed, that their objective up to that point had been to Hollowficate Shinigami. So when did Aizen use the Hogyoku to create these Arrancar you're referring to? I'm going to sum this all up.White HAS to be Arrancarized through tearing off his mask or by Aizen with the Hogyoku. He didn't so he is not one. White was artificially created by Aizen to self destruct after reaching his final form which was to "infect an inner hollow into a being." To my knowledge Arrancars do not self-destruct either so I don't know why you said that. I don't know why you are talking about Zanpakuto's either. Also, you forgot to mention Isshin said his reiatsu was definitely a hollows and menos are still hollows. Then there is the fact that the reason why it fights like a shinigami has been explained that it's because it is a HOLLOW based upon a shinigami's soul. And finally read Aizen's or the Arrancar's page for the Hogyoku thing. And besides the fact that Oetsu states that it is a Hollow created similar to his method of creating Asauchi make it even less believable. Also, Hollowficating shinigami has the opposite to do with Arrancars as well so I don't know why you said that either.