Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-12301089-20131211070550/@comment-6746577-20131212210429

Stefan (Shikai - "Rust & Shatter") wrote:


 * Byakuya to Ukitake: "This man (Ichigo) has no relation to the man you're thinking of (Kayen Shiba)"  -Ichigo is, and Kayen were, members of the Shiba clan. 


 * Byakuya to Ichigo: "I shall show you the difference between us. The gap in power you could never hope to bridge. Not even if you had a thousand years of training."  -Ichigo has already surpassed Byakuya 


 * Byakuya to Ichigo: "So that's it? That little weapon is your Bankai? It looks just like a regular Zanpakutõ."  -Regardless if that was Ichigo's true Bankai or not, Yamamoto's Zanpakutõ remained much the same in it's Bankai state, so Byakuya was wrong to dismiss Ichigo in that situation. 

touche...I was more referring to how Shinigami world works.Like when he beat Renji with just Kido. 1- there was no way in the world outside of Byakuya being friends with Urahara that he would have known Isshin Shiba was his dad. The chances of that are so remote. (but it does bring up how did Rukia know to find Urahara at the shop for a Gigai) Rukia herself didnt even know. She thought she was just substituting some random Human 2- again, Ichigo was losing this battle and if Hollow Ichigo didnt come present itself for the first time, than Byakuya would have lost. Hollow Ichigo's powers were masked even to the time Ulquiorra and Yammy first appeared. One could also state that Byakuya didnt want Rukia to die so he could have thrown the fight. 3-totally true here