Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-13237238-20130724132657/@comment-29449108-20140104182539

Some good stuff in here, thanks for posting, I enjoyed reading a lot of this. Heres my Shinigami zanpakuto. Ive only got shikai done with it.

Im not a native Japanese speaker/writer, so names are from google, but my zanpakuto would be Tetsudensen (鉄伝染 – meaning “iron contagion”). It is a katana with orange hilt wrapping and a hexagonal tsuba with a subtle blood splatter pattern on it.

Shikai: Its release call is “tense”, and its form changes to a halberd. Its ability is as follows: When the blade cuts the opponent, specifically when it comes in contact with the bloodstream, it sparks a reaction which causes the blood vessels to contract and become rigid, limiting blood flow.

Victim's circulation being restricted causes two problems. Firstly, while the space the blood can fit in to decreases, the amount of blood stays the same, so blood pressure builds up to dangerous levels. Secondly, it inhibits the delvery of blood and the goodies it carries – oxygen being the one that would have an immediate noticeable effect. Lack of O2 causes fatigue, lightheadedness, poor concentration, unconsciousness, brain damage, ultimately death. Effects take time to take hold, gradually spreading out from the limited area that is cut via the blood vessels in direction of blood flow (eg wrist, spreading first down to the hand and then back up the arm and into chest, eventually reaching heart which would suffer same contraction/rigidness effects).