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SternRitterÄs wrote: I wouldnt say Inoues powers are in any way hollow-like. Your point 4 removes the only other valid option to the hogyoku. Your point about IChigo being this once every few hundred years Quincy doesnt hold water with me. Heres why - Haschwalt had no power at all until Buckbeard took him in. So how can Ichigo have used his powers to do that?

Your point about why the badge suppressed his reiatsu - maybe thats just what its supposed to do and youre taking things to far to back up your theory. Captains have their power limited in the real world, we know it affects humans. Same with Ichigo if it was left unrestricted. Maybe thats all there is to it

On the Hogukyo, it was clearly said it can only grant powers that poeple have the potential to gain anyway, like with Chad and his fullbring - he already had the potential to develop that power, it just awakened it.

Haschwalth had no power at all?? So the power upgrade he gave Bazz-B without knowing, was what? Please try to remember it all before dismissing someone else ideas.

Also your points don't hold their ground. First of all Haschwalth was only a Quincy. Not a hybrid of basically every species in the Bleach universe. And second, like I already pointed out, he didn't need to have knowledge of his power for his power to work. He increased Bazz powers even without knowing it.

And most of what Ichigo has done throughout the manga has been a result of him discovering the powers he already had. That's why he's been evolving at the pace he has been. Unlike most characters in Bleach that needed training to surpass their already achieved limits. Ichigo had that immense power in him just waiting for him to gain access to it.

In a way he's been a kind of upside version of Kenpachi. Where Kenpachi subconsciously severely cut his own power in order to have opponents he could face without killing them off with one blow. Ichigo has been on this journey to discover the limits of his powers.

Now. I'm not saying that Ichigo gave those powers on purpose or willingly. But even if the Hougyoku was what gave Inoue and Chad their powers, the fact still remained that they needed to have spiritual power in them for the Hougyoku to work on.

If you remember back to when Aizen explained how the Hougyoku worked, he said that the Hougyoku connected to the hearts of those around him, and realized their greatest desire, so long as that person had the power in them to make what they desired true. Now. Both Chad and Inoue had no spiritual power whatsover. It was only by being close to Ichigo that things started to change. Just like it did with Tatsuki and Ichigo's other friends. They also had no spiritual power whatsover and then when Ichigo absorbed Rukia's powers and his own started to awaken, then everyone close to Ichigo started to gain some measure of spiritual power.

It's not me reading too much into anything. But trying to connect the dots that before made no sense.