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Now this isn't to shame anyone who love Bleach but I feel that Bleach's current power system is a mess but I will share how I organize it, feel free though to leave any criticisms of what could be changed, it will be much appreciated:

Ground rules:

1.	There are three main races in Bleach:

a.	Humans - living being who resides in the Human World. Most beings who live in the Human World are Humans. Their souls fall under the category of　Shihaku/Mortal Souls

i.	Fullbringers - are humans who are spiritually-aware and born with the eponymous ability Fullbring either because they’re half Shinigami or have Shinigami ancestry, although Fullbringer traits only appear every few generations, and a Fullbringer’s soul is equal to ten normal human souls.

b.	Shinigami - guardians of the souls who are going through the circle of transmigration. Their jobs include guiding souls to the afterlife, constantly combating Hollows, and keeping the balance. Their souls fall under the category of　Shinkon/God souls and are supposedly descended from gods

c.	Hollows - creatures which are born from souls who, for various reasons, end up corrupted and become Grief Spheres for which they manifest their bodies from, Shinigami hunt Hollows down for their Grief Spheres

2.	Soul/Konpaku caste system:

a.	Shihaku - The souls

b.	Jōheki Shinigami – And are considered the strongest type of Shinigami, Born with blue hair and normally wear white robes, they pride themselves of their pure bloodedness due to being the original types of shinigami, they hold high governing and military offices, along with supervising the stream of souls going to the afterlife

c.	Komenō Shinigami – Though weaker than their blue counterparts, and born with black hair and have some human ancestry to them, they still are among the strongest shinigami of the ranks, they mostly do the work of fighting hollows; they hold more military based offices and are the first defense in the Soul Society

d.	Mahou Tensei Shinigami – The weakest of the Shinigami, are humans who have formed a contract with another Shinigami, and in exchange gained the power of zanpakutou, although they also retain their Fullbring abilities if they originally were Fullbringers. A lot of times these humans were originally Fullbringers and are sometimes explicitly called vermin amongst the high-ranking Shinigami for their mortal origins

3.	Shinigami physiology – The bodies of Shinigami are not actually their real bodies, their more like projections that behave like human bodies in which Shinigami can use to interact with; their real technical bodies are their Soul Stones which are gems that contain a Shinigami’s power and the only way to kill a Shinigami is by destroying it, however, every time a Shinigami fights, especially to the death, it gets tainted and if it get too tainted the Soul Stone turns into a Grief Sphere. Luckily true born Shinigami, especially blue ones, don’t suffer the effects too much and can either clean their Stones by getting baptized or using the Grief Spheres to absorb the taintedness and properly disposing of them so they don’t revive the Hollow and their Stones are either around their heart or brain area from getting smashed. Mahou Tensei Shinigami though aren’t so lucky, in order to gain their powers they need to have their souls extracted and turned into Soul Stones which are kept outside of their bodies at all times, and if they leave their Stones at least 100 m away from them, their bodies will fall unconscious and start to disintegrate to ash. Although given a few hours a Soul Stone can bring a disintegrate Shinigami back but they will amnesia. Mahou Tensei Shinigami though can turn their Soul Stones into everyday objects to carry on them like necklaces, rings, bracelets, headdresses, bangles, etc. but unlike normal Shinigami their Stones are most susceptible to corruption and are most frequent to turn into hollows. 