Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11398218-20140521105018/@comment-26815511-20150725150501

Firemonkeyjoe wrote: Mikejs1 wrote: What if swallow, really meant to sacrifice something closest to you, to compensate for newly given power, so when Kenpachi activated his shikai, it "swallowed" yachiru to give kenpachi power? And i mean, she has a shikai, is it REALLY possible for a zanpakuto to have its own hikai, SEPERATE from the one the shinigami uses? i believe she was just consumed by kenpachis shikai. For example: it probrably absorbs reishi (spirit energy). And since he was surpressing his power this entire time, the zanpakuto, when going into shikai, was feeding off of Yachiru, but it was so hungry for reishi, that Yachiru ran out of reishi, and was consumed whole

First of all it has not been stated that Yachiru is Kenpachi's zanpakuto spirit.

Second you are telling us that the sword sacrificed it's own spirit to gain power. And the reason it did that was that the sword not the spirit was hungry for reishi and has the ability to absorb reishi. And decided to absorb all the reishi from itself instead of anything else that has or is made up of reishi.

So in summary Kenpachi's zanpakuto is actually a very hungry Quincy that ate itself to gain power.

Okay the summary was a joke. Lol. But seriously that makes no sense. so you really didn't read the main part of this thread then, where it suggests that she MAY be his zanpakuto, what i'm stating is that she isn't and the activation phrases all relate to the zanpakuto appearance and power when released, for example: "reap kazeshini" shuhei gets a weapon resembling a scythe. so what i'm getting at, is that the word "swallow" could literally mean it swallows, consumes, or sacrifices something in exchange for power, understand?