Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27392440-20160214172258/@comment-26475399-20160215225840

Heyyy, welcome aboard! That's awesome. Glad to have you join us. :D

Whoa, man... this is very in depth. Very well thought out. I dig!

It's quite interesting to fully realize just how polar yet similar both sides of the spectrum are when it comes to the Arrancars and the Visoreds.

Hollows who have been granted Shinigami powers break away their mask to become more in touch with their Shinigami powers, and thus become stronger with every bit of removal (or it could be that the stronger they got, the more the mask fell apart on its own, signifying their level of power; except in the case of Findorr, that is -- either way, it's been stated factually that it all begins with the breaking of the mask).

Such is the same with Visoreds, except totally opposite. Breaking their mask would likely result in them losing power, as they use Hollowfication and its power for the purpose of boosting the power that they already possess.

Which leads me into yet another hypothetical proposition. We've seen that Visored use their Hollowfication as a separate power, and they are capable of "shutting it off" when they are finished using it. Arrancars, however, seem to have been dealt a permanent change, with the removal of their masks.

This leads me to inquire something of both races:

Can an Arrancar go back to its original fully Hollow form? Can they use full Hollowfication if they wanted to? Not that they'd likely want to... but it seems that their evolution is irreversible. (A rather counterproductive question, though, hahah.)

Can a Visored repair their mask if it has been broken? Ichigo was shown to have done so before (during the fight with Grimmjow, if i remember correctly), but i wouldn't group Ichigo among Visoreds because his case was quite different. Him having a Hollow as his true Zanpakuto Spirit, while the Visoreds (i believe) had both a Hollow as well as their Zanpakuto Spirits within them, coexisting as two separate beings. We've never seen a case where their masks were broken during battle, so i wonder if repair would be a possibility for them.

You've really got me thinking on this one, hahah. ;)