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Coolishy777 wrote:

However an asauchi is a physical being and is forged into a zanpakuto. The piece of white (personally I don't like calling it that) is not pushed out and made into a zanpakuto. It is only the essence, spirit, or soul of the unnamed white hollow that is in Ichigo. Not the physical being of it.

Also the white hollow fused with Ichigo's soul reaper power there by no longer having it be similar to an asauchi. It is strictly his latent soul reaper power.

This is fundamentally incorrect. Asauchi are created by forging process that melds a multitude of Shinigami souls together. Sentient construcsts yes but fundamentally weapons with the potential to form into something unique according to their wielder. White is developed from a similar method and therefore upon bonding with ichigo's latent shinigami powers is now for all purposes his zanpakuto spirit. It is because of Whites original composition that Ichigo was able to bring forth his own 'pesudo-zanpakuto' without an asauchi. The sentient entity that is Zangetsu is the zanpakuto spirit that is a mentally internal entity similar to any zanpakuto spirit. Its physical form is the weapon. Zangetu is the sword as well, but only for a long time was it not a true zanpakuto since it wasnt formed from an asauchi. Until such time that it was forged correctly. White as an entity hasnt existed since it was destroyed by Masaki, its essence did live on through her and passed to her son.