Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-8179522-20130414054311

Say that a Hollow at the Vasto Lord level mated with an Elemental (assuming a species foreign to Hollow and Shinigami of a mystic persuasion could exist in the Bleach universe, and assuming that Hollows are able to bare children with other species, that they can mate at all has been up to debate) what would be the characteristics of that offspring. Would the child have a soul (assuming elementals have souls and pass that trait on to the child) but retain Hollow abilities from the parent, even engaging a Hollowfying state as Ichigo has demonstrated? Would the child have a Zanpakuto and if so would it be of its own individuality or would it's abilities be reminiscent of the parent Hollow? This question puzzles me because for a Hollow, at least how I've interpreted it from the wiki article, is obtained or created at some point in the Hollow's evolution and when released grants the Hollow its abilities that it normally relinquished upon removing it's mask and becoming an Arrancar. If the offspring retained the physiology of a Hollow rather than its Elemental parent, including the lack of a soul, would that child be born at the Vasto Lord level as its parent was, would it begin at the Achjucaus level, or would it be born at the base level Hollow and have to devour souls as per the standard process of Hollow evolution? 