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Kaestal wrote: How so? The Hogyoku was all about granting ones deepest desires if they held the power to achieve such things.

Ichigo is just all four major races all at once. It all depends on one's perspective on things.

True. The Hougyoku connected to a person's heart and granted their greatest desire, IF that person had it within itself the power to make that wish come true.

And what is a wish if not breaking the laws of reality to turn what is, into what one wants it to be.

Ichigo being this transcendent being, neither shinigami, hollow, or quincy but all of them and possibly more. That in a way makes him a Hougyoku because he has within himself the power to surpass any limitation. Or in other words to turn his inner desires a reality as long as it is within his power to do so. And he's been doing that from day one. Always doing things that had taken others a great deal more time to achieve, doing things that most could not, and even doing things that supposedly were impossible.

Like for example awakening his zanpakutou without a Asauchi. Oetsu himself said that in all the history of soul society not a single person was able to awaken their zanpakutous true forms without first having an Asauchi. Well... Ichigo never had one to begin with. Only now that he has awaken all his powers did the Asauchi came into play. And even then, well, his zanpakutous are exactly normal are they?

In a way that's a form of wish granting power. The main difference being that the Hougyoku connected to the hearts of others, while Ichigo's power is more inward.