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I'm just fed up with the theories so Spoiler alert!!!

ichgo's dad was a shingami captain fused to a human shell and his mother was a hollowfied quincy. ichigo's parents were then connected because if anything but a human gets hollowfied, i.e. a fullbringer, it commits soul suicide, which is basically where the body of the quincy or shinigami explodes. Ichigo is able to use a hollw mask and fullbring because the hollow from his mother passed on to him and fused with his zanpakto, so ichigo's "other self" is actually Zangetsu, not "old man Zangetsu", which is actually a manefestation of ichigo's quincy powers. In conclusion, ichigo can best be described as a spiritual "mutt", a mix of everything.