Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-23856040-20130928160348/@comment-8986886-20130930092758

I've suspected for a while, that Gemischt Quincy are born with their powers dormant, and that either a pure-blooded Quincy's powers (Sōken teaching Uryū), or a life-and-death situation (Ichigo in Shattered Shaft) are required to awaken them. This would explain why Ichigo, Uryū, Karin, and Yuzu all survived the Auswählen; Uryū was only nine years old at the time, so he probably hadn't started his training with Sōken yet (there might be some source contradicting this, though) Stefan (Shikai - &#34;Rust &#38; Shatter&#34;) (talk) 09:27, September 30, 2013 (UTC)