User blog comment:Godisme/Death & Strawberry 2/@comment-3017570-20110803201500/@comment-4025607-20110805015704

well before discovering fullbring, ichigos badge was a normal badge and after discovering fullbring and even after being stripped of his powers the badge still had the x mark that got after ichigo completely transformed and the new zangetsu he was holding looked very similar to the shape of the little sword he had with the fullbring and i noticed that before all of this ichigos zangetsu only had a chain when he was in bankai and the handle is different so my guess is that his complete fullbring is like bankai because his 2 state look like a normal shinigami robe and the only way he had a chain in his sword was with bankai because when he used'it he was cloaked in power chad said different to everybody else so with this mixed powers I think is like ichigo mixed his shikai and bankai thanks to fullbring