Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1351982-20130418005834

Sorry this is sort of disorganized rambling, but hopefully you can follow along. Won't be doing these too often, but this one should last for awhile, so here we go!

Kubo defiently threw me for a loop today, but in a good way. We got some questions answered and more questions thrown upon us (so Kubo). Anyway, it appears that we are headed towards the conclusion of Everything but the Rain mini-arc with the headline of this week's color page. I predict that we will have another 3-4 chapters to wrap this thing up. I don't think every question will be answered, but I think future answers will be given along the way.

After reading the chapter, I concluded to myself that either Masaki will be saved and either become the quincy equivalent of a Visored (remember visoreds are only shinigami who gained hollow powers) or she will lose her Quincy powers. After thinking about it for awhile, the later seems more and more likely. There are several reasons why I think this can be.

Thinking back the Uryu, when he lost his powers, he only lost his quincy fighting powers, he never lost his spiritual awareness. Uryu could quite clearly see the "arrancar" sent to Karakura town, and he was aware when a hollow was nearby. In contrast, when (for the sake of argument) Ichigo lost his (shinigami) powers, he lost his fighting powers and his spiritual awareness. Now, why is that? I don't like comparing series to series, but for the sake of argument, let's use the the benders in the Avatar series (it's not a perfect example, but you will get the point). Benders have an internal connection with their environment and body, and are able to control the elements. When Aang takes Ozai's bending away, he, for a lack of a better explanation, seal's Ozai's Chakra, which blocks his bending. It doesn't kill him, but it cuts it off. Going back to Uryu, when he removes the Sanrei Glove he looses his ability to "bend" particles; it becomes blocked. It only becomes unblocked when he is shot in the Chest by Ryuken. So Uryu never lost his spiritual powers, he temporally lost his ability to manipulate energy.

I also think Kubo gave us a big hint with White. I think Quincies are more closely related to hollows. Think about it. They both absorb spiritual energy (although hollows do it via souls, but souls are made of Reishi) and both are hunted down by Soul Society. This is a totally out of left wing theory, but what if Quincies don't actually destroy the souls of hollows, but the reality is they absorb them. I think there is more to it, but this could be the real reason why the Quincies were hunted nearly to extinction. To put it crudely, the Quincy are essentially Cell from DBZ, they keep absorbing energy from the area around them, including the enemy itself. The Gotei 13 would never put up with an enemy that in theory could be unstoppable. Hollows are attracted to the souls or energy of another, so who better than a Quincy, with so much spiritual energy within them.

So what does all this gobily gook mean? If Maskai looses her fighting powers, but not her natural spiritual (i.e. seeing souls), it would possibly explain how she was killed by Grand Fisher and how Ichigo inherited spiritual abilities. Also, thinking back to the arrancar arc, what if when Isshin regrets not being able to save Masaki that night, perhaps he wasn't referring to the night she was killed, but rather the night she lost her powers. If thats the case, perhaps Isshin was referring to both White and Grand Fisher, because they weren't "evil" per say, but they were just being hollows, i.e. predator V.S. prey, so you can't fault an animal for following its instincts.

I might add more if anyone bothers to respond, but that was my two cents. 