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I made this zanpakutō as a sort of tribute to Bleach now that it's ended. There's some thinly veiled references to other abilities and some more heavily veiled references to chapter names as well as some other characters abilites, both in the names of abilites and the abilities themselves. Welp, hope you guys like it

Hajime (初め The Beginning): The unreleased state of Hajime is an oversized but otherwise standard-looking katana. It has a rectangular silver tsuba with gently inward-curved edges, a stylized flame pattern on the long sides, and a simple decorative slit on the short sides. The hilt's handle has white wrapping and one light blue and one red tassel attached to the handle's base.

Shikai: Hajime’s release command is “die”. In it’s released state Hajime’s metallic components shine a dull light blue.


 * Shikai Special Abilities: Hajime’s special abilities revolve around the manipulation of spiritual energy – and to a lesser extent reishi – to create a selection of varied effects.


 * Ichikara:Manten (一から:満天 From Scratch: The Whole Sky): By focusing energy along the blade of Hajime, the user can fire a multitude of solidified energy blades along the arc of the blade’s trajectory, creating a light blue crescent moon shaped torrent of blades to attack the enemy.


 * Ichikara:Hirensa (一から:非連鎖 From Scratch: Unchained): By adopting a stance where the user firmly grips Hajime with both hands and places the hilt squarely on the center of their chest, the user can charge the blade with an immense amount of spiritual energy and fire a powerful blast of concentrated spiritual energy at the target.


 * Ichikara:Hitotachi (一から: 一太刀 From Scratch: Stroke of Sword): By placing Hajime in front of the user with the blade’s point facing the ground, the user can erect a large light blue hexagonal barrier which can block most deadly attacka aimed at the user.

Bankai:Owari (終わり The End): Upon release the user is covered in a cloak of black reiatsu obscuring their form head to toe, which after stabilising is covered in an array of eyes. In this form the blade and all metallic components of the zanpakutô became pitch black.
 * Bankai Special Ability: Owari has access to all of its shikai abilities as well as the ability to completely control the composition of reiatsu produced by the wielder. It also has a few abilities that analyse and predict the reiatsu of an opponent


 * Kyūkyoku:Senrigan (究極:千里眼 Final:Foresight): By utilising one of the eyes formed on the user’s reiatsu cloak, the user can cause one of the eyes to “lock on” to an opponent and analyse their reiatsu and locate patterns in said reiatsu and therefore predicting when certain techniques are to be uses by the circulation of reiatsu. The eyes can only predict and send information to the user if they have seen the technique once before while locked on.


 * Kyūkyoku:Kaitai (究極:解体 Final:Dissection): A supplementary technique of the Bankai that allows the user to reconfigure their reiatsu to take on different properties in order to benefit from the change in attributes. For instance when dealing with Quincies one could change their reiastu to take on a Hollow’s essence to take advantage of the poisonous effect the hollow reiatsu has on Quincies.


 * Kyūkyoku:Hogen (究極:補弦 Final:Chord): The sole offensive technique of Owari. By utilising the analysis from Senrigan and the ability to reconfigure the attributes of their reiatsu from Kaitai, the wielder makes physical contact with the enemy and transform a large chunk of their reiatsu to copy that of the wielder and then infiltrates this changed reiatsu into the opponents where it slowly changes back and destroys the opponents at a cellular level from the inside. This process takes longer depending on the strength of the opponents reiatsu and may require subsequent re-activation.