Bleach TKO Zanpakuto?

[Mizuki_Stone]

Rereading the Manga, specifically the fake Karakura arch, even more so Kira's fight.

Kira's Zanpakuto's ability is rather... well... weird. But at the same time highly effective, if indirectly so. I think it's Fanon, but I read somewhere that the third division was for the most part, filled with people with oddball soul slayers. This got me thinking.

How many soul slayers do not do damage directly? What is there design? How would they work?

So far we've only seen three of them, two of the traitor captains, and Kira's. I am not including Medical Zanpakuto, but, I'm interested in seeing some ideas out there. Bonus points if there not simple 'disable for execution' types.

 

[zeebee1]

Kira's is most likely a kido type. Therefore Yumichika's falls under this as well. As long as he doesn't drain too much. But it should be noted that it's the special ablity that doesn't do damage. The sword can still be used a a sword.

 

[Amodelsino]

Decapitation seems like a pretty direct form of damage to me.

Also, the 3rd squad all having odd Zanpakuto is fanon. Kira even explains in that very chapter what is 'unique' to the 3rd division.

 

[Mizuki_Stone]

Still you understand what I mean? Zanpaktou that are not direct weapons. Yes it dose damage, but it's shape also renders it impractical for direct cutting, as the upper portion bares no edge on it's outer side.

Essentially I'm interested on ideas of Subtle soul slayers, ones that work Indirectly.

To be brutally honest I'm thinking of doing a Bleach fic... despite not having completed any of my other ones yet... and Need ideas.

 

[windstorm]

I'd say Mayuri's Zanpaktou fits the bill. Using poison would probably count as indirect. Ichigo's bankai might count since it does the super speed boost (it's like a stats increase instead of a new ability). In the anime in the Amagai Shusuke arc Kenryu's Zanpaktou release with the flowers that stick to everything would count and part of Enryu's release with uplifting the ground around him would also fit.

I've got a couple of random made up ideas for Zanpaktou powers to shoot off:

- Minor time control. The Zanpaktou release allows the wielder to speed up or slow time within a limited area and on certain objects, they can then use it to play havoc with movement speeds (won't cause people to age or regress or anything like that though). For example if there is an attack about to hit the user could slow the speed of the sword, fist, projectile etc giving them more time to get away. They can also increase their own attack speed and movement speed by speeding up the time flow.

- Sleep powder. The release would look similar to Rangiku's shikai and cause the enemy to get drowsy and fall asleep if afflicted instead of having a physical effect. An extra side effect might be for the user to control what kinds of dreams they end up with, nightmares living their greatest fears or paradise living out their strongest desires.

- Shadow walking. Self explanatory, ability to walk through shadows. Would be great for assassination.

- Light pulse. Gives off blinding flashes off light at will to simply blind the opponent. This would actually be pretty useful against most regular enemies, keeps them distracted, prevents most from attacking and keeps them from seeing the user's movements. Has the secondary effects of acting like an x-ray if a person wears a special type glasses and dispels illusions. Also useful for gardening if the plants don't seem to get enough sunlight.

- Smokescreen. Smoke surrounds an area to block an enemy's vision. Gradually causes the enemy to suffocate from lack of oxygen if they stay in the smoke for too long.

- Explosive touch. Whatever object the sword touches can be turned into an explosive device and the user can control when the explosion sets off (doesn't work on living things though or objects that are materializations of a person's reitsu like a Zanpaktou or Ishida's bow and the objects lose the ability to explode if the sword is reverted from shikai or the user is knocked unconscious). This would probably be a particularly fun ability to see.

 

[Himitsu the Hunter]

A while back a friend of mine was doing a bleach fanfic/rp thing with a bunch of us, we ended up coming up with a couple of odd ones.


One guy's was a Zanpaktou which its Shikai made sound explode. Essentially you any sound being made in its area of effect could be used to make spirit particles to detonate like a bomb, the louder the sound the more makes things go boom. He was quickly killed off by the main villainous faction of course for having to much of a potentially devastating ability before he could hit bankai.

I myself also had a Zapaktou consept for our story. Basicly it was named Mad Doctor, and its Shikai version secreted a fluid which acted as a preservative for unique spirit particle structures. Basically you would be able to separate unique elements from a hollow while purifying them or any spirit particle structure it could cut, and keeping those elements from dispersing. The second form of Mad Doctor was essentially a 'Mantis crossed with a Sewing machine' which took collected elements and stitched them into Flesh Golems, advanced ability allowed it to wear the collected elements so that it could itself attack.
(A good year or 2 later I am amused to see a trio of Arrancar who make a golem from their combined flesh, cue Irony)

There were a couple other really unique ones, but I can't remember them at all off hand.

-Himitsu The Hunter

 

[Lord Raine]

One guy's was a Zanpaktou which its Shikai made sound explode.

Sounds like he's been reading Marvel to me. Jubilee is one of the more broken mutants around, having the power to directly convert sound into energy.

 

[zeebee1]

Did they change her powers again? The last time I checked the sounds were just a side effect. She caused explosions by making things explode. Theoretically, she could make nuclear reactions.

 

[atharris]

One guy's was a Zanpaktou which its Shikai made sound explode.

Sounds like he's been reading Marvel to me. Jubilee is one of the more broken mutants around, having the power to directly convert sound into energy.

Was that Jubilee's? Wasn't that some other girls power, that let her absorb sound and turned into energy, like laser beams and stuff?

Did they change her powers again? The last time I checked the sounds were just a side effect. She caused explosions by making things explode. Theoretically, she could make nuclear reactions.

Yeah that's what I thought, but it has been some time since I read X-Men so they could have changed her power at some point.

 

[Mizuki_Stone]

Thanks a lot, this is a big help actually... he he he, explosive noise, and the necromancers wet dream (well outside of being a death god to begin with)

The flash bang, smoke screen, and a few of the others look like they could work well, as well.

Maybe giving a bit more details would help?

Early in the Manga it was stated that Soul Society used to Capture hollows, as well as purify them. I was looking for a few ideas to assemble a basic OC 'capture team'

 

[windstorm]

Don't see how giving more details would help much. The basic abilities were described pretty well, its up to the writer in a fic to decide how they are used. The way the Zanpaktous look is often irrelevant to the power they posses and that is about the only thing I can think of to add details on.

I've got a couple more ideas to add:

- Paralyzation moth swarm. The sword upon release breaks into a swarm of moths that constantly drop paralyzing powder down (inspired by the pokemon Venemoth). The moths direction and movements are controlled by the user. Enemies of lower ability than the user (particularly things like garden variety hollows and unseated Shinigami) would become fully paralyzed upon the powder falling on them. For stronger opponents (particularly ones with greater reitsu) they might be able to resist the effects more so it would take longer for the full paralyzation effect to work. It would slow their movements down by a large amount at first and continually slow them even more as the affliction becomes greater and it eventually causes full paralyzation after a period of time. Would be a pretty easy way to immobilize opponents.

- Kidou + sword. The release increases the effectiveness of kidou spells (makes them more powerful, decreases cast time, decreases energy required to cast, increases the speed with which the spell takes affect after it is cast etc) and can cast kidou spells for you. When the sword casts kidou the spell is released from the sword's bladed edge. This would be helpful because you don't need to concentrate as much on casting a kidou technique to use one, it would be easier to move around while doing so and you can still use the technique while attacking with the sword normally. It would be easier to use kidou spells in combination and do the double chant stuff we've seen (the user casts one kidou spell and the sword casts the other). Ultimately the Zanpaktou's ability increases as its user's kidou abilities do as well.

 

[The Sandman]

Gravity manipulation. What Kira's sword does is it increases the mass of what it hits; I'd be talking about something that actually lets you alter the local direction and strength of gravity.

Information-gathering. A zanpakutou that disperses itself into a large number of smaller and mobile pieces, all of which send sensory data back to the wielder.

Sound manipulation. Shifting frequency and amplitude, deadening it in certain areas or enhancing it in others, changing the range of hearing of yourself or your target, etc.

Shapeshifting. Basically forms a sort of second skin that allows you to alter your physical body, possibly including some method of changing your mass and composition as well.

Empathic or telepathic abilities. Both sending and receiving, but probably not empathic and telepathic at the same time.