User blog comment:Njalm2/Nanja's Classroom: Designing RP Characters/@comment-18812574-20161210081345

Pointing out the difference between Hyourinmaru and Sode no Shirayuki was extremely helpful. I always knew there was something "different" between the two ice-users, since their Zanpakutou have the same function, essentially, but they feel completely different--which is not the case with a lot of fanon characters whose "element" is simply their function, and they're pretty much the same as any other fanon user of that element (like, say, fire users. Yeah we'll go with that).

So yeah, the Medium and Expression section was the most insightful/helpful to me.