Thread:Silver-Haired Seireitou/@comment-5778280-20151022012026/@comment-2089817-20151031061317

Well, you'd have somebody else perform the Kaido ritual on somebody who fights physically. Elder Kai (the Kaido master) performing the ritual on Gohan (the fighter). Maybe I'll write an article about it... But anyways.

I really don't... see why you need to give Kosa power-ups when he has a Zanpakuto. In the canon, Yoruichi and Soifon are the only ones with non-Zanpakuto power-ups; among the Shinigami, that is. Yoruichi doesn't use a Zanpakuto at all. And Soifon's Zanpakuto is not really her primary weapon of choice, meaning that use of her Shikai and Bankai is very bare. I reckon she doesn't bother trying to improve her Zanpakuto abilities nor her proficiency with it. While everybody else was trying to compensate their loss of Bankai with enhancing their Shikai proficiency (Hitsugaya, Byakuya, et cetera), Soifon completely threw it away and focused solely on Shunko. In the coming years, assuming she doesn't die, I bet she too will forgo her Zanpakuto like Yoruichi has.

I'm not gonna make any assumptions, since you haven't actually given Kosa's Zanpakuto any abilities yet, so I'm not sure what to expect. Maybe you're aleady planning to scrap it, or whatever your plans might be. But basically, you're going to reach a point where you're gonna have to make a choice on what Kosa does to "ascend". Either to focus on his Zanpakuto, making alternative power-up methods either unnecessary or he would have never learned them, or pursue an alternative means, meaning giving up the use or practice of the Zanpakuto's abilities.

If you're adamant on hand-to-hand, then I suggest focusing on the concept of Shunko. Kosa doesn't have to have Shunko itself, if you don't want him to actually use that as his primary weapon - a Hakuda and Kidou mixture - then look to Shunko and see if you can dissect it, perhaps coming up with something similar fundamentally but unique to Kosa.