Thread:Silver-Haired Seireitou/@comment-24384232-20150518001817/@comment-18812574-20150522025801

Jumping in here because this was intensely interesting to me and I'm an annoying turd and such...

The thing with Shunkou, is that Yoruichi herself stated that it was rather difficult to control, even after she had mastered it. As a converse theory, I figured that it was the harnessing and internalization of an external force (is this "resonance?" or perhaps no...) but obviously the next question is what that force is exactly. Thus the "kidou" aspect of it, which would serve to create/generate the force or energy or so-forth to be internalized by the Hakuda master. One could also just use ambient reishi to internalize as well, I suppose, although that feels beside and far off from the point to me. Also, I think Soifon achieved Shunkou training for it specifically for 2-3 years, but obviously she had many many many more years stacked on top of that in general Hakuda prociciency. Obviously though, Shunkou would be "easier" (meaning quicker, or what have you) to obtain than say Bankai because Shunkou is simply one application of Hakuda, even if it is supposed to be the "peak" or what-not.