Thread:Zf6hellion/@comment-136273-20160417141646/@comment-1493741-20160507182604

As far as I've seen this entire time, you told me her bond was deep (and unique), but never gave me anything of substance. Satou has a deep bond with Seishijou Sakumori, its there on his article, the same as hers. On his article, I've given detail on what they're bond has achieved, time and again, its demonstrated in non-standard use of his Zanpakutou's abilities, and the ability for either to act as a pseudo-gateway when they fight. Nowhere in any of it do I imply that their bond allows them to heal each other, and as a result, they can't.

Looking at Kimiko's article, I see a similar trend. It talks about their bond being deep, and the article reflects the bond's strength in various techniques all coming from the Zanpakutou's abilities. They may act as one, and so on, but there's nothing to suggest that one could heal the other. Should I assume that Murasakizuishou can reverse the role between them, making Kimiko into the sword? There's no implication to hint at it, but then, there's nothing that doesn't either.

But their bond is unique since Kimiko is kind of the greatest Zanpakutou user in all Soul Society. With that in mind it really isn't too far-fetched to restore the lost history because the two actually share it. The spiritual equivalent of a back-up copy, y'know. One that is consistent with her specialty, logical in function and reasonable in extent.

This is what you gave me to work with. As an extrapolation, its about as much detail as saying you're getting FA for Christmas.

I have to accept that her bond is unique, not for any actual stated reason, but because Kimiko is the de jure at Zanpakutou. I don't accept it on the grounds that the fanon divide on Zanjutsu is to focus less on cutting folk and more on communicating with the sword, so without any given reason to see her as unique and the best ever, I say that she is on roughly equal grounds with Satou. We've went into this before, and I don't believe we ever came up with any meaningful divide then either.

She can act as a back-up to Murasaki in matters of memory, because they both share it. As I mentioned above, I would've accepted this if anything interesting happened as a result. Kimiko and Murasaki are the same in a sense, yes, but the Zanpakutou is a distinct being. They share similarities as people but its been demonstrated that Zanpakutou have their own quirks and traits separate from their masters. So restoring her memory from Kimiko's point of view should have some sort of warped consequences to it, her entire life from that point was suddenly in the perspective of someone who is her, but not quite. Or it could've been Kimiko who suffered instead. There's plenty you could have done with it, but chose not to in favour of knocking the ability out entirely with no expressed effort or repercussion. That's a large part of why I consider it an ass-pull.

You don't like Satou's time powers, I fuckin' get it already. But I try to represent them fairly, in a fight where a single blow has been established as a loss for either party, of course he's going to dodge for his life. In effect, he's not even doing more than anyone tends to with Shunpo in the first place. By all means, I could've had him dodge through the mist perfectly, but I didn't, he took a hit that, while initially negligible, leaves my RP partner ground to even the playing field.