Thread:Saris Khan/@comment-24384232-20141211031559/@comment-18812574-20141212065246

Well, you know, you could just stop god-modding with the kido. Bleach canon has shown a rather limited use of kido, and it seems few are actual masters of it. As has been stated before, just because it is easier to use does not make it a superior skill. Obviously people are going to go for the flashy and the magical in a roleplay, but that is a roleplay. Are RP's good representations of reality? Or even Bleach reality? No, not really at all. And so as far as how to integrate Zanjutsu/Hakuda into an Rp? I don't know... maybe stick closer to what we've seen in Bleach?

That is my personal opinion, I know it don't hold water.

On a more logical note, take a look at Byakuya. This guys is a kido master. He's a Kuchiki. He uses high level spells without incantation, yadda yadda. But have you ever seen him fight without his sword? He frames his kido with his Zanpakuto, which makes one think the two aren't so mutually exclusive from each other after all. I love the idea of "cutting through" to the "soul" of kido, as it seems to refect the true nature of things. Zanjutsu is an extention of one's own soul: the Zanpakuto's spirit is born and lives within the Shinigami. Their powers are a direct parallel of their soul. Quote: "The blade is me." Kido, in the same way, is an extension of the user's soul. More specifically, as Njalm put it, "their will exerted to control the external world." Well, depeding on what we mean by "wil" that too is an extension of the soul. In a battle of kido vs. zanjutsu then, shouldn't the outcome be largely determined by who's spirit is the more indominitable, who's will power is stronger? But anyway, this is all hypothetical, and I ramble. Remember when Shinji simply reached out his hand and tore away Aizen's concealing spell? That's what I imagine Zanjutsu to be capable of. Zanjutsu is the Yin to kido's yang. If kido is about deception than Zanjutsu is about truth. The Zanpakuto literally means "soul cutting blade," and the Zanpakuto is used to cut away to the true nature of a being. "Cleanse Hollows." Perhaps it can also "cleanse" kido spells: stripping away the attack to its truest essence.