Thread:Silver-Haired Seireitou/@comment-24384232-20150518001817/@comment-2089817-20150518221121

I think category one can be subsumed under category two, but as two different forms of soul resonance, like hard and soft, I get the reason for separating them. Ikkotsu and Sokotsu, I used to consider them feats of strength, but when taken to a level where someone like Seireitou should ideally be, they become conceptual themselves. Or rather, representations of the concept of "fist" itself. The very nature of hard-style. And therefore, when a Hakuda Master resonates with the pure expression of the fist itself, they are able to use the truest form of the Ikkotsu. The fist smashes down the flow before it, which makes sense when we see Yamamoto dealing a crippling blow to an Espada-class Arrancar. Sokotsu, on the other hand, is dissonance because it utilizes two fists attempting to cripple the flow that stands before it. One blow would cause a void which can be best described as an injury, but two blows flowing into one another to completely destabilize the flow causes outright destruction. There are some pretty crazy possibilities here. But the thing is, I used to think Ikkotsu was a feat of strength which projects said strength, which is why me and Nanja went back and forth discussing how Sei's Ikkotsu would fare up against Hiroya's Sho. But if we presume that the Ikkotsu is the realization of the very concept of "the fist", then you can't measure its strength since it can ideally stand up to anything given that the will of the martial artist is strong enough to do so. Maybe I'm talking out of my ass right now though, so you might have to correct me on a couple things there.

At any rate, in terms of Buki, my head is sorta buzzing with different ideas now but it's all a chaotic mess of partial ideas here and there, so I'll hold off on them until hearing any suggestions you might have first. Generally speaking, I would want to turn Buki into something that basically... separates a Hakuda Master and a Hakuda Expert (or master, lowercase).