User blog comment:Silver-Haired Seireitou/Revisiting Hakuda/@comment-1493741-20150516093556/@comment-18812574-20150522045805

Well I just got around to reading this blog, and not that I want to re-open an argument or anything, but I thought I'd throw my own opinion out there, and also I'm a bit confused as to what you guys are all talking about in the first place so...

Reiryoku = energy inherent to a being, that which is generated by hakusui and blah de blah. (Soul Booster and Soul Chain).

Reiatsu = energy expended, force applied, KINETICS. But nah, it's the by-product of reiryoku, imo. Reiryoku is the generator, reiatsu is the function.

That being said, when Ichigo lost all of his powers it was stated that he lost all of his Reiatsu. But his reiryoku (I assume) was still there, just hidden/buried deep, deep within his Soul Booster/Chain/whatever, thus cue the Fullbringers. Also when Rukia stabs him (first time and second time), that Zanpakuto is a "Soul cutting blade" so what was it cutting literally, I wonder. Perhaps the spiritual "core" that N talks about all the time, composed of Booster and Chain. Ah, but side track...

The Getsuga Tensho is clearly reiatsu. Remember, Ichigo's Zanpakuto does little more than control and direct his massive amounts of reiatsu. Cero are also reiatsu. Ulquiorra stated that the Getsuga felt very similar to a Cero, as Sei said, so it would follow that cero (as well as the baby form, bala) is all reiatsu. That being said, I think there is a very clear distinction between reiryoku and reiatsu, but perhaps we're all missing that, I don't know. It would be nice if there was a more succint definition, I suppose. And also, if the reiryoku is the "generator" that provides a being with reiatsu (reiatsu has got to come from SOMEWHERE, afterall) you wonder what could be done by utilizing it/targetting it in battle. I don't agree with the posit that Quincy can absorb reiryoku more easily than reiatsu. To me it would be the other way around, as reiatsu is force/energy expended/externalized, it would be thus one step closer to the ambient reishi that just hands out in the atmosphere. Reiryoku I always thought of as being more inherent, as I said. So in that case, I'd say it would be reasonable to propose that it is the reiryoku, not the reiatsu, that is unique to each individual. Molded by the wavelengths of their soul, so to speak. And then reiatsu is just an expression of that individualized reiryoku. Those are just my thoughts, anyway... not really within the realms of the Hakuda topic (I don't think) but, whatever.