User blog comment:Leo Kazisaski/Bankai levels/@comment-4509522-20121007163413/@comment-2089817-20121008213052

I want to start by saying that nobody takes what I'm going to say personal, alright? This is not written out of spite, but merely to set the record straight and defend my own concepts as well.

Void, you do realize that you contradict yourself in more ways than one right now, right? Let's not forget how Kenshin, your own character, had a Second Stage Bankai that you were planning to add (even though you seem to have changed gears from it), so don't cast stones. Maybe you discarded the idea for whatever reason, but even you considered, at one point, the idea. It was probably not the same idea as my own Stage 2, but still. But even so, what bothers me the most is that, you're describing one way of how Bankai can evolve, which actually cheapens it. That's the irony of your statement, that "levels" cheapen it.

Let's take my Stage 2 concept, right? By saying mine is improbable and "cheapens" it, and that there's only one way to empower a Bankai and to truly become one with the spirit, that's what really cheapens it. Why can't both ideas be possible? Who are you to say mine can't? Anymore than who am I to say your idea wouldn't do it either. Is that a crime or something? Or do you have to call my idea, and the very concept of Bankai levels, cheap so as to promote there to be only one way to evolve the Bankai? The problem here is, you are saying I'm limiting the concept that is Bankai, but in reality, it's this silly notion that Bankai can't evolve any other way but how you describe it, that limits the concept. You have your way, Blank has his way, Ten has his way, and I have mine. I'm not forcing you or Blank or anybody to use Stage 2. You don't wanna use it, because you think it "cheapens" it? Great. Wonderful. Have a good day.

It wasn't just, oh look here comes Sei and his super special awesome Bankai levels, isn't that a laugh. No. I put time and thought into how a Stage 2 and maybe beyond that, could be possible. And after that work, who are you to tell me it cheapens it? Maybe stages are how some Zanpakuto do evolve. Zanpakuto can be different, right? Maybe some can develop stages, maybe some can't. The mere fact that you refuse to acknowledge that is what truly cheapens Bankai.