Board Thread:Fanon Canon/@comment-2089817-20160819203005/@comment-24267641-20160829110256

I agree with Shonen. It would be interesting to have some of the Captains die in the course of the FC, of course exactly what kills them is still in the air. I think its more likely to be a virus of some kind, but as Shonen said, a strange living entity is also a possibility. An idea I entertain in my head is that viruses in the real world infect and then effectively steal the host cells resources to propagate and divide. We could create a spiritual equivalent which infects a random bunch of people, but in those with average to above average levels of spiritual power it dies out pretty quickly, as the virus dies quicker than it can reproduce. In those with large amounts however, they have more "resources", in this case Reiryoku, to steal, so they divide much more quickly, eventually killing the host once they've used up all the spiritual power available. That way you wouldn't have to explain how only the Captains caught the disease, but you could say why it only killed those with large amounts of spiritual power.