Thread:Silver-Haired Seireitou/@comment-5778280-20151022012026/@comment-2089817-20151031073903

To be honest, I'm not quite sure yet what I'm going to do with that whole thing. It was just a reason I was happy with to finally remove Hanullim and make Sei entirely focused on Hakuda. I didn't like the idea of just "throwing" away the Zanpakuto, so taking a note from the unique relationships each Zanpakuto and their master had, I found a way to make a rather fitting one between Sei and Hanullim. I guess, if I had to define it, I'd say that Hanullim basically paved a way for Sei to access his power on his own, without a release state. In other words, that's how Sei reached his Shinuchi form. Shinuchi, for Sei, is the result of "surpassing" Hanullim and moving forward on his own. That's the gist of it anyways. He doesn't really have any of Hanullim's abilities though, since for me, that defeated the purpose of removing Hanullim. Nor can he access Shikai and Bankai, because Hanullim no longer exists as a separate entity. In one way of looking at it, you could even say Sei "killed" Hanullim, just as the student's final test is to defeat the master.