Zanpaktou Release Game

I'd recommend a name one, write one basis.
I'll start.

Chemical Discipline Mangler
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Weaken, Non-elemental, Grinding

Chemical: Using chemicals and poisons.
Discipline: Control over yourself or another person.
Mangler: To mangle, dismember, etc...

The natural progression of this leads me to want to see a mad-scientist type shinigami with a zanpaktou that controls someone else using a series of chemicals that winds up dismembering/damaging them over time while they are being controlled. So Debuffs + Damage over time effects. But you know what would be more interesting than that? A zanpaktou you use on yourself ala Dr. Jeckel/Mr Hyde to "Discipline" yourself...at the risk of mangling yourself.

So a zanpaktou that buffs your stats i.e. honing your senses and mind BUT it hurts you each round while its active. Maybe its just a syringe? That'd be pretty fun for a Hakuda/Hand-to-Hand user.

Weaken: To erode an opponents stamina or Reiatsu
Non-elemental: Physical based
Grinding: (owch...) gears or other crushing devices.

I can see this Zanpaktou being part of the Battle divisions. A complex Zanpaktou with no element so it would feed off the energy of either the wielder or the opponent. The blade itself wouldn't be a blade but something that would spin at a high velocity so whenever it hit something it would grind away at them. Like a spinning top (Bayblade!!) or something that went upon the hand like an iron glove with gears that draw in energy and grind anything else it comes into contact with.

This Zanpaktou could be very difficult to control, from a long range attack to a close range it would have to be carefully controlled so it wouldn't sap the users energy instead of the opponent, yet even with complete mastery one would still feel it's draining power on themselves. So This energy draining would have to be used in shorter bursts rather than be continued over a long period of time.

Surrender, Shucks (yeah...like corn), Semiautomatic

Loki: Chains or an Urumi that bind someone and then ripp away form them, cutting away at nerve endings and flesh as to weaken the person with a considerable debuff instead of doing (much) 'structural' damage (i.e. organ or bone damage).



Shucks? Really. Alright lets do this *pulls up sleeves*.

Your zanpaktou is a corn-stalk with unblossomed/budded corn. You use it like a quarterstaff. The shucks of corn launch out of the staff in any direction. There are two distinct modes. In automatic mode it shoots small shucks that can catch enemy attacks--particularly projectile attacks--and render them harmless. The more shucks you shoot, the less reiatsu each shuck can drain from the enemy attacks. They literally envelop the projectile and drain a set amount of reiatsu then wither away--so against a considerably stronger opponent, there's a chance they'll only weaken the opponent's attacks. The larger shucks from the burst mode can envelop entire enemies and drain their stamina. They are protected while in the shuck, but are made to feel helpless.

The entire point of the kai is to make the opponent feel so helpless that they'll invariably surrender.
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If anyone else wants to try: Cloud Lamp Traffic

Lust Irony Clinic


.... huh?

Traditional State Concealing.
Sounds really cool, actually. Like an illusion type zanpakuto. Too bad most of those are unusable, though.

It appears like a regular katana. Not even a zanpaktou. Just a really old, dull, powerless katana. Yes: completely powerless. Even its user appears powerless: no reiatsu signature any more or less impressive than the average human. Even when casting a kidou or using another technique--the user's state is completely concealed.



Lust: Any fantasy about a desire.
Irony: When something happens that is in complete opposition to the expected.
Clinic: A healthcare facility.

This zanpaktou will reflect anyone's wounds and inverse the healing prowess of any healing spell or technique so long as the target of the technique themselves desires to be healed. So it usually only works once or twice before the target realizes its the aura of the zanpaktou doing the damage.

Moving Skin Appendage

Your zanpaktou takes the form of a fluid in a syringe. You inject yourself with it and gain a limit of control over your evolutionary progress, so to speak. In shi-kai, it gives you the ability to modify yourself once. In bankai: over and over again. You can grow a tail, extra arms, skin-flaps that function as wings or webbings...

Alternatively:

Your zanpaktou is your arm. You lost it before becoming a shinigami and it has a permanent shape/form as such that you regain your arm until you release it. The weapon itself literally "moves skin"--it slices through skin and the first layer of muscle like it were nothing. It can still be blocked by other weapons or techniques and, of course, you only have one arm as long as its released...so sucks to be you. Worse yet: it can't cut through clothes. Only skin. There's a webcomic joke there.