Hiroko Takagi [Misc. Techs]

Shisseki | lit. Rebuke - Just remove the following, all this stuff would be determined on advantages so stating in the tech has no purpose.


Oni Kakusu | lit. Demon Hide - Soul resilience is not a mastery you can have techs associated with. It just gives you the passive durability and that's it.

Oni Ken'eki | lit. Demon Quarantin - "cannot be maintained for long" gonna need an exact duration and cooldown.

1. My only question is: What's Yoruichi doing when she turns into a cat in the Save Rukia arc, etc.? I can't remember it ever being explained how, but it's canon and not really something so far-fetched anymore. And I fail to see how this presents a problem.

At worst, I would've expected to be bound to one alternate form and just not have limitless shapeshifting. I don't see what's wrong here. Please elaborate more.


2. What is Nnoitra doing using a physical manifestation of reiryoku to 'touch' Zaraki to get a more accurate read on him for, then? (If you watch the fight, he stretched yellow reiatsu to him along the sand just before trying to warn Tesla about him.) Are you suggesting his reiatsu sensing sucked so much in particular he had to reach out to them like that? Or that this was an asspull by Kubo, trying to give him more 'techniques' so he didn't look so lame?

Why is it the guide says Sensory techniques are a thing but everytime I make one or even let on it helps, I get the "your mastery does that," answer?  I would've expected it to be denied as too much of a 2-in-1 technique sooner than for being sensory based.  What's so touchy about sensory techniques? I just find it weird to believe there are illusions on sight, but having a sensory technique seems to raise questions.

If this did or didn't happen in the manga canon, I guess I withdraw from use of it for sensing regardless. I didn't think that was such a far-fetched thing to do either. Does this mean tracking Kido are pretty much impossible, if I attempted to make something to that extent?

Ranges were adjusted.

Ah yeah; the shape shifting this did strike me extremely odd, especially given it is a shinigami's body which we have learned is not exactly malleable without some experimental manipulation IE Mayuri being involved. Given that it is also JUST his reiryoku, it didn't seem fit for a shinigami's reiryoku to be able to produce such an effect without some form of release behind him. While we aren't canon we do have certain guidelines already imprinted when it comes to hollow powers

from the hollow race guide
Evidently, we are given a limitation to what we can expect from a hollow's power mastery, in turn what hollows are capable of.

Pushing further; even for the example of fullbringers, their body changes are simple coatings of power such as Jackie and Sado. Ginjo had some physical changes in his release as well, but notably due to several combinations of releases. Hollows are made up of a large number of souls which is the biggest reason why their bodies change so dramatically between evolutionary stages. Look at Practically every Arrancar Ress in which their hollow/animalistic natures take over their physical appearance.

Name: La muerte Pincha (Death Spikes)
Class: Hollow Technique
Type: Offensive
Range: 50 Radial Meters
Tier: III
Description: Curling up like a ball, with their back facing upwards, the user gathers reiatsu on their body and forms countless small spikes at the length of half a foot all over their back and shoulders, from pure reiatsu and shoots them off at a wide area around them.

Name: El Sable De Piel (The Saber Of Skin)
Class: Hollow Technique
Type: Supplementary
Range: Self
Tier: IV
Description: Charging reiryoku onto a limb, a blade of energy protrudes directly from that extremity. It has the sharpness of a tier 4 weapon, and can cause major lacerations upon contact. This technique can last up to 6 posts.

pulling techniques from the list, we can see several examples where techniques uses the body as a medium to channel these techniques; either through physical manipulation or even pulling an actual blade from their body.

I know it may not be explicitly forbidden, but there is already something in place which is granting one race something exclusively that other races simply cannot, rather should not, mimic. With all that in mind, I really feel that what little exclusivity that the races do have are slowly diminishing only because we don't have that outlined properly, which does upset me a little when it comes to that being that there should be certain benefits that some races get that others don't and vice versa.

Bounts have strongest Regen
Arrancar get Segunda If Vasto
Vizards Have Mask/Viz Ress
Humans Have Soul Resonance
Sub Shini have Soul Synchro
Mod Souls have Soul Engineering

Shinigami USED to have techs that were exclusive to Kido
Hollows USED to be the only race to have major body transformation abilities. Quincy are weird... just super weird

Should we give everyone else strong regen too?
Should all races have a Vizard Mask like Feature?

I'm going to hop in here to state an opinion on the form changing, specifically one that is using its basis of "The canons can do it why can't we" and "how it challenges our system". In no way what I am about to say is meant to be taken as disrespectful to you or anyone jabber, so I'm sorry if it is taken that way. That being said... the fellow staff members I talked to agreed with me on this.

Just because a canon has it, does not mean you get it. That's the simple summary of this. You can have creation mastery, and shunko, and spec stepping but anything that is essentially based off of a specific canon ability just your own version of it especially one so unique as this will be denied every time. If we MUST state a rule to get you to understand then I'll state it, you cannot copy or make your own versions of such a specialized canon ability. Form changing, I understand why you want it, but for a shinigami it will not happen as yume above has stated. If you want a reasoning behind this opinion it is not only because that ability is unique to the canon, but it is what sets the canon apart in some ways. We allow everyone to say "Well a canon has it so I should be able to get it" then it breaks our system as if we look at some canon abilities they are rule breaking, I.E mayuri's bankai poison is uncurable, etc etc. I understand what you are asking for is not that extreme however I am of the belief if we allow one, that starts a basis for an argument that we should allow them all.