Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on May 1, 2007 21:04:39 GMT -5
Now that the team has become shinigami and acquired zanpakuto, becoming vizard or arrancar is a viable option. Aside from direct training under OGM vizard or vizard-like characters, options include finding non-OGM Vizard trainers, delving into one's own soul, or using a new technology that the team has developed that releases one's Hollow side and allows it to be defeated to master it!
Notes about eligibility and other issues:
*Most characters will have a Vizard capability. Virtually no one is free of their own inner Hollow or spectral side that can become a negative creature with enough spiritual assault. However, vizard implies a SHINIGAMI who has tapped into their Hollow powers. A non-shinigami would do so for different intents; for ease of terminology, however, we will call them vizard. The vizard form requires donning, if only partially, one's Hollow mask and leads to an alteration in one's spirit power.
*Arrancar are somewhat more limited as options. Undead may have an arrancar and/or a hollow side. Why? Because in some sense, being dead already, they are essentially corporeal Hollows. The arrancar direction is re-exploring their humanity, while the Vizard direction explores their undead nature. Remember that the distinction between Vizard and arrancar is largely the point of entry: Vizard begin as shingami or humans and tap into their Hollow powers, while Arrancar begin as Hollow and regain a semblance of their humanity moving closer to the psychopomp nature of the shinigami.
*Development of an arrancar side requires a truly heinous training Handyman and the Tech Team has developed: Turning oneself completely into a Hollow! The dangers are manifold. The body must be kept alive and with enough lifespark to function to bring the literally dead soul back: During its unconscious period, it will likely be assailed by all sorts of spirits looking for a body to inhabit. Meanwhile, the dead character will need to defend itself in its barely conscious Hollow form and keep her moral and spiritual bearings so that she can begin crawling back to an arrancar shape. Once the arrancar power is mastered, the body and the soul can be reunited. Arrancar differ from vizard in game terms solely in that they get easier access to higher level Hollow powers and their zanpakuto (which would be an additional arrancar-form zanpakuto) have one release only.
Notes about eligibility and other issues:
*Most characters will have a Vizard capability. Virtually no one is free of their own inner Hollow or spectral side that can become a negative creature with enough spiritual assault. However, vizard implies a SHINIGAMI who has tapped into their Hollow powers. A non-shinigami would do so for different intents; for ease of terminology, however, we will call them vizard. The vizard form requires donning, if only partially, one's Hollow mask and leads to an alteration in one's spirit power.
*Arrancar are somewhat more limited as options. Undead may have an arrancar and/or a hollow side. Why? Because in some sense, being dead already, they are essentially corporeal Hollows. The arrancar direction is re-exploring their humanity, while the Vizard direction explores their undead nature. Remember that the distinction between Vizard and arrancar is largely the point of entry: Vizard begin as shingami or humans and tap into their Hollow powers, while Arrancar begin as Hollow and regain a semblance of their humanity moving closer to the psychopomp nature of the shinigami.
*Development of an arrancar side requires a truly heinous training Handyman and the Tech Team has developed: Turning oneself completely into a Hollow! The dangers are manifold. The body must be kept alive and with enough lifespark to function to bring the literally dead soul back: During its unconscious period, it will likely be assailed by all sorts of spirits looking for a body to inhabit. Meanwhile, the dead character will need to defend itself in its barely conscious Hollow form and keep her moral and spiritual bearings so that she can begin crawling back to an arrancar shape. Once the arrancar power is mastered, the body and the soul can be reunited. Arrancar differ from vizard in game terms solely in that they get easier access to higher level Hollow powers and their zanpakuto (which would be an additional arrancar-form zanpakuto) have one release only.