History Headscratchers / BleachUryuAndQuincies

** Where is it stated that souls that die in Soul Society are revived without their memories? Kaien said that [[http://www.onemanga.com/Bleach/268/14/ souls turn into dust and become spirit particles in Soul Society]].

** When we first see [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/bleach/v08/c067/18.html: the gloves]], they're noticeably lacking [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/bleach/v15/c124/19.html: the barbs Ishida breaks]] to activate his super mode. Perhaps he can remove them without breaking them?

** As to why Kirge could absorb Ayon, "With my Vollstandig, I could've disintegrated their bodies."
Sklaverei. It was a technique used by Quincies to decompose and completely break down the surroundings that were made up of reishi and to force the Arrancars into slavery. Although Hollows were poisonous for Quincies, it was possible to dismantle their bodies, so that they became harmless.
Currently, Ishida Uryuu and his father alone were capable of using that technique, thought Liltotto." From Can't Fear Your Own World

* Is it possible for Quincies to become Soul Reapers after they die (SR/Quincy opinions of each other notwithstanding)?

* What the hell are Jinta and Ururu? They're not soul reapers, they're not quincies, and they have no hollow-like characteristics. We know they're not enhanced mod souls, as Urahara seemed to be in line with Soul Society about enhanced mod souls, and their skills are too far ahead of Kon's "strong legs" thing to be from an earlier project. They're sure as hell not human, so what the smeg does that leave?

** I would think it's because he didn't want Uryuu to abuse it with the attitude there are no long-term consequences. Uryuu abused his grandfather's trust as it was. His grandfather told him to not use it until he understood his father's heart, knew what he wanted to protect, and had faced the question of whether or not to continue being a quincy. Uryuu met absolutely none of those requirements, used the glove prematurely, and didn't even question what kind of future battle his grandfather was hinting at. I wouldn't be surprised if Souken and Ryuuken had both fully expected Uryuu to prematurely use the glove. Ryuuken certainly wasn't surprised by what had happened: he knew exactly what had happened. That, of course, raises its own questions.
** There could also have been the fact that regaining Quincy powers is very difficult and dangerous. The only other quincy that would have been alive that was friendly to Uryu (barely) would have been his father. The procedure definitely requires two quincies obviously since a spirit arrow is involved. Physical and spiritual exhaustion and then be shot EXACTLY 19mm to the right of the heart. Ryuken is very skilled, don't get me wrong, but that is still a difficult shot given the factors. Uryu is his son, deep down he does love his son and would be hesitant to actually shoot at his son with a shot that could potentially kill him. 19mm, from a distance while your target is exhausted? They are probably swaying back and forth and trembling after all of that. It is definitely better to just not need to do the procedure in the first place and they knew that.

*** Also, Uryu's comments didn't make sense at the time. He said quincies don't use any weapons other than bows and arrows while wielding an arrow that was capable of being used as a sword if necessary. On top of that, he had clearly been trained in swordfighting to be able to fight that way. Even then, the question existed of why quincies would train in swordcraft and make multi-purpose arrows if all they did was fight with a bow. It immediately raised the question of whether Uryu fully understood quincy history.

*** Uryu is the most rational of the {{TrueCompanions}} so if he knew Ulquiorra was still alive, that makes it even odder. Wouldn't Uryu recognize the smartest thing to do would be to get rid of Ulquiorra while they had a chance? As a Quincy, doesn't Uryu also want to exterminate hollows? At the start of the Thousand Year Blood War Arc, [[spoiler:he doesn't even go with Ichigo, Chad, Orihime, and Urahara to rescue Dondochakka at the request of Nel and Pesche because he says he cannot save a hollow]].

** As you said, it's a policy, not Uryu's idea. He's just following the rules... actually, he's ''not'', considering he helps Ichigo regularly. As for Uryu's anger over Souken's death, it might not have made ''sense'' for the Soul Reapers to come and help, but Uryu still blamed them because he just wanted someone to blame. He really loved his grandfather, after all. Meanwhile, it makes slightly more sense for quincies to not help soul reapers, since there's so much adversity between them and any involvement between them would probably just lead to conflict. Avoiding soul reapers is probably just a way to avoid trouble.

*** Her being weak isn't what killed her. The way Yhwach explained it, every half-blood Quincy died from him taking their powers. Katagiri was doomed from the start no matter her strength, and Ichigo's mother, by that logic, was also doomed. Its just that the hollow killed her first. That is why Uryuu surviving is such a big deal.

* Quincy souls get destroyed if they come into contact with hollow spirit energy, and a Quincy is unable to hollowfy according to Urahara, but Masaki's soul wasn't damaged by White infecting her, she began Hollowfying until Urahara stopped it with Isshin's help, Kirge was able to absorb Ayon with no negative effects and it seems like Juha Bach expected attempts to steal Ichigo's Bankai to fail because of how strong he was, not because of any effects from his hollow powers. Urahara's probably right about the effect because Toshiro's Bankai started breaking as soon as he took the Hollow pill. So are Hollow powers actually dangerous to Quincies?

*** Makes a fair bit of sense, might just be the way it was translated made Kisuke sound like he expected the Quincies to to start breaking down as soon as they had contact with hollow powers. Kirge still bothers me so I'm hoping the Hollows effect on Quincies gets explained better at some point.

* Here's a pertinent question; if hollows are poison for Quincies, and Quincies completely destroy Hollows, how the hell are hollows able to use Quincy powers with no ill effects? We see Aarancar Asguiaro Ebern clearly using Quincy abilities and equipment, setting him up as some Quincy-hollow hybrid. If Hollows and Quincy don't mix, how the hell can a Hollow use Quincy abilities. This ties into Kirge consuming Ayon in Quincy: Vollständig and Ichigo having both Quincy and Hollow powers without ill effects. It seems that otherwise, the two groups can mix and match powers at will, but in only a few cases is this treated as a negative.

*** To clarify on the above statement, it's due to ''why'' hollow energy kills Quincies. It's not because the two powers are naturally opposed; they're not. It's because a Hollow's power is naturally hostile to ''everything'', but most individuals can still take it into their system without worrying about it because they have "antibodies" that render that hostility harmless. Quincies don't have these. Since a Quincy's power is not an actively hostile element like a Hollow's power is, no one else has a particular problem in using it. On the other side of things, someone who is not a pure-blooded Quincy would have inherited defenses against hollow power from their non-Quincy side, causing them to not have this problem.
** As for Ichigo, as he is obviously alive, it's likely that his frankenstein existence (shinigami-hollow-quincy hybrid) allows him to bypass this rule and possibly also not be bound to Yhwach or that Yhwach cannot take Ichigo "back in" due to the hollow baggage. Also, consider that it's hinted that Ichigo's hollow powers are the corruption inside his mother, the merge occurred before Ichigo even existed, so that alone sets his case apart from all other "quincy infected by hollow" cases we've seen so far.

** He may have meant last true Quincy/Human half-blood. Ichigo and his sisters are a mix of Human/Shinigami/Quincy/Hollow (At least Ichigo has Hollow powers, dunno about Karin and Yuzu). Ywach may consider them something different then just half-blood Quincies.

* How did BG-9 and Cang Du manage to end up handcuffed in front of Ywach, it seemed like he was just standing around watching the whole Seireitei with Uryu while the rest of the Vandenreich went on a killing spree, BG-9 wasn't in a position to return without trouble and the last we saw of his fight indicated that he was losing it, so did Ywach go out and capture them, revealing his location and then bring them back so he could stand around with them captured waiting for Haschwalth to return so he could watch him execute them?

** Chances are Yhwach isn't immortal. Quincys are really nothing more than humans with spiritual powers, so they naturally have finite lifespans (Don't know how the hell BG9 could be a quincy since he seems to be a machine). Yhwach had to seal himself for 900 years to live to be as old as he is now. If he's telling the truth anyway. We can see how he used to look by looking at the Zangetsu that is the manifestation of Ichigo's quincy powers, Zangetsu is how Yhwach looked a thousand years ago, minimum. Kept in stasis 900 years, then it was said that he spent 90 years regaining his intelligence. Probably ridiculously close to dying of old age since he looked to be in his late 20's, early 30's by looking at Zangetsu. Then the Auswählen happened nine years after he regained his intelligence and all that power flowing into him at once restored quite a bit of his youth but not all of it as can be seen by his current appearance. Chances are good he knows he doesn't have as long to live as it seems (I'd say it restored him to his late 40's or 50's not taking the years that have passed since the story began and just because it restored a lot of his youth doesn't mean he gets to live to die of old age at the same age that he was originally meant to i.e. he might have died at age 100 before he regained all that power, since his restoration he could die of old age once his restored body's dialed back biological clock reaches the age of 60 instead of the 100 it originally had) and so that means he would eventually need a successor whether he wants to ever step down or not. He can't prolong his life indefinitely and still be a mortal.

* Why didn't anybody tell Nianzol Weizol that Senjumaru was about to kill him? I know she's supposed to be able to do impossible things like swap out someone's clothes without them noticing just because she's ''that'' skilled, but even if Nianzol didn't notice, are we really supposed to believe that Uryu, Haschwalth, and even ''Ywach himself'' didn't notice, either? They were all definitely there to watch the confrontation between the two, since Nianzol emerged directly from Ywach's shadow and then pretty much stayed in the same place up to being killed, so there's no real excuse for them to have not let him know unless everyone who witnessed the fight was okay with him losing. And considering how Nianzol's InstantDeathRadius of an ability pretty much rendered Ywach untouchable, I doubt he'd be someone that they'd be fine to let die.

*** Pat that friend on the back, because that's exactly it. Gremmy imagined a dude whose Schrift "V" (The Visionary) is about absorbing reishi to replace any and all damaged soul; like how Hollows heal themselves, only taken to an extreme. Shaz used this ability to replace the soul Gremmy imagined for him with real reishi from the Seireitei, becoming his own person. Yhwach decided to make the guy an official Sternritter, giving him the letter "Σ".