Quote: I can answer the question of why Sayo is not a Hollow. It works like this. That chain coming out of your spirit form is the manifestation of your
connection to your body and hense your self image. The hole in you, which I seem to recall is not on you if your still alive when out of your body, is the
gap in yourself having no physical body. It is literally a gap in your self image. After your body dies your connection to it wavers and the chain of your
self and memories fades away... thus the cain loses links. This is why it can take years or seconds to convert from ghost to Hollow. It takes a while for
ghosts to angst their self into oblivion and become hollow inside. After that they go utterly mad and need some to fill up the emptiness inside them... thus
a ghost is now a Hollow.

Sayo is Sayo in her mind and Sayo is a ghost. A ghost without those stupid, clumsy legs that annoy her so. Add in at least the administration can see
her and respect her as Sayo, the student... who just happens to be a ghost and she manages to get over the lack of physical body and thus stays full of Sayo.
I mean she gets her own seat and the teacher calls her at role call every day... and with Negi even shows consern she doesn't appear to be there. In
otherwords, dead or not she is a person.

This is why Ichigo's sword is only cuttable when he believes it so. This is why he became a shingami and not a super hero when he changed in the
first episode. That speach of Rukia's convinced him things worked that way. When his powers awakened she was convince that he didn't borrow half
her powers... he sucked her dry. Her powers went piffle as she was convinced Ichigo was keeping them. So she never gets them back.

Spiritual powers work largely on self delusion... powered by spirit power. The reason I think Ishada doesn't lose his powers for ever using that
superpower boost thing is because he convinces himself it temporary. Ego literally pimp slaps agreed upon logic out of the way.

For Sayo this means that if she can convince herself she can do stuff she can... once she builds up enough spirit power. This is why most shingami
suck... they are convinced that they can't do stuff. Thus belief becomes reality. Personality is a superpower, which explains why the 11 have 4 people
of notable powers and not just 2. Its also why they won't tell you how to get Bankai until your a vice captian... that would leave a loony out there
convinced he can have bankai if he/she only knew the method. Release that super secret method to the shingami public at large and in a year most of the
crazies in the 11th will be using their likely insanly destructive bankais in the daily spars.

Of course, you have to convince yourself of this at the deepest levels of your self. Only half believing it won't do much beside giving you half a
power. This is why their is a shingami accademy... to drive self imposed restrictions into shingami.

If I take the nonconspiracy view of the memory formatt thing that sends gohst to the afterlife its the memory formatt literally makes them forget that
they had anything to angst about in the first place. No angst and spending all their time figuring out who they are keeps them from becoming Hollows.

The reason Ichigo can be hollow and shingami is that he is deeply convinced that he is part hollow... but as he had things to do he largely ignores that.
He KNOWS he is kind of, but not really, both. He also is and knows he is alive. Sandal Hat never really tried that approach before... so ignorance is
actually a super power here... or at least not taking classes in restictions.

Which means that Ranma could run into a major issue of being nerfed by the fact she has actually read something on the subject. If they don't let her
read the notes and tip her off to the eat something method of regaining spirit power... Sayo could be trained into power simply by using wacky and illogical
enough methods to pull it off. Simply explain it comes from the notes they won't let her read.

If you do feel like annoying Ranma... remember, for example, that if Sayo convinces herself she is a ghost and the equivalent of a magical girl
transformation pendant... possessing someone may turn them into a kido power house... but make them look silly/girly at the same time.

Quote:Which means there is two impossible things going on that raid with him.

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Quote: Which means there is two impossible things going on that raid with him.

Four more and we can have breakfast!

Quote:"Dress sense aside..." Urahara interjected. "Ichigo has a point. You have a zanpakuto, yes, from that ill-fated-yet-incredibly-fortunate training exercise I heard about, but I've not seen anything else special about you of yet. Odds are, you'll die. Still want to go?"

"I can take care of myself, Shopkeeper-san."

"Oh? Well, I suppose I'll just have to take your word for- think fast!"

He'd finished the sentence in a rush, launching a demon-art fireball at almost the same breath. Reacting instantly to the assault, Ranma automatically created an orb of ki and launched it, impacting with the fireball and detonating them both before it crossed even half the distance to her. Urahara smiled and shrugged.

"See, at the same time that answers a lot of my questions, and proves your own point. Try not to die while invading the afterlife, 'kay?"

Quote:For his part, Komamura had taken in the details of the girl, young, friendly but snappish, funny clothes and decorations, and the zanpakuto and wrapped something that he presumed was another weapon of some kind, carrying a dolly in one arm, and drew the only obvious conclusion. She was an academy student, probably one of the ones that hadn't been selected as astounding during training and pre-selected for a specific division, and was about to be assigned about to be assigned one, but was in a hurry and rushing around because she thought she was going to be late. He stated this conclusion aloud.

"Yes!" Ranma immediately agreed, siezing greedily upon the unknowingly proferred cover story. "You gotta be a mind reader, Captain Big Guy, Sir, because that's exactly the situation. See, I might have gone out walking and taken a couple wrong turns, and I hate to admit it but it's entirely possible that I'm completely and totally lost and frantic right now, and would you please set me back on track because I'd be ever so grateful?"

Komamura chuckled again, once more drawing a parallel with a certain officer, and happily pointed the way for the lost little shinigami-to-be.

"Such a nice young lady." He said after she gratefully thanked him and left. "I wonder what division she'll end up in."

"C'mon, captain. You know they pretty much draw numbers out of a hat for anyone who's not particularly given towards any specific field."

"True, true." Komamura frowned behind his steel mask. "Oh. I do hope the poor girl doesn't end up in eleventh or twelfth. Those divisions are so... violent, and unethical, respectively. It would be a terrible shame to see such innocence blighted."

There was a moment of strange awkwardness between the two, as though the Captain had said something terribly strange, and neither of them could work out why.

Quote: but never noticed that Urahara's is on the same level.

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You know, I've just realized... it's not Ranma who's scary nuts, it's the author.

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Ah. I missed or misrecalled that. My apologies.