Release Guide

Release Guide 

In Bleach, almost every race has some kind of special release or transformation that empowers them and gives them new abilities. Achieving some of these is simple, such as shikai, but others are not as easy to do, such as bankai or segunda etapa. Release abilities are often stronger and more unique and specifc then normal abilities. Additionally, releases are capable of performing feats that normal souls cannot. Below is the list of releases and how you can achieve them, should you not start with them at registration. 

FULLBRING: Fullbring is achieved by a character that has a strong object they are connected too and fullbringing it to its true form. This generally happens in a very vivid explosion of power, though more subtle releases do exist. Fullbring are unique that when mastered, they release another explosion of spiritual power that, if not absorbed by someone else, can kill the user. A mastered fullbring can have seven techniques.

SHIKAI: This can be done through a series of threads, or a single epic thread, where the shinigami is imprinting their soul onto the asauchi and eventually learns the name. How you do this is up to the player; it can involve fighting, healing, partying, whatever you want! A shikai can have up to four techniques.

BANKAI: Aquiring bankai requires the character go through a trial with their zanpakutou spirit after manifesting it, ending with them subduing the spirit. Manifesting the spirit requires a HIGH SPIRITUAL ENERGY. Whatever the trial is is up to the player, though they can have others NPC if they wish. Bankai trials are graded extremely harshly, so you have to try really hard to achieve it! A bankai can have up to three techniques. Bankai can utilize shikai techniques.

RESURRECCIÓN: The initial release of an arrancar, it is unlocked the moment they become an arrancar. How they learn this is completely up to them, and can be done in virtually any way. A ress can have up to three techniques.

RESURRECCIÓN SEGUNDA ETAPA: This is the final, ultimate release of an arrancar. It is also the hardest release to attain on the site. The character in question must be a Vasto Lorde-class arrancar before hand. Additionally, they must have a GREAT SPIRITUAL POWER. Upon doing so, the arrancar in question is able to undergo a trial in which they must fully accept why they are a hollow, and must be in a situation in which they must evolve to survive. Generally multiple threads, or a single epic one, are required for this. Segunda Etapa improvements are graded extremely harshly, as achieving one instantly boosts a character to IMMENSE SPIRITUAL POWER. A Segunda Etapa can have one technique. The techniques of the first stage can be boosted up in this form to achieve new effects as well.

DOLL RELEASE: The releasing of a bount's doll is done through the bount being put through a high-stress situation, generally life endangerment, in which they need help to succeed. This in turn causes the doll to manifest. A doll can have up to five techniques.

DOLL MERGER: Merging with the doll is the equivalent of a bount’s bankai. It can only be performed with a HIGH SPIRITUAL POWER. Merging with the doll requires the character having become completely synchronized with it. Both doll and bount must share a bond so deep that they literally become a single being. Doing a merger is permanent, and when done instantly boosts the bount up to the next level of spiritual power. Thus, just as Segunda Etapa, doll mergers improvements are graded extremely heavily. A merger can have up to seven techniques; however, the original doll techniques are lost.

QUINCY: VOLLSTANDIG: Quincy: Vollstandig is an ability that grants a quincy a power up similar to that of Letz Stil. It can be activated and deactivated at a whim, and enhances a quincy's manipulation powers to their highest possible level. Thus, every single ability used while in the Vollstandig state is extremely powerful, capable of dealing immense amounts of damage. It must be granted by the Quincy King.

QUINCY: BUNTENGEL: Quincy: Buntengel is an ability similar to the Vollstandig. Only the Sternmord, Quincy who have poisoned themselves with hollow abilities, can achieve this level of power. Unlike the Vollstandig, which creates wings and armor of blue reishi, the Buntengel, or Stained Angel, appears to be composed of flowing lights, matching the seven colors of the rainbow. This is similar to the appearance of stained glass. While in the Buntengel state, a Sternmord is capable of matching feats of the strongest shnigami, supplemented with hollow reiryoku.

VISORED MASK: A visored mask can only be attained once a shinigami soul has been infected by a hollow's reiatsu. It then requires a special mixture of quincy arrows and humans soul to balance everything out, preventing soul suicide. Once this is done, and the shinigami dominates their new inner hollow spirit, they gain the ability to manifest a visored mask. A visored mask grants four different enhancements to the shinigami. These can be things such as enhanced durability or endurance, supplementary skills such as enhanced pain tolerance, or even effect your techniques in unique ways. In addition, the visored mask also thickens the shinigami's spiritual pressure, though this is merely cosmetic. The visored mask lasts for three posts. For every rank of spiritual control the shinigami has, up till mastered, the mask lasts an additional two posts. Once perfected, the mask can last an entire thread. Fighting a target with more spiritual pressure than the visored, or using bankai with the mask, lowers the mask time to a third of its normal duration.