Sorry about that. Was cooking and I needed food. Anyway, I was thinking for a little bit about one of Damage3245's points. To clarify what point im talking about, its what he says here from his earlier replies:
Damage3245 said:
I know IMade made an answer in his long explanation post, but from the looks of it all it is saying is that it doesn't count as soul-destruction when in Soul Society, just body destruction...
Thinking on this point, the point he brought up on "body destruction", or even that a Quincy's spirit bows only cause conventional normal damage to a Konpaku instead of soul destruction, seems to be the more likely result. At least when inside the Soul Society anyway. And there's multiple points I have that reinforces his. For my explanation, i'll use an example that happens quite early in the Soul Society arc of a Konpaku not being completely destroyed by Quincy powers: Uryu vs Jirobo.
In this fight with Jirobo, Uryu strikes Jirobo not 1, not 2, not 3,
but 4 times with his Quincy arrows, yet Jirobo's Konpaku (body of the soul) wasn't completely destroyed by Quincy Soul Destruction in the slightest. He only lost his Soul Reaper powers because of something else happening to him. And the important factor here was that Uryu's mindset was
completely focused on killing Jirobo. As shown:
Scan 1
Scans 1-3
When Jirobo faces Orihime, the latter failing to damage him with her Koten-Zanshun attack, he attacks her saying she can't do anything with an attack that lacks murderous intent.
But before she can be hit, Uryu quickly launches a Quincy arrow at him that slices his hand, making him bleed, saying if Jirobo wants to face murderous-intentful attacks, he should go up against his bow.
This is the 1st time Jirobo gets damaged and
already we're shown Uryu is intent (or very willing) to kill him. Moving on...
Scan 2
Scan 3
Scans 4-5
Scan 4
Uryu again launches and damages Jirobo with a Quincy Arrow before the latter can pull out his Zanpakuto Tsunzaki-Garasu, and Jirobo is still in the game.
Second time he is hit by an arrow.
Scan 5
Scan 6
When
Scan 6
Jirobo tries attacking Orihime, due to failing to beat Uryu, Uryu jumps in to protect her and launches 2 more Quincy arrows at him. This time
through him, causing more damage than earlier. Yet, his Konpaku isn't destroyed like Quincies would normally do to hollows. What happens instead?
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Even after all of that damage from Uryu's quincy arrows, Jirobo isn't killed. And his Konpaku is still very intact, just damaged. What happens is instead of the Konpaku being destroyed, Uryu's arrows only destroyed Jirobo's Saketsu chain and his Hakuisui soul sleep, the spot where his spiritual power is kept. With it gone, he only loses his soul reaper powers, but his Konpaku/spiritual body remains.
And why is Jirobo an important part of my reply? Well here are multiple things we know he was to Uryu when battling each other:
-An obstacle. Jirobo, like everyone else in the Seireitei, knew Ichigo's gang called Ryoka (rebel spirits) at the time infiltrated the Seireitei since they're objective was to find and rescue Rukia. So Uryu knew any Soul Reaper (besides Ichigo) would be getting in his way.
-A threat. Jirobo, like everyone else in the Seireitei, was specifically ordered to come kill Ichigo's squad. At the time, these guys were seen as just Ryoka, aka rebel spirits that inflitrate the Soul Society. So Uryu obviously knew Jirobo wasnt going to show mercy to either him or Orihime when in battle (and Orihime was actually Jirobo's main target the entire time.)
-Most importantly, an enemy. Other than being an obstacle and threat, Uryu at this time still strongly despised Soul Reapers. Other than Ichigo, all Shinigami were still his mortal enemies (Orihime points this out during the fight as well.). So its obvious on why Uryu would have the intent to kill behind his attacks.
Uryu overall
has extreme reason to not hold anything back against Jirobo with his Quincy Arrows, yet unlike how Quincy destroy souls in the human world, Jirobo's Konpaku was very much left it tact. At best, he was only hurt by the arrows and in the end, instead of his Konpaku being destroyed, his spirtual powers were.
And there are other moments too. I won't provide scans, but i'll make honorable mentions:
-Uryu not instantly destroying Mayuri's Konpaku in their fight, even with his gloves removal to activate Letzt Stil and greatly increase his Quincy powers. Mayuri in the end even gets hit in the chest with Uryu's Arrows after he poisons him with his Bankai and escapes, clearly not getting his Konpaku destroyed.
-Uryu not instantly destroying every Arrancar he faces when infiltrating Las Noches and IIRC Las Noches is exactly the same as the Soul Society, being Reishi based, only for Hollows.
-No Quincy having a massively bigger advantage over Shinigami, especially in the war arc. If their soul destroying powers like they use against hollows worked in the SS, they'd have won against the Shinigami long before the war gets underway.
So with all the stuff ive provided/mentioned, it would seem Damages point about the Quincy's soul-destroying power not being the same in the SS, is very plausible. I'd like to see what others think of this first though.