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I agree with Arc for the record, will be waiting for the supposed counterarguments.
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Not irrelevant, because its breaking the rules. So either follow them or keep out. Period.Irrelevant, if I have an opinion I'm going to state said opinion, end of discussion.
And yet your still here. Besides, you have already been reported to the RVT for not only breaking the rule of a staff only thread, but the contributions you HAVE given here have not exactly been stellar.Firstly, let's not exacerbate here, as we both know what happens. Not only that, but I'd also appreciate if you didn't structure that sentence that way as it paints me in a negative light as if I'm banned. Even in the OP I stated that I'd be leaving soon, not immediately.
Yes and we have some, one of which whom we're waiting for to give, what we expect to be, an actual serious response.The counterarguments were already given, I only had the issue pertaining to the staff discussion. I'm not advocating for random users to comment here of course, but rather those who are insightful.
This is literally why we wanted Staff Only with only a few non-staff allowed.What happened to waiting for Imade to make his post so we can tackle the rebuttals in waves? Because Warren and I address a lot of what's in the OP but haven't been responded to yet because we waiting, I'm gonna bump them again and hope we wait for real this time lol.
Lol I'll just link Warren and I's arguments so they're "at the front" for when Imade makes his and y'all construct refutation.This is literally why we wanted Staff Only with only a few non-staff allowed.
Likewise, I shared the same thoughts,Imma wait for a counter argument before I make my full decision, but this does seem like a lot of evidence and appears to be solid
Agreed, I think stepping back and getting calm is what’s best for everyoneAt this point, can we just lock the thread until IMade is ready to present his counter argument?
We are supposed to be waiting for him to give his thoughts before the opposition can compile a counter argument, but every time we wait, new minor derailing arguments between people who arent even supposed to be replying to this thread comes up. And now we've reached the point where things are already, pardon my french, ******* horrendus.
We should lock the thread until IMades ready to prevent further derailment.
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Reason 4: Yhwach Doesn't Stabilize The Worlds
I said this before, but I'll go into a bit more detail here. Yhwach doesn’t stabilize the worlds, despite having the Soul King absorbed, as he was not yet made into a lynchpin or put into the same position as Reio was to stabilize the worlds. This is proven by the fact that despite dying twice to Ichigo, the dimensional quaking across the worlds didn’t happen either time Yhwach was killed. This is in contrast to Mimihagi and the Soul King's deaths effecting the worlds. The dimensional quaking started immediately after both Reio, the lynchpin, died and after Mimihagi, who attached itself to Reio, was absorbed by Yhwach. If Yhwach was legitiamtely doing the same thing as the former 2, this would also have been the case for him, and Ichigo would have been more cautious against killing the person who's supposedly keeping all of the world's in check. But neither is the case for what happened.
Adding to that, the new stabilization standards would also invalidate this for Yhwach, the same way it does for Reio.
Reason 4: The Soul King Stabilizing The Cosmology Isn't 3-A or Low 2-C
Outlined in our new standards for stabilization feats, one of the requirements is to prove that a character's stabilization is equal to the destructive output released by the structure's destruction. So if for example, for stabilization to be 3-A or Low 2-C, the character's sustenance would need to be able to rival the destructive output of a universe being completely destroyed instantly, or immediately. And that's not the case here for Bleach.
The destruction of the worlds brought forth by the Soul Kings death isn’t instant or immediate in any way, shape or form. The best we see and get from the crumbling of the worlds is a dimensional quake trembling through the worlds, and not all of the worlds are even effected the same way. The Soul society violently shakes, Hueco Mundo shakes to a lesser extent, and the world of the living gets a mild long lasting quake where nothing gets destroyed at all.
Counter-argument: "Multiple characters make a point of saying without the Soul King the entire bleach universe would cease to be."
I keep seeing this get passed around, so I'm addressing it here. We seem to be at the point where claims of "the universe will cease to exist!" or anything similar as an end result of what happens is automatically enough to keep 3-A or Low 2-C ratings on the table. It isn't.
We know that "the universe would cease to be" is a thing as the end result of the Soul King no longer being alive to keep that from happening. But that being the conclusion doesn't at all matter here when looking at just how the destruction unfolds. The result of what happens in the end is completely irrelevant against the fact that the destruction itself isn't instant or immediate destruction. The destruction starts instantly / immediately, but it doesn't happen instantly / immediately, as you can see above. The destruction spans over an extensively long timeframe, to the point where nothing dimensionally even begins to deteriorate. And as mentioned, the destruction isn't even treated the same across all of the effected worlds.
The destruction happening here isn't 3-A destruction, let alone Low 2-C levels of it. So the Soul King wouldn't need output on either levels to stop the worlds from crumbling, even if he stabilizes the cosmology with power and not an alternate method. Now to get to the 2nd issue with this upgrade.
Reason 1: Yhwach's lack of power
This one is simple enough to start on. With the Soul Kings passive feat being invalid and unquantifiable now, Yhwach absorbing him, Mimihagi and Ichigos power's to get a strength buff from them is logistically impossible to give him power to be 3-A or Low 2-C, which puts into question his capability of destroying the worlds without a shadow of a doubt.
Problem 1: Ganju's NOT a credible source here
I'm laying it out here. Why in the world are we taking the words of someone who, last I checked, is an ordinary fodder in his own verse as literal for this upgrade? Especially for destruction that's as large as this? This isn't as if Ganju is well experienced into the subject of the worlds crumbling as a result of the Soul Kings death. We've heard statements about the destruction of the worlds from several people much more experienced and credible into the topic than Ganju. And not once do we get another statement from them about the Garganta being effected, aside from Ganju jumping to those conclusions. This is pretty akin to an ordinary person thinking someone far stronger than they are could do things they cant actually do. AKA, this looks more like overhyping being done.
And that's not the worst of this issue.
Problem 2: Ganju's Statement Supposedly Being About Yhwach
Even if Ganju is somehow a credible person to be speaking on this subject, this statement still isn't speaking about Yhwach's plans of returning the Bleach cosmos back to the original universe. This statement is referring to the death of the Soul King causing it to be destroyed.
Go to these four chapters yourself for more clarification. When he made this comment about the Garganta's destruction, Ganju was not yet made aware of Yhwach's plans to return the Bleach cosmos back into the original universe. He was speaking about the Soul King's death being the cause of that since he came to the Soul King's palace with Ichigo to stop Yhwach from killing him in the first place. And throughout the span of the 4 chapters I linked, he is involved in Yoruichi's ambush to use the Garganta and sneak their way back into Reio's position in the palace, which again, refers back to their plan of stopping Reio's death. Ichigo, Ganju and the others were not yet made aware of Yhwach absorbing the Soul King into him, nor were they aware of his true motives. Which means, Ganju did not have Yhwach's plan in mind when making this statement. So what would his comment be referring to?
Simple. It's referring to the death of the Soul King causing it. Without this, there is no known evidence of Yhwach being able to destroy the Garganta. Moving on.
Not a single counter argument from either of them was made against this, so this point here should still hold regardless of Yhwach's statement or the statement from CFYOW on the universal flow of souls.Evidence 2: The Threat of the Quincies
This will be where most of the support comes in for the Soul King stabilizing the soul cycle as I saw this mentioned elsewhere here. And that is the threat the Quincies posed to the Bleach cosmology. These scans will explain the details:
Quincies and Shinigami differed from each other in how they disposed of hollows. Shinigami are considered balancers who cleanse hollows and send them to the Soul Society, while Quincies eradicate them completely. As a result, the Quincies removed those souls from the soul cycle of sending souls between the Soul Society and Living World. By doing that, they would unbalance the amount of souls between the two worlds, which as explained, would cause the collapse of the universe as a result. Being a threat to the worlds in this manner was the reason why Shinigami actively sought to prevent Quincies from disrupting the balance in the first place, even going as far as to kill majority of them.
The Soul King stabilizing the entire Cosmology conflicts with this. The Quincies are, narratively and consistently, treated as threats to the Bleach cosmology in-universe. Why would the Quincies be regarded as such a threat to the worlds if the Soul King directly stabilizes these said worlds? No matter what the Quincies would do to the soul cycle, Reio stabilizing the worlds would prevent them from getting collapsed. Even more so, Shinigami's would not have been required to dispose of Quincies if the Soul King sustaining the worlds was actually the case. The only way this doesn't conflict with this plot-point is if the Soul King only sustains the flow of souls.
The manga flat out said Dangai Ichigo = Reio Slicer Shikai Ichigo.If I may throw my two cents into this, there is another point I would like to bring up which, while primarily relevant to one arc of the manga, I feel may bear relevance when it comes to the scaling of reiatsu: Transcendence in the Deicide arc.
Within the Deicide arc, starting with chapter 406, Urahara and Isshin bring up the fact that neither of them can sense Aizen's reiatsu after he started his metamorphosis, to the point where Isshin described like he was fighting "nothing". Throughout the arc, Aizen kept on evolving and growing even more powerful as he became a "Transcendent Being". When Ichigo arrives on the scene in chapter 417, and throughout his fight with Aizen up to the point he used Mugetsu, Aizen could not sense his reiatsu in turn. So much so that Aizen had initially assumed Ichigo had given up his reiatsu in favor of physical strength, and only realized Ichigo's power had "transcended" his own when reiryoku was billowing off of Ichigo in preparation for Mugetsu, and he still could not sense it.
On the other hand, when Ichigo is preparing to fight Yhwach in the Wahrwelt, everyone can feel his reiatsu billowing down from the top of the palace. Or even consider Aizen's situation throughout the Final Arc. People could sense his reiatsu as well, and Mayuri's technology and bindings were even able to restrict his reiatsu to his body, and NaNaNa's power "The Underbelly" could even paralyze him for five mintues.
As a personal interpretation, given I believe this could influence how we scale characters in later arcs, if we take various characters' abilities to sense their reiatsu into account, based on what we were shown in Deicide, that would be evidence to suggest that the Final Arc versions of Ichigo and Aizen are, in fact, weaker than their Deicide counterparts, which would even scale to Yhwach fighting both of them (considering Ichigo's Bankai is powerful enough to kill him).
I do not know if this has been brought up before in regards to scaling character, so I'll leave it up to the staff to decide whether the above is used or not.
Can you give your thoughts on the size of the Garganta based on my last post. I'd prefer to keep the discussion streamlined (addressing everything from the roots and moving up the tree), hence why I started with the Garganta's size.It's
I mean the Garganta size doesn't really take part in my disagreement with the upgrades, I agree with Universal for the world reshaping feat, I just don't think that scales to Yhwach's regular attacks or durability for the reasons I gave, and the Garganta being infinite is fine from what I have read, but the size of the realms don't have a factor in my disagreementCan you give your thoughts on the size of the Garganta based on my last post. I'd prefer to keep the discussion streamlined (addressing everything from the roots and moving up the tree), hence why I started with the Garganta's size.
I plan to move from Garganta's size to Ganju's statements (among other's statements) to how it affects the God Tiers. As you can see the crux is Garganta's size, so I'd appreciate if we could start there before moving on.
Ok but you agree that the Garganta fits the standards for Universal in size (by this site's standards at least), which is all I wanted to know atm.I mean the Garganta size doesn't really take part in my disagreement with the upgrades, I agree with Universal for the world reshaping feat, I just don't think that scales to Yhwach's regular attacks or durability for the reasons I gave, and the Garganta being infinite is fine from what I have read, but the size of the realms don't have a factor in my disagreement
At least from what I have seen about the Garganta, I think it is somewhat fine, however that and the Infinite souls thing has me somewhat skeptical, statements using the term "Infinite" get thrown around a lot in Anime/Manga, so it needs plenty of supporting info to justify both of these things being infiniteOk but you agree that the Garganta fits the standards for Universal in size (by this site's standards at least), which is all I wanted to know atm.
As per my post I’m not claiming they’re true infinite.At least from what I have seen about the Garganta, I think it is somewhat fine, however that and the Infinite souls thing has me somewhat skeptical, statements using the term "Infinite" get thrown around a lot in Anime/Manga, so it needs plenty of supporting info to justify both of these things being infinite