unluckid said:
Hey people, created an account just for this one post =/. Going by their powers, shouldnt Quincies own every single one of them out there? Hollows, Shinigami, Arrancars, Vizards are all made of spirit particles. Quincies absorb spirit particles. So isn't it like a plothole to show Ishida struggling in SS and HM when all he had to do was activate his spirit particles absorbing ability like that guy who absorbed Allon?
Quincy can break down inanimate spirit particles freely but when it comes to living creatures like shinigami and hollow, the powers are fused with living matter, giving the abilities life. Ishida needs to use his light-saber to cut down the outer-layering bonds. If you take someones power and use it against them, it will negate itself. You need the Hollow power like Nels to convert their power into your own and then magnify it before sending it back to make real use of it. Also, the Quincy can't freely absorb the particles, they can only manipulate them to form armor and weapons.
The difference between Quincy and the shit-storm that is Ichigo is that you take a pot, throw in some random Shinigami power, all the powers Quincies have, and all the powers Hollows have, and mix it up; and you get Ichigo. This means the ability to manipulate particles is there but so is the ability to naturally breathe in spirit particles which he unknowingly eats, just like any hollow breathes in spirit particles from Hueco Mundo or devours souls. I don't know if Kubo planned that but from what we've learned, all hollow breathe in spirit particles, and Ichigo breathes heavily during each battle, and when people fight, they let off stray spirit particles of their own power...