[Gin]

Originally Posted by PellMell23

Spoiler for Manga:

I'm not sure if this has been said before, but I think it may be possible that Ichigo's hollow powers may come from his mother, just a kind of shot in dark, but maybe Ichigo's mother was an arrancar that Ichigo's Dad fell in love with, it would explain why he left soul society, as for why king fisher would be able to kill her, I remember in one of the episodes it mentioned the energy in Hueco Muendo can sustain hollows without them having to eat souls, so what would happen to an arrancar after being in the human world, possibly in a Gigai for years? It may have weakened her to the point where she couldn't even defend herself from a lowly hollow like King Fisher. It may offer an explanation as to why Ichigo's hollow is so insanely strong and why his powers are divided between Shinigami and Hollow in such a different manner, and why he is ridiculously powerful when he goes Vasto Lord on Ulqy, because while they gained their Shinigami powers by removing their mask, Ichigo has always naturally been both Shinigami and Hollow. And when Ichigo fought with Ulqy, for the first time, both his Shinigami and Hollow parts of his Soul/Power fought without distinction between the two, to help Orihime. Anyway, just figured I'd throw my two cents in there.

that kind of makes sense in a weird way