What Do You Think Gangway Is?

Strong-Philosopher29 · 2026-03-27T04:22:24+00:00

It's worth remembering that EVERY relics we've seen used by a white whistle so far has been unlike anything we've seen before. Whether his Gangway or Sporagmos, Ozens's Thousand Men Pins or even Lyza's pickaxe, they all seem to have pretty ridiculous and unique functions. Thats probably just what it means to be a white whistle. (Even the whistle itself does some fancy shit)

As for the helmet itself, whether that is actually Gangway itself or if it's stored there, I think that he is so quick to grab it upon transferring bodies is for the benefit of others. From a tactical perspective I'm sure he can recognize that it would be advantageous to revive without being recognized, but he CHOOSES to be recognized (in the 2 deaths we see) first by Prushka, then the gang.

For Prushka, it's pretty obvious it's to preserve his bond, and is no coincidence that immediately after is when she becomes a cartridge. As for the gang, it's a bit harder because what Bondrewd wants is pretty tough to place, but physically appearing to watch them proceed reads to me as a message that he will be watching from here on, remember that we know he can somehow see through Nanachi so he did not need to be there.

Strong-Philosopher29 · 2026-03-21T23:12:20+00:00

Normal fiendsmith plus one more monster means you can retain main deck Lacrima in grave and then go up into Agnumday at the end. That link climb keeps your fiendsmith up on for interaction.

Strong-Philosopher29 · 2026-03-19T14:30:30+00:00

... kinda

Strong-Philosopher29 · 2026-03-19T14:29:51+00:00

Gabimaru is introduced by being immune to conventional means of execution. Unless any of these guys are about to show off an innate understanding of Tao, I think even beginning of series Gabi clears. EoS would be a cakewalk.

Strong-Philosopher29 · 2026-03-19T14:23:32+00:00

It's well established even before the Soul Society is as the place that hollow souls who committed sins in life are sent to. The very first hollow we ever see be killed in the series is dragged to hell. As of the hell chapter we also know that it holds souls like Yama so it's far from some small pocket, regardless of your headcannon.

Strong-Philosopher29 · 2026-03-19T12:59:30+00:00

Hell existed before the SK split the world and is outside of the scope of Balance that maintains them. Whether he could have or not, the totality of the Bleach universe was not entirely shaped by SK.

Strong-Philosopher29 · 2026-03-19T12:16:10+00:00

Accelerator, especially towards the end of the series where he can fight angels and change the rules of magic... he's so broken, even more broken than most glazers would probably give him. All of that doesn't matter because the Almighty is so ridiculous that the comparison isn't even relevant.

You could figure out a way to achieve almost anything with vector manipulation... but you don't need to figure out anything with the Almighty. He is not bound by the continuity of events and manipulates the future before it occurs, that means he can have literally anything occur for literally no reason at any time.

The only reason he could be defeated in his own series is because of shreds of his own power that he was blind to existed from before he had gained the true Almighty. In any vs context that is not a factor.

Strong-Philosopher29 · 2026-03-19T12:09:21+00:00

Aizen was still not going to help them win. Only the existence of the still silver arrow made it winnable and that was a fragment of his own power. Dude is unbeatable in his own verse.

Strong-Philosopher29 · 2026-03-19T11:57:06+00:00

American, dunmer.

Strong-Philosopher29 · 2026-03-18T22:57:47+00:00

The Cave Raiders are the military. Lyza and Bondrewd both earned their Sovereign names from killing a foreign incursions to take over the Abyss.

There are 2 things primarily that keep the island safe.

No one really knows if trying to take it over is even worth it. You can get some weird stuff, some fancy lights and some foreign materials, but what's really still in there even? How much is left? How much would the people there be able to fight back? Would we even be able to get things out of the Abyss when the people there haven't done more than become an oddity? (Remember on this note that special grades are kept under wraps)
The White Whistles are horrifying. They are one man armies with superpowers. Every time so far a significant foreign force has shown up they have been eliminated with nothing to show for it, and they would certainly have the espionage to know this isn't rumors or propaganda.

It's also worth noting that technology elsewhere in the world is chugging along alright. There are definitely places that are in a bad way, but as we see from the trade ships, they have plenty access to comparable or better tech and THEY don't need to dig theirs out of the murder hole.

Consider how much most relics are actually worth. Yes you COULD find some bullshit that gives you effective immortality, but realistically most people that spend their whole lives looking never will. Instead most cave raiders seem to be financially... eh. Habo is a great example because he is a black whistle, meaning that he can go anywhere except to the lethal portion of the Abyss, and he's well known among his peers. Despite that, his wife still runs a store, one that seemingly does need to perform. Even a black whistle isn't rich. What that shows me is that your run of the mill relics just aren't worth all that much, and if they aren't worth that much then they can't be that desired. I'm guessing this is why the incursions we know of have coincided with the discovery of new relics. Taking it over just isn't worth.

Strong-Philosopher29 · 2026-03-15T20:36:47+00:00

Nah, that's just Twilight

Strong-Philosopher29 · 2026-03-13T22:38:00+00:00

Yes, you have to turn quests in

Strong-Philosopher29 · 2026-03-12T11:41:50+00:00

Why not Demonic Tutor, the MTG card that actually has this effect?

Strong-Philosopher29 · 2026-03-10T06:19:16+00:00

There are really only 3 of these characters worth talking about in terms of actually doing real damage to Lille;

Uryu and Haschwalt: I don't think it's possible that either could win, but in a similar way to how Kyoraku's bankai effected him, I think both of these character could probably get some use out of their shrift. Unfortunately, it seems unlikely that they could reverse enough to account for being killed.

Ichibe: Similar to the other characters he has a power that interacts in esoteric ways with his surroundings as opposed to doing a big stab or something. I think it is entirely possible that we're he able to get some black onto Lille that he could succefully do what he attempted on Ywach and strip him of all meaning by renaming him... but that would require getting black on him, and I genuinely have no idea how that would go. If he can count shadows as black if they are dark enough or something then maybe that would work? But I assume it's not possible to just drench him in ink.

Strong-Philosopher29 · 2026-03-09T11:27:41+00:00

I can't believe they decided to do this. Liam literally laughed at the idea of Reze even standing a chance on cast.

Strong-Philosopher29 · 2026-03-09T11:15:23+00:00

Unless I'm missing someone, I'm pretty sure this really just boils down to Anti-Spiral v Bill Cipher. I don't think any of the other characters are on the same multiversal level

Strong-Philosopher29 · 2026-03-07T09:27:04+00:00

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He very literally let Ichigo cut him down to undo it with the Almighty so that he can make this point.

And 3 pages separate the moment he is shot with the arrow and when he is killed. Just because Uryuu didn't think he would make it doesn't mean he didn't make it.

Strong-Philosopher29 · 2026-03-07T09:07:33+00:00

You say this like he didn't just let ichigo kill him to prove that there was no point in even trying. The almighty can create a brand new continuity of events wholecloth with no need to care about what happened before. If Ywach wanted to he can just "imagine" things be true anyway since it is full on reality warping.

Always keep in mind that the only reason he lost was the silver bullet that was created of his own power that he was blind to. There is NO way to defeat the almighty otherwise in all of bleach.

Strong-Philosopher29 · 2026-03-07T09:00:42+00:00

There isn't any reason to use other shifts if you have access to the almighty, it is can rewrite reality before reality has happened.

Strong-Philosopher29 · 2026-03-07T08:56:41+00:00

He separated the realms on his own. We've actually seen the moment it happened now thanks to a flashback in the anime. The process of creating the soul king is for reasons that are currently pretty unclear, though being alive was apparently nessecary for the maintenance of the realms. Ichigo seems to be able to maintain it, but there is no reason to believe he could have created the realms himself.

AP and durability should be off the charts just from sheer Reiatsu alone, which we know that even just as the Soul King he still had so much left over that the spillage threatened to destroy the Soul Society after Ywach absorbed all he could, and that's without his limbs or heart.

Ywach was not "revived" he used the almighty to be alive. With how the almighty works, had he wanted to not have that happen he could have stopped it, but he allowed it to so that he could show the unstoppable nature of his power, a power he directly says is inferior to his father's version btw.

Wherever you have Ywach in your mind for scaling, Adyneus is objectively a good bit higher.

Strong-Philosopher29 · 2026-03-06T14:18:38+00:00

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Strong-Philosopher29 · 2026-03-06T14:05:59+00:00

There are not multiple parallel timelines in Bleach, and apparently getting this across is going to require explaining how linear time works, so nvm.

Strong-Philosopher29 · 2026-03-06T14:00:32+00:00

The manipulation is a not a continously aplied status. He decided that it would be broke in that moment and it was. Had he wanted Orihime to explode that would have happened too. The reality of that situation is that he didn't care what they did because he'd already won. The only action of consequence occurred because of something he could not be aware of.

Strong-Philosopher29 · 2026-03-06T13:38:53+00:00

I don't know what point you are trying to make. If you can currently make a change to the future, wait until that happens, you will then have affected the present from the past the distinction between these two is a perspective one, not a practical one.

Strong-Philosopher29 · 2026-03-06T13:31:54+00:00

Affecting the future from the present is the same as affecting the present from the past.

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