Shikai/Bankai Contest!

[Robert]

Shikai/Bankai Contest!

Information

Currently, getting your shikai or bankai is very boring... you train, you level up, you get shikai, you train, you level up, you get bankai. That's not how it worked in the show - and that's not how I want it to work on BCE. So feel free to post your best ideas for how you should get shikai and bankai... the best idea will then be selected by the admin staff, and the winner will receive a free custom icon!

Rules

1. Please post all entries in this thread
2. You are allowed to post multiple entries, but please keep them in the same post
3. Do not steal ideas from other games - respect the intellectual property of others!
4. And most importantly... have fun!

Good luck everyone!
-Rob

[amot]

Well, in the show the way to get shikai is to be able to communicate with your Zanpaktou and learn its name. Perhaps there could be a verb or something like train so you can try and communicate with your zanpaktou there might be a % of harmonization with your zanpaktou and when that get high enough you learn your shikai. As for bankai in the show it is said to take a hundred years to learn bankai but Urahara devaloped a "device" so you can do it in 3 days. That might be able to be implemented into the game but i have no idea what the device is.

[mrshackleford]

Shikai is less serious, as it isn't a devastatingly powerful ability for anyone. I say Shikai should be given by either Admin or Captain discretion after the Shinigami in question performs some sort of mission or task.

I equate Bankai to something like Super Saiyan in DBZ. Not many people had it because they just weren't that badass. I say it should have to be in some sort of "f**k, I'm about to die if I don't explode into an enormous ball of fire and shoot death lasers out of my skul-OH GOD I'M ON FIRE" kind of situation. Ex- Ichigo got it to save his squeeze.

Edit~I really like Amot's Shikai idea.

[alison]

Shikai there could be two possible ways of getting it. One would be meditating to get your shikai early, or waiting it out naturally. If you meditate, you can communicate with your shikai peacefully and figure out what exactly you can do to obtain your shikai. If you wait it out, you have a certain random percentage to get it. And the whole deal about a shikai, is for each and every different shikai, have an area you go to for a special quest your shikai gives. Your shikai then tests your ability and your skill, and it keeps you there for as long as it takes. Take too long and make the shikai get bored of you, it boots you out just to let you have to wait til it deems you're ready again. If you get it, then it goes through a special sequence and you're able to get it.

Bankai should be almost the same. You can either have a bankai doll, or let time figure out if you're able to get it or not. Bankai doll will allow you to try to get bankai anytime after you master your shikai. When you do the bankai doll, you're alternate self/aka your zanpakutou will attack you. Through time, you get to the required level to get bankai naturally. Your bankai will appear and talk to you allowing yourself to know your bankai.

Doing it with shikai meditation and Bankai doll will allow you to get ur shikai/bankai early, but you're not as strong as you would wait until you were strong enough naturally for the both skills.

[kumori]

Getting shikai/bankai should be something neat and exciting.
Like maybe while battling, after a certain amount of defeats, it will take you to a screen with your zanpakuto personified, where you can interact with it. Perhaps you must battle it for a bit and communicate with it before you are granted the ability to name it (figure out it's name)
When battling people of higher stat then you, there should be some sort of meter that will act as rage or your will to win/live. Depending on your stats as well, your bankai could be activated for a short use until you win or lose. After that you should go meet your NPC zanpakuto and train with them to master it.