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[quote=@Renny]
[@jynmi88] While those seem like interesting things to experiment with. I think we should keep the staple Zanpakutos. Now that I [b]really[/b] think about it, changing how Zanpakutos operate seems blasphemous. 

Perhaps instead of having our "New Breed" of Shinigamis being naturally more powerful they are--like you mentioned--capable of more. Like perhaps they feel the flow of reiatsu easier or are capable of (for vague reasons) being capable of tapping into techniques like [b]Blut (quincy)[/b] or [b]Hierro (arrancar)[/b]
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Hmmm.  Yeah, I suppose that's probably best.  The zanpakuto are the best parts of Bleach and it would be a shame to muck about with thme

Well another idea I had has to do with the geniuses of soul society like with Gin and Toshiro.  So instead of the shinigami having more powers, they're just really fast learners, capable of mastering the various arts of shinigami in record time, and it could be explained by the R&D squad(12) discovering a way to cause those genes to appear more often in the general population.  So perhaps they could manage, at some point, to learn abilities not commonly associated with shinigami?