[@Champion] [quote=@Champion] Long story short, he can't hear it when it tries to speak to him. He's never been in a serious fight and he's a slacker, kind of a womanizer, a little bit of a drunkard but his Zanpakuto is the complete opposite. Serious and honorable. Even tho it still tries he is too blinded to hear it. Besides the personality conflicts he has with his Zanpakuto, there's also the fact that it's a straight up long sword, he has no sword skill at all so he barely uses her and prefers to stick to hakudo. Although now that I think about it, I should probably add the appearance in. [/quote] For the most part I do like the character, and the reasons are understandable. The only issue I can think of is the fact everyone was drafted into the shinigami academy and were able to graduate. Which I"m not sure would happen if he wasn't at least able to use his Shikai. I'll have to think of this. Edit Although, one way around it is that he lost his zanpakuto at some point, and just never got around to trying to find it as his fighting styles worked fine without it?