[@Champion] [quote=@Champion] Well, there's that and many other prominent members were able to acquire seats without a need for shikai. Kenpachi himself didn't realize his until the end of the series. The special forces don't use their zanpakuto majority of the time. Neither does the Kido Corps. I'm not trying to be a Kenpachi or anything I just believe it would be more worthwhile to discover it IC. As far as a technical reason for graduating, he is a member of a powerful clan. Cant we just say some strings were pulled? [/quote] Actually, there's many prominent members who've we've never seen use a shikai. Which doesn't necessarily mean they graduated without one. I'm not sure if Kenpachi counts, because even though it's true he didn't have his shikai till the end of the series. He got where he was by defeating the previous squad eleven captain in combat. He never went to the shinigami academy. Hmmm. The only way I can see that done in this rp, was if Savaris didn't have a prodigy gene activated, and his family became interested in the new squad and pulled strings to have him join after they finished classes?