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While sketching and taking notes like mad Charles does pause and looks over his shoulder and blinks a few times. "From what I have seen, getting a seat, while a decent goal, is a shoo-in due to lack of competition. A seat would be lovely, but if it is the lowest seat of the surviving members, it is a meaningless accolade. Nothing is earned, nothing is valued. If I get a higher seat than the bottom rung, which I sorely doubt, that would be different."

Offering a self-depreciating smile, he turns back to his work and scribbles a bit more until Marco acts inquisitive about the work. With a faint smile while his mind is occupied with theory, he explains in sort of a hollow voice. Not like the dark beings either fighting or running not that far away, but like one that doesn't have any thought behind it- just blankly repeating what has already been written on the page.

"I got to thinking about the similarities between Arrancar and Shimigami, and came to a relatively interesting conclusion. About any soul 'alpha' . . ." he points out the base of his diagram " . . . can be made into a shimigami 'bravo,' and then to captain 'charlie.'" His fingers trace the far left side of the branches as he speaks, then returns to the base again.

"It is also true that just about any 'alpha' soul can be corrupted into being a hollow 'delta,' which seem to have been given the opportunity to become Arrancar 'echo.' As such, both have the same starting point. As they both begin with the same point, is it possible they are equal- or more disturbingly, interchangable?" Charles' fingertip moves to the one bridge above the base, with a F.

"Foxtrot here represents the Vaizards . . . they have found a way to jump from 'bravo' to 'delta.' For a moment, I wondered if there is a connection from 'charlie' to 'echo', but that is only a theory based on the Vaizards . . . " Leaning back with a sigh, Charles absently taps the page corner with the blunt end of his pencil.

"If this theory is true, then Arrancar and Captains, if not all shimigami, are not so different. Merely shards of the same soul. After all, zanpaktou purify hollows, reverting them to an alpha state. There were a few bits in some study that I came across that either robbed shimigami of their powers, or at least temporarily depleted them. Thus returning our side to an 'alpha state'. Watching the squad ten people fighting was almost identical to the Arrancar . . . passion, power, even some of the moves." Looking down at his notes, Charles has the sense to act shy and not yell again.

"My views on the war have not changed, but rather than focus on the problem, my mind began to see possibilites. It made me wonder, what if I had gone a different route? What if any of us did? Crystals are known to refract light, turning white into a rainbow." Pointing to some rudimentary sketches of a light source hitting a rough prism, and splitting, he looks at Marco.

"I have a theory. If light is refracted, why not an image of reiatsu? Just an idea . . . "

((Sho, his name is Tenshu. >< ))

"Humph.. Lady... I should be telling you that.. I'm a few levels over you in the department, so I'd start using that Zanpaktou of yours.... Hint Hint aye..?! Kuuri can't use a blade like you arrancar...?" He joked, as he continuously blocked blows, by matching them equally.... He suddenly fired a fist directly through, aimed at her chest... His palm opened mid-technique, as he planned to blow them both a few yards away, hopefully knocking her balance off within her speeding techniques... He used the maneuver as a simple means to make difference, and give her chance to take his advice... He stood a few yards from her, taking a fighting stance, as his immediate area became foggy, and quite hard to see... The stray pebbles, and wood-shavings from past attacks slowly floated amongst his body, showing how his pressure reacted with objects on it sown, yet stayed together compressed, allowing a long time to fight with nearly no waste whatsoever....

"So...You gonna use whatever weird weapon you got...? Afraid I'm gonna break it...?" He joked, seemingly unaffected by the numerous wounds that were still on his body, though some had stopped there profuse bleeding.. he was battle torn, but still completely ready to go... He now winked, before turning his head and spitting blood... His right arm quickly went up, and smoothed his hair down, showing that it covered his ears, and was no longer 'Up'... After fixing his hair down to where he wanted, his shirt slowly flipped down, him taking it off and throwing it to his side, not paying attention to its distorted path, drifting down like a feather in slow motion due to the distorted area about him... He was quite 'Muscular', but still skinny in a sense... He wasn't bulging, but obviously 'Fit'... Only a few bruises were visible on him from earlier, yet his back held unseen scars... His front was merely a few random scrapes and such... "Even trade-off...? I took my shirt off, and you take out the weapon..?"

((... The claws are her weapon...I said earlier her zanpakto reformed into the claw weapons. Like they coated her fingers...))

Tenshu just watched, he tried to get out of the tendrils of the Arrancar but it was useless. He had all of his blades, even with a little extra effort the ones in the Arrancars chests, come back into his right hand and form one blade once more. "Sho its no use, I can't get loose. Just defeat him and don't worry about me!" Tenshu yelled, still trying to get free from the tendrils of the Arrancar. This is getting irritating....

As the tendrils around Tenshu dissipated he quickly pushed off the ground and quickly ran toward Sho and the Arrancar. He saw that the Arrancar was about to attack Sho from above, he whispered to himself Holy Kiri and his zanpaktou dissolved back to the hundred thousand blades. They started to encircle his right arm for a pretty strong defense. When he was close enough, he attempt to push Sho out of the way with his left hand and block the Arrancars attack with his right arm, which had the multiple blades for defense. He knew the Arrancar would break through the defense and Tenshu would be injured badly, but he couldn't let Sho have a broken bone distract him from killing this Arrancar. He was willing to get injured so that while the Arrancar was attacking him, Sho could be counter-attacking the Arrancar.

Charles pauses and seems to freeze in place for a moment, his eyes darting back and forth as he starts to see where Marco is going. "Maybe . . . yes . . . yes! That is a definite possibility. It would require some serious research. And of course, if this were to be weaponized as you suggest, stealth could be the tip of the iceberg. Using soul resonance, we might even be able to find a way to develop kido to specifically target a type of soul. Imagine . . . a weapon that would all but ignore our forces, but be devastating to our enemies. Hadō that could be fired in the human world that would not harm those we are trying to protect but knock a hollow on it's a** . . . "

Charles quickly buries his true thought process. The last time he spoke up about what he was really thinking, it didn't go over well. Fears of what he might have done in a different set of circumstances are shoved aside as he follows the lead of his compatriot. With a smile and nod he points back to his drawings next to the coded notes. "It is rudimentary at best at the moment. First we need to find appropriate crystals and see what happens when basic reiatsu is shone through it. Unrefined, not molded into hadō or bakudō. If we tried . . . "

Charles unfocuses again for a moment, and turns another page back, and begins yet another sketch, this time of a dish like shape. With some lines and begins to unfold an idea again. "If we were to find a crystalline structure, perhaps a geode, we could use it as a parabolic focusing lens. Where one blast might not do much against the sekiseki stone- perhaps a set of twenty might overpower those defenses? From several sources-" he points at several points of to the side each with an arrow pointing towards the concave part of the dish "-meet and converge by refracting and becoming a singular beam . . . " on the page it shows each arrow bouncing off the dish and then moving in tandem towards a singular target as a much larger beam.

Though not one for doing pure weapon research, this is still an interesting concept. For the first time since being released into the world now embroiled in war, Charles is enjoying a mental tit-for-tat. Marco provides an interesting sounding board, and when the theories are put just for hypothetical research as opposed to political views, he seems quite agreeable.