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Link To Character Profile: https://www.platinumhearts.net/t3642-stefan-soan-lloyd-reedapproved-0-3[*]
Reasons For Upgrading: New techniques being added because of a tier upgrade and evolution of powers.
What Are You Upgrading: Cutting Void: Also known as Spatial Slicing, this technique is a branch off of the ability Void Blade which, in turn, is a branch off of Stefan's Void-based power. This technique involves slashing with his Zanpakutō, however that's not all. It also involves inserting nothingness into the blade slash itself, which has a few effects. This extends the range of a normal cut to well over a mile, meaning it can cut a building from multiple city blocks away, as well as making wide sweeping arcs able to topple entire city sections worth of buildings easily. You might be thinking "Can't many strong characters do this already?" Why yes, yes they can. this however makes that even greater in practice, doing more damage than Stefan could normally do. Another effect is because this attack is splitting the 3rd dimension directly, few defenses can actually stop it. Physical based defenses such as stone armor would not be able to stop it to the same degree a specialized space/matter based defensive shielding would. This also allows Stefan to hit opponents that cannot normally be affected by physical attacks, such as beings that can become intangible, people that hide in other dimensions, etc, etc, as the attack hits all dimensions at once. Personal defense abilities such as Hierro are cut through like a hot knife through butter as well due to it being a dimensional cut, not a physical or energy-based cut. Injuries that would usually just be small cuts actually end up as relatively deep wounds when hit by this technique. However, when people are cut by this technique no blood flows out of the wounds and in the case of torso hits, the organs remain active, making it much harder to take down foes through blood loss or organ failure with this technique than with a normal attack. This type of attack is also relatively fatiguing for Stefan, and cannot be used outside of Shikai and Bankai.
Vorpal Blade: This is not a Shikai and Bankai technique as all it does is allow Stefan to open wormholes to other dimensions with his Zanpakutō instead of using a Garganta or moving through dimensions in other ways. This technique has limited combat usefulness, though it may evolve and get more powerful through time.
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