Clarification on Nobility and Captains
TPK
Hello, friend.
It's clarification time about things wouldn't really be fair to withhold from people voting, because Bleach has the normal shounen problem of leaving lots of things up to interpretation and inference.
I wouldn't normally be doing this until much later, because I love the way this player base can bring things up and reason them out on their own, but I might do another update tonight. That means I need to hand-feed some information so that nobody feels jilted later. It's clumsy, and I'm sorry about that, but it's how I can make this work, because this choice isn't supposed to be as one-sided "choose X to advance faster" as it's being taken.
From the way things happened in the series, noble families as a whole are a huge deal in Soul Society. They're the long-running, heavily established, feudal lords of the afterlife. They make up 40/46 seats on the combined court and legislature, have special privileges, can have access to potent artifacts, and are very respected. However, unless you're the head of a major family, any individual noble has less weight than a non-noble Captain does.
Minor or low nobility like the Omaedas can offer less support than a single captain like Gin, but what Gin doesn't offer is the access to the upper class of Soul Society. There are other soul reapers who are both captains and low nobility, or even high nobility.
Takako's offer is meant to be a way for you to gain access to that network of nobles, as well as a way to get more immediate access to the whole mess of the nobility in Soul Society.
I wouldn't normally be doing this until much later, because I love the way this player base can bring things up and reason them out on their own, but I might do another update tonight. That means I need to hand-feed some information so that nobody feels jilted later. It's clumsy, and I'm sorry about that, but it's how I can make this work, because this choice isn't supposed to be as one-sided "choose X to advance faster" as it's being taken.
From the way things happened in the series, noble families as a whole are a huge deal in Soul Society. They're the long-running, heavily established, feudal lords of the afterlife. They make up 40/46 seats on the combined court and legislature, have special privileges, can have access to potent artifacts, and are very respected. However, unless you're the head of a major family, any individual noble has less weight than a non-noble Captain does.
Minor or low nobility like the Omaedas can offer less support than a single captain like Gin, but what Gin doesn't offer is the access to the upper class of Soul Society. There are other soul reapers who are both captains and low nobility, or even high nobility.
Takako's offer is meant to be a way for you to gain access to that network of nobles, as well as a way to get more immediate access to the whole mess of the nobility in Soul Society.
Soi Fon's status as joint captain of the second division and head of the ninja cosplay squad was left ambiguous in canon. For the purposes of this quest there are soul reapers who are members of one group, or the other group, and reapers who are members of both. So you could join the second division without also joining the "can't ever be as good as Yoruichi" battalion.
