Hikaku Taishō

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**Hikaku Taishō** (比較対照, *Compare and Contrast*), or known separately as **Hikaku** and **Taishō**, are the twin Zanpakutō Spirits owned by Kaiyon and Yonkai. Initially requested by Ansoku Shihōin of Midori Fōji as a way to assist in the functionalities of the Jinpishugi, such as being able to balance the side-effects of **Tamashī no Keiyaku**, the request was never finalized as Ansoku died before the Zanpakutō was out of its prototype phase.

Under Kaiyon and Yonkai's control, the Zanpakutō Spirit has essentially split itself into two separate Zanpakutō Spirits for their respective wielders, or at least act like it, forbidding Kaiyon and Yonkai from ever knowing, let alone hearing, the name of the other's half.

## Powers & Abilities

* **Wavering Spiritual Power**: Neither Hikaku nor Taisho have their own respective Reiryoku levels, virtually making them have no Reiryoku level to speak of for themselves. Because of their parasitic nature, Hikaku Taisho instead mimic the level of their owner(s). If they were to not have a wielder to speak of, they would instead treat the land, or World, as their owner.

* **Order & Chaos Manipulation**: The true ability of Hikaku Taisho is to manipulate Order, through Hikaku, and Chaos, through Taisho. Through these abilities, either separately, or done together, Hikaku and Taisho can perform many feats that Zanpakuto Spirits are not normally able to perform. However, despite having this power, Hikaku and Taisho's Shikai follow the principles of **Stabilization** and **Instability**.
	+ **Bestowal Separation**: Because of Kaiyon and Yonkai's unique situation, Hikaku and Taisho decided upon themselves to split between their two wielders, being treated as separate entities, despite being one in the same, similarly to their wielders. Because of this ability's functionalities, Hikaku and Taisho have made it so neither Kaiyon, nor Yonkai, knows the name of the other Zanpakuto Spirit, even if spoken by another person.
	+ **Wielder Portrayal**: Though Order and Chaos are the true abilities of the Zanpakuto Spirit, Hikaku and Taisho tend to create a representation of their wielder(s), mainly to make using their powers easier and more streamlined. In a normal wielder, Hikaku and Taisho are two blades that give one representation for their wielder. However, in Kaiyon and Yonkai's case, they each gain their own blade, along with their own power that represents their personalities or capabilities.
	+ **Owner Mimicry**: Though they are Zanpakuto Spirits, Hikaku and Taisho do not truly have their own base personality, appearance and gender, instead basing these concepts off of their wielder(s). Though this is true, Hikaku and Taisho have shown to stray off of their wielders from time to time in terms of personality, showing that they can be individuals in their own right if they so choose.
		- **Inhabitant Mimicry**: Though Hikaku Taisho mimic their owners, they have also shown to mimic other inhabitants within the Inner World, as shown with Kaiyon and Yonkai. As Estrellatu has explained, Hikaku has taken aspects from Kaiyon and himself, adding Estrellatu's **Aumentar** (Spanish for *Boost*) into the functionalities of Kaiyon's cloud, as a way to raise his power. On Taisho's end, however, he has taken aspects from Tsukiwa into making Yonkai's lava function more fluidly than Kaiyon's clouds, which has given him a lava-elemental Reiatsu.

## Shikai

**Hikaku Taishō** (比較対照, *Compare and Contrast*), or known separately as **Hikaku** (比較, *Compare*) under Kaiyon, or as **Taishō** (対照, *Contrast*) under Yonkai, is the name of the Zanpakutō's Shikai. Released through the command of **Sample** (試料, *Shiryou*), the Shikai bestows Kaiyon and Yonkai the ability to manipulate **Taste**, either by applying it through contact between themselves or others, or by a connection. When utilizing this Zanpakuto, Hikaku and Taishō still play to their wielder's particular fighting styles, such as removing the sword for Kaiyon, whereas Yonkai only has a handle to his. Like before, the abilities of **Stability** and **Instability** still remain.

* **Bitter Taste** (苦い口味, *Nigai Koumi*)

* **Salty Taste** (辛口口味, *Karakuchi Koumi*) allows for Kaiyon and Yonkai to add a **Salty** property to whatever it is they're applying the effect to. A Salty property allows for the absorption of liquid, or moisture. When used on the body, like when Kaiyon uses it, it enlarges the target's body to become physically stronger. This acts similarly to Kaiyon's prior Shikai, where he used the Clouds to infuse into him to become stronger. However, it also suffers from the same weakness, as too much within the body could be detrimental.

* **Spicy Taste** (辛い口味, *Karai Koumi*) functions on both the properties of **Hot** and **Cold**, as it allows for Kaiyon and Yonkai to either increase, or decrease, the tempature of whatever the ability is applied to. For Yonkai's purposes, and due to his massive heat immunity, he is able to generate powerful flames from himself by heating himself to extreme cases, or even his Zanpakuto.

* **Sour Taste** (渋い口味, *Shibui Koumi*) works off of the ability to scrunch something up, either in a normal sense, or even in a spiralling sense. When used on enemies, Kaiyon and Yonkai could rip things apart by crushing them within their attack to cause serious damage. Through more advanced applications, the scrunching effects could even achieve things like the Golden Ratio.

* **Sweet Taste** (甘い口味, *Amai Koumi*) is one of the more unique abilities of the Shikai, as it instead applies an aroma that is often sweet. The aroma can be various types of sweetened foods, often desserts, in smells. This gives Kaiyon and Yonkai, among others that can smell well, the ability to track their opponents, especially between real and fake as the aroma does not pass over to a clone or otherwise.

* **Umami Taste** (旨味口味, *Umami Koumi*)

## Bankai

**Hikaku Taishō no Konzenmai** (渾然舞の比較対照, *Harmonious Dance of Compare and Contrast*)

## Former Abilities & Powers

### Shikai

Because of the chaotic personality of Kaiyon and Yonkai, due to Kaiyon being a byproduct of Yonkai's traumatic events in his youth, along with the Hogyoku incident, Hikaku Taishō decided to split themselves between two wielders, and thus certain abilities of theirs were doubled. Unfortunately, due to this peculiarity, the Zanpakuto acted weaker than other Zanpakuto, at given intervals, and were very stubborn in handing out any sort of power-ups due to the amount of chaos that overrided the order aspects of the Zanpakuto, involving situations where the Zanpakuto is released in stages.

* **Kaiyon's Original Hikaku**: Kaiyon's **Wielder Portrayal** resulted in him gaining **Clouds** as an element to use for himself. He was also involved in a "Trifecta" with himself, Hikaku and Estrellatu, and thus had the Clouds instill a variation of Estrellatu's Aumentar Hollow ability.

* **Yonkai's Original Taishō**: Yonkai's **Wielder Portrayal** resulted in him gaining **Lava** as an element to use for himself. Like Kaiyon, he was part of a "Trifecta" between himself, Taishō and Tsukiwa, which allowed for Yonkai to gain Lava as an Elemental Reiatsu signature, something Kaiyon didn't receive.

## Gallery

Hikaku and Taishō's initial Zanpakutō appearances

## Trivia

* Hikaku uses the design of Bokuto Koutarou from Haikyuu, while Taisho uses the design of Akashi Seijuurou from Kuroko no Basket.
* Hikaku Taishō's initial Zanpakuto designs are of the card Bone Temple Block from the Yu-Gi-Oh series.