Originally posted by: Inazuma
Mine will be the materialisation of the Ennemy and it's Soulcutter.
Copying, Skills, patterns, move, behaviors and Reiatsu ...
The blade would fight on it's own ... Leaving me the "plaisir" to enjoy the fight of my ennemy with it's own self.
Well, you know, you couldn't win either by that same logic, as your Zanpaktou does nothing but copy, so it couldn't overpower. Furthermore, you would be sitting defenceless in your "plaisir", giving the opponent jolly good chances to slice you every now and then. After all, if he killed you, your Zanpaktou would stop as well. So, he could turn his back to your independent sword and kill you without problems.

What comes to me, I think for a Shikai (let's call it "Slicing Edge" ) a really enhanced cutting ability. So that I could cut through all Hollow body armor and even most of other Zanpaktous (perhaps not captain level, I guess, for fairness' sake...). For a Bankai (hmm... "Holy Nova") a scaled up version of Ichigos' shikai . With this, I could launch a destructive Bankai when most of the other people were still waiting for theirs to power up. The soul cutter would have a standard katana shape all the time.

Yeah, fancy things never work.