A Silly Question...

[Richter]

I'm not certain this is where I should ask, but it seemed the right place; if not, I deeply apologize, and would be appreciative if I could be pointed in the right direction. If this is the right place, then any and all assistance is greatly appreciated.

I'm in the process of making a Bount character, and I don't quite have the means to watch any of the episodes they were in; I have a general knowledge regarding how they work, dolls, et cetera, but I havn't been able to find an answer to the following question:

How do Bount feed on souls? I was told that, on the living, they simply 'inhale' the soul and leave behind a pile of dust for a body, but I havn't been able to find an example of a Bount feeding on the deceased.

As well, by feeding on the 'dead', am I to assume the Bount feed upon Pluses, as with Hollow? Or am I mistaken here, and they are actually capable of drawing what remains of a soul from, say, a grave?

Again, thank you for any and all assistance; I go to return to my application now.

[Mr. Butterfly]

Wow

o_0

I honestly don't know that one...I don't think they elaborated on that.

[Zhiel]

I'm prety sure they eat pluses similiar to how they eat a living human, I dunno I just got the feeling thats how it works. Though I doubt theres any souls that can be taken from graves, as then they'd be pluses chained to the graveyard. They would most likely have gone off somewhere(like, soul society).

[Richter]

Hm, good enough of a point for my blood. Thanks a bunch! *Happeh*

[Zhiel]

Yeah, though you will probably find that your up against competition when it comes to plus hunting now that the NWO is around

[Richter]

XP Nothin' worth doin' is easy, I suppose. XD

[Uryuujin]

They work in the same way hollows do, i believe. They feed on dead souls before they reach souls society. Thats what i was led to believe, anyways

[Zhiel]

A bit late reply maybe

But what he asked for was *how* they feed on souls, not what they feed on. Its obvious from the fillers that they feed on pluses and the like. Which seems to be in a similiar way to how vampires drink blood, though maybe thats just cause you dont get a close enough look, they might even be snorting the souls like cocaine! D:<

Or its simply a form of touch, and then they can absorb a soul weaker than they (much weaker I wager, or very injured) Kinda like how Richard does, except his ability is draining the reiatsu in the soul not the soul itself.

[Richter]

Haha, he answered 'cause I asked him if he would have one; in any case, that seems to be two fairly certain votes in the area of pluses, and as they're supposed to be 'vampires', I'm just gonna go ahead and assume they suck those bad boys up. XP Thanks a bunch, all.

[GoldenKitten]

Bounts can feed on both pluses and living souls. Plusses are their “natural” prey which they consume after the person has died. However they can consume living souls but this is taboo amongst their people, if one does do it though they gain allot more power than if they consume a dead plus but over time they will begin to age (bount don’t age otherwise). This is supposed to be a trade off but honestly I have never understood why eating living souls is any worse than eating plusses, your essentially still killing someone .

Anyhow I don’t think it is farfetched to suggest they could consume any form of soul just like a hollow but at the moment plusses or living souls are the only we have seen (and the only we ever will see since the bount will almost certainly never be used as filler again).

As for how they consume the soul they as you said “suck” the soul out. We have seen that due to their vampiristic characteristics they may bite a living victim but that’s not how the majority of the scenes occurred. Instead they placed their face in front of the other soul or humans face and simply inhaled them. In the plusses case they were pulled in while in a humans case their soul transfers from their body through their mouth and into the bounts mouth. The body then decomposes at an extraordinary rate until it turns to dust.

[Richter]

Ah, and with that, it becomes quite clear. Hehe, thank ya much, GK, I appreciate it. As a note, I think the difference between the living and the Pluses was supposed to be an assumed one, something like 'feeding on the living is draining life-force while the pluses are something else entirely'; I'm not gonna pretend to know, in fact, I may even go out on a limb to say they just said it on the spot. >.<

In any case, thanks for all the help, all.

[Zhiel]

Well the old-man bount is shown to have eaten a living persons soul and got older from that (though it was prety damn drastic, going from around mid-thirties to wrinkly old man at once xD)

[Richter]

XP Meant to say they made up the concept without really thinking it through and then just went with it on the spot, not that it was just said and never followed through on. My mistake for being un-clear.

[GoldenKitten]

When the old man aged at a phenomenal rate like he did it was because he had already consumed a ton of living souls and then consumed a bitto. A dense collection of living souls in a mosquito like Doll that were created and sent in mass around Karakura attacking and storing tons of living souls then bringing it back to the Bount. However we will not be worrying about the Bitto though there may be something similar in coming arcs so as not to confuse anyone.

However using them as a guide I think we can guess that a single living soul doesn’t physically age them much, maybe a few weeks at the most. However the multiplied effect of multiple souls in one sitting seems to have consequent effects of adding on top of each other thus aging them at a rate (but also a power rate) that the singular souls would not.

As for them making it up on the spot I suppose it is possible. However I think it is more likely that they simply didn’t think everything through, after all there job is to make a show, not consider the loop holes a bunch of RP’ers may find . I say this only because compared to most animes with filler the Bount arc was extraordinary, it was entertaining to watch, had good pacing and actually fit the Bleach-verse. I was almost sad when it ended .

[Richter]

I'm gonna have to start watchin' the series when at my buddy's place, if you keep up the prop-talk. X3