Hidan becomes a Vasto Lorde. Jashin is his zanpakuto.

Back in August 2024, an anonymous user sent a message to my tumblr blog: "Hidan becomes a Vasto Lorde. Jashin is his zanpakuto ." This was very big brained to me. My thoughts were as follows:

1. This literally just happens to canon Hidan when he finally dies. The pure world rejects him. The shinigami won't take someone who has been so marked by another minor deity. He haunts his own rotting meat until his chain of fate goes through encroachment, and then he becomes a hollow, and he fetches up in Hueco Mundo because he's hungry and that's where all the hollows are.


2. It's really unclear as to whether Jashin, the manifestation of his power and soul, is actually the god Jashin, or if that's a delusion Hidan's corrupted spirit is using to duct tape its identity on. Regardless, Hidan definitely believes Jashin to be the god he worshipped in life, so he is absolutely slavishly devoted to the violent sword spirit that lives inside his head. Together they are unstoppable and ravenous.


3. Hidan's mask is, of course, very similar to the skull-shaped design he has in his Jashinist ritual technique form. His mouth is full of razor sharp teeth, though. There're no flat molars in there anymore. This is a mouth made only for tearing.


4. His hollow hole goes straight through where this third eye would be. He's got a hole in his head and he never covers it up. The howling winds blowing across the empty and endless sands in Hueco Mundo have made him even weirder than he was as a guy.


5. If he were to become an arrancar and get a resurrección/zanpakuto, obviously, the special ability of the Jashin weapon would be to inflict any injuries he takes on his opponents. Hidan's release phrase would be "bleed, Jashin." I am not capable of making puns in Japanese, but I picked one in English, haha. The play on words here is that "bleed," can mean both a) to lose blood yourself, and b) to make someone else lose blood. (E.g., like how you'd use it in, "He'll bleed you dry.") This is a reference to the power of the zanpakuto!