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Jinta and Ururu are the kids that works in Urahara's shop. I'm curious as to
what their identities are. As far as I remember it was never been said what
their background stories are.

Are they Shinigami like Urahara was? If they were, why are they with Urahara?
Were they also on the run from Soul Society?

Or are they humans with special powers like Chad and Orihime? If they are,
were their powers awakened from being close to Urahara, much like Chad and
Orihime's powers being awakened by being near Kurosaki Ichigo.

Or are they Quincies? Although I doubt this very much since they never been
seen using bows and Quincy techniques. Or are they modified souls like Kon?

What are they?


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What is Jinta and Ururu's Identity?


**I would like to start off by saying that their race hasn't been explicitly
stated in either of the Anime/Manga, so we can only theorize what race they
might be from. Most of the evidence points to them being either Enhanced
Artificial Souls/Humans.**

Here are the possible theories, the facts supporting them and the facts
opposing them:

* * *

## Theory 1: They are Enhanced Artificial
Souls[1](http://www.marineford.com/Thread-Bleach-Ururu-And-Jinta-What-Are-
They)

We know that [Nemu Kurotsuchi](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Nemu_Kurotsuchi)
is the artificially created "daughter" of Mayuri Kurotsuchi. He used a
combination of Gigai and Gikon technologies to bring her into existence. It's
likely that Urahara did the same to create Ururu and Jinta.

**For:**

  * They seemingly come from nowhere and live at Urahara's.
  * Both have powers way above anything else a human has shown in Bleach and Ururu even has an "angry-mode" when she gets hurt.
  * It shouldn't be hard for Urahara to create Mod Souls, regarding the knowledge he has about Souls, modified Souls and how they work. Someone who can create a Hogyoku can create Mod Souls for sure. Especially since Urahara didn't need to create them from scratch, as they already existed.
  * For Urahara to create a special Gigai shouldn't be much of a problem either. He is the person who created the special Gigai that held Rukia during her two months in the human world.

**Against:**

  * It's not impossible for them to be humans inspite of their strength because Inoue and Kannoji are both humans but possess abilities greater than those of normal humans.
  * Unlike Nemu, they have a will of their own.

One may argue that they aren't robotic (they don't say yes to everything that
Urahara says), but as Ayase points out in the comments, Kon is a Mod Soul but
isn't robotic either.

* * *

## Theory 2: They are
humans[2](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Human),[3](https://www.reddit.com/r/bleach/comments/18xgln/a_possible_explanation_of_jinta_and_ururu/)

They are said to be High-Spec Humans on the [Bleach
Wiki](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Human):

> A very small percentage of the Human population develops a high amount of
> Reiryoku; they are known as "High-Spec" Humans. These Humans can see and
> interact with Reishi-made objects, such as Souls, to varying degrees and for
> various reasons.

**For:**

  * Urahara had the Hougyoku in his possession up until Rukia came to Karakura town and lost her powers. He lent her his special Gigai, with the Hougyoku hidden in it. They could have gained their powers from being somewhat near it. Sado and Orihime gained theirs as an indirect consequence of coming in contact with the Hogyoku, as it caused Rukia to lose most of her powers to Ichigo[Source](http://bleach.answers.wikia.com/wiki/I_read_on_Bleach_Wiki_that_the_reason_that_Rukia_lost_almost_all_her_power_to_Ichigo_was_because_of_the_Hogyoku,_but_when_she_gave_Ichigo_her_power_she_didn%27t_have_it_so_is_this_true), which as Urahara said, was the cause of awakening of powers in Rukia and Sado. From the [Wikia article on Sado](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Yasutora_Sado):

> Urahara then tells them that Ichigo's large amount of Reiatsu leaked onto
> them and that caused them to gain their powers, and that these powers are
> what they naturally had to begin with.

  * They age like normal humans, whereas Mod Souls do not age.

**Against:**

  * Given Urahara's expertise in the matter of Gigai and Mod Souls, it's possible for him to come up with a way such that Mod Souls age.
  * Even though they are stated to be High-Spec Humans on the Bleach Wiki, there is no official source regarding the same.

* * *

## Theory 3: They are Soul Reapers

**For:**

  * They always hang around with Urahara and are knowledgable about the Soul Society, Hollows, Quincies and pretty much everything a standard Soul Reaper knows, although they might have just learned about it all from Urahara.

**Against:**

  * They do not have a Zanpakuto.
  * They do not have any reason to live with Urahara outside the Soul Society because they aren't exiled from the Soul Society, which Urahara is.

* * *

## They aren't Hollows/Quincies

I say this because:

  * Their physical appearance does not match with that of a Hollow, such as having a broken mask or a hollow-hole. As the [Wikia article on Hollow](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Hollow) states:

> All Hollows wear masks, which are formed from the hearts they had lost as
> Humans. This mask protects the naked instinct which is left in a being after
> the loss of its heart, and obscures the original identity of the Hollow

  * Their appearance does not match with that of a Quincy either:

> The final point of contrast between the Quincy and Shinigami is their
> respective choice of uniform. While the Shinigami wear traditional, black,
> flowing hakama, the Quincy wear white, form-fitting, high-collared tunics.
> They always wear casual clothes.

Neither do they seem to have the power to manipulate Reishi into spiritual
weapons.


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Nobody really knows. There are mystery characters in Bleach and that makes it
awesome for imagination and infinite possibilities and probabilities! :)

  1. They are perfectly normal children… with superpowers.

I suppose it’s possible that Ururu and Jinta are just normal kids - orphans,
perhaps, that Urahara kindly adopted. They do age, after all, and it’s not
like we don’t have plenty of examples of humans who have super powers. There
would still be a question of how they got super powers, of course - and
presumably Urahara had something to do with that.

  2. They are constructs.

Much more likely, to my mind, is that Ururu and Jinta are artificial children
created by Urahara. This would explain their super powers, where they came
from, and why Ururu has Urahara’s hair. Plus it’s Urahara. We know that he’s
something of a mad scientist.

  3. Jinta is normal; Ururu is a construct.

A third possibility is that only Ururu is a construct, and Jinta is a
normal(ish) human kid. Ururu has done a lot more to be suspicious about - like
when she fought Ichigo with so much power that he ran for his life. Or when
she struck an Arrancar hard enough to make him bleed. Jinta has a bat that he
can swing pretty hard, but he hasn’t done anything quite as extraordinary as
Ururu. So perhaps she is the only construct.

  4. They were created to fight Hollows.

Of course, whether Ururu and Jinta are constructs or whether they are humans
with powers, the question still remains - why did Urahara make / empower them?
One idea is that they were created as a weapon against Hollows. That would
explain, for instance, why Ururu lost it when Yylfordt appeared and went into
“Genocide Mode.” Because having a Hollow around made her, um, circuits react.

  5. They were created to fight the Quincy.

There has been no indication that this is the case. I mention it merely
because, since we are now in Bleach’s last arc, all the reveals that are going
to happen need to happen in a Quincy context. So perhaps Tite Kubo has saved
the reveal of Ururu’s and Jinta’s true natures because they were actually
created as some sort of weapon against the Quincy. Urahara is a guy who likes
to plan ahead, after all.

  6. They are the shop’s defense mechanism.

Or perhaps Ururu and Jinta weren’t created to fight any specific enemy;
perhaps they simply constitute the shop’s defenses. After all, what Ururu
reacted to when it came to Yylfordt was his unusual spiritual pressure - a
reaction that makes sense if she exists to guard the shop against hostile
intruders. And for a man like Urahara, on the run from Soul Society with a
shop full of dangerous (and only dubiously legal) items, having a defense team
makes sense. Why he decided to make ‘em kids is an open question.

  7. They are replacements for children Yoruichi and Urahara couldn’t have.

This, at least, is the theory that the anon sent me along with the request.
Apparently one theory is that Yoruichi either had a miscarriage or simply
couldn’t have children, and so Urahara created these replacements. I have my
doubts about this one, insofar as it seems dangerously shippy for Bleach (a
canon couple with both characters living? What?), and also Yoruichi has shown
no particular affection for the two kids. But it’s a possibility.

  8. They are mod souls.

Now that Ururu and Jinta have aged, this may be unlikely but hey. Maybe Gigais
that age are a thing now. After all, we’ve so far had only one mod soul in
canon - Kon. And what we know about the mod souls is that they were created to
fight, and they were given specific offensive powers (Kon’s seems to be
“kicking”). Kon himself came from Urahara’s shop - from a box of “defective”
merchandise. So if Urahara had one mod soul, why not more? Perhaps Ururu and
Jinta are both mod souls that Urahara rescued, and that explains their powers
to fight Hollows.

  9. They were created by the Hogyoku.

We’ve seen new life created in a couple of ways in Bleach. There’s
Kurotsuchi’s creation of Nemu, which seems to be tied to whatever the hell
Kurotsuchi is, and there was Aizen’s creation of Wonderweiss, through the
Hogyoku. Well, we know that Urahara also had the Hogyoku for a while, and we
know that the Hogyoku manifests desires. So perhaps Urahara said to himself,
“Man, I wish I had a couple of kids who happened to be awesome at fighting
Hollows” and the Hogyoku took care of the rest.

  10. Tessai created them.

Or perhaps I am way off base to think that Urahara created them at all. There
is another guy in the shop, after all, and Tessai’s abilities are as
mysterious as his past. All we know is that he’s a genius with Kido, and he
works with Urahara. Maybe he’s the guy who created Ururu and Jinta, using his
Kido experience. Can Kido even be used that way? Probably not....

And I saw a cool theory that Ururu and Jinta are mod souls based off Rukia and
Renji, and then placed in a Gigai which slowly bonds with the soul inside it.
Rukia's Gigai was going to turn her into a human if she was left in it long
enough, which explains why Ururu and Jinta age like humans. Them having
totally different personalities from Renji and Rukia is weird, but look at
Nemu and Mayuri.


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There's a part before the Arrancars appear that Rukia has both Jinta and Ururu
with her, telling Orihime that she and Renji have a secret. She never gets to
finish because something happens.

To be honest, I'm convinced they are the offspring of Rukia and Renji, but
soul reapers aren't allowed to have relations when in the court guard squads,
let alone have children.

So, my answer is that they are Rukia and Renji's kids.


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I think maybe Jinta is Urahara's kid and Ururu is a Gikon and Gigai mix
(construct) like Nemu. I also agree that Ururu may have been created as a
defense system for Urahara's shop. Either that or Ururu was created to protect
and befriend Jinta. Jinta's bat is mentioned in the manga and I think it's
called something like his "indestructible iron bat". It's possible that Tessa
or Urahara gave it to him to protect himself.

This theory also leaves the question of who Jinta's mom would be. The first
person that comes to mind would be Yoruichi, but he bears no physical
resemblance to her. Then again, it is also possibe that Jinta is a construct
made from Urahara's DNA, due to his physical resemblance to Urahara.


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Simply put, they are human. Possibly augmented by Kisuke's Benihime Zanpakuto.
Benihime has the ability to deconstruct and reconstruct anything to fit
Kisuke's needs.

Alternatively, they are/were fullbring children abandoned for their terrifying
powers and left to fend for themselves. Possibly stumbling into a situation
where they crossed paths with Kisuke through petty theft or accidentally
breaking part of the shop in a battle with a strong hollow.


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My answer is he saved both of their lives, probably the same way Rukia
awakened Ichigo's powers, and most likely the Hogyoku was used as well because
those 2 know all about it. I'm assuming they're wizards.


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They are gikai's fitted with artificial souls.

Kisuke is a master gikai maker. They aren't human and they have not aged in
the series.. To put simple they are weapons.

Ergo why they can fly and have crazy strength. The girl was the first
prototype and the boy came 3 years after.


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