Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-30426414-20161218074441/@comment-25122992-20161219145822

Thekillman wrote: I'm pretty much struggling with even calling them Rinnegan. They seem so far removed from what that Dojutsu did, it truly seems nothing alike.

Besides, what Momoshiki did wasn't even really a Preta Path, since he absorbed Ninjutsu intact and could fire it again, which is very different from Madara and Nagato's use whose Preta Path completely broke it down. Well, technically, it's still Rinnegan all along, though its initial colour and placement is very different from any Rinnegans we've seen before. I think that is caused by some difference between Earth's chakra fruit Kaguya consumed and the chakra fruit from Momoshiki's planet he/Kinshiki/other Ootsutsuki used. However, this Rinnegan is not that different regarding the abilities we've seen. Yeah, the absorption technique seems to be on completely other level compared to the regular Preta Path, but I'd say it's a Rinnegan technique unique only for Momoshiki, the same way as Limbo in Madara's case and Ameno in Sasuke's case. Thus I believe that Momoshiki theoretically could invoke the other Rinnegan powers of his properly (not sure these would be the same Six Paths techniques we know, yet there must be some other powers), the only things that prevented him from doing so are his lazyness and arrogance.