User blog comment:Lia Schiffer/404: Deicide 6/@comment-44061-20100522191930

Ok I will give you the whole Tosen issue as I completely agree but as a Gin fan your showing your biased position. Gin is completely unreedamable to date he has shown no inclination to be a redeeming figure. You yourself give plenty of evidence to that fact.

Bringing up something he had done over 100 years ago as a child has nothing to do with his sociopathic nature from being a 5th division member onward. Rangiku should not be used by anyone as Gin's redeeming quality. He didn't make her who she is, he didn't help her achieve anything. Your assumption is that he took care of her all that time but in fact all anyone knows is that one instance of saving her. He didn't raise her and all the good she does isn't a reflection of him. Yes Tosen is a hypocrite. But Gin is cruel, manipulative, sociopathic. Is he a better villain then Tosen yes, is he more redeemable no.

Tosen had a reason behind his madness, it was misplaced and totally wrong but least he has a reason. Just because seems to be Gin's thing. He said sorry when he left, who can tell when hes serious. Who says simply saying sorry is enough. Betrayal on that level requires some answers a one word response from someone of his personality isn't enough. It kills me when people can claim to understand a sociapath, which is impossible. Rangiku (someone actually in the story) herself doesn't even know his mind, but seeing as she feels a connection from long ago she wants to understand what is wrong with him. Tosen was a distraught figure who was either manipulated or just went down the wrong path, the reason they forgave him is because his words where real but his actions and reasoning weren't in step with that philosophy. They understood him the him he wanted or thought himself to be, but really wasn't. They didn't like what he had become. What we know of Gin is that he has always been the way he is there is nothing underneath that we know of.

Concocting a romantic story is nice but its no more real then the connection that Aizen has made with others. Tosen is a person doing everything for the wrong reasons and not knowing the difference and Gin is a person doing all the wrong things for the enjoyment of them. Whose worse. I dont know why its ok to downplay what happened with Tosen all those issues where made and brought out in his battle and death. whether he cared or not is presented as well. I dont see a point of trying to make him look like a worse person than Gin when we can go back and see for ourselves what Tosen's mindset was.