User blog comment:Majestic Soaring Cloud/Ichigo's destiny/@comment-10630156-20130710053807

I see him becoming the eighth squad captain as Kubo is defiantly leaving hints that Shunsui intends to do this and I think that there was something quite important left out of the whole Substitue Shinigami thing like when Isshin was asked whether he was ok with giving Ichigo Shinigami powers again in the last arc. His human soul is the key was the whole thing as if he is still got it he would age like a human. Think about what Nimiya said in 542 maybe that was the point where it occurred (Human soul getting used to reforge Zangetsu) and that somehow either through Nimiya or his substitute badge Shunsui found out (I'd say that the later broke or something along those lines)