User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 545 - Blue Stripes/@comment-10554972-20130710032106/@comment-10554972-20130712181523

I agree with Hootzy. I feel as though Hyosube is the inventor of Kido. I don't really have any proof to back up this theory though. His title of the "Eyeball Monk" doesn't really give me any hints as to what he created. With the "Hot Spring Demon", the "Ruler of the Grain", the "God of The Sword" and the "Great Weave Guard", you can sort of guess what they did. Hot springs can be guessed as the healing hot spring that Urahara had, I'd never have guessed he had to do with Kaido if it wasn't for the previous knowledge of Urahara's hot spring though. Grain can be considered food, I wouldn't guess Artificial Soul from that but you could guess that it might be eating the chefs Spiritual Pressure to increase your own. Sword would obviously regard to Zanpakuto. Lastly, weave makes me think of making clothes, such as the shihakusho and/or the haori. This last one might not be right, it's just my guess from her title. It could very well be that she "weaves" Kido, like Balsalom suggested, but if you consider that Shutara had cloth with her and was taking measurements, it seems right to me that she has something to do with clothes. Although it could be a modification of her original reason for being promoted to Royal Guard, like with Hikifune, who modified her creation of the Artificial Soul to having to do with cooking. Shutara could have modified her "weaving" Kido into creation to literally weaving Kido into clothes. I just personally think that it's the shihakusho and/or haori. I'm giving the creation of Kido to Hyosube simply because I can't really think of anything else that he could have invented/created. Of course, it could be something I'm simply leaving out without realizing it, like I had done with the Artificial Souls. Although, in my opinion, the strong reishi concentration at his palace almost seems to hint towards Kido. I don't really know why I think this, especially since they seemed to have been practicing Zanjutsu (although I doubt they ever had a chance to even swing their swords, as Rukia said that they were just staring at each other), but it just seems to make sense to me. If anyone else has any theories as to what Hyosube could have been promoted for making, I'd love to here it. Currently, one of the main points tying me down to Shutara having made the clothes instead of Kido is that I don't know what Hyosube would then have created. After all, the clothes theory for Shutara is a bit of a stretch, from what we know about them as of this point. If a decent enough suggestion for Hyosube's contribution to the history of Soul Society gets pointed out, I might have to reevaluate my stand on this issue.