User blog comment:TheBody84/Ichigos father being the former Kenpachi/@comment-1654562-20091025074646

@ wicked - when banished, it has been told already that they can "take away a shinigami's powers, when i first heard the conversation between Kisuke and Isshin thats the first thing i thought about. so that is a big possibility, meaning they must have done it when Kisuke was a 3rd seat? or when he would have been banished, instead he joined Kisuke in the real world, and something else happend... like Kisuke giving him a doll to live in and pretty much made him as human as possible so the Soul Society couldn't find him /shrug

@ wicked again =) - the actual cape that you see is different i agree, but it is definitely a part of a captain's haori, if you look at the fringe/seam on the bottom of the frayed area, it looks exactly like a captains,(it actually reminds me of Kenpachi's captain haori the way it is all beat up and frayed) the way it has the black line pattern and everything. I tried to look at it closely to see the squad number on the flat part, but it didn't have one, so one can assume that it was either a different part of the haori, OR he might be a part of something like the Kido Corps (which is highly unlikely) and maybe they don't have a symbol /shrug

@Firelake - yeah having the captains remember something about him would make sense, unless there was some type of circumstance where memory was affected? who knows... or maybe they do know him, but under another name, and because Urahara did something to hide him they think he might just be dead? /shrug all is possible =)

i really hope they go into his story, because him being a former captain explains EVERYTHING about Ichigo's powers, especially the way Isshin talked about power, and how the Hollow knows nothing of shinigami until it learned the basics of a captain's power. btw, Isshin seems way to confident in his own power and the power of people like Urahara, and Ichigo that he definitely held a very high position somewhere and knows what he is doing. and his confidence is actually pretty bad-ass =) makes him look much cooler