Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26475399-20150621155415/@comment-27172747-20151123135138

Shambankai, that's actually a great theory. Like, it's pretty damned good.

But I think there's just a slight part where I disagree. I disagree on the aspect where Aizen was lonely because he was stronger than anyone else.

I think, from what we've currently been seeing, the powers of many characters in Bleach have been revealed to a great extent. Heck, people like Yamamoto, Shunsui, Unohana etc. have already revealed their Bankais and we can see, just from that, that if the older captains were using their Bankais against Aizen, they would have easily been able to overpower him. Unohana is the strongest swordswoman in the history of the Soul Society. Yamamoto is the strongest Soul Reaper and Shunsui experienced to the point where he can injure his opponents without even trying much.

I think that Aizen's loneliness wasn't because he was stronger than anyone else but because he was extremely strong and never had someone like him as strong as him. That is, there would have been soul reapers stronger than him but because they were Shinigami, and not Quinigami, they could not understand him or comprehend the level he was at.

This fits in better to his loneliness actually because it would make sense that he would want someone particularly like him to be able to be at his level of power and understand him. We've seen particularly strong characters who were, honestly speaking, at his level of power but because they weren't like him, they could not understand the stages he was at. That's what would have been his loneliness. Not that there was no one stronger than him because, honestly, there was, but because there was no one who was strong and who was also hybrid like him.

It makes sense that this would have been why he was so interested in Ichigo. I would like to see, though, how his childhood was like. That usually gives a lot of information about why the character is the way he/she is. For example, if Aizen had a childhood where he did have friends but, because of his own power, they were all dissipated into nothingness and almost everywhere he went, he encountered the same situation, he would naturally feel lonely and then have a desire to find someone who was exactly like him. If, in addition to his large reiatsu, he had, perhaps, the innate ability to gather reiatsu, then this could be detrimental if he could not control his ability, right? Like, he could just absorb all of his 'friends'. This would, again, contribute to his willingness to go to every extreme to find someone who had abilities like he did.

Again, this could also have contributed to the superiority complex that he had. Like, he was someone who considered himself above other soul reapers and part of this could have stemmed from his status as a hybrid. His status as a Quinigami would also contribute to his absolute contempt to the Soul King as well, which was shown in the last moments before his sealing. This all fits perfectly actually!

This last part I'm gonna say may also sound crazy but, okay, Aizen actually didn't need to be a threat to Soul Society in order to find someone as strong as him. I mean, it would have all worked out in a similar manner, since Urahara did have a Hogyoku with him. So, my take on it is this; Aizen would have to know the full history of the Soul Society in order to be able to combat everyone in the soul society. He would have to know precisely what would have happened many, many years back and the most interesting thing is that he would want to know precisely what would have happened between the original gotei 13 and the Quincies.

Being a Quinigami, he would then, after knowing the true history, would develop a certain amount of hatred towards the Soul Society and this would evolve into defection in the future as a captain. Again, this is just speculation but this is probably how it would have happened. Because combating an organization becomes ten times easier when you know its history etc. Knowing the history of the Gotei 13 would have given Aizen an advantage over the Gotei 13. In particular, he wouldn't want to have any particular advantage over any of the captains other than Yamamoto, who he probably could not have beaten without putting in a large amount of effort.