Board Thread:New on Bleach Wiki/@comment-957629-20151213135550/@comment-44061-20151214010306

Except thats the general flaw in the premise of bleach isnt. We as logical older people have to somehow believe that a teenager with little training is supposed to succed where ancient beings with centuries worth of expereince and skill with powers the teen can only imagine who have been doing this duty of centuries all the sudden have to beg this kid for help. Regardless of how ichigo is the protagonist and this is a shonen manga there is an inherent flaw that people over the typical kid audience are gonna have logical trouble with. The second part is Byakuya begging ichigo to save Soul Society ultimately ended up a wasted effort seeing as Ichigo didnt save anything. Granted Byakuya is a hard personality but to expect him to be a blubbering mess or turn into a carebear simply for the sake of development isnt realistic. He is who he is, his personality doesnt have to change for him to have development. Him simply recognizing Rukia's strength, him realizing that making promises to dead while he is still living is pointless. These things and others were his development, subtle but development that allowed him to be who he was within his character and personality. Also if anything is clear in Bleach its that humans cant accomplish anything in comparison to a Shinigami, Arrancar, Quicny. They are so on the back burner they arent even relevant. This needing help is solely for the purpose of Protagonist spotlight. There was no development there except for weakness that served only to make him look sad. The better question is ichigo really deserving of such praise from anyone. He stopped rukia's execution, he made aizen doubt himself. To this day ichigo is still face tracked on alot of strength and no technique and very little growth mentally or emotionally, for someone to recognize the bigger picture instead of just wanting to protect his friends. Its limited at best.

Byakuya also wasnt the only one not acting like their typical self there was numerous times of captains acting inept or foolish whether it was in a fight or in personality that we have come to know them. The bankai thing was the most glaringly obvious.

Also yea i agree Byakuya is alive and doing his thing, we forget his pride is Rukia the only family he has left. We assume to often that he is just over-prideful, maybe so of her and that came into view this arc. He seems arrogant, no that confidence cause he is that good. Not everyone is overly empathic and if all the characters were the same nobody would like the series. I would say getting a greater understanding of a character and his/her motivations and how certain situations effect them is character development.