Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4673545-20140417023332

I really love "What if?" scenarios so what if Aizen had never existed? Who would be the captains? Vice captains? Would someone else be experimenting with increasing one's power? Would certain people ever become Shinigami? (for this in particular consider Gin and consequently Rangiku, then Toshiro (but he still had Momo regardless) and eventually the fate of the Tenth Division) Would people still be in their same Divisions? (Gin and Momo were in the fifth because of Aizen himself, Gin became the third division captain possibly only because it was open (leading to the bigger question of "If he was a Shinigami then where would he be?), and theoretically Iba moved to the seventh because of the vice captain position, to name a few examples)

And this big question: Would Ichigo even exist? (Aizen created White and it attacked Masaki/Isshin (I don't remember if it was one or both of them) and thus brought them together once Isshin realized she was going down and wanted to save her and he only could because Urahara was in Karakura and had the means to do so. So without White, would Isshin and Masaki ever meet? If I remember correctly Isshin literally decided to up and leave (or was he chasing down a Hollow - or White?) and then only ran into Masaki because they both ran into White so without the Hollow to lure them both, would they meet? Or even with a Hollow attack and Masaki getting injured/infected, Hollows are like poison to Quincies so would there be anyone to help? Would Urahara still be captain or would be do something to actually get himself exiled?)

So what's your opinion on this? I only ask because A) I'm curious and B) I might decide to write a fanfic about a Bleach universe where Aizen never existed - or, in order to preserve at least some aspect of canon - a fic where canon!Ichigo somehow travels to an alternate universe where Aizen never was. 