Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26912075-20160115194709/@comment-27392440-20160117145624

Kakorat wrote: I dunno. Aizen is my favorite character in the show, and I relate with him (not in the killing and deception part, but the wanting a different path and willing to fight in order to achieve it.) i may just be a fanboy trying to say that he is not the worst guy in the world (that would be Yhwach). I am sorry and I retract my statements.

There are some points to be made in regards to Aizen's character that many seem to be forgetting. Aizen didn't kill one shinigami (Gin in a fit of hollowfied and betrayed rage excluded) and seemingly went out of his way to not go for the kill (Yama just lost an arm and was half dead yet he didn't even finish him off before leaving to soul society when no one could challenge him). What Ichigo said was that the hogyoku reads someone's heart to grant their wish and that, even if it was unconcious, Aizen wanted to not be alone in his power (being highly intelligent may not have made Aizen a self-aware person). The biggest moment of redemption to me was when he "betrayed" Hallibel as someone with his skill could have killed her yet she survived (anyone who's watched the end of the Toguro arc in Yuyu Hakusho know what I mean) and he only attacked her after observing Starrk fall, ironically Aizen striking Hallibel down was critical in saving her life and he may have realized that. Sure Aizen is a sociopath that's obssessed with his goals but he seems to value (and if I'm right about Hallibel, sometimes protect) those who are strong and like him want to get stronger, plus I don't think he's wrong about the soul king, not only did he have a long time to research the soul king's past and what soul society/the world may have been before it's existence but the soul king and it's parasitic sentient limbs kind of seem creepy and twisted on the face of it. Was Aizen a good guy...no, he did seem to have his own honor/values and may even have seen himself as the good guy versus something like the soul king though.