Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5551986-20181227102057/@comment-957629-20190107134149

Bleach has never been Black and White. Its always been complicated with characters always making tough calls.

I don't see him seeing it as a mercy at all otherwise he would have said as such instead of enjoying it. Making a tough decision, even in Mercy, is meant to be difficult not joyously enjoyed. There is not an instance at all on Yhwach appearing to struggle with the right thing or what, he sadistically enjoys everything that he does. And this does not mesh with "mercy" because he enjoys and wilfully does what he wants. He may say differently sometimes but actions and expressions speak louder than words and not once does he mention fixing anything. In the many monologues of seeing the future and such he could have easily slipped that in but he didn't, not once bar calling the Soul King's position a humiliation. Which can be interpreted in many ways.

Sadistic people, to the extent of what is mass murder, don't worry over "mercy" or "fixing things". It just doesn't gel. Mercy is killing someone who is suffering. There is no way to justify murdering everyone and call it mercy without it becoming a role reversal after the fact.

Complexity for complexity sake is pointless especially when done after the fact. He constantly monologues for pages and chapters about seeing the future about being better etc etc and never once mentioned these goals. Reminds me of literal Boba Fett, has like one or two lines and dies rapidly in the third film but must retcon him to be better than he really was.

EDIT: The Aizen thing is more shoehorning. Went from wanting to stand at the top and be considered the god to literally hating the Soul King and finding him distasteful to now he's started down the path because the soul kings role was awful? Sometimes people need to stop touching and just build around it.