Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28096256-20160413001736/@comment-27565137-20160508155506

DarkMuse616 wrote: Wri-El wrote:

Of course there's a few set of problems with shinigamis being the right kind of food to trigger. It would make sense that if not all at least most hollows would know about this, and every Adjucha would naturally start to hunt for shinigamis. But again we see no evidence of that being the case. Even Starrk that had become a Vasto Lord and a Arrancar on his own without any aid, didn't seem to know that much about shinigamis. So if shinigamis are essential then it would stand to resson that he would have an extensive knowledge of them.

Seeing as there's no manual for being hollows there's no reason any would know of one or more ways to reaching vasto lorde unless a vasto lorde told them how and hollows in general don't look like a generous bunch. Starrk is a bad case by the way, he openly admitted to not even remembering what he looked like as a hollow pre-arrancar let alone anything about shinigami plus it's never been confirmed he was the original of the 2 so by all accounts he may have just been born.

I don't think eating shinigami was Starrk/Lillynette's path to vasto lorde by the way, my going theory (and another path to vasto lorde I believe) is that one of them was the original that figured out there was an inner hollow spirit (as the vizards have shown this is a real thing) that could be their friend and bonded with it the way a shinigami and zanpakuto spirit do until they reached their thresh hold for getting stronger and evolving. My idea may have holes I'm not seeing but it sounds like an idea worth considering for another possible vasto lorde path.

I can see one problem, if I'm understanding your theory correctly.

You say that most likely for a Adjucha to become Vasto Lord, is for the hollow to do as shinigami do, and access their inner world and sonehow come into contact with somekind of inner Hollow soul, or the soul that represents the essence of the hollow power. Just like shinigamis have their own inner soul that represents the essence of the shinigami power.

Here's the thing. If Hollows, Vasto Lordes in particular had that kind of access then it would stand to reason that what happened to Starrk, would in similar ways happened to Barragan and Harribel. Not necessarily the splitting into two persons, but at least something like what Ulquiorra did. Ulquiorra had more than one stage to his Resurrección. But still we never got the slightest hint that they communicate with a inner soul.

But your theory is not useless. It does offer a different perspective or possibility of access to the inner world. Here's how I would adapt your theory.

We know that for hollows to become Guillian they have to go through that cannibalistic ritual. And once Guillian, from all the personalities merged only one arises above all the rest. So the key to maybe become Vasto Lord once the Adjucha level is achieved, is to gain access to their inner world, but unlike shinigamis that possess only one other inner soul or two (like Shunsui) that represent the essence of their shinigami power, hollows have to face all the different personalities from the other hollows that merged to become Guillian. And the dominant personality needs to face the other personalities and defeat them or devour them one by one.

Once a certain number of personalities, or all of them are consumed, the door opens for the Adjucha to become a Vasto Lord.

Just my adaptation of your theory.