User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 569 (You've been hit by / You've been struck by / Senbonzakura~)/@comment-1604252-20140220063510

I remember Kubo saying he wanted to show Rukia's promotion to lieutenant and how she felt during that time. Maybe next chapter when we see what her Bankai can do, we will get a flashback of her promotion. I feel like it would be a good time to show that, just emphasizing how far shes come her whole life and how shes grown so much and now she has achieved Bankai.

I feel like Rukia has always been a survivor and her growth has shown that and now she has grown into her own.