Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26830922-20150829155234/@comment-26091912-20150922021215

Aita666 wrote: It seems some of my words have been twisted or misunderstood here. I never explicitly stated being associated with a particular race or having that race's power made him/her a part of it.

And yet, in the same paragraph, you say just that: ...then Mimihagi (his opposite) would be a Shinigami as Quincy and Shinigami are polar opposites...

Mimihagi and Pernida are not 'opposites', so much as they perform opposite functions in tandem with each other. They are only 'opposite' in the sense that Mimihagi is still loyal to the Soul King, while Pernida as a free agent, is sympathetic to the Quincy cause.

If Pernida were a Quincy originally, that would logically make it the 'First Quincy' (a title belonging to Yhwach), and by extension, the progenitor of the Quincy. However, we know that Pernida was granted power by Yhwach, not vice-versa, so it obtained its Quincy powers later on. Arrancar have also been granted Quincy powers by Yhwach (Asguiaro, Luders, etc.), yet that doesn't mean their race is now Quincy.

Fact is, Mimihagi and Pernida are sentient disembodied limbs of the Soul King—not Shinigami or Quincy. And since the Soul King is essentially the closest thing to a 'god', then it would stand to reason that, they to, are 'gods'.