Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5551986-20181227102057/@comment-29325824-20190107134800

@SunXia

You misunderstand. I'm not calling his mass-murdering mercy, far from it. Yhwach hardly ever shows mercy to anyone, because again, he is a sadistic mass-murdering psycho. I'm just pointing out that if he genuinly considers killing Ichigo and the SK "mercy" because being the linchpin is just that horrifying, it's saying something.

Granted, Yhwach could be lying. But let me ask you: why would he do that? AFAIK, so far he has never claimed to be merciful when killing others, nor had he anything to gain by lying at those moments. It's even been made a point that Yhwach tends to be pretty honest and straightforward about his desires, not sugarcoating just how much of a bastard he is.

Again, Yhwach doesn't care how many have to die and suffer as long as he himself can live a little longer. That's never retconned, so nobody is pretending Yhwach is a better person than he was portrayed as.

P.S.: Might I point out that it was Kubo himself who made Aizen's motivation, in the manga itself, a bit deeper than just "rule the world". He still wanted it out of selfishness and narcissistic ego, I don't deny that, but also because he was disgusted by the fact that the world rest upon something as sickening as the linchpin.