Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26475399-20160213023528/@comment-27392440-20160214163905

I think that he may never have achieved bankai on his own and that may have been one of the things he specifically wanted to steal from Ichigo, after all bankai usually takes at least a century for even those raised as shinigami and he didn't have an Urahara to speed up the process like Ichigo did. Also, is there any proof that he stole other shinigami's powers? Soul society doesn't have that good a reputation for not lying and if he had taken other shinigami abilities wouldn't he have used them in his fight with Ichigo? I think they just turned on him after he manifested fullbring and acted like they would've at the time to a vizard, which would explain why he was almost suicidally determined to carry out a grudge against the shinigami for their betrayal