User blog:GinIchimaru/Gin in context.

So I was reading over the past 200 hundred chapters as I feel that by reading all the chapters in quick succession I get a good idea of the flow of the story. Anyway I came across some of the things involving Gin before we knew that he intended to betray Aizen and I'm trying to figure out if these words had a double meaning now we know Gins true intentions.

1. Gin, whilst watching the battle between Aizen and the Gotei 13, comments on Aizens power. He states that it is not Aizens zanpakuto that makes him scary, but his power and that nobody there could defeat him. Now from what we know of Gin now we could take it that this was Gin simply gloating to himself, as he said recently "he enjoyed knowing he was the only one who could kill Aizen". However does this mean that Gin believed himself to be more powerful than Aizen without his zanpakuto? as Gin was perfectly willing to attack him after preventing him using his zanpakutos abilities. I don't really know, but it's interesting.

2. The fight with Ichigo:

(a) This is what intrigues me the most, when Ichigo crosses swords with Gin he tells him that whenever he crosses swords with an opponent he can feel their heart, yet he felt nothing from Gin. I've always wondered what this actually meant, why could Ichigo feel others hearts but not Gins, was it simply due to Gin shutting off his heart to others    (as he had done with Rangiku) in order to deceive Aizen of his true objective.

(b) Why did Gin even fight Ichigo? It can't have been to please Aizen as Aizen was notably perplexed as to what Gin was doing with Ichigo to which Gin stated he was simply testing his strength. This again could be a double meaning, perhaps Gin was even at this point looking to see if Ichigo had what it took to carry the torch should he fail (as he has acknowledged in the most recent chapter). I think that after seeing Ichigo falter he was noticeably dismayed that he could not count on anything special from Ichigo and thus decided to let him run away.

(c) Why did Gin get annoyed when Ichigo suggested that Aizen may turn on him in the future, he states that "he was surprised to hear him say that" and then seemed to become more determined to kill Ichigo, why did this statement anger him when he was already planning to take down Aizen himself.

3. When Gin says to Ichigo that the fight as over as Aizen had "absorbed the hogyoku without his knowledge", at first i thought this meant something more, then i thought it was simply Gin refering to Aizens new power, but now it seems clear that Gin was genuinely unaware that Aizen had absorbed the hogyoku and was thus himself a little dismayed at the unfolding battle.

Anyway just thought I'd right this spiel down somewhere as I found it interesting. Comments and theories would be most appreciated.