Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26937472-20160119102415/@comment-27565137-20160121025608

AskinNakkLeVaar wrote: This has gotta happen. Harribel is the strongest Arrancar alive, and captured by Yhwach. We saw him make Quiranncars like Ebern and Luders; why would Kubointroduce a new hybrid race on fodder like them? Would be such a waste to not use it on a major character.

Plus Grimmjow and Nel need to fight someone and clearly hes trash compared to Askin. would be fitting to see #3 VS #3 aswell as Grimmjow fighting the Queen of HM to achieve his title of "King".

And it was implied by Quilge she was on their side when he tried to recruit the Harribabes. We know Yhwach can brainwash as he stated he planned to do so to Ichigo when we was going to take him back to their base.

Hell the Harribabes can be with her too and fight Chad, Ganju and Orihime.

I doubt all of this will happen. And here's why.

1. If Yhwach wanted to turn her, he would've done it already. But no he kept her prisoner. And her purpose might have been an entirely different one.

2. When Yhwach eliminated Ebern and Luders, Haschwalth was the first to point out if doing that was wise, to which Yhwach simply stated that they can make more if they need to. And then we were shown the image of Harribel in chains. And pretty beat-up. Maybe Yhwach was somehow using Harribel to create new arrancars.

3. We know that everything hollow is poison to quincy's. If so how could Yhwach create this hybrids you're talking about. He killed Ichigo mother just because she had hollow power sealed inside her. So no I don't believe the hollow were being somehow turned to hybrids seeing that hollows and quincy don't combine. Not without a third agent to balance those two opposing sides. Just like Urahara did with Isshin when he made him a human/shinigami hybrid, so he could connect his soul to Masaki so the opposite powers in her didn't killed her. When she was infected by the White.

4. Maybe Yhwach has the means to brainwash the minds of arrancars, also he might be able to use his powers to somehow allow hollows to use quincy necklaces, but I believe that the full extinction of it.

5. We didn't saw any hollows in his sternritter army. Neither his elite guard. Quincy's weren't able to steal an Arrancar resurreccion like they were able with the shinigamis. If fact it took the simple adding of a small amount of hollow reiatsu to the captains that got their bankais stolen to break the quincy hold on them.

6. So it all points to Yhwach use of hollows is pretty limited. They were used mainly has foot soldiers, and most likely the soldat are for the most part that, hollows brainwashed to serve the quincy's.

This is my take on things with the information we were given.

Has for Harribel. Maybe Nel will be able to release her, or during the Wanderreich reforming, she took the chance to free herself and she might appear anytime to lend a hand in the fights ahead. Or... She's been brainwashed and maybe we'll see either Nel or Grimmjow take her down individual or working together.

And seeing Bleach current pace of story telling, that might be something that we will only months from now.