User blog comment:GinIchimaru/The Point of the Fullbringer Arc and how it relates to the next. Theory./@comment-44061-20120112022913

Here is the basic issue with the first Theory. This idea that Soul Society is unfair and all that is based on western point of view of fairness and democracy. The essential points is this is largely Japanese culture for one, secondly these beings are in existence for a simple purpose. To balance the universes living and dead. The Quincy, while we can understand why they existed the fact is they disrupted the balance by killing the hollows, Soul Society couldnt allow it. The visored were never cast out or hunted down, they went into hiding, Soul Society suspected them dead, but under the circumstances they were turning into hollow what would you expect them to do but sentence them to death. As for the substitute shinigami, the Gotei 13 never claimed that anyone from captain on down was anything more then a tool to be used. To be honest that is what a military is, they are used by the state or power in charge for defense or offense or what have you. If anyone thought the Gotei 13 was a group of friends just playing around they are being mislead. On top of that a substitute shinigami shouldnt rightly exist, they arent properly trained, dont properly follow the rules and they are commonly unstable in one way or another, so what do you expect to do keep a dangerous weapon out of their control to disrupt the balance. So the Central 46 is doing its job as is everyone else. Whether you agree or not.

The second theory, Ichigo's involvement has not changed how things are done, it may have changed how others perceive him in particular. It also shows how much leeway they allow him because of that exception but this only falls to those who know him and choose to acknowledge that. The spiritual energy was a repayment for his role against Aizen. The visored being reinstated had nothing to do with him, they were proven to be stable and capable of still filling their role after 100 yrs of hiding from those holding no issue against them. Rukia admitting him changing Soul Society can be taken many ways but not really in the way of changing millions of years of tradition and discipline thats been effective.

The third theory is misunderstood. It is decidedly the issue Aizen has is that the Spirit king is not so much a he but rather an it. If that it is a creature or rather a sentient object or construct or mechanism is left to interpretation. He feels that therefore no one sits in that position so its easy to take it for himself. Evil or rules dont go together, rules exist for a reason its holds organizations and societies together. What evil? What do we have at all to make that case. The only one evil in the scenario is Aizen, the honest truth is he had no reason besides power. Urahara knows about the spirit king and doesnt defend it because it doesn't need a defense it just is, its necessary and as far as lynchpin, it is a fastener used to prevent a wheel or other rotating part from sliding off the axle it is riding on. Making the spirit king the key that holds the wheel on to keep it from spinning off its axis. That is considerably an important thing.

The fourth theory is blatant fan fiction at best, its a gross assumption to make the leap to stating a possibility based on no facts and therefore nothing you can claim remotely to actually happening. We know the spirit king is an it, so we dont know if can think or what if it has an opinion about anything. Also such a thing would probably care less about mundane rules to keep order. We dont know the royal guards stand on anything. We dont know Isshin's past and even more so what it entails to make the jump of saying he is a royal guard member. Kugo also isnt a grey area, he is just as wrong and crazy as Aizen, Gin and Tosen. He had no justification for his actions, it was a gross overreaction to a small issue that logically is understandable given the circumstance as i explained in the first point.

Im not sure how we even got into the Royal Guard considering that they are mentioned twice in passing, the only credible reason we have is the Aizen being somewhat interested in them when they were mentioned, but what would the point be in being interested in those you cant contact, wont see unless you come upon the king. The whole concept of putting importance on them seems like extremely jumping the gun.