User blog comment:CoolJazzman/Was Aizen wife Tosen friend?/@comment-2226235-20131110183923/@comment-28861328-20131112193721

It's far too many assumptions.


 * 1) Its assuming Aizen had a wife. For that matter that he even cared about marriage.
 * 2) That his "wife's" (he doesn't have a wife) death made him evil (he was evil 110 years ago, and there are heavy indications that he was even prior to that).

I'm not even going to get into how convoluted the assumptions run on Tosen's end. Its reading too much into things to assume that a mark on her face means that Kubo intended for any underlying meaning to ever be used again.

The woman who is Tosen's friend was invented as a plot device to explain why Tosen is so obsessed with his outlook on "justice". That was a very foundation of his character, and she came about as a way to explain why he was like that. Nothing more and nothing less.

As a writer myself (I write fan fiction for fun, but that's by no means all I do. I do a lot of creative writing in my free time), I can understand Kubo's mindset. Everything Kubo writes doesn't have secret, ulterior meaning. Its not like that for any author. But Kubo understands, as most writers do, that people don't just develop these crazed obsessions (such as Tosen has with "justice") out of thin air, and unless you explain them, your readers are not only going to not be able relate to your character, but they will also see him as a bland, two dimensional character that makes very little sense.