Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27392440-20160403192906/@comment-27392440-20160405235952

I doubt Barragan would have mentioned it if it was something like that (he not only talked as if those 10 specific aspects were the only ones but I doubt considering he was a bit self-involved that he would have brought it up if it only related to their peronalities/preferences on how to kill) and a few like sacrifice are a bit of a stretch but seeing as the espada were defined by those aspects I don't think you're completely off. Just to clarify my own thoughts a bit, I think that the fact that each espada specialized so strongly in something (like Starrk with ceros or the fact that 2 likely non-vasto lorde like Zommari and Nnoitra exeeding the vasto lorde level espada in sonido and hierro) might mean that each aspect may represent evolutions of specific abilities and skills arrancar can use. Some thoughts I have are: loneliness/cero, despair/hierro, emptiness/generalist specializing more in raw spiritual power, anger/mastering the power output of resurreccion itself, destruction/bala, etc. Like you I'm not done flushing out my theory but this is what I think it might be. (who knows, each one may even require different means of reaching vasto lorde status, like having to eat a large amount of captain-level shinigami or something. If someone takes the anime back story on Hallibel seriously it even looked like her group spared hollow lives rather than ate them with no evidence of devolving or that Hallibel ate part of them to stop their evolution)