Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-7673575-20170304211411/@comment-27392440-20170305001346

Personally, I think you have very good theories that mirror what my own thoughts are (I can't be sure if I ever wrote it on this forum but I think I've brought up, and ergo may be the one you referenced, the idea that the soul King was trapped and used by the shinigami, likely explaining all the missing limbs as you pointed out). The only thing that is uncertain as far as I am concerned is if pernida and Gerard weren't always actually in fact human Quincy in a way, at least physically (what I mean is that they may have been quincies that, like Ukitake, took in part of the soul King but just let it take over their bodies where as he suppressed it...I am not committed to this theory by far but just wanted to add this to the list of possible explanations why they were both quincies and parts of the soul King). Basically, you have good explanations until Kubo confirms or denies them