User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 596 - Rubb-Dolls 3/@comment-493809-20140911125643/@comment-493809-20140911160824

I'm actually working under the theory that Coyote Starrk was part of Yhwach/his power stored in a different form (lending importance to the whole "We might have been someone completely different") and that the presence of some Espada-like powers is a sign that bits of their souls were absorbed by him. When Shunsui "killed" Starrk, he came back as Yhwach.

"Evidence" for this includes:

- Starrk primarily uses ranged weapons. -- He has a rapid fire function that other Arrancar seemed to lack - Bala (which means Bullet) is a weaker but rapid version of Cero, but Starrk used the rapid fire Cero Metralleta (unless those were actually his Bala). Quincy can rapid fire arrows with relative ease. - He creates a sword out of ambient reishi after the wolves are gone. - He creates wolves by splitting his soul. -- He created another person (or was created) via soul-splitting, though the creation of another being is also a possibility with V - The Visionary. -- The wolves consist of exploding reishi, which might be related to E - The Explode. - The Unnamed Sternritter who faced off against Shunsui used dual pistols, struck fast and quietly, and took Shunsui's left eye (he got better). His fighting style was somewhat similar to Starrk's, and the left eye is where his eyepatch was. - Both Yhwach and Starrk have long hair and facial hair, because crazy theories can be based on anything. - Harribel is still alive (maybe). - Both Yhwach and Starrk have expressed a dislike for fighting. - Yhwach personally went to recruit Aizen, who once made a similar offer to Starrk. - It would be awesome. - Both are Alpha (A - The Alpha? and Alpha Wolf). Maybe.

If that were the case, those powers wouldn't be rehashes so much as the same powers taken by Yhwach and recycled (which may seem lame from a narrative perspective but is actually his whole thing).