Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26830922-20180315020522/@comment-27458826-20180406031226

When a soul "dies" in the soul society ( lack of a better word) it doesn't return to the world of the living. They break down and become the reishi that the soul society is made from. The whole balance of souls thing is confusing though. There are several inconsistencies that are never addressed. In the beginning it is said that a zanpakuto purifies the soul of the sins committed as a hollow but not those that they committed in life as a human and introduces the concept of hell into the bleach universe only to never again bring it up. This kind of leads me to assume soul society is supposed to be heaven, kind of depressing overall really but back to the subject at hand, it is shown that when a human is killed by a zanpakuto that they still go to soul society and even keep their powers. If killing a hollow purifies them and sends them on then what of all of the arrancar that are killed? Theoretically shouldn't they then move on to soul society? Does killing a menos separate all of the souls they are made of? The fullbringers committed crimes severe enough that they were killed by soul reapers but they still end up in soul society instead of hell? Soul reapers decided that Quincy destroying souls was too risky to keep them around but what of the soul reapers? When a soul "dies"( again lack of a better word) they break down into reishi how is that any different than what the Quincy were doing? How does procreation in the soul society work? Renji and Rukia's backstory said they were souls who had died in the world of the living but Byakuya was born in soul society. Are the souls created from the reishi of the souls that broke down? All of the buildings are made of the dead? That is some Ed Gein shit right there. They mention reincarnation in passing but again never come back to it but we know that Asauchi are made from souls of soul reapers how does that not effect the balance of souls? In my opinion it seems like rather than being the leader of soul society the soul king is a prisoner. After all he was supposed to be all knowing but didn't take any steps to protect himself and beyond that at least 2 parts of his body separated and became sentient and helped the man trying to kill him. I would say that the entire balance of souls thing sounds like BS. When you break it down it seems that a simpler explanation is present although unmentioned. While we don't get any details it basically looks like this. Soul king= ywach's father. Ywach is the source of all Quincy therefore in reality the soul king is the actual source of Quincy. Quincy powers are hereditary rather than being a skill that one can learn. The so called distribution of souls is actually the most basic ability that all Quincy possess. The manipulation of reishi. And while it again doesn't get into specifics we know that everything in soul society is made of reishi. We are shown that a Quincy is able to form solid objects from reish therefore we can reason that soul society was made by the soul king in this manner. The soul reapers knowing this fear that a powerful Quincy could potentially create another world of reishi( we never learn how hueco Mundo is formed btw) that could potentially rival the soul society. Fearing this eventuality they sought to prevent this from happening by eliminating the Quincy therefore making this impossible. If there are no Quincy there is no possibility of this happening. Rather than risk this possibility they chose to eliminate it. Whether it was through misinformation or an intentional omission of the facts the soul society was able to justify the genocide of the Quincy obscuring the fact that it was due to fear rather than necessity. While details were again left out we know that Ywach the soul king's son had some kind of altercation with Yamamoto 1000 years before the start of the series in which Yamamoto for some reason failed to eliminate him. Now while the breakdown and control of reishi is a basic ability there is one ability that supposedly belongs solely to Ywach. The power to break his soul apart using it to grant powers to other people. It says that the power is his alone but in reality it was something that the soul king did as well. He gave Ichibē the ability to manipulate the "true name" of an object or entity which basically means that he is able to either give or take powers from an object or individual by changing it's "true name" he also grants the ability to enter the dimension of the soul king's palace in the form of oken. While the whole manipulation of the "true name" is easy to gloss over without a 2nd thought it is actually the same as Ywach's ability to grant power especially considering that the way Ywach does this is by giving them a "letter" to signify a power and to take it back. Ichibe does this by forcibly taking a part of their name Ywach uses Auswählen to reclaim the letters he gave out along with a portion of their own soul. To sum things up as simply as is possible the Quincy weren't eliminated to preserve the balance of souls it was to prevent the birth of another god rivalling the soul king. The reason that none with Ywach's ( Quincy) blood cannot tolerate the existence of the soul king is that he sinned against his own kind by giving power that should have belonged to the Quincy alone to the soul reapers and preventing the Quincy from obtaining the power that was rightfully theirs. Another possibility is that I way way over think things. So you know take it with a grain of salt