Forum:The Flow of Souls

I was thinking... Humans that die are sent to the Soul Society, but they can sometimes go hollow. People who die in the Soul Society are reincarnated in the living world. Shinigami 'purify' hollows, who then go to the Soul Society or Hell correspondingly. Does that mean former hollows can be shinigami, and former shinigami can be hollows? Did the Espada that were killed get sent to the Soul Society? And when a hollow turns into an arrancar, is their form similar at all to what it was in life? Is their personality similar in any way to what it was in life? Has the Soul Society been around long enough for the shinigami/hollow crossover to have occured? Also, if there is a flow of souls between the Soul Society and the world of the living, does that mean there are never any new souls? What about those that go to Hell? Wouldn't that eventually disrupt the 'balance' that the shinigami were trying to keep when they exterminated the Quincy? Just some of my ponderings. Haven't refined and clarified them. Yume-Li 20:39, 30 March 2009 (UTC)