User blog comment:Majestic Soaring Cloud/Ichigo's destiny/@comment-11477779-20130710094013

That got real interesting at the end. All I ever remember Ichigo saying about his future is that he wanted a normal life but what he really wants is to protect... period. It certainly seems like someone is making plans for Ichigo's future that doesn't involve a normal human life, does it? I won't speculate on what plans the Soul Society or Soul King have for Ichigo but my impression of Ichigo over the entire story is that he considers himself a Soul Reaper. If that is the case, that choice, that decision he made may have changed his destiny for good as HollowKing17 stated. I believe Kubo's characters forge their own destiny. Just as Isshin chose to live a human life, it looks like Ichigo has started down the path of living the life of a Soul Reaper. If this does indeed come to pass, I feel Ichigo will become more than a "mere" captain of the Gotei 13. What exactly that is, I'm looking forward to learning along with the rest of you as this arc plays out.