Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4161952-20130801170712/@comment-6007020-20140601030850

Aizen did kill people. Plenty, infact. Those hundreds of souls in the SS he fed to the Hogyoku ring a bell? The Shinigami having to kill the Quincies would still make sense, because they disrupt the balance, Soul King on their side or not; that being said, I disagree that Yhwach is the Soul King. He may have power comparable to him, but I think the Soul King is the Truth in FMA; an abstract entity that is neither this nor that, but something else entirely. If the Soul King does have ulterior motives, we don't know, because frankly, we don't even know what his motives are period.