Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28096256-20160413001736/@comment-27565137-20160504205617

I can see one major flaw in your theory sticking out like an alarm signal. If I understood it currently, your theory goes somewhere along the idea that Vasto Lordes have shinigami powers. And here your theory completely crumbles.

For all we've seen, hollows and only Arrancars have only one shinigami aspect. A zanpakutou. Nothing else. They can't use Kidou. They don't have a shikai or a bankai. And their power doesn't seem to increase with training, just devouring other beings. So in some aspects at least the Vizards were better. They didn't lost any shinigami power and also gained some hollow powers as well.

I can accept that maybe the crucial ingredient for a Adjucha to become a Vasto Lord is that he needs to change his or hers feeding habits. Maybe instead of hunting for other hollows they need to hunt, kill and devour shinigamis instead. Maybe the shinigami food regiment is the key trigger. Maybe... But we still have no way of knowing. It might equally all come down to simple latent potential. Some hollows have more, others have less.

Of course there's a few set of problems with shinigamis being the right kind of food to trigger. It would make sense that if not all at least most hollows would know about this, and every Adjucha would naturally start to hunt for shinigamis. But again we see no evidence of that being the case. Even Starrk that had become a Vasto Lord and a Arrancar on his own without any aid, didn't seem to know that much about shinigamis. So if shinigamis are essential then it would stand to resson that he would have an extensive knowledge of them.