kizu-kun said:
Fai said:
ORR, he is an enemy and one of royal guards and royal guards consist of bothy quincy, arrancar and shinigami I highly doubt that the royal guard is composed of anything other than soul reapers. Kubo intentionally made the Quincy the polar opposite of soul reapers (white archers vs. black swordsmen). And its an organization based in the soul society so no arrancar would be apart of it either.
Its not based on soul society.
Royal Guards are Soul King's "personal troops" so to say and they, as mentioned in SS arc reside in royal dimension. They were not referred as "shinigami division" or something like that.
We know that quincies got their teachings from an older than shinigami "magic hunters". We also have more than enough symbolism of equalizing quincies with angelic imagery (the final form being angel wings, archery, etc). We also known that till some point quincies themselves had a standing inside SS.
Now on Soul King, we know that it is a being connected to EVERYTHING and pretty much the literal god of the whole bleachverse. Why would he limit his own troops to Shinigami, especially considering shinigami have been there only for last million year or so and SS as we see it now (re)formed only latter. Namely, Soul King is older than soul society.
With so much build up I would not be surprised is some form of quincy/magichunter teachings have been dominant before shinigami and if the royal guard has only a handful of shinigami or none at all.
FB arc has highlighted the change in Soul society towards more liberal setting. I would not be surprised on if that provoked the current events.