Fai said:
Han-yuu said:
Missinglucky said:
Hmm I have a kind of interesting idea which I partially said in previous thread, I shall put it back into this one so it opens up the discussion on it.
Aizen had been planning since before ichigos birth to remove the soul king from power and instigate himself into that position, and from this chapter there is reasoning to believe that both urahara and aizen have been to the soul palace/met the royal guard. In this chapter we also managed to see what the soul king looked like and it strongly resembled aizens "butterfly" form. so possibly the reason why aizen knows so much about the royal guard (to create the key aka the royal guard) was because he is in some way related to the soul king (father/son/sibling/whatever else) and his whole intention this whole time is a revenge plan because he wasn't the next in line for the throne or that he got removed from the soul palace for whatever reason...
In that context the story of bleach would make Aizen the main character throughout all this time and we're just seeing the story from one of the experiments eyes.
In this view of things i brought up to somebody I know this whole concept and they related it down to some biblical knowledge which actually fits in accurately, if i can remember it at all I will update this post, or post a new post if the thread gets long enough.
Good theory but not going to happen... because
He obviously had no idea what the hell are royal guards and there is a position above central 46 unless you're telling me he found about his past and relationship later when he visit royal palace. Which is even more unlikely because he was already vice-captain that time and no idea about his own history and if you bring in more chemistry like they altered his memories and later he remembered or found out about everything. That will look stupid in my opinion because he was threat from the beginning even if he lost his memories. Why SS or Yamamoto was completely oblivious about him until he kicked out few captains and vice-captains out of soul society and later killed all central 46 and make fool out of them completely. Also i don't expect Kubo would go so deep down to prove Aizen had a very good reason to attack Soul King with that scenario.
Yes, because Aizen, the master of mindfuck, could nto pretend he has no idea who 0Th squad is as part of his cover.
His reaction to the 0Th Squad mention could be interpreted in many ways and Aizen, the genius he was, pretty much played it in-character to "rookie-nerdy-glasses-guy" he played.
Would you mind to shed some light on it. What would he gain for pretending he don't know anything about zero squad? It's not like there was any doubt about him being a nerdy-looking-good-guy. Also he was not part of the conversation where he had to pretend like that.
Missinglucky said:
I see this being probably the only, however very large flaw in my theory. Although it should be said that Fai has pointed out that Aizen did manage to stay in cover as a standard shinigami for 100's of years, it might not be so hard for him to cover up the fact he knows his past and what has previously happened. Maybe also, this is probably me being presumptuous, but you'd think that officers of the soul society would know about the soul king and squad zero?
If his memories were not altered then pretending not to know about Zero Squad would get him even more trouble. And if they were altered and he manage to remember or discover the truth. Still the question is there. If he had some kind of conflict in royal palace and demoted to normal shinigami. Why no one knew about him? At-least Yamamoto should have been informed because the reason they even need to alter his memories after demotion is obvious that he was a threat or can become a threat at some point. Yet Royal Palace totally ignored him after that and then what he done to SS is the whole reason Soi-fon was yelling in last chapter. This theory maybe make Aizen more genius if done right BUT on the other side. That will make Soul King, Zero Squad and SS top brass a bunch of stupids. Who ignored him for so long despite knowing everything about him and got bitten because of their own ignorance. And if you make his relationship with soul king like father/son/sibling that would make it even more ridiculous because they ignored someone who's so close to his majesty.
Sadly, all these posts are going to disappear because of this ridiculous delay in backup restoring