Fai 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.
This could work, especially considering the whole Deicide Arc had some very clear parallels of Aizen compared to Lucifer.
I guess it depends on whether is "Paradise Lost" Lucifer, or traditional "evil" one.
Yes the references from there could make that all the possible. I'm actually really interested now to see if this is the outcome of bleach, that all along it was a biblical analogy rather than a teenager powering up to kill the final bad guy.
hungry_bunny said:
I liked this idea... but there are some things that are off, if he was a prince then he should be even more powerful than he already is. He wouldn't need Ichigo, he wouldn't need to destroy 100,000 souls in Karakura town, he wouldn't need to read up on how to make a royal key in the Great Spirits Library of Soul Society... something tells me that Aizen's stay in the Royal Palace grounds wasn't as VIP as Urahara's.
At best, Aizen was a simple citizen who grew up in one of the floating towns surrounding the Spirit King. A kind of fallen angel.
Yes that is true, this idea does have some flaws in it. Maybe the reading up wasn't on how to make the key but maybe how to perfect a body to hold sufficient amount of reaitsu. If he was a citizen on one of the floating islands, then what makes them citizens different from the others? maybe they possibly are relatives of the king but they're too far down the blood line to be meaningful?