My favourite part is probably Kyouka-tan, though. Poor abused sword-spirit getting out from Aizen's Hyougouku-stained clutches. (Clue, faggot - if the sword isn't enough for you, you're not worthy of it.)
This is exactly my own reasoning. In becoming what he did, Aizen abandoned Kyouka Suigetsu. She suffered incredibly from his treachery, and will leave him as a result of it. He had her bound to him as a slave through the power of the Hyougoku, but with that influence temporarily negated via Mugetsu, Kyouka Suigetsu will be free to leave. And she will.
After all, the Master has returned. What's more, the Master
saved her. Her place is by his side.
they may have been from OneManga
They were, as that's the manga reader I (and pretty much everyone else) used at the time. So all the links and/or images would be broken. I could still recreate the argument for it, though, if you or anyone else is interested.
I always said you had a way with words. Thanks again for proving me right.
This entire idea was actually spawned from that one four line exchange. Everything else built on that.
Certainly, I feel that Ichigo is currently benign - but as you say, there's no telling what mode of thought or ethics he may eventually embrace. Or how much they may warp we mere mortals.
One of the things I tried to convey, though I'm not sure if I did very well, was that for much of the fight with Aizen, Ichigo really wasn't even paying attention
to Aizen. Aizen was talking, but Ichigo wasn't really paying much attention to it. Aizen talks to him, and Ichigo modifies Gin's Wyrd to save his life. Aizen talks to him, and Ichigo soothes the air that Aizen is rending with his brutal approach to speed. Aizen is bragging about his power, and Ichigo wipes away Kyouka Suigetsu's tears and eases her pain with his presence.
I was trying to convey a sense that Aizen was so beneath Ichigo that Ichigo was not even really paying attention to him. The fact that the one time Ichigo initiated an exchange with him was over an emotion Ichigo felt from Aizen's blade, and not from something Aizen said, is deliberate.
I don't know if this came across very well or not, though. But I was definately going for an "arguing with God/Cthulhu vibe" there. Ichigo was detached. Not really paying much attention. He was doing
other things with his power, and fighting Aizen was really more of an afterthought.
Question is, how did his creations end up in various souls over the ages? Was it intentional on his part, or a consequence of something else? Are all soul cutters in existance his creation? Were their abillities all based on his own powers back then?
All the Divine Spirits not currently in the Godrealm were created by the Sky King. Whether it was intentional or a consequence of something else will come up as a plot point. Their abilities aren't based off of his own; rather, they were created to reflect the power of the beings that dwell behind the Third Gate. The Zanpakuto are, in essence, neo-gods.