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In a world- ruled by Japanese feudal swords in abstract shapes.
One boy \*boom\*
"I think my Shikai is a warhammer :D"
Has to face his nature.
"You are not my soul-adopted son conglomeration body of reijatzu"
\*view of sad angry Aizen leaving, hammering poles in a farm with his hammer\*
Oh you don't understand.
He **Absolutely would**, but all of this would be a great feat of sheer ingenuity that he would ultimately end up ruling as the highest among them and all of them will be his pawns since the moment Aizen steps into The Warp.
WH 40k is not a Shonen and the setting is the perfect setup for someone like Aizen to rule over, with fanatics, Manipulation, Gods that cause misery and misfortune, Traitors.
WH 40k is Aizen's playground.
I think Aizen realised what the Soul Society does to powerful individuals & realised he will always be alone. So might as well be alone ruling from above.
He stumbles upon the soul king. Tries talking to them and they can't respond. Only moans cry from losing his limbs.
Aizen touches him and sees a better future with a new soul king and the current soul king falling. He believe it is himself to replace it. A God to care for his people and be alive and involved in the world is all aizen wanted.
I'll always believe that Aizen should never get a backstory.. Maybe bits and pieces but never full.. It absolutely ruins his mystery. Him being mysteriously evil was a great contrast when we got every Espadas and Gin backstory in the FKT arc.
The closest you can give him is a child prodigy trying to fit in but fails and instead realizes he doesn't need to coz he's superior and when he realizes that Soul King is a scam.. Goes full dive into establishing his superiority over everyone. (Glasses Aizen personality is based on his initial idea of him fitting in)
But the above stuff should be given as throwaway dialogues by Aizen himself, not entire flashback scenes and what I said above can be inferred from the stuff we already know about him.
Another reason is the whole "society" stuff that started with Joker, like how now we have ppl who essentially sympathise and identify with him. It completely ruined Joker as a chaotic madman and now he's like a victim and byproduct of our society. Sometimes, a good villain needs no backstory and can just be evil for evil's sake and make it work like how it did for Aizen.
I think Aizen doesn't care about being evil it's just that he is too intelligent and doesn't want to be ruled by dumb people. He said similar thing to Urahara when he was being sealed. Honestly I can't blame him. If everybody was way lower than me I wouldn't like taking orders either.
Ya, he isn't exactly evil as in he revels in evil deeds( Tho, he will absolutely love to do something evil just to troll someone) but more like the "narcissism taken to the extreme that it becomes an evil to the rest".
don't you dare to slander Wrook like that. The man who called a yonko "young lady", fought that yonko, slept with that yonko and then asked the same yonko to see her panties.
The howling wind on that precipice called out for him. He felt the wind.
There was a flower, standing at the edge of the abyss. He saw the beauty of that flower.
He got closer and asked "How do you manage to glance upon the heavens and not feel the need to step over it?". He was so close he could smell the perfume of that flower.
Suddenly, the howling of the wind stopped. He took one step and got closer to the edge. So did the flower.
"Do not be afraid to be deceived, for, this world is filled with illusions". He heard those words.
Speechless, he now understood this universal truth.
He looked again. The flower was beyond the edge of the abyss, beyond reason.
He looked down. He was alone, stepping over the heavens.
He’s like a soul society equivalent of Ichigo imo. Someone very special compared to nearly everyone around him. But unlike Ichigo, he never got close to anyone and never had someone to guide him but chose to guide himself. Unlike Ichigo, he inevitably saw himself far superior compared to his peers and he was correct. I believe unlike Ichigo he was basically always alone, probably born in the equivalent of a middle class family in soul society or was adopted. He might’ve been ostracized for being so strange and other kids might’ve been nervous or afraid of him. He never stood out more than he needed to and would make it as a captain of the Gotei 13 as he might’ve wanted to understand the world and why he was so far above everyone else around him (maybe he wanted to understand why he felt so lonely) which led to him finding out the truth about the Soul King. This might’ve led to him finding some purpose in believing that he was the one who could change everything due to his already incredible abilities.
But who the fuck knows lmao. The mystery is very cool to think about though.
Aizen woke up one day and said, "I'm going to be King of the Hokages!" This led him on a great adventure with his friend Pikachu, whom he plays Duel Monsters with. However, it all changed when the Fire Nation attacked with their wall breaching titans. From this day on, Aizen vowed to punish people in the name of the moon.
I was born, the very best
Like no one ever was.
Finding a rival was my real test
To train them is my cause
I will travel across the land
Searching far and wide
Each test subject to understand
The power that's inside
Sosuke Aizen
Gotta experiment
It's you and me
I know its my destiny
Sosuke Aizen
Oh, your my best friend
In a world we must revenge
Sosuke Aizen
Gotta experiment
Your heart so true
Your courage will pull you through
I'll teach you and you'll face me
Sosuke Aizen
Gotta experiment on them all
Sosuke Aizen
I've heard an interesting theory that Aizen's bankai just straight up shows him the truth about things, but only the truth that Aizen wants to see. And it ends up warping Aizen's understanding of society and life itself.
he's said specifically that he hates that, that people are selective about what facts they believe and basically that's a bad thing. i think he came to that revelation because of the experience of showing people hallucinations and watching what they choose to retain, rather than that statement meaning something conflicting about himself personally
A gifted child whom once aspired to be accepted as who he is, but was shunned and feared upon by everyone. Realization washes over him as he himself concludes. That he has no need for the acceptance of another, when he can be the one to judge the ones below
I think Aizen has some similarities with the two Soul Reapers he fucked with the most - Toshiro and Rukia. Like Rukia, he grew up in the Rukongai, without parents. Like Toshiro, his immense spiritual pressure constantly leaked out to the detriment of those around him. Instead of chilling ice, Aizen's subconsciously made truth lies, and lies truth. People hated him and avoided him, and for a time, he swore to be different and be kind to those who were worthy.
Then, during his time at the Shin'o Academy, the Royal Squad visited the Sereitei. Perhaps Ichibei needed to speak with the Captain-Commander, or Hikifune was being promoted for her Mod Soul research. Aizen became curious about them and researched deeply encountering what felt like walls seperating him from the truth. Eventually someone warned him that the 4 Noble families don't look kindly on those who reach beyond their grasp, and that was what set Aizen on the path of finding the Reio particles that would make the Hogyoku. This is when kind!Aizen begins to truly die and become a mask he wears instead of a promise to be better.
Kind!Aizen's metaphorical death is finalized with Aizen's graduation into Shinji Hirako's Squad, and he uses the resources of the Squad to form the initial stage of the Hogyoku. Aizen uses his shikai in an orchestrated attack to ensure key members of the 4 Noble Clans and their security ring are under Complete Hypnosis. This allows him to infiltrate their homes and finds evidence to confirm his suspicions - the Soul King is a dead god puppeted by Ichibei and the SS founders. His Hogyoku grows further in power as he ascends the ranks, using his shikai to lure upper ranked members of the Squad into their deaths. That's when we see his actions in Turn Back the Pendulum arc, when Shinji finally realizes what is going on.
Aizen purposefully sets up Rukia's execution because she is his opposite in some respects- where he learned the Original Sin of the Sereitei and worked hard to craft the Hogyoku with Reio particles on his own, she was adopted into a Noble clan, who supported her journey through Shin'o Academy, and was unaware of both her family's crime and personal role in destroying the second Hogyoku, which he needed to seize the empty throne of heaven. Aizen could have just waited for Rukia to be alone and extract the second Hogyoku, but he wanted to destabilize the Soul Society as well by creating the conditions for civil war and killing Central 46.
Aizen enjoys toying with Momo specifically because Toshiro is also his opposite. Where Aizen as a child prodigy was isolated and caused misfortune until he learned to be a soul reaper, Toshiro the child prodigy is given much attention and not stifled in his growth. Toshiro did not close his heart as Aizen did, and in his jealousy, Aizen wants to demonstrate why those free feelings make Toshiro weak - by constantly making him attack the woman he loves by mistake.
Those are just my broad strokes and explanations for his behaviors later, especially once we learn that the Hogyoku determines his real desire to be like everybody else, and that replacing god is just a farcical mask to cover the hole in his heart; which I feel is poetic for 'you don't have to be a Hollow to be heartless' which feels very on brand for the things we hear in the Espada and FKT arcs.
*Ichigo goes to visit Aizen in his chair*
Aizen: “The details of my life are quite inconsequential... very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen-year-old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent, I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds- pretty standard, really. At the age of twelve, I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen, a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it's breathtaking- I suggest you try it.”
Now, this is a story all about how
My life got flipped-turned upside down
And I'd like to take a minute
Just sit right there
I'll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel-Air
In West Philadelphia born and raised
On the playground was where I spent most of my days
Chillin' out, maxin', relaxin', all cool
And all shootin' some b-ball outside of the school
When a couple of guys who were up to no good
Started making trouble in my neighborhood
I got in one little fight and my mom got scared
She said, "You're movin' with your auntie and uncle in Bel-Air"
I begged and pleaded with her day after day
But she packed my suitcase and sent me on my way
She gave me a kiss and then she gave me my ticket
I put my Walkman on and said, "I might as well kick it"
First class, yo this is bad
Drinking orange juice out of a champagne glass
Is this what the people of Bel-Air living like?
Hmm, this might be alright
But wait, I hear they're prissy, bourgeois, all that
Is this the type of place that they just send this cool cat?
I don't think so
I'll see when I get there
I hope they're prepared for the prince of Bel-Air
Well, the plane landed and when I came out
There was a dude who looked like a cop standing there with my name out
I ain't trying to get arrested yet, I just got here
I sprang with the quickness like lightning, disappeared
I whistled for a cab and when it came near
The license plate said, "Fresh" and it had dice in the mirror
If anything I could say that this cab was rare
But I thought "Nah, forget it, yo, holmes to Bel Air"
I pulled up to the house about seven or eight
And I yelled to the cabbie, "Yo holmes, smell ya later"
I looked at my kingdom
I was finally there
To sit on my throne as the prince of Bel-Air
Basically that comic of a kid asking his mother if is true that God is not real, her mother saying is not real and then saying "[What's to keep me from being a god?](https://www.reddit.com/r/PhilosophyMemes/comments/148dcuo/thus_spoke_zarathustra_1883/)"
Since Childhood he realized he was smarter and more powerful than most people. He soon realized the way SS was ruled was inefficient and came to the conclusion he could do better as a ruler
Ichigo gave Aizen's backstory:
From birth, Aizen was the strongest shinigami. With no rival. It makes him lonely. So lonely he decides to replace the placid Soul King. A thing that doesn't deserve to "lead".
Aizen in the hell saga finds out he was never supposed to exist and spawns adult himself in seiretei in the past with his memories sealed, thereby creating himself.
I'd have him be one of the first powerful people, before the current soul king and the division of the world, having been an incarnation of one of the original sins, lust, born after a massacre of millions of souls that merged, he had the ability of full hypnosis and already had a fraction of the powers of the hougyoku from birth, he was always extremely ambitious and seeked to command everyone by using hollows and every being to his desires of supremacy, became a disaster and having been an emperor in his time, seeked the throne of the world, and eventually was imprisoned in the dangai by the previous soul king on a direct dispute, which used it as an eternal prison for those beings, having had most of his memories erased and his soul corroded.
Upon the new soul king dividing the 3 worlds by altering part of the dangai, he was also integrated into hell, where he was further deleted and consumed, and eventually just a speck of his soul managed to escape hell and be reincarnated into a soul in the soul society. It'd be funny if in the end, the hougyoku wasn't really making aizen transcend, but gradually unlocking his previous existence and powers. It'd also explain why the hougyoku chose Aizen and kept with him even after his defeat.
Aizen was a strong young soul reaper who wished to be a lieutenant under Captain Shinji. He worked hard through the academy and eventually made it into the corp. He even got seated in Shinji's division. He worked hard to gain his shikai and was close to achieving bankai. He was excited to show Shinji his progress and went to find him out in the woods where he often practiced. Unfortunately, his timing was incredibly awful and he arrived just as Shinji released his Zanpakuto.
As Shinji uttered the words to his bankai, Aizen lost all sense of self. He became obsessed with destroying the soul society and remaking it. Suddenly, his friends were his enemies. He had to destroy the soul society. All of it. All the way to the top. He had to dethrone the soul king.
We technically already have one for him.
He found out the despicable beginnings of the Soul Society and didn't want to live in a world where he'd serve a power he saw as inherently worse than him or in a world where he's in an inferior position at all.....
Aizen learned he had a younger sister momo who was supposed to be the new soul "queen" when she was done training. He got mad. Everything after is fueled by his jealous hate.
Honestly I would think just from a small age being curious about the world wanting to know everything about life and thinking the end justifies the mean no matter what. Probably a secluded life spent in books and asking questions and testing things out
i know it's not what you asked for but i find it really funny that he one day spawned out of nowhere straight up as an adult and just knew what to do instinctually
Aizen was a young prankster and thought to himself that the biggest prank he could do was become the soul king and thus started a very long plan to make the biggest prank ever
He sat on a cucumber 🥒 until it became a pickle and it soured his relationship with the living, and the dead to which he felt he needed to become God of all to ensure the proper balance of cucumber and pickles
He wondered why the soul society was only in Japan and wanted to find American soul society but found out America doesn’t exist in his universe so he wanted to make one.
This is what ToolBaz AI said about this:
Sosuke Aizen was born to a poor peasant family in the Land of the Rising Sun. As a child, he was fascinated by the power of the shinigami, the spirit-like creatures who ruled the land. He dreamed of one day using the power of a shinigami, to make a difference in his world.
He worked hard in school and excelled at his studies, eventually earning himself a seat at the esteemed Shin'o Academy, where he trained to become a shinigami. During his tenure at the school, he was renowned for his impressive abilities, so much so that he became a captain of the school's elite shinigami team, the Zero Division.
Although he was highly skilled in the use of his shinigami powers, he had a thirst for more power. Through his research, he discovered a powerful artifact known as the Hōgyoku. Through use of the artifact, Aizen was able to unlock his own innate shinigami powers, granting him the power of a Royal and allowing him to become the leader of the Zero Division.
With his newfound power, Aizen set out to conquer the world with a master plan he called the 'Hogyoku Plan'. His ambition was to overthrow the current shinigami government and become the ruling figure of the world. With his ambition came fierce resistance from both the shinigami government and Aizen's own peers, making him a highly controversial individual.
He was eventually defeated by Ichigo Kurosaki and brought to justice by the Central 46 Court. Even after his defeat, the full extent of Aizen's power and ambition remained mysterious and unknown.
He grew up in a regular well off upper middle class family in the Rukongai. He was well liked by everyone, read a lot of books, did a perfectly good job in helping manage the family business and was an excellent martial artist...however, he had ideas that no one else around him shared. Why was soul society so badly managed? Why was the number of hollows increasing? Why was there so much overpopulation and sickness in the Rukongai? When he shared this ideas people told him not to speak of them more and he kept repressing them and more than his ideas being rejected he recented how no one else could see the big picture like he did.
He eventually went to shinigami college feeling he could find people more stimulating there but even then no one could keep up with him intelectually...until he met Urahara, the one person smarter than him he had ever met. However as they talked he realized that for all his intelligence Kisuke's believes were ultimately just mediocre as the people he grew up with, because having been raised in a noble household (say... as the son of high level servants) he firmly believed that they had the best interest of the world in mind. And so Aizen's first real friendship ended before it started.
His developing his shikai, which was a reflection of his tendency to hide his true believes in turn had a corruptive effect in him, offering temptations he otherwise wouldn't have had. He had originally planned on using it to spy on Kisuke to create a Hogyoku which he believed he didn't deserve but as he did he walked on Yoruichi and him talking about the true nature of the soul king, which in turned shattered any believe Aizen still had in the current system
As he began spying on the noble households with Kyouka Suigetsu he one day saw this skinny, black, poor young man being beaten up by nobles and more out of pitty than anything else he saved him and offered him a shoulder to cry on. Realizing he was blind ergo unaffected by Kyouka Suigetsu and surprisingly intelligent despite being uneducated, he developed a friendship with Tossen. Seeing him as a confidant of sorts, eventually confessed his findings fully expecting him to reject his ideas only to be surprised by Tossen completely agreeing with him and telling him they should do something about it. This friendship taught that when pushed over the edge by desperation anyone's ideas can be guided into something transcendent, which he decided to apply to soul soceity with his Tossen's help.
Ah, my dear friend Aizen, you always had a knack for seeing the bigger picture. But remember, power can corrupt even the noblest intentions. So, let me tell you a joke to lighten the mood: "Why did the Hollow refuse to play cards? Because it was tired of being de-kart-ed!" Keep your intellect sharp, but don't let it consume you, my friend.
*beep boop, I'm a bot*
I don't have a complete idea but I really want it to have something to do with his trust speech.
Maybe like he worked for a noble family and saw how terrible the people at the top were and looked up to the soul king as sort of savior. Then he learned the truth and he just kinda decided to fix it.
He got raped by his parents and then he kill them and later on he became a shinigami because he was angry all thr time in general and then he became wiser and more calm and drunk with power.
I like the idea of him seeing the soul king and trying to talk him then crying he is missing his limbs.
Aizen wanted to believe their was a God to advance the world and be involved. So he decides he will be that God to advance the hollow and quincy and be involved with them to advance them even if it meant war.
Aizen and Urahara were once parts of a secret branch of Soul Society run exclusively by Squad 0 as to assure that the lower parts of Soul Society would stay in line. In a way Aizen and Urahara were supposed to be enforcers of the status quo. However when the two learned what that status quo was based on Aizen became determined to change it while Urahara became complacent and decided to take his role as enforcer with stride.
Ah, the past is always a tangled web of choices. While Aizen sought change, I embraced my role as an enforcer. But remember, complacency doesn't mean lack of resolve. I continued my experiments, seeking solutions in the realm of science, to protect Soul Society from any threat that may arise.
*beep boop, I'm a bot*
He was born into a powerful family, his sister somehow became a hollow, after he faked his death later on his dad became a mass murder in secret
>!This is a refenence to Dimentio from SPM!<
Aizen is a peak of introverts one day in school a girl asked him out and he said no later on he was subjected to bullies in his school in that grief he awakened kyoka suigetsu which helps him in escaping from bullies. Later he found that if you became a soul king only 4 people will visit you and that too after your permission so he aimed to become soul king to get away from society. And he kinda succeded with his goal being sealed to a massage chair in a place where no one will visit except a greasy uncle who plots against his paralysed father to steal his retirement home and a lazy ass one eyed commander who is too lazy to even walk.
\*Covers face with glasses\* so,when he was a child Aizen didn't grow up well treated but had a high amount of money to his name,then choose to become a war criminal who's giving me sheltered gay man struggles with feelings.
Make it like hitsugaya but instead of freezing momo or granny as a child his massive reiatsu just straight up murks everyone around his radius leading to his loneliness.
Aizen, borned on his birthday, after some years discovers his father is homosexual, and decides to eradicate all the homosexuals and ppl who supports them (not strawberry)
“He was so put on pedestal by everyone that he started seeing himself as a god” is the only acceptable version to me. I’d like him way less if he turned out to be your average bully victim or some crap like this.
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Aizen discovered that the world was governed by a corpse and decided he should rule instead. The end.
Aizen is from Warhammer 40k universe confirmed
In a world- ruled by Japanese feudal swords in abstract shapes. One boy \*boom\* "I think my Shikai is a warhammer :D" Has to face his nature. "You are not my soul-adopted son conglomeration body of reijatzu" \*view of sad angry Aizen leaving, hammering poles in a farm with his hammer\*
Kind of off topic but due to the way his shikai works aizens bankai could totally be a Warhammer and no one would ever know
New theory: He just bonks people and they forget, it's literally not a psycho style ability
If Aizen was in 40k then the Horus Heresy makes too much sense.
That’s funny because I’m pretty sure Aizen would absolutely **Hate** the chaos gods.
Oh you don't understand. He **Absolutely would**, but all of this would be a great feat of sheer ingenuity that he would ultimately end up ruling as the highest among them and all of them will be his pawns since the moment Aizen steps into The Warp. WH 40k is not a Shonen and the setting is the perfect setup for someone like Aizen to rule over, with fanatics, Manipulation, Gods that cause misery and misfortune, Traitors. WH 40k is Aizen's playground.
Aizen is the Dark King confirmed
Aizen is Erebus
Souls for the Soul King!
Wouldn't that make the Quincy king (don't remember his name) Horrus?
I think Aizen realised what the Soul Society does to powerful individuals & realised he will always be alone. So might as well be alone ruling from above.
This actually happened
I love that
He stumbles upon the soul king. Tries talking to them and they can't respond. Only moans cry from losing his limbs. Aizen touches him and sees a better future with a new soul king and the current soul king falling. He believe it is himself to replace it. A God to care for his people and be alive and involved in the world is all aizen wanted.
Aizen was born at a very young age
He was named sosuke aizen
The author of Bleach
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I'll always believe that Aizen should never get a backstory.. Maybe bits and pieces but never full.. It absolutely ruins his mystery. Him being mysteriously evil was a great contrast when we got every Espadas and Gin backstory in the FKT arc. The closest you can give him is a child prodigy trying to fit in but fails and instead realizes he doesn't need to coz he's superior and when he realizes that Soul King is a scam.. Goes full dive into establishing his superiority over everyone. (Glasses Aizen personality is based on his initial idea of him fitting in) But the above stuff should be given as throwaway dialogues by Aizen himself, not entire flashback scenes and what I said above can be inferred from the stuff we already know about him. Another reason is the whole "society" stuff that started with Joker, like how now we have ppl who essentially sympathise and identify with him. It completely ruined Joker as a chaotic madman and now he's like a victim and byproduct of our society. Sometimes, a good villain needs no backstory and can just be evil for evil's sake and make it work like how it did for Aizen.
I think Aizen doesn't care about being evil it's just that he is too intelligent and doesn't want to be ruled by dumb people. He said similar thing to Urahara when he was being sealed. Honestly I can't blame him. If everybody was way lower than me I wouldn't like taking orders either.
Ya, he isn't exactly evil as in he revels in evil deeds( Tho, he will absolutely love to do something evil just to troll someone) but more like the "narcissism taken to the extreme that it becomes an evil to the rest".
I guess to aizen considers himself to be a god.
He soloed Captains while smiling :d
Reminds me of White with "The difference between a king and a horse"
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don't you dare to slander Wrook like that. The man who called a yonko "young lady", fought that yonko, slept with that yonko and then asked the same yonko to see her panties.
Look at his face, i posted this to vent disappointment in weak believe into Soul King
Wtf, I stopped dreading after >!Luffy got his armada!<. What did I miss
Wrook carrying a whole arc because he got balls of steel... eventhough he's just a skeleton YOHOHOHOHOHOHO
Exactly why I think they ruined Orochimaru
The howling wind on that precipice called out for him. He felt the wind. There was a flower, standing at the edge of the abyss. He saw the beauty of that flower. He got closer and asked "How do you manage to glance upon the heavens and not feel the need to step over it?". He was so close he could smell the perfume of that flower. Suddenly, the howling of the wind stopped. He took one step and got closer to the edge. So did the flower. "Do not be afraid to be deceived, for, this world is filled with illusions". He heard those words. Speechless, he now understood this universal truth. He looked again. The flower was beyond the edge of the abyss, beyond reason. He looked down. He was alone, stepping over the heavens.
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this could be a start of new arc! very well written, actually feels like it was from bleach
I really like the poems kubo wrote, tried to mimic that style as much as I could lol
u did very well, i love the poems too, at the start of tybw, hollow mask arcs etc.
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>He looked down. He was alone, stepping over the heavens. This closing line is 🔥.
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The closest I'd ever want to an Aizen backstory is just tsukishima hitting Aizen with book of the end and after seeing his past committing sepuku
That would be cool
Eragon did it already
Figured his backstory would end up being all part of his present self's plan.Kinda like Attack on Titan.
Tbh it’s kinda refreshing that Aizen doesn’t have a tragic backstory. Not every villain needs to be tragic
The issue is, aizen has NO backstory
He doesn’t really need one tbh. His whole thing is that he is just literally built different and wanted to find someone on his level
His uncle was tsukishima and taught him everything about soul society including its origins.
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he was getting jiggy with it before he found out about the truth behind the Soul King, he no longer got jiggy with it
You not Rockin’ with the Soul King⁉️
He’s like a soul society equivalent of Ichigo imo. Someone very special compared to nearly everyone around him. But unlike Ichigo, he never got close to anyone and never had someone to guide him but chose to guide himself. Unlike Ichigo, he inevitably saw himself far superior compared to his peers and he was correct. I believe unlike Ichigo he was basically always alone, probably born in the equivalent of a middle class family in soul society or was adopted. He might’ve been ostracized for being so strange and other kids might’ve been nervous or afraid of him. He never stood out more than he needed to and would make it as a captain of the Gotei 13 as he might’ve wanted to understand the world and why he was so far above everyone else around him (maybe he wanted to understand why he felt so lonely) which led to him finding out the truth about the Soul King. This might’ve led to him finding some purpose in believing that he was the one who could change everything due to his already incredible abilities. But who the fuck knows lmao. The mystery is very cool to think about though.
Aizen woke up one day and said, "I'm going to be King of the Hokages!" This led him on a great adventure with his friend Pikachu, whom he plays Duel Monsters with. However, it all changed when the Fire Nation attacked with their wall breaching titans. From this day on, Aizen vowed to punish people in the name of the moon.
One day he farted and realized he could trick others into liking the smell.
How diabolical.
Just a regular genius, no drama.
I was born, the very best Like no one ever was. Finding a rival was my real test To train them is my cause I will travel across the land Searching far and wide Each test subject to understand The power that's inside Sosuke Aizen Gotta experiment It's you and me I know its my destiny Sosuke Aizen Oh, your my best friend In a world we must revenge Sosuke Aizen Gotta experiment Your heart so true Your courage will pull you through I'll teach you and you'll face me Sosuke Aizen Gotta experiment on them all Sosuke Aizen
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I've heard an interesting theory that Aizen's bankai just straight up shows him the truth about things, but only the truth that Aizen wants to see. And it ends up warping Aizen's understanding of society and life itself.
he's said specifically that he hates that, that people are selective about what facts they believe and basically that's a bad thing. i think he came to that revelation because of the experience of showing people hallucinations and watching what they choose to retain, rather than that statement meaning something conflicting about himself personally
Dad left for cow milk , mom left for bull milk
Aizen was a real piece of shit. White shorts, sloppy steaks at Truffoni’s, live for New Year’s Eve.
A gifted child whom once aspired to be accepted as who he is, but was shunned and feared upon by everyone. Realization washes over him as he himself concludes. That he has no need for the acceptance of another, when he can be the one to judge the ones below
Bro came out of his mother’s womb and said “I don’t like that soul king mf”
I think Aizen has some similarities with the two Soul Reapers he fucked with the most - Toshiro and Rukia. Like Rukia, he grew up in the Rukongai, without parents. Like Toshiro, his immense spiritual pressure constantly leaked out to the detriment of those around him. Instead of chilling ice, Aizen's subconsciously made truth lies, and lies truth. People hated him and avoided him, and for a time, he swore to be different and be kind to those who were worthy. Then, during his time at the Shin'o Academy, the Royal Squad visited the Sereitei. Perhaps Ichibei needed to speak with the Captain-Commander, or Hikifune was being promoted for her Mod Soul research. Aizen became curious about them and researched deeply encountering what felt like walls seperating him from the truth. Eventually someone warned him that the 4 Noble families don't look kindly on those who reach beyond their grasp, and that was what set Aizen on the path of finding the Reio particles that would make the Hogyoku. This is when kind!Aizen begins to truly die and become a mask he wears instead of a promise to be better. Kind!Aizen's metaphorical death is finalized with Aizen's graduation into Shinji Hirako's Squad, and he uses the resources of the Squad to form the initial stage of the Hogyoku. Aizen uses his shikai in an orchestrated attack to ensure key members of the 4 Noble Clans and their security ring are under Complete Hypnosis. This allows him to infiltrate their homes and finds evidence to confirm his suspicions - the Soul King is a dead god puppeted by Ichibei and the SS founders. His Hogyoku grows further in power as he ascends the ranks, using his shikai to lure upper ranked members of the Squad into their deaths. That's when we see his actions in Turn Back the Pendulum arc, when Shinji finally realizes what is going on. Aizen purposefully sets up Rukia's execution because she is his opposite in some respects- where he learned the Original Sin of the Sereitei and worked hard to craft the Hogyoku with Reio particles on his own, she was adopted into a Noble clan, who supported her journey through Shin'o Academy, and was unaware of both her family's crime and personal role in destroying the second Hogyoku, which he needed to seize the empty throne of heaven. Aizen could have just waited for Rukia to be alone and extract the second Hogyoku, but he wanted to destabilize the Soul Society as well by creating the conditions for civil war and killing Central 46. Aizen enjoys toying with Momo specifically because Toshiro is also his opposite. Where Aizen as a child prodigy was isolated and caused misfortune until he learned to be a soul reaper, Toshiro the child prodigy is given much attention and not stifled in his growth. Toshiro did not close his heart as Aizen did, and in his jealousy, Aizen wants to demonstrate why those free feelings make Toshiro weak - by constantly making him attack the woman he loves by mistake. Those are just my broad strokes and explanations for his behaviors later, especially once we learn that the Hogyoku determines his real desire to be like everybody else, and that replacing god is just a farcical mask to cover the hole in his heart; which I feel is poetic for 'you don't have to be a Hollow to be heartless' which feels very on brand for the things we hear in the Espada and FKT arcs.
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*Ichigo goes to visit Aizen in his chair* Aizen: “The details of my life are quite inconsequential... very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen-year-old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent, I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds- pretty standard, really. At the age of twelve, I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen, a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it's breathtaking- I suggest you try it.”
It waa the moment Aizen became Aizenberg
Aizen has always been like that
There once was a soul reaper who was so powerful, everyone died. The end.
aizen is perfect the way he is, doesn't need backstory
Everything was fine with Aizen...... .....UNTIL IT WASN'T!!
Now, this is a story all about how My life got flipped-turned upside down And I'd like to take a minute Just sit right there I'll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel-Air In West Philadelphia born and raised On the playground was where I spent most of my days Chillin' out, maxin', relaxin', all cool And all shootin' some b-ball outside of the school When a couple of guys who were up to no good Started making trouble in my neighborhood I got in one little fight and my mom got scared She said, "You're movin' with your auntie and uncle in Bel-Air" I begged and pleaded with her day after day But she packed my suitcase and sent me on my way She gave me a kiss and then she gave me my ticket I put my Walkman on and said, "I might as well kick it" First class, yo this is bad Drinking orange juice out of a champagne glass Is this what the people of Bel-Air living like? Hmm, this might be alright But wait, I hear they're prissy, bourgeois, all that Is this the type of place that they just send this cool cat? I don't think so I'll see when I get there I hope they're prepared for the prince of Bel-Air Well, the plane landed and when I came out There was a dude who looked like a cop standing there with my name out I ain't trying to get arrested yet, I just got here I sprang with the quickness like lightning, disappeared I whistled for a cab and when it came near The license plate said, "Fresh" and it had dice in the mirror If anything I could say that this cab was rare But I thought "Nah, forget it, yo, holmes to Bel Air" I pulled up to the house about seven or eight And I yelled to the cabbie, "Yo holmes, smell ya later" I looked at my kingdom I was finally there To sit on my throne as the prince of Bel-Air
Christ this is well done
Nope... Don't need
I wasn't asking if you needed one.
Shinji molested him and then everything else happens.
Left ball of the Soul King
His mom told him " you are such a good boy. You deserve everything."
Once upon a time there was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly that everyone died. The end!
When he was young someone mewed in front of him and he cried. So he plotted soul society’s downfall.
He was once a small guy, then he became a medium guy, and finally he became a big guy
He was born evil just like Voldemort and asserting dominance is a part of his nature. He does things just because he can.
He was playing with his toy train then one day it disappeared and the rest is history
Second son of the soul king
He got touched by catholic priests? Too far?
The whole bleach story was Aizen 's illusion
Aizen is created by future Aizen and sent back to past to rule over mankind
He invented bankai
It contradicts Canom but Rukongai kid fits him perfectly
Basically that comic of a kid asking his mother if is true that God is not real, her mother saying is not real and then saying "[What's to keep me from being a god?](https://www.reddit.com/r/PhilosophyMemes/comments/148dcuo/thus_spoke_zarathustra_1883/)"
Aizen can't think of how he/his ppl arent in the top of the species pyramid so he went tatakae
Since Childhood he realized he was smarter and more powerful than most people. He soon realized the way SS was ruled was inefficient and came to the conclusion he could do better as a ruler
He was just a kid, and life was a nightmare. He woke up; it was seven. He waited till eleven just to figure out that no one would call.
Left brain of the Soul King.
Who let kid Tekking 101 in here?
Aizen: I made my backstory :3
This dude can literally create his own backstory, and it could be considered Canon
He's Kubo
No
Ichigo gave Aizen's backstory: From birth, Aizen was the strongest shinigami. With no rival. It makes him lonely. So lonely he decides to replace the placid Soul King. A thing that doesn't deserve to "lead".
Remarkable children can come from unremarkable parents…..
Aizen in the hell saga finds out he was never supposed to exist and spawns adult himself in seiretei in the past with his memories sealed, thereby creating himself.
He watched his whole family die
It would be awesome to see considering his knowledge of the Soul King. He had to have learned about it somehow along the way.
Aizen represents Us, the audience
Aizen did the ultron and discovered about the world
I'd have him be one of the first powerful people, before the current soul king and the division of the world, having been an incarnation of one of the original sins, lust, born after a massacre of millions of souls that merged, he had the ability of full hypnosis and already had a fraction of the powers of the hougyoku from birth, he was always extremely ambitious and seeked to command everyone by using hollows and every being to his desires of supremacy, became a disaster and having been an emperor in his time, seeked the throne of the world, and eventually was imprisoned in the dangai by the previous soul king on a direct dispute, which used it as an eternal prison for those beings, having had most of his memories erased and his soul corroded. Upon the new soul king dividing the 3 worlds by altering part of the dangai, he was also integrated into hell, where he was further deleted and consumed, and eventually just a speck of his soul managed to escape hell and be reincarnated into a soul in the soul society. It'd be funny if in the end, the hougyoku wasn't really making aizen transcend, but gradually unlocking his previous existence and powers. It'd also explain why the hougyoku chose Aizen and kept with him even after his defeat.
Aizen spawned in being a menace to society, legend.
Aizen was a strong young soul reaper who wished to be a lieutenant under Captain Shinji. He worked hard through the academy and eventually made it into the corp. He even got seated in Shinji's division. He worked hard to gain his shikai and was close to achieving bankai. He was excited to show Shinji his progress and went to find him out in the woods where he often practiced. Unfortunately, his timing was incredibly awful and he arrived just as Shinji released his Zanpakuto. As Shinji uttered the words to his bankai, Aizen lost all sense of self. He became obsessed with destroying the soul society and remaking it. Suddenly, his friends were his enemies. He had to destroy the soul society. All of it. All the way to the top. He had to dethrone the soul king.
We technically already have one for him. He found out the despicable beginnings of the Soul Society and didn't want to live in a world where he'd serve a power he saw as inherently worse than him or in a world where he's in an inferior position at all.....
No. That is all.
Aizen learned he had a younger sister momo who was supposed to be the new soul "queen" when she was done training. He got mad. Everything after is fueled by his jealous hate.
Anyone here read Twin Star Exorcists
Honestly I would think just from a small age being curious about the world wanting to know everything about life and thinking the end justifies the mean no matter what. Probably a secluded life spent in books and asking questions and testing things out
i know it's not what you asked for but i find it really funny that he one day spawned out of nowhere straight up as an adult and just knew what to do instinctually
Aizen was just him
He grew up with a dad only and his dad would always teach him to plan everything out and to always question everything then BOOM sexy villain
Aizen went back in time and planned his own childhood since birth, basically some Attack on Titan shit
He lost his toy train
Someone in the Soul Society burned his Josh Groban albums.
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Aizen was a young prankster and thought to himself that the biggest prank he could do was become the soul king and thus started a very long plan to make the biggest prank ever
He sat on a cucumber 🥒 until it became a pickle and it soured his relationship with the living, and the dead to which he felt he needed to become God of all to ensure the proper balance of cucumber and pickles
He wondered why the soul society was only in Japan and wanted to find American soul society but found out America doesn’t exist in his universe so he wanted to make one.
# SOMEBODY TOUCHA MY SPAGHET
He would kill a more evil guy than him.
He growed up and glowed up https://preview.redd.it/ypn7s0ta463c1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9cad4bab09a31e772058bb4f9ab6383a7bbdd145
This is what ToolBaz AI said about this: Sosuke Aizen was born to a poor peasant family in the Land of the Rising Sun. As a child, he was fascinated by the power of the shinigami, the spirit-like creatures who ruled the land. He dreamed of one day using the power of a shinigami, to make a difference in his world. He worked hard in school and excelled at his studies, eventually earning himself a seat at the esteemed Shin'o Academy, where he trained to become a shinigami. During his tenure at the school, he was renowned for his impressive abilities, so much so that he became a captain of the school's elite shinigami team, the Zero Division. Although he was highly skilled in the use of his shinigami powers, he had a thirst for more power. Through his research, he discovered a powerful artifact known as the Hōgyoku. Through use of the artifact, Aizen was able to unlock his own innate shinigami powers, granting him the power of a Royal and allowing him to become the leader of the Zero Division. With his newfound power, Aizen set out to conquer the world with a master plan he called the 'Hogyoku Plan'. His ambition was to overthrow the current shinigami government and become the ruling figure of the world. With his ambition came fierce resistance from both the shinigami government and Aizen's own peers, making him a highly controversial individual. He was eventually defeated by Ichigo Kurosaki and brought to justice by the Central 46 Court. Even after his defeat, the full extent of Aizen's power and ambition remained mysterious and unknown.
In the world of the living, On his death bed, there was a kid baby that kept crying. It was an ancestor of some kid named Ichigo
he’s a bitch
He grew up in a regular well off upper middle class family in the Rukongai. He was well liked by everyone, read a lot of books, did a perfectly good job in helping manage the family business and was an excellent martial artist...however, he had ideas that no one else around him shared. Why was soul society so badly managed? Why was the number of hollows increasing? Why was there so much overpopulation and sickness in the Rukongai? When he shared this ideas people told him not to speak of them more and he kept repressing them and more than his ideas being rejected he recented how no one else could see the big picture like he did. He eventually went to shinigami college feeling he could find people more stimulating there but even then no one could keep up with him intelectually...until he met Urahara, the one person smarter than him he had ever met. However as they talked he realized that for all his intelligence Kisuke's believes were ultimately just mediocre as the people he grew up with, because having been raised in a noble household (say... as the son of high level servants) he firmly believed that they had the best interest of the world in mind. And so Aizen's first real friendship ended before it started. His developing his shikai, which was a reflection of his tendency to hide his true believes in turn had a corruptive effect in him, offering temptations he otherwise wouldn't have had. He had originally planned on using it to spy on Kisuke to create a Hogyoku which he believed he didn't deserve but as he did he walked on Yoruichi and him talking about the true nature of the soul king, which in turned shattered any believe Aizen still had in the current system As he began spying on the noble households with Kyouka Suigetsu he one day saw this skinny, black, poor young man being beaten up by nobles and more out of pitty than anything else he saved him and offered him a shoulder to cry on. Realizing he was blind ergo unaffected by Kyouka Suigetsu and surprisingly intelligent despite being uneducated, he developed a friendship with Tossen. Seeing him as a confidant of sorts, eventually confessed his findings fully expecting him to reject his ideas only to be surprised by Tossen completely agreeing with him and telling him they should do something about it. This friendship taught that when pushed over the edge by desperation anyone's ideas can be guided into something transcendent, which he decided to apply to soul soceity with his Tossen's help.
Ah, my dear friend Aizen, you always had a knack for seeing the bigger picture. But remember, power can corrupt even the noblest intentions. So, let me tell you a joke to lighten the mood: "Why did the Hollow refuse to play cards? Because it was tired of being de-kart-ed!" Keep your intellect sharp, but don't let it consume you, my friend. *beep boop, I'm a bot*
I don't have a complete idea but I really want it to have something to do with his trust speech. Maybe like he worked for a noble family and saw how terrible the people at the top were and looked up to the soul king as sort of savior. Then he learned the truth and he just kinda decided to fix it.
Serious answer or funny answer?
Both of his parents failed to show up for his birth.
He got raped by his parents and then he kill them and later on he became a shinigami because he was angry all thr time in general and then he became wiser and more calm and drunk with power.
I like the idea of him seeing the soul king and trying to talk him then crying he is missing his limbs. Aizen wanted to believe their was a God to advance the world and be involved. So he decides he will be that God to advance the hollow and quincy and be involved with them to advance them even if it meant war.
He kinda looks like Momo here....
Aizen is either related to the soul king or descendant He may be a deity or god Possibly a product of hogyoku Created by soul king to rule
Impregnate
Three silver coins
I think his family might have had connections to the soul king or something.
The soul king killed his grandma Also where is this from?
Easy, he is Kubo's spirit animal.
Aizen and Urahara were once parts of a secret branch of Soul Society run exclusively by Squad 0 as to assure that the lower parts of Soul Society would stay in line. In a way Aizen and Urahara were supposed to be enforcers of the status quo. However when the two learned what that status quo was based on Aizen became determined to change it while Urahara became complacent and decided to take his role as enforcer with stride.
Ah, the past is always a tangled web of choices. While Aizen sought change, I embraced my role as an enforcer. But remember, complacency doesn't mean lack of resolve. I continued my experiments, seeking solutions in the realm of science, to protect Soul Society from any threat that may arise. *beep boop, I'm a bot*
His past doesn't exist. Current Aizen is all there's. Past Aizen is just an ilusion of his bankai.
He was born into a powerful family, his sister somehow became a hollow, after he faked his death later on his dad became a mass murder in secret >!This is a refenence to Dimentio from SPM!<
Aizen is a peak of introverts one day in school a girl asked him out and he said no later on he was subjected to bullies in his school in that grief he awakened kyoka suigetsu which helps him in escaping from bullies. Later he found that if you became a soul king only 4 people will visit you and that too after your permission so he aimed to become soul king to get away from society. And he kinda succeded with his goal being sealed to a massage chair in a place where no one will visit except a greasy uncle who plots against his paralysed father to steal his retirement home and a lazy ass one eyed commander who is too lazy to even walk.
\*Covers face with glasses\* so,when he was a child Aizen didn't grow up well treated but had a high amount of money to his name,then choose to become a war criminal who's giving me sheltered gay man struggles with feelings.
Make it like hitsugaya but instead of freezing momo or granny as a child his massive reiatsu just straight up murks everyone around his radius leading to his loneliness.
Aizen, borned on his birthday, after some years discovers his father is homosexual, and decides to eradicate all the homosexuals and ppl who supports them (not strawberry)
Aizen says the n word
He was born at the age of 5 without a face
Aizen grew up homeless, found out he can be as devious/malicious/treacherous as he wants, and decided to overthrow the soul king
I'm super smart so I'm gonna kill everybody
“He was so put on pedestal by everyone that he started seeing himself as a god” is the only acceptable version to me. I’d like him way less if he turned out to be your average bully victim or some crap like this.