User blog comment:Death horseman94/Character Sheet 3/@comment-4867780-20150407002535/@comment-4867780-20150407051251

Isn't it ? Diversity is good, including morally as long as it doesn't go too far ^ ^;

Personally, I couldn't write an evil protagonist, since they are despicable assholes by definition, making others' life unnecessarily miserable for personal gain or satisfaction. I just couldn't stand their action or themselves, and even less their narrative favoritism.

From what I understand, evil characters are basically the human equivalent of toxic wastes, and as such should be recycled if possible, or eliminated failing that.

What I admire in Aizen is his genuine and towering "superiority", not the sociopathic god complex that comes along. Combat, strategy, science, charisma, way of the world, stylish and handsome as hell : the guy has pretty much everything running for him, aside from the one key feature that made him a bad guy in the first place : social insertion.

I remember Ichigo explaining after defeating him that being powerful enough to fight him as an equal, he could finally feel his heart when crossing swords, and all he could feel in there was "loneliness". He expanded on that by suggesting that maybe this towering superiority made it very hard for him to relate to others, that the one thing he wanted most was find an equal, someone who could finally understand him and look at things the way he does.

Being unable to find such a person, the only thing left to do was to embrace his loneliness, and realize his own potential by elevating himself as high as he possibly could.

Empathy is born from a feeling of kinship after all, and it's hard to empathize with people who feel like 'ants' comapred to you. That also explains his lasting interest for Urahara Kisuke (you are the only person whose intellect surpasses mine, and while we may not be evenly matched in therms of strength, I have not lost my interest for you").

That was particularly visible upon his defeat, when Aizen lashed out at Kisuke not for imprisonning him, but for not sharing his views and objective.