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// I'm thinking of the young boy that talked to Chad as he met with Chibata (I guess he was the little boy caught in the body of the little parrot) told him that he is now his substitute brother and although they're almost the same age, he died back in WW2. Yet, he still looks like a little boy but is just an average soul with absolutely no spiritual pressure. How can that be? That's been my question after reading the post you just reblogged. So... some stuff makes sense but other stuff doesn't
Ah yes, the part of Bleach that made me yell WHAT THE HELL KIND OF A HEAVEN IS THIS?!!
It’s not spelled out in the manga, but simply from Horiuchi Hironari’s location of death (Yamanashi), plus (probably) his hairstyle and accent, Chad seems to draw the conclusion that he died during a famous air raid there in 1945. So he’s been there in Soul Society for awhile, and he doesn’t look a day over 22. Honestly he looks considerably younger than that to me, which raises significant related questions (do Souls always show up in Soul Society appearing the age they were at death, for example, or can they appear any age?). If we kept looking we could probably find more examples of regular Souls that don’t seem to have aged at the expected rate, or even at all.
But we also know that there are hundreds and hundreds of souls out there with reiryoku high enough to become shinigami that, for whatever reason, never felt like signing up for soldier duty – because Aizen explains, in Chapter 416, that those are the ones he was feeding his Hougyoku.
So even among Rukongai citizens, all bets are off. It’s possible our friend Hironari-kun here has a higher reiryoku, which (by the theory I reblogged) would mean he’d age more slowly. Or not. We’ll never know.
The point is, while that meta made a lot of sense to me, personally, and I thought it would be helpful to share for anyone else interested that might also be thinking about this, I bet you can find examples to support whatever headcanons on aging rates of Souls you might want to enjoy for the purposes of your roleplay or fiction. When there’s not overwhelming conclusive evidence to support fanon, then, as I suggested in my tags on that reblog, this is premium headcanon real estate!