I really enjoy reading your posts and would love to hear what do you think of Aizen's monster form having three holes.
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I love your question! It is an extremely interesting topic!
The three hollow holes of the Monster Aizen (AKA The three-holes problem).
This is the question that is bothering me from a while now, and I still don't have a satisfying answer to it.
But let's try to come up with some possible meanings.
We know that a Hollow hole is created when a soul leaves the body and their soul chain is broken and corroded. So the hole replaces the core of the chain. The chain itself might symbolize the attachment to the material realm (anchoring to the body in literal sense, but to all the things in the Human World in the metaphorical sense, like your connections to the family and friends, hobbies, goals, everyday life etc).
So a Hollow, as we know, is created when this attachment is physically broken by death but mentally the Soul is still clinging to it without letting go. This is explained as feeling grief, anger, need for revenge, and so on. But all these feelings comes from the same place - attachment. This attachment generates a sense of loss after death. And boom - we have a Hollow - with one hollow hole. A hole symbolizes the lack of heart, lost humanity, and this immense sense of loss and emptiness after being unable to move on, to let go.
I think in Espada's case their personal emptiness and this negative space, the thing they feel they are missing, and that prevents them to be whole is deeply connected with their aspects of death.
So take Aaroniero, for example - his aspect is Greed. He is missing the opposite of greed. Fulfillment. Satisfaction.
Same goes for Aizen in his Monster form imo. The first hole, the one on his chest, it the one symbolizing his heart (kokoro) which is understood as the connections with the others. The Hogyoku is filling that gap for him (visually). The Hogyoku is his equivalent of being understood. He even phrases it that way: "It looks like the Hogyoku finally began to understood who I am." - this is not what the artifact should be doing for him, this is an artificial equivalent of a human connection.
But then what about the two other holes below?
Perhaps, if the one is the connection with the others, the other one might be a connection with himself? Deeper self-understanding.
And the last hole would then represent the connection to the Three Realms, to the world itself. Because in this form Aizen is disconnected, he is on a totally different plane of existence, and the others can't even sense his reiatsu anymore. He removed himself from this existential plane.
And since they are the holes, they point out of what he misses. They suggest the absence that is not neutral, but a cause of his existential suffering (which might be not even conceptualized by him). Just like Ulquiorra who subconsciously feels there is something missing but can't grasp the concept of the Heart.
The other possible meanings of the three holes is that they could represent the Three Realms: World of the Living, Soul Society, and Hueco Mundo.
Aizen in his monster form crossed the boundaries between being a Soul, a Shinigami, and Hollow. He doesn't belong to either of the Three Realms, and three races anymore.
Next, let's look where these holes are placed. Their position is aligned with three spectific chakras:
The top one is the Heart Chakra (Anahata, the green one) representing feelings, emotional openness, and healing. Also love, compassion, harmony, kindness, and forgiveness. I don't have to explain why in Aizen's case this is empty.
The spiritual imbalance of this chakra manifests as: desire, possessiveness, arrogance, egoism, hypocrisy, misery.
Middle one is where the Solar plexus chakra (Manipura, the yellow one) would be. And this is an interesting one. Because this chakra connects the person with their power, lifeforms, will, assertiveness, self-love.
Does the emptiness here means that this form is a Dead Butterfly, an empty shell that didn't come from Aizen's own will, resolve, and conviction, but rather was forced upon him by the Hogyoku and came as a fear response? It suggest that Aizen in his form doesn't even fully believe he could win this fight, he is in denial, it isn't even him in a sense, it is an abomination of what he had strove to be. This is not what he wanted. And perhaps he does feel some self loathing for entering this form of twisted evolution.
The deregulation of the Manipura chakra causes: thirst, jealousy, treachery, shame, fear, disgust, delusion, foolishness and sadness.
The bottom one is correlated with the Sacral chakra (Svadhishthana, the orange one) responsible for the creation of things, and creation of self. Also pleasure, sensuality, sexuality.
The negative aspects for this chakra are: pitilessness, feeling of all-destructiveness, delusion, disdain, and suspicion.
I think the lowest hole in this case represents Aizen's detachment from both self, and the physical world. Or perhaps hints that his desire to create the new hierarchy is empty, and it is not an act of creation, but an act of destruction.
I think there can be also the other interpretations and meanings.
I am very interested in digging deeper into this topic, so if anyone has their own analysis, and want to share, please do!
Why did Aizen become more like a hollow in his final transformation?
Aizen's transformations were inspired by the life cycle of a butterfly (caterpillar, chrysalis, butterfly, and the dead butterfly) so the final one is what happens after the cycle/after death - and this is a little similar to becoming a Hollow after the death of a body while kept attached by anger, grief, desperation so on.
This form also represents degeneration of the evolution, something unnatural, something monstrous - like Hollows are the degeneration of Souls feelings and wishes. The Hollows are monsters driven by their suffering (hunger), and when does Aizen transforms into this form? Only when he reaches an absolute bottom of 'there is no winning' and his ego, rage, resentment and disrespect toward human spikes - this is when his calm, collected, wise, all-knowing facade gets degenerated by the Hogyoku. This is in fact a similar process to Hollowfication of the soul.
Third aspect is that the Hogyoku itself was reading Aizen's desires and from the start the desire he had was to break the boundaries between Shinigami and Hollows, so I think this is the factor too in what the Hogyoku did to him. He got what he wished for in a way. As Gin had told him: "You always wanted to have a hole in your heart".
In a way, this form also reveals a lot about his ugly truth, the one he hides beneath the civility and his self-lie. Hollowness of his self-serving existence.
I think this is a very fitting transformation for a character like him, and thematically tying everything we know about him together: him being a King of Hollows, ascending from Soul Society to Hueco Mundo, surrounding himself with the Espada as their leader, and being a collective of all the flaws the Arrancar/Hollow characters had in this show - flaws they ironically never saw in him. Poetry! <3
No. His reproductive organs are located inside each of his six skull-like heads at the tip of his wings, just like butterflies reproductive organs are located at the tip of their abdomen and contain:
Aedeagus: The primary reproductive organ used to transfer sperm
Claspers: A pair of external clasping organs used to hold the female securely in place during the mating process
