I'm sick and have too much time on my hands that's spent alone, so bare with me here.
Genuine question for any Bleach fans: what happened to the Soul King's legs?
He was cut into pieces and locked into that crystal, fine.
His arms both gained sentience enough to have names, eyes, a mind more or less of their own and opinions on who to side with in a war between Shinigamis and Quincies.
In Pernida's case that even means going toe to toe with Kurotsuchi for a while during their battle, intelligence growing every second they fought and having an actual physical form.
Mimhagi seems to have stuck to a less physical form, but is still aware enough to choose to help young Ukitake and then take a stand against Yhwach.
But what about the legs?
They got cut of just the same, but we never see them? What, between Pernidas disembodied arm and the horrors that are Kurotsuchi's multiple Bankai forms, Kubo looked at the idea of sentient legs and went 'Naah, that's too wild?'
Are they just lying around in a room on one of the Squad 0 Islands? Did Ichibei cut them off and then lock them up or just forget about them?
This might just be signs of me still being a little sick and exhausted, but what if they're just chilling in Hueco Mundo?
Like, Aizen takes a walk through the Menos Forest and comes across a pair of inhumanly large legs with eyes halfway up their shins who just... stare at him, and decides his walk was long enough, and maybe he should just go back home and check whether or not Gin spiked his tea.
(This feels more and more like a shitpost but I can't help but laugh at that visual)
Or are they with the fifth Nobel Clan Kubo never came around to introducing? Do we not see any of those people because they're secretly all leg-people and ashamed of that?
If it was explained somewhere please let me know, but until then: what happened to the legs?
