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After a couple of recent CRTs that had to do with Aizen's passive existence erasure, I thought it was about time to re-examine Aizen's feats for this and see if the current wording on the profile could be improved.
This is what the profile says currently:
That's a justification which I think is slightly more generous than what the linked feat implies.
The Feats
To explain my thought process on this, I'll go over Aizen's feats for this in order:
1) Aizen comes across some humans in Karakura Town and basically walks through them. They can't sense how powerful he is, but his sheer amount of spiritual energy is more than what their spirits can withstand so any humans that he passes through get their bodies cleanly erased. [Chapter 409]
- Aizen states: "Don't come near me. Humans can't sense my power because they can't sense spirit energy. But their spirits are unable to withstand my power."
2) Don Kanonji charges foolishly at Aizen who warns him against such action, saying that any human who comes into contact with him will "cease to exist", and the tip of Don Kanonji's staff begins to be erased as proof of this. [Chapter 411]
- Aizen states: "Don't. Any human who comes into contact with me will cease to exist."
3) While Aizen is mostly sealed inside Soul Society's prison (after Aizen has been imprisoned there for over a year, and has grown more powerful than before) one of the prison guard dudes accompanying Shunsui foolishly approaches Aizen and gets his hands erased after approaching too closely. [Chapter 618]
- Aizen states: "Such gross carelessness. These restraints do not eliminate my spiritual pressure. They only keep it near me. I don't have to tell you what will happen if you try to touch me."
So Aizen's spiritual energy after achieving a transcendental state is so powerful that mere humans will be erased by close contact even though they can't sense his power, and after he's grown even more powerful later in the series even a Shinigami was partially erased after getting too close to Aizen.
Note that nowhere in the scans does it say "Anything" will be erased, which is what our current justification claims.
Supporting Points
Now, I don't believe this is a universal application of Aizen's spiritual power. It's very easy to boil things down to just "hax" and say "If Aizen can erase one person's body / soul, then his aura of spiritual pressure ignores durability completely and will erase anyone and everyone [unless they're somehow resistant to it]".
But I don't think that is what is happening here.
Aizen says in the first two examples that "humans can't withstand his spiritual energy" and "any human in contact with him will cease to exist." Why mention humans? It's not because his spiritual energy only works on humans but because they're just so absolutely weak compared to Aizen that they're the ones who are going to be erased. They're bottom of the barrel. The gap could not be larger between them.
However characters with stronger spirits, AKA Shinigami, will not be affected to that degree.
1) One supporting points for this is when we see a character who is spiritual stronger than a human come into contact with Aizen, the effect is far less pronoucned. Gin gets swatted by Aizen as he's betraying him and trying to steal the Hogyoku from Aizen, but when we see the damage to Gin's arm, only a small portion of his arm has been erased. Compared to when a human had half his body simply wiped out up above in the first example.
To me, this seems to be because the difference between Gin and Aizen, while still monumental, was not enough to Aizen's spiritual energy to simply erase him completely.
Not a special resistance; just a difference in the gaps of spiritual energy between the characters.
2) Another supporting point is that when Aizen actually faces down people who are relatively comparable or superior to him, such as Ichigo or Yhwach, he doesn't erase even a little bit of their body, unlike Gin's in the above example.
I do not think it is because they just so happen to be specially resistant to having their existences erased, but because their spirits are more than strong enough to the point where they wouldn't be vulnerable to that effect of Aizen's spiritual energy.
3) Lastly, Aizen's wording of humans being unable to "withstand his spiritual energy" is similar to how Don Kanonji (with only a little amount of energy) was able to stand within Aizen's presence for a minute or so before finally being overwhelmed just by Aizen's passive aura. Aizen commended him for "withstanding his spiritual energy" for as long as he did.
In much the same way as how even an ant like Don Kanonji can withstand Aizen's passive spiritual energy for a short while, the same would apply to the other effects of Aizen's spiritual energy. Of course Don Kanonji's spiritual energy alone is not sufficient to prevent him from being erased by Aizen but for characters who do not suffer from this monumental gap in strength, Aizen's energy would not have the same effect on them.
Proposal
1) We reword Aizen's ability to something like this:
2) We remove the resistances to existence erasure from Aizen, Ichigo and Yhwach for this. They're not resisting the existence erasure itself, they're not just weak enough to the point where Aizen's energy would significantly affect them like humans or low-level Shinigami.
This is what the profile says currently:
That's a justification which I think is slightly more generous than what the linked feat implies.
The Feats
To explain my thought process on this, I'll go over Aizen's feats for this in order:
1) Aizen comes across some humans in Karakura Town and basically walks through them. They can't sense how powerful he is, but his sheer amount of spiritual energy is more than what their spirits can withstand so any humans that he passes through get their bodies cleanly erased. [Chapter 409]
- Aizen states: "Don't come near me. Humans can't sense my power because they can't sense spirit energy. But their spirits are unable to withstand my power."
2) Don Kanonji charges foolishly at Aizen who warns him against such action, saying that any human who comes into contact with him will "cease to exist", and the tip of Don Kanonji's staff begins to be erased as proof of this. [Chapter 411]
- Aizen states: "Don't. Any human who comes into contact with me will cease to exist."
3) While Aizen is mostly sealed inside Soul Society's prison (after Aizen has been imprisoned there for over a year, and has grown more powerful than before) one of the prison guard dudes accompanying Shunsui foolishly approaches Aizen and gets his hands erased after approaching too closely. [Chapter 618]
- Aizen states: "Such gross carelessness. These restraints do not eliminate my spiritual pressure. They only keep it near me. I don't have to tell you what will happen if you try to touch me."
So Aizen's spiritual energy after achieving a transcendental state is so powerful that mere humans will be erased by close contact even though they can't sense his power, and after he's grown even more powerful later in the series even a Shinigami was partially erased after getting too close to Aizen.
Note that nowhere in the scans does it say "Anything" will be erased, which is what our current justification claims.
Supporting Points
Now, I don't believe this is a universal application of Aizen's spiritual power. It's very easy to boil things down to just "hax" and say "If Aizen can erase one person's body / soul, then his aura of spiritual pressure ignores durability completely and will erase anyone and everyone [unless they're somehow resistant to it]".
But I don't think that is what is happening here.
Aizen says in the first two examples that "humans can't withstand his spiritual energy" and "any human in contact with him will cease to exist." Why mention humans? It's not because his spiritual energy only works on humans but because they're just so absolutely weak compared to Aizen that they're the ones who are going to be erased. They're bottom of the barrel. The gap could not be larger between them.
However characters with stronger spirits, AKA Shinigami, will not be affected to that degree.
1) One supporting points for this is when we see a character who is spiritual stronger than a human come into contact with Aizen, the effect is far less pronoucned. Gin gets swatted by Aizen as he's betraying him and trying to steal the Hogyoku from Aizen, but when we see the damage to Gin's arm, only a small portion of his arm has been erased. Compared to when a human had half his body simply wiped out up above in the first example.
To me, this seems to be because the difference between Gin and Aizen, while still monumental, was not enough to Aizen's spiritual energy to simply erase him completely.
Not a special resistance; just a difference in the gaps of spiritual energy between the characters.
2) Another supporting point is that when Aizen actually faces down people who are relatively comparable or superior to him, such as Ichigo or Yhwach, he doesn't erase even a little bit of their body, unlike Gin's in the above example.
I do not think it is because they just so happen to be specially resistant to having their existences erased, but because their spirits are more than strong enough to the point where they wouldn't be vulnerable to that effect of Aizen's spiritual energy.
3) Lastly, Aizen's wording of humans being unable to "withstand his spiritual energy" is similar to how Don Kanonji (with only a little amount of energy) was able to stand within Aizen's presence for a minute or so before finally being overwhelmed just by Aizen's passive aura. Aizen commended him for "withstanding his spiritual energy" for as long as he did.
In much the same way as how even an ant like Don Kanonji can withstand Aizen's passive spiritual energy for a short while, the same would apply to the other effects of Aizen's spiritual energy. Of course Don Kanonji's spiritual energy alone is not sufficient to prevent him from being erased by Aizen but for characters who do not suffer from this monumental gap in strength, Aizen's energy would not have the same effect on them.
Proposal
1) We reword Aizen's ability to something like this:
2) We remove the resistances to existence erasure from Aizen, Ichigo and Yhwach for this. They're not resisting the existence erasure itself, they're not just weak enough to the point where Aizen's energy would significantly affect them like humans or low-level Shinigami.
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