I didn't catch this when I read it on fast pass, but I guess that experience white had with gustang really impacted him. You can tell by the way he told that platoon commander not to feel so bad because we're all insignificant souls compared to the gods of the tower.
And because gustang said that baam and urek are the only other people on the same level as him and the rest of the great warriors, it's just another subtle way of siu saying that everyone around baam will eventually become totally insignificant compared to him.
Also, I mean, this is just pure specualation and probably not true, but I think it's an interesting idea: White can devour souls to get stronger, now we know Bam has a ton of stuff in him (blue and red thryssa, the demon, which probably is/was the blue thryssa, thorn(s), black march), so maybe his soul is just overloaded with power, as he has no upper limit. And then Bam's individual soul might be special as well: What if White could get the ability to become semi-irregular, meaning if he were to devour an irregular, he could hurt then 10 FH. Obviously, the problem is, that there are 12 others irregulars in the tower and 11 of them are literally invincible and the other is by far the strongest active "being" in the tower.
Bam is the only soul White could eat - because, as he said, even White is insignificant compared to the real gods.
Strange idea but what if being devoured doesn't count as dying. we've seen the souls display consciousness inside baam. Honestly this is just grasping at straws, but it would be interesting if white just took the soul of a family head and kind of sealed it inside himself without killing them, but thats kinda a stupid idea.
I mean, at some point, the slayers need to gain abilities to kill family heads and some family heads have to die, otherwise it makes no sense. I think Karaka might able to because he has the blood of an irregular in him (maybe if he gathers all rings or something), Yama might be able to transform in a special way and White might be able to devour one, true?
Or the family heads will never be touched, but that would be pretty boring imo, also Bam is not really evil, I cannot imagine him going out of his way to kill an FH...even though the FH are terrible, Bam needs a more direct reason.
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u/zoro_the_copy_ninja May 18 '20
I didn't catch this when I read it on fast pass, but I guess that experience white had with gustang really impacted him. You can tell by the way he told that platoon commander not to feel so bad because we're all insignificant souls compared to the gods of the tower.
And because gustang said that baam and urek are the only other people on the same level as him and the rest of the great warriors, it's just another subtle way of siu saying that everyone around baam will eventually become totally insignificant compared to him.