Thread:Silver-Haired Seireitou/@comment-5651818-20151022021922/@comment-3403804-20151022025930

Since you asked me the exact same question, Brave. I'll add my two cents here, if you really want to humanize Mikado you should really go into depth about the hero complex that Sei mentioned. Because there's bound to be an actual reason for it. For instance, Ichigo felt like he HAD to be the Hero, because he was traumatized by witnessing his mothers death, it's not quite that he wanted to. Each time someone was in danger, he would go out of his way to save them, even if they used to be his mortal enemies.

To Ichigo, he likely relived that day whenever he heard someones plea. Hence his obsession with helping people, he felt like he had to repent somehow.