For the third aspect, picking up at when Ryo and Touma are heading down and Shuten feels the surge that's going through the armors.
We know the guys felt it, we know Shuten felt it if imperfectly - and we know that when Shuten broke free of the pits and started heading up to help the guys, is when Ryo felt the power boost that allowed him to pull himself together. And why would it go straight to Ryo like that, why should he feel it more than the others? They didn't seem to notice anything, and even though it was the middle of the end of the world as far as they could tell, you'd think they'd notice something...
The only thing I can think of is that he's the leader.
I'm wondering now, if part of the reason Shuten was made leader wasn't simply this - he has the virtue of loyalty, however corrupted - and if that wouldn't be focused on Arago-sama, and through him keep a tighter reign on the others.
Especially since they're already focused on Shuten as an object of hatred since he's the leader and they're not. It all feeds into the link, from the other three and thier armors to Shuten and Oni, to Arago as the endpoint and ultimate focus.
Sets up a nice little cycle there, too - because the other Masho are a lot calmer? Perhaps Arago feels there is not enough evil-energy inducing anger here, and so he thinks 'How can I get them all terminally ticked off? I know...'
Ooooh, and there's why Arago got so ticked off when they questioned him about Shuten and why are you more concerned with the armor than with the man. They questioned him - and he's not thinking 'reasonable question' he's thinking 'Crap it's starting already, I'm losing them'. *panic*
*lightnings*
He's easily paranoid enough, he questions Kayura later on and there's absolutely no reason for that.
...and now I'm all thought out again. x.x But wheee, shiny thoughts!
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Date: 2005-06-01 12:34 am (UTC)We know the guys felt it, we know Shuten felt it if imperfectly - and we know that when Shuten broke free of the pits and started heading up to help the guys, is when Ryo felt the power boost that allowed him to pull himself together. And why would it go straight to Ryo like that, why should he feel it more than the others? They didn't seem to notice anything, and even though it was the middle of the end of the world as far as they could tell, you'd think they'd notice something...
The only thing I can think of is that he's the leader.
I'm wondering now, if part of the reason Shuten was made leader wasn't simply this - he has the virtue of loyalty, however corrupted - and if that wouldn't be focused on Arago-sama, and through him keep a tighter reign on the others.
Especially since they're already focused on Shuten as an object of hatred since he's the leader and they're not. It all feeds into the link, from the other three and thier armors to Shuten and Oni, to Arago as the endpoint and ultimate focus.
Sets up a nice little cycle there, too - because the other Masho are a lot calmer? Perhaps Arago feels there is not enough evil-energy inducing anger here, and so he thinks 'How can I get them all terminally ticked off? I know...'
Ooooh, and there's why Arago got so ticked off when they questioned him about Shuten and why are you more concerned with the armor than with the man. They questioned him - and he's not thinking 'reasonable question' he's thinking 'Crap it's starting already, I'm losing them'. *panic*
*lightnings*
He's easily paranoid enough, he questions Kayura later on and there's absolutely no reason for that.
...and now I'm all thought out again. x.x But wheee, shiny thoughts!