[Suzu]

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Originally Posted by MaskedRiderAsakura

It wasn't just Mai; that was the straw that broke the camel's back.

Micchy has been living his entire life up until the beginning of the series according to someone else's standards (Takatora's). He gets a taste of being a Rider, and enjoys the amount of control it allows him to have. He idolizes Kouta and Mai because of their ability to be adults and do what they want to do and believes that by becoming Ryugen, he'll be able to have control over things for once. Where Kouta and Mai only plan on having control over their own lives and typically use their gifts to help others, Micchy wants to control EVERY aspect of his life, including his friends. As the series goes on, his control starts gradually slipping (mostly as a result of Kouta's actions) and he takes more and more drastic measures to maintain it. Mai's slap made him snap because it made him realize that he no longer has control over anyone anymore.

Micchy leaps at the opportunity to help Redyue enslave the Earth because it means that he gets what he's wanted all along; control. And with Micchy's Ark, he finally gets a chance at his creepy, obsessive fantasy where him and all of his friends hold hands in a circle and dance around whimisically while Mai feeds him grapes or something.

Really, it's a classic case of someone gaining power and being afraid to lose it.

Wow, really well-said!