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Originally Posted by Kickback

Here's the thing with Micchy.

He believes himself to be the ultimate manipulator, but in doing so, he ends up being easily manipulated. He tried to manipulate Kouta in to quitting his fight against Yggdrasill and the Overlords and failed both times. He tried to manipulate Redue in to serving him but instead played in to Redue's hands with destroying Takatora and nearly destroying Kaito and Kouta. Then, in an effort to manipulate Roshuo in to protecting Mai, he ends up endangering her by the Golden Fruit being placed inside of her, and then Roshuo AND Redue are both destroyed by Kouta.

His realization that every single manipulation tactic has not only failed but backfired, and now Mai has the Golden Fruit and he believes from Ryouma (the only man who MIGHT know what's going on) that it's killing her, he's desperately now trying to right all his wrongs.

He's a man at the absolute end of his ropes. His monologue to Mai perfectly symbolized that. "Why can't I remember your smile? What was I fighting for?" If there's anything that resembles a mental breakdown, it's Micchy using a Lock Seed guaranteeing his own death to protect the only person he cares about more than himself.

Obviously it's another plan that will backfire - leaving her in the hands of Ryouma to destroy Kouta thinking Kouta will destroy Mai will end up in Mai being harmed by Ryouma, and Micchy dying for nothing in the end.

And Takatora is hereby named Trollatora.

It's why I both loved and hated this episode. I was content hating Micchy. I wanted him dead, I wanted him painfully dead. And then this happened. Watching him suffer his breakdown at Mai's bedside broke me, it brought me to honest-to-goodness tears. And I was pulling for him not to use Hell Fruit. I knew it'd happen, but I hoped.

And that's what I love about Gaim. Right there. It doesn't give you what you think, but in the end it ends up giving you what you never knew you needed.

The writing is going to be the one thing I truely miss about this show. Because it's been perfect the whole way through.