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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

Where does the "Past riders screaming and shouting" thing come from?
Of the series I've seen, Shinji (Ryuki), Kazuma (Blade), Tendou (Kabuto), Wataru (Kiva), Tsukasa (Decade), Shotaro (Double), and to a lesser extent, Eiji (OOO) rarely ever raised their voices beyond their "Emotional" moments or during fights.

All these characters are subdued and grounded, they're not fireballs, they're more like steady flames.

Where are you pulling this "Past riders are all yelling and screaming and everyone confuses that for characterization" bullshit? I'm honestly confused.

Again, this seems like a very knee-jerk "Well you say that this rider is dull, that's just because he's not, uh, er... SHOUTING everything, yeah! He's not loud like past, stupid riders, he's subdued, not dull!"

The only thing is maybe he means how most riders have some kind of bold, unobtainable claim that makes them look naive... but agian, nobody does that. Shotaro has "no tears in my city" and Shinji has "I will stop the fighting between riders" but out of those two Ryuki's is totally doable, and Shotaro's isn't a claim, but rather indicative of his general opinion on emotions and what controlling your emotions means. He's a heart-on-his-sleeve guy, but aspires to be reserved and hardboiled like his boss was, not realising until later that emotions aren't something you do away with, that they fuel you. It's him finding the fine line of being tough and "hardboiled" and let your emotions out when appropriate, which is probably one of the reasons so many love him.

But no, "plain sugar" is far more deep.