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Originally Posted by kamen rider bara

Can I just say Geiz has no character aside from "I'll kill him"

His character is still progressing.

Negative growth is still growth. We're nearing the resolution of that though, but that's the inner nature of his character growth. Going from stopping Oma, to more emphatically fighting his changing feelings so going even more over board, to eventual resolution and acceptance of how he was wrong. People don't suddenly change their ways when they've had one single truth to cling to and pushes them forward for so long. He's hard headed like that, and gets more conflicted from his pride and ego. Eventually we should see the turnover in that, and the conflicted nature more manifest, to his eventual personality resolution and how his goals change.

Think more like Zuko in The Last Airbender. But a little bit of the inverse of Zuko as from the rebellion standpoint. That full character breakdown to transition out of that nature is his character build. He's hard headed and tunnel visioned, unlike tsukuyomi that's seeing there are other ways to change the future.

Geiz hasn't been open to change yet, but we see it in little things how he's been shown his actions are going too far and not seeing the wider factors. It's still growth though, but in a more human standpoint of how that'd go. So what we're seeing is the build towards that. That full character turnover is coming, but it's gotta build to it for impact on why and what comes out of it. Changing is a process forward when you're that arrogant/hard headed.

Zuko is the best comparative example, but things aren't as "Light and Dark" as they seem. Geiz is an early focus in this way for that reason in where he's going. But iirc, should be this arc or the next arc that brings him either closer to resolution on that, or fully resolves it. By next year we should be dealing with different story themes of his trying to understand himself better after having fought for so long to stop Oma. Though backsliding to his older ways will always be a shadow too.

Haven't seen the episode yet, but this should be the direct counter to the build the Gaim two parter showed. His restored confidence taking shape to lash out at Sougo/Zi-O one more time to change the future that way. That even more dead set on his mission with his renewed confidence in his skills, before later how we transition to his skills being used to help forge the future like Tsukuyomi is looking to do now.
Next episodes should really more bring that to fruition, and then resolution. This is moderately psych 101 text book personality stuff. Which is showing how this is a process for growth and change, and to be aware of it in others. Like I've said before, Zi-O the show isn't like other shows where it's a lot of flagrant arm waving around saying "I've changed". Life isn't always as clean and clear as that. Ego gets in the way and ego takes shape in more ways than flagrancy and flamboyance from overacting to forcefully convey eye catching strong personalities and dominance with strength.

You're confusing personality for "flamboyance" and intentional overacting. Geiz's personality isn't as flagrant as that. That's not his character type. Though it works for some things like Kuroto and others, that kind of "overacting" wouldn't work for Geiz's personal journey arc. He's not 'flashy' like that. He's a soldier. He's inner strong with ego. So it's more internalized subdued.