[DreadBringer]

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

The Battle Royale doesn't really get brought up until the next episode. Or, Karasuma spells it all out in the next episode in a way where I got what was going on more.

I refer to how in the end of the episode, all current Riders are in the same place and fighting each other.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

And then, one day, it’s like my brain just flipped to Terror. A flight was a nightmare, but the anticipation of a flight was a hundred times worse. Just sitting in a chair at a departure gate would make me nearly paralyzed with anxiety. It got to the point where I stopped flying for years. Just avoided it entirely. Flights to Florida, to visit my mom, became multi-day road trips. Short business trips were avoided, begged off with excuses. My life became reoriented around Does Not Fly, some psychological quirk that I knew was solvable, but seemed so unimaginably difficult as to be not worth trying.

And then, one day, I decided I didn’t want to live like that anymore. I didn’t want my life to be shaped by my fears. I went to my doctor, explained the situation, and got a small batch of anti-anxiety pills. I bought a ticket to visit my mom, and I went. It was still terrifying. The pills helped a little, smoothed some of the edges, but it’s not like they turned my brain off. I was still aware that I was doing something that my brain was very adamant that I not do. But I did it. And I’ve done it since then. Not a lot. I’d still prefer not to fly, if it’s a choice. But I haven’t let myself be limited by my fear of flying.

Yeah, I feel that regarding flight, especially that not long after I took a flight, something happens, dunno if talking about that here is plausible that it may string up the fear even worse.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

Tachibana isn't afraid, a state that can be removed or ignored. He’s a coward, in the same way he’s a certain height or blood type. It’s an innate part of him, even if it’s only now been discovered and catalogued.

For you thinking that coward is an innate trait, I've also read somewhere where it's stated that, cowardice is also a trait that is shaped. However, there are several inherent traits that are quite similar to, and can be mistaken for brave/cowardly traits, or reckless stupidity/practical reserve. Ex: Someone could have an inherent behavior where they are slow to open up to new experiences, and will carefully consider something before acting. This can be mistaken for either practical reserve (good), or cowardice (bad). Or someone could have an inherent behavior where they act upon an impulse; wanting to dive into things immediately. This can be mistaken for bravery (good), or reckless stupidity (bad). It can be quite confusing tbh, that inherent behaviors and similar learned behaviors can be mistaken for each other. It's unknown if a behavior is “pretending” to be another behavior or not. Nature Vs Nurture. An example of where cowardice is shaped is that, it can be a consequence of resentment, one way to process it. Like abuse at an early age, or a sensitivity in the mind that made a seemingly abusiveness act destructive. There's also the fact that, we brave in some ways, and coward in others, there's also those that feel stuck.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

It’s, like I said, a bit of a retread. (Karasuma gives a little more background, but his advice is the same as Kenzaki’s.) But the guilt that Hirose feels, it’s like the fear Tachibana feels.

Yeah, for start concentrating on the good she can do, I feel like you conveniently left that part out before as a critical excuse. It's not like asking for a solution to atone to others like Kenzaki before is the part of "concentrating on the good she can do in the present", who gives her the answer, though it won't change, just fixing it by beating Undeads, continuing BOARD's work. But this also reveals that Tachibana's accusation is wrong; Karasuma didn't release the Undeads, in fact he was trying to stop them. Though, did you contradict yourself a bit here? You say above that cowardice is innate but here, Hirose's guilt being like Tachibana's fear, they made themselves feel that way, which means those aren't innate.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

hey also there are riders in this show maybe it would be okay to talk about them real quick

One of the reason that I come here to these type of thread is that, I can talk about the non-Rider stuff in the series.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

The Chalice/Blade fight at the end is fantastic.

For previous leads, it takes Jaraji for those that Yusuke deems as unforgivable, it takes Ouja for those that Shinji deems as unforgivable. For Kenzaki... it takes a merely standoffish person (for Tachibana, even if he wasn't stated as Kenzaki's first/second friend, it seems that they're that way in the past but something happened in the present) to set him off like that, accusing him as the example of high level Undead Karasuma narrates where they use their "humanity" to trick off others (though Hajime has constantly talked about not associating with humans). Obviously it's not heroic or villainous, but Kenzaki seems to think of it as heroic.