[DreadBringer]

Those are some nice and plausible explanations of why Vice can be different and contradicting at Ikki's childhood. Though glad the difference of his behavior is noticed here.

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Originally Posted by KamenRanger1997

Also, he tried to eat Ikkis mom. I feel like that goes against the deal. Ikki should really get a lawyer to look over this contract.

Ikki didn't exactly have the best experience with lawyers lol.

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Originally Posted by GoldenXtreme

My take on Vice is that he is definitely a firm ally now, even if he is still very impulsive.

Obviously, since ep. 13 Vice and Ikki went full buddy-buddy. Which is why it feels like Vice on Ikki's childhood took after current Vice's behavior more despite that it's in the past (and Vice at the beginning was malicious to Ikki as well, only helping him so he can survive and having hard time to comply to Ikki's wants for his selfish reason). Nasty string is also a plausible explanation.

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Originally Posted by gashatfreak

I do like how they're playing around with the 'terrible dad' trope in that the dad isn't evil or terrible, but his demon is. Also, with the reveal that the Igarashi siblings have Giff genes in them, the 'terrible dad' trope is also technically applied to Giff, which is kind of funny in a lot of ways.

Technically, previous dads like Soichi was like this too as it was Evolt possessing him. This seems to be a recurring trend in Revice as well, with previously there's Daiji who didn't actually hate Ikki despite having insecurity to him (their 'feud' was only about Daiji's professionalism) but Kagerou was the one to hate Ikki and wants to get rid of him. There's also Wakabayashi who isn't actually an evil traitor in Fenix (as well as him mercilessly belittling Hiromi I guess), but it was Chameleon Deadman who killed Wakabayashi since 1st episode and disguised as him.