[DreadBringer]

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

It sorta matches Mai's outfit now, which I prefer. They finally both look like they're in the same Final Fantasy cosplay group!

M̶o̶r̶e̶ ̶l̶i̶k̶e̶ ̶M̶a̶i̶'̶s̶ ̶o̶u̶t̶f̶i̶t̶ ̶l̶o̶o̶k̶e̶d̶ ̶m̶o̶r̶e̶ ̶t̶a̶c̶k̶y̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶n̶ ̶K̶o̶u̶t̶a̶'̶s̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶h̶e̶r̶ ̶o̶u̶t̶f̶i̶t̶ ̶b̶e̶t̶t̶e̶r̶ ̶m̶a̶t̶c̶h̶ ̶K̶o̶u̶t̶a̶'̶s̶.̶

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

I think some of it's also Sougo's belief in his own morality. Sougo doesn't think he'll become Oma Zi-O due to his own innate sense of right and wrong, or the influence of the Time Orphans, or whatever. So when Woz shows up to get Sougo to embrace his power and become a Despot, Sougo just adds a Good prefix onto that title automatically. Every Woz that, to us, plays as Woz Is Trying To Build A Time Tyrant, to Sougo just plays as A Fan Is Giving Me Solid Advice. It's not so much Sougo ignoring or misunderstanding Woz'z motivations or goals, it's Sougo viewing any assistance as a stepping stone to being a Gooder Despot.

Nice explanation for what Sougo thinks regarding Woz here. True that Woz's assistance would be a help to Sougo thus he's seen as nice... and Sougo can be oblivious to the surroundings, like how people feel. Other than that what do you think regarding:

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True, there's a tease of Ora following Geiz and it makes sense that the Time Jackers would try to recruit Geiz as both wants to kill Zi-O, though with different goals. This is a parallel to Woz, where he's a villain that worked to help Ohma Zi-O that happens to be the cheerful hero, thus he's creating good outcomes for now by giving Sougo more power to help his desire to save the day. While the Time Jacker planned for a hero, albeit anti-heroic one, to help them in fulfilling his goal, that had similar method to Time Jackers, thus he'd create bad outcome by helping Time Jacker's goals. For screwing around with history, I don't know if that alone is wrong, I'd view Time Jackers as being wrong for not creating better outcome than Ohma Zi-O but reshaping it for their own selfish desires as well as the people who got hurt in their plans like the Armored Riders' victims. Geiz is wrong due to targeting the still-noble Sougo for now, and his black and white mentality to Another Riders is unrelated to him time travelling.

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Kaito shows off his social mastery again to correctly evaluate that Geiz has hesitation on his part to do his mission. Like usual he reveals something within person that they deny or even don't realize. Other than that, Geiz is ironically dealing with someone that is a bit similar to Sougo, that while Kaito's an anti-hero for most of the series, at the end, as Lord Baron, he turned into an anti-villain who'd want to improve the world, but is done by destroying the current one. Sougo's a more extreme case on both ends, in the original timeline he was a straight hero (if he was the same in his youth as him now) that turned into straight villain, even irredeemable one.