[DreadBringer]

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

KAMEN RIDER SABER - THEATRICAL SPECIAL: THE PHOENIX SWORDSMAN AND THE BOOK OF RUIN

With that out of the way… I don’t hate it? It’s specifically going for a primal Ur Kamen Rider story: Destroy Vs Protect, Light Vs Dark, Existence Vs Nothingness. Falchion’s motivations are pointedly barren; he just wants to destroy everything because everything will eventually be destroyed anyway, so what’s the point of existence. Touma stands in opposition because there’s always a Kamen Rider to stand in opposition. Falchion’s view of conflict as an eternal battle for power is offset by Touma’s view of conflict as a way of resetting the board; a turn of the page to allow for a new story. What looks to one person like a single unending narrative is, to another, an endless array of fresh starts.

Conflict will always be present as long as any living being exists, of which yeah.... the solution is technically reduce the population to nothing but this unjustly takes away their rights to live, and even when they're only caught in the crossfire between the aim to purge the conflict instigators. And honestly, if you're keeping living beings' population, there's no permanent, effective, 100% morally justified solution ever. I'd also say that for someone seemingly shallow and obsessed with social climbing (including social media), perhaps also in similar vein to Akiko, Mei's sweet here to run after some random kid, while also staying by his side to encourage him by talking about Kamen Riders.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

Emotional Dragon’s a real neat upgrade form, though! I like Touma being more powerful for his ability to access his emotions!

And that is also something present in Ghost, its final form Mugen Damashii. As a Phoenix... Falchion can't truly die and for now Saber has to re-seal him in the Book of Ruin.