[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

I guess it can be one at a time but changing as it goes with time, including Desast's change like Storious discarding him. Desast tries to corrupt Ren as someone with similarities, so it'd be kinda a "toxic" friend type (someone being rather "amicable" doesn't necessarily mean doing good to them... kinda like Woz to Sougo), but later he'd value him more to the point that he gets mad at Touma for "negatively" affecting Ren - of which Touma's words also got through Desast here.

Even Desast corrupting Ren... it's more just getting him to be happy with his development and desires? Ren's a guy who was taught that strength was all that matters, and then couldn't achieve the same strength as the people around him. He kept wondering what his flaw was that was holding him back from similar success, but the flaw was thinking he was flawed. He'd never be happy as long as he compared himself to others, and that's all Desast was trying to get him to realize.