I.R Joey
12-03-2001, 10:04 PM
I think I mispelled it, but oh well.
My freinds and I are still arguing over this. About whether the Battousai and the wandering samauri that doesn't kill, are two seperate personalities within the same soul, or whether they are two sides to the same personality.
I kind of lean towards the later because it seems to me that he still has control of himself even when he is the yellow eyed Battousai, to me a schitzo is someone who can't control when their other personality comes out. I mean he isn't just eating rice balls one day, and all of a sudden decide to kill Sano and Megumi. Kenshin always seems to allow himself to become the Battouasi when someone he cares about is in danger (Ex. Kauro, or when he was fighting Saito, how he was holding his freind's hostage.) Yes, he is pushed to become it usually, by either Jinei (who again had kidnapped someone he loved, and again killing him would have been the only way he could have saved Kauro from Jinei's hyponosis), it seems to me that his pther self is a power he reaches back to grab at, when his back is completly against the wall, and it's the only way he can win. I think he's so much stronger as the Battouasi because he fights without holding himself back, without the fear of killing someone.
And now there side.
They continually state that he doesn't control himself, because he does allow himself to break his vow to become the killer manslayer. Looking at the way he had to physically harm himself after he fought Saito to bring himself back, or how Kauro had to scream at the top of her lungs to get him to stop from killing Jinei. Both of these times it was a tramatic experiance or jolt that caused him to return to his real self (and we all agree that he is the Wanderer at heart.) Plus the way his entire demeanour changes when he becomes the Manslayer. It actually takes itself out on his body, the way he breathes, acts, and even speaks, the way he looks at others, even those he cares about, all seem to point to someone who is almost possesed by a demon.
So what do you guys think?
My freinds and I are still arguing over this. About whether the Battousai and the wandering samauri that doesn't kill, are two seperate personalities within the same soul, or whether they are two sides to the same personality.
I kind of lean towards the later because it seems to me that he still has control of himself even when he is the yellow eyed Battousai, to me a schitzo is someone who can't control when their other personality comes out. I mean he isn't just eating rice balls one day, and all of a sudden decide to kill Sano and Megumi. Kenshin always seems to allow himself to become the Battouasi when someone he cares about is in danger (Ex. Kauro, or when he was fighting Saito, how he was holding his freind's hostage.) Yes, he is pushed to become it usually, by either Jinei (who again had kidnapped someone he loved, and again killing him would have been the only way he could have saved Kauro from Jinei's hyponosis), it seems to me that his pther self is a power he reaches back to grab at, when his back is completly against the wall, and it's the only way he can win. I think he's so much stronger as the Battouasi because he fights without holding himself back, without the fear of killing someone.
And now there side.
They continually state that he doesn't control himself, because he does allow himself to break his vow to become the killer manslayer. Looking at the way he had to physically harm himself after he fought Saito to bring himself back, or how Kauro had to scream at the top of her lungs to get him to stop from killing Jinei. Both of these times it was a tramatic experiance or jolt that caused him to return to his real self (and we all agree that he is the Wanderer at heart.) Plus the way his entire demeanour changes when he becomes the Manslayer. It actually takes itself out on his body, the way he breathes, acts, and even speaks, the way he looks at others, even those he cares about, all seem to point to someone who is almost possesed by a demon.
So what do you guys think?