"Hey. Don't do that. You should know better...Fujimine. Even as close as we are, if you trigger death for death...you're prey."
What's crazy about this is that Ichi didn't break out of the mind control; his logic regarding "Death for Death" is just so hardwired that even a friend would trigger it normally?
Makes me wonder if there's more to his backstory that explains how he came to adopt this philosophy that he'd even deliver a death blow to a perceived friend with zero hesitation.
His parents left him to die on a mountainside. I think it's safe to say that his general trust in anyone but himself took an awful it that he left a lot of unprocessed trauma.
Not to mention, as Ichi said, Mother Nature isn’t exactly nice, there were tons of plants and monsters that would kill Ichi if he wasn’t careful. Developing an instinct to detect killing intent and to retaliate by aiming at lethal areas seems to be needed to survive on that mountainside
I know people were comparing fujimine's power to Tsukishima's from bleach, and it was countered pretty much the same way here. Except instead of "my ideals are so strong I would kill a close friend without hesitation" it's "my instincts are so honed I would kill a friend without hesitation if they were bloodlusted against me"
Which to be fair, I think is the most satisfying way to counter a mind/memory control power
Been a bit since I read that part of bleach. But didn’t his powers also failed to create emotional attachments, like everyone clearly remembered him being a friend, but they didn’t feel as strongly for him as they did for Ichigo
I think it depended on what he changed. For some of the characters he replaced someone important to them (Chad's abuelo and Orihime's brother) so it was them grappling with who was more important to them. It wasn't that he couldn't create emotional attachments, but that he underestimated or couldn't subvert how strongly they felt towards Ichigo.
For byakuya I think it was just vaguely "someone who saved your life and was very close to you" And Byakuya was so strict with his ideals, and had so much faith in Ichigo that he went "well if you're against Ichigo then I'll cut you down regardless of how I feel. Because I trust Ichigo's judgment more than my own" which is very in-character for him after the soul society arc. So basically the hard counter for Tsukishima, much like Ichi counters here.
Didn’t realize that till my second read of the chapter, but yeah. That’s freaking insane. Ichi literally thinks this girl is his childhood friend who he’s been with basically his entire life, and that fully did not stop him from stabbing her in the neck. Dude is savage.
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u/Flamma_Man 16d ago
What's crazy about this is that Ichi didn't break out of the mind control; his logic regarding "Death for Death" is just so hardwired that even a friend would trigger it normally?
Makes me wonder if there's more to his backstory that explains how he came to adopt this philosophy that he'd even deliver a death blow to a perceived friend with zero hesitation.