Wrong, wrong and wrong. I could accuse you of maliciously bending facts to fit an agenda, that's how wrong you are.
Maybe my opening statement is wrong, but the rest? Its still valid. Shinji did the act. Also ...bending them?
So Tokiomi shopped around for a family that could use a heir.
Yes, but I recall it popped somewhere that even if Tokiomi knew, it wouldn't have really mattered, he'd still would waited for the Rin v Sakura.
Shinji, like Jason later on, was an inherently unpleasant person that was nevertheless a good person
Jason a good person. Thanks, you just made my day.
He's not a good person, or even close to it, but it's not for an inherently monstrous disposition.
Uh huh, I mean its not like he ordered Rider to setup bloodfort Andromeda and wasn't Ayako one of her victims in one of the routes?
Look I'll admit it, I haven't played the VN in years and my plans were derailed when a 2TB hdd fried my main desktop HDD and I keep forgetting to check the LP.
Anyway, the HF manga shows shinji at first, less of a little shit and more of an eager boy wanting to learn magic. He grew to be an asshole and a little shit.
If you've watched the HF movie
I haven't. Heavens Feel is the route I least prefer and out of the 3 times I played the VN fully, I only played through HF
once.
Shinji wants to be in control and to be validated. Putting aside the fact Zouken told him to "deal" with Sakura, much of his treatment of her stems from a deep seated rage at what she represents relative to him: she is what he could not and would never be, she is his replacement because he was deemed defective and therefore useless.
So basically, partially of what I said on top of what I could argue in turn are sufficient crimes to jail him for some time.
Anyway, Let's not derail the thread with "Is shinji a plain asshole or he has more 'depth' to him than being an asshole". Its a discussion meant for Questionable Questing given that we touch upon very much Not Safe For Work stuff.
