Finagle007
[Verified Great Old One]
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Nope. Akuma sign away their free will; becoming a Devil-Tiger is a supreme expression of free will. The two are mutually incompatible, much to the Ebon Dragon's amusement when his Solar akuma find out about the existence of PPE, and that they signed away their souls for nothing...
Solars are already able to learn (Yozi) Eternal Essence with Primordial Principle Emulation, they don't need to be Devil Tigers to learn it.
True, but that only provides protection against any form of attack that doesn't kill spirits. All Yozis have access to spirit-killer charms, and the Ebon Dragon's Life-Denying Hate and Exiled By Wicked Hate are particularly vile. Going Devil-Tiger provides unkillability vs. anything not explicitly capable of killing Primordials, which NONE of the Yozis possess.
Also while for an Infernal becoming a Devil Tiger make sense, a Solar has to be mentally retarded to chose that option if he know about the Great Curse.
Torment is the Great Curse by a different name, even if fluff wise the explanation for their existence is different in practice the effects are the same. The difference is that in this case Torment would be self inflicted and impossible to remove. Only an idiot would chose to do that to themselves, because any power you gain from it isn't worth the weakness of being insane.
During the Primordial War Theion didn't surrender because it was impossible to win, at the time of the surrender victory was far from assured for the Exalted and the war could have still gone either way, he surrendered because he was under the effects of Torment. Any idiot who willingly chose to have that kind of liability deserve any shitty fate he will suffer from as a consequence of his insanity.
A Solar Devil-Tiger with The Flame of the Rising Phoenix ONLY gains Limit for defying his Urge or as a result of Charms that explicitly bestow Limit, such as Bloodthirsty Sword-Dancer Spirit. Also, once they learn The Face of the Titans, their Urge is permanently redefined to always match their Motivation (if you betray your Motivation, you DESERVE to go temporarily nuts), and their self-imposed Torment is also self-defined. And of course, The Dance of the Thrashing Dragon not only gives them a personalized Act of Villainy known as a Precipitous Fiat to bleed off Limit, but using it inflicts Limit on a Yozi of your choice - so not only can you stave off going nuts as a result of your own actions, you can drive the Yozis nuts...