Talk:Kamijou Touma/@comment-91.67.13.50-20130703164218/@comment-11571396-20130717204542

Just remembered something from [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7049587/1/Minds-Memories-and-Misfortune an old fanfiction I read. ]

It might answer some questions (important parts in bold letters, and links from me for a better understanding of somewhat obscure/cryptic parts):

''Touma can't argue with that, despite trying hard to find words to be able to. He's been in trouble more than a few times within the past weeks; and he always had help to save him from being beaten to a pulp. Stiyl during the time fighting Aureolus, Motoharu and Kanzaki helped during Angel Fall, and Anti-Skill did when he fought against Sherry Cromwell… the vast majority of the times he didn't head into danger by himself.''

In contrast, the fact he tried to do the same against the 250 nuns at the 'Church of Orsola', walking into a enemy stronghold without knowing there will be help coming and picked a fight with Agnese Sanctis spoke volumes on how his mind worked.

Even if it is stupid, even if it seems impossible, he just can't let someone that needs help go. Take action first, think about the details later when you actually have time to do so.

From events that ranged from jumping right in to stopping a graviton bomb from exploding, and trying to save a girl he has never met from thugs by pretending to be a acquaintance of hers; all the way to when he went into the Alchemist's lair to save someone who was captured, for a girl he met only a few hours ago in a fast food restaurant.

''It showed with or without his memory, the core part of Kamijou Touma didn't change. He is, and probably always will, be someone that just can't stand by if he saw an unfairness that he can change.''

Something like falling into the Darkness due to anger and despair from constant pressure at all sides is next to impossible for him.

''Not all humans are that fragile. Even if everybody breaks eventually if pressured, a matter of 'when', not 'if'… there are still those that would stand back up again and again, until the moment they shatter utterly beyond all hope of reparation; a wreck, a mess, something beyond a mere shadow of their former self.''

''Kamijou Touma lived his life as normal as someone afflicted with misfortune can be, without being driven into the darker side of society. So what if people have once before called him the 'Plague', and ostracised him due to superstition?''

''It's amazing just how someone can adapt to things they encounter on a day-to-day basis, especially when they have something they believed in. '''Touma believed, deep down, there is more than evil in people. That there is more than just darkness in the depths of the human heart, no matter if it is himself or others. There has to be more than just malice and anger stemming from inequality in things like talent, money, gender, or any of the other myriad of possible causes.'

There is light equal to, if not greater than, whatever darkness they exhibit within them somewhere. Even if the world was to be on the verge of destruction and someone who firmly believed the opposite of Kamijou was to face him, the young man with Imagine Breaker will shout right back that humans are not as simple as only composed of just black and gray.

The logical conclusion to a tale of someone that's been oppressed isn't necessarily falling into the abyss beyond normalcy, rejecting the world after being broken by it.

Going against Touma's sense of what's right and wrong probably hurts him more than feeling the pain of standing idle while seeing someone suffering in the shadows he cannot reach; needless to say, actively sinking into the Darkness, something more extreme than turning a blind-eye, is out of the question for him.

Probably just as out of the question as someone, who constantly helping others yet in the end betrayed by others, will want to travel back in time and end his own existence after regretting walking the path he had; regretting to the point where that person might want to tell his past self "Drown in your ideals and die".

Your thoughts on it?

P.S.: yes, there is a fate/stay night reference at the end.