Talk:Othinus/@comment-36157690-20181021124146/@comment-76.180.83.104-20190724025959

Yeah, but then again, I think Touma already had serious issues about failing to save people. In the 2nd volume of the whole series, the author mentions how Touma would've fallen into darkness like Aureolus if he didn't manage to save Index. It might not necessarily be that he's dependent on her, but his desire to protect her (and his failure) would drive him crazy if something happened to her. (on the other hand, Othinus is definitely unhealthily dependent on the boy). I mean, if Mikoto or Index died in front of him, I'm pretty sure the same thing would happen to the guy.

For Touma, whose fault can be that he doesn't rely on others enough and tries to shoulder all the burdens on himself, it may be a good thing for him to be dependent on someone else for a change. But one can definitely go too far with that.

My big issue about Othinus being forgiven is that I actually didn't buy her 'repentance' arc, so it just seemed like she escaped punishment for heinous crimes. Her motivation for bringing back Touma's world was because she didn't want to lose him. It wasn't because she realized how wrong it was for her to inflict her pain on another just to have someone understand her pain. It wasn't because she realized how wrong she was to casually dismiss the lives of people by messing around with the world. Then, she resolves to 'die as an enemy of the world', but it seems just like she's trying to take the easy way out rather than have to reconcile with what she did and why it was so wrong (and in the process force Touma to carry her useless self around the world fighting all his friends). Finally, her casual violence against the man she hurt so badly (even if he himself forgave her) is really concerning, despite its non-serious nature. How is hurting the man you hurt so many times in the past an acceptable behavior for someone who is truly sorry about what they have done?

Also, is the reason she did that really that understandable? She wanted to return to her original world (initially), but was afraid of Imagine breaker undoing everything. However, she was also afraid of killing Touma, since Imagine breaker acts as an anchor to the universe she destroyed, so she decides to torture him to break his mind. If she really wanted to remake her old world, she should've gotten rid of him. If she really wanted to have someone understand her, she could've looked for someone like that instead of torturing a man and putting him through the same torment as herself in order to force him into a position to understand. She wasn't being true to her stated desire (remake her old world), and achieved her true desire through despicable means instead of sensible methods (interact with people who suffered great loss).