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*Although Muro's choice to transform in the killed-Griffin scenario may be a statement on karma by the game designers ("Look at the monstrous results of giving in to one's anger", or something along those lines), it's difficult to explain within the story why Muro transforms in scenario A and not in scenario B. How does Griffin being dead make a difference in whether Muro can/wants to transform? If anything, one would expect he would be more likely to try to reason with her in his normal form if she killed Griffin, since she might have a better chance of joining him. His Imago state would be more logically be used against a Mai who stood totally opposed to Muro's wanton killing, and thus would be used in scenario B against Mai, Griffin, and his Black Ops team. | *Although Muro's choice to transform in the killed-Griffin scenario may be a statement on karma by the game designers ("Look at the monstrous results of giving in to one's anger", or something along those lines), it's difficult to explain within the story why Muro transforms in scenario A and not in scenario B. How does Griffin being dead make a difference in whether Muro can/wants to transform? If anything, one would expect he would be more likely to try to reason with her in his normal form if she killed Griffin, since she might have a better chance of joining him. His Imago state would be more logically be used against a Mai who stood totally opposed to Muro's wanton killing, and thus would be used in scenario B against Mai, Griffin, and his Black Ops team. | ||
*Also on the subject of the B variant, here is where we see what a person looks like if they have Muro's nature, since Kerr told Mai that one's nature determines the outcome of the transformation. It's not pretty. It does, however, resemble Barabas, albeit to a more extreme degree. There is also a possible tie-in, however unlikely, to the notion covered [[Oni ( | *Also on the subject of the B variant, here is where we see what a person looks like if they have Muro's nature, since Kerr told Mai that one's nature determines the outcome of the transformation. It's not pretty. It does, however, resemble Barabas, albeit to a more extreme degree. There is also a possible tie-in, however unlikely, to the notion covered [[Oni (myth)|here]], that a person taken with rage can become an oni, or monster. This is Muro's true nature.<br>For more discussion of Muro's ultimate motives, see [[Muro|his page]] and [[STURMANDERUNG|this one]]. | ||
*Finally, we never see Mai's Imago state, presumably because she's had her Chrysalis a shorter time than Muro, or she has been through fewer physical trials than he has. We can only speculate as to whether her transformation would be so monstrous, or so dramatic, or whether it would resemble the original Mai more closely, since she was not nearly as savage as Muro. Still, Mai certainly has plenty of violence and anger in her recent past, so if one expects the Imago state to reflect one's true nature, she might well turn out to have a somewhat frightening appearance, if not so drastically as Muro did. | *Finally, we never see Mai's Imago state, presumably because she's had her Chrysalis a shorter time than Muro, or she has been through fewer physical trials than he has. We can only speculate as to whether her transformation would be so monstrous, or so dramatic, or whether it would resemble the original Mai more closely, since she was not nearly as savage as Muro. Still, Mai certainly has plenty of violence and anger in her recent past, so if one expects the Imago state to reflect one's true nature, she might well turn out to have a somewhat frightening appearance, if not so drastically as Muro did. | ||
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