Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25555436-20141207154400/@comment-75.18.254.214-20141218001224

I'm sorry, but I tried to explain the whole history and the protagonist in simplicity without giving him much depth and detail to them.

The reason why Super Ichigo/Kirito is not because his character is like those two, but that his fighting style and appearance is like theirs. To define his character more is that he is a contradictory protagonist because he fits more as a minor character because everyone else he meets have more to their character than him. It because of his amnesia which establishes him no past and grants no depth to his own character. He is more on the line as a tourist of this world and its history to fully express amazement of the world, like creating your own videogame character from the scratch to explore the virtual world created by someone else. The main concept for his character is a brooding lost emotional teen trying to find a purpose to his life.

His development as a character shows greatly when Stella arrives in his life because she helps him realize how beautiful the world is. Her involvement makes him have an anagnorisis where he realizes he doesn't need to remember who is was, what matters is the now and future in which he decides to devote himself to care for and protect Stella in which most her morals carry onto him. But when she dies and turns into a Lost he suffers a mental breakdown and enters into a state of depression because Stella gave him a reason to his meaningless existence. However, Princess helps him overcome his loss and experiences a catharsis to which decides to devote his life to honor the memory of Stella which is what establishes the central foundation of his moral background and becoming a Celestial Being she envisioned.

This develops him to become a guilty tragic hero because he becomes a martyr, everything he does is not because he purposes wants to but that is his responsibility and believes he must. He risks his life to one day meet his end believing his punishment will be over once he dies so he can finally be with Stella as a Lost. If anything he wants to die, but he doesn't want to display this dark side of himself openly to those around him because he doesn't want them to burden his pain. He rather wants to carry the burden of others so they don't have to. Essentially, everyone seems him as a messiah-like savior who in actuality needs the most saving of all. Yet, he does want to help everyone because he wants to. It is just his reason for his desires are questionable in the end.

He also has a strong sense of compassion to the point where he doesn't kill his enemies, unless its a Paradox because it is the only way to end their suffering. He would use the blunt side of his sword against his foes sparing their lives form a fatal blow. He would also at times displays a berserker combat style, not caring for his own inflicted damage because he doesn't care what happens to him. He also doesn't kill machines because he finds them to be alive as well.

His all-loving nature shows greatly when he faces the most evil of foes. He would always forgive their actions and spare their life. He believes their that is good in everyone so he which he why he would trust them so easily because he hopes he can show them the error of their ways. Even if they had betrayed once he would forgive them and give them another chance.

Along with the lines of him displaying a chosen one character, he is rather a symbol of change because his presence will start to set things in motion from the stagnant state the Quantum-verse it is currently in. He also doesn't believe himself to be their savior, despite others believing and telling he is. He is more of a temporary or chooser of a chosen one. The reason is because he later decides to be a mentor for students who would become future Celestial Beings to pass on his teachings and knowledge so that even when he dies he knows that his students will be able to be the savior that the Quantum-verse needs. So in conclusion, he isn't a chosen one but rather someone who may invoke the awakening of the chosen one. Whether from his struggling students, forgiven villains, burdened Celestial Beings, or even the lazy Princess, his arrival will bring upon a change to the Quantum-verse and its denizens. Another reason why he believes he isn't the chosen one is because he has a strong belief that everyone has a choice and that nothing, not even fate, is set for them.

Overall, he is first a very flat and minor character when compared to everyone around him because they all have a color and history while having already made a name for themselves when he has none. He is even given the name Lelouch by Princess because he doesn't even recall his own. It is only later when develops and breaks free of his weak character does he actually gain a true persona and self as a character after establishing his own origin when he had none from the start.