"Any card—so long as it exists—has a power that is needed."

chibicrow:

I’m still trying to process my feelings from VRAINS 120 (and this season in general tbh), so y’all just gonna have to deal with these rando posts lmao.

But, I remember thinking back with Ai vs the Zaizen Duo that it was … incredibly odd how Ai kept talking about how much he wanted to see how far the Zaizens would go to protect each other. And then, after Akira loses and is gotten rid of, Ai telling Blue Maiden “now you’ll live with the regret of failing to /protect someone/ closest to you.”

Because if Ai’s only issue was that he regrets being the sole surviving Ignis, even if nothing could be done, then what’s the deal about “protecting”? There was no “protecting” involved back when he tried to save his friends - he was trying to get them out, not protect them from harm’s way like he was trying to do back in season 1. 

But, with that bombshell revelation of Ai seeing that future of Yusaku getting killed over and over and over again because of him, who, though he loves humans, was predicted to be the downfall of humanity (probably b/c Yusaku got killed, as someone else theorized), now that statement makes a hell of a lot more sense.

And it essentially means that not only was Ai trapped in the past because of survivor’s guilt, but he was also trapped by a potential future of losing the one he loves when he could do nothing about it:

Which is why Pandor’s “time does move forward” statement really unnerved him b/c yeah okay but what if time moving forward is part of the problem?

 I just. Naturally, I thought the whole “Oh wait Ai’s actually depressed about the thought of losing Yusaku ON TOP of his survivor’s guilt” bombshell came out of nowhere when I first watched the episode, but looking back on this season and Akira and Blue Maiden vs Ai especially, they were def hinting at it.

Damn.

(via authoratmidnight)