So while I think others had the potential to be Xiris champions as well, like Aila, the MC was the best candidate at the time. Why bring Aila back when the MC had just committed the first step of the pattern - she killed someone that would cause her immense regret and guilt.
This is the question I need answers for, because this part still doesn't make sense, and I think this is why it's such a confusion on if this is a
"Soul Reincarnation" story, or a
"Talent Reincarnation" one; I think the writing is wonky here, because the first game make it seem like a gift, while that ending shoehorned that it's a person.
My question is,
why was MC the only one set up with the life to even succeed in meeting the demands of being Xiris' Champion? MC
only kills her sister
because it's been a
lifetime of jealousy Xiris strings along for her; her mom hated her from birth, her sister is born, and is constantly placed on a pedestal by literally everyone they ever meet, MC lived her entire childhood in comparison as the evil/"lesser" one; she tries to escape this, and her sister follows, stealing Elius' attention, once again forced in the other half of her life to be the lesser/"loser" one. Xiris gave her power to MC,
causing her to be corrupt
= making her mother hate her. Xiris tells
something to Elius, causing him to believe he needed Aila instead
= making him overlook/ignore MC; Xiris
doesn't bless Aila with her power
at all, if not completely
ignores the girl.
Everything Xiris has set up has lead MC into madness, even in the end she had to choose giving up/
suicide or not giving up/
killing her sister; I can't think of a sane person who
wouldn't have chosen
themselves in that situation, especially with the circumstance being it was a cult, that the sister agreed to join, and also agreed to sacrifice MC instead of both running away and choosing life with each other (where's the love and regret in that? I can't see myself caring for my sister if that's the case; it's me or her at this point, Rinmaru made the situation too redeemable).
Aila didn't stand a single chance, Aila never had the trials of jealousy or being unloved, she would have never wanted to kill anyone she loved, she didn't even want to kill MC, she was just doing so because the cult said this is what they had to do; she'd have no reason to kill MC of her own violation,
because Xiris didn't give her any sort of trial to champion.
No one received any trial to compete with MC, that's why I believe MC is the only one, because Xiris favored her since birth.
Now, I don't think it's us reading this differently, that's the fault of the story, I think this is a true blue plot hole given to us through the games; it does sound like Rinmaru wants to avoid the "Chosen One" trope (being the Chosen One
isn't a Champion trope, it's a "it can only be you" trope; Champions are given trials and competition to declare a winner, Chosen Ones are picked automatically and sent on their merry way; Rinmaru
does use the word "champion" in the story, but I think she has a... skewed definition of this, was trying to use it as a flavoring synonym for "Chosen One", or there's some plot-holes going on), but then also didn't want MC to either continue to not be special (she wasn't special in the first game, but is special now) or not have an incentive to stick around (if my guess on her being special in this second game is correct). I don't mind not being special/chosen one, I just don't see why I'd agree to be a champion, if I could have handed it over to someone else; if I could escape it by simply not completing the trial, then why can't my daughter? Why can't we forfeit it to the other competing champions? If you have no choice to give up your foot in the running, it's no longer a championship, but a chosen mandate.
If Rinmaru was going for the Champion trope, without the incentive to quit, everyone should have lived a life just like MC, yet chosen differently if they weren't worthy, and we should have had the choice (or the illusion of one) to compete. Yet no one else had a mother who hated them, a sibling/family/love who stole everything from them, then a "you or them" life or death situation; MC is the only one given this trial, her daughter doesn't even have that life
(yet, we're to assume she will, if MC sacrifice herself); since MC was the only one thrown in a situation to Kill -> sacrifice -> create -> protect, it makes it a Chosen One trope, because no one was ever on this trial with her.
With the daughter clearly having no choice but to live the same life, this makes the daughter a Chosen One, also.
Sorry, I keep ranting, I'm not combating what you're saying, I'm just saying Rinmaru have some 'splaining to do; in her defense, it's her world, maybe her definition of "champion" coincides with "chosen one", or maybe something was said that I'm missing. I do believe the story intends to say "it can be anyone, MC's entire journey was a trial", I did read that in the ending, but this would make it seem like a poorly written fate tale to me. I'm not bothered by "Destiny" stories, I'm okay with it being MC is special, no one else could have done it, it can only be you plots; but if this isn't the case, then I need better story telling on WHY MC is the only one who qualified, and WHY all the other "competition" failed. Because, right now, it seem like they just failed because they didn't have a divine God rooting for them.
