The Blue Knight was always a very liminal thing, born from a single wish. Something transitional that taps into the surface of Deep Blue’s power and the surface of Aoyama’s subconscious fear and desire. He was a fragile existence held together by that single thread.
Especially with Aoyama’s growing paranoia from the recurring vision of Ichigo, alone and hurt, surrounded by rubble and crying somewhere.
Masaya’s always had a weak grasp on his sense of self, with little to anchor him aside from his deep disdain. No familial or platonic connections, no thoughts on himself. He was dissociative and aloof, and only recently found any attachment to any form of humanity at all, and is being flooded with the vision of losing that.
The Blue Knight’s sense of self was even more tenuous. But as long as he had his purpose, he was stable and solid and grounded.
And when it lost that singular purpose for existence, he didn’t even know who he was anymore.
With the middleman of the Blue Knight losing his purpose for being, all that was left for the scale to tip one way or another. Back to the already unstable and dissociative Aoyama, or to…
