ㅤㅤyap about rejoice's how i made the mace useless.
ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ(beware for spoilers)
feel the need to put a disclaimer: this is my first ever time watching something about strength, so please don't crucify me for inaccuracies or mischaracterization! this is just my first impression of... basically everyone lol.
i love rejoice. he's this guy who is really fixated in his goal to kill tai, but it isn't for any sort of big, grand reason. it's not because tai is public enemy number one. in fact, it's really selfish. at one point, the guy betrays the rest of the server and starts killing everyone who is going after tai simply because only he gets to kill tai.
rejoice: "so why do i not want him to die?"
tai: "he doesn't just want me dead, no— he wants to be the one that kills me."
yet, one thing stays consistent and steadfast throughout all the chaos and mayhem, and that's rejoice's single minded focus on his goal to kill tai, and his pride that guides him. rejoice gets interrupted by tai's teammates every time he gets so, so very close to killing him, but rejoice just takes the outnumbered fight and keeps trying, yet never brings on his own teammates to even the field. why? if the goal is simply to kill tai then it doesn't make sense. but that's not it. rejoice won't allow anyone else to potentially steal his kill, no way. so instead he works alone, throwing himself in outnumbered fights and still escaping with his life intact. (insane skill btw. that rat tunnel chase scene was sooo fucking funny.)
and for this very pride, later tai basically entrusts his life to rejoice and teams up with him. this is after he is basically betrayed by his own team. his team ditched him, he's public enemy number one, i mean. come on. who can he trust? for all that he's been killing off people, tai really comes across to me as a guy who thrives in companionship. he also needed a team that would protect him from people like... rejoice... but hey, two things can co-exist at once! his need for protection, and also his want for friendship and trust.
anyway, so he's alone now, so he goes to rejoice and asks him to team up with him! why? why after rejoice spent the last two months trying to kill him? (and almost succeeding every time). why when he needs a team to defend him from rejoice in the first place? and it all circles back to rejoice's single minded focus on his goals, and his pride.
rejoice is transparent. he knows what he wants (killing tai fair and square), knows what will hinder his wants (server wide hunt for tai = can't get the fair and square kill on tai), and works towards it in a fairly predictable path to anyone who pays attention at how rejoice works. so for as long as tai knows what rejoice wants, and can offer that to him, there's a trust between them that's not one that's built up through countless experiences together, but of mutual benefit. you can't betray me because i have something you want, i can't betray you because you give me something i want. this way, tai knows what to expect, and what to offer. it's trust not in their relationship, but in rejoice's person and his pride.
to tai, to who the trust that's built on honest companionship is not attainable in the current climate where he's hated by the whole server and man hunted down on sight, this kind of trust he has with rejoice is precious. it's the most he gets akin to companionship and friendship in the midst of all of this.
and of course, if you watched the video, cough, rejoice betrays tai like two days after their team up. this doesn't really contradict anything i said, it's just that tai failed to see what was rejoice's goals, so he failed to expect what was coming. i peeked a little at tai's own video, and god i felt a bit bad but lol. really, rejoice's "i'm such a villain! (evil cackle)" is sooo funny for me and so sad for tai. he doesn't care if he's a hero or a villain for as long as he can obtain what he wants. and obtain, he did. one of the last people standing after half the server got banned for duping.
rejoice made insane (ly gay) replay shots, like this? this is crazy but i support it!
anyway, W yaoi. (ref)
