madarais view on the importance of the lives of every individual. take that as you will tbh. bonus points if u can incorporate the otp and make it heartbreaking B)
The brothers try to see everybody’s worth in an objective way. Isshiki doesn’t necessarily subscribe to the talent = hope = importance mantra that the school follows almost obsessively, so it’s not often based on that (although an impressive talent might be a bonus.) A person’s actions are far more telling than their abilities. Said actions could diminish a person’s importance, or even go as far as to negate it altogether. All creatures start out worthy of life, worthy of being protected, but once they’ve crossed that boundary into somebody people need to be protected from, there is very, very little chance they will ever cross back over.
However, the way they attach to people makes objectivity almost impossible. But it’s also a good chunk of the reason their talent is so phenomenal.
The main reason, obviously, is the unity and almost inhuman level of synchronization between Isshiki and his brothers. It’s easy to underestimate somebody if you’re only under the impression that there’s one of them and it turns out there’s eight, so threats only rarely come prepared.
Being 6′10 and built like a brick shithouse doesn’t hurt either.
But it’s the attachment that makes them truly stand out. It only takes a week or two of protecting someone (be it by assignment or volunteering) for them to imprint. And once they do, the lengths they are willing to go for one person become so extensive that it almost borders on obsessive. When that attachment is formed, that person’s life is elevated in worth above the lives of anybody else, innocent or otherwise. The list of things he will not do for somebody that important to him is very, very limited.
Even that, though, is nothing in comparison to the devotion that comes with romantic love. That kind of love is so rare that it may actually only come once in his life.
While he’d do almost anything to protect a person he was attached to, there are limitations. He’s not going to suddenly go anakin skywalker and start blowing up planets, right.
When he falls in love, those limitations disappear. Obviously he’s not going to fall in love with a person who would ask him to do things like that. But their life is more valuable than the rest of the world’s combined, and if it came down to the wire and he had to choose between saving that person and saving an entire city, an entire state, shit, even the rest of the planet, he’s not even going to think twice.
He doesn’t ever think about it, mostly because he doesn’t want to come to terms with it, but he would have killed the rest of the student council himself if it meant getting Murasame out of that situation alive. It’s not something he’s proud of. It’s not something he’d likely admit, even to himself. But the fact of the matter is, he would have left that school in ashes for him.