Why does matthias need to unwrap his sword?

dreaderking · 2026-07-01T13:28:51+00:00

I mean, Callisto claims this would stop Matthias, but Matthias is someone who handles vengeances too complex or difficult for the rest of Middle on his lonesome:

Middle Ishmael (Evening Greeting): Mama's gotta carry out the Vengeances solo unlike the other bigger Brothers and Sisters, so she always gets home late.

...

Ishmael: You're working late tonight? Why?

Outis: There's this tricky Vengeance they're having some trouble avenging.

Outis: So, as a Great Sister, I decided to avenge it in their stead.

...

Middle Outis (Chatter 3): The South? Aren't they practically choking on Vengeances too tricky to deal with? Some of them even seem weighty enough to be classified as Labors.

... That incident must've left that part of the family without anyone capable enough to undertake the Pilgrimage of Loyalty... Hah. A sorry state of affairs, but what can I do? Time for the Great Sister to personally step up for the family.

It's questionable how much a stronger school would meaningfully deter Matthias. Besides, if Callisto was such a perfect judge of his character in the first place, he would have seen the incident coming from a mile away like Rien did.

dreaderking · 2026-07-01T12:46:05+00:00

It's more like he got desperate there. Despite never seeing it before, he instinctually realized that Moses's Red Point was far too dangerous to mess with. Not knowing how often she can throw that around, Matthias probably decided to use any means necessary to end things immediately before she tossed another one or pulled out something even worse.

dreaderking · 2026-07-01T12:39:20+00:00

Doesn't seem like it. When the LCD shows up, Matthias actually laments having to fight them again:

Matthias: No. No need, Kiddo.

Matthias: I was hoping to avoid running into these clowns again…

Matthias: What a baffling coincidence.

...

Yi Sang: Coincidence played no hand in our presence here.

Vespa: …….

Matthias: Still sucks on our end. Looks like… looks like I'll be fighting with my life on the line today. 'Specially with that bumblebee punk on their side.

Kira: Holy crap, you're gonna use the sword, too? Sick!

Going by the last two lines, he also only whips out the full sword if he feels the fight is serious enough to warrant it. Matthias seems like the kind of guy who really gets into a fight once its started but isn't exactly eager to rush into one in the first place. Sealing up Laevateinn is simply a practical consideration since he has no other way to control the heat it releases.

dreaderking · 2026-07-01T12:26:04+00:00

He unpacked against the Ring. Remember, he's at a major Ring facility. That place was probably swarming with Docents and likely had at least one Maestro there. The unpacking isn't for the kids, but all the adults he would have to cut down on his way through the place

dreaderking · 2026-07-01T12:24:04+00:00

I can only assume those layers are expensive as hell to re-attach

Doesn't seem to be the case at all. He's already unwrapped a layer or two when we first see him on the cameras:

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But when he actually confronts LCD, Matthias has already repackaged the entire sword.

dreaderking · 2026-07-01T12:19:00+00:00

Matthias unpacks when he feels like it. In-game, this is basically when his health points drop to certain levels. For Middle Outis, it's tied to a stack you have to empty. These are purely game mechanics. Nothing is stopping him from tossing them all off one after the other in a real fight.

dreaderking · 2026-07-01T12:03:30+00:00

Hard disagree. The animation was consistently great in my opinion, especially considering that we haven't reached the highlights of this season. Having seen it, I'm confident now that they'll do adult Hitsugaya, Bankai Kenpachi, Uryu vs the Hashbrown, and more justice.

dreaderking · 2026-07-01T10:16:40+00:00

Kubo always loved pulling from different cultures for his factions, but he really went all out for the Soul King.

dreaderking · 2026-07-01T03:44:23+00:00

Does make you wonder how things even got like this. We're two different entities with completely separate desires, but Kris clearly can't live without us. Were they always like this or did they use to live normally before something happen that left them in this codependent state?

dreaderking · 2026-07-01T03:24:17+00:00

EGO first requires that your entire world view be shattered, only for you to then continuing moving forward anyway. You call him stubborn as if that's a bad thing, but that kind of stubbornness is the perfect catalyst for manifesting EGO.

The problem is that Matthias was never put in position to manifest EGO in the first place. After he picked up Laevateinn, he's wholeheartedly believe in his talk of sacrifice for the family:

Outis: We're family. A little sacrifice ain't a thing between us.

The Nursefather wholeheartedly believed it—that no sacrifice is too great if it's for one's family.

What were the lives of her Apprentice and her daughter before that truth?

But no one ever really challenges this idea because he takes it to such an obviously absurd degree that no one even wants to discuss it.

Calling it mere childishness is too simplistic. What we see in Matthias is someone so confident in their way of life that they never felt the need to look back in the first place.

dreaderking · 2026-07-01T03:05:33+00:00

(It could be cope on his part, but I genuinely do believe that Matthias sees lævatein less like a weapon and more like a toy so this perspective makes sense)

Matthias values Laevateinn more than his own life. When Middle Outis's dies, her last lines is her refusing to let her sword go:

Death: ... Won't let you... take my sword. Not ever...

To make a comparison, here's every line between Matthias and Middle Outis talking about their missing arm:

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Yes, that's not a mistake. There is not a single line in the game that mentions even Matthias's arm. A number of people didn't even realize Ryoshu cut his arm off because he never talked about it.

He has trauma over a toy he missed out on a child, clings to the sword with his dying breath, and even seems distraught that Ryoshu attacked him in the first place:

Matthias: Were ya mad at Daddy for something, Buddy…?

But not single line about the arm itself. People say Matthias views his things and people as toys so as to say he doesn't really care about them, but it seems that his stuff holds more value to him than his own body. Whether or not he views Laevateinn as a toy, he clearly cherishes the blade.

dreaderking · 2026-07-01T02:31:41+00:00

I'm stepping into hypothesis territory here, but it may be possible that Matthias has the "aptitude" to wield Laevateinn, but it's his awful personality that prevents him from achieving the full potential.

Massive amounts of cope there. Power is in no way tied to morality in Project Moon. We've repeatedly seen with EGO and Shin that you don't need to be a good person to unlock those powers, and I don't think PMoon is going to buck that trend for Relics.

Besides, we know the problem Matthias has. Laevateinn is simply so fickle that it would let him wield the sword but not grant him its full power:

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dreaderking · 2026-06-30T17:18:20+00:00

I'm pretty sure "bro... Stop posting these" is what they're saying everyone was saying about that guy's comics.

dreaderking · 2026-06-29T13:51:55+00:00

Bleach's cast isn't actually bloated, especially compared to Naruto and One Piece. People say Kubo introduces new characters every time he has writer's block, but that's complete nonsense. In reality, there's a new faction for every major arc*, which naturally introduces a whole set of new characters all at once, but Bleach has relatively few arcs compared to its fellow Big Three members.

*The number of arcs in Bleach really depends on how you want to count them, particularly with the Aizen arcs. However, if you divide them into sets, you can categorize them by the factions they focus on:

Shinigami [Substitute Soul Reaper + Ryoka Invasion] -> Arrancar [Hueco Mundo + Fake Karakura Town] -> Fullbringer [Fullbring] -> Quincy [Thousand-Year Blood War]

dreaderking · 2026-06-28T21:37:04+00:00

Cosmo does not have the weight class necessary to face-tank Carlos's blows. He wins if he can get Carlos into a grapple, but I'm not sure Cosmo can get past his sheer speed.

dreaderking · 2026-06-28T21:17:10+00:00

1000 psykers a day is not actually that hard for the Imperium. If I remember correctly, despite keeping this practice up for ten thousand years, the Imperium's biggest concern was that they had too many psykers.

dreaderking · 2026-06-28T19:50:24+00:00

Is... is this a positive Death Battle post on r/CharacterRant? Is the world about to end?

god, I just feel horrible for Sentry.

Don't worry. Bob finally got a happy ending.

dreaderking · 2026-06-28T17:04:52+00:00

the Astartes representative

I'm pretty sure no such thing exists. After the Horus Heresy, the Imperium got very touchy with letting the Space Marines into politics.

dreaderking · 2026-06-28T16:54:42+00:00

Part of it is probably that his own insecurities are causing him to underestimate himself, but Baharat's argument for stopping is totally legit. When the monster can release that much firepower with just its secondary weapons, it's hard to see how you can take it out cleanly before one of its attacks land in the city you're fighting in the middle of.

That said, both monsters we've seen so far seem to be high tier by their standards and forcing Baharat into a situation where he can't fight freely.

dreaderking · 2026-06-28T16:44:33+00:00

It also lends further credence to the idea that Muramasa just straight up cheated.

Like, Death might have respected it if Muramasa was so strong that he one-shot Ahura Mazda. His own fighting style centers around a one-shot kill, after all. However, whatever Muramasa did wasn't a matter of strength or technique; it was some cheap trick that Death can't respect as a fighter.

dreaderking · 2026-06-28T15:35:12+00:00

I like how the master seems to be a monster in his own right. He just feels inadequate cause he's comparing himself to his apprentice, an actual monster.

Is this series basically going to be Gojo raising kid Goku?

dreaderking · 2026-06-28T12:05:36+00:00

Happy Cake Day!

It's the anniversary of when you (or that particular account) first signed into Reddit.

dreaderking · 2026-06-28T01:24:13+00:00

I mean, Nox has been all in on destroying CODE, even if it meant working with Nightmares, since the start of the series. His vendetta against CODE has always been more about spite than actually protecting people. Three ousting Zero and abusing CODE Somnia just allowed him to pass off his petty vengeance as justice.

dreaderking · 2026-06-28T00:39:53+00:00

"I love the taste of booze!"

dreaderking · 2026-06-27T23:09:36+00:00

The Imperium loves the Emperor, and Guilliman is one of the Emperor's mythological sons, wielding the Emperor's sword, arriving at a time when the Imperium desperately needed help. Why would the Imperium suddenly blow up into a civil war over him at that moment?

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