Finally Defeated! | Couple First Time Watching Re:Zero | S3 E12
Added 2025-10-01 21:03:30 +0000 UTCWe won't miss Regulus π
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It would've been better if the anime included all this info or at least some part of it. We saw Geuse's past, and it made his ending feel all that more impactful. And speaking of the witch factors corrupting individuals, we wonder what's the deal with Subaru. It seems as though his powers don't affect him π€
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2025-10-02 21:31:58 +0000 UTCThis time the amount of cut content is too long to write here, but I'll try to summarize it a bit. In the moment that Regulus flies up into the air, we have a chapter written from his perspective, and a over 1000 words rant of his thoughts which reveals some of his past. It's very messy and confusing because Regulus is the one saying it, but it implies that Regulus grew up dirt poor in a tiny and impoverished village with a family that had several siblings. His family was somewhat dysfunctional and there was barely any food to go around, but at the end of the day, he was loved by his family. However, he had a pathological fear of being pitied by others, and he resented his family and the other villagers for seeing him as a pitiful and poor child. Then he "received the witch factor." He killed his family and his whole village, and all the neighboring villages, but took his childhood friend along with him as his first wife. He was comforted by how she never smiled, as it meant to him that she didn't look down on him. However, eventually she committed suicide, and smiled for the first time as she died. This is why he now has a pathology associated with his wives smiling, and forbids them from doing so. I think Regulus had a lot of mental issues but wasn't necessarily evil at the beginning. However, as an unstable and impoverished child receiving the power of invincibility, immortality, and infinite power corrupted him. He would never feel pain again, need to eat, or receive any consequences for his actions. Anything that annoyed him, he could just destroy. Once he aged to a young adult he figured out how to affix his heart to his wives' hearts, allowing him to stop ever turning off his power, and would never age again. He persisted for over 100 years this way. It wasn't just his body that was "time stopped", he never mentally grew past that original point, the child with anger issues who was paranoid of everyone looking down on him. His character really fascinates me because though the way he ends up is unmistakably an evil monster, I feel like there are many people in our world, especially young children, who would end up the same way if given the same power he was, instead of psychiatric help. Even if he is a rather extreme case, I think most people would be corrupted to some extent if given those powers, and our pains, hardships, and physiological needs were erased.
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2025-10-02 04:22:54 +0000 UTC
