Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1351982-20130515183016/@comment-5551986-20130528100243

Braccas wrote: I don't know, Mayuri blamed Yamamoto for his failure to kill Ywatch. It seems more likely that Yama could have killed him, wanted to kill him, but failed to. Maybe he hesitated and gave Ywatch a chance to live, maybe he allowed him to live because he felt saddened by all the death (we've already seen that Yamamoto referred to his past self as a monster). Or maybe he blamed himself for the war and let Ywatch live as atonement?

Thats a good theory!

Then again, if you call your cause "the righteous" one. What makes you evil enough to condemn an ENTIRE race to extinction. It wouldn't help SS if they just wiped them out, it would make them look like the more malicious race of the two, it would make them feel that way too.

Its like in the Crusades, the Holy Crusaders claimed their cause to be the righteous one, when they killed thousands upon thousands of muslims of the Jihad. For what? At the end of the day they may "seem" like heretics, evildoers, but they are still human, it doesn't help to try to prove your cause to be the more "good" one, if you kill everything in your path.

Yeah, if you see Yamamoto turn around when Royd is apologizing, and with the ensuing conversation with Yhwach after, it would seem that Yamamoto may have let Yhwach live as atonement, when Yamamoto started the war. If thats the case, its a shame Yhwach is too ruthless to have let Yamamoto live.