Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25787298-20170117230439/@comment-25787298-20170118001540

"Made-up reasons" was just me poorly phrasing "theories". I should've just said that. With my history on the topic, it does indeed come off as rude. I'll change that now.

As for what you bring to the table, thank you Haro.

You bring up some points that I had forgotten about, such as what he was doing during his time on the rooftops. My argument here though would be that many of those can be resolved indirectly (for the reader, that is). Those resolutions that require him though, would not be.

To dodge the miles of text I may end up typing, it seems Ishida may have written himself into a corner here. I'm more stuck on "how" above all. If that can be properly explained, then all is well. I don't want him to be dead, nor do I feel like he's better off dead. He's probably my favorite character.

I just feel like with such a seemingly clean-cut offing, it's too hard to consider how surviving such a scene is legitimately possible (err, by the series' standards, of course). He really is in LIMBO.

Why does Ishida always do this? Just kill them or don't! The "wtf, they're alive?!" loses its zing after several recycles.