Talk:Re: Chapter 103/@comment-30368908-20161127181949/@comment-27247962-20161202104511

Arima cheered him on purely on what he thinks the person (Juuzou here) wants to be or wants to aspire to --> Shinohara for example, is somewhat of a goal for Juuzou. Arima doesn't let his compliments or supportive words be tainted by his own self-centered values or views, just as Kaneki doesn't do that.

They're both able to compliment their enemy on their reason to fight without any mal intent or insult or provocation put in such supportive words towards their enemy. They're at that point facing off because off different reasons & we'd naturally expect more hostility, but that's of no concern to Arima, because he's been fighting for reasons he doesn't even support himself, yet he still nods and does what is asked of him.

You said: He's cheering them on, but he doesn't mean it?

Close but not right. He does mean it. If Arima is asked to fight Juuzou, even though he doesn't want to, he will fight Juuzou, because that has been his upbringing, that's where he as a human is broken. he doesn't seem to have a will off his own, but takes on the will of his boss as an extension of that bosses arm. So if he's asked to fight Juuzou, he'll fight Juuzou where there's a highly likely possibility that he himself agrees with the reasons Juuzou fights for. He'll just think it's Juuzou's or his own bad luck that he was asked to face someone who he agrees with.

This was just an example and doesn't indicate that Arima canonically agrees with Juuzou, just that in certain cases Arima fights with the reasons of his higher-ups, not his own. So is it that he cheers on the beliefs & aspirations of others and not only supports those that align with his own.