Talk:Kishou Arima/@comment-27247962-20160321221530/@comment-27247962-20160322193152

Just another thought passing my mind:

So Arima has very bad eyesight. According to fans this wasn't the case in JACK. Fans blame it on a sickness (Retinitis pigmentosa).

Now the thought that flashed by is that Arima might have conciously decided to blind himself.

[http://www.ranker.com/review/what-a-blind-person-needs-is-not-a-teacher-but-another-self-/13370776?ref=name_287136 What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self. ]

“There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.” "If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it." “There's none so blind as those who will not listen.”   Just a few sayings that make you widen your perspective on the matter of "blindness" & possible motives for Arima.

Just as eyes deceive, he might've decided to stay the way he is by taking his eyesight & living by his other senses. Hearing, touching, smelling are not senses that deceive you.

It might even have been a way to make hostile encounters more enjoyable for him, like some we're implying. (looking for a 'flashy' end).

REASON i want to doubt an eye-sickness:

It's the word 'prodigy' that makes it unclear for me.

He was already considered a prodigy in JACK. (good eyesight)

He still is a prodigy to this day in RE. (bad eyesight)

He remained a prodigy through the process of getting more blind.

However I turn it, that doesn't sound logical.

If you rely on your eyes for 16 as a prodigy, than I can assume your way of using your eyes might even be more devastating when you lose it, since you use your eyesight in even more impressive ways then a normal human.

So however you turn it, he should've been having a rough time, when his eyesight gradually gets worse, but he seemingly never had any problems making that transition to his other senses.

That is fishy to me.

So if your eyesight gradually decreases, by my logic I assume it's more difficult to hone your other senses. BUT when you choose on your own accord to blind yourself in one go, I assume you have a better chance of honing your other senses faster.

I know it's farfetched & i'm pulling a lot of 'could be's' & 'what if's', but since there's no real clarity (not that i know off, you might enlighten me again) this might as well be a possible assumption.