Shirou Kanzaki never struck me as that mentally stable to begin with - I've made fun of the fact with friends that he seems incapable of actually gathering thirteen Riders in one Rider War on his own to complete the numbers. He got lucky in canon with the Alternatives and Gorou!Zolda, but that is in no way to his credit.
Honestly, my personal theory was that Shirou's been through the Rider War, watching Yui die over and over again and performing despicable deeds to the point where it's kind of broken him even more than he already was. The Rider War, for all of his inability for him to actually LOSE it permenently against his will.. he can't win. It's gotten to the point where he's no longer quite capable of giving it his all and is wallowing in depression. It's why he's to the point where all it took was the end of the TV series timeline to shove him over into being downright suicidal-ish. I have to figure an early loop of the Rider War would have a much more active and manipulative Kanzaki on the ball more than the TV series.
Also, if he screws up too badly, you end up with a timeline where they're all lawyers or suddenly all the Riders are from a place called Ventara or something. And yet all those seem more likely to me than Ren cheating on Eri with Yui. (Also, why can I just see Shirou sending Mirror Monsters and such after Ren as the overprotective older brother?)
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Date: 2013-09-17 05:13 pm (UTC)Honestly, my personal theory was that Shirou's been through the Rider War, watching Yui die over and over again and performing despicable deeds to the point where it's kind of broken him even more than he already was. The Rider War, for all of his inability for him to actually LOSE it permenently against his will.. he can't win. It's gotten to the point where he's no longer quite capable of giving it his all and is wallowing in depression. It's why he's to the point where all it took was the end of the TV series timeline to shove him over into being downright suicidal-ish. I have to figure an early loop of the Rider War would have a much more active and manipulative Kanzaki on the ball more than the TV series.
Also, if he screws up too badly, you end up with a timeline where they're all lawyers or suddenly all the Riders are from a place called Ventara or something. And yet all those seem more likely to me than Ren cheating on Eri with Yui. (Also, why can I just see Shirou sending Mirror Monsters and such after Ren as the overprotective older brother?)