I thought it was super interesting how Sora kept pointing out that everyone was ignoring the first's teachings by bringing the monster for a trial, forcing them to accept either a lack of capability or a betrayal of their purpose. Equally interesting that everyone else deflected it as insolence, either unwilling to accept the contradiction or pushing it out of mind. Gozu seemed to start thinking about it, but I wouldn't expect anything from him.
@AliceCheshire said in Revenge of the Soul Eater Vol 4 Discussion:
I don't think Sora would go for that because he seems to view Ema (I think that was her name, at least?) as something of a mother figure.
I don't think he sees her as a mother figure, per se. It's more that he now understands that he treated her unfairly after his mother died, and he is grateful that she was the only one who stood up for him when his father decided to exile him. Despite the trope of the wicked step-mother, the fact she did that when others (most notably Gozu and Cecil) stood by and didn't even try to argue on his behalf, and that she did so even after receiving nothing but his resentment and hate, speaks volumes to her character.
I do wonder what Sora would have done if she hadn't been part of the group being attacked. He indicated that he wouldn't have stepped in to save Cecil, and that he saved the kid is more down to circumstance. If she had been absent, would he still have stepped in to save the kid?
