Thread:The S/@comment-995426-20180214103908/@comment-995426-20180214151317

Hm, that's...actually a fair question. It doesn't necessarily follow that the Ashi no Himitsu is 100% factual or unbiased. I suppose it's possible that Kitsune was like a lab technician and Takeshi/Saki was like a lab experiment, where she promised the end result she was convinced would happen but could not yet prove. In that sense, perhaps "Dragon" refers only to her father, and "Dragon Warrior" refers to the experiment to cultivate her's father's new vessel. It's also entirely possible that she succeeded, but that some of her siblings were right in assessing that a human vessel cannot contain the Dragon&mdash;not necessarily because it can't physically hold the Dragon, but because of the human nature to grow mad with power and invite their own self-destruction (as both Takeshi and Saki eventually did). But it was also clear that the Dragon Warrior could have superhuman mass-killing abilities even without having consumed green elixirs, as was evident with the otherwise naturally-born Oroku Saki after he started to rebel against his father but before he received any potions of his own. However, it is concrete that Takeshi Tatsuo and Oroku Saki are different vessels of the same spirit, whether that genuinely was the Dragon or whether it was just Takeshi being groomed to host the Dragon.

It's clear that we should tackle Dragon (IDW). I made some recent edits there that I was fully convinced were objective, but now I'm not 100% certain they are. A review is in order.