I thought Saito, and in a very different way Souma, had very interesting arcs around honor and finding new meanings for it.
and for Kondou and Hijikata, the honor seems muddled by their ambition
That was why I struggled so much with the Hijikata route. I kept calling him the Bad Decisions Bear because he not only makes consistently terrible decisions but drags everyone else into them. But at a certain point something shifted and I started seeing things from his perspective and reread his route and cried from beginning to end.
And I have zero patience for Kondou, and the hardest thing for me about the Okita route is that at no point do you get to explain to Okita that Kondou was a *terrible* foster dad who treated him very poorly. But I guess Okita will never be in a place to hear that and in a sense it doesn't matter.
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and for Kondou and Hijikata, the honor seems muddled by their ambition
That was why I struggled so much with the Hijikata route. I kept calling him the Bad Decisions Bear because he not only makes consistently terrible decisions but drags everyone else into them. But at a certain point something shifted and I started seeing things from his perspective and reread his route and cried from beginning to end.
And I have zero patience for Kondou, and the hardest thing for me about the Okita route is that at no point do you get to explain to Okita that Kondou was a *terrible* foster dad who treated him very poorly. But I guess Okita will never be in a place to hear that and in a sense it doesn't matter.