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Aeolus451 on 19 July 2016
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Faelco said:
Aeolus451 said:

I was talking about him in the overall sense. He's not a rational person for the most part but he needs to be. Personally, I'm a kind of a cold person and i don't like emotional people (overly emotional to me). From day 1, he's been too busy trying to get into Emilia's good graces and be chubby with her inner circle that he often doesn't think until he dies or made a mistake. It's evident during the "Return to the capital" and "Self-proclaimed knight natsuki" episodes.

I'm not blaming him for snapping after what happened in the newer episodes but alot of the difficulty he faces comes from his own choices during the periods of peace or periods in between deaths. Wearing a tracksuit, knowing he's going to go into a life or death situation is just idiotic. Use a bit of that big bag of coin to buy some equipment instead of hiring a bunch of wagons knowing they'll likely get attacked. 

One of the reasons why I expect him to think more rationally is because he knows he can reset back a few days after he dies, he should have become somewhat desensitized to dying and his friends dying. He knows it's not set in stone. To make the most use of his ability, he needs to think but he doesn't. My guess is that he was selected by whatever brought him there because he's not that bright and he could be manipulated easily. 

It's exactly like saying Okabe should be totally fine when you-know-who dies again and again in Steins;Gate because he will be able to go back. He broke too, and at least as much as Subaru (if you play the game instead of watching the anime, you know he breaks even more than Subaru and thinks about killing and raping his friends). It's a lot easier to say "you should be desentized to your friends dying" than to do it, especially when it keeps happening and never in a sane/clean way. The first loop in the city was already hard for a random normal guy ("Hi! Let's cut your guts a few times!"), the manor loop was awful... He thought rationally once and commited suicide (to save Remu, after she tortured and killed him), but it kept going downhill from there. The Betelgeuse loop is just disgusting, even for the viewer, so it's obvious Subaru can't think straight and coldly at this moment after all that happened to him. He's in Hell and can't escape it, having the power to live through it again doesn't make things better.

If he doesn't start using his brain, he's gonna be far worse off and all of his friends will be dead by the end of the anime. He's a thoughtless type of person which why I don't like him. Well before his sanity started to unravel a bit, he had plenty of time to use his brain but no, he didn't. He was busy trying to get that chick to like him. He hasn't put ANY serious thought into how he got there or why. I understand that to some he's incapable of thinking beyond the first obvious step because of what he went through but he's prefectly sane. Is he starting to lose it? Yes but it's no excuse. 

Also, there's many different kinds of people who react very differently to any situation. He's basically a very average self-centered person who's not that smart.