by Noodles » Sat Jan 14, 2006 1:24 pm
Even though Gaius is a mysterious person, to me his character doesn't seem to fit with the type of person to go around lobbing peoples heads off. He pushed Kloe away when he had a vision of the murder she commited and seemed suitably disgusted with it; when you first go to Estrana you can see him taking the time to talk to a little girl (or boy, can't remember); And generally from the way he speaks he seems like kind hearted person... I also think that Gaius is too strong to allow something to posess him all the time.
On the other hand, we have these few incidents and points:
1. When Dancing Violet, Kygar and Scatha are fighting over that other shadow sword in Lide, Rhue becomes pocessed by something still not yet explained and knocks the sword out of reach.
2. When Rhue is locked up at the Blana Sera Temple (I forget the name of the city.. But its where we see Trazuin go after Kalmar). The Phantom Slasher apparently bursts into Rhue room, allowing Rhue to get out... However when he leaves the room, Dirk and Scatha are in the corridor. If the Phantom Slasher had really opened the door for Rhue, Dirk and Scatha should have seen the PS right there... But they act as if they've seen no one; I'm not sure how, but I believe that the phantom slasher AS Rhue was able to open the door himself. Thus Dirk and Scatha wouldn't have seen anyone before Rhue came out.
3. We are left with the cliff hanger of Gaius asking Rhue to hand over his sword at the end of Ep5 (Which I might add he does without lobbing off Rhue's head like the PS might have done). People suggest that Gaius tells Rhue that he is the PS only to confuse him while Gaius is infact the PS... But if that was the case, why would Gaius retrieve Rhue's sword when it was stuck in Slade's body, give it back to Rhue while he was sleeping, only to suddenly turn around and ask for it back? Why go to so much trouble to retrieve Rhue's sword anyway..? It was in the middle of a Blood Lyn stronghold!! Also the fact that the PS was able to pull the sword from Slade's body when the healers could not, seems to suggest to me that the PS had a familarity with that sword (Which of course he would if the PS was infact Rhue).
4. In the forest towards the end of Ep5, Rhue camps with Scatha, Dirk and Gaius... goes to sleep... Phantom slasher appears and kills people... Rhue wakes up and he is no longer with his allies. Also someone said before Rhue always seems to oversleep around the time we see the PS, or the PS just seems to hang around Rhue like a bad smell
5. Rhue seems to have a sword facination, he does not like to be without it if you hadn't noticed and is particular about obtaining his own sword rather then just picking up any old sword
6. To my knowledge, no one but Rhue has actually seen the PS up close and lived..
The Shadow swords were previously described as evil by Kloe, I think this is the reason why.. When Rhue was given that sword all that time ago its or something to do with that sword has been taking posessing him to go around killing people