Originally Posted by
Hawkeye
To get back on track, the goal post moving has become somewhat tiresome. I'm not so upset that nobody seemed to understand the actual plan at any point, Darius is a habitual liar and crossed motivations between the various actors in the situation led to various goals and interpretations based on the data they each had. If every person only has a part of the picture, its no surprise that none of them fully grasp the whole landscape until the end. That's basically fine.
It's that it doesn't seem to matter what they hit the bastard with, he seems to defy common rationale without any explanation as to how. We've been told that Darius is basically a conceptual copy that passes from one member of his family to the next in a line of succession. So he's basically a form of living magecraft and yet he's been hit with Rulebreaker, which severs magical binding and contracts, but he reappeared on Julian after a bit, seemingly no worse for wear. Then he gets nailed with Kiritsugu's origin bullet. Now as basically a demented photocopy created through magecraft, surely the magic circuit annihilating bullet that basically stops mages from working should eradicate this bugger, right? Wrong again, he just comes back as a big flamey beard giant. Neither of these things would bother me in particular, we've seen others get around them before using various methods to bypass or ignore the worst of their effects, but if we ever get an explanation as to how Darius keeps dodging things that should reasonably be the bloody end of him, I clearly missed it, cause nothing seems to stick to the bastard.