To this day I still don't understand Daiji's character development.

So... if I remember correctly, things were something like this:

· He starts having insecurities and losing against his evil side

Me: Okay, relatively standard

· He later loses his dark side and manages to become "pure"/fight for justice

Me: A classic development, no complaints

·Due to the absence of his dark side he becomes someone authoritarian and believes he always does the right thing, in the process becoming more erratic and violent

Me: ???

·He finally recovers his evil side and manages to balance his soul (I think that's was the idea) becoming someone "good" again and returns to fight alongside his brothers

Me: ?????????????

I know Revice isn't the public's favorite and as someone who watched this season I know it has some pretty obvious flaws. But Daji's case baffles me because the problem isn't the writing (well, at the core it is) but the fact that the set up is strange

He loses his evil side and I guess the idea is to convey that he turns into someone too correct that leads to something evil? On a practical level Daji is not someone good after losing his dark/demon version but becomes someone proud/arrogant and violent (there are more factors for this, I know, but in general things develop like this) basically he evolves into the worst version of himself

And It's very confusing, because the imagery they use (In the armors) to convey each facet of his development is counterintuitive after Kamen Rider Holy Live. The final version, which should be a balance at the end feels a bit out of place because Daji up until then did not evolve but continually fell and fell deep down

One can argue that cases like Vice are the same but he establishes himself as a separate identity from Ikki despite sharing a body and there's the fact that he really didn't seem to be inherently evil. Daji arc on the other hand makes a constant attempt to convey the idea that he goes through different facets of his personality. Literally his demonic version is a reflection of him. Yes, it works similarly to Vice in how many liberties and things they can do, but while the viewer sees Vice as Ikki's partner, Dark Daji is portrayed as someone who completes Daji's flaws despite being his "evil" nature. A part of himself that guides him. Well, technically it applies to the other demons too xD, but I mean that the dichotomy of their personalities is much more accentuated as the main premise of the character

I hope I'm correctly conveying what I want to say but basically: I don't understand why Kamen Rider Holy Live is portrayed as so "pure" if Daiji later deteriorates much more and only manages to remain stable when he fuses his "dark" side and his theoretically good (but also evil/bad) side