#bryan didn't make yuta soft. he taught him violence without a purpose is meaningless. and he's living a meaningless life with death riders.

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Yuta doesn't want to see himself as a pawn because he doesn't even want to be a soldier.

He wants to be an ally, a friend, maybe even a knight. He doesn't want to attack on command, he wants to protect. He wants to get in people's faces to defend someone, to accept challenges and prove himself.

Like when he accepted Swerve's challenge and Bryan had to pull him back a little bit because he was too eager. And he got his ass kicked but he still tried to defend Bryan again against Mox, Claudio, PAC, and Marina. Because that's the person he wants to be.

Yuta wants the violence he was taught to mean something, to have a purpose. But they keep going through him.