Talk:Issei Hyoudou (True Self)/@comment-28884330-20170706165932/@comment-28884330-20170706180125

You know, this argument would only work if the assumptions you're making here were in any way true, which makes me wonder if we read the same novel.

Taking into account that this Issei has the same past as canon one (correct me if I'm wrong), the training argument is hugely flawed, because you're speaking as if canon Issei doesn't train, which is blatantly false. Canon Issei has pretty much spent most of his time training to become stronger because he has no natural talent, as has been mentioned MANY times in the LN, always making allusions to training with Yuuto, for example. So, the only way there would be any real difference caused by training between canon Issei and this one is if your Issei had been training from way before the start of the story.

The second argument is just as bad, because it's based on a notion that canon Issei sees the girls as nothing more than fap material and has no real feelings for them, a wild assumption that only works if you haven't read any of the LN. Food for thought. Deep affection and lust are in no way exclusive, so him not "lusting" after the girls has absolutely no bearing on having deeper relationships with more "understanding".