Merlin
Explosion Skick Power
Here is my analysis of the different Kis used and how they are used ethically.
RinJyuKen begins on the principle of creating power (domination) through fear in others. That's what the screams were for, and they were gathered even after the Kenma were free. But the Kenma showed that to progress further in RinJyuKen you have to turn that fear upon yourself and explore how it affects you. You come out hating yourself for it which gives you a means to conquer it, and you become jealous of people who don't have that fear and want to be rid of it.
Once those negative emotions are mastered completely, you have no fear within yourself or of others anymore, and you're on top. Lio could have been content to stay that way forever and probably beat the Gekirangers. Then Long took him further.
Fear and doubt are what make you human, and Long tried to separate Rio from the ability to feel for anything at all. Mugendou is to cut yourself off from all feelings good or bad, and Rio almost did with GenJyu.
GekiJyu follow a similar path to RinJyu except that it negates personal fears through optimism and selfless detachment instead of absorbing and channeling them. RinJyu teaches that it's all about you, GekiJyu that's it all about others. The less you think of yourself and the more you feel for the suffering of others, the more powerful you become to defend the world.
In the end the two combined, which I see as the need for focus on the self to be balanced with focus on others. Only this time, there was no evil need to conquer others with it. A famous Tao te Ching quote is "The domination of others is the achievement of (worldly) power; the domination of the self is the achievement of Tao." Evil Rin was about both halves of that phrase. Good Rin was only about the second half, and combined with Geki's desire to protect others, the Rangers achieve perfect balance inside and out.
Shigeki is total concentration on the self, without the desire to conquer others, but without the compassion to aid them too. That was what Gou created 10 years ago, and he couldn't go back from it. Miki's Changer probably showed for the first time in history that Shigeki's power can also be used to defend others alongside Geki, so Gou joined them. In the end, Gou was stuck with ShiGeki so he couldn't become balanced like the triangle, and he was still selfish enough to only want the best of the best attacks.
So:
Rinki = improve self, control others
Geki = reject self, defend others
ShiGeki = improve self only ("dangerously close to Rinki"), later also defend others (but realized too late for balance)
JyuKen = Improve self and defend others
KenSan, being a miraculous ability, doesn't apply as it is just a physical extension of regular Geki. It has no ethics because of how abrupt and spontaneous it is.
RinJyuKen begins on the principle of creating power (domination) through fear in others. That's what the screams were for, and they were gathered even after the Kenma were free. But the Kenma showed that to progress further in RinJyuKen you have to turn that fear upon yourself and explore how it affects you. You come out hating yourself for it which gives you a means to conquer it, and you become jealous of people who don't have that fear and want to be rid of it.
Once those negative emotions are mastered completely, you have no fear within yourself or of others anymore, and you're on top. Lio could have been content to stay that way forever and probably beat the Gekirangers. Then Long took him further.
Fear and doubt are what make you human, and Long tried to separate Rio from the ability to feel for anything at all. Mugendou is to cut yourself off from all feelings good or bad, and Rio almost did with GenJyu.
GekiJyu follow a similar path to RinJyu except that it negates personal fears through optimism and selfless detachment instead of absorbing and channeling them. RinJyu teaches that it's all about you, GekiJyu that's it all about others. The less you think of yourself and the more you feel for the suffering of others, the more powerful you become to defend the world.
In the end the two combined, which I see as the need for focus on the self to be balanced with focus on others. Only this time, there was no evil need to conquer others with it. A famous Tao te Ching quote is "The domination of others is the achievement of (worldly) power; the domination of the self is the achievement of Tao." Evil Rin was about both halves of that phrase. Good Rin was only about the second half, and combined with Geki's desire to protect others, the Rangers achieve perfect balance inside and out.
Shigeki is total concentration on the self, without the desire to conquer others, but without the compassion to aid them too. That was what Gou created 10 years ago, and he couldn't go back from it. Miki's Changer probably showed for the first time in history that Shigeki's power can also be used to defend others alongside Geki, so Gou joined them. In the end, Gou was stuck with ShiGeki so he couldn't become balanced like the triangle, and he was still selfish enough to only want the best of the best attacks.
So:
Rinki = improve self, control others
Geki = reject self, defend others
ShiGeki = improve self only ("dangerously close to Rinki"), later also defend others (but realized too late for balance)
JyuKen = Improve self and defend others
KenSan, being a miraculous ability, doesn't apply as it is just a physical extension of regular Geki. It has no ethics because of how abrupt and spontaneous it is.
