Of Men and Itty Bitty Men
What you are about to read may shock, nay, even scare you. Try to stay with me, brave readers. Remember: the truth is out there!
Meet Caesar.
Caesar is Akihiko Sanada's ascendant persona. He's a champ among champs, a real imperator for the ages, and he looks pretty Roman, too. Okay, so it's a little overdone, a little college kid going out for Halloween, but we're chilling with it. We're chilling, we're -- wait.
What in all holy hell is sitting inside of our fair Caesar?
Is that -- it is. That is a teeny, tiny, itty, bitty man.
Meet Li'l Caesar.
Okay, I have no idea who or what that guy is. He appears to be all black with a red mask, but it's not the mask of the Emperor Arcana, as far as I can tell. He's sitting a bit, er, primly. Yes, let's go with primly. He also has his hand up near his face. I hypothesize he's taking part in one of two activities:
He's thinking very hard.
Or he's drinking a cup of tea.
Now, this second shot of Li'l Caesar shows a slightly different pose. He's still sitting -- primly. But this time, he doesn't seem to be thinking especially hard, nor is he sipping a nice cuppa Earl Grey. He's sitting back, observing the action, having a day out with his homeboy Big Caesar.
So the question becomes -- who is Li'l Caesar?
The Hunt for Li'l Caesar
I've thought long and hard about the little man inside of the big imperator. There are several factors we have to take into consideration. For instance, why did he choose to live inside a persona? Is he like a mech pilot inside a giant robot, or does he merely hang around like a parasite in a hippo's intestines? Is he whispering strategies to Big Caesar?(Because just between me and you, there were plenty of times he should have ordered a "Maziodyne" instead of a "Ziodyne". I'm just saying.)
Now, Caesar kicks in after a certain character's death, so one could probably hypothesize that he's the spirit of the dead person. But that seems a little cheap to me. For one, why would the Dead Dude hang around? And aren't personas just another aspect of the wielder themselves, thus making this strictly a figment of Akihiko's brain or personality or whatever?
And if that's true, and it is all Akihiko -- then why is part of him a little pilot inside a giant ROMAN GUNDAM?? The truth is, we may never know who Li'l Caesar really is: dead dude, Roman Gundam Pilot, or Tea Aficionado. I personally believe we were never meant to know. Perhaps to know would taint our view of Akihiko, nay, persona-users themselves.
Or it might give away his childhood obsession with Gundam Wing.
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