Talk:Rance: The Quest for Hikari/@comment-30430789-20161116230931/@comment-27031093-20161118014038

>Sill pushing him to be a hero despite himself, mostly because she sees him as one and despite his own impuslses, he can't help but try to live up to her expectations.

That's a great way of describing it. I always have trouble putting Rance and Sill's relationship into words because, despite the fact that I do honestly enjoy it, it's hard to justify why Rance cares about her at all.

Rance really starts to change for the better in Sengoku, and that continues in Quest and IX. His character development doesn't really make him become any less of a dick (he pulls some pretty horrible stunts in both Quest and IX), but it causes him to realize that he's taken a lot of the women in his life for granted, and that his actions have had lasting negative consequences in their lives, which makes him reavaluate his feelings for them and realize that he genuinely does love them and wants them to be happy. The result is that most of his relationships with major female characters have become a lot healthier, and Rance himself has managed to outgrow his weird codependent fixation on Sill and become more stable. In particular, he makes some big strides in his relationships with Kanami, Shizuka, Lia and Feliss. He's still a childish, sex-crazed brute, just one who has matured enough to learn how to take responsibility for his actions and acknowledge other people as important to him.

I assume the fact that Rance no longer seems to have any need for Sill any more by the time of X will be the focus of her "subplot", kind of like how it is in Kichikuou.