Given that at the end Dios was also trying to keep Utena from succeeding (stay here ... stop struggling), I think Dios really did probably become Akio with the passing of time.
I read that as a deliberate taunt, to get her up and moving again, rather than a genuine attempt to stop her. He was saying infuriating things (you poor thing, you tried so hard, but you're only a girl) rather than calming ones.
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Date: 5 August 2005 07:22 pm (UTC)I read that as a deliberate taunt, to get her up and moving again, rather than a genuine attempt to stop her. He was saying infuriating things (you poor thing, you tried so hard, but you're only a girl) rather than calming ones.