Thread:SpectrumRay16/@comment-26091443-20150923010347/@comment-26091443-20151215195044

SpectrumRay16 wrote: I didn't mean he was "forced" into cooperating, i mean he joined them of his own volition but he was given that commandment to ensure he would not betray them. AKA: They didn't trust him as much as the rest of the demons, until after Mel left.

It could be the case with Mel and Zel, although im sort of wondering how this is going to go down... for all intensive purposes i think they will have teh same ability regadrless of the explanation. It could even be that these two are twins, 1 being older and 1 being younger. Eh, if the Demon King made him one of the Ten Commandments I think they'd already be beyond a point of mistrust like that. Anyone can turn traitor and he seems perfectly willing to kill off the giants along with everyone else. But only backstory will tell.

I've said this before, but I think the Japanese just take them being twins as a given. In Shokugeki no Soma, for example, there are a pair of twin brothers (one blond one black haired fittingly enough) and younger one calls him "nii-chan" and people are always taking about him being in his older brothers shadow. Meliodas calling himself older with them being twins is just standard. So, with everything we know about them I think it's just makes more sense to assume they're twins until given a reason not to.

Edit: Though, I do think there's a pretty good chance of Dolor's commandment cursing him during his big fight with Diane as maybe he has a change of heart, so whether or not it was given to him for the express purpose matters less to me. Maybe I should have lead with that.