i wish arena ultimax's plural stuff was fully intentional and thought out cuz they could've cooked so hard with on top of heavily focusing on labrys and sho's parallels in episode p3 ALSO bringing up the parallels between shadow labrys and minazuki like they're both protector headmates and (while it's harder to determine with shabrys since she has like five minutes of screentime in ultimax 😭) have basically dedicated their entire existence to JUST keeping their respective system's host safe and that's basically their only real source of identity. like c'monnnnnn,,,,,,,