Okay, you are obviously misunderstanding me. Yes. I realize they use it as a weapon. But, to be fair? Everyone uses their aspect as a weapon. Vriska weaponizes her opponent's luck. Aradia used her Time powers as a weapon to slow Jack. John has used The Windy Thing to fight. Everyone uses their aspect as a weapon in some point in time. Dave's more important function, rather than just basic combat, is protecting his session through the creation of stable time loops in an active manner, much like Aradia created time loops in her session (though in a much more passive manner) which has always led me to believe that Knight/Maid(Page) is a combo. But I'm not going to get into that.



He uses HIS life as a weapon. Taichi was not above risking himself bodily harm to protect anyone. The idiot was eager to throw himself into danger if it meant saving his friends. SkullGreymon would be how he inverted this aspect since, if we go with how DoL is portraying a Knight of Life to be, then he was ENDANGERING the life of his partner and team. That tends to happen when you don't embrace your aspect, you fuck it up. Much like Eridan as the Prince of Hope.



You can't exactly claim that it ISN'T Knight's class feature. Because, hell, we don't know their class feature. At this point, a lot of stuff is speculation. You can claim that certain things are canon and certain things aren't, but until the Knight features are actually revealed in a way that isn't rather casually from Aradia about Dave's class/aspect combo in specific you really have no right to criticize a sound interpretation.



Yes, Yamato did rise to the occassion, but he was never as devoted to protecting them as Taichi was. Taichi was /all about/ protecting his friends and team. I mean, that's what caused part of Matt's depression in the first place. He saw Takeru being all close to Taichi because Taichi was devoted to EVERYONE on the team and saw Takeru replacing him with someone who was more able. Obviously Yamato cares about his friends, friendship and all, but Taichi doesn't just /care/ about them. He puts his life on the line for them CONSTANTLY. Not to say Yamato doesn't, but he's a bit more wary. A bit less headstrong.



Beyond that, it's just down to a mix and match game. The other sets of characters have been released and you can go look at them. There are twelve kids and not a lot of titles to go around without copying them and ruining the cohesiveness of the session. She wanted to use canon titles and there are only so many. 'Bard' was mostly chosen because of Yamato's own affinity for instruments in 02 (and even in the original Adventure with his harmonica). And then Time is one of the key aspects that you need, along with Space. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to start a scratch.



Also, you're kind of proving the Bard POINT with "Even as using X as a weapon he is one of the more powerful chosen who eliminated several enemies on his own." Since Bard is a wildcard class that can show IMMENSE POWER when under duress. Which is Yamato. He showed immense inner strength under duress and managed to overcome his depression with the help of his friends.



I honestly can't see how you're being open minded, honestly. Mostly because you're trying to back things like the Knight class into something that we can't even prove to be fact. Aradia said this:



"ARADIA: the knight of time is not necessarily the tactician

ARADIA: he is a powerful warrior class which exploits the flow of time as a weapon "



Which is not something that can be canonical in full. It really can't. It's not developed enough. It's an offhand comment that she made to Dave. Until we see something much like the UU/Roxy conversation in where they were fully explained these classes are open to interpretation.