User blog comment:Smash The Echidna/SFW Winter Awards 2016/@comment-5987421-20151208002531/@comment-4211788-20151215055020

After heavy criticism in previous years, I've chosen to drop Aiwa of the role of side-kick. In lore, he was never really a side-kick more so a combatant that helped Hiero perfect his tactics and occassionally assisted him in battle. Aiwa wasn't much of a fighter as well and ended up dying in a fight, side-kick is just an insult to his character.