

In "The Seven Deadly Sins", after the Sins were branded as traitors and the
holy knights took over, they each went their separate ways and into hiding.
Ban was imprisoned eventually. He stayed there for years even though he could
escape. He only got out when he got the word the Meliodas was out and looking
for them.

Ever since he came out, he's been trying to look for a way to revive Elaine. I
was wondering why he stayed in the prison for so long if he still had such an
important thing to do. Why waste all that time when he could have looked for
finding a way to revive her.


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Why didn't Ban look for Elaine instead of staying in prison?


When Ban escapes from prison he explains that he allowed himself to be
imprisoned because back then he craved pain. This gave him, in a twisted way,
pleasure but he grew tired of it. When he heard Meliodas was nearby, he
escaped because following him would be more fun than being locked in a cell
with bars through his limbs barely being fed.

It takes visiting the after life, having his team fight the resurrected
Helbram, and fighting with Captain to decide to go out on his own to resurrect
her. He is obviously more than willing to take any opportunity to bring her
back (even betraying his team) if he observes an opportunity. This seems to
indicate that he gave up for a while and did not pursue that goal because he
did not know how to bring her back. He didn't seem to have a known way to
bring her back but since going off on his own, he has started to search
desperately. I would expect he did the same before going to prison.

Keep in mind that, for an immortal man and long-lived fairies, 5 years isn't a
very long time (even though it took much less time to fall for each other).
This was almost like taking a (pleasant?) vacation when he had no clear time
constraint on his project despite it's obvious importance to him. I would
assume their was some guilty and self-contempt involved too.


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I guess it ties in with the fact that he wasn't looking for a way to revive
her back before they were disbanded. It seemed as if he was looking for a way
to keep her off his mind, while we tries to keep himself together. I agree
with you though, it does seem a bit out of character if he were to be relaxing
and slacking off. I believe at some point he does mention that being with
Meliodas did help him keep his mind off of Elaine and helped him get himself
together.

Also as a side note, being part of the 7 Deadly Sins was a huge time
commitment. He probably did not have enough time to go looking around for the
"Horn of Cernunnos". It would also make sense that he avoided the Horn if he
knew it was in the Capital since he is wanted. As for why he locked himself up
instead of looking for alternatives ways? It could just go back to getting
himself together and being in the right mental state to cope with his loss.
Ban is surprisingly very nonchalant when it comes to all of this, and it could
be an effect of him training himself during this time.


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