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The truth of the matter is that Sho rarely interacts with anyone directly in canon. The first time he's shown it's a brief scene where he blows off orders and insults his peers. He calls Kitaniji Megumi, the head Reaper, "Megs", he calls the first Game Master a "bulldozer" and says that Higashizawa will eat the players rather than Erase them, and when his superiors attempt to convince him that Higashizawa is an excellent Reaper, Sho's response is "Cooperation is garbage", and then he leaves...before Megumi even begins the meeting. It is apparently not unheard of, as Megumi says to just let him go.
Later, when handed control of a weeks worth of Reaper's Game and command of all the basic Reapers he prefers to work alone to the point where some of his underlings complain about being bored. They don't have any idea of what he wants to have happen. The majority of Reapers are shown to have some form of kinship with each other, forming working partnerships or at least spending time with each other and talking about their plans. Sho does none of this. This refusal to work with others is one of his primary traits.
Joshua even remarks on Sho's lackluster treatment of the rules; "Day 1, and the GM's already putting in an appearance? Not one for tradition, are you?"
Sho even cuts off contact entirely with his superiors, and again it's dismissed as being perfectly normal for him, and even when he commits treason by summoning Taboo Noise Megumi allows it to pass by.
He does, however, show a certain twisted sort of fairness in his dealings with other people; when he stole 777's microphone he left his beloved megaphone in it's place. He also helps Neku and Josh when they are over-matched, although that appears to be more so that he can have his plans fall out his way rather than winning by default - for Sho the point of the Game is not to Erase all of the players, but to kill Josh. In addition, his willingness to listen to Hanekoma shows that he's capable of listening to others if they have information he needs or wants.
Unlike Higashizawa, and theoretically unlike other Game Masters if we take Josh's comment about tradition as correct, Sho is constantly poking his nose into what Neku and Josh are doing. This may be an attempt to keep an eye on his target, but Josh implies that it's because Sho is an attention whore. It's not enough to be the best, he also wants to be known as the best.
He does show himself to be adaptable; when Josh and Neku show up at Pork Tower, rather than where Sho intended to fight them, he rolls with it. Upon being defeated, he shows that his obsession still rules him: he uses a level i Flare to attempt to take out Josh and himself, although the sigils that he has set up allow him to be reborn as Taboo Noise himself. This, and the fact that his wings break, seem to imply that even his status as a Reaper doesn't matter in the face of his quest to win. "Fear 'n' mercy are garbage" he says.
The truth of the matter is that canon doesn't say why Sho acts the way he does. We are given his actions, but no context to fit them in. We see Sho through Joshua's eyes, and we know that Josh is an unreliable narrator due to the fact that he's lying from the moment he opens his mouth on Week 2 Day 1. We can speculate that it might be due to the fact that Reapers are implied to have once been Players, who failed to win, like Beat, who choose to become Reapers instead of being Erased. Perhaps what he lost, and knows that he lost, was so integral to his vision of himself that he has carried a grudge. This is certainly the way that I see it.
Sho, unlike the other Reapers, appears with physical mutations; his teeth are fangs and he has the black marks that spread when he becomes Taboo Noise. This implies that he may have done this dance before; fought Joshua instead of running the Game. Josh's comment about retiring him early, and the fact that his body is shown when Erased Players and Reapers disappear entirely, also gives weight to that theory. The easy answers are that he's driven by power and a superiority complex. I see this as part of the whole, and that he is additionally driven by a knowledge that he lacks something, and a desire to somehow get it back - or at least get revenge on the person who took it from him. My theory is that what he lost was the innate sense of understanding that people have which allows us to see other people as worthwhile; his humanity for lack of a better word, and that his fangs are an expression of that.
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