Daigotsu Gyoken + Ominous Armor

L5R CCG Rules board, 23 March 2014

A topic from AEG's L5R CCG Rules forum, copied for Oracle of the Void from a copy of the forum saved in October 2015, so pages it didn't save are missing. Players' names are left out; the rules officials are named. Rulings are as they stood on these dates; later rulings, the rulebooks and the Rules Archive may differ.

A player, 23 March 2014

Daigotsu Gyoken XP 3: After Gyoken enters play, lose 3 Honor. Negate Gyoken's first destruction each game from another player's card.

Ominous Armor; Before another player's card destroys this Personality, destroy this Item instead.

My question is thus: Which trait goes off first in case Gyoken is destroyed? Do I get to choose? Does "First Time" in Gyoken's trait supersede the armor?

Jon Palmer (rules official), 23 March 2014

Daigotsu Gyoken XP 3: After Gyoken enters play, lose 3 Honor. Negate Gyoken's first destruction each game from another player's card.

Ominous Armor; Before another player's card destroys this Personality, destroy this Item instead.

My question is thus: Which trait goes off first in case Gyoken is destroyed? Do I get to choose? Does "First Time" in Gyoken's trait supersede the armor?

Edit: Under Discussion