Talk:Re: Chapter 79/@comment-197.37.129.119-20160605165054/@comment-10733658-20160605194320

Honestly, Anon, your reading of things is........really quite bizarre, in my opinion. It sounds to me like you're coming from a place of simply not liking a character, and therefore looking for a way to read things to justify bashing a character.

We have an explanation for the "eyes" issue, which is that Mutsuki's father felt he wasn't being given proper respect. He decided that his child wasn't looking at him with admiration and respect, so responded to this with a beating and a near drowning. There's also indication he may have molested Mutsuki, his own child. So that is pretty horrifying, and it's a little weird to see you trying to justify a father beating and molesting his child that way. Fathers are supposed to protect and care for their children, not beat them or try to drown them or leer at their bodies.

How do you read that scene as lacking emotion? Mutsuki is crying during the scene, and it is symbolized with Mutsuki quite literally stepping over a ledge and falling into darkness. It is a deeply disturbing scene, of someone descending into horror and madness. Mutsuki wakes up and panics at seeing the carnage, and then lapses into screaming and hysterical laughter. That is not an emotionless response, that is someone coming completely undone at the seams.

Children are actually more capable of violence and awful acts then you would think. They often lack a fully-formed sense of morality or impulse control, because the frontal lobe is still developing. This is the reason Criminal Justice systems tend to treat child offenders differently from adults, since they often lack the more complex levels of cognition and rational thought. Abused children, in particular, can be capable of things because their brains have become accustomed to the violence and relate this as the appropriate response.

Even so, we see that Mutsuki couldn't cope with doing these things and therefore created many layers of lies and a fractured psyche.

Ultimately, your arguments get shot down by Ishida himself, as he repeatedly shows us that monsters are not born. All the worst of the worst in the series have motivations, have horrible pasts and twisted minds. He also references numerous Psychologists and Criminologists that ascribe to such a school of thought, as opposed to the theories of in-born evil. His story repeatedly shows us that while humanity believes Ghouls are born monsters, they become it as a result of the world.

So your claim that Mutsuki is a natural-born monster is invalidated by these themes and narratives Ishida has presented.