Talk:Tooru Mutsuki/@comment-2143738-20160604192014/@comment-27065544-20160605155212

@TheGoldenWitch

I have to partially agree with you, though I feel this is a bit more complex than that. Mutsuki remembers the 'before' and 'after', but not the events themselves, yet he knows of them somewhere in his head - otherwise he wouldn't have been able to remember where he buried the jar filled with tongues for example. In that instance he didn't freak out like he did on Rushima, yet he was obviously distressed, which could mean his psychosis can at least partially emerge without him going on a rampage. I have to guess that when that happens, his mind simply does not fully register reality - it's filtered by his 'fake' persona and then stored in some deep dark corner of his head.

I've seen a similar, but far less gruesome, example of different behaviour in another manga - character suffers abuse, and her main personality retreats in itself and lets another, braver and more ruthless fake persona handle stressful situations. Mutsuki's case seems to work in reverse - the MAIN persona is the psychotic freak, and the FAKE one is the one that was born out of a need to blur everything with lies, and is the caring and gentle Mutsuki we've all known thus far.

Whatever the truth is, one thing I can say for sure - Torso was a mere appetizer, the main course was Mutsuki all along.