Talk:Seidou Takizawa/@comment-98.145.163.169-20161020031103/@comment-10733658-20161020115146

^ He's a tricky one to nail down, that much is true. I also disagree with the label of Schizophrenia, which involves altered perceptions of reality. His grasp of reality is relatively there, but rather his mind has been damaged as a result of the extreme trauma he's endured.

His turning on Tatara definitely rules out full-blown Stockholm Syndrome, but at the same time I definitely find some of his behaviors interesting. Like I said, he heavily imitates Eto to a pathological degree. He imitates her mannerisms, spouts her ideology, mimics the way she talks to certain people (ie: Hinami), and engages in the same kind of psychological warfare/speech making that she does. He didn't do any of those kinds of things in the original series, making it likely he picked them up as a result of his captivity.

The psychology of Captivity is tricky business, because it significantly alters a person's mind. It's a survival mechanism, but it definitely screws the person up and distorts their way of thinking. At this point, Takizawa's mind is definitely twisted and irrational. Yes, he's capable of lucid behavior and complex thinking/planning......but he's prone to wild behavioral changes, and nonsensical ideas. I mean, his whole "Hero" plan makes absolutely no sense. It comes across less as a literal scheme, or more of a vague Fantasy he'd clung to. It doesn't match with anything he'd done prior, and seems to have come literally out of nowhere.

And Narcissistic Personality Disorder is really......not likely at all. The disorder is heavily defined by the individual lacking empathy, which definitely doesn't match with Takizawa. He ended up in this whole mess because he cared about others. In the past, I don't think he was mentally ill so much as young, immature, and probably a bit spoiled. He had self-confidence issues, probably compounded by Japan's incredibly competitive academic environments.