Talk:Kishou Arima/@comment-26986431-20160307101940/@comment-10733658-20160307132706

I think the issue with discussing common/normal morality, and applying it to Arima is very much like applying such a thing to early-series Juuzou. Saying that his job is his life kind of doesn't really capture the full scale of things, from what little we know about the Garden and about Arima himself.

Arima has been actively working as an Investigator since the age of 15, which is illegal on so many fronts it makes my head spin. He was a child, out there being sent to kill and literally his only experiences close to a normal adolescence were during undercover missions like the one in Jack. Arima hints that he's never had a normal life, and he kind of....clearly doesn't know what to do with one. In the 17 years he's been actively working out in the open, he's pretty much been All Business. This isn't completely his choice, since Hirako gives us a little insight into how Arima doesn't write anything in his Will because.....he doesn't have anything to write. In spite of actively trying to think of something to write, it's something that remains beyond his reach.

So Arima is a child soldier, raised as a weapon meant to kill and only kill, and so utterly isolated that he has absolutely nothing. Almost everyone is either jealous of him or holds him up for this amazing, untouchable idol. There are only a handful of people he seems to have anything close to a normal relationship with, mostly people that are also considered "special".

He's absolutely a product of V's upbringing, and what they wanted him to be. In Jack, he hints a lot at having absolutely no control over his own life. His superiors tell him where to go, what to do, and expect him to remain unattached and alone. He is resigned to this, and accepts that he could die at any time. He isn't even sad about it, it's just....how things are. Furuta and Rize show us that this seems to be typical, through their anger and rebellions against being controlled.

So Arima is a person that has actively been groomed to not have a moral compass, to only have obedience to his masters, and has never really known anything else in his entire life. Plus, now they have been actively working to /replace/ him through the Quinx project, likely because there's wrong with him. (Hair prematurely grey, problem with his eyes)