Misha's behavior
Since the Blu Ray volume 7 came out, I have been doing an analysis to the character of Mikhail since some doubts I had about him were answered after reading it.
At first, I thought that he was a little brat with a manipulative smile and a cold heart (such as Jack). Then we learned about his past, his mother, what Moreau did, etc. And I began to understand him, but I still had many questions about Misha's actions...
In this example, we see him changing his mood in a blink.
This is uncommon for a kid of his age. He was clearly trying to appeal to the soft side of his brother and after seeing that it didn't work, he changed the subject and continue as if nothing had happened.
You can see this conduct in young kids or babies because they know it works and they don't know other way of get what they want. but Misha knows more. And, by the other hand, this can be seen in people with manipulative tendencies too, but they usually have a lot of experience in manipulate others and Misha is too young and hadn't lived that much to be like that so, why is him like this? I have been wondering this for a lot of time, but thanks to the last special manga + some things I remembered that my biology teacher told us in class, I have an idea...
*** Warning: if you had read the manga/watched the anime you know how bad Misha's childhood was, but just in case: child abuse below this point...
First, what my teacher explained about babies and crying: all species, in the first weeks of life, have an instinct to cry with no reason. It is not for necessity but to call their parents attention.
This is a important thing to survive in nature
(it's an example, no cub has been harmed doing this comic)
With time, all the babies (should) stop crying for the attention of their parents while they learn to life in their environment and to see that they are safe... But we all knows one or two children that still crying for nothing, don't we?
Here is where Misha's traumatic childhood enter the equation:
1. His mother used him to humor her clients. We can't see what they did, but I bet it was decisive in Misha’s poor development of emotions and relationships.
2. His mother tied him up.
3. His mother hit and probably even scrag him.
4. The last and probably the tilt point, his mother sometimes was nice with him.
That last point is important, because is where all Misha's growth begin to be a mess.
Since Misha's mother was in a good randomly, Misha grows with mixed and confusing signals about crying and asking for help:
Sometimes when he cried for attention (no danger or important reason) and her mother answered nicely.
Others he cried out of necessity and his mother ignored him or worse, hit him.
With this contradiction made mother, the main example for a kid to learn, he grew up without knowing when people was going to respond correctly to his crying and with this bad development Misha developed 2 conducts:
Since you don't know when people will answer your call, it’s always better to try to call for help (needed or not) than not to do it because if you don’t do it, you may be missing a chance to be taken cared.
And the second: to take care of himself and not wait for others to do it for him. This is because in his childhood with his mother he probably had to deal with a lot of bad situations in which no one helped him...
This kinda explains why Misha cries as a way to get attention (love) but later continue his life because he knows he is alone and he has to keep going
(I know it's blurry but is the better I have)
Edit: less blurry because now I have the blu rays.
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KIM KITSURAGI - “Is that. My kineema.”
COMPOSURE [Medium: Success] - Something in him is about to break, *big time*.
EMPATHY - And it’s not going to be pretty, do something!
- DRAMA [Formidable] - Everything is fine!
- “Sure is.”
DRAMA [Formidable: Failure] - Surely he’s aware that he’s not the *only* person in the world who owns a Kineema?
YOU - “Is it really *yours*? I mean, plenty of people have their own Kineemas, right? Like working men, government offices, uh, firefighters I guess, maybe even animal control people? Exactly! A million different people who could’ve driven it into the uh…”
DRAMA - Pause, my liege! Ixnay on the Ineemakay!
YOU - “It could even be our *mysterious* joyrider!”
KIM KITSURAGI - Your frenzied babbling falls deaf to the lieutenant's ears. Instead, he approaches the broken vehicle, sunken in the ice. He moves with a caution and gentleness you haven’t seen him display before.
INLAND EMPIRE - It must be cold and lonely down there, in the icy water. Maybe he could sense its sorrow, calling to him…
PERCEPTION (SIGHT) [Easy: Success] - His hands, which are always stiffly placed behind his back, are trembling.
ENDURANCE - This is the shuffle of a tired, tired man.
HALF LIGHT - He’s going to do something drastic because of you. Oh god, terrible! You’re a terrible liar! You can’t look at this, you just can’t!
VOLITION [Formidable: Success] - It's not *you* who drove his kineema into the sea. You have plenty of faults, but this one is decidedly not yours.
KIM KITSURAGI - He kneels down with his head bowed, casting his face in shadow. He plants a hand on the ice to stabilize himself, squinting to get a better view of the motor carriage. “Detective, it says ‘57’ on it.”
YOU - Sweat drips down your brow, and you feel a terrible headache coming. “Maybe our joyrider has an affinity for that number?”
LOGIC - He's not stupid, he knows that it's not that.
KIM KITSURAGI - “57.”
YOU - “What about 57?”, you brace yourself.
KIM KITSURAGI - “Precinct 57.”
YOU - You wince. “Kim, look-”
KIM KITSURAGI - “When I woke up in the Whirling-in-Rags with no memory of what happened during the days before, I've taken note that something of mine has gone missing.” He grits his teeth. "A very. Important. Something."
He runs his hands over his face, messing his already unkempt hair in the process. Regret creeps up on his features. “God. Fuck. They’re going to fire me over this, they’re not going to hear me out.”
EMPATHY - Desperation settles in the lieutenant's tone. Sadly, you find yourself in agreement, even if you don’t want it to be the truth.
YOU - “People are more valuable than machines, Kim.”
KIM KITSURAGI - “Not people like me.” He rasps.
YOU - “…”
KIM KITSURAGI - Before you can say anything more, you fail to notice the lieutenant carefully walking onto the edge of the ice. He looks over the frigid water, a dizzying blue that mirrors and distorts his exhausted face back to him.
YOU - “Kim?”
KIM KITSURAGI - Seconds pass as he looks to be contemplating something. Out of nowhere, he casually takes another step where the ice ends and the sea begins. It happens all too quick for the lieutenant to even voice a call for help— if he even wanted to — his body plunging into the cold water before your eyes.
YOU - “KIM!!!!”
uhhh bonus stuff? sorry i have swap au brainworms pfttt
(im not sure what skills kim has at the moment so rn he only has narration as his inner monologue ok whoops, i would like to keep harry as the guy who thinks in dialogue trees so im still figuring it out pfttt)
also, this was done bc i wanted to expand on these old scribbles of mine, just like an idea, i just think that he'd be having an even worse time wheezes
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