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corvusaraneae) wrote2011-12-29 08:45 am
corvusaraneae) wrote2011-12-29 08:45 am
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Teal Deer 002: The Man Behind the Monster
Or Why I Think Muraki Isn’t Into Tsuzuki That Way
He’s mostly known as the creepy perv who chases after Tsuzuki, the pedo who molests young boys and that really pretty silver haired doctor that cause the entire nurse’s station to abandon their posts for the entirety of his presence. But how much of this is true? How much of these assumptions are actual fact and how many are gleaned from first impressions alone? Now I don’t really claim to be an expert on the man. Just someone who plays him and finds him an interesting specimen.
Now from the start, we are painted quite a negative picture of Kazutaka. It’s almost a Jeckyl-and-Hyde portrait, really: an angelically beautiful physician who uses this mask to cover horrifically demonic murders. There are the glaringly obvious details inbetween, of course: Hisoka’s rape and cursing, Muraki’s so called path of corpses, Tsuzuki being the subject of near sexual abuse. It’s easy to see how most would tend to draw the most basic of conclusions about him. But once these seemingly random acts of malice have been given a good look over, a picture of a different Kazutaka emerges. However, to find this picture, one must find the man behind the monster. One must find what drives his madness.
No doubt many have heard of the doctor’s history: Born into the Muraki family, destined to be a doctor and everything going pretty much okay save for the freaky mom who liked to dress up her son in Victorian doll clothes. Then enter Saki, his half brother who threw everything out of whack. One case of double parricide and a gunshot later, the cornerstone was laid for the madman we all know.
Crazy old Muraki. Always good for a laugh.
To revive his brother in order to kill him himself. An act of revenge so depraved, it takes all logic and common sense only to toss it right out the window. This is truly the scheme of a man consumed by darkness, swallowed by the pit of madness itself. Revenge against Saki is his greatest driving force, an obsession far more driven and greater than the one he has for Tsuzuki’s body. In this, this is his primal need. Revenge is first. Tsuzuki is the key to fulfilling this revenge. Most people tend to forget this drive.
Indeed, this is shoved aside and glossed over in place of Kazutaka possibly loving Tsuzuki or just wanting to do… things… to him. While Kazutaka’s words certainly seem laced with innuendo and his actions reflect a man infatuated, this urge can still link itself back to Saki. Despite everything and when you look right down at the core of it, Kazutaka really shows no urge to take Tsuzuki as a lover. His body is nothing more than an instrument to acquire that self regenerating body he so needs for his scheme. But the innuendo and the flirting is perhaps a way to measure his desire. His urge to gain this body is so strong, it brings almost near sexual excitement to him.
Of course, this leads to his constant harassment of our poor beleaguered Tsuzuki. Add in Hisoka’s rape and it’s easy to see why Kazutaka is pegged as an outright homosexual. But Faust, you may say, Kazutaka rapes little boys! As much as I like to play that part up in my games with him creeping around theKingdom Hearts cast underage, you can’t really say he’s a pedophile completely. We only see one case of him abusing an underage boy. Just one. Hisoka. If you ask me, the boy was just a victim of circumstance. He’d witnessed Kazutaka’s murder that night and the doctor, still overcome by his bloodlust and frenzy turned on him. What better way to break the boy than to take him and curse him? I’d always thought Kazutaka preferred his victims to have a measure of despair when they died. There was also another rather interesting essay I read concerning that and saying that Kazutaka was merely acting out in self-hatred. Hisoka does bear a measure of resemblance to him and Saki, once you think about it. He wanted to make the boy suffer after seeing him that night. Yet another way of indirectly getting back at Saki.
However, fangirls who have their yaoi glasses on too tight tend to deny the presence of one particular person who counters this assumption completely: Ukyou. Having been mentioned a few times in a few chapters and only listing one appearance via a sidestory, those who have followed only the anime hardly know of her. Apart from Saki and Oriya, one may peg Ukyou as one of Kazutaka’s most influential people if not the most influential.
...This personal journal is becoming a dumping ground for my unpopular opinions and headcanon I find. CARRY ON PEOPLE.
He’s mostly known as the creepy perv who chases after Tsuzuki, the pedo who molests young boys and that really pretty silver haired doctor that cause the entire nurse’s station to abandon their posts for the entirety of his presence. But how much of this is true? How much of these assumptions are actual fact and how many are gleaned from first impressions alone? Now I don’t really claim to be an expert on the man. Just someone who plays him and finds him an interesting specimen.
Now from the start, we are painted quite a negative picture of Kazutaka. It’s almost a Jeckyl-and-Hyde portrait, really: an angelically beautiful physician who uses this mask to cover horrifically demonic murders. There are the glaringly obvious details inbetween, of course: Hisoka’s rape and cursing, Muraki’s so called path of corpses, Tsuzuki being the subject of near sexual abuse. It’s easy to see how most would tend to draw the most basic of conclusions about him. But once these seemingly random acts of malice have been given a good look over, a picture of a different Kazutaka emerges. However, to find this picture, one must find the man behind the monster. One must find what drives his madness.
No doubt many have heard of the doctor’s history: Born into the Muraki family, destined to be a doctor and everything going pretty much okay save for the freaky mom who liked to dress up her son in Victorian doll clothes. Then enter Saki, his half brother who threw everything out of whack. One case of double parricide and a gunshot later, the cornerstone was laid for the madman we all know.
Crazy old Muraki. Always good for a laugh.
To revive his brother in order to kill him himself. An act of revenge so depraved, it takes all logic and common sense only to toss it right out the window. This is truly the scheme of a man consumed by darkness, swallowed by the pit of madness itself. Revenge against Saki is his greatest driving force, an obsession far more driven and greater than the one he has for Tsuzuki’s body. In this, this is his primal need. Revenge is first. Tsuzuki is the key to fulfilling this revenge. Most people tend to forget this drive.
Indeed, this is shoved aside and glossed over in place of Kazutaka possibly loving Tsuzuki or just wanting to do… things… to him. While Kazutaka’s words certainly seem laced with innuendo and his actions reflect a man infatuated, this urge can still link itself back to Saki. Despite everything and when you look right down at the core of it, Kazutaka really shows no urge to take Tsuzuki as a lover. His body is nothing more than an instrument to acquire that self regenerating body he so needs for his scheme. But the innuendo and the flirting is perhaps a way to measure his desire. His urge to gain this body is so strong, it brings almost near sexual excitement to him.
Of course, this leads to his constant harassment of our poor beleaguered Tsuzuki. Add in Hisoka’s rape and it’s easy to see why Kazutaka is pegged as an outright homosexual. But Faust, you may say, Kazutaka rapes little boys! As much as I like to play that part up in my games with him creeping around the
However, fangirls who have their yaoi glasses on too tight tend to deny the presence of one particular person who counters this assumption completely: Ukyou. Having been mentioned a few times in a few chapters and only listing one appearance via a sidestory, those who have followed only the anime hardly know of her. Apart from Saki and Oriya, one may peg Ukyou as one of Kazutaka’s most influential people if not the most influential.
...This personal journal is becoming a dumping ground for my unpopular opinions and headcanon I find. CARRY ON PEOPLE.