Possesses an Abundant, Overwhelming interest in MILGRAM

TBF I feel like of all the things to think you'll disgrace your parents over, killing 12 people out of the blue is something that would probably stick with them reputationally

Like he's resolved himself to atoning with Mikoto (John) and the punishment that comes with the crime that was committed. He even considers turning himself in before going that won't be necessary considering the mess made. This is why Es gets silent after he says, "I'll properly atone for my sins." Because the proper way it's handled is through the death penalty.

Like that's the reason it throws Es off because Mikoto is straight up accepting the death penalty for what he did with grace. Not like Shidou who wanted to skirt the line of what actually constitutes as murder and ignore how he actually killed someone to get the death penalty for purely selfish reasons that had nothing to do with his victims real or the others he alleged were victims. No he wanted it to see his family again in the afterlife or through reincarnation. He wanted it because it was an escape for him.

This isn't framed as an escape for Mikoto. He doesn't even try to use his mental health as an excuse flat out saying, "Even if my mental disorder wss recognized, I wouldn't be completely innocent." As well as, "Despite saying all that, it's my fault that people died. Even if it was the fault of the other me, I can't just turn a blind eye. The other me... Is still me. Let's atone together. That's what I want to do."

He doesn't choose to atone because he feels pressured to but because he genuinely wants to even though again- It certainly means facing the death penalty. This is also why he says, "Ahh- I'm a criminal huh? Society will be stirred up huh? Besides they won't believe something like "it was the other me who did it" too- in the end I'll make my parents cry huh..."

I feel that in a series where we literally have a song titled It's Not My Fault and most characters have shown difficulty in taking accountability for their actions and the consequence those actions produced intentionally or unintentionally. Having a case where the things that led to people dying are both intentional and unintentional sets Mikoto Kayano up to display what taking accountability and onus for one's part in something should look like even if you're still upset with your own circumstances.

Even if taking responsibility doesn't serve you in any way. Hell it will kill him. They will kill him. He is getting the death penalty. That man was caught in 4k. They have him on multiple cctvs he out here like the joke I made years ago-

It's okay he wants to atone regardless of whatever that looks like, regardless of if it wasn't him who dealt those killing blows, because people died and he can't turn a blind eye to that and neither should you. It's sad but it's okay. Sometimes getting through things together means accepting when you won't get out of them at all. Do his parents deserve to hear their kid is getting capitql punishment? No, they're gonna be really upset. But Mikoto taking responsibility means something. Something that no other killer here has done for the people who's lives were lost. It validates that loss and puts it straight in the audiences' face without focusing on how he felt about it. No more woe is me just, "People died I have to atone for that."

They are killing him by long hanging on a random fucking day. Of course he knows his parents are going to cry their kid's getting capital punishment why wouldn't they. This is something the voice drama does well because Yamanaka knows there's very little chance of Mikoto being innocent out of everyone here. He knows the story he told and the way he made the game. Characters here die regardless of where the verdict lands sometimes.

So to me Yamanaja using the third voice drama to illustrate Mikoto accepting his punishment feels like a way or attempt to showcase to the people who like this character it's okay. It's okay. He knows, you know, we all know that he did something incredibly wrong and he needs to atone for it and there will be people who hate him for it.

And that's why the chorus is,

"I haven’t lost anything, I haven’t changed, but- I just feel like I should be saying bye-bye."

I made this transparent PNG the night he died in preparation for one of the many ways I was going to memorialize him--a surface rug in his likeness that I planned on laying directly in the line of his favourite sunbeam. And I uploaded that PNG here, because this is the website where people post their cats.

I was not expecting the reception I got. Many people have pointed out that this post has more reblogs than likes, and how insane that is in 2025 when reblog culture is at an all time low. I didn't even talk about the fact that Burger passed away in the original post, it wasn't a tearjerker reblog bait or anything like that. People just loved Burger that much, in the same way I fell in love with him at first sight. He was such an ugly kitten.

Anyways, it's really special to me that so many people have reblogged my best friend. I made this PNG to memorialize him in a completely different way, and you all wound up doing just that in ways I never even imagined.

Thank you. Wherever he is, I know the sun is shining.

T1: Here's the murderous alter stereotype

T2: No wait, here's the alter, you get to talk to him, we're humanizing him and might be doing something different with this

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The following is not what I think will happen but what I hope won't:

1) it really was all a dream

2) Mikoto ran someone over with his bike and then got his bat out to finish the job to avoid them suing him

3) John was telling the truth in T2 and he really just did that for no reason

friend whos always available: i can do whenever

friend whos constantly busy: im sorry i have work and then school and then the labyrinth and then more work :( i can do tuesday at 3:00 am for five minutes tho

friend with the randomly generated sleep schedule: (no response)

friend who went missing in the woods behind their house 12 years ago and hasn't been heard from since: (no response)