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I meant gross like his personality is gross lmfao
Ah, okay. Well... We see so little of him as a young man that we have no idea what he was like, except for the indication that she didnât know him to be insane until she stumbled upon him murdering Vincent.
We see him in...literally two scenes prior to that. One in which the only thing he says is âSo, youâve come to your senses and chosen me.â/âWell then, are you going to come to be beside me?â (En/Jp) and the other of which is the scene where he tells Vincent to butt out of the Jenova Project and does some subtle chest thumping about how heâs the father of the baby and Lucrecia is his.
So, was he a pleasant and charismatic young man? I doubt it. But thereâs strong evidence against him being so openly nasty and insane (to recap past discussions: she reacts with shock and horror when she sees that he has murdered Vincent and does a complete 180 in how she regards him from that point forward), so I donât think we can take his 30-year-later appearance or personality to be an accurate picture of what he was like when Lucrecia married him.
Especially when you have matters of insanity and age and unchecked mental deterioration... Okay, Iâm gonna get anecdotal for a sec, but my fatherâs a little off his rocker and I know gets worse and worse as the years go by. Not to the point where he would kill someone ofc, but he says things that shock me and Iâm like, âDid my mother see this 40 years ago when she married him?â And the answer is no, which is a combination of the fact that that isnât who he was 40 years ago, and also because it was her very presence that was probably keeping him in check for so long.
But looking back, I can see the signs that these things were lurking... You brush it off, like âOh, he didnât really mean it like that,â and âOh, thatâs just the way he is, but heâs a good guy, really.â Making excuses and trying to see the best in people. And when someone like that is 20, 30, 40, I think they have better control of their mental faculties and are more adept at hiding it and adhering to societyâs rules. But 50, 60, beyond... idk if they just donât care about societyâs rules anymore, or if itâs losing important people and things in their life that makes them feel itâs no longer worth it to adhere, or if their aging minds just deteriorate and lose some of the actual ability to perform like that, but there seems to be much less reservation there and not for the better. (My father and OG Hojo are probably around the same age.)
When my mother died a few years ago, my father became âuncheckedâ and that seems to have been the turning point at which I could see the ideas that he expresses shift greatly. With Hojo, I think it was probably when he became department head, and/or when he killed Gast, and/or when he got Hollander out of the way, and/or as President Shinra became older and lazier and stopped paying so much attention to what Hojo was doing. Or itâs probably a combination of all those factors, each one nudging him a little closer toward open and unreserved insanity.
But when Lucrecia decided to marry him? Nah man. If youâre paying even two ounces of attention, you can tell she didnât see it coming at all. And for some reason people tend to go, âOh well thatâs because Lucrecia (a scientist) was stupid,â and not come to the other conclusion of âThatâs because she didnât have any reason to believe he was that way yet, because it wasnât presenting.â
















