DANGEROUS PASTIME - VILLAIN ASK (ACCEPTING)
@decollate sent: queen of hearts for the disney asks!
What’s your muse’s favorite color?
I think it’s black but Ogata would answer he doesn’t care.
@yunmeng-pride sent: Prince Hans
How does the first impression your muse gives off differ from their true selves?
This can play out in multitude ways and frankly depends on a person too. Narrative surrounding Ogata is lots of hinting, he’s extremely hard to read, that’s how he’s in the story too. Ogata’s not someone who will go his way to please others for the sake of good talk, rather he’s got the tendency to just... be mean sometimes.He’s direct but minds his own business at the end of the day unless there’s something to gain... but that said I don’t think he’s like HUGE opportunist jumping at every whatever opportunity of self-gain either really?
Generally it was a well known fact within the military that he was lieuetenant general Hanazawa’s bastard child and some people would look down on him in regard that, avoid him maybe and ostracize. His personality doesn’t help this at all.
He’s direct and doesn’t care to please others even play nice but he’s not overly outspoken to people that are act in bad faith towards him either. He doesn’t clear up misunderstandings, keeps all to himself so that’s naturally something that can cause conflict. He’s very strict on others, again something that can cause conflict. He’s serial traitor so no one trusts him. People of 7th division generally speak him as “two faced” (aside from poking fun of his birth circumstances&mother wildcat also can mean fraud etc.) thinking he has no moral code.
Sugimoto says he thinks he’s out to disappoint everyone but also Asirpa says that she doesn’t think that’s what it is - and frankly I don’t either?
I think Ogata did want to belong somewhere initially, maybe he still longs for it even. Ogata does have high guard on him but I wouldn’t go as far as saying that he’s trying to mask it. Ogata himself sees him as incomplete and he’s sort of ...acting that part, not literally acting though but rather living what he believes he is. Ogata’s obsessed with how he is and his birth circumstances, it’s something that’s been there his whole life. He’s obsessed about how he’s “turned out to be”. To some degree he is the product of his surroundings but he’s also cut lots of those connections himself (though granted most of these connections just weren’t good if ANY). I think at the core Ogata wanted/wants to be good but it’s ...he doesnt act on it.
There’s also the effect of Tsurumi’s manipulation - while Ogata didn’t end up following he really absorbed some of those that Tsurumi likely did plant to him on purpose
