#overhaul

first off

i am NOT a writer

ik i dabble in writing sometimes but it's not my thing. i'm not good at it lol i just draw

but

honestly ?

i don't think chisaki deserves a redemption arc

at least not in canon

he's irredeemable in my eyes

mainly bc bro was raised in the yakuza by a crime boss

but then again, i was raised by a family in religious psychosis and i'm still a good person

chisaki isn't exactly hyper empathetic though like yours truly so idk

the only reason i turned out the way i did is bc i had unrestricted internet access thanks to my ma straight up never being around

i just happened to have ended up on a good side of the web and educated myself on lgbtia+ terms, human rights stuff, politics, etcetera etcetera

COULD chisaki be redeemed ? highly unlikely. would he WANT to be ? absolutely not

he genuinely believes what he's doing is right. that everything is for the greater good. to fix society. to repay the old man. emphasis on that last bit bc that's really his main motivation. to pay back pops

eventually

if he succeeded

if and when he could mas produce the drugs

he'd have no use for eri

why would he need to continue the experiments ?

he wasn't doing it bc he felt like it

nothing he did was out of malice or simply bc he wanted to

he's not actively cruel like afo or muscular or whatever bc he wants to be

with that said he's still an evil motherfucker who did evil motherfucker shit

his mindset doesn't excuse any of that, nor does his upbringing

he's still a grown man who's fully aware of what he's doing

nothing i said excuses what he did to who knows how many people and ESPECIALLY eri

he just doesn't think about how his actions negatively impact other people

or he just doesn't give a fuck

mosy likely both

this is to benefit everyone in the end. you're just in the way. that's YOUR fault

anyway

with all that said

i'm not horikoshi

i'm not a psychologist

i'm not even a writer. not my forte