#sybil system

Where Akane is brave, compassionate, learns from her mistakes, and refuses to compromise her integrity no matter the personal cost; Mika is cowardly, self-centred, hypocritical, and a perfect little toady who refuses to criticise the system even after learning its true nature.

Mika is the embodiment of 70% of the population and Corporate world, where seniors are insecure as fuck and instead of trying to grow themselves they project their insecurity onto subordinates.

Heavily inspired by another fandom shitposting. Enjoy. Can be used as a tumblr banner. RB!

Hello everyone! My PSYCHO-PASS discord server is near one thousand members, and I was thinking what should our 1k special server event be called? I've only ever came up with one idea "PSYCHO-FES", just like the real thing, but maybe we could make it more original! 🎉🥳

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I keep asking myself if I like this character. For a week or so, I was obsessed with him because he was so damn silly and I have an affinity to be drawn towards delusional characters like him. But taking a step back, I had to ask myself, "What did Azusawa really contribute to the narrative?"

I see a lot of criticism regarding him being a weak antagonist written in a way to mirror Makishima's qualities. But I didn't really get that from him either. Makishima wanted to return to a pre-dystopian world and did not want to participate in the current system, whereas Azusawa chose to ascend to the top by whatever means necessary.

Makishima desired Anarchy and the state of nature. Kamui wanted remedy for the lack of recognition of from Sybil. Wang wanted to amass power in SEAUn. Rodion and Guillermo were just your average villain with the desire to leave as much of the world in chaos as possible. I can't say much about Tonami, I need to re-watch providence to understand him better.

I think that I enjoyed Azusawa because unlike the rest of the villains in the series, he was motivated by boredom and the desire to play a game. {Edit: After a few hours I realized that, no. This is not true, Makishima was definitely playing a similar game with Kogami and the PSB. But his ultimate motives had significantly larger weight than Azusawa's..} We could see through his lenses that there wasn't a very heavy conviction that he held besides enacting some form of revenge against Arata's father. I thoroughly believe that he was fronting about that too. Every scene with him in it felt as though he was making another move on the chess board. When he alluded to Arata being a nut that he needed to crack, everything is an entertainment puzzle to him.

Even the temper tantrum he threw at the end felt akin to a child losing a board game. Which then forces you to ask yourself, "what incentive would Arata have to preserve the life of a man that trivializes every last part of life, down to the lives of others?"

A more benevolent continuation of Akane's justice against a man with no qualms about the world or what happens in it. Only motivated to become a victor and stand at the top of it all, observing everyone like pawns.

Can a brain be remotely connected to Kasei’s body?

they doing shady business with redestro (this has nothing to do with hawks), they forcing hawks to do a mission he didn't wanted (okay, they did this but hawks never showed any thoughts of rebellion against them) and hawks keeping his humanity and trying to save hawks until the end (except when he killed him of course), so the redestro clone disappeared in the moment jin died, and the time it took hawks to save twice from dabi's fire allowed that clone to stab the HPSC president (but hawks didn't plan any of this so he didn't have any intentional role into taking them down)

Oh, thanks for the heads up and letting me know where the question comes from! And as I read, let me deconstruct very quickly and briefly the entire argument which is based on nothing concrete.

I. The black market for Hero equipment run by Re-Destro, as you said, has nothing to do with Hawks. He has never been involved with the business in particular, and the only relevant thing which Hawks has done in regards to warn the heroes and the Commission of their plans is to distribute the manifesto of the PFL in a way to let them know what was happening (and even then, not all of his information has ever been complete and/or entirely reliable). 

II. Forcing Hawks to take the double-agent mission and later keeping his ‘humanity’ to save Twice until the end, is first of all not even an argument and second it really does not hold up with the narrative we have during the last moments of Twice. I am not going to go very deep into Hawks’ relationship with the HPSC, which yes he defines as a Golden Cage, but Cage nonetheless, but at the same time he actually condones its actions because they are made in order to protect a greater good and rationalising these actions may be the only possible coping mechanisms Hawks came up with in order to reconcile his persona with the soldier (even though I don’t think it would be entirely correct that he is a soldier for the HPSC, rather a usable pin who might become unnecessary - even though this exactly fits the meaning of a soldier who lives in order to fulfil their orders) that the HPSC presented him as his persona. It also means that Hawks’ chance to escape the Commission is to actively fight like Lady Nagant did and (this is an argument I’ll use later to confute the president clone claim) actively go against them, but at the same time even if he kills a higher-up, will that bring him satisfaction and will that change the situation? The only thing to change would be the person in charge and Hawks’ status, which would go from hero to villain, and the Commission would still flourish with the other soldiers it created. Therefore, Hawks accepting the mission and keeping on his mission is just proof (I don’t mean to say that Hawks is a coward, because that’s not what it is) that Hawks has interesting which transcend his own will to free himself from the shackles he has been bound with. As for Twice, there was no humanity whatsoever shown when he manipulated someone he even dared to call a friend, and then stab him in the back. 

III. ReDestro’s clone stabbing the HPSC President is something that likely the villains planned, and that again confirms the fact that is actually the villains’ actions which have made a difference so far in the current situation of society rather than a plan from Hawks (as I wrote here), who instead just is reaping what the villains had sown. Again, his stabbing the President would have changed very little if the had not been chaos all across society and that many members of the HPSC would have been undisposed and many heroes decided to retire, because it would have just taken one hour in order to substitute the president and let the status quo remain. The thing is, the HPSC is an organisation which has many layers, and one cog less does not determine its fall down. This is why it is highly unlikely that this precise action is what took down the HPSC - but it was the ensemble of thing that happened, which shook society to its core. 

I hope that this argument has been contrasted properly, because I did not want to go in too deep on the thematics which tie the HPSC as a Sybil System of sorts (if you saw Psycho Pass you know what I am talking about), where Hawks, while a victim of it endorses the system nonetheless because it might actually be the means to an end (or accomplishment of the greater good).