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Sickly victorian orphan with a profound amount of trauma, survivor’s guilt, and imposter syndrome + extreme difficulty forming lasting genuine bonds with other people because of the above and has a Faustian contract with a demon that is raising him for slaughter but raising him nonetheless (he is an orphan) that he Does Not Trust but at least trusts to protect him (because of the terms he set for their contract) and is the only other being who knows the entire truth is a very interesting character dynamic on paper and it just so happens that the manga is printed on paper. So.

RGU & MGS do really scratch the same narrative itch for me in a lot of ways, the more that i think about it... each piece places their events on a stage-within-a-stage, with RGU using the language of theatre and MGS that of cinema, so they can iterate on the same story over & over again. characters function similarly, too. every major player is not only themselves but also a reflection of all their narrative analogues. like, Anthy : Nanami : Kozue : Shiori, the same way that The Boss : Ocelot : Eva : Paz : Kaz. all of the Snakes are each other just like how Utena : Juri : Kanae ( : Mikage) .... i could talk about this a lot more actually. maybe i will some time.

Johnny isnt homophobic (disliker of gay people). Johnny is homophobic (scared of Isabel). Hope this helps.