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That man has daddy issues and he makes it police's problem. His dad is a corrupt politician, so he made a whole ass "superhero" identity that speaks out against people like him. He is so attention starved and desperate for change this kind of thing looks logical to him. This "hero" alter ego is the only way he can express the protest that has been brewing inside him for years and his innate silliness that he's been suppressing because of societal and familial expectations.

Look at Diplomator in his dream sequence!

Look how sassy he is while arrested! If it's not a logical continuation of his teenage rebellion…

And speaking of his teenage rebellion. Here's how it looked like.

And this is the face of a person who realized that his dad would rather reprimand him for the thousandth time than ask how he's feeling after almost dying. While vaping in the corner. In the same room with his son who had tracheostomy.

And this is them together too. Look at how small Anton is! How he feels the need to make himself smaller.

All I'm saying is that he needs better parental figures in his life. It would fix him. We don't know much about his mother, and both his parents look like they really do love him, but… you can love your kid and still fuck them up mentally and make their life miserable.

He was homeschooled for most of his life and that left him with zero friends and social skills only suited for talking with people like his dad's friends. Which he does. Both as Diplomator and his "asshole rich guy" persona he puts on as a defense.

He's been to a metro for the first time in his life only in adulthood! Look at him gawking at things! Such childish joy! He has so much repressed and restrained love he doesn't know where to apply. How can you not want to adopt him?!

I look at him and see a guy who tried to be a "proper son" in childhood, had a crisis in teenagehood, then went on a path of self destruction in the hopes of this making his parents see him and show him the love and acceptance he desperately wanted. But it didn't work. And so he's stuck in this limbo where he's given up on it and pushed himself to comform, but at the same time he's channelling all his pent up frustration and anger and disgust for the system he grew up in, for the system that made his dad like that, into this new persona. And this "hero" is bright, and flashy, and talks big, and he's larger than life, and he can't be ignored or silenced. And maybe. Just maybe. He will have the love of the people. And maybe it would even be enough to serve as a substitute for the love of two specific people.

Idk, I just think I'd do a better job than Eduard. Fuck Eduard, all my homies hate Eduard. Maria maybe gets a pass. But only maybe.