Muzan Possesses Such A High Level Of Emotional Intelligence That Enables Him To Read People Deeply, Manipulate

Damn, Asagiri must really hate father figures

BSD ch. 121 spoilers undercut

The more Fyodor seems to very intentionally torture Atsushi the more certain I am that he's trying to push Atsushi into a certain psychological state of mind needed to act as the Bookmark. This one panel stood out to me cause it seemed like Fyodor was trying coax this specific reaction out of him. I don't think he's just taking immense pleasure from Atsushi's suffering for the fun of it, I think he wants him angry. He wants him broken. He wants...well something from Atsushi which is why he keeps pushing.

He's made sure that Atsushi bore witness to the deaths of everyone he cared about. He ripped up the hope of saving him right in his face. And in the very next scene he also commands Ame no Gozen to kill Akutagawa as well. He's very much trying to provoke something out of Atsushi. The tiger itself maybe?

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Poor Whitebeard, he doesn't deserve to be surrounded by so many crazy people

I think Oda is setting up King Harald as a red herring for the "he was actually evil and all giants on elbaph are fools except loki" twist but in reality he wasn't evil either, he just got brainwashed by the world government/holy knights/celestial dragons for many MANY years without realising it

Oda has already established that the wg owns the propaganda and is doing everything it can to suppress and manipulate information. But he hasn't actually shown what a constant stream of propaganda can do to a person. How it can change and radicalise someone to the point of becoming unrecognisable. How a person can change their entire world view if they're trapped in a bubble designed to change their core beliefs. How even your closest loved ones can't get through to you if you're in too deep.

The only person who could've possibly witnessed all of this development is Loki. Who in the end had to make an incredibly hard choice.

the thing is not only akutagawa regaining his memories by having atsushi throw himself to save him like he did, but also that akutagawa's eyes have never been more clear

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You know, for as much as bsd has spiraled, I don't think Fyodor's motivations have really changed all that much since we first met him.

He's always hated ability users. A fact which I think a lot of people tend to forget is that most regular people don't know that much about them, except that they were part of the war. They know they exist, but in contexts like the Port Mafia and vaguely aware of the Agency's existence. They're not people who are liked, they have to be watched by the government, and Fyodor's always hated them.

He wants to rid the world of ability users, because he believes they are a sin (despite him being one himself). We don't know why, and I don't want that Tragic Backstory™ because I'm happy hating him as he his now, but that's been the case ever since he tried to have the Agency and Mafia defeat each other. Ever since the movie where he was willing to team up and cause a Gifted Genocide via Gifted Suicide. Also, he's kinda right about Fukuchi's plan being flawed like...yeah, world domination has never worked out well in the past. So him wanting a war against all Gifteds and manipulating Fukuchi to do it actually makes tons of sense, considering what we know about him. He thinks that peace will come as soon as the Gifteds are done with.

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