#actually comparing him to luigi is great because you can see why a true crime journalist

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[spoilers again] why didn't anybody go after Ivan, is it just cause he's respectable??? he could also have done the murder he's smart enough to fake an alibi right. He could've exited the train and gone back without being seen. Everything they accused Smerdyakov of could be directed at Ivan (better in fact because Smerdyakov was having an epilepsy episode that literally killed him. They were like 'Idk. He could still be faking it." over his goddamn corpse. Because they're that bigoted)

and Ivan is EXACTLY like Raskolnikov from Crime and Punishment like he's the same guy down to the detail of having a weird fucked up philosophy where he thinks he's above morality but the philosophy is just that he thinks he's a sigma male and everyone else are sheep. Down to being the one to have the money evidence before it disappears. Down to the brain fever. The dillusions of grandeur AND the simultanous low self esteem and inferiority complex. Down to irl being the one character academia loves to fixate on as if he was complex even tho he's literally a parody of a stupid pseudo-intellectual self-centered reddit bro whose thoughts about christan morality are as deep as a kiddy pool he's as intelligent as luigi mangione