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Kazui T2 VD Thoughts and Speculations pre-MV

I've come back to finally talk about Kazui, one of my favorite prisoners, and give some of my thoughts and speculations based on his T2 voice drama before the MV for Cat drops. This voice drama still keeps a lot of things vague but the one thing I was able to interpret from this is that the Kazui gay theory may actually turn out real.

Eng TL source (big thanks for this):

There's really no other way you could interpret these statements. If he's not specifically gay then he is at the very least LGBT or queer. I will provide some quotes and my thoughts on them below.

Quote 1:

Es raises adultery as a possible cause for his crime but Kazui refutes it not by just saying that he did not commit adultery or infidelity but by also saying that it did not even turn into a case of one, implying that there were feelings towards a third party involved but it was simply never acted upon. Now whether the third party is just one person or a whole gender he keeps it vague.

Quote 2:

His marriage was built upon false pretenses and whether or not he did feel something towards his wife, the foundation of their relationship comprised of lies. Kazui viewed his commitment to the marriage as a sort of self-imposed punishment for his inability to stop his lies. He lied his entire way up to this point and it is only right that he continues to play his part.

Once he got the innocent verdict from Trial 1, he felt a bit relieved that maybe he could open up just a little in hopes of Es and Milgram itself to truly understand him. He took off his ring in order to alleviate himself from his punishment as he was validated into thinking that perhaps his lies could be unraveled. He does, however still feel guilty towards what happened to his wife.

Quote 3:

And then this passage comes along and it really just sounds like an old closeted gay man jaded by facing bigotry his entire life whenever he tried to simply be himself. It is very intense queer coding and if this was not on purpose then I do not know if I can ever trust this series with anything anymore. The emphasis on him lying ever since he was born as a way of survival especially screams queer.

To many queer and LGBT people, coming out of the closet is one of the most terrifying and monumental things you could ever do or ever have done. It feels like laying yourself bare to people who you do not even know if they would accept you or ridicule you. And oftentimes, the way other people act afterwards can feel as if it was a direct product of the coming out and, whenever bad things happen, queer people blame themselves for having even thought that something good would come from being open in the first place. Even though it was not their fault, they blame themselves because that was how society has conditioned them. I speak from experience by the way.

Now, this is speculative territory but I do not think Kazui coming out to his wife ever really affected her mental state to such a degree that she would kill herself because of it. Milgram is quite unreliable with their criteria in picking prisoners (e.g. Yuno being imprisoned for abortion), so I would not put it past them that Kazui was simply convicted for his close relation to his wife, for being a possible cause rather than a direct cause, or for his prior lies which led to that point. I think that was why Es also brought up Kant and how you cannot blame someone for telling the truth no matter whatever situation that may arise from it.

Well, that is all I could say right now and I am excited to see the full MV in around 6 hours. I was very confident in the gay theory before but after this voice drama I am certain about it and I hope I am not the only one. Thank you for reading and once again thank you to @onigiriico for the translation!