#i tried to summarize everything but lmk if i missed/misread anything lol

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Maybe it's silly to put two readmores but the milgrammies brought up even more incredible evidence 🔥

🔴 @sinfulequity brought up that Fuuta faces the most teasing -- there's something about his personality/social skills that the others, and writers, pick up on. The others poke fun at him missing the point, getting too excitable, etc. So much of the meta humor surrounding him is based off of him missing something 'obvious' that the audience/characters can see.

🔴 @shiikiyun mentioned how incredibly focused Fuuta can get on the things he's enthusiastic about, to the point of having trouble showing interest in unfamiliar/unenjoyable things. He's quick to give up on finding common ground with Haruka after exhausting his own interests, and is unable to debate with Kotoko about unfamiliar information.

🔴 They also pointed out Arthur Lounsbery's comments on Fuuta: "what you see is what you get." This sounds obvious, but even the most honest characters in Milgram have very complex lines because of their complex motivations. Every other vd and lyrics have hidden, misleading, or double meanings. Comparatively, just about everything about Fuuta has been right to the point without any other intentions.

🔴 Combining some of these -- even as incredibly serious as Es is, they recognize that Fuuta is very straightforward and will respond predictably and honestly. They take advantage of that, making him the only prisoner they've laughed at and teased openly.

🔴 And @0909m brought up that Yamanaka did study psychology! So even if it wasn't intended as something central to Fuuta's character, he'd at least be aware of some of these details...

Reworking my neurodivergent Fuuta post because I had more to add and wanted it in one place 👍It started out just silly thoughts and projection but I have a lot of evidence now??? It feels pretty solid!

🔴 He holds to an overwhelming sense of right, wrong, rules, justice, etc. It’s a system that makes sense to him (you learn to apologize before anything else, right?) and he’s obsessed with it. He's an extreme rule follower. He's obviously careful so he's not called out online, but even inside Milgram. He follows Es' orders naturally. Even though they’re silly, in the minigrams he’s repeatedly reminding people of the rules about requesting items. Even though he'd been shown to voice thoughts about escaping, he refuses, and is too much of a stickler that he won’t even let other people request things considered dangerous.

🔴 He takes things very literally, most notably some of the interrogation questions. In both his vds he’s pretty particular about describing his involvement, taking a long time to admit he could be a killer because his situation falls pretty far out of its normal definition.

🔴 He’s shown to be intensely lonely: sitting alone, walking alone, watching others from the outskirts, but thriving online where the social rules are different. He has trouble identifying/defining friendships, choosing to focus on the sharing of interests and excitement.

🔴 However, he does find a group that accepts him and listens to him -- and that feeling of belonging becomes intoxicating. The typical “gets a taste of doing something correctly but then gets carried away and crosses a line in excitement”

🔴 He doesn’t think hard work can get him anywhere in society, he doesn’t have any goals, he struggles at school, he wants to just go with the flow -- aka, burnout from trying so hard in a society that isn’t made to accommodate you. Instead of focusing on that, he loses himself in fictional worlds of heroes and villains. He sees connections in everyday life, occasionally getting so lost in them that thoughts of them bleed into reality.

🔴 He's bad at lying. Or, he has to deal with people pointing out nonsensical body language cues to make assumptions about his emotions (which is just as much a neurodivergent experience, unfortunately).

🔴 I know all the prisoners have some kind of act they put up to cover up their true emotions, but it’s still so obvious how he lashes out in anger instead of properly processing/expressing his legitimate fear of the entire situation.

🔴 Extreme restlessness when waiting in an empty room all alone

🔴 This may be more personal interpretation than evidence (because I don’t know how it holds up in the original Japanese), but his line in Muu’s bday timeline just struck me as someone who isn't usually accepted or accommodated for when they're feeling down.

🔴 Also. Transed Gender. 🏳️‍⚧️