#kan toranosuke

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staffside spoilers / tw blood, injured body, eyestrain

congrats to the sower for reaping

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Chapter 4 execution spoilers under the cut

I hate this I hate this I hate this I hate this

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Kan after today's staffside:

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I'm so so immensely bored today so I decided to write some of my thoughts about Seki Kuneyasu.

Seki Kuneyasu, is a very interesting character. We first get to meet him during the students interviews in which he seems sassy at times. He has this mysterious aura that is quickly shattered after we take a closer look into who exactly he is as a staff working under Dr.Kan, and specifically being Dr.Kan's right hand man.

Seki Kuneyasu, is a psychologist who somehow has managed to work instead under Dr. Kan, in the biology department. We know that the only reason he joined KFTI was to follow Dr.Kan whom he seemed to work under, as an assistant; a pretty interesting position if you ask me, considering he is a psychologist and Kan is a hematologist, which gives place to the very logical question of: How and why was Seki Kan's assistant to begin with.

As the story unfolds we find out that Seki, is oftentimes sick and in need of medication that (possibly) only Kan can provide. And then we find out that Dr. Kan, is a man who does not shy away from experimenting on his assistants (with a prominent example being Dr. Odawara, who Okazaki seems to have met during an endeavour of hers to Dr. Kan's mountain located lab, and who ultimately succumbs to the experimentation Dr. Kan put him under, said experimentation being the change of one's blood type, a topic both Dr. Kan and Yonekura seem interested in.

Dr. Kan often puts his subjects under duration experimentations and victims of these tests who fail to rise up and who are not resilient in the face of these harsh experimentations end up receiving his negative judgement.

Kan is often seen acting cold and hot towards Seki, sometimes offering him compliments, going as far as to reassure him of his love towards him and how Suga, who at the time he took interest in. An interesting reaction is evoked by Seki, who seemed to worry about his position being threatened by Suga, since he immediately turns around and feels uncomfortable and disgust at both himself and Kan.

We are also privy to information from Dr. Poku's reports during which she reports to have been a witness to sexual relations taking place between Dr. Kan and Seki, in which Seki, a heterosexual man, seems a willing participant. However, knowing of their relationship, one starts to wonder if that willingness is nothing but a coping mechanism and a way of keeping Dr. Kan's interest in him active.

Another prevalent issue we see with Seki, is his habit of tattling on his fellow coworkers in hopes of getting a morsel of Kan's approval and praise. He is first seen to tattle on Mikuma, who kindly offers Seki their engineering department as a place for Seki to come to, after Seki is seen at work with "an exceptional shiner", aka a black eye given to him by none other than Dr. Kan. He responds to Mikuma in gratitude only to turn against him right immediately, and to tell on his offer to Dr. Kan, which ends up with Mikuma getting taken down to the basement of Dr. Kan and getting physically tortured for some days.

A vital point to Seki's character is the dislike and disdain most staff have for him, due to his two faced behavior. When Dr. Kan was being threatened to get kicked out of the project after the stunt he pulled with Dr. Suga, Seki attempts to defend Dr. Kan against five people and ultimately ends up feeling unwell, resulting in him leaving as well.

Seki also seems to deeply feel guilt towards his wife and daughter, whom he seems to be neglecting spending time with, due to the project's nature, ending up having arguments with his wife Neneka.

Overall, Seki is both a victim and an abuser, being stuck in his own cycle of hell where he gets physically, sexually and emotionally abused and kept at a leash by Dr. Kan and then in return he goes out of his way to cause harm to others. I believe said behavior can be explained greatly by a recent quote that Dr. Saimi mentioned

if someone was punching you in the head, you'd probably be really happy if they walked off and started punching somebody else, right?

so i don't think it's that weird. To me Seki seems to be acting with that mindset, but in a more active way, by creating interesting victims that Dr. Kan can toy with and by doing so he gets both Dr. Kan's praise and mercy at his hands.

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kan in a glue trap

srry anon not sure how I would draw this one (plus kan deserves a much more gruesome death than that)

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Here's a theory I have for Tetro, it's probably wrong but HERE WE GO

(minor spoilers for events on day 25)

In [Corrective approach] Kan will probably severely harm or kill Monomoko or whatever and Yonekura will get pissed and fire him

After he's fired he'll still secretly be in contact with Tatematsu and we'll get introduced to her in the series for the first time while Seki is fully brainwashed to do his bidding even when he's not in contact with him anymore, letting Kan control and effect the killing game experiment indirectly

After some major events, Kan, Yonekura, and/or Tatematsu will probably die or get sent to Alcatraz at the end of TDR Pink, and maybe Seki's family will die too or something. Due to Kan's intense manipulation & brainwashing and Seki's life being beyond repair, Seki will replace Yonekura in her stead and continue the project, masterminding the killing game in the sequel TDR Blue. And who knows maybe in a twisted way of events he'll get his own daughter (if she's still even alive) involved in all this, making her a student in the next killing game

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began reading staff-side last night, I'm about less than halfway through the document obviously, my favorites are currently the two biggest pieces of shit in the room (toranosuke and tatematsu)

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Chapter 2 November 16 Thread D

[774152566/ Dr. Kuneyasu] Mikuma just messaged me. He's saying things about you behind your back. Told me to hide out from you in the engineering department. I'm guessing I'm not the only one he's giving that suggestion to.

[154314147/ Dr. Toranosuke] Oh my. That's hardly very friendly. Why would he do that

[774152566/ Dr. Kuneyasu] Not that it matters, but that's where Suga's been hiding out too. Engineering has their own little shelter set up over there.

[154314147/ Dr. Toranosuke] Thank you for letting me know, Seki. You're impressively reliable. I'll have to have a word with Dr. Higashigaki.

[774152566/ Dr. Kuneyasu] I just told him what he wanted to hear and closed the thread

[154314147/ Dr. Toranosuke] Very good boy. I don't suppose you have any updates on Dr. Kitamuro and that boy from psychology for me as well?

[774152566/ Dr. Kuneyasu] The trial took up most of my time for the past few hours. Sorry.

[154314147/ Dr. Toranosuke] I suppose you're not to blame. That responsibility would fall on Yonekura for assigning the task to someone incapable of completing it in a timely manner. Perhaps she should have left the matter to someone like Hattori or Murunaga.

[774152566/ Dr. Kuneyasu] I'll be back up to date with it tomorrow, I promise.

[154314147/ Dr. Toranosuke] No need. I'll see that the task is reassigned to someone more attentive.

[774152566/ Dr. Kuneyasu] Don't do that. I'm good at observation, I can keep up with it, I was just busy today because of the trial. I'll have more time now.

[154314147/ Dr. Toranosuke] Seki. There's no need. I'll have it reassigned.

[774152566/ Dr. Kuneyasu] I'll have time now though. I promise. I won't miss another day. I can go do the observation notes literally right now.

[154314147/ Dr. Toranosuke] Perhaps I'm not making myself clear. You've already failed. There's no need to grovel at this point, because you've already dropped the ball. I'm reassigning the task because I don't trust you to complete it. Is that understandable for you?

[154314147/ Dr. Toranosuke] Come now. Are you sad? No need to go quiet on me.

[774152566/ Dr. Kuneyasu] This isn't fair, I've been keeping up with observation every single day before now

[154314147/ Dr. Toranosuke] Indeed! But today, you failed. I'd like observation to be conducted by someone who *won't* fail. That's the incongruence.

[154314147/ Dr. Toranosuke] Perhaps the task can be passed off to Suga, since he's currently without a department? It's good busywork.

[774152566/ Dr. Kuneyasu] Why are you doing this to me

[154314147/ Dr. Toranosuke] I'm afraid I'm not sure what you mean!

[774152566/ Dr. Kuneyasu] You're doing this on purpose

[154314147/ Dr. Toranosuke] Hah, I suppose you've caught me. I was just looking to get a little rise out of you. You can keep up with your little terminals all you'd like, Seki. They're very helpful.

[154314147/ Dr. Toranosuke] You're doing very good work. Thank you very much. I assure you I won't be replacing you with Suga. It simply wouldn't be the same. Thank you affording me a bit of entertainment either way.

[154314147/ Dr. Toranosuke] I wouldn't want to leave you feeling as though I didn't appreciate you over a little joke. You know I was only kidding, yes Seki

[154314147/ Dr. Toranosuke] I appreciate you greatly. You're a very, very helpful assistant. Don't be sad. I wouldn't replace you.

[154314147/ Dr. Toranosuke] Seki?

[774152566/ Dr. Kuneyasu] Yeah?

[154314147/ Dr. Toranosuke] I'd like you to do me a favour.

[774152566/ Dr. Kuneyasu] What is it?

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tumblr has basically just become a site specifically for me to look at tetro content and i couldn't be more happier about it i love this series

anyway here's a silly ms paint drawing of kan i made a few weeks ago for anyone who cares,,,

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「where did she go? what did you do with her?」

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mini essay about tsutsujio tamemichi & the use of dr. kan's hands as a metaphor for rape

ive been thinking a lot about tsu and kan recently so i wanted to dump some thoughts lol. cw for things involved with their stories like medical trauma and sexual assault and such

i think tsu is a masterclass in writing a metaphorical rape scene. i know that he genuinely faced sexual assault by kan, but i wanna focus on the idea that his heart surgery was a metaphorical rape in and of itself.

for background, during tsu's first year working at KFTI, he got in an altercation with dr. kan that lead to dr. kan beating him so badly he broke four bones, including his pelvis and almost every bone in his arm. we're told that he needed a lot of recovery time, and that during this recovery time, dr. kan pulled him for an experiment that involved performing open heart surgery on him.

we're told that the anaesthesia used was localized and not general, meaning he was awake for the surgery. we're told it was for the expressed purpose of seeing how he would mentally cope with the experience of being awake for something like that. that's the background we're going with. we then see how that affects tsutsujio and how he describes it.

tsu has chronic arrhythmia and heart palpitations. when he gets worked up, his body starts shutting down, which makes him panic and makes the entire thing worse. every day hes having these little spirals where he thinks hes gonna die. this is why he refuses to leave the office and head to OMS - he's afraid that if he does, he'll have an episode that requires kan's intervention, and kan won't be there to save him.

we also see him describe the process in a very specific way: the use of kan's hands.

[416276122/ Dr. Tsutsujio] Actually no im pretty sure nobody here understands me at all because I keep getting stupid fucking advice and critique from people who havent had his hands in their open fucking chest

he says that nobody can understand how he feels because they haven't had kan's hands in their chest. kan's hands are inside his body. his wording here is very important, because it's going to come up again in this thread, and then again further in the future. for now, let's focus on how it comes up in this thread.

[416276122/ Dr. Tsutsujio] I feel like his hands are on my shoulders all the time [416276122/ Dr. Tsutsujio] I feel like no matter what I do or where i go his hands are always on my shoulders [416276122/ Dr. Tsutsujio] I feel like if i look down im just going to have handprints all over me [416276122/ Dr. Tsutsujio] I dont know why he makes me feel like that [416276122/ Dr. Tsutsujio] I cant leave because his hands are always on my shoulders and i cant ever be comfortable because his hands are always on my shoulders and nobody cares or questions it because oh its not that big of a deal its just his hands on my shoulders [416276122/ Dr. Tsutsujio] my body feels wrong how the hell am i supposed to just live like that forever i dont want to [434334633/ Dr. Suga] You feel violated. [416276122/ Dr. Tsutsujio] Right like i do but like fucking why should i [416276122/ Dr. Tsutsujio] God this is so stupid why do i always sound so stupid [416276122/ Dr. Tsutsujio] I just dont want his fucking hands in my body he fucking hurt me

he describes kan as always having his hands on his shoulders. he describes this as a feeling that's incredibly distressing, and says that nobody questions it because it seems so innocuous - just a hand on his shoulders. suga points out that he feels violated, and tsu agrees, but can't explain why. he then describes the feeling in a much more visceral way - "I just dont want his fucking hands in my body".

the language tsu uses alludes to much more than surgery. this isnt how people describe surgery in a normal context. the idea of someone putting their hands inside of your body holds connotations that feel much more intimate than medical. the descriptions of being covered in handprints corroborate this - he's not talking about medical feelings. he's talking about feelings of having his body violated, feelings that are intimately tied to the idea of sexual assault. this is further emphasized by the presence of his conversation partner - suga.

suga is the absolute picture of sexual violation within staffside. the way suga is described is the picture perfect image of purity. he was young and naive and eager to help. he was almost ethereally beautiful. he was pretty and weak and vulnerable. he was a virgin. the interesting framing device in tetro is that we don't learn any of this until after we've known him for some time. when we're introduced to suga, he's sick and vomiting and exhausted and on the brink of death. we meet him as his story is nearing its climax. only a short while after meeting him, he's put under anaesthesia and raped by dr. kan. this became one of our first central plot points of staffside.

suga's entire arc is about the trauma of sexual assault and how it eventually kills him, for all intents and purposes. we follow him as he's completely devoured by his trauma and his feelings of utter violation. pairing him with tsu in this scene is meant to show the connection between the two. staffside is drawing a comparison between suga's experience and tsu's experience. you're meant to associate them. they both feel horribly violated.

and then we find out that tsutsujio was molested during a medical exam.

it would be easy to take this information and write off the metaphorical rape that was tsu's surgery. it would be easy to dismiss it as no longer important or relevant now that we know tsu was genuinely molested and not just metaphorically assaulted. however, if anything, i think tsu's recount of being molested actually serves to greatly strengthen the connections between his surgery and the idea of rape. let's look again at how he describes the assault.

[416276122/ Dr. Tsutsujio] Again seriously its not that serious its not like what happened to Suga [416276122/ Dr. Tsutsujio] Stuff with his hands I guess [416276122/ Dr. Tsutsujio] Which again is stupid because obviously the Suga thing is worse so please dont get hung up on this like seriously

another mention of kan's hands. he describes his molestation as something that took place with kan's hands.

[416276122/ Dr. Tsutsujio] And it was just one time and it was just with hands like it not like that

his hands again. tsu's focus often comes back to kan's hands. it's the only way he describes his molestation in any capacity. we don't get any details beyond the fact that it was done with kan's hands. kan's hands themselves in this case are portrayed as a weapon of assault. the hands that molested him are the hands he claims to be constantly all over his body and on his shoulders and inside his chest. the connections drawn between the use of kan's hands for sexual assault and the use of kan's hands for tsu's surgery are incredibly clear and further drive home the point of tsu's surgery being used as a metaphor for rape.

let's take a look at other mentions of kan's hands in similar contexts. this is the first time we ever get a mention of kan's hands.

[840070420/ Dr. Tatematsu] Out of curiosity, was it DURING that event that you told her you were getting handsy with her husband? Before? After?

tatematsu uses very specific phrasing to describe the sexual relationship between kan and seki. she refers to kan assaulting him as getting handsy.

[154314147/ Dr. Toranosuke] Hence why I'm reaching out to you two! I'd like to borrow Minase. [796285914/ Dr. Hattori] Me? [840070420/ Dr. Tatematsu] Absolutely out of the question. Keep your grubby hands in your own department.

kan claims to want to "borrow" minase. minase is someone kan has expressed lust for in the past - he's pretty, he's blonde, he's got the same borderline ethereal beauty that kan assigns to suga. when he says he wants to borrow minase, tatematsu tells him to keep his grubby hands in his own department. another mention of kan's hands.

[155402844/ Monomoko] He has other methods as well. Ones you might be familiar with by now. Dr. Kan is at his most content when others are entirely reliant on his hands.

this is one of the more prominent uses of the metaphor of dr. kan's hands. monomoko doesn't just say kan needs people to be entirely reliant on him; she says he needs them to be entirely reliant on his hands. his hands are almost given a sense of being their own character in the way people describe them. consider the people we know are reliant on kan to survive: tsutsujio, seki, suga, genki and zenjaku. if he didn't care for tsu's heart, tsu would die. if he didn't medicate seki, seki would die. if he didn't continue to care for suga through his coma, suga would die. i have no idea what he does for genki, but we've been told that without his support, genki would die as well. if he didn't provide zenjaku with the BMS box, he would die. every single person reliant on kan for survival is someone he has sexually assaulted. tsutsujio is the only one of the four who wasn't outright raped, which is where his surgical metaphor becomes even more prominent. it acts as a rape. it feels like rape. to him, it is rape. and here, we see monomoko describing these four people he has raped as entirely reliant on his hands. its another association between kan's hands and rape.

now, we get into the most blatant evidence for the idea that kans hands represent rape.

WHERE KAN. KAN KAN KAN KAN. i kNOW iT wAs HIM. HE LOOKED AT HER, HE DID. WITH HIS. HIS GROSS HANDS!!! HE DOES THINGS!!! HE DOES THINGS TO THINGS!!! hE. HE TOOk her, I KNOW HE DID. WHERE IS SHE?!?! wHERE IS SHE?!?!?! DID HE - NO!!! no. he WOULDN’T - wOULDN’T HE?!?!??!?!? OH GOD!!!!!!! WHERE SHES COLD!!! SHE’S COLD AND I CAN’T FIND HER!!!!!!! HE HAS HER I KNOW IT!!! I KNoW IT. HE TOUCHES EVERYTHING AND HE RUINS EVERYTHING AND NOW SHE’S GONE. hER FuR. HER fur…soft, soFT, and NOW SHE’S GONE!!!!! SHE’S GONE!!! HE TOOK HER. WHY. WHY. WHY?!?! WHY?!?!?!?!?!! WHERE HES HURTING HER. I KNOW HE IS. hES - hE'S DOING THINGS TO HER!!! THINGS. HE DOES THINGS AND SHE’S GONE AND I CAN’T STOP IT!!!!!!! hIS HANDS. hIS FILTHY HANDS. ON HER!!! ON HER!!! I CAN HEAR HER CRYING. sHE’S CRYING. SHE’S CRYING AND I CAN’T STOP IT!!! OH GOD I CAN’T STOP IT!!! WHERE wHy. why hE DO THIS. Why HE. tOUCH eVERYTHING THATS MINE!!! hE ALWAYS TAKES MY THINGS, ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS!!!! hIS EYES. HIS EYES WERE LOOKING. ALWAYS LOOKING!!! I CANT. i CAN’T DO THIS. WHERE IS SHE. WHERE IS SHE. WHERE It’s darK. sHE’S nEVER QuiEt. ShE’S never THIS QUIET. He MUFFLED HER, I KNOW HE DID. he DOESNT WANT ME TO HEAR HER CRYING!!!!!!! BUT I CAN. I CAN HEAR HER ANYWAY!!! hE THINKS I CAN’T. BUT I CAN!!!!!!! HE DOESNT WANT HER TO BE MINE!!! BUT SHE’S MINE. MINE!!!!!!! WHERE wHEre IS shE. IS sHE SAFE?!?! IS SHE STILL SAFE???!?!?!? DID I LEAVE HER HERE?!?! WAS IT ME??? DID I DO THIS?!?! no. No. IT WASN’T ME. IT WAS KAN. IT’S ALWAYS KAN. IT’S ALWAYS HIM AND HIS HANDS AND HIS EYES AND HIS SMILE!!! HE TOOK HER. HE TOOK HER AND HE’S RUINING HER!!!!

the maru logs contain an incredibly chilling description of kan's hands used as a metaphor for rape once again. in my mind, this is one of the most nauseating depictions of kan's inflicted trauma in tetro. in the maru logs, we see the jumbled thoughts of nemoto genki depicted as a terminal. throughout the staffside story, we are repeatedly nudged towards the fact that during genki's deterioration, he was raped by kan. it's something that many people seem to understand and that genki himself seems to still carry the pain of even after losing his memory.

here we see genki in a state of extreme distress after dr. kan took away his comfort item as a form of sadistic punishment - a stuffed sheep. sheep and lambs have extremely strong connotations when it comes to symbolism - they're purity, innocence, gentleness and youth. we see that literally ripped away from genki by kan's hands, and genki immediately begins to violently spiral into hysterics.

kan taking the sheep is, in my opinion, a direct metaphor for rape once again. he is literally ripping a symbol of innocence away from genki, and genki reacts accordingly. he completely melts down, insisting that kan is "doing things" to this symbol of his innocence, and that he's ruining her with his gross, filthy hands. "it's always him and his hands". another case of dr. kan's hands being treated as a separate concept to himself. his hands are a weapon, and we see genki completely lose it as kan uses that weapon to rip away his innocence once again. this isn't a connection that the reader needs to force - it's incredibly clear. genki reacts to this as if it was a rape. he cries about violation and filth and ruining. genki seems to go as far as genuinely thinking that kan would violate the sheep itself - directly violating the symbol of his innocence and purity. directly raping his innocence. he reacts with appropriate horror and distress. kan's hands are once again used in this disgusting, violating context.

but kan's hands continue to come up.

Hibari visibly tensed and vocalized his pain throughout the process, but Kan appeared unfazed. He made several inappropriate comments, including, “You should appreciate that I’m being hands-on. Many would leave you to suffer with less care.”

kan describes himself as being hands-on with zenjaku, and says zenjaku should appreciate it. kan has repeatedly stressed a perverse interest in zenjaku and his body up to this point, and would later go on to physically rape him during a moment alone. having this treatment associated with kan being "hands-on" is another glowing example of the metaphor of his hands.

i think tetro is incredibly effective at not only depicting kan's hands themselves as a metaphor for rape and violation, but then also successfully executing an incredibly poignant metaphor for rape in the form of tsutsujio's surgery. kan's hands are rape. by putting them into tsu's body, he violated him and left him with a trauma that tsu describes in an extremely intimate context. anyone affected by kan's hands is violated, because kan's hands represent violation.

im not sure how much more of this we'll get in the future but i just wanted to get my thoughts out - let me know if you see any other interesting examples of this in staffside or let me know if you disagree completely and think im reading way too far into this LMAO. i just wanna hear peoples thoughts

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