melle (🇧🇦) 🔎🎲/🎲🔎 :
Kokichi lies even without the context of a Killing Game though. We see that in Salmon Mode & UTDP, his lies ARE a compulsion. He considers stopping lying in his Salmon Mode Harmonious Heart because he wants to get closer to Shuichi, but he immediately backpedals even on that.
While I am not a professional, I do have an obsession with V3 and Kokichi especially, and I would also point out the possibility he has PPD (Paranoid Personality Disorder). From what I have researched it is basically a pervasive pattern of distrust and suspiciousness in which other people's motives are interpreted as potentially malicious, including unjustified doubts about loyalty, reluctance to confide, reading hidden meanings into things, holding grudges, and perceiving attacks where others don't. The DSM-5-TR requires at least four of those features and Ouma has ALLLLL them mfs 😭😭😭 his entire worldview is structured around not being able to take anything at face value, he repeatedly questions whether people are telling the truth, whether situations are what they appear to be, whether the others are hiding something, and whether the Killing Game itself is operating according to the rules they think it is, and he's reluctant to reveal anything even remotely personal because he doesn't trust people with information about himself. His paranoia also isn't limited to one person and, arguably most importantly, he doesn't even have a stable reason to trust his own memories and it's pretty inferable he didn't even believe in DICE. His obsession with Shuichi also maps pretty cleanly onto the PPD pattern of being preoccupied with the loyalty and trustworthiness of others (1/2)
2026-09-05 08:35:40