OK, This Was Originally Gonna Be A Reblog To A Thread Talking About If Jouno Manipulated Tachihara (he

OK, this was originally gonna be a reblog to a thread talking about if Jouno manipulated Tachihara (he didn’t, not at all), but it became so long it’s gonna be its own thing

Long story short, I think we’re being partially misled by Jouno’s characterization, in a way. Let me explain.

Now,

I’ll say it right now, I think he’s lying here. No one ever mentions that a character could be straight up lying in a scene until it’s revealed then or later, that or it’s obvious, so I’m gonna do it.

When Jouno first found out about Fukuchi being the DoA leader, his reaction was pretry genuine.

This was the first time we’ve seen him so confused about something.

Before this, he said he wouldn’t mind joining the ADA’s (DoA’s) side if they lost, but when he was actually gifted that opportunity, he declined in a very satisfying way (cutting Fukuchi’s neck open). (More on this later)

We don’t know what he was thinking in that scene, but Fukuchi mentioned that he only hired Jouno to later make him become a DoA member.

Fukuchi did not think he was capable of becoming a good person, not in the slightest.

The problem was that Jouno did change, even if he could not be considered a “good person”, he still enjoys doing good, he learned it the hard way, but he learned it.

So part of the reason Jouno declined the offer? Spite.

A big ol’ “fuck you” to Fukuchi, the man who fixed him up only to try and rub him back in the dirt.

And when he did attack Fukuchi, he absolutely knew that he had to chance of winning, so what did he do? Run away to try and contact the other Hunting Dogs, because he trusts them as teammates.

Fukuchi said that Jouno only used the Hunting Dogs as a vessel, but the moment he learned that Fukuchi was the mastermind he was certain that they (Tecchou and Teruko) would believe him, he trusted them enough to ask for their aid. So much for the Hunting Dogs being a “vessel”.

And what about Aya? Why did he give her the note? Well, he’s not stupid. Tachihara told a lie to the Commander, then Tachihara goes mission. He gave Aya the note incase he’s unfortunately right about his suspicions.

Another reason he said he would have joined the ADA (DoA) could have been to manipulate Fukuchi a little bit (hey, I never said he wasn’t manipulative, just not to Tachihara, or any of the other Hunting Dogs, for that matter)). In case his suspicions were right, Fukuchi would have been more open, and more easily able to tell Jouno that he was the mastermind.

Jouno’s surprised reaction could have been because he didn’t want to be right, didn’t want his leader to betray them. Fukuchi was the one who gave Jouno a second chance at life, after all, and allowed him to experience the pleasure of protecting the weak.

Now, there are a few more reasons why I think Jouno’s characterization could be hiding something about his character, one of which being his eyebrows (bear with me, I’m being serious).

There are a few instances where his hair covers his eyebrows, I made a post about i a while back. What this does is make his expression completely unreadable.

I refuse to believe this isn’t intentional in some way, otherwise there would be no reason to try and hide it.

Why hide his expression if he actually wanted to join the DoA? If he were honest wouldn’t it be more obvious that he was excited or something? I know he smirked before then, but that could also very well mean that he has a plan (he most likely had to make it up on the spot).

Another thing is what Tecchou had to say about Jouno while he was beating up Kenji.

Everyone misunderstands him? Despises violence? These are things that contradict everything we thought of when we think of Jouno, to the point where people just don’t believe Tecchou, the guy who has been Jouno’s teammate for (presumably) six years, and has known him much longer than we have seen him on screen.

The thing is, all of what Tecchou says can very much be true, mainly due to the fact that it’s Tecchou saying it, the man who sees good and evil through a black and white lens and puts people above all. If Tecchou of all people says you’re good, then you probably have some good in you, and remember, Jouno bullies Tecchou constantly, and Tecchou still has nice things to say about him!

And about the protecting the weak bit, that is true, we saw in his flashback that it was true, he remembered a single old lady thanking him. He’s probably been thanked by hundreds of people due to saving them, and after the initial memory of urging those bank robbers to commit suicide (look, I didn’t say he was 100% good, but at least he’s not hurting innocent civilians anymore, it’s better than nothing), which is what Fukuchi was talking about and therefore the first thing that came to mind, Jouno remember an old lady thanking him.

Could it be because he used to never get praise or thanks? Probably, he was a criminal after all, but the fact that the part of the mission that came to his mind without prompt was the way he felt when someone thanked him has to mean something, and I doubt that’s a bad something since he continued to stay on the side of the people, following his mission of “defeat the terrorists”.

Overall, we don’t know jack about Jouno, like at all, we barely even saw his thought process when he was fighting Fukuchi and he have less than half a backstory.

But in the end, Jouno is a cruel man who enjoys listening to the suffering of others, there is literally no denying that even if you tried, but I believe there is so much more to him than just that, we’ve just yet to be properly introduced to it.