#i know muu mentions having a lot of friends in her interrogation questions but this still stands to me

[good-beanswrites]

hiii!!!!! for the hc ask game: 🧸 A headcanon about their childhood for muu, and maybe 💔 An angsty headcanon for any prisoner (or prisoners) of your choice? your writing is AMAZING btw, i really adore it

AH thank you so much!! I'm glad you're enjoying :D These were interesting ones to think about, ty! The ideas themselves are simple, I'm just long-winded, sorry 😭

🧸I like to think that Muu was just as shy/unwilling to leave her comfort zone as a kid, despite doing a lot of activities with her parents. This, combined with her parents giving her whatever dolls she asked for, results in her clinging to those for support. She has names and personalities for dozens of dolls, and talks to them all the time. She has one in particular she carries around everywhere she goes when she gets scared. The habit lasts a bit into her older years, but she's so downright cute that it only ever earns her doting instead of scolding.

💔 Immediately following the T2 attacks, I feel like Mahiru’s condition is bad enough that Shidou warna everyone there's a high chance she won't make it through the night. There's a solemn, grieving silence as everyone prepares themselves for another death. Shidou is wracked with guilt because he doesn't know if he can save her. Fuuta is dealing with his own injuries, but he and Amane get a kind of survivor's guilt that it could have easily been them on their deathbed. (And now with canon support) Kotoko didn't mean to kill anyone, just rough them up, so she's haunted by guilt/panic that she tries to cover up with a brave face. Kazui takes it the hardest, nearly breaking down in his cell because he blames himself for not getting to her in time.

[milgramtheories]

yuno ⭐ kazui

yuno and kazui are biologically related: my dissection of kashiki-mukuhara also huge shouts out to @nikoberry who helped me put this theory together! for ease of reading, yuno's information will be on the left side of this post, with kazui's information on the right- to the best of my ability. sources are linked best i can

disclaimer: i dont know how canon it is that the prisoners experience memory loss of their lives & parts of their murders before milgram, but this theory works best under that assumption

this will also all be under a cut, for the sake of your dashboard... it's very long...

01. Age

to start off, it is not far-fetched that kazui could be yuno's biological father, as he would have been ~21 when yuno was born

02. Design

milgram character designs are made with a lot of intent and deliberation, the characters in the main cast look very different from one another, though yuno and kazui have a few key details that tie them together

note 1. posing; yuno and kazui are both posed in very similar ways for each of their trials. for trial 2: they seem excited, greeting you with a wave or acknowledging you wtih a nod for trial 1, they seem relaxed, but prepared. theyre meeting us for the first time, warmly, but not exposing who they are just yet

note 2. hair; these two have a handful of similarities with their hair. their hair color looks to be the same, but tinted with their respective colors they also have their bangs cut similarly, cut just under the eyebrow, a straight edge on their right side, with their hair parting on the left side

note 3, facial structure; both have a more "straight faces" (more noticeable in yuno's t2), coy smiles, and droopy/soft eyes

note 4, color;

03. Personality

excerpts pulled from the milgram wikia

04. Interrogations

yuno does not have a father present in her life

kazui's response to his question "Who do you want to see right now?" is "I can't meet them anymore."

he says "meet." not "see" or "be with", implying it is someone he has not met before: perhaps a child he knows of, but has not been told anything about them

(it could also be "meeting up", though i am not able to translate the original. in this case, it could be "meeting up" with the woman at the bar)

this one ^ mostly just tickles me

and i was almost going to dismiss this next one as him talking about his marriage

buuut... niko twisted my arm on keeping it in for the theory!

these next two are likely more about kazui's childhood friend, and his adultery, but theyre fun to apply to this theory, so im keeping them in.

05. Name Meanings

im not well versed in interpreting japanese names, so these are again, pulled from the milgram wikia

06. Timelines

muu mentions just before this that she does not interact much with men around kazui's age, save for her father

kazui mentions himself having a child out of the blue, and quickly dismisses it. muu does not comment on this in the full timeline, so it could be that he is talking to himself. but why?

(translation source) connecting this timeline to the one above is interesting as well, as yuno mentions that she and muu could be seen as the same age. perhaps muu reminds kazui of a child he has not met, yet knows is around muus general age

(translation source) it's important to note that the above timeline was posted 2 days after kazui's t1 video, half, premiered on the MILGRAM youtube channel. kazui makes no mention of children in his voice drama, but mentions them to shidou a few days after his song extraction

07. Cats

kazui's next song is titled "cat," and yuno's t2 video, tear drop, has very VERY brief flashes of cat imagery used for her

08. Doors

there is a great comparison that @dearmahiru has made for their respective t2 song artwork! though, i would also like to point out that their doors are made with a very very similar wood (re: the significance of the kanji used for their names)

the only prisoner thus far with a somewhat similar door to these two would be haruka

though the wood finish is almost entirely smooth, with hardly any visible grain, unlike yuno and kazui, who have woodgrain very visible on their doors. haruka's door is also not curved at the top

09. Etc, The End

i was mostly going to note that he says "float" in this translation, which corresponds to yuno's balloon imagery however, i started looking into the potential symbolism behind chairs and..

(i would also like to note that the chair has hearts on it, which im sure has significance- but at the moment is just a cute detail to me)

if you made it this far, thank you for reading, and please tell me your thoughts on this!! id love to hear what everyone else thinks about this theory!

im know there are more well put-together and stronger supported theories than this one, but it's my first full theory ive come up with on my own, and im just excited to share it! at the very least, it's a fun headcanon, and i will also go ballistic if it gets confirmed

[moibakadesu]

I am getting real tired about people just disregarding the fact that Fuuta cares about Haruka, and because of that, let’s talk a bit about what I like to call:

 

The primary color trio dynamic

 

So what people seem to just sort of ignore most of the time is that the Haruka-Fuuta-Muu combination has been built up as a sort of triangle very subtly (and I know a lot of people don’t get subtle things sometimes) since the very early beginning.

This is of course for one, fitting to how I titled this, them consisting of the primary colors. Then we have one of the best indicators for this, the first round of interrogation questions for Fuuta and Muu. When asked with who they get along best they both have a single answer here: Haruka

What’s Haruka’s stance on the matter? Well, I guess we are all aware that he just gravitates to whoever gives him attention. In his first VD he says Fuuta is doing that, albeit being a bit scary, but with Fuuta it should be clear that he tends to come off as a bit brash and loud quickly, even if his intentions are caring. After that he mentions Muu, her talking to him sometimes, so implied not as frequently as Fuuta at this point. This point being very early Milgram, he also says Yuno and Mahiru talk to him, the difference is though that continuing from this point he will not have as much interaction with them compared to Fuuta and Muu. Generally speaking you could say that during the duration of t1 almost everybody was at least friendly to him, minus Amane who he avoids and Kotoko being … well, Kotoko, not being very buddy-buddy with anyone.

The point where dynamics starts to change a bit is, of course, influenced how the votes went. We have Fuuta in the guilty, getting more withdrawn, being more preoccupied with his own troubles. On the other hand is Muu with her inno, gaining the confidence to bring out her true colors and now seeking out Haruka more actively.

So when we take a dip into the “what if”-scenarios, what could have happened if we switch the verdict of Fuuta and Muu around? Fuuta would have been the primary person to take care of Haruka, but there is a clear difference here. While Muu only seeked out Haruka because he was the best option as a worker bee/”friend” to exploit. The new insight we got from both INMF and her second VD makes it painfully clear that she does not care for Haruka as a person in the slightest, her whole idea about friendship being twisted from the get go already. Fuuta actually acted out of a genuine want to look out for Haruka, because he cares and worries. So would we have a way better situation for Haruka that way? Most certainly, yeah. Fuuta would give him positive and genuine attention without patronizing or pampering him too much, he does see him on equal ground. Haruka would have gotten to experience and learn what an actual friend could be that way. Their personalities mesh very well together in a sense that both can grow and learn from each other. The downside here is though that I think Fuuta needed the first guilty or it would have been detrimental to his own character development in regards to his crime, so it would have been: get better development for Haruka = sacrifice Fuuta’s own development. And of course we would also have gotten very different development for Muu as well, so you could say, a win-win situation was impossible no matter how it could have gone. And naturally these are all just “what ifs”, so it is how it is now.

So how will this trio dynamic go from here out, continuing t2 and going into t3? Well, here are some ways I could see it happening: I am almost 100% sure that Haruka and Muu will have some sort of falling out. This codependency is a very shaky thing from the start and with them both going for guilty that will have a massive mental impact. We saw how easily Haruka can snap, we know that Muu can very quickly say very hurtful things. As soon as some of the “demand” isn’t met here anymore this will crash and burn. Muu has shown that she views whoever she deems as not convenient anymore as very disposable, so that is not boding well for Haruka here …

We also of course still have to factor in Haruka’s threat of suicide in case of Muu being guilty. I am like 99,9% sure they will not perma-kill Haruka, for a multitude of reasons, but that doesn’t mean that he can’t make an attempt. We already know that Muu will not be the one to stop him, so this is where Fuuta will come into play again. With him being inno and not as mentally tormented anymore I assume he will have more of an eye (ahah …) on his surroundings again, and I could very well see him being the one to stop Haruka from doing anything stupid. This could even lead to some sort of interesting friction betweem him and Muu, with Muu enabling suicidal behaviour from Haruka and then looking at Fuuta’s own crime … I think he would not take lightly to somebody deluding someone who he cares for into suicide, harshly getting reminded of the result of his own past actions, so he probably would give Muu a piece of his mind. It even could remind her of her own victim, Fuuta bearing some facial similarities to Rei, and the whole standing up against her actions. I think this could make for some very interesting source of confrontation.

It might also make way for some of the character development that was not possible in t2 due to how votings turned out, but this is highly dependent on what kind of state Haruka will be in, both mentally and physically. Which will probably not be good, knowing Milgram, so I’m not keeping my hope up too much there, but eh.

Especially with the new insight we got now (I’m writing this paragraph half a year after the rest of the document, wow) from both Haruka’s and Muu’s birthday conversations it is pretty concerning that Haruka is locking himself away like that, but I am at least thankful for Muu that she is bringing him food (I hope he eats it though), even if it has sort of the vibe of “I am taking care of my pet, praise me for what a great person I am!”, made very clear with how she talked to Fuuta on her birthday. Her birthday convo ALSO shows though, that I think that I’m on a very right track with my whole thought process about this trio.

First, I was right about Fuuta still caring a ton about Haruka. He obviously kept his eye on him all the time, or else he wouldn’t note or implore about him not coming out of his room and his well being. I think we are already seeing the first results of Fuuta being innocent now, in his t2 interro questions he said he has no time to care for others, but well … look at him now.

He is also glad that somebody is taking care of Haruka right now, calling Muu his “salvation” and all. It seems as if there is some sort of “I’m sad I wasn’t in any state to be there for him, but I am glad he has someone out here”-feeling behind that. I would say it’s also more pointers towards that, if Muu fails to fill that role anymore it will be Fuuta to take that place, being the only other person who actively has an eye on Haruka and cares. Esp with Fuuta being inno while Haruka is guilty he can truly shine with being the one being able to request goods from Es etc. It feels very much as if the stage for the t3 interactions is being set already, which they already did before for t2 (Muu being all buddy-buddy with Haruka being a prime example actually).

So we will see how all of this plays out in the future. This is at least my prediction, and I hope it goes somewhat like this, especially for Haruka’s sake.