Oh for real don't even get me started on that it drives me up a WALL thinking about! Honestly to the point that I have put multiple hours into the thought of just how much better off Ouma would have been if he'd been in class 77B or even in the SDR2 killing game. Might crosspost my posts on that from Tumblr later actually.
Like it's so tragic to me. It feels like they had to make V3 like that to nerf Ouma because he was too smart for his own good and would've solved things way, way too fast if he actually had anybody's genuine cooperation beyond Gokuhara, who the rest of the cast also writes off to the point of blatant ableism--which narratively sometimes comes across exclusively as a crutch to further isolate Ouma via "you'd have to be dumber than rocks to trust him." (Which also from a meta standpoint... Why are the writers using this very ableist and myopic perception of Gokuhara to reinforce the notion that Ouma is bad? Can we maybe not do that, that's not a very good look SpikeChun...)
But that's purely from a Doyalist perspective. From a Watsonian perspective I like to think Shirogane was out here panicking because she didn't realize she accidentally accepted a psychological powerhouse into her very poorly-written killing game and had to resort to bullying and petty spotlighting on Ouma's most questionable coping skills to isolate him from the rest so he couldn't ruin everything.
And then he ruined everything anyway so like. Skill issue.
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Like it's so tragic to me. It feels like they had to make V3 like that to nerf Ouma because he was too smart for his own good and would've solved things way, way too fast if he actually had anybody's genuine cooperation beyond Gokuhara, who the rest of the cast also writes off to the point of blatant ableism--which narratively sometimes comes across exclusively as a crutch to further isolate Ouma via "you'd have to be dumber than rocks to trust him." (Which also from a meta standpoint... Why are the writers using this very ableist and myopic perception of Gokuhara to reinforce the notion that Ouma is bad? Can we maybe not do that, that's not a very good look SpikeChun...)
But that's purely from a Doyalist perspective. From a Watsonian perspective I like to think Shirogane was out here panicking because she didn't realize she accidentally accepted a psychological powerhouse into her very poorly-written killing game and had to resort to bullying and petty spotlighting on Ouma's most questionable coping skills to isolate him from the rest so he couldn't ruin everything.
And then he ruined everything anyway so like. Skill issue.