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6/20/2025, 5:34:35 AM
>>57924114
No, the manga's psychopath protagonist is Blake (BW2 Nate) but he's technically a sociopath (I think, forgot a lot about him) which is different. Ruby is just a very emotionally closed off guy because of neglect, abandonment and fatherlessness, and the loneliness drives him to wear masks (lying) and attention seeking behavior (obsessed with validation from contests and his girlfriend). But if you really want to use pop psychology terms on him, then he's probably a benign narcissist with avoidant personality disorder caused by PTSD and long term emotional neglect.
Blake is the creepier one because he literally has no emotions, and his personality might not even be real. Ruby has emotions and a real personality, so he's genuinely a gentle person who avoids conflict 99% of the time as long as nobody touches his girlfriend. He also has conditional empathy. But he's also unstable (no internal moral compass) and his real personality is kind of shit, so very few people like his parents and Sapphire like him for who he is. With Sapphire it's like how only pet animals are innocent enough to tolerate people with shit personalities.
Ruby's instability also ironically lets him change a lot, and he becomes a much nicer person over time because he changes to basically appease Sapphire. He gets to grow as a character, compared to the previous PokeSpe anti-hero protag (Gold) who might be permanently stuck (almost defined by immaturity) because presumably Kusaka initially thought the Pokemon franchise was ending at GS and didn't create Gold to be that deep. But the franchise kept going by RS and suddenly all the manga characters had ebin angst from the start, because there was now more time to explore that I guess.
No, the manga's psychopath protagonist is Blake (BW2 Nate) but he's technically a sociopath (I think, forgot a lot about him) which is different. Ruby is just a very emotionally closed off guy because of neglect, abandonment and fatherlessness, and the loneliness drives him to wear masks (lying) and attention seeking behavior (obsessed with validation from contests and his girlfriend). But if you really want to use pop psychology terms on him, then he's probably a benign narcissist with avoidant personality disorder caused by PTSD and long term emotional neglect.
Blake is the creepier one because he literally has no emotions, and his personality might not even be real. Ruby has emotions and a real personality, so he's genuinely a gentle person who avoids conflict 99% of the time as long as nobody touches his girlfriend. He also has conditional empathy. But he's also unstable (no internal moral compass) and his real personality is kind of shit, so very few people like his parents and Sapphire like him for who he is. With Sapphire it's like how only pet animals are innocent enough to tolerate people with shit personalities.
Ruby's instability also ironically lets him change a lot, and he becomes a much nicer person over time because he changes to basically appease Sapphire. He gets to grow as a character, compared to the previous PokeSpe anti-hero protag (Gold) who might be permanently stuck (almost defined by immaturity) because presumably Kusaka initially thought the Pokemon franchise was ending at GS and didn't create Gold to be that deep. But the franchise kept going by RS and suddenly all the manga characters had ebin angst from the start, because there was now more time to explore that I guess.
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