I’ve jokingly discussed the probability of Sigma’s cat tic being a future plot point and more seriously discussed the problematic and fetishistic commentary he makes—however, the other day I was looking into something and read up on Witzelsucht.
Witzelsucht is a mental disability “characterized by a tendency to make puns, or tell inappropriate jokes or pointless stories in socially inappropriate situations. A less common symptom is hypersexuality, the tendency to make sexual comments at inappropriate times or situations. Patients do not understand that their behavior is unnatural, therefore are nonresponsive to others’ reactions. “
Witzelsucht is a direct effect of head trauma, primarily on the right lobe. Sigma doesn’t seem to understand the eccentricity behind the “magical cat story” he often tells, claiming that it was simply an incident that took place as a child, while also constantly being unresponsive to any sort of humor that isn’t his own —his hypersexuality and blatant disregard for the female cast’s discomfort with his commentary is also pretty contrary to his empathy and perception of others’ emotions, a recurring theme throughout Sigma’s narrative is how he constantly notices the emotions those around him are expressing, which is a key component to his character. It’s just not entirely logical.
I don’t know what could’ve happened exactly, but it’s food for thought nonetheless. The prospect of Sigma being neuroatypical is also pretty interesting in itself. Head trauma could be connected to events in ZE3, so hey, who knows. EDIT: Also important to recognize that the eye injury Sigma has post ZE3/VLR is seemingly on the left side of his face, but from his perspective, it would be his RIGHT side. Meaning that he did suffer a blow to the right side of his head in canon.
I’m so glad to see you post this because I was considering this exact same thing last night! If you don’t mind, I’m going to toss a little more circumstantial evidence in your ring.
As our resident K overanalyst, there’s a curious bit of foreshadowing that I’ve always wondered about. I know, I know, but bear with me for a minute.
In Luna’s route, a 5 BP Phi is stuck in a difficult position. She’s paired with a 6 BP Dio and facing off against a 6 BP K. If she betrays and K allies, Dio gets 6 BP and books it. But if she allies and K betrays, he’ll obviously bail, too. She could betray, but she’d need to ensure K also betrayed – otherwise, Dio would screw them both over.
Instead of that, she elects to put her faith in K. She locks Dio out of her AB room and – to my considerable surprise – K actually allies with her. Sigma and Phi were as confused as I was, and decided to ask about it. His answer was… interesting.
A while ago, @rufusonove @shoyslayer and I were thinking about few theories, and we reached an interesting thought –
What if the radical 6 is not a normal virus? It was described as something that moves in air. But what if it’s not accurate?
What if the Radical 6 is a virus in the Morphogenetic field?
Think about it – in 999 Lotus compares our minds to some kind of monitors with a main computer. So what if we infect the network with a virus? Obviously it would pass to anyone who’s connected (unless they have anti virus, literally).
Radical 6 doesn’t infect you physically, it infects your mind and brain, just like a computer virus – it makes everything move “slower”, and also causes glitches and self destruction. It really sounds like a computer virus to me.
In the same breath, we had an assuming that Diana pointing a gun on Sigma’s head has something to do with it. What if Sigma is “Patient 0″ who has the first infection of Radical 6? It will connect to us to the tweets Uchikoshi spoke about killing one person to save the others.
I figured better to make a new post than try to reblog/append to the old one. Tons of details on ZTD have been released!
This info all comes from Famitsu via Hokanko, a reliable leaker. Under the cut in case people want to go in blind and don’t want to see it on their dash:
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