HEAVY PERSONA 4 SPOILERS IN READ MORE, POST-NAOTO, AFTER THE BOSS BATTLE OF THAT ONE. IF THERE HAVE BEEN 0 CAR ACCIDENTS IN YOUR PLAYTHROUGH UP TO THIS POINT THIS IS VERY SPOILERS.
heaven has been completed. here are my observations, and a theory
please note i have not completed the game yet so please don’t spoil me
Okay, so, Namatame said that some of the party were the people who were “saved“ by him, and that he’s gonna save Nanako. He, of course, failed miserably.
The issue I have is the note I got. The threat. “if you won’t stop rescuing someone close to you will be put in and killed“ or something. If saving means killing, this would make sense, but then Namatame saying “you’re the ones i saved“ wouldn’t, since they’re not dead. If saving does not mean killing, then the note would make no sense if Namatame wrote it.
There’s one theory I had, namely him trying to purge the population of fakers or something by having only the ones with the courage to face themselves survive, but I’m pretty sure that’s not true.
If Namatame is to be believed with “murder isn’t saving them“, he could not have written the note. And honestly, even with him turning into Kunino-Sagiri, I’m pretty sure that all of the peace signs are some kind of delusion of him being a saviour of someone else are grounds enough to believe him, if those are his true feelings. Remember, “I am a Shadow, the true self.“
Yukiko says “But we nearly died!“ Namatame says “Yes, exactly!“ If we take that into a different context, one where saving isn’t murder, Namatame might be trying to prevent people getting killed by throwing people in the TV, unknowing of what actually lurks inside. After the first two cases, anyone who appeared on the Midnight Channel didn’t die. He thought the “saving“ was working.
That means Namatame’s not the culprit, instead trying to be a hero who put people in harm’s way in a delusion of that he’s saving them. And he was, technically, right.
This means someone else was using him.
There is one thing I didn’t cover, namely, of course, the first two murders - Konishi and Namatame’s [i don’t know the proper english word for it but i guess for now i can use the word] sidechick. If we take into account that there’s a second person doing the crimes, the original, I could theoretically explain those, with the explanation that those two were the real culprit’s crimes. Namatame must’ve been distraught that his sidechick died, so he turned to the rumor of the Midnight Channel because he’s clearly not happy with his real wife and he wants true love like the original rumor of the Midnight Channel, where he saw Saki Konishi, who died later, hanging from a thing, just like his sidechick. Then he must’ve thought “OH SHIT THESE PEOPLE ARE DYING I HAVE TO SAVE THEM“ and the original culprit saw “oh damn this guy’s out here doing my job“ and just laid back and watched the carnage.
Dunno how he discovered he could go inside the TV. Probably coincidence, though.
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