anyone else lowkey hate the theory that Six dropped Mono cause her soul was separated? I've always hated this theory, from the start it just felt like a cop out for her actions and extremely hypocritical. I saw it as another instance of the fandom removing any control Six had over a situation to exonerate her of any responsibility while simultaneously giving Mono criticism for things he couldn't control. But now I actually think it just straight up ruins the ending of LN2 and completely butchers Six's character and everything that makes her interesting.
Throughout Ln2 Six—before getting kidnapped by Thinman—seems to show a desire to hurt things. Her killing the bully— whether or not you think it justified— absolutely seems to be done out of revenge. Her breaking the fingers on the hand of a doll, seemingly roleplaying torturing it. Having no issue getting up close to the furnace and warming her hands up while the Docter is still screaming bloody murder from the inside. Regardless if you think it's justified or not, I think it shows Six to have no problem hurting/making things she deems deserving to suffer. All that build up and foreshadowing that more darker side to Six but the idea that she dropped Mono because she got her soul taken takes away so much of what made her interesting.
It essentially splits her character into 2 vastly different characters. Pre-Kiddnaping, she's a more complex enigmatic character, while post-Kiddnaping is a character who's not even in control of their actions. What's the point of the first one? Whats interesting about that? A character thats essentially forced to make bad decisions can be interesting, but not for a character who's intrigue comes from her more conflicting actions and complexity. It completely removes any complexity she has to her character after she was kidnapped "Yeah so like- she didn't ACTUALLY want to do these things, she was forced to! She totally wouldn't have done them had she not been separated from her soul!"
I've always joked about how I think a lot of the people who claim to love Six being morally grey would—if given the option— completely sanitize her character, removing anything that makes her morally grey (and therefore, anything that makes her interesting). I definitely don't think that's why everyone who likes this theory is doing it. But I still genuinely believe this ruins her character—or at least a massive part of her character and completely ruins the themes that the game sets up.
I think the notion that she can't tell what's right or wrong completely contradicts the whole "Six ate the nome because she knew what the sausages were made of!" How can she choose to not commit cannibalism if she can't tell between right or wrong? Also doesn't this kinda vindicate the people who thought she was evil? A lot of people have no problem claiming The Thinman/ The lady or the rest of the monster in the nowhere are evil despite the fact that it was confirmed that the monsters are mostly mindless and act more of an intrinsic desire and can't really comprehend the morality of their actions. Six wouldn't be too different from that, would she? Of course she's not mindless, but if she just straight up can't comprehend the morality of her actions and can't control herself then how is she any different?
This is actually why I didn't like the way Hush was written in DTN. Her arm Punchy taking control of her and forcing her to do stuff. It's never stated how Punchy operates, I've heard theories that Punchy acts on Hush's intrusive thoughts, I've heard theories that Punchy operates on trying to keep Hush alive and in turn, keeping itself alive. I don't like either.
If Punchy is acting on its own, then so much of "Hush's actions" that drive the story forward are completely out of her control, and she essentially bring dragged around by the narrative with no real influence to the story, Punchy ends up being more of a character then her.
On Punchy acting out Hush's intrusive thoughts, Intrusive thoughts are not a real representation of what a person actually wants. They are involuntary, which brings us back to my point above. If she does want to do these things and intended to do them, then why have Punchy at all? Why not just let her do these things on her own? If she wanted to do them but decided not to—whether she knew she shouldn't or simply because she was scared to— then she's decided not to do them, then forced to do them anyways. She's screwed over no matter what she does, which brings us back to the original point above. When I look at it from that perspective it makes it seem like the writers were scared to make Hush make mistakes.
Overall, I definitely don't think I'd have been as big of a fan of Six had this been a thing from the start. And I know it's still a theory and always has been a theory sense 2021, but I didn't like it then either but for then it was more directed at the fandoms hypocrisy and being selective with what double standard they care about. The fandom still does this so the hypocrisy is definitely still a reason as to why I don't like it, just not as big of a reason. I'm worried if it does end up being canon, because it will completely ruin Six as a character for me. Her more darker side to her that separates her from all of the other protagonists is why I've loved her so much sense 2017.
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