The very idea that everything Goro has been is.. seen as ‘fake’ makes me extremely uneasy whenever I see it. The rationale behind it just disturbs me.
One aspect of Goro that’s been troubling me is his inability to recognise his own, real emotions, and parse what they mean. That he’s ‘chained to pretences’ as if they are his lifeblood. He cannot express himself the way he wants to because he doesn’t know what he wants. But when that truth slips through the cracks of his psyche, he doesn’t know what to do with it.
What’s especially worrying is that those emotions get chained up in his quest for dominance over them. Control of his chaos is his crutch, but it’s also destroying him from the inside out. At times, he has to let it run riot in the Metaverse or risk going insane.