Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold
another post inspired by TV Tropes ... also, I am aware that Muu is oftentimes drawn with more pink hair. I am of the opinion she is likely intended to be blonde with ginger-ish undertones.
The character is a blonde. Therefore, obviously, she is beautiful, pure, kind, and innocent [...]. If she fights, it's reluctantly and she tends to avoid violence where she can.
This is exactly the image that Muu tries to portray throughout the entirety of Milgram. She is, canonically very conventionally attractive.
Her beauty she got from her mother. This beauty attracted attention from a young age, and compounded with her privileged family situation had the makings of a life of many the envious, admiring eye being cast towards her as she grew up.
Plus, it's not like she's trying to shake off the other labels! With shallow words, she tries to seem overly kind, especially in her first trial.
Everyone should get along, and only you know your own pain, and so it's scary, huh are all nice-sounding words she says in the first trial, though they don't mean much.
The first two are quite surface-level statements, I'd say. When you have the full picture, it's easy to see she's trying to defend herself somewhat. She doesn't want to go into detail when asked if it's unforgivable to look down on someone, and she thinks she could forgive the other prisoners if they had their own circumstances like her.
She approaches Haruka, in the last example, as if to comfort him, however she quickly drops the concern once Haruka gives his reply. Yet again, she turns blunt. She just wants him to tell her if it hurts or not. Her tone of voice obviously leaves Haruka flustered ("ah, eek......"), and yet we see no indication of her offering comfort to him again after. Not to say she's completely uncaring–throughout the entirety of trial one, she's in survival mode. She's on the defensive, in her own way, and playing up traits she knows might be well-received.
And, she is quite innocent. In a lot of ways. Like how in trial two, she believed there was no way she could be seen as guilty after already being forgiven once. It completely fell away as a concern.
Or how she still desires to hang out with her past friends after being bullied by them so viciously, and how she still wants to stick by her parents–who she affectionately uses childish nicknames for–even at sixteen, when most people begin to desire more independence.
Even how she believes romance shouldn't be important until you're exiting your teenage years and how she finds older men scary are both socially viewed as innocent behaviour.
And we all know this stems from her pampering, to the paint she could not comprehend a painful situation.
Muu could not understand; not the pain that she had felt for the first time, nor what was happening. She wailed, hideously, and she vomited from the shock.The beautiful Muu was no longer there, and instead, a unrecognisable version of her was exposed to all of her classmates.
This can also tie into her relationship with Yuno, if you want to take it a step further.
Often contrasted with a dark-haired heroine [...] or just lacking the brunette's Jade-Colored Glasses.
The blonde's youth may also make her more naive than her counterpart [...]
Jade coloured glasses: This is where a Wide-Eyed Idealist is psychologically beaten and broken down until they become more cynical in their views. May involve More than Mind Control, the piling on of various misfortunes and traumas, or simply the fact that Growing Up Sucks, but the end result is that they end up wearing Jade-Colored Glasses.
The trope name is a pun on Rose-Colored Glasses and being "jaded". In an interesting coincidence, with "rose" being a shade of pink, and "jade" being a shade of green, two colors which exist on the opposite sides of a color wheel, jade literally is the opposite of rose.
The reality of this society, made up of what people say and what they actually mean bored and wearied her immensely, gradually robbing her body of its warmth.Yuno told no one, and no one caught on, that she has turned into ice.
... Or maybe this all means nothing. But hey, I had fun making these comparisons.
