>>3806079Mentally fucked. Without the explanation from the manga he's gotten slapped about a handful of times and gone full school shooter within the first year of his life, absolute speedrunner. When Vash shoots him and he's yelling I can't believe you've done this he's mentally processing that there was a more severe form of abuse beyond his previous tipping point, and he McFreaking loses it at that information. Then fucking Wolfwood's ghost gets him with the friendship bullets and he apparently rolls over? His brain is spent. Poor dude can't even.
Also think about how much destruction and maiming Knives commits himself, and how much was by proxy. '98 Knives does the least in person fucking people up out of all the Knives, and that feels to me like another accidental sign of a guy whose mental state is bouncing about like a DVD logo. Setting a distance between himself and the dead while playing games, only to drop it like it's nothing when the game runs out of playing pieces. Trimax Knives destroys from a distance too, but more of it is immediate and by his own action. '98 feels like he's still reacting to getting unfairly punched as a kid because the adaptation has to rush the wider scope of his ideology. He comes across obsessed with making other people commit atrocities and yelling "you did it! You're not so great!" His brother who shot him that one time? Needs to stop acting like he's so great, t. Knives.
