In light of me finally reading chapter 100 after having all of it spoiled and being fine with that for a week, I’d like to get down some Tecchou thoughts I’ve been having. (Spoilers for bsd 100)
The Hunting Dogs deal a lot with loyalty, specifically the corruption of loyalty to the wrong forces. They are especially affected by this because unlike the ada and pm, they are highly regulated and controlled by the government, quite literally dying if they don’t follow orders.
But anyway. Tecchou. He’s loyal, he’s single minded, and he genuinely believes in the principle of protecting the innocent.
He gets the order to apprehend a terrorist organization, but ends up following his heart and selfishly trying to save his friend instead. It /sounds/ like a normal character arc, and yet
And yet we know this is wrong. Tecchou is beating up an innocent teenager who knows nothing, his perspective is crucially flawed by no fault of his own. He’s loyal, he’s single minded, and he genuinely believes in protecting the innocent, but all of this is flipped by circumstance to make him go against what he truly wants. This is the effect of war on a decent person, in any other context him and Kenji would get along, but opposing factions have caused them to conflict.