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Johan Liebert

Johan Liebert resonates with me because his entire existence is defined by the desire to disappear. He is not driven by domination, pleasure, or chaos. He wants erasure. To become nothing. To leave no trace behind.

What makes Johan unsettling is not what he does, but what he refuses to be. He rejects identity, meaning, and even the idea that a life has inherent value. His actions are not expressions of ego but attempts to confirm that existence itself is hollow. That anyone can be reduced to nothing with the right pressure.

I’m drawn to Johan because he embodies existential negation taken to its extreme. He is calm because he has already abandoned the need to justify himself. He does not seek recognition or legacy. He wants the world to forget him completely, including himself.

Johan feels less like a villain and more like a philosophical endpoint. A character who asks what remains when you remove name, story, and purpose. The horror is not that he kills, but that he treats non existence as the most honest conclusion.

Diavolo

Diavolo appeals to me because he is driven by control and fear rather than ideology or emotion. Everything about him is built around avoiding exposure. He does not want to be understood, remembered, or challenged. He wants absolute insulation from consequence.

What makes him compelling is how far he takes that instinct. He fragments his identity, erases his past, and bends time itself to remove moments he cannot control. King Crimson is not about power in a traditional sense. It exists to skip vulnerability. To delete the seconds where reality could interfere.

I’m drawn to Diavolo because he represents the obsession with perfect foresight. The belief that if you can see outcomes in advance and erase the wrong ones, you can live without loss. He treats the future as something to curate rather than face.

His fear makes him human, but his response to it makes him monstrous. He never confronts what he is running from. He only perfects the escape. That tension is what makes him resonate. A character defined not by ambition, but by the refusal to be cornered.

Light Yagami

Light Yagami appeals to me because he starts with certainty and slowly exposes how fragile it is. He genuinely believes he is rational, moral, and necessary. What makes him compelling is that he never questions that belief, even as it corrodes everything around him.

I’m drawn to Light because he represents intelligence warped by justification. He is not driven by chaos or fear. He is driven by the need to be right. Every action becomes acceptable once it fits the internal logic he has constructed. Watching him defend that logic, adapt it, and tighten it under pressure is more interesting than the killings themselves.

Light treats the world like a system that can be optimized. Crime becomes a variable. People become data points. Opposition becomes inefficiency. That mindset is what makes him dangerous, because it feels clean, orderly, and reasonable on the surface.

What ultimately makes Light resonate is that he cannot stop. The moment he admits he is wrong, the entire structure collapses. So he escalates instead. Smarter moves. Bigger sacrifices. More distance from anything human. His downfall is not caused by failure, but by the impossibility of ever being satisfied.