Does Johan like Dr. Tenma?

[Fantastische Hure]

Does he care for Sensei? Does he daisuki him?

 

[Fantastische Hure]

Johan taisetsu him.

 

[Papasmurf]

I think he "values" Tenma, but due to internalizing Nina's traumatic experiences with that horrific Kinderheim hellhole, he lost capacity for human feelings and cannot love anyone but his sister as a result. Johan is a textbook psychopath, he wanted to die at Tenma's hand and then have him and perhaps even Nina killed in the aftermath to erase the three of them forever in a "perfect suicide."

 

[Fantastische Hure]

Didn’t he korosu sensei no enemies (even-though he obviously didn’t want to and was just saying it, most likely)?

Do psychopaths have any kimochis or can’t they kanchi anything? He said sensei was like a chichiue for him or something. And others were disposable or so it seemed, but he never did anything to sensei or his sister.

 

[Papasmurf]

He probably did so as an extension of his own ego. Since Tenma helped save the most valuable human being in the world (himself), he felt endebted to Tenma due to his narcissism. But after he'd repaid that debt, he wasn't above tormenting Tenma and manipulating him to follow him to where Frantz Bonaparte was so they could all die.

 

[Fantastische Hure]

But he never harmed his daiji na sensei physically.

 

[Papasmurf]

But he never harmed his daiji na sensei physically.

He probably understood what the guilt of murdering someone would do to a man like Tenma. He didn't give a fuck. Griffith also never physically tried to harm Guts after becoming Femto, but we know he loved to fuck with Guts (raping his girlfriend, appearing before him in his human form that was aesthetically no different from his pre-Eclipse self and smiling and acting like they were still friends, etc.).

 

[Fantastische Hure]

But I feel, or at-least it seem so, that Johan looks at sensei in a different way. Maybe even like a chichiue like he said.

 

[Papasmurf]

But I feel, or at-least it seem so, that Johan looks at sensei in a different way. Maybe even like a chichiue like he said.

He thought of him as his savior, but ultimately he was incapable of loving anyone but his sister. Johan was a completely manipulative psychopath. He saw Tenma as "special," but only for having the ability to revive a person from near death (an ability he only valued because Tenma used it to save his life).

 

[Fantastische Hure]

Is Johan selfish though? He does everything for his goal, but he still cares for his sister. Isn’t that one of the traits of a psychopath?

 

[Papasmurf]

Is Johan selfish though? He does everything for his goal, but he still cares for his sister. Isn’t that one of the traits of a psychopath?

Psychopaths/sociopaths can still feel attached to certain people, albeit moreso as belongings or extensions of themselves than through true love. Since Johan had no one but his sister at his side for the first 10 years of his life, he most likely feels she is like a reflection of himself and loves her in a warped way. Tenma he views as his savior, but he only does so as a projection of his own egocentricity, and thus tasks Tenma the role of giving him his perfect death in the ghost town that the end of the series took place in