I dont know which path im playing anf I dont want to find out yet, tho I have to say as a Swede whuch grew upp with learning about the importance of consent and the very wide defenition of rape (which I agree with) we have here in Sweden, Shoichi and the main characters sex life made me so uncomfy after the sex sceene
Edit, I did not get the bad path
Thats you, I feel as I get him fairly good, even tho me and him have many diffrences I still feel we have something in common, we both grew upp in the nordics and we both have had questions and dificulties with our own sexuality and gender, tho in gender wise we had diffrent roads I still feel myself in him, I had a long period where I could not fully openly be bisexual without being socialy ailenated or harrased by what was (some still are even) my friends, so I didnt, and he had to go through something similar with being trans.
We also have from what I can guess a similar view of our world and its injustices which brought him to Anarchism and me ti Communism, he must have seen something which made him question everything the same way I saw friends fall for crime or poor women and children freeze during winter while being called thiefs and savages for being Romani, or the climate crisis.
There must have been something w hich made that impact on him, what exactly isnt important.
He also took a intrest in learning more and increasing his knowlage about natural science or philosophy which I know many who did and I myself did something similar (but History, societal science and philosophy).
We do also have many diffrences which is mainly in stuff like music taste and clothing taste tho I feel as if that isnt the most "important" (everything is important about a person) part of him.
I also have a very good friend which is alot like him (and yet isnt).
so yes I personaly feel like I get him in a way.
also he just looks cute af and handsome which is probably also atleast 50% of why I like him as a character in Dawn Chorus.
I just have to say, rich people currently funds death squads to shoot anyone who goes against their intrests in south america, Coca Cola assassinates union leaders, IKEA supported hitler, Ford supported hitler and german coca cola supported hitler and worked with him, the company Shell gave money to african governments to shoot striking workers.
the rich do not care about us, they have over and over again given support to fascist and authoritarian regimes to maintain their power, Mussolini had support from many of the rich, Hitler did to, Pinnochet also, and this is in modern times (or relativly modern times) in the 1700s many of them unironicly thought they had god given rights to be rich and exploit the poor, in most cases the rich dont activly hate the classes under them but they see them just as a way to increase profit, they dont care about us and think we are in many cases just uneducated workers, in worst case senario we get people like Henry Ford who where just straight upp Fascists and saw the lower classes ass inferior beings since they didnt manage to become rich like them.
ofcourse there do exist a few (very small minority) who cares somewhat about the poor like Olof Palme (Swedish Prime Minister and socialist politician) and Marx + Engels (Marx was from a Nobel family and Engels a factort owner) but this is extremely extremly rare and they are almost always from the lower parts of the upper class and not the absolute top
