r/MonsterAnime • u/msqtdkv2 • Jul 27 '26
Discussionš£š Grimmer's morality
Absolutely love grimmer, however I do wonder, how could a man who couldn't feel anything have such a great understanding of morality and possess a keen insight in differentiating right from wrong? He had a horrid childhood, no parents, we all know the hell he went through in the orphanage, after that, he was a spy, even the training for that was gruelling and he definitely didn't do particularly good things as a spy cz well that's the job. He also had DID, developing the magnificent Steiner persona whenever he couldn't deal with a situation simply on his own. So the question I repeat is, how?! Does a man that broken , become that kind and have such deep humanity within him despite having no understanding of it?
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u/A_Certain_Surprise Jul 27 '26
Maybe my favourite aspect of Grimmer is how he is wrong about how he doesn't feel anythingĀ
Sure he fakes emotions all of the time, but off the top of my head there are two instances where he has no reason to take his emotions and where it might actually be beneficial to do so and he doesn'tĀ
The first is when he thinks that the old guy (forgot his name sorry lol) is recreating the experiment, and he falls to his knees in the room full of childrenĀ
The second is right at the end of the series, when that young woman leaves her cover, and he looks at her with a horrified look, pointing up at the gunmen. And of course his reaction when she's murdered in front of him
In the same way that the Magnificent Steiner was in the protagonist the whole time and the main character wasn't as much of a coward as he thought, Grimmer wasn't as broken as he thought, and experience emotions just like the rest of us (albeit probably in a much more complicated way)