This post will be about what I think of Mutsuki and what I think will happen to him in the future. Before that though, I want to say something else.

Just like Mutstuki, I’d like to get something off my chest. (Sorry. Bad joke, I know…) If you want to start a riot, mention Mutstuki’s gender. People go crazy. I originally didn’t intend to join this argument, but I just can’t help it. It won’t be too long, so we can talk about more important things. Here we go:

Since Mutsuki wants to identify as a male, it would be respectful to refer to him as that. So yes, those are the pronouns I’ll be using in this post. I agree that in real life you should refer to people as the gender they identify themselves as, but, Mutsuki’s a fictional character. No feelings will be hurt if he’s referred to as a ‘she’. As long as it’s clear that in real life people will get hurt, I don’t care how Mutsuki is referred to. Please don’t go start a war. If I offended anyone by saying this, I’m sorry, it wasn’t my intention, I just needed to say this.

What I really want to talk about, though, has to do with Mutsuki being transgender. Because I think he isn’t. At least not truly. I’m no expert on this, so I can’t really understand what it’s like to be transgender, but this is what I think: transgender people are people born in the wrong body. For example, one’s born as a woman, but feels like a man and wants to live as a man. If Mutsuki’s transgender, this should be the case. But it isn’t. Let’s delve deeper into his reasoning for becoming a man.

(chapter 5)

Notice that he says he wants to live as a man, because he feels uncomfortable as a woman. Not because he feels like a man. He even says so himself in chapter 13:

“It’s not that I think like a man” He also says that he hates the gazes of men. Now it becomes clear that he hates being a woman, so he wants to become a man. He even thinks men are disgusting, though not all of them. If his general outlook on men is this negative, it doesn’t make sense that he would feel like one of them. Also, notice how the men’s eyes are scratched out in the first picture. Again, hatred towards gazes. Well, okay, but is this important for the story? Yes, my friends, this is where we get into my prediction.



I think Mutsuki will eventually accept his female self and live as a woman. I think it’s very likely that he suffered sexual abuse or some other trauma related to his gender in his childhood. That would explain his hatred towards the gazes of men and also why he feels extremely uncomfortable as a woman. Of course, this is something that won’t be solved in a short amount of time, thinking of how big the trauma must be to have such an impact on his life. The problem right now, however, is that he has to deal with this alone. I don’t know if Sasaki knows about his situation, but the rest of the quinckes probably don’t (except for Urie now, I guess). As the story progresses, they’ll surely find out. That’s a good thing. They can support him and help him. When he finally gets support, something he never really had, he’ll be able to accept who he is.

On a side note: If we look at it in a purely practical way, it’s also convenient that there are no actual, physical changes to his body. That would make accepting his feminity a lot easier (no surgeries etc.).

Again, this is just my opininion, don’t start a war because of it. Of course, if you don’t agree or I said something wrong, you can always tell me! ( ^_^)／