the thing people get wrong about Mahito

 Okay this is a clickbait title lmao. They get a lot of things wrong.

The pro-Mahito weirdos on Twitter infantalize him and make him dumb af. Canonically, Mahito is well-read and shows us his capacity for reason, intelligent thought, and manipulation.

The anti-Mahito weirdos everywhere else in the world think that Mahito is some psychopath who only exists to kill and he enjoys it--that's his single personality trait.

I think both of these are doing a disservice to Mahito and Gege for that matter. He's a well-designed, multi-dimensional character that has a big impact in a short amount of time. I don't think anything about Mahito was meant to be 1-note or just as a service to the bigger plot. I mean he does service the bigger plot and there's some wasted potential there imo but he has layers to his character in between "just born" and "unfeeling psychopath". 

Truth is Mahito is childlike sometimes, in his curiosity and ability to have fun. He follows his instincts just as humans do. He's also real fond of killing and deceiving. We could debate on whether that makes someone a psychopath, but I don't think Mahito knew how to do anything else. He was following his instincts as a curse.

I don't think that means he would have been irredeemable or unsavable. If someone or something came along to show him the fun parts of being human, the good parts. He only experienced the bad--violence, hatred, death. 

Forever believe that gentleness could have impacted him.