Crimson gray tree
Stockholm Syndrome: Several days into captivity in Lizzie's basement, John questions the fact that he still cares about Lizzie and wants to get help for her, wondering specifically if this Stockholm Syndrome kicking in.Ī girl from John's school who's secretly been stalking him, being herself extremely mentally unstable.In one specific scene, he distracts the Koitec mercenaries who are about to shoot at an overwhelmed Lizzie just long enough for her to collect herself and kill them.
Spanner in the Works: To Koitec as a whole as he ultimately motivates Lizzie to fight back against them instead of running and hiding in the true ending.Sleepy Depressive: A downplayed example, as John is able to get up and go to school fine, but usually all he ever does after finishing his homework is go to bed.Parental Neglect: John's father is a workaholic and his mother left when he was younger, resulting in him receiving no love or attention from either of his parents.Nice Guy: Like most protagonists of a Yandere-themed work, John is generally good-natured, such as defending Lizzie from his friends' rude comments and trying to help her because he knows how it feels to struggle alone with a mental illness.Missing Mom: John's mother left after divorcing his father, which John interprets as not even her wanting him.Heroic Self-Deprecation: As a symptom of John's depression, he's constantly downplaying his own kindness and self-worth, not even capable of recognizing that he's a brilliant student and genuinely kind to other people, even people like Lizzie.The only time he's genuinely surprised is when she fatally wounds herself before killing him. Face Death with Dignity: In most of the endings where Lizzie kills him, he resigns himself to his fate before she commits the deed.
To add to his troubles, he discovers he's being stalked by the violently unstable Lizzie, who is ironically one of the only people that brings a little bit of color into his gray world. He's convinced of his own worthlessness, gets treated poorly by his so-called friends, and struggles to cope with the help of the school therapist Mrs.
An ordinary high school boy suffering from high-functioning clinical depression, John's world has become colored gray and he's not the same happy-go-lucky kid that began school.