ctfu how did we forget light yagami as one of the most notable killers of all time... naurrr... it's ok we were blinded by jaemin so handsomeface and also trying to categorize bottom killers/killer lights etc. so perfectly understandable. +1 vermouth quintessential killer with an extra flavor of self-sabotage.
WAIT i failed to mention dazai osamu from bungo stray dogs as well for normal usual killer candidate.. he used to be a mafia henchman (but like almost boss in every way) literally just under big boss level and then flipped script to lead a ""clean"" life after his best friend died as part of the mafia boss' gamble for something else (i cant really remember but probably something along the lines of like. immortality or some golden fleece type object thing or maybe it was to fight against an enemy with equal skill) so he's part of a detective agency that does things the "right" way and has this usually ~harmless friendly guy~sona normally but his sadistic killeristic tendencies show themselves in the most unnerving yet like awesome(?) and (morbidly) fascinating ways. like ur like wow this guy is incredible.. but also incredibly insane.
the slaughterer being chianti so true... and clove. and enobaria. wow revisiting my hunger games faves, could u not say finnick is somewhere on this list of killer subtypes?? maybe imposter-killer hybrid as he does in fact kill but it's out of necessity/he doesnt really derive joy from it and the emphasis IS on charm and persona...
while reading the hunter traits i was instantly like "akai" and SO GLAD to see that he indeed was there! clinical efficiency extending past fbi agentisms to his love life as well ctfu... f in the chat for jodie. tbh i think if shinichi went dark for some reason/got disillusioned with a no-killing detective life, he would be a hunter as well. or maybe the vigilante? hm.
"sometimes, killers are bottoms." being the only description for honeytrap is sending me but like it is true tho. amuro is honeytrap trust me. suddenly my catalogue of all previous killer media has left my mind immediately and i cannot think of any killer bottoms even tho i love to consume content with killers and im sure at least SOME are bottoms. what the fuck. ill get back to u on this.
the child of god category is SO interesting to me!! ik u said it's closed and it's not like i actually have any other examples anyway but i just wanted to draw comparisons/connections to the messiah role in the messiah/machiavel trope, which i'm not sure if you're familiar with but it's like a derivative/play on the king/lionheart trope... abridged from tumblr user okayophelia:
you can have two forms of messiah/machiavel (1) where the machiavel loves the actual person who is the messiah and so falls in with the cause (2) where the machiavel loves the ideal the person embodies and so will do anything for the person who they see as the means to achieving that endgame/goal. and in between, because humans are messy things, particularly when it comes to love and our ideals, usually those two ends of the spectrum get all mixed up. particularly with a prophet-type. it’s almost impossible to love the person and not the prophethood and vice-versa.
BUT IT DOES NOT NECESSARILY HAVE TO BE ABOUT A RELIGIOUS/DIVINE MOVEMENT; it can be pure politics or idealism or science, some kind of force of transformation/change whether on micro or cosmic levels.
and in that narrative context you usually have the messiah as visionary, the leader, the person who may be literally godtouched, or just godtouched in the sense of the charisma, depth and power of their vision or capacity to lead/embody that movement.
i'm not sure if im conflating things because of the religious undertones "child of god" and "messiah" both have but divinity/overpowered-ness/ability to kill out of sheer existence strikes me as something the messiah-child-of-god could entail.. they're so narratively inhuman that they cannot have normal relationships with people / their interpersonal relationships are probably really fucked up to a degree, and yet on the realest level they are still human so there are all the flaws that come with that, if that makes sense.
actually i know i said i wouldn't add to this and respect ur wishes but perhaps gojo?? might be some hybrid of child of god/imposter/killer bc he's literally the strongest man in the world / is inhumanly powerful but sometimes he does mean to kill people but it also is about the persona... IDK. i know u don't jujukai but im just floating it out there...
1-800 i love imposters... love that oikawa and kaito both love to front so much and care about the performance aspect so much... it is true i love jaemin in every form of media... kaito making it a point not to kill and still making it on here sasuga conanverse jaemin...
killer scholarship continued <3
WAIT i failed to mention dazai osamu from bungo stray dogs as well for normal usual killer candidate.. he used to be a mafia henchman (but like almost boss in every way) literally just under big boss level and then flipped script to lead a ""clean"" life after his best friend died as part of the mafia boss' gamble for something else (i cant really remember but probably something along the lines of like. immortality or some golden fleece type object thing or maybe it was to fight against an enemy with equal skill) so he's part of a detective agency that does things the "right" way and has this usually ~harmless friendly guy~sona normally but his sadistic killeristic tendencies show themselves in the most unnerving yet like awesome(?) and (morbidly) fascinating ways. like ur like wow this guy is incredible.. but also incredibly insane.
the slaughterer being chianti so true... and clove. and enobaria. wow revisiting my hunger games faves, could u not say finnick is somewhere on this list of killer subtypes?? maybe imposter-killer hybrid as he does in fact kill but it's out of necessity/he doesnt really derive joy from it and the emphasis IS on charm and persona...
while reading the hunter traits i was instantly like "akai" and SO GLAD to see that he indeed was there! clinical efficiency extending past fbi agentisms to his love life as well ctfu... f in the chat for jodie. tbh i think if shinichi went dark for some reason/got disillusioned with a no-killing detective life, he would be a hunter as well. or maybe the vigilante? hm.
"sometimes, killers are bottoms." being the only description for honeytrap is sending me but like it is true tho. amuro is honeytrap trust me. suddenly my catalogue of all previous killer media has left my mind immediately and i cannot think of any killer bottoms even tho i love to consume content with killers and im sure at least SOME are bottoms. what the fuck. ill get back to u on this.
the child of god category is SO interesting to me!! ik u said it's closed and it's not like i actually have any other examples anyway but i just wanted to draw comparisons/connections to the messiah role in the messiah/machiavel trope, which i'm not sure if you're familiar with but it's like a derivative/play on the king/lionheart trope... abridged from tumblr user okayophelia:
i'm not sure if im conflating things because of the religious undertones "child of god" and "messiah" both have but divinity/overpowered-ness/ability to kill out of sheer existence strikes me as something the messiah-child-of-god could entail.. they're so narratively inhuman that they cannot have normal relationships with people / their interpersonal relationships are probably really fucked up to a degree, and yet on the realest level they are still human so there are all the flaws that come with that, if that makes sense.
actually i know i said i wouldn't add to this and respect ur wishes but perhaps gojo?? might be some hybrid of child of god/imposter/killer bc he's literally the strongest man in the world / is inhumanly powerful but sometimes he does mean to kill people but it also is about the persona... IDK. i know u don't jujukai but im just floating it out there...
1-800 i love imposters... love that oikawa and kaito both love to front so much and care about the performance aspect so much... it is true i love jaemin in every form of media... kaito making it a point not to kill and still making it on here sasuga conanverse jaemin...
excellent scholarship as always <3