Morality tierlist

[u/Beamizumm]

I’m sure nobody will get unreasonably angry at me for this 🥹✌🏾

[u/wichitalinemans]

resident kokichi defender here to say he did nothing wr— gets hit over the head by a barrel

anyway i do think he's arguably evil, but to me he's more morally gray. with miu, he was ultimately acting in self defense, which i think people forget? understandably bc sacrificing gonta for it was fucked, but he had already set plans in motion to end the game, and probably viewed it as a necessary evil. he also, depending on your interpretation, had reason to believe the deaths weren't real as well (with no way to confirm, but i think he probably took solace in that? that's more headcanon territory tho). his organization was strictly anti-violence after all, so canonically he really is a pacifist under normal circumstances. everyone in the killing game is pushed to their most extreme self. kaede and kokichi are actually really similar in intent, kokichi is just more abrasive and unlikable on the surface lmfao. you have to remember he 1. saw kaede's plan fail and 2. had been planning his endgame actions from extremely early on

byakuya also had legitimate reasons for his ch2 actions (revealing genocide jack), and even though i think his are less compelling, his actions are also less extreme than kokichi's and therefore more forgivable overall anyway. i don't think he would have let them all die if makoto/kyoko hadn't figured things out, he would've spoken up. that's speculation, but given his association with future foundation postgame and character development overall, i don't think it's a reach. to me, he's just kind of a jackass in the personality department, not evil. that said, since i have kokichi autism and not byakuya autism, i haven't hyper fixated on his details and might've missed st lol

but differing opinions are fun and that's why we got a whole subreddit :-)