This was a beautiful summary of what it’s really like for “hikaru”. Constant expectations when he himself doesn’t even understand what he is. He tries, he really does.
i can't help but liken him to a dog, because people tend to impose human morals on to them. they don't understand right or wrong or morals from the human perspective because they dont exist to them, but they understand humans reactions to 'right' and 'wrong' and try to display appeasing behaviour to please us :( to me that is 100% 'hikaru'. he literally cannot comprehend what yoshiki is on about with human morals, but he understands what upsets yoshiki and works to make him happy despite not understanding. i love 'hikaru' so much idc
Hikaru is not human, he is a completely different being that crossed the other side. Humans values and ethics do not work on him, he is an amoral being and he doesn't know about "good" or "bad". Thats why Yoshiki dreams about a dog, its the same.
The thing is, that Hikaru can communicate like a human. And that is scary. He is scarier than your typical monster because he can communicate. And he also looks like a human, so you expect him to behave like one, but he is fundamentally different and should not live with humans.
He doesn't even share the sames desires, he has his own desire: to have or consume souls. It is in his nature. Damn he doesnt even see the living as the same way and he will never do it, since for him the essence of one is their soul and the soul exists no matter if the being is alive or not.
Yet, after taking "half of his insides" out, it feels like he is becoming "more and more humanly", by trying to understand Yoshiki's pov. But he still cant understand society values, or can he? At one point he says that for him is the same if Yoshiki's soul was in a human or an elephant, just to be followed by "but if you werent human we wouldn't be able to eat ice cream together" and confuses himself...so maybe he IS getting there. But honestly, to have him try to change his nature may only result in him destroying himself...like the sunglasses guy said