History Characters / Milgram

** In “Neoplasm” when John first appears, he instantly resorts to calling Es a brat and saying that they haven’t had a beating yet. When Es reacts calmly to the situation, John acts more composed and it’s eventually revealed he’s been acting as a monster in order to protect Mikoto by driving people away from him.
--> ''”If I had stayed a monster... maybe that would've been better.”''\\

* ObfuscatingInsanity: In the voice dramas, everytime John comes out he always resorts to saying mean things and threatening Es. Although in “Neoplasm”, he calms down when Es is being nice to him, and we eventually learn that John is only being a monster to protect Mikoto and [[HiddenHeartOfGold is actually kind at heart.]]

* InventedIndividual: In “Neoplasm” John says he believes he came into existence to relieve the stress that Mikoto experiences. And John is the person Mikoto wishes he could be.

* InventedIndividual: In “Neoplasm” John says he believes he came into existence to relive the stress that Mikoto experiences. And John is the person Mikoto wishes he could be.

* DeclarationOfProtection: Has sworn to protect Mikoto at all costs. Even implied to be pulling a [[ZeroApprovalGambit Zero-approval gambit]] for him and potentially even killed someone to save him. Although it’s unclear whether Mikoto or John had actually committed the murder(s?).

* DeclarationOfProtection: Has sworn to protect Mikoto at all costs. Even implied to be pulling a [[ZeroApprovalGambit Zero-approval gambit]] for him and potentially even killed someone to save him. Although it’s unclear whether Mikoto or John committed the murder(s?).

The [[SplitPersonality alter]] of prisoner 009, Mikoto Kayano. John has a strong desire to protect Mikoto at all costs, often fronting when Mikoto is put under heavy stress. He’s stoic and defensive, yet surprisingly a good conversationist and cooperative even if the validity of some of his statements is questionable. Sometimes he acts violent and aggressive when first appearing, but tends to calm down when things don’t appear as threatening. He appears in [=“MeMe”=], “Double”, and the corresponding voice dramas “John Doe” and “Neoplasm”.

** Mikoto and Kotoko explore '''righteousness''' and '''awareness'''. Both mention being "right" or morally correct in their songs, but while Mikoto staunchly believes in his innocence of crime altogether, Kotoko believes she was on the side of justice. Mikoto's murder was committed by what's implied to be a SplitPersonality (with the resulting lack of memory muddling how responsible he is for it) and generally has no idea what's going on in Milgram, but Kotoko knows exactly what she was doing and is noted to be investigating Milgram perhaps even more closely than Es.

* RottenRockAndRoll: Both "[=MeMe=]" and "Double" have some of the heaviest guitars of any ''MILGRAM'' song, emphasizing the mystique and potential aggression of Mikoto's SplitPersonality.

* HellIsThatNoise: As his alter usually emerges at night, his cell in MILGRAM is noted to have many loud and unusual noises.
** PlayedForLaughs in one of the 4koma strips MINIGRAM, in which one of the noises heard in his cell was:
-->'''"Mikoto":''' Boing.\\
'''Es:''' ''(shocked)'' BOING?

* IdiotHair: At first. Apparently nowhere to be found in the second season, though.

* OutsideContextProblem: Since nobody at Milgram knew that Mikoto had a split personality, the rules of Milgram apply to him and not to John, who isn't considered a prisoner. As such, John can do things that prisoners can't, like attacking the guards. Jackalope even says at one point that there hasn't been a similar case before.

* SecondPersonAttack: He ends his MV by punching you.

* SilentScapegoat: When questioned about the murder, John claims he was the one to do it. When Es gets skeptical about this, he immediately becomes super defensive, fighting to claim that Mikoto did nothing wrong and he was actually the true killer. This is theorised to be John [[TakingTheHeat taking the blame for Mikoto’s actions.]]

* BatterUp: His silhouette is depicted smacking his victim from behind with a baseball bat in Undercover, and the [=MeMe=] MV shows them trying to crawl away as he approaches them. [[spoiler:"Double" shows it in as much gory detail as possible without getting the video age-restricted, with Mikoto beating up a bunch of faceless mannequins with [[BlackBlood bright orange blood]].]]

-->[[spoiler:'''John:''' In order to protect myself (boku), I’ll (ore) do whatever I have to.]]

* ButForMeItWasTuesday: [[spoiler:In his second voice drama, Mikoto's [[SplitPersonality alter]] claims that he cannot remember the number of people he has killed, partially because things were "fuzzy" around the time he was "born".]]

-->'''John:''' In order to protect myself (boku), I’ll (ore) do whatever I have to.

'''Gender''': Me\\

[[folder: In General]]

** Mu is "Mu-cchan".
** Mahiru is "Mappii".

* FellAsleepCrying: {{Implied|Trope}}. In “Neoplasm”, John describes Mikoto as being a person who doesn’t cry himself to sleep from stress when comparing himself to him. Possibly implying that John does that.

* NoNameGiven: Mikoto's alter doesn't go by any specific name, [[spoiler:though he accepts "John" -- as in, "John Doe" -- as a nickname when Es questions him in his second voice drama.]]

* TarotMotifs: All over the place in his first MV. In particular, Mikoto seems to have the Hanging Man on his shirt and Death is the final card shown in the video.

Prisoner 009. Being described as "completely average", he has genuinely no idea why is he in prison, not remember murdering anyone.

* TheEveryman: He's the most normal out of all the prisoners, being a regular guy who graduated university and works as a company employee. {{Subverted}} as of his MV, which reveals him to have killed at least two people and that might have some form of identity issues.
* FacelessMasses: [[spoiler:In "Double", there’s faceless art mannequins in the background, and Mikoto even attacks some of them.]]

* InUniverseCatharsis: [[spoiler:According to the second Voice Drama, Mikoto's SplitPersonality is said to originated to give him an outlet for his bottled-up stress.]]

* ExpositoryPronoun: When switched to his [[SplitPersonality "other half"]], Mikoto uses the personal pronoun 'ore', giving off an aura of heightened masculinity and even aggression, in contrast to his usual humble 'boku' pronoun. Made even more curious when you notice that this ore-Mikoto uses 'boku', but in reference to someone else⁠—very likely the original boku-using-Mikoto.
-->'''Mikoto:''' In order to protect myself (boku), I’ll (ore) do whatever I have to.

* SplitPersonality: Officially confirmed to have Dissociative Identity Disorder by Jackalope as of the start of the Second Trial. Notably, this lets [[SplitPersonality his alter]] bypass most, if not all, of Milgram's security measures, as only the host is considered a prisoner.

* AlternateIdentityAmnesia: Mikoto appears to be [[LaserGuidedAmnesia unable to remember a thing]] that occurs when his second identity comes out to play, which may include the murder(s?) that got him into Milgram in the first place.

* ButForMeItWasTuesday: [[spoiler:In his second voice drama, Mikoto's SplitPersonality claims that he cannot remember the number of people he has killed, partially because things were "fuzzy" around the time he was "born".]]

** The bottom half of his hair is bleached and he wears mismatched earrings, {{Foreshadowing}} the existence of his SplitPersonality.

* SplitPersonality: Officially confirmed to have one by Jackalope as of the start of the Second Trial. Notably, this lets him bypass most, if not all, of Milgram's security measures, as only the host identity is considered a prisoner.

* PersonalityBloodTypes: Mikoto has type AB for being naturally sociable and for possibly have a SplitPersonality of some sort.

* FacelessMasses: [[spoiler:In "Double",There’s faceless art mannequins in the background, and Mikoto even attacks some of them.]]

* ScheduleFanatic: In "Magic," his lesson to Amane seems to be about the importance of living by a rigid schedule. His mascot form also has alarm clock bells on the top of his head, and his creed in "The Purge March" is "Thou shall stay thine course, then perish."