Ouma can be manipulative, and that manipulative, cold streak is absolutely one of his worst flaws, don’t get me wrong… but again, it’s something that really only comes out specifically because of the killing game itself, and because of his complete inability to open up to or trust anyone else once the murders begin.
If you remove him from the killing game, most of his lies are pretty much harmless-not only that, they’re childish and playful, the sort of lies and pranks that a kid might think up. However, whether the latter type of lies actually qualify Ouma as a “pathological liar,” I’m not quite sure. Personally, I very much believe that Ouma is the type of person who doesn’t mind whether people love him or hate him, as long as they’re not completely indifferent and bored by him. Other lines, like the one about how he thinks nothing is more depressing than an “unnoticed prank,” also really show that the majority of his lies are because he really just wants attention. In his salmon mode ending, Ouma himself says that he lies in order to entertain others, and this definitely matches up what we know about him not ever wanting to be boring. After stepping into that big, larger-than-life villain persona, he uses it as an opportunity to try and steal the killing game away from the actual ringleader by hijacking the entire killing game and saying that it’s over.īut as far as his smaller, more harmless lies go, I think you could make a case that those are mostly for attention. His strategy is to make the rest of his classmates hate him as much as possible, so he lies in order to paint himself in a suspicious light until he’s so detested by everyone else that they’ll believe him when he says he’s the ringleader. The motivations for most of his biggest lies, such as pretending to be the ringleader or acting like he enjoyed getting Miu and Gonta killed when that couldn’t be further from the truth, mostly have to do with his desire to end the killing game. So in that sense, I suppose you could say that Ouma might be something of a pathological liar, since he definitely does have motivations for lying and chooses to lie as a result of those. The motive can be anything in particular, whether it’s admiration or attention or just internal self-gratification. Unlike compulsive lying, pathological lying is usually done with some sort of motive in mind. And even when he has lines occasionally about wondering why he lies so much to Saihara or why he can’t seem to stop himself, it has more to do with wanting Saihara and others to somehow figure him out and understand him despite all those lies, rather than a physical or mental inability to actually stop himself from lying. Ouma absolutely lies by choice, which means that it’s not compulsive whatsoever.
If he were ever forced to lie-that is, if it was a compulsive, uncontrollable habit for him, I honestly don’t think he’d enjoy it anymore.
And a big part of why he lies is so people will have to consider his words for themselves and reach their own conclusions. He establishes pretty early on that he hates the idea of only telling the truth because you “have to,” or that the “truth” is inherently better than lies when people often tell lies as a means of softening harsh or inconvenient truths. If there’s anything we know about Ouma and why he lies, a lot of it has to do with his own personal ideas of “free will” and choice. It’s the inability to stop yourself from doing something no matter how badly you want to: in this case, lying. Compulsive lying, or any compulsion at all really, is something uncontrollable that a person has no say over whatsoever. I think it’s pretty safe to say Ouma isn’t a compulsive liar whatsoever. pathological lying is more of a psychological classification, and since I’m no expert on psychology, take all of this with a grain of salt! This is just my personal opinion on the matter. That’s a pretty interesting question that I can’t say I’ve given a lot of thought before! The definition of compulsive vs.
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