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Interesting analysis! Based on the raws and some mtl, Mephisto (tentacle man) does have strong negative emotions towards Leon bc of a past interaction between them. It seems Mephisto didn't want to do anything sexual with Leon bc of his interest in researching Leon's body and loyalty/obedience to Nergal (the leader dude) but tension has risen as we can see haha. But it seems Mephisto is mostly being nice bc of Nergal's orders, although I do want to know more about Mephisto's thoughts on Leon and what's gonna happen in the future bc of the mystery of Leon's past.
Out of all of them I didn't figure he would be the one that would give him essentially muscle relaxers and focus on pacing...but okay(≧∀≦)
IDK, outside of the initial experimentation that they're doing for (and their circumstances necessary) reproduction he also seems to be the only one who doesn't have some kind of pent-up hatred or underlying resentment for our MC.
He also tends to intervene when others are hurting them to the point of severity(even though it stated that he doesn't have to because he can easily heal him physically if he's left "broken" ) he intervenes more for the MC's mental state to a point?
And instead of force feeding him slop or anything he genuinely cooks and takes into account the MC's taste and seems to overall be trying to make this as easy for our MC as possible while achieving the overall goal .
And he's the first one outside of what's his name from our MC's memories that the MC has shown any kind of positive emotion to, even though he was confused by Mr tentacles actions (being given the coat which again Mr tentacles did not have to do but he did) even if it was out of basic politeness it's NOT something that the other characters wouldn't have done.
And we're learning more about his personality and character traits that the MC himself didn't notice before, which seems to confuse him, but also shows that our MC has interest in trying to figure out and understand him to some extent bc he confuses him which he hasn't shown to the others. (I mean granted the others talk about resentment a etc but are and see hasn't really cared/questioned underlying reasons for any of it)
Due to a lot of that our MC seems to kind of open up to Mr tentacles a little more than the others and relax around him ( not in like a falling for him way or a deep emotional way) he stays guarded but he's more casual with him than he is with any others.
There's also the backstory even though the tan dude is who interacted with him from the group first the doctor is the one who was looking into him and showed curiosity of our MC right off the bat (and in the beginning it didn't seem to be in a negative or hostile way)
Which makes me think if it is some kind of romance plot it isn't going to end up being the dude in his memories but that the story is going to come down to their leader (black hair red eyes whatever his name is) and Mr tentacles.