i don't know if anyone has said this already, but i think analyzing the chapter with fyodor, karma, and ace is currently our best (and most telling) bet on figuring out what fyodor's ability actually is.
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Fyodor DOES feel empathy… just not as you think.
Fyodor is seen most of the times as someone without feelings or empathy, however that’s just wrong.
He feels the Cognitive Empathy, which basically is the ability to understand other people’s mind and or mental state, both theory of mind and perspective-talking are VERY related (will be talked soon). The cognitive empathy is divided into 4 categories, the categories are:
Fantasy
Tactical
Emotion regulation
Perspective-talking
The fantasy empathy is the tendency to relate to fictional characters, the mental state relates or finds similarity to that fictional character’s mind, both perspective-talking and emotion regulation, it requires for the person to enter the character’s mind and understand them, the emotion the person feels towards the character will variate depending on their emotion regulation.
Tactical empathy is the deliberate use of perspective-talking to achieve their goals, most of the time the people that have the tactical empathy are selfish people, sometimes they use people as tools for their goals, however it isn’t in an aggressive way it is in a psychological way.
Emotion regulation is what allows you to empathize without feeling overwhelmed with the feelings of the person you are empathizing with.
Finally, perspective-talking is the understanding and spontaneously adapt others’ psychological perspectives, there are two levels in the perspective-talking which are:
Level one: it’s the ability to understand that someone else has different views from yours.
Level two: It’s the understanding other people’s physical views.
What does Fyodor have of perspective-talking? The level one which is mental.
Before going to the theory of mind let’s go to an example of where Fyodor has used both perspective-talking and tactical empathy.
Fyodor had started to manipulate Karma since they met, and when Karma saw Ace’s death and Fyodor started to talk about his plan, Fyodor then kills Karma to free him, karma ends up thinking that even though his life was horrible it wasn’t that bad. Karma’s wish was to be free, and his main problem was that he was a slave, for karma it was; to die as a slave or as a free boy, and yet even though he died as a slave, because of Fyodor’s view of death = liberating he died happily (not so much though), his life was horrible, however it could have been worse, which is why he says that. If Fyodor hadn’t killed him, his life would go worse and worse, being a slave of the port mafia despite Ace being dead. What Fyodor used with Karma was the tactical use, it was tactical use in its greatest, he understood Karma’s problem and understood Karma’s views, then manipulated him and used him (making Ace think that Fyodor’s ability was a time controller/space one) for his plan, which directly enters in tactical empathy.
Let’s go now to Theory of Mind.
In psychology, theory of mind refers to being able to understand other people by even understanding their mental state, it also refers to understand that other people have different views, beliefs, desires, intentions and emotions, theory of mind is important for social activities and it is very used for analyzing and or theorizing about other people, also when understanding someone else’s behavior, theory of mind is very similar to empathy and sympathy but it isn’t the same.
Conclusion? Fyodor has tactical empathy and perspective-talking.
Thank you for reading my analysis!
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karma, it’s getting colder, do you need a jacket or anything? maybe some hot cocoa?
oh! Um...sure? I don't want you to go out of your way for me though or anything, so I'll only take what you have right now. And you don't have to go through the effort to make me anything either. I can do it myself and make stuff for you too.
Do be sure to take care of yourself too.
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Hello there I am meli and I am an fan fanfic writer :3
I mainly attend to write for yandere
I have read Storm bringer but I will only write for the flags (Pianoman, iceman, albatross, doc, Lippmann)
Platonic yanderes are appreciated
I also can write for karma (I can do something romantic for him because lots of people here are around his age BUT absolutely nothing sexual with him) (same thing goes for rokuzo)
Flags requests are prioritize 
characters who I write for..
Poe
Ranpo
Mushitarō
yokomizo
Karma
Rokuzo
Atsushi
John
Iceman
Albatross
Lippmann
Doc
Pianoman
Things are are allowed:
Romantic and platonic yanderes
Sfw yandere for minors
Chubby readers
Angst (for both sides/for the character or reader)
Forbidden love
fluff, angst, fluff to angst or angst to fluff
Meow
Things I won't do
NSFW on minors or NSFW in general
hybrid of anything
Writing for verlaine and rimbaud or mori
I will probably put more but oh well
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My big question is why tf does Karma look so much like Chuuya
I don’t think they’re related familial-y, because Chuuya has no family, but there’s gotta be symbolic relation there between their narratives.
Is this a dumb thing to point out? Or am I onto something?
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