Karma Morishige

Karma Morichige is one of the main protagonists in The Freaks, romanced by Sachiko.

Personality
Karma is a character with layers: he likes to leave a good impression on other people while hiding his inner personality. Karma takes great pride in his family heritage and reacts violently when other people make fun of his name.

Unlike the rest of the characters, he is neither disgusted nor horrified by excessive gore and decaying corpses. Instead, he finds them intriguing and feels comfort in viewing them, which may be a sign of schadenfreude. However, he tries to keep this trait a secret from others.

It is shown just how potentially twisted Karma can become, displaying levels of sadism. Rather than feeling mere comfort, Karma now experiences disturbing amounts of pleasure at the sight of corpses, often donning an eerie grin whilst doing so, something he seems to do unconsciously. In addition, instead of finding corpses merely interesting, Karma praises and critiques them as if they were works of fine art. This is most apparent with his treatment of Sachiko's corpse, showing a sick kind of reverence for it, and finding himself constantly drawn to it. It appears he also develops a kind of possessiveness towards the bodies he takes pictures of, often calling them "his". Multiple times throughout the series, Karma seems to catch himself, and acknowledge his behavior as wrong, yet he always lulls back into his sinister antics soon. This dark side of him can reach its absolute peak as seen in one of the wrong endings, where he willingly and eagerly takes part in torturing and killing Emi with Sachiko, who seems to have taken to Karma quite a bit.

However, in one of the bad endings, after nearly dying by falling out the window, Karma seems to have snapped out of his corpse obsession, admitting that he was violating the bodies of those who had died, and seemingly regretting his actions. However, in its place is now an odd type of madness, shown when, upon finding Sachiko's corpse again, puts in it a plastic bag and walks around with it, treating it as if she were still alive, something he quickly begins to believe, even performing a romantic soliloquy for her.

Trivia

 * Although twisted, he merely uses the corpses to keep his sanity in check.
 * Karma's birthday is on Valentine's Day.
 * Karma dislikes people making fun of his name. This is because the name Karma may be seen to carry a bad omen is unusual, and old fashioned.
 * Karma is one of the only two characters who have a track dedicated to them (his is Karma's Theme of Love).