8D -- it's interesting that, like Toshio, Seishin is actually also a control freak. They are pretty different about it, however; Toshio trying to take control of his surroundings while for Seishin it's his self he's trying to maintain full control of. Seishin's self-control is top-notch to the point of somewhat repressing and detaching himself from his surroundings is the impression I got. He's shown to always be ashamed whenever his emotions slips and does so much as raising his voice at others in the novels. Granted, I think he also detaches himself because he doesn't trust the world and will not want to entrust himself to his surroundings/the world, which I imagine is so like Seishin.
I have a headcanon that this is why he neither drinks nor smokes. He doesn't want to get drunk because then his control will slip, and so he avoids alcohol altogether. While it's true that he'll not get drunk from drinking a little, I imagine he's already come to dislike the idea of what alcohol would cause in him that he treats it like a poison to completely avoid. Drinking even a drop of it would mean poisoning himself with that bad idea. That man doesn't do compromise. I figure it's kind of the same with smoking in that he doesn't want to lose himself to addiction, so he also avoids it altogether.
Prior to being turned, Seishin is very moralistic and his morals are what primarily tie him to humanity, I think. While it's true that some of his morals are strange enough people may frown at them, he can still pass as a good enough person. I think he's nicer than most people in the village. After being turned, however... he's probably rewritten his morals to be much worse than before, added by his growing indifference towards humanity because he's no longer part of it, and having lost any love towards it because he's no longer a part of it (probably partially why he rewrites his morals)-- that he'll now probably pass as 'actually less than good a person'.
I think it's also the case of his writings being exposed to the people from the village he was born in. While I cannot imagine Seishin being fully comfortable with knowing some people actually reading his works for the reasons you mentioned, I think at least they'd be strangers. He's fine with Tsuhara (the one from the publishers) and Sunako reading them, though I figure if all they do is to read, the better. But at the same time it'd perhaps be disappointing to him, because I believe the reason he started writing was so he could be seen as who he genuinely was, even if it was subconscious. Even if he was only thinking to vent and to process the happenings of his life through it. Meeting someone who's willing to go deeper than just reading his novels, I figure, will be terrifying but at the same time relieving and has somewhat been anticipated. They would be people Seishin can show his genuine self to; they could help validate and acknowledge his self.
While if it's someone from Sotoba I figure Seishin would just sooner run. The villagers are after all the people he's been hiding his real self from, for whatever reasons. If it's strangers they'll have harder time gauging him as the real character of his own novels, but the villagers will perhaps have a better idea on how to do it, perhaps especially Toshio, if he tries hard enough.
I'm hugely indifferent about Sunako and ignore her majority of the time, so I haven't got around to properly analyze her, but the fact that you're not the only person who thinks along that line likely says something. Though I also pity her for all the likelihood of being doomed the moment she becomes Seishin's companion. Really, he'll be much worse than Tatsumi in my opinion. I can understand why she would do what you think though; she sees herself in Seishin and she'd like to keep it that way. I'm thinking more about it being a subconscious thing but I could perhaps be wrong, knowing Sunako. This is how they primarily bond, with her seeing Seishin as the extension of herself (and he's probably likewise). She's alone, with swirling thoughts she perhaps cannot exactly share with the others, and Seishin is one person who's likely able to understand that because she believes he's just like her. I don't know why she's willing to go to such great lengths to seek him out, is it possible that she does all that just because she wants to talk to him? She probably really has ulterior motives for approaching her in the first place. She's, after all, full of political agenda.
That's pretty much the part where she's going to be severely disappointed, in my opinion. If she wishes to shape Seishin in the way she wants, well, just good luck with that. I think she's going to be surprised about how much Seishin actually differs from her. She's stuck in one place, while Seishin still has a long road ahead of him. I think the moment she truly realizes it the gap between them will already be too far apart, and probably he's also been somewhat manipulating her all along.
Re: 8D
I have a headcanon that this is why he neither drinks nor smokes. He doesn't want to get drunk because then his control will slip, and so he avoids alcohol altogether. While it's true that he'll not get drunk from drinking a little, I imagine he's already come to dislike the idea of what alcohol would cause in him that he treats it like a poison to completely avoid. Drinking even a drop of it would mean poisoning himself with that bad idea. That man doesn't do compromise. I figure it's kind of the same with smoking in that he doesn't want to lose himself to addiction, so he also avoids it altogether.
Prior to being turned, Seishin is very moralistic and his morals are what primarily tie him to humanity, I think. While it's true that some of his morals are strange enough people may frown at them, he can still pass as a good enough person. I think he's nicer than most people in the village. After being turned, however... he's probably rewritten his morals to be much worse than before, added by his growing indifference towards humanity because he's no longer part of it, and having lost any love towards it because he's no longer a part of it (probably partially why he rewrites his morals)-- that he'll now probably pass as 'actually less than good a person'.
I think it's also the case of his writings being exposed to the people from the village he was born in. While I cannot imagine Seishin being fully comfortable with knowing some people actually reading his works for the reasons you mentioned, I think at least they'd be strangers. He's fine with Tsuhara (the one from the publishers) and Sunako reading them, though I figure if all they do is to read, the better. But at the same time it'd perhaps be disappointing to him, because I believe the reason he started writing was so he could be seen as who he genuinely was, even if it was subconscious. Even if he was only thinking to vent and to process the happenings of his life through it. Meeting someone who's willing to go deeper than just reading his novels, I figure, will be terrifying but at the same time relieving and has somewhat been anticipated. They would be people Seishin can show his genuine self to; they could help validate and acknowledge his self.
While if it's someone from Sotoba I figure Seishin would just sooner run. The villagers are after all the people he's been hiding his real self from, for whatever reasons. If it's strangers they'll have harder time gauging him as the real character of his own novels, but the villagers will perhaps have a better idea on how to do it, perhaps especially Toshio, if he tries hard enough.
I'm hugely indifferent about Sunako and ignore her majority of the time, so I haven't got around to properly analyze her, but the fact that you're not the only person who thinks along that line likely says something. Though I also pity her for all the likelihood of being doomed the moment she becomes Seishin's companion. Really, he'll be much worse than Tatsumi in my opinion. I can understand why she would do what you think though; she sees herself in Seishin and she'd like to keep it that way. I'm thinking more about it being a subconscious thing but I could perhaps be wrong, knowing Sunako. This is how they primarily bond, with her seeing Seishin as the extension of herself (and he's probably likewise). She's alone, with swirling thoughts she perhaps cannot exactly share with the others, and Seishin is one person who's likely able to understand that because she believes he's just like her. I don't know why she's willing to go to such great lengths to seek him out, is it possible that she does all that just because she wants to talk to him? She probably really has ulterior motives for approaching her in the first place. She's, after all, full of political agenda.
That's pretty much the part where she's going to be severely disappointed, in my opinion. If she wishes to shape Seishin in the way she wants, well, just good luck with that. I think she's going to be surprised about how much Seishin actually differs from her. She's stuck in one place, while Seishin still has a long road ahead of him. I think the moment she truly realizes it the gap between them will already be too far apart, and probably he's also been somewhat manipulating her all along.