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Natsuki's father is the main antagonist of the 2018 Japanese stop-motion short film My Little Goat by Tomoki Misato, loosely based on the fairy tale The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids.

He is the sexually abusive father of Natsuki.

He was voiced by Tomoki Misato himself.

Biography[]

Little is known about the origins of Natsuki and his father other than he was extremely abusive towards his son to the point of sexually molesting him. At some point in time, Natsuki would run away and get lost in the forest. He would be found by Mother Goat, mistaking him for her eldest son Toruku due to his wooden hoodie. Following nearly losing her children to the Big Bad Wolf, she forbids the children from leaving the house as she goes out to forage for food, claiming the wolf would come and eat them should they open the door.

The goat children happily welcome Natsuki/Toruku to their house, although he is terrified of them as the wolf's stomach acid left them scarred and disfigured. After several failed attempts to escape, he comes to realize that the goat children are just as terrified as he is after knocking over a mirror which reveals Lecon's reflection. When Lecon cries, Natsuki gives her his hoodie. This makes the goats realize that he was a human child and not Toruku, but soon decided that he may not be as different to them since his arms were covered in burns and bruises.

Suddenly, noises are heard outside, with the goat children convinced that it was the wolf. They quickly hide away, leaving only Natsuki exposed in the open. A figure walks up to the door and knocking it continuously causes the broom to fall out, allowing the figure to open the door. Instead of being the wolf, it was a man, Natsuki's father. He spots his son and hugs him, happy to have finally found him.

However, things take a turn for the worst when the father prompts Natsuki to the ground and caresses him, telling Natsuki that he should have stayed with him. Natsuki refuses his father's advances and pushes him away. This angers the father, who growls and tears off Natsuki's shirt. The father proceeds to sexually assault his son, pinning Natsuki by the arms while licking him. All Natsuki could do was cry out for his mother. During this time, the father symbolically turns into the Big Bad Wolf. Before the father bites Natsuki's head, Lecon, remembering Natsuki's kind gesture earlier, stands up against the father and lets out an alerting baa. The other goats jump out of their hiding spots and lunge at the father to protect Natsuki.

But even with the six children against him, the father effortlessly overwhelms them and swats them away. He then continues to molest his son, managing to remove his pants. However, before he can rape Natsuki, Mother Goat arrives back at the house in time and uses her taser on the father, knocking him unconscious. The mother and the children then comfort Natsuki as he softly cries in her chest.

Later, Mother Goat is seen cutting open a stomach, dropping rocks into it before sewing it up. Some time has passed and the goats have accepted Natsuki into their family, with the children wearing their own wool hoodies to hide away their burn scars. As Mother Goat goes out to find food, the father's shoe can be seen floating in the river nearby, implying the mother drowned him using the rocks she filled in his stomach. The short ends with a helicopter heard in the background searching for the man.

Personality[]

Initially, the father is shown to be a caring parent for Natsuki, but ultimately drops the act once his perverted side is exposed. Unlike the mother goat, his love for his son is not out of parental bonding, but rather a twisted obsession for him to physically and sexually abuse. He also shows no hesitation to dispose of anyone who tries to stand in his way, cruelly tossing away the goat children when they stand up to help Natsuki, showing signs of sadism by menacingly growling at Lecon before throwing her against tools hanging on the wall.

Gallery[]

"What are you doing here? I've been looking for you everywhere!"

The father grabbing Natsuki by his shirt.

The goat children attacking the father in the symbolic form of the Big Bad Wolf.

The goat children battling the father.

Mother Goat tasing the father.

The father's defeat.

The father's shoe in the river, implying his fate.

Trivia[]

• The father transforming into a wolf during the climax can be seen as symbolizing his vicious personality, showing that he's no different than the Big Bad Wolf. This is also apparent when out-of-camera shots show him as a regular human.
• The father has a wife according to the screen on his phone, but it is implied she passed away before the film's events, or worse yet, it's also possible that he most likely killed her instead.
• In some versions of Little Red Riding Hood, the Big Bad Wolf is a symbolism of sexual abuse and danger; in this regard, the father in this story serves a similar role (not to be unexpected as it is based upon a fairy tale).
• The goats being scarred by the wolf's stomach acid is symbolic of trauma and how it can leave permanent mental scars upon its victims, likewise the goats fighting against the wolf is symbolic of facing trauma in order to eventually heal from it.
• Wolves in folklore were believed to be ravenous monsters, unable to be satisfied no matter how often they ate, to the point people believed they howled out of hunger - this can be seen as similar to how sexual predators are consumed by their inner-desires and often grow progressively worse over time as they are unable to be satisfied by their depraved deeds, resulting in increasingly worse attacks.