#Just saying that I've never met a single German who didn't always have some weird shit going on we can't blame it all on Kaiser

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I think the reason why I can't fully sink into the popular interpretation of most KaiNess is like... yeah I love a manipulative blondie and a round-eyed partner who's obsessed with him and thinks he hung the moon, and yeah sure the idea of them being genuinely abusive and unhealthy is fun and games.

But I think if you buy too deep into that, you'd forget Ness's ego in the process, right? Ness follows Kaiser, passes to him, gives him his reading glasses and lowers his head to him because it obviously makes him feel good about himself. Kaiser choosing Ness was deliberate and the best option on hand at the time, but Ness's POV of it is already written in the pages: to believe in Kaiser, believe in the impossible, is to affirm that magic is a sustainable source of motivation in his world. It's so that Ness, a stubborn genius-type who's been shown to waver in a pinch, doesn't have to question his own beliefs when Kaiser is there.

But seeing as BLLK's whole theme of change and evolution and throwing away parts of yourself that don't serve your purpose, I look forward to seeing what else KNSH has in store for Ness and KINS. Half the fun of it is seeing what he establishes as canon- just so long Ness doesn't get the Yukimiya treatment of course.