#in summary: my feelings about Kuon are complicated

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Here's a difficult one: Kuon

WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO ME...

favorite thing about them

I love just how absolutely bizarre she is, and how the survivors understandably react oddly to her mannerisms - while nobody else questions the utterly weird shit she does (except Aiko, but even she's more exasperated than anything else). For example, Kuon cares a lot about her student (Satoshi) so she invites herself over to his house and turns it into an onsen with his mother's permission. Naomi and Satoshi are completely clueless and wondering what the fuck is going on, while his family is completely fine with what's going on here.

She also specifically asked her bodyguards/secret agent employees/whatever the hell they are to bring her katsudon on the roof of a school with a helicopter. She exists on a totally different plane of existence and had I not known better I would've wanted her to be my glucose guardian.

Kuon is a comedy of errors and insanity.

least favorite thing about them

As you all probably already know, I'm not exactly a fan of Kuon for multiple reasons. There's so many things wrong with her as a character, that in order to list them all off I'd have to end up making a whole ass google doc.

My biggest problem with Kuon is that ultimately, she's pretty much a unnecessary character whose only real function in the plot was to serve as a creepier version of Yui with magic powers and prevent Satoshi and Naomi from meeting up with Yoshiki and Ayumi. Blood Drive introduced too many new major characters and too many wild plot points that her own subplot, which would've been a lot more interesting in different circumstances, was easily buried underneath everything else.

I still would've enjoyed her far more if they hadn't included predatory undertones in her character, and instead focused on something else (maybe a want for family, since it's established that Aiko despises her and their parents have been on vacation for possibly years) + addressed the fatal flaw in her character that she's an extremely controlling person.

favorite line

"I wonder if you'll find another teacher in my place once you return to the real world. I'll be kind of jealous, but... do say hi for me, to the me who isn't me... won't you?"

Listen, no matter how much I dislike Kuon or find her creepy, this line in particular pulls at my heartstrings a bit.

brOTP

Aiko & Kuon because nothing is funnier than a sibling rivalry where one of them is completely unaware that there's a competition in the first place. Also, I would like to think that were Kuon a better written character, she'd eventually come to realize that no, her sister isn't just being a teenager and acting out hormonal feelings and whatnot - Aiko actually fucking despises her. I want to see Kuon struggle and desperately try to fix their relationship while trying to figure out how it became damaged in the first place, but failing epically because she's just that bad at understanding how her actions can affect other people.

OTP

I jokingly ship her with Satoshi's mom because personally, I think that's the better alternative to whatever the hell is going on in canon. The sheer amount of comedy that comes from Kuon making herself part of this already sort of nuts family, where Miho and Yuka would definitely enable some of her insanity, is unrivaled. Satoshi is traumatized.

nOTP

Kuon/Satoshi. There is nothing more to be said.

random headcanon

Corpse Party canonically takes place in 2008, and she's an English teacher whose assumed to have done some traveling prior to becoming a teacher due to her status as a CEO. She definitely picked up on some cringe worthy fads and tries to use them to feel closer to her students/younger, which just further establishes her as that one really weird but well meaning teacher and makes people assume that she's older than she is.

unpopular opinion

As unnecessary as I think she was, there was still multiple directions they could've taken with her character that would've made her better established and far more interesting. One such direction they could've taken, was that they could have made her a much more antagonistic foil to Miss Yui - where while her cheerful personality is definitely genuine, there's something pretty twisted there as well. Which results in both Naomi and Satoshi regretting that they'd assumed the best of her due to the fact that she's seemingly so similar to Yui.

I'm not sure how that would play out, but I'd find that perspective much more intriguing than brushing off her weird crush on Satoshi as harmless and her role in the plot basically just being Yui 2.0

TBH I flicker a lot between "she'd make a good minor antagonist had they done that instead" or "they should've taken her flaws a lot more seriously and also gotten rid of that weird romance subplot".

song I associate with them

I hope you know I searched for hours and couldn't find a single song that fit this crazy woman

favorite picture of them