... Define kiss. What do you want me to do, Sakaki, demonstrate? Only if you want to.
I JUST WANTED TO REMIND YOU THAT THIS WAS BASICALLY THE FIRST DIALOG-EXCHANGE THESE TWO EVER HAD. I had completely forgotten and now I ship it. Cue a spin the bottle meme
Because as much as I'd like to imagine domestic early-game shenanigans with Koizumi nagging him for sleeping in and shoving over some cold cereal, during the game itself my interpretation was that she had in fact never spoken to him the entire time he "was alive". And that day was a tough one for her, she was going through a lot of emotions with Kuzuryu "dying" and Peko revealing her nature, but she was also very determined to not forget that Sakaki "died", to avenge him also. She wanted to solve the true mystery and she hated herself so much for getting carried away with Levi. THEN SHE DIED...
By the time they got to talking in the GRAVEYARD though, he was on the exact same wavelength as her: forget about these mysteries, it's time to get along with people. And things weren't going super smoothly with the other earliest deaths - standoffish Levi + Ishtar, awkward guilt about Dipper + Kuzuryu. So when Sakaki was immediately non-awkward and super familiar, she responded in kind! And this guided their interactions for the rest of the game - she could always trust in him to come up with a peaceful solution - so what if it was zany. He didn't actively promote murder even in revenge and that's more than can be said for some of these soldierier characters!! She did get the impression his YGO life was wackier than hers (pre-island) so when he got more opportunities to explore she deliberately took up the passive partier torch
There's a distinct superficial quality to their relationship - as their last thread showed, they were both pretty determined to persist in presenting their happy faces. But that moment also showed a potential future where they were brave enough to express sincere concern for each other. Overall Koizumi thought Sakaki was pretttttty much the bomb. (...yeah I went there.) She would latch onto him hard in a CRAU though that'd result in more tsundere manliness yelling
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What do you want me to do, Sakaki, demonstrate?
Only if you want to.
I JUST WANTED TO REMIND YOU THAT THIS WAS BASICALLY THE FIRST DIALOG-EXCHANGE THESE TWO EVER HAD.
I had completely forgotten and now I ship it. Cue a spin the bottle memeBecause as much as I'd like to imagine domestic early-game shenanigans with Koizumi nagging him for sleeping in and shoving over some cold cereal, during the game itself my interpretation was that she had in fact never spoken to him the entire time he "was alive". And that day was a tough one for her, she was going through a lot of emotions with Kuzuryu "dying" and Peko revealing her nature, but she was also very determined to not forget that Sakaki "died", to avenge him also. She wanted to solve the true mystery and she hated herself so much for getting carried away with Levi. THEN SHE DIED...
By the time they got to talking in the GRAVEYARD though, he was on the exact same wavelength as her: forget about these mysteries, it's time to get along with people. And things weren't going super smoothly with the other earliest deaths - standoffish Levi + Ishtar, awkward guilt about Dipper + Kuzuryu. So when Sakaki was immediately non-awkward and super familiar, she responded in kind! And this guided their interactions for the rest of the game - she could always trust in him to come up with a peaceful solution - so what if it was zany. He didn't actively promote murder even in revenge and that's more than can be said for some of these soldierier characters!! She did get the impression his YGO life was wackier than hers (pre-island) so when he got more opportunities to explore she deliberately took up the passive partier torch
There's a distinct superficial quality to their relationship - as their last thread showed, they were both pretty determined to persist in presenting their happy faces. But that moment also showed a potential future where they were brave enough to express sincere concern for each other. Overall Koizumi thought Sakaki was pretttttty much the bomb. (...yeah I went there.) She would latch onto him hard in a CRAU though that'd result in more tsundere manliness yelling