TL;CR MEME

[retellers]

1. Comment with your character.
2. Receive comments from others.
3. Reply to their comments with long ballads and explanations of your characters' relationship throughout the game.
4. Suffer as we have suffered over your CR.

Comments

[exercisms]

God. What was this CR. So many of our threads were just cursed and Mob never noticed.

Okay, so I remained blind to Kano's deal, but the impression I got was his attachment to Mob was based on his stated inability to be a fake smiler. I think their CR probably would have gone a wildly different direction if Kano hadn't just come up to him and started talking about how awkward he felt and complimenting Mob for being brave, but. Because he said that, he felt automatically at ease with him and comfortable being honest about his feelings! He's just an awkward and shy boy and when other people acknowledge they feel awkward, it makes him feel much better.

But then Kano said a few things in a row that, as advice, really appealed to him? He told him it was okay to be himself, and that he'd be able to get along with people by doing that without having to change himself, and he encouraged him to express his feelings to people. It was nice and encouraging!

So after that, he just had this view of Kano as a big brother type who was a little strange but would look out for him and give him advice, and it was hard to shake that view no matter what cursed things Kano did in his general vicinity. He just saw him as a nice person who happened to act very strange or concerning sometimes, and was content to just ignore whatever odd things he was doing while still being his friend.

That sort of changed in the Cater and Sharon trial. When Kano started being obstinate about stripping and others started suspecting him, it became obvious something was wrong and he was clearly going out of his way to be particularly dishonest or antagonistic. He honestly did contemplate that Kano had done one of the murders, but didn't know one way or another. It just was clear Kano had none trust of everyone and that was likely to get him killed, and he was also clearly keeping a secret, whether it was murder or just an effort to protect himself from everyone prying into him. So he stopped just ignoring and writing off his behavior and started trying to help. It seemed at the time like the problem was Kano's feelings of isolation, so he wanted to try to convince him to at least trust him, and then maybe they could figure out how to handle what happened. (This early in the game, Mob still believed they'd be able to avoid executions). It didn't work, in part because he had completely the wrong idea about what was really going on with him.

Anyway, he was never really angry with anyone for scapegoating so much as sad and disappointed he hadn't been able to help show the others the version of Kano he knew. When he found out about what Hikaru did, though, he was pretty angry on his behalf - he knows he'd feel horrible if someone used magic to force his feelings to change, and based on their conversations, felt like Kano was similar to him in that.

He was always planning to use his pain removal gem on whoever was executed. The fact that Kano used that as an opportunity to hurt Jeanne, another person he cared about, didn't really change his impression of Kano, though. It more made him feel like he'd made a mistake by not understanding Kano enough to foresee that. It's important to him to try and understand other people and their motives, so it made him realize there was a lot about Kano he didn't understand. This impression was furthered when he eventually talked to Jeanne about this - he was upset about how many people were hostile to Kano, and he assumed Jeanne would have felt the same, but she pointed out there were sides of Kano he didn't know and Kano was a lot more murderery than he knew.

So by the time he got to the graveyard he was very like - I actually don't think I understand this person, and I'm not sure I'll be able to. They might have talked more if I hadn't been dead irl, but I actually think he mostly felt like it was better for him to just enjoy Kano's company rather than rehash all of these complicated things he felt he wasn't well equipped to deal with. If at any point he felt like Kano needed his help or wanted to share more with him, he would have been receptive, but I think he also had it hammered home that the sides he sees of people aren't always the whole person, and he has to learn to live with that contradiction and continue to enjoy the person who is kind to him and helps him while understanding other people experience things differently.