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▢ For Kosuzu, the wikipedia link provided offers some personality components that aren't mentioned in the app, namely her confidence in herself ("She thinks she knows better than most other people...") and her gullible cowardice ("She develops a temporary fear of snakes after hearing a rumor that they can eat a human whole, and gets worked up over a horror story she hears from a pair of children, even after dismissing it as illogical."). Please expand on these traits as they would definitely help to round out her character and would come up in game! ▢ Also, the wikipedia link explains that Kosuzu still doesn't know how she feels about youkai, and that part of her growth as a character seems to be parsing out her opinion on the subject. However, your app states that she believes that youkai and humans can exist together peacefully and that her optimism leads her to trust them. Is this an issue of canon point, something you'd like to debate or can it be explained somehow? Fandom wiki links aren't always accurate, so it never hurts to ask for player opinion on the content they hold! This would also relate to a different aspect of her personality, so it's important to discuss.
Please respond with the corrections or response within 48 hours. Also, feel free to ask for clarification on any points.
Personality expansion As touched on briefly in the original application, Kosuzu likes to show off when she has skills or knowledge that the people around her don't have. However, beyond that, there's an underlying thought process behind her occasionally slightly self-important interactions with others - she believes very firmly in what her own judgment tells her. If she doesn't know what to think of something at all, she'll happily go to whoever she percieves as experts for advice, but once she forms her own opinion, even the word of more knowledgeable friends won't dissuade her. When trying to figure out how to deal with her accidentally-acquired snake phobia, she ends up unsure of what to do and goes to Sanae for advice, but once she decides that it's a good idea to keep the Youma books in her shop, no amount of warnings from Reimu or Marisa ever dissuade her to part with them - she already came to that conclusion using her own judgment, so she ignores their advice in favor of trusting herself. As the people around her gradually figure out, the easiest way to make her let go of an idea that she decided on herself is to work around her and let her think it was her idea all along - for example, when she becomes convinced that Kokoro's Noh performances are working evil magic, Mamizou just quietly tells Kokoro to change up her act and then pretents that Reimu fought her and forced her to abandon her 'evil' ways. If Mamizou had just told her directly that she was wrong, she probably would have ended up concluding that Mamizou was an accomplice trying to protect Kokoro, not that her initial deductions were mistaken. Once an idea gets into Kosuzu's head, there's almost no uprooting it (the snake phobia incident came from a slightly similar place; try as she did to convince herself that it wasn't a realistic fear, the initial shock from reading the article and learning that giant snakes actually exist wouldn't leave her brain).
This all ties into the gradual evolution of her opinions regarding youkai. As of the later parts of canon, she believes firmly that youkai and humans can be friends, but this wasn't always the case. Kosuzu initially goes along with the idea that youkai are bad in general, thanks to being repeatedly told so by Reimu and Akyu, but only because she hasn't (to her knowledge) interacted with any long enough to form her own opinions. When it does come time for her to decide on her own whether or not youkai can be trusted, it comes with a shocking dose of new information - while everyone was telling her that youkai are always bad, one of her most trusted and helpful 'human' friends was actually a youkai all along, and someone else is warning her that Reimu might be planning to kill her. So, with the people she trusts telling her conflicting things, Kosuzu had no choice but to sit back and look at this issue she felt totally unequipped to deal with, and think it through herself. So, she weighed two viewpoints - one saying that all youkai are evil and that all the friendlier youkai she'd met like Aya and Mamizou were out to kill her, and one saying that there are good and bad youkai, just like humans - and in the end, her optimism about people's best natures won through. She concluded that youkai and humans could be friends after all, and dedicated herself to that conclusion with her usual conviction, ignoring everyone's protests and running off into the wilderness and getting possessed by demons.
So, that one didn't exactly work out for her - as it turns out, she was being conned. One of the downsides of a combination of a relentless faith in other people's good sides and an inflexible persistence in trusting your own judgdment is that one tends to be a really bad judge of character. Mamizou was playing her to get her hands on the Night Parade Scroll from day one, but her first impression of her was so strongly "what a cool and mysterious badass" that she remained oblivious of all of her machinations until she went ahead and revealed her youkai nature directly. Yukari, one of the most suspicious-seeming people in the world, managed to trick Kosuzu into making some really awful decisions with almost no effort. People lie or omit truths around her constantly, and she never picks up on it. The simple fact of the matter is that, while she's not stupid, she lives a lot inside her own head - the ideas she sticks to the hardest are the ones she comes to on her own, and it's easy to trick her because she's focusing more on what she already thinks than trying to puzzle through what other people might be thinking.
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REVISION REQUEST
▢ For Kosuzu, the wikipedia link provided offers some personality components that aren't mentioned in the app, namely her confidence in herself ("She thinks she knows better than most other people...") and her gullible cowardice ("She develops a temporary fear of snakes after hearing a rumor that they can eat a human whole, and gets worked up over a horror story she hears from a pair of children, even after dismissing it as illogical."). Please expand on these traits as they would definitely help to round out her character and would come up in game!
▢ Also, the wikipedia link explains that Kosuzu still doesn't know how she feels about youkai, and that part of her growth as a character seems to be parsing out her opinion on the subject. However, your app states that she believes that youkai and humans can exist together peacefully and that her optimism leads her to trust them. Is this an issue of canon point, something you'd like to debate or can it be explained somehow? Fandom wiki links aren't always accurate, so it never hurts to ask for player opinion on the content they hold! This would also relate to a different aspect of her personality, so it's important to discuss.
Please respond with the corrections or response within 48 hours. Also, feel free to ask for clarification on any points.
Re: REVISION REQUEST
As touched on briefly in the original application, Kosuzu likes to show off when she has skills or knowledge that the people around her don't have. However, beyond that, there's an underlying thought process behind her occasionally slightly self-important interactions with others - she believes very firmly in what her own judgment tells her. If she doesn't know what to think of something at all, she'll happily go to whoever she percieves as experts for advice, but once she forms her own opinion, even the word of more knowledgeable friends won't dissuade her. When trying to figure out how to deal with her accidentally-acquired snake phobia, she ends up unsure of what to do and goes to Sanae for advice, but once she decides that it's a good idea to keep the Youma books in her shop, no amount of warnings from Reimu or Marisa ever dissuade her to part with them - she already came to that conclusion using her own judgment, so she ignores their advice in favor of trusting herself. As the people around her gradually figure out, the easiest way to make her let go of an idea that she decided on herself is to work around her and let her think it was her idea all along - for example, when she becomes convinced that Kokoro's Noh performances are working evil magic, Mamizou just quietly tells Kokoro to change up her act and then pretents that Reimu fought her and forced her to abandon her 'evil' ways. If Mamizou had just told her directly that she was wrong, she probably would have ended up concluding that Mamizou was an accomplice trying to protect Kokoro, not that her initial deductions were mistaken. Once an idea gets into Kosuzu's head, there's almost no uprooting it (the snake phobia incident came from a slightly similar place; try as she did to convince herself that it wasn't a realistic fear, the initial shock from reading the article and learning that giant snakes actually exist wouldn't leave her brain).
This all ties into the gradual evolution of her opinions regarding youkai. As of the later parts of canon, she believes firmly that youkai and humans can be friends, but this wasn't always the case. Kosuzu initially goes along with the idea that youkai are bad in general, thanks to being repeatedly told so by Reimu and Akyu, but only because she hasn't (to her knowledge) interacted with any long enough to form her own opinions. When it does come time for her to decide on her own whether or not youkai can be trusted, it comes with a shocking dose of new information - while everyone was telling her that youkai are always bad, one of her most trusted and helpful 'human' friends was actually a youkai all along, and someone else is warning her that Reimu might be planning to kill her. So, with the people she trusts telling her conflicting things, Kosuzu had no choice but to sit back and look at this issue she felt totally unequipped to deal with, and think it through herself. So, she weighed two viewpoints - one saying that all youkai are evil and that all the friendlier youkai she'd met like Aya and Mamizou were out to kill her, and one saying that there are good and bad youkai, just like humans - and in the end, her optimism about people's best natures won through. She concluded that youkai and humans could be friends after all, and dedicated herself to that conclusion with her usual conviction, ignoring everyone's protests and running off into the wilderness and getting possessed by demons.
So, that one didn't exactly work out for her - as it turns out, she was being conned. One of the downsides of a combination of a relentless faith in other people's good sides and an inflexible persistence in trusting your own judgdment is that one tends to be a really bad judge of character. Mamizou was playing her to get her hands on the Night Parade Scroll from day one, but her first impression of her was so strongly "what a cool and mysterious badass" that she remained oblivious of all of her machinations until she went ahead and revealed her youkai nature directly. Yukari, one of the most suspicious-seeming people in the world, managed to trick Kosuzu into making some really awful decisions with almost no effort. People lie or omit truths around her constantly, and she never picks up on it. The simple fact of the matter is that, while she's not stupid, she lives a lot inside her own head - the ideas she sticks to the hardest are the ones she comes to on her own, and it's easy to trick her because she's focusing more on what she already thinks than trying to puzzle through what other people might be thinking.
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