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3. Reply to their comments with long ballads and explanations of your characters' relationship throughout the game.
4. Endure everyone else reading your comment like the vultures they are.

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Haha well, Akane is an odd one, isn’t she?

Kara didn’t think much of anyone at first, but Akane started out with annoying him by just kind of accepting their fate in being in this village and then being Like That at the party. So he didn’t really like her!

And then she appeared in the kitchen to demand that he teach her to cook, and frankly, he didn’t want to - again, because she was annoying. What convinced him to do it anyway was a mix of appreciating her desire to learn and Akane just. Not leaving. lmao. So he decided to help her, and then they started talking, and Kara thought he might understand where she was coming from. Their conversation about being alone versus having friends and how difficult it can be to make friends kind of endeared her to him a little, because - yeah, he understood that. He wouldn’t have complained quite so much from then on, if Akane still wanted to learn about cooking.

When he was given a task to find someone from each element that he trusted, Akane was his first choice, for this reason. He didn’t really know any of them that well, so it wasn’t like it meant a lot, but their kitchen conversation was a start. But when he asked around, he was told specifically not to trust Akane, and why - so uh, there went that. He felt bad for it, because she did say she had trouble connecting with other people and he gets that? But he couldn’t give her his full support, knowing that she would burn the world down for a special few, if given the choice.

Then the trial to find Minato’s murderer happened, and he was… not quite on Emma’s side, as far as the strip search went? But he was being impartial, and Akane clearly didn’t appreciate it even though he also made Kaoru comply when he wanted to skip out, too. But Kara was going to let Emma handle it once Akane refused, and it just kind of spiraled from there. So when Akane decided he was against her, even though he really didn’t have an opinion one way or another - he didn’t bother to correct her. There wouldn’t be much point when he already knew he couldn’t trust her anyway, right?

So he was just. Steadfastly neutral regarding Akane, until she was outed as Cinnabar’s killer. If she had a valid reason for it, he would have stayed neutral. But he trusted Cinnabar, was trying to trust them more, and when he found out that Akane killed them just because they were “mean” to her in the last trial?

Well, that was it. He already didn’t trust her, but that was the catalyst he needed to just… write her off entirely, and he had no regrets sending her to her execution. No one who would kill for such ridiculous reasons should be allowed to decide the fate of the universe, after all.

Though he maybe still wishes things could have gone better for her. Maybe if the right person had managed to connect with her (not him, he knows he wouldn’t be good for this), she would have learned and grown instead of… this.

But he’ll never know, so. He'll probably never find a reason to forgive her - though he's sure she doesn't care.