Ajichi pulled a sneaky on us.
I’m really glad you made this comment, because I didn’t realize how deep and specific this distortion of self-worth is. Like she’s specifically twisted around whether she can have the things she wants vs. whether “princesses” get them.
It's a great way to put it, and right to the point. Kuro's worldview is just that, she's like a big stan of Nanaki and takes it as natural that she must sacrifice herself & her desires to a "princess" like Nanaki.
This makes me especially worried about the implications of Fujishiro taking the friends comment as “I don’t see her as someone who can be more.”
Kuro meant that a fan must not get too close to the idols she support (a normal otaku rule). Nanaki prolly misunderstood that to be more than gal pals is out of the question cuz Kuro doesn't like her enough. Sad. :(
Kurokawa is coming from the angle of, “girls like me don’t deserve to be with girls like her.” If Fujishiro responds to this through distancing herself, or closing off opportunities for them to get closer, it’s going to reinforce this framework and push them even farther apart. I can already forsee a, “oh you should just go with this otaku guy that likes you, haha.” which would not only be destructive to Kurokawa by seeming like an external confirmation of the class difference between them, but she also prob wouldn’t fight back against it because she already sees it as a law of the world, a confirmation of her belief that she couldn’t get with Fujishiro.
Well from Kuro's perspective the idea that a princess would fall for her is preposterous so... yeah, if Nanaki recommends that Kuro get a boyfriend she'd likely take the advice seriously (tho with secret bitterness?) and Nanaki who surely intended it as a way to test the waters and discover Kuro's real feelings would be super disappointed.
Daaaamn and now I'm thinking you are most likely right, it's odds-on to happen...
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