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Kirigiri → Leon

Aaaaaaand then there's these two.

So I've maintained for a while now that Kirigiri has a sort of Personal Shit List as far as her classmates go, and that the top three people she's actually really pissed off at are Junko, Celes, and Maizono — in that order. And that represents a sort of descending order of the "severity of their crime", if you will; Junko, obviously, heads the list because of basically everything, but then Celes is second because she actively planned a murder scenario intending to get everyone killed for the sake of her own personal gain while knowing that it would get everyone killed by doing it. And Maizono is third, because at the time she planned and attempted her murder, everybody knew that you had to kill somebody to leave the school but they didn't know how the murder game was going to be played out yet. So the reason why Celes is more egregious of an offender than Maizono is largely because of intent; Celes knew everyone would die for her and made that choice, while Maizono only accepted that one person would die for her and made that choice.

In Kirigiri's opinion, Leon falls more into the category where Mondo's sitting — people she doesn't necessarily have a whole lot of respect for on account of their short tempers and aggression issues, but who at least didn't actively plan to kill someone. And there's a lot about Leon that doesn't really sit well with her — he chases girls, he's loud, he's boisterous, he's very much her opposite in a lot of ways, and I think she tends to clam up and withdraw a little when she's around him because of it.

But at the same time, she doesn't blame him for keeping his murder a secret during the first trial because that's only to be expected, on a purely human nature level. Particularly given the way she acted when she was on the chopping block herself during the fifth trial — she understands what it feels like to have everyone coming after you, and your death an impending certainty, and making whatever choice you have to in order to keep yourself alive, even at the cost of someone else. And she's seen that Leon feels guilty about what he did, so there's something to that, too.

But what really fucks her up about Leon is, was, and will always be his manner of execution, because of all of the ones they watched, his was just...absolutely horrifying, and it was the first, and I doubt she'll ever be able to get the image out of her mind because even with all the dead people Kirigiri's seen in her life, that one was utterly traumatic in so many ways.

So yeah, a lot of what Kirigiri thinks about Leon is colored by the events that occurred during Chapter One, moreso than anything he's done in Johto thus far. Memories of murderschool are hard to let go of, man.