What I keep attempting to write: Kim Kitsuragi is a truly amazing character and I love him, both from a character standpoint and how he works as a game mechanic in Disco Elysium. Harry is an absolutely deteriorating wreck and Kim serves as a perfect counterweight, but their relationship is not an uneven one. Kim makes it perfectly clear that he would ditch your sad sorry ass in a heartbeat if you crossed the line with him. You can toe that line, sure, but he has his limits and he's not just some unflinching sidekick who never pushes back. He doesn't just put up with your shit, it's clear that he respects you as a fellow officer, particularly after he finds out about your case solving track record. There is an unspoken devotion there, of one officer to another, of two outsiders to each other, of two men out of their depth in a town that hates them on a case that's mostly a pissing contest between their respective precincts. Kim sticks by Harry (and MY Harry at the very least stuck by Kim). Kim is both an unrepentant spoilsport and very silly. He has a level of control that is unparalleled, but you can make him give in and go along with your tomfoolery. He tosses out quips in complete deadpan. He jokes with such utter sincerity. Kim is, if nothing else, committed to the bit. Kim from the outside is such an average man, but he becomes this rock to Harry, someone who is so put together ( or at least appears to be) it contrasts so completely against our utter wreck of a player character; he becomes a source of stability. We may not know where we are and who we were/are, but Kim will always be Kim, and we can count on him, rely on him even. It sets him up as this almost deified figure to the player character, someone on a whole different level of "has their shit together"ness that it's impressive. Kim is competent. Kim is smooth. Kim doesn't succeed at everything, but his failures pale in comparison to Harry's. And yet, despite all of this, it is incredibly clear that just on a personal level, Kim likes Harry. Harry is able to make Kim smile (even if they're just small smiles). Harry is able to suss things out about Kim that most people wouldn't notice, and it's clear that Kim likes the attention--at least when you're not begging him for secrets about himself. Kim is, at least in some small part, a bit attracted to Harry. Kim is canonically gay. Kim is such a huge part of Disco Elysium to me that as much as I love the rest of the game, it falls away in comparison to the magnificence of one Lieutenant Kim Kitsuragi.
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