( ✦ ✦ — As an Empath ; hc.17 ✦ ✦ ✦ )
Fun fact about Kimiko. She is very much an Empath. And I have said it before. But there is so much more to it than just being an Empath and being able to feel another person’s emotions. At least this is the case for Kimiko. Not only can she actually sense another’s emotions and feel just as they do, she can even sense those who try to block out emotion. She’s real quick to pick up how somebody really feels even if its not what they seem to look like on the outside. So in reality, nobody can really fake anything with Kimiko. Granted, with strangers, she’s not going to straight up tell them they are lying to her, but she will know when somebody is being genuine with her.
The great thing, or rather frustrating thing, about Kimiko too is that not only can she feel how somebody else is feeling, but she can radiate her own emotions back to another person. So when somebody sees her happy and she is genuinely happy, they will tell she is because its like this heat that comes off of her. She sometimes doesn’t realise that she does it. and for many it can be a really scary thing. Mainly because you don’t know at first. Its like that sudden feeling of oh gods what am I feeling. But the more one looks at Kimiko, the more one realises that it’s coming from here.
This is one of the reasons why InterPol so genuinely interested in her. I mean among other things that is. But there are some people who would want to use her as a weapon or tool. In many ways-- she is the Giratina that somebody wants on their side. She can be easily manipulated and she can easily manipulate others. And she has such a great impact on some that she can immobilise people with just emotion.
But that isn’t what she is about. She genuinely wants others to be happy, and wants to take care of them and she would do it in any way possible. There is a quote by Alan W. Watts that fits Kimiko perfectly:
“ We know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat. ”
Kimiko is honestly the best person to fit this description perfectly. I have never once made a character, or have seen somebody make a character that matches this quote perfectly. And I am honestly not even trying to have her match this description. She just happens to have that characteristic that blossoms all on her own.
But now imagine that she is somebody who can not only radiate that love and happiness, but she can share it. Like it’s something that you can contract just by being near her. Whether you like it or not.
The thing is that she doesn’t really normally do that unless she is really, truly enjoying her time with somebody. This is actually why you don’t see Giratina be happier when she is around. Yes, she can make him feel her pain and anguish, but in that sense, its like Giratina is a Dementor of the Pokemon World. He just naturally takes and makes her feel so sad all the time.
But if Giratina is the Dementor of the Pokemon world, then Kimiko is basically the Patronus of the Pokemon world. or rather, she is the anti-giratina. Arceus saw that in her even as a young child and basically asked the Lake trio to help her find Giratina.
But it was when she was with giratina that her abilities as an Empath grew to be better (or in some cases, worse).
