Shouko Komi
What if she were an extrovert?
In short, it would be a completely different world (and a completely different anime overall). But she would still remain Komi, just seen from the side she always dreamed of being.
Extroverted Komi is a girl who is bright not only in appearance, but in personality as well.
If in the original Shouko Komi stays silent because she can’t speak, here she speaks too much because she can’t stop. She does everything she once dreamed of in another universe.
This isn’t the kind of talkativeness that annoys. It’s a flow of sincerity, emotion, and attention to detail, as if she’s constantly trying to fill the space between people so that no one feels alone.
She’s the one who approaches first. In this world, no one sees Komi as an “untouchable, distant, cold beauty,” because she’s the one who breaks that distance herself.
She’s the type to sit next to a new student and immediately start a conversation, to greet her classmates first, to remember little things (who likes what, who looked sad yesterday, and so on), to make connections easily, but not shallow ones, rather deep ones. (For the most part, this ease comes from her appearance rather than openness, though her confidence also plays a significant role.)
But even though she becomes the person she always wanted to be, there’s a reason behind it all.Komi isn’t just an extrovert.
She’s an extrovert born out of a fear of silence and loneliness. Deep down, that same fear still exists:
“What if I’m not accepted?”
Only instead of silence, she chooses the opposite, she talks, talks, talks...just so she won’t be left in the silence where that fear is the loudest.
In this universe, she also tries too hard for others. Extroverted Komi is the kind of person who writes long messages to all her friends, even when a simple “good morning” would be enough; she writes a lot and in detail, checks if they got home safely; organizes meetups even when she’s tired, afraid that if she stops, she’ll be forgotten and left behind.
She knows how to be the center of a group, but she doesn’t know how to be alone without anxiety.
Her speech is beautiful, but overloaded. She speaks softly, gracefully, almost like something out of a book, but sometimes it’s too much. She might interrupt without realizing it, jump from topic to topic, speak faster than she thinks and then later at home lie in bed replaying everything:
“Was I annoying?.. Was I too pushy?.. I probably overdid it…”
Small details:
• She laughs more often than in canon, and her laughter is quiet but very sincere and contagious.
• She often touches people (hand, shoulder) to show attention and engagement, touch has become one of her ways of expressing feelings.
• She likes noisy places, but gets tired of them faster than she’s willing to admit.
• At night, she becomes almost like canon Komi again, quiet, thoughtful, and fragile.
Overall, even in this version, Komi would still remain Komi. Maybe she became an extrovert, but an anxious one. In a way, her life would resemble Teruhashi Kokomi’s, except Komi, unlike her, would be a much simpler and more genuine person in this universe.
