look, there are a lot of reasons why i love kokochiyo so much but the main one will always be that when looking at teruhashi, everyone sees the perfect pretty girl but yumehara only sees a teenage girl like her, her classmate, her friend. yumehara isn't afraid to call her kokomi despite them never really having talked before because to her, teruhashi is just like anyone else and the worst thing that could happen if she uses her first name is that the situation gets a little awkward. she asks about teruhashi's crush like they're just two teenage girls at a coffee shop which they are but no one else would think of teruhashi the same way. to yumehara, they're the same, to yumehara, she's not a goddess but a human. everyone else is blown away by her beauty but yumehara and it's not because she doesn't think she's beautiful, it's because she sees her as human before she sees her as anything else. dare i say yumehara humanizes teruhashi.














