unironically i think the moment in the game that best contextualizes kims character is the quest "recruit detective kim kitsuragi". just. the fact it is an option in of itself. is telling.
the fact that if you are just nice enough and decently competent at your job and, well, Don't Get Him Fucking Killed, kim wants to join your precinct. join you. isnt that fucking crazy. why is he so sure he can. why is he so sure he wants to. does he have nothing of value Left in his precinct?? what the fuck.
the fact that he - for the first and only time in the game - smokes a second cigarette if you leave without him. isnt that insane. isnt that fucking Insane.
the fact that harry changed his life as well. not in some passing fancy way, not as an Experience he Will Remember, as a force and as a person and as a gleaming light in the midst of bone deep loneliness and grief. the fact that, arguably, he needs harry just as much as harry needs him. hes a lonely tin soldier trying to hollow himself and not want anything.
he makes me ill. it makes me so ill. you get to bring him home with you...
