I'm just wondering... Not that I have any issues with the match? I'm just curious about how you think they would get along (on a personal level, since most of your support for the match was based on their talent rather than individually?)

(Not mentioning names since I don't want to spoil xD!!! That was left out on purpose and I made sure to put a link <3)

That's actually the biggest uncertainty here...

like Kyoko/Shuichi but Kyoko's got a good 35 years on him to help play with that whole pre game Shuichi really liking Kyoko as a character thing (it might just have been detective characters in general i don't really care to look atm and can't remember but I don't think it makes a difference though)

YAYEE!

Ok so i think she is a beast with a Lot of internalized stuff (mostly pertaining to herself) and she bottled it up for a Looooooong time. a lot of her depression and self-hatred/self-doubt comes from the dysphoria stuff! she also has a bit of an irrational fear that being transfem will lose her her career (this isnt smth shes thought abt consciously bcs logically she knows its not true since kyouko is a trans woman detective & doing just fine).

she figures at out one day in her mid-20s when shes at home sick and she tries on one of kyoukos bras "as a joke" and then kyouko comes home to her "husband" sobbing for no discernible reason. so she walks her thru it both logically and emotionally (kyouko has experience w this bcs as previously mentioned shes a trans woman) and helps shuichi come to the realization that she is a Woman.

theyve been married for a couple of years but still havent legally changed their surnames bcs its kinda expensive and they already have lots of legal stuff in their jobs, they dont want more paperwork + they cant rlly decide who should take whose. but in the end, post girl-realization, shuichi decides to take kyoukos surname since she already has to do a name change anyway so why not kill 2 birds with one stone? her preferred name is shiho (like the prsk character lol) although she seriously considered shiori and ichika for a while.

she is soooo much happier once she transitions! shes like a whole new person shes happy she frolicks she skirt spinny. shes a lot more confident in herself and her skills. she also didnt think she wanted to have kids when she was still in the egg zone, but after realizing shes a woman shes like "actually i DO want to have kids! i just want to be a mom not a dad"