I feel bad for hating Kaito in the beginning, I’m so glad that I have learned. And all of the characters are so fantastic in how deep they can be… I mean, I love Shinichi more than anything, but he is not perfect, and he’s also not horrible… SOBS
(I’m probably an outlier in the way I think and handle things in this regard. Because at most, going into something normally, I really don’t forms opinions on people easily. Can make observations, yes, but you were to ask whether I like or dislike a character, I’d really mostly be neutral. Now if they’re a fun character, either literally or mentally or both, I’ll gravitate towards them. Seeing as some of my favourite characters in general are Kid in MK, Descole in Professor Layton (though Randall number one), Mephisto Pheles in Ao no Exorcist, Ling from Fullmetal Alchemist… Yeah, give me the eccentric ones that give me a feeling of being deeper than they seem. Makes me form a bit of a bias against people and characters who are seen and seeing things shallowly, just a bit. Might be because I can read characters more than real people. *shrugs* I mean, I’m also the type who can look at a character the first time, see first impressions, and then form a completely different opinion because how they’re written feels like there’s more to it. And don’t watch movies with predictable outcomes, I will guess 80% of them.
I mean, how far I look into something depends on interest, but I don’t form hate all that easily because of things like this.
(And on the guessing personalities and such, mostly in video games there. *sees really helpful, nice character* …I don’t trust you for some reason. *gets backstabbed by that character in story later* Yep. And vice versa. *plays AA for the first time and sees Edgeworth without any knowledge of characters outside of Phoenix and ‘Objection’* Huh… he acts like an ass… I like him. No, I don’t like asshole characters, but I like him. And then five minutes into Professor Layton Miracle Mask being the first Layton game I ever played and all I knew was there would be puzzles: ’…This guy is the Masked Gentleman isn’t he? …Yep, fairly certain of it game, but go ahead, keep trying to convince me it isn’t possible. It’s obvious.’)
Basically, I’m weird and can’t just look at a character and be bias in ignorance. I think that’s the gist of what I was saying. And I usually love the ones I do start looking into anyway.)