#Kagami I'll take back all the bad things I said about you if your reconciliation with Marinette is done well in episode 16

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I think I was too hard on Kagami

SPOILER WARNINGS ABOUT THE SEASON 5 BIBLE AND LEAKS

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Those who follows my posts now me a others fans ranted a lot about Kagami beleiving the lies of a girl she barelly knows instead of trusting her friendship with Marinette. At first I really was angry at Kagami's character and thought that I would grow to dislike her for the rest of season 5.

I thought Kagami putting more trust in Lila than in Marinette made her a bad friend. But hen I took the time to put myself in Kagami's shoes, and I came to this conclusion : can we really blame Kagami for not being a good friend ? Or rather ... can we really blame HER for not being that good at friendship and letting herself being manipulated ?

Because first, I recently discover that Lila will manage to befriend Kagami and gain her trust during the episode 12 Perfection, which would better explain why Kagami will trust Lila's words when the liar will try, and unfortunatelly manage, to turn Kagami against Marinette in the episode 16 Protection.

Second, by taking Kagami's background before meeting Adrien into account, I came to the conclusion that having been friendless and isolated by her mother during most of her life not only stopped Kagami from developping proper social skills, but it also left her more vulnerable and mostly ignorant about how friendship works.

But Kagami guenuinly wants friends, and I think a part of her is starved for love and affection after having been denied this by her mother for so long. And let's not forget the only advice Tomoe ever gave her daughter about friendship : "friendship can be a source of disappointment"

Knowing that I think Kagami is a state of mind where she can be easilly led to question her relationships with others.

The trailers and leaks from the episode Perfection seem to imply that a misunderstanding could cause Kagami to doubt her friendship with Marinette, things that can happen to people in real life even when they guenuinly care a lot about their friends.

At first all of this would not have been enough to calm my disappointment towards Kagami, because it still gives me the impression that whenever Lila is involved, Marinette can never count on anyone beside Adrien (who is too passive against Lila for my liking) to believe and support her, a situation which seems very unfair to me. But leaks on episodes 18 and 19 showed me that even after episode 16, Kagami will still considers Marinette as her precious friend. So even though Kagami continues to see Lila as a friend after episode 16, part of me is really satisfied that Kagami will visibly reverse her bad judgment in Protection, and that her friendship with Marinette may triumph over Lila's vile manipulations

Also I realized that hating Kagami for temporarily turning against Marinette wasn't fair from me since a similar thing happened between Peter Parker aka spider-man and his best friend Harry Orborn (for those who know the comics), and I still love the friendship between those two characters as ever.

Come to think of it Harry Osborn does share similarities with both Kagami and Adrien, he's friend with the main superhero character behind the mask, he suffered from an abusive parent, and he's the child of a supervillain who is one of the biggest Nemesis of the superhero protagonist.