#saving -insert name here- is always more important to her; even if it 💃💃 kinda puts the world at risk ngl SVFNSBFH

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:chinhands: i think what really separates hakuno from a traditional hero is that their love is directed towards all (like the world or the broad concept of "everyone") while hakuno's is a devoted love for an individual, it's more specific to the people in her life. this doesn't mean that hakuno doesn't care for others or that she's a bad person!! she truly is very good-natured and kindhearted person, just with a different set of values. she is an "outsider" that doesn't belong, a nobody in the world who has nothing. so it's only natural for her to latch on and prioritize any small connections she's made with a person over the grander scheme of things in the world. she herself says that she can't fight for a grand reason like the moon or the world, because her motivations has always been the people she treasured in front of her. the world is beautiful, she thinks it wonderful, but she's disconnected from it in a way, and any deeper feelings for it usually come by extension of a person. as in: this is the world x lives in / this is the world x wants to protect. it's always a specific person on the forefront of her mind and while she has a naturally kind personality that makes her care for others as well, that specific person definitely takes priority over anything else. it's not a bad thing per se, but damn does hakuno villainizes herself for it and outright calls herself selfish and evil for it when it's ?? not exactly the case.

tho i will say that it's Interesting(TM) because hakuno's selfless in the way that she devotes herself to a specific person to the point where it can arguably be considered selfish.... but that's a whole nother loaded topic! for this post, this is just why i headcanon her to like, or at least have some extent of admiration for, those that naturally fit into the concept of "heroes" and "allies of justice"; not going to want to be like them or put them on a pedestal, but she does have a special respect for them i'd imagine. to be more specific, that brand of heroes that value unity, fighting as a group against a common evil to protect the world; something she can't see in herself as someone who's only ever been fighting alone for her own sake and survival. it hurts just a little because the traits she find admirable in another person (e.g. kindness, self-sacrifice) are all traits she's fully capable of and have displayed time and time again, but she just can't see it in herself because her view of herself is soooo.... facking bad -vague hand gestures- :,)