i feel like a lot of people overlook the best parts of kris because of years of getting caught in the weeds overthinking metanarrative concepts. which is a shame because you look at them and they're unbelievably characterful if you take everything they can do as something they would do and not, like. originating from some metanarrative ether. they're a chuunibyou teenager with a crisis of identity and a complex sense of morality stuck with one foot out the chrysalis into becoming something new. and no one talks about them like this