>>112025302>Do you really think Kino is capable of settling down, or even love?Kino believes she's capable of both, but has a deep-seated anxiety over it. She associates becoming attached to someone or someplace with something bad happening, and part of her justification for the three-day-rule is to avoid developing those attachments. Her identity is wrapped up in being a traveler, and she's deeply in love with nature and exploring it. She finds a sense of peace and fulfillment from the independence of it all.
Kino is capable of doing cold-hearted, even cruel things, but she takes zero joy in it, and sometimes even regrets having to do it. She shows signs of being a deeply empathetic and thoughtful person, and is willing to go far out of her way to help those in need with no expectation of reward. She's grown attached to places to the point of contemplating settling down simply because they were so peaceful and friendly. She's risked her life for people who have simply made her laugh or enjoyed her (horrific) cooking. She's just anxious about all the bad things that can happen by staying in one place or putting so much emotional investment in someone else, since they've always ended up being hurt or destroyed. There's a reason she turned down a medicine that would have actually made her incapable of feeling love for another person.
Kino can settle down and love, and maybe she will. But it takes a certain place, and a certain time, to really crack through her icy outer shell. Beneath it all, Kino really does care and she's worried it might kill her, but has it in her to one day move past that fear.
