It's not just being distant. It feels like she doesn't want to be around us at all. Maybe how she acts is how Kiyoko appears to everyone who isn't the player, but she seems like she wants nothing to do with me. It makes sense, but it still feels bad and makes me sad.
Maybe its because I am a RP nerd who makes my character randomly stop by to visit Kinu for no reason like some person who actually wants to spend time with her but I never got the impression Kinu disliked my character when I picked the options for 'just chill and hang with your daughter in private'. I just got the impression Kitsune Hime is a huge mommy's girl that is more in Kiyoko's shadow then my character's and really focused on living up the ideal image of a den mother she learned from her. Which causes a bunch of culture clash issues with their confused 'barbarian' sire who sometimes advocates things that would make Kinu break from that image and is why she sees something in similarly determined to live up to an image Nakano. I mean, she probably does feel embarrassed sometimes but not some 24/7 feeling of 'oh Keros here comes dad again how is he going to make me look bad in front of my peers today with his inept social bumbling' kind of thing. Granted thats probably still going to hurt pretty bad for a PC who is probably still dealing with having lost 10 years with her when she puts up any sort of distance at all now that there is a chance to not have magically induced distance there.
Still haven't started an Inari Shoujo to comment, but from what I have heard it sounds like the opposite issue might be in play? She is a huge daddies/other mommies girl and so clashes with Kiyoko more often instead (and Kiyoko had to deal with it for 10 years while we were being an involuntary deadbeat) but does also still insist on things like not letting us bring her the heads of her enemy on a silver platter instead of murdering them herself.




