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Originally Posted by Tenchi Hou Take
Basically she wants to keep the status quo, Zen realised he wasn't happy with the Status quo and neither was Medaka. Which makes it a bit weird. Surely they have a right to change the status quo if they want to especially if there's no malicious activities going. Change in itself is not a bad thing.
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It's not about a "status quo". It's about an ideal, which Kikaijima has just as much a right to pursue as Zenkichi or Medaka have to pursue their individual interests. The ideal which Kikaijima's opposition to Zen and Medaka is based on, namely "friendship" or "teamwork", is one in which the members of a team or organization subordinate their individual interests for the sake of a greater victory. Namely, comrades work together with each other towards a common goal, so the issue of who "wins" becomes unimportant, as they share in a common victory.
Talking about a "status quo" doesn't make sense because we didn't even really have this ideal before the Treasure Hunt orientation arc, or more accurately Medaka's need to create successors to the Student Council for the sake of a future-proof counterplan against Ajimu. Actually, prior to that arc where Akune, Zenkichi, and even Kikaijima started developing their own independence, you couldn't really call the Student Council a true team, anyway. Up till now, the Student Council has essentially been an organization based around the ideals of Medaka, with Akune and Zenkichi in particular only tagging along because they were following Medaka, to the point that it was actually outsiders to the organization who most understood/supported Medaka's purposes independently (Hinokage, Naze, or Koga throughout the Minus arc, specifically). So when we talk about Kikaijima's desire for the Student Council to be about "friendship" or comraderie, this is actually a
new ideal or development.
What you guys should think about is how this "friendship"/"teamwork" idea actually stands in direct contrast to Ajimu's concept of the "main character". In Ajimu's conception, there is some special person who wins, and being that person is desirable. Under the "teamwork" idea, multiple people (potentially
everybody, even) win/wins, and it doesn't even matter who does so specifically. The conflict that Zenkichi has brought into the Student Council now is about
him becoming the Main Character, and Medaka is humouring/encouraging his challenges for whatever reasons which are of interest to her. I don't see how any actually logical argument could be made that Kikaijima is "wrong" for wanting the organization to be unified and stay focused on its actual purpose, which is helping people. She is arguably the most correct out of all of them, although it is undeniable that Zenkichi and probably Medaka still
do have individual issues they need to work through eventually.