[Tenchi Hou Take]

Originally Posted by Sol Falling

She did tell Kumagawa that his words could make her fall in love with him, but yeah, in general I don't think there's anyone that Kikaijima seriously likes. Kikaijima's fighting for something she herself believes in, and the core of why she's even in the Student Council at all. I think that that is what the recent reappearances of Kikaijima's original serious mode mean.

Kikaijima joined the Student Council for two reasons: 1. Medaka was paying her, and 2. her two "older brothers" told her to go and make friends. The origin of this "blushing Kikaijima" was in that decision to make friends.

"Friendship", as Kikaijima understands it, can be seen in the objective as Medaka presented at the end of the first orienteering game. Kikaijima at that time was highlighted as a sort of "mascot" for that story. The outright frustration/blame Kikaijima addressed to Zenkichi in this chapter arose from how Zenkichi, and then Medaka, proved to be obstacles to that ideal.

The ideal of friendship which Medaka presented was comrades working together towards a goal. One particularly noticeable aspect was the subsumption of competition amongst the participants, despite the event supposedly being a competitive game. The specific moral which emerged from that interaction was that "it does not matter whichever one wins", and that "the journey itself is the prize". This is the issue Mogana has with Zenkichi's conflict with Medaka, which is specifically predicated on the question of "who is right", "who is the main character", "who will win". (As an aside, as the other major recipients of the moral of that activity, it is obvious why the 5 trainee candidates are also on Kikaijima's side.)

There are two simple roots to Kikaijima's position at this point in the story: one, that Zenkichi wants to chase after a different dream/goal than the rest of them; and two, that Medaka is too willing to make enemies/to stand alone. Nothing mysterious or unreasonable about her motivations at all.

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.