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Originally Posted by Bonta Kun
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KLGChaos, I don't think Medaka is truly arrogant or confident. She's full of doubts because she honestly believes that's she's a normal person and doesn't believe that her abilities make her better than anybody else, which is a sign of humility. She has no sinister arterial motive. She just believes in using her abilities to help people make the best of themselves, like any other right-thinking person. She doesn't want to control them so much as help them down the right path. The problem is that she's so smart that she's above reasoning with most people on their level, but is humble enough not to realize it. However, she realizes on a level that she can't relate to other people, which is why she needs the other student council members.
Unzen was a foil to Medaka in this regard. He was everything Medaka wasn't: A pessimist who desired to control people because he thought the worst of them, and that his abilities entitled him to boss them around. That's why he didn't understand Medaka and accused her of being disingenuous, their philosophies were so fundamentality different that he didn't know what to make of her, so he projected his own insecurities onto her. It's the same reason Medaka offered him the position of vice president - they didn't understand each other.