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Originally Posted by Renall
They're dreadfully dull characters, but I find Kanon more compelling in terms of personality than the various other folks cooked up by that nutcase (OR WERE THEY?). It's a shame that it turned out absolutely nothing about him mattered in any way and that most of his development turned out to be even less substantial than Shannon's (who, at the very least, has as part of her character background things that may actually have happened to someone).
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I don't know why you are so quick to dismiss everything about the development of "Kanon" only because he might have never existed as a real person on Rokkenjima. The development implied by his character might very well be true, even if the glorified love between him and Jessica (which was only really made clear in EP6) was probably not true.
Kanon shows that his origin, Yasu, was affraid of getting close to people, even though another side of her, Shannon, wanted that contact and searched it. One part of her wanted to give up, wait for the day "when the door to the golden land opens" and leave everything be because they are mere furniture (almost to the point of being affraid of sex). The other side wanted to resist, wanted love and wanted to struggle. First and foremost they are a representation of that conflict. And you could even find points to argue why one side is a quite ungendered, little boy and the other is a quite mature, busty young woman.
Jessica was able to counter the theories by the outside world in EP8 with the fact that her peers saw her with somebody named Kanon at the school festival. So somebody, who cared about Jessica having no boyfriend, was actually there.
Kanon told her in EP2 that he would never be able to enter a mutual relationship with her, he insisted again and again that he cared for her, but that it was not enough.
We also learned that he had high feelings for the other servants, that Genji was like a rolemodel for him.
On the other hand he had all that bottled up hatred for the family members that Shannon surprisingly had nothing of. He hated Rosa for being cruel, Natsuhi for being incompetent, Eva for being a bitch...basically he hated almost all the women in the family (except Kyrie...but she's basically the unknown factor for Yasu as well). He only comes around during EP6 where he admits that he basically still loved the family for always being good to him.
He was needed for Shannon to be that pure angelic creature that we got on the gameboard. Yasu wrote all her feelings of disgust, anger, hatred, incompetence or weakness over herself and others into Kanon and made Shannon that pure vision of innocence. Both are not Yasu, they are just pieces that, when joined, become part of the larger puzzle.
Even their individual deaths in EP1 and 2 comment on how they individually relate to Yasu I think. Because Eva and Hideyoshi became acomplices "Shannon" had to die, because she couldn't confront George like that anymore. Kanon gave up because what feelings for the survivors he has, they are not enough. And this is again mirrored in EP2, where he wants to protect Jessica, but is too weak in the end, but that does not mean that the love towards George is too weak.
And we have to consider that only the first two Episodes show us how Yasu saw himself and how Yasu split himself into those two. And the realisation of the love between him and Jessica is something that was entered into the forgeries by Tôya after he remembered the truth...so I think it's more of a huge red herring and does not count into the actual characterization...it's like Goldsmith is not actually a characterization of Kinzô.