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Originally Posted by Shikijin
That's not true, in many cases the straight man is Araragi. Even Tsukihi said that the straight man was mainly his thing. It depends on who the other character is, though. I think Hanekawa and Tsukihi are almost never the funny man.
You could say Hanekawa gets multiple impulses from the events. For example, Hanekawa had to bury the cat, yet she would have rather not. In a way, she is authentic because she still obeys one of her impulses; in another way, she is not authentic because she doesn't obey to certain impulses. Some could consider this as lying, though it is something different.
Hanekawa does have genuine emotions. For example, she was distressed at Araragi saving another girl (Senjougahara) beside her. Simply, the way she expressed was very indirect: she told Araragi her girlfriend wouldn't have liked him to get close to another girl.
The problem of Hanekawa, more than her emotions, lies in the fact she is gifted and her thoughts are much more complicated than an average person.
It didn't count as his first love because he chose expressely not to consider it love.
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It's a given that Hanekawa has emotions, otherwise she would be incapable of liking Araragi.
The problem is that she cannot express certain emotions as directly as Senjougahara can. I'm sure you have read Neko White, so you already know the complaints raised against her personality. Whether it's a force of habit or her own rational decision or the Kaii influencing her, her ability to suppress any "negative" emotion is too strong.
It's like a soldier seeing a close comrade dying in front of him during wartime. The soldier has to set aside crying and mourning for his fallen comrade until after the battle is over. If the surviving soldier was Hanekawa, she would go beyond that and never cry for the fallen comrade even after wartime is over because of the belief that she must "be strong".
Going back to the cat burial, the "normal" impulse that would say "it's too troublesome" and make people hesitate to bury the cat is not something I think affects Hanekawa. It's not so much that she doesn't have it as it's that she unconsciously says "feeling this way is not an option." She rules out feeling that way, therefore on the surface she can bury the cat with no evidence of hesitation.