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I don't know what they put in him. I played the game blind and I ADORE him just like three quarters of the player base and ended up putting a photo of his portrait in my wallet like weebs do with their waifus.
I don't really have anything coherent to say...

I love that he seems the moral compass at first but isn't always right, I love that he wants to appear normal and professional while driving a loud-ass motorcarriage and wearing a bright orange revolutionary airman bomber. he desperately wants to look cool. he defends you at the end even if you're a massive fascist because you're good at your job. he's a nerd. he doesn't mind helping Evrart intimidate a guy if it helps the investigation. he's so so kind and patient with you. he clings to the little power the RCM gives him and uses it to threaten a racist guy. he flashes smiles only you can see. he has a complex relationship with his half-seolite side. he cares so much but he's also out of fucks to give. he's resigned to the current reality and can only really believe in the RCM, despite the flaws he does see.
he's mega repressed and full of contradictions and I just... .......... ...........

reminder: he looks like this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! every time someone draws him with with a good hairline and a sharp chin an angel loses their wings </3

most people I've seen draw his apartment do a super neat minimalist tastefully-decorated place. IMHO it's far from the truth. not only because his surname is an homage to Misato Katsuragi (super professional with a disaster apartment), but because he loves cool machines and tabletop games, and he sews. his pockets are full of stuff, I refuse to believe his place isn't also full of nerdy things, cool doodas, and incomplete projects. plus, the RCM pay is low so I bet it's also small which doesn't help.

sometimes I wonder if his years in juvie are what introduced him to tip-top racing and speedfreak music... he was def. traumatized by juvie work, but I also wonder if it was the most fun he had in his life at that point (pinball aside), he was a moralist in his 20s and the only vaguely rebellious cool thig he has ever done seems to be having smoked weed a couple of times... juvie is probably why he learned to dance

why does he like the revolutionary air brigades so much??? the clothes, the ace's high (which still holds revolutionary connotations in Revachol)... cops like "Sunrise Parabellum" but still, it comes from the revolutionaries

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~~if you saw the other version of this: no you didn't lol. I misattributed a quote, I really don't know how I failed so badly~~

he's not a communist (and it fits into him wishing for a better future (which means communism because the main writers are communists I think) but having resigned because it looks impossible.) but he, who's super afraid of people's judjment, walks around dressed like one. I wonder if it would have been explored in the sequel, in whatever the Return is...

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(someone, I forgot who, pointed out that his jacket is the exact opposite color of moralist blue...) (and well he's the Ignus "Warcrimes" Nilsen / "Not Enough War Crimes" Ulixes of the Mazov/Nilsen dualship thing these six seem to have so he should have some thoughts... and some desire for violence like those two. if any of it was intentional for more than a joke)

I've read this tumblr post and, besides agreeing with everything more or less, I wonder if Revachol likes her revolutionaries not because they're communists but out of nationalist pride, linking them more freedom and independence from the Coalition than to Mazov

fun fact: Kim was a popular name in early USSR because it was the acronym of Коммунистический Интернационал Молодежи (Young Communist International).
this is just a fun fact because someone asked and Kurvitz has said they didn't choose this name for this reason but I don't care I'm using the death of the author superpowers on that, I'm putting fingers in my hears lalalalalalala

things we know he carries around because I find it funny. what else dose he have I need to know

Wallet
Keys to his Kineema
Three Handkerchiefs
One daily cigarette*
Small folding knife
One pair of latex gloves*
Black evidence bags
Gun
Notebook with two big pens
Instant colour camera with two glass ampoules

"Take what you need, officer. It's going to be a long case. I'm not *protective* of my tools. Like some men are..." he lies like a liar and then freezes when you ask him for one of his pens to do your job
*maybe more and he just doesn't want to share lol

"I think people should take him like, you know how you have a cat? And sometimes, to make the cat do cute things, you need to put a little water on the cat's head, or something? You need to tease the cat a little bit. So Kim's like that. You can push his buttons quite a lot and he only becomes more lovable."
- Robert Kurvitz

"Honestly, we're surprised people like him so much," says lead writer Robert Kurvitz. "Of course, we always adored him. All these years playing the game, testing it, writing it. We got to spend a lot of time with Kim. And we always felt he's a real person and our friend."
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"I like to think Kim has a Thought Cabinet project called Revolutionary Aerostatic Brigades that he's worked on since he was a teenager," Kurvitz says. "This raises the learning caps for his Reaction Speed and Interfacing."
[...]
Kurvitz stresses that Kim doesn't actually have a character sheet hidden in Disco Elysium's code. Imagining that Lieutenant Kitsuragi has only one natural attribute point in Motorics helps the ZA/UM team to understand the depth of his character beyond what's referenced in the game's dialogue. "We just came up with this stuff for coherency," says Kurvitz. "And because we're nerds."
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Kim's high Volition skill makes him impervious to prying, Kurvitz says, as the detective can find out on occasions being met with Kim's brick-wall resolve. Kim often chastises these whims of the detective's, but will occasionally play along. The Lieutenant finds his new partner funny, says Kurvitz.
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"You're in this awful mess and literally nothing and no one is on your side—except Kim Kitsuragi," says Kurvitz. "It just so happens that he's great. A great detective and a great human being."

- PC Gamer interview