Kuudere: Difference between revisions

'''Type 2 -- Once You Get To Know Her''': She will show her dere side to those she cares for—but strangers and those she does not trust or like will see the kuu side. In this case, each new acquaintance has to [[Defrosting Ice Queen|defrost an ice queen persona]] to get to know her—but it's how EVERYONE gets to know her. Her friends all consider her to be caring and in private moments with them you may just catch her laughing. (Although it will still be considered unusual). It's not that she spares them any of the [[Deadpan Snarker|wit]] or doesn't act "kuu-" with them sometimes. Her friends just understand it better than those that aren't close. She might have a [[Broken Bird|painful past]].

 

 

Obviously these variations aren't always used pure, and often are mixed together in different characters. Again using Raven as an example, while she fits the first variation best, she certainly has elements of the other two.

 

 

 

* Sakaki from ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'', natch. So, so very compassionate and cute on the inside, but outside, she looks like a cold, tough [[Huge Schoolgirl]]. She manages to break out of her cold, reticent shell once she finally manages to pet a cat without getting hurt. A [[Shrinking Violet]], but only because she laments never being cute as a child.

** She's something of a different case in that her "kuu" isn't some sort of façade she's putting up to fool everyone, but something she does ''completely by accident''.

* Amu Hinamori, the main character from ''[[Shugo Chara]]'', is known as the "cool and spicy" girl at school because of her unique fashion style and her blunt attitude. However, she actually just wants to be normal and girly, and it's actually because she's shy that she puts on a cool girl act.

** Rima arguably qualifies as well - first impressions: dainty, spoiled, yet cold. She's really actually a [[Cute but Troubled|sweet girl]] and just needed time to warm up to Amu and her friends. Plus, as serious as Rima is, her "would-be self" is a clown, because she wants to make people laugh.

** In [[Fanon]], [[Deadpan Snarker]] Hong Kong is usually rewritten as a kuudere. Makes sense considering the author's notes on him, which reveal him as a serious prankster.

** The same case with Belarus, when she's not with Russia [[Brother-Sister Incest|("Nii-san, let's get MARRIEDMARRIEDMARRIED")]] in fanon she's usually portrayed as this.

** Japan is most likely one too. He [[Perpetual Frowner|shows little emotion on his face]], he remains [[The Stoic|relatively stoic]] [[That Makes Me Feel Angry|even when angry]], and he's pretty much the epitome of [[Inscrutable Oriental]] overall... but he genuinely cares for his friends and tries his best to get along with them even when they confuse or baffle him, and you get the feeling that his excessive politeness and seeming indifference at times are more a product of him not quite knowing how to deal with others with personalities vastly different from his own than him being condescending or disdainful toward them. Not to mention him maintaining close relationships with both America, in spite of his [[Idiot Hero|often patience-testing]] [[Large Ham|personality]], and Greece, with whom he shares a [[Kindhearted Cat Lover|love of cats]].

* Shizuru Kuwabara from ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]''.

** As well as Subaru Kujo.

* Shizuku of ''[[Kämpfer]]'' is a fairly aggressive example - {{spoiler|kissing her love interest as early as episode 5, and taking him on a date in episode 8.}}

* Yue from ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]'' starts as [[The Stoic]], then becomes this. Touya, both towards Sakura and Yukito, is this from the start

* The titular heroine of ''[[Shoulder a Coffin Kuro]]'', oh so very much.