[quote]@ Veradana Maybe Shoko could have stood up for Hotaru on the few occasions where she's seen the latter being bullied? Perhaps Shoko, while the thought was there, never really did enough to do anything beyond stop the immediate instances of bullying that she saw, not knowing the extent of it while also being unsure how to even help more if it was worse than what she saw.

-[@Riegal]
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Yeah, that sounds good!  I think it would also be interesting just to see them play off each other since Shoko seems to have such a forceful personality compared to Hotaru.