Kokoro

Kokoro is Mitsuru's partner. Both are piloted by Franxx Genista.

## Appearance

Kokoro is said to be an attractive fair-skinned girl with wavy, ash-blonde, thigh-length hair, with long bangs framing her forehead on both sides, and a lacy blue headband to keep her hair from falling over her face, while she has chest-length locks of hair. , hanging from both sides, and calm, rich blue eyes.

While piloting her Franxx Genista, she wears a white bodysuit with light green accents and wears her hair in a braided ponytail.

## Personality

Kokoro is a very kind girl who has a gentle and optimistic personality to match, and is interested in plants, and she is very good at understanding the "language of flowers". She doesn't speak too often, preferring to think before she speaks, and thinks of others more than herself. Her kindness is welcomed by her more brash companions. During intense scenes, she never intervenes and usually sits and watches. She was depicted as a human going with the flow, as seen when she was unable to express her disapproval when Squad 13 explored the ruins of the city and during the girls versus boys fight. She also had an inability to speak her mind and speak out to avoid conflict due to her dislike of controversy. For this reason, she comes across as timid and sweet, as her intense kindness makes it seem like she lacks the confidence to get into confrontations, even in situations where she might disagree with her comrades. Miku states that Kokoro is so easily influenced by others. Kokoro is not the kind of person who seeks attention and prefers to be treated the same as others. She gets along very well with her comrades and treats them with kindness, which makes her easy to like. Like the other children, she didn't know how to express her feelings of love due to her sheltered upbringing and, as a result, she didn't know how to let Mitsuru know that she was in love with him. Even when he acted cold towards her and others, she never responded with any negative response and had a strong desire to help him with his personal problems, especially after learning that he risked his life to get an injection and become a parasite.

Despite her meekness, Kokoro holds back many feelings, confessing to Mitsuru that she is often dishonest with most of those around her. The incident where she feigned loyalty to Futoshi by breaking her promise to be partners with him forever, becoming Mitsuru's partner instead, made her feel bad. She even admits that she is not as sweet, innocent and nice girl as everyone thinks she is. Even if she wanted to help Mitsuru, she still deliberately hurt Futoshi and argued that it would be right for him to get mad at her. Due to being dishonest with Futoshi, she changes herself a bit, praising Mitsuru for being so Franxx and honest with her about his suffering and lack of trust in others, and offering him words of encouragement to help him with his problems.

Through her interactions with Mitsuru, Kokoro gradually becomes more assertive and begins to speak her mind honestly, which is noticeable when she discusses with the girls why they need to stop feuding with the boys, and later openly asks how they, as humans, were actually born. A notable trait is also that she becomes much bolder, more forthright, and somewhat more impulsive, as seen when after Mitsuru said some very nice words to her, Kokoro just kissed him back, and when he said he would miss Mistiltein , because they began to spend more time together, she tried to have sex with him. After finding a book about pregnancy and childbirth, Kokoro becomes fascinated with it and wonders why people have stopped having children. Knowing that her goal in life is to pilot the Franxx and die in combat, Kokoro develops a desire to have a baby to leave a mark on the future before she dies, and she comes to believe that having a baby represents hope for the future. She also explicitly communicates to Mitsuru her desire to merge her body with his and create a new life. Through this revelation, Kokoro gradually begins to question whether her purpose in life is really only to pilot the Franxx and die for adults who recognize them not as individuals but as tools for warfare, and she expresses skepticism towards the ideals of the pope and adults. She even admits that she sincerely believes they are capable of living a different life from the Franxx and creating their own destiny, an argument that deeply touches her friends and inspires them to find the courage to stand up to adults.

## Story

Like the other parasites, Kokoro was raised in the Garden to become a Pistil. She received the code name of "556," indicating that she did not receive special treatment from the adults. At some point, Hiro gives her the name of "Kokoro”. She is also shown to have been close friends with Miku ever since childhood and the two shared a mutual interest in flowers as Miku made Kokoro a flower crown as a gift.

Several years later, at age 14, upon being discharged from the Garden, she was assigned to Plantation 13 and paired with Futoshi.