Kano Kotouri

Kano in Love Letter AU. Illust by Shiyuji.

> “If you have noone to live for, why not live for yourself? Be more selfish, be more greedy, that’s what human does.”
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**Kano Kotōri** (*Kotouri Kano 小東里鹿野*)is a first-year student studying in Love Letter Highschool.

## Appearance

Kano is a young man who’s very slim. He has facial features which often is described as beautiful. Being titled as “The Thorned Beauty”, he is said to be the prettiest guy in school, and even looks more charming than girls. With this, he gained not just popularity in school, and spite from guys.

## Personality

With a beautiful look, he has a personality as cold as ice. He laughs at people who suffer, and does not care about anyone. He doesn’t communicate with others often, and is said to have a habit of constantly swearing.

Kano usually is poker-faced, and speaks in a monotone way, making it almost impossible to define whether he is being genuine, or he is being sarcastic. He barely smiles, and even if he does, it usually ended up looking like a gesugao (sadistic face). If you saw him smiling gently, hurry up and take a photo because its once in a blue moon and won’t stay for long. Its difficult for Kano to be triggered, but once he does, clench your teeth and prepare for a beast. In this state he won’t listen to anyone anymore, he will just straight up attack whoever gets in his way. The only way to stop this is to knock him down.

He is rather vengeful, even if the events happened a long time ago, he will still try to do revenges. His revenges can differ in various types, such as using a funny yet gross way to revenge less serious things, to even killing someone if the grudge he holds is strong enough.

Once you know him well, all these traits are due to his lack of faith in others.

## Backstory

Kano was an orphan. He lived happily in the orphanage. One day, he got kidnapped due to him sneaking out if the orphanage. (He was 12 at this moment) He then was able to escape but cannot find the way back to the orphanage due to the fact that he got carried to a far-away place.

A young man reached out to him. After knowing the situation, the young man decided to lend a helping hand by taking care of him like an older brother. His name is Karu, he decided to do this because Kano resembles his long lost brother.

When Kano started going to middle school, it was quite stressful as people tend to laugh at him and stay away from him. He still don’t mind, as he has someone who cares about him at home. Kano then encountered a beautiful girl, who has a kind aura, he felt like his heart is going to explode, Kano don’t know what this is, but he is starting to have a crush on her.

Always admiring her, Kano couldn’t stand just looking at far anymore, he decided to confess his feelings to the girl. Of course he got rejected, but in a very mean way. The girl insulted him in many ways, calling him names and such. Ok, he still didn’t become very sad even this but,

He got death threats the next day. The girl is a popular kid in school, apparently she told some of her friends about it, and her friends decided to send him death threats, and many disturbing contents.

Even after this, he still stayed pure, remained sane, keep his cool and such.

During second year, he got some friends that seemed nice, and doesn’t mind what Kano is, and such. Things looks like its getting better-

Nah.

He now have a new crush, this time is a guy, a guy who looks genuinely cool and charming. This time he’s scared to confess, so he just told the friend he trusts the most about it. The friend looked like they don’t mind, and is cheering him up and comforting him but, he was harassed, and bullied the next day. It didn’t stop. And one day he thought that something wasn’t right. Why would the others know about this? He then decided to meet up with his friend after school, to discuss about this.

”Hey, about the secret. Y-You told everyone, right?”

”Telling anyone? Why would I?”

”But everyone knew it now. I never told this to anyone other than you. D-did you, tell everyone?”

”Don’t you believe me? I said I didn’t!”

“...Please stop lying. It’s obvious at this point.”

”...”

”Fine. You’re so f\*\*king gross. Liking a guy? Eww!!! Like hell I would be friends with ya, ya pig! I’m doing this, because I strongly dislike you. I mean, we all hate you. It would be better if you just died. Oh, I forgot one last thing, I told your crush about it. He said that you’re gross.”

TBC

## Relationships

### Megurin Tachibana

A classmate of Kano. Referred Megu as a nuisance, but Kano actually treats Megu as an acquaintance. Megu wants to know the truths behind his cold personality. Other than that, Megu thinks Kano as an interesting person.

### Fujiyo Meiyū

“Bullying” target of Kano. Emphatizes with her but not at the same time.

### Kyū Akarui

They met each other in the shopping mall. Although Kano isn’t really into it due to his trust issue, they still get along pretty well, due to the fact that they both does cook, I guess. They sometimes hang out.

## Trivia

* He loves macarons.
* Once he swapped the content of someone’s bento with gross beans. Oh, and also the drawer and the pencil case. Yikes.
* Aside from being called as Kano-chan, Megu calls him as Deer-chan too.
* He has unhuman strength, I mean, you could probably tell from the fact that he is able to slam Megu 10 times a day. Or even more.
* Kano is good at archery. He is known for being able to aim without looking at the target.
* ”I think Kano would actually get along with Edward well, not gonna lie, too bad that he doesn’t like people” - Megu
* He is unsure of how he got his surname. “Surname? Yeah, I’m pretty curious how do I have a surname... I mean, I remember that surname even when I was living in the orphanage.”