On, Toko Fukawa
cw paid dating, sexual assault m, pedophilia m
Toko Fukawa is abused from birth by her two sort've moms and her largely absent father, developing DID and alters to cope with it. in elementary school she dates two boys who go out of their way to hurt her feelings and syo, in defense of the core personality, kills them. this is canon thusfar.
but genocider syo's MO isn't just young men . . . it's also men as old as their thirties, ¿but why would toko be in danger of older men, and why wasn't she caught? well, if we consider her abusive past and general lust for romance, i dont doubt that an older man with money would engage in paid dating with her whilst syo, a strange twisted reflection of her feelings, would seek to protect her from what is most certainly a harmful relationship even if sex wasn't involved.
but toko doesn't get that it's bad so syo can't either, they both think it's love but in reality syo is a defense mechanism toko uses to protect herself -- ¿so what's up with byakuya?
he doesn't want to date her but he's the exact kind of rich, mature guy she would usually "fall in love" with and kill yet he rebuffs her at every turn and even abuses her trust in ch2 by revealing her secret. in this case i think syo acted first, in a way -- recognizing him as a danger but because their twisted psyche fails to recognize that defense mechanism as anything but love.
now any tokomaru fic would tell you that she's over byakuya cause she knows what real love is, but i think a somewhat more interesting and overlooked potential route for character interaction is toko and kotoko.
kotoko is abused as a child, adored for her youth and garnering success and money because of this. much like toko, she's taken back control of her sexuality via unhealthy hypersexuality and, much like her, doesn't really understand what love is -- tho this can also be equated to her age.
so even beyond 'interrogating her for byakuya's location' i think part of why genocider syo saves kotoko from being assaulted by the monobots is because she subconsciously empathizes with her. while i understand why people often have komaru be the Healer to toko's issues with byakua, i think her Average Girl stuff can only help toko with toko things. i think if anyone understands the rage and confusion of syo is kotoko and i think if they're going to heal (toko, syo, and kotoko) they'll do so together.