I don't get the complaints about Kim. Personally I like her and she's one of my favorite characters in this game. She comes off as someone who is vulnerable, loves her best friend (the MC) in a platonic way, but is also a horny little minx who likes teasing said friend about how hot his sister and mom are. She's bossy because the MC is lazy and would otherwise fail and screw up completely without her busting his ass to keep going. When he almost failed, he was ready to go with it but it was Kim that begged the teacher to let him turn his assignment late.
Her main flaw is that she's a horny lesbian who slept with MC's mom back in the past while MC was off getting a blowjob from his teacher. (Time travel, it gets kinda weird.) Even with that, she still shows a ton of remorse for what happened and apologizes profusely. She screwed up and it hurt her friend. Now, she's trying to make it up to him.
If it wasn't for Kim, this game would be the MC sitting in his room all summer jerking off to thoughts of his teacher.
No offence but I gotta ask what game are you actually playing because I must of played a diffrent one.
I don't dislike Kim I'm not happy with her atm like the MC isn't but I dont dislike her as others do but I think we must be looking at two totaly different Kims here.
The only possible hint at any vulnerablity was when the Fortunteller told her the artifact and quest wasn't for her it was meant for the MC apart from that any insult is like water of a ducks back to her.
Where I agree with you about the minx part and possibly that she love of the MC plus that she is bossy because he is too laid back in life.
But as for the rest of it you have truely lost me there.
First off although he isn't great in school and to her credit she did make him take the photo's so he didn't fail.
But he still failed why becuase the teacher was a stickler for hand in times and because she had the pictures on her and was to wrapped up in her own excitement that she forgot to take the pictures to him in time and he was late because he had to track her down first.
She didn't beg the teacher she fake cried to played the teacher not to fail him but that was only partly to help the MC but I suspect also because it was one of the few times she actually felt guilty for screwing it up for him.
If by a ton of remorse you mean where she tries to shift the blame to anyone but herself and then angrily apologises like someone that believe's they did nothing wrong would do then yeh she was very remorsfull.
Or perhaps you mean the part were she is really really remorsefully that she left her favorite jacket in the past?.
Perhaps you actually mean the remorseful way she sat and sulked in the car because her friend had the nerve to shout at her?.
But like you said she's a horny lesbian so odviously she can't help herself just like every other cheating Boyfriend/Girlfriend, Fiance, Husband/Wife who think I was drunk or I was horny or I was caught in the moment so really I couldn't help myself.
Is in some way a ligitamate excuse.
either way I am starting to think we are playing diffrent versions of the same game.
Again no offence Just saying