>>71666712honestly, I feel shit like that puts things into perspective
initially everyone assumed she just latched to Coco as a simple excuse, since she was an English speaking talent, and the fact she was so stiff during the meme review didn't help
but then the hot mic happened, then Mori invited her to collab on her channel despite the ongoing chinkout, she drew an art of her before graduation and despite other ENs claiming she was oshi or important to them in some way, she was the only one to keep in touch
Mori seems to also do a lot of stuff Coco was known to do, like the talent-first approach and always trying to make everyone feel welcome/supported, just recently despite rehearsals and huge meetings hanging over her she made time for Kiara's delayed valentines stream, the offcollab and still helped Bae put furniture together - all that is making me think it was really earnest admiration to what Coco represented in Holo