>>40600477>It's pretty clear her "love" is just admiration at this point. I mean yeah obviously, did anyone ever really believe otherwise? That she seriously "love" loves Pekora like an actual parasocial gachikoi schizo who thinks she's his imaginary wife, builds shrines and spends thousands of dollars on her? Realistically, she really just "loved" her in the general meaning of "enjoy watching her" (like you would say you "love" a certain tv show or something), or that she finds her inspiring, a role model to emulate, someone to style her streaming character after, etc.
But unfortunately, among other owngoal decisions she made in her debut phase, she decided that it would be a great idea to come right out of the gate with giving herself the character trait of playing an overexcited fangirl, loudly exclaiming her love for Pekora every chance she got (really, in the first few weeks after debut, you could really make a drinking game out of every time she mentioned omg Pekora senpai). She has noticeably calmed down since thankfully, whether due to getting used to being in the same company as Peko, never meet your heroes syndrome, finding other people she actually gets along with, or just realizing this shtick of hers wasn't working out as she intended. It didn't bring her as close to Pekora as she probably initially thought (notice how instead someone like Moona managed to do that, by being a quiet autist, not an overbearing fangirl), and if she thought it would endear more fans to her (because they'll see I'm such a big fan like them, and relate to me!), the fumbled execution probably drove more people away than it netted her. And it's never a good idea, especially in your debut phase when opinions still form, to let your character be defined in relation to someone else, so you don't develop on your own and are just seen as "oh yeah, she's the girl that, uh, likes Pekora, I guess?" (see also, the problem with the debut Takamori act, where Kiara pidgeonholed herself as only "Callie's wife")
