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>>33873986
>Mion's far from a saint as Meakashi showed
Showed where exactly?
>She too coward and timid
Her extreme maturity and assertiveness when acting as the head is anything but timid, especially when see immediately afterwards that she was faking her coldness and "atoned" by deliberately having the same punishment as her sister. At the same time, when she's not acting as the head, her general submissiveness when being with her friends is just another perfect anime girl trait, you know, the bashful, innocent and stuttering kind that gets teased a lot and becomes a nervous wreck when dealing with things related to her love interest. She has both bases covered, serious when it counts and timid when she doesn't have to.

The one time her submissiveness is actually called out is when Rena says in Tsumihoroboshi she didn't try to help Satoshi, and honestly he had become very cold and aggressive during that time and was rejecting all outside help in the first place, kinda like a certain someone else.
>She hid a body
Sure, in the most arguably justified killing in the whole series, self defense. The audience roots for Rena (at this point that is), so Mion not helping her and ratting her out wouldn't have been very relatable. Basically there's very few times where you don't sympathize with Mion in general.
>I don't think every character has to be of mess of a person
I didn't say that, I said Mion goes too far in the opposite direction. Every character has different problems and different situations they get involved in throughout the course of the arcs, they're not mentally ill from the get go so the only reason Mion didn't "become" like them was because nothing ever happened to her that would warrant her going crazy, until Gou.

I'm not saying that she should go crazy for me to like her more, mind you. One of the non-canon manga that Ryukishi compiled and published alongside others in an anthology book called Kataribanashi has a story called Minaaishi-hen. It's nothing special, pretty mediocre in fact. Very short at 2 chapters of length, Mion doesn't go crazy in it or anything nor does she talk all that much even, she's just slightly more dickish and less submissive than usual in a way that is reminiscent of how she acts in the club games but applied to more serious situations where she'd normally be more timid, and that alone made me like her a lot more.

>>28508497
>>28509026
It's not so much the fact that she referred to herself with watashi so much as she cut herself short when uttering it, THEN clumsily brought up the word ojii san when referring to her uncle which people think might be her attempt at saving face somehow. I agree it's farfetched though.