>>531270637
>pupils

>>531235436
>>531235658
Unironically though, Death Of The Author (the reader decides what means what) is a powerful weapon.

Every character is just what you can read it as, based on your pre-existing knowledge and intuition.
Some are smitten by Lilly's good looks and her Debussy-esque OST and just assume, on the basis of that, that she's effectively an angel incarnate.
Others, often people who started as members of category 1 rather than jumping straight to here after reading the story, take their time to figure out that, whether intentionally or not, her character isn't exactly what she seems to be at first sight, there's more in the room than what you managed to catch a glimpse of when you visited it.
After all, shadow is created by light, so a lot of light easily amounts to a large shadow.

One could justify her actions in a less Nietzschean and more psychological manner by arguing that being soft-dumped by her parents has led her to believe that there's nothing wrong with getting rid of people if the situations indicates that they can still live without you. As in, she wouldn't have ghosted Hanako and Hisao if that had meant leaving them on a desert island with no food or lifeboats, but she has no qualms doing so when she's going to deprive them of nothing but her company. It just doesn't register as particularly insensitive to her, and in a way that's fully understandable.

Effectively, she's part angel and part devil, and very much a human being all in all, but her humanity comes across only once you sense and figure out her dark side.

>>531227606
Oh

>>531247538
Of course they would be sad and come to his funeral, but 2-3 of them would probably no longer be close to him 12 years after graduation.
There's one or two fanfics with this specific prompt, I believe

>>531233863
Apparently it's not by Socrates and it's considerably more recent