Kokomi Teruhashi (照橋心美, てるはし ここみ lit. Teruhashi Kokomi) is one of the main characters of Saiki Kusuo no Psi-nan. She is a Class 3 student, considered by men and women around the world to be extremely beautiful, who often stop and stare upon seeing her.
Definition:
Kokomi is a girl who has exceptionally good looks which she admits herself, correcting that she isn't being overconfident about it but simply telling the truth. She has a lean body with long, flowing dark blue hair that reaches just past her shoulder, blue eyes and she is almost always surrounded by a golden aura. She is mostly seen with her hair untied and occasionally wears dresses and skirts whenever she goes out of town. In school, she wears the PK uniform that a standard female student wears, a long-sleeved shirt with a ribbon on her chest, and she wears a short green skirt with tight black stockings on her long legs. Compared to the rest of the girls at school, Teruhashi's stockings are smaller, so the majority of her thighs and legs are revealed.
When Kokomi was first introduced, she proclaims herself as beautiful and nice, the epitome of a perfect, pretty girl. Even though her appearance is attractive, her politeness is a charade.
In truth, she is very conceited and a gold digger. She is a smooth talker, making her able to manipulate and persuade nearly everyone with her beauty and easily gets away from others with just simple excuses. As the most popular girl in school, she is highly sociable.
Being flirted with and getting extreme reactions is normal for her, therefore when was not startled or star struck by her beauty she was puzzled as to why. With this reasoning, along with her stubbornness and pride, she started to pursue after Kusuo until she fully falls for him.
She is highly competitive in several aspects, such as beauty, sports and academics. An example being when she ordered two ramen for her and and, despite the two being hailed as beauty queens, Kokomi was considered above her since she was given a extra-large bowl while Imu was given a normal bowl of ramen. Despite her competitiveness, she is very careful to not harm others' feelings and livelihoods.
She usually hides her true emotions around others with a smile, such as anger and disappointment, to keep her perfect facade. However, sometimes her emotions do come out due to shock and/or embarrassment but is able to go back to her facade. An example being when someone believed Kokomi's crush was , she is angered and surprised, but then quickly changes the subject of it.
Over the series, she has slowly changed. Her greediness mellowed out, such as she turned down an offer from of marrying into wealth. She makes genuine friends, accepts Kusuo's looks and personality unconditionally, slowly resolves to not having to be perfect in front of him and decides on wanting to go and talk to him over several guys that wanted her attention.
Near the end of the series, Kusuo had a great awareness and respect for her effort, even though he still avoids her. She put in extra effort to memorize the names of everyone in the school and their individual quirks to keep up her reputation, having a pretty good insight and adaptability. She exerted herself too much in trying to memorize everybody's lives that she collapsed in front of everyone.
Kokomi was born on August 6th. She was highly cute, enough to make her own doctor blush just by looking at her. Word got out about her, and a huge crowd of people went to go look at her through the nursery window. She meets her older brother, , and he too gets too infatuated with her.
Time goes on, she grows up, enrolls into and ends up in the same class as . Kusuo introduces her to the reader during his monologue about him not understanding the concept of love. He says she is the most popular girl but has no interest in her, due to her thoughts of the other classmates being poor brats and unable to see her beauty.
On August 6th, her birthday, she is walking around aimlessly. Several men approach her and she nicely rejects their flirting advances, a normal for her. She notices Kusuo across the street, recognizing him from her class. She admits that she nearly forgot about him due to him being very quiet in school. She goes on to incorrectly remembering his first name, believing it is Kunio. Feeling sorry, believing he is having a dull summer vacation, she decides to go and talk to him. She greets him, he only politely bows and leaves. Dumbfounded by Kusuo's brief and unfazed reaction, she starts on trying to get his attention, believing he is thinking about her being an illusion. However, no matter what she tried, Kusuo continued to ignore her. When Kusuo suddenly disappeared in front of her, she thought that Kusuo might be an illusion. Remembering her own words from before, she concluded that she was the one hallucinating about Kusuo and believed that she had fallen in love with him.
Since that day, Kokomi always finds it irritating that Kusuo blatantly ignores her and has sworn to herself that she will end up making him say "offu" to her.
Absolute Beauty: Kokomi has an uncomparable and unmatched beauty. Most men consider her a "goddess", with the exception of Kusuo and Kusuke, who are aware of Kokomi's true nature. Her beauty is so great that even girls, adults and old people has found her gorgeous. Kokomi often uses this as a way to get what she wants, almost always gaining anyone's attention making sure they do whatever she asks them to do.
