Recap / How I Met Your Mother (And How I Met Your Father) Love Arc Chapter Thirty-Six: Makoto and Kyoko Break Up?!

Love Arc Chapter Thirty-Six: Makoto and Kyoko Break Up?!

Original Release: September 2, 2020 (Fanfiction.net), September 3, 2020 (AO3)

Summary

After being forced off her investigation by her Father, Kyoko goes to Makoto to vent, but yells at him after her anger gets out of control and says something she doesn't mean. Crying and thinking she wants to break up with him, Makoto runs back to his room and shuts himself inside. Will the now broken couple be able to patch things up?

Tropes

• Call-Back: The Photo Memento that Makoto, Kyoko, and the Naegis took during Christmas vacation gets briefly mentioned.
• Innocently Insensitive: While trying to cheer Makoto up from his breakup with Kyoko, Mondo and Leon try telling him to move on and try dating again. Sayaka proceeds to Dope Slap both of them and tell them that their advice isn't helping.
• Misdirected Outburst: After her argument with Jin, Kyoko vents out her frustrations to Makoto, who's trying to see Jin's reasoning for pulling her off the case. This causes her to, in the heat of the moment, blame her and Makoto's relationship for distracting her from solving the case.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Kyoko has this moment after she accidentally blames her and Makoto's relationship for her not solving the case and causing him to run out of her room in tears.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: When Jin pulls Kyoko off of her investigation of the Steering Committee for her safety, Kyoko angrily calls him a coward who doesn't believe in her and that she wished that Makoto's parents were her actual parents before storming out of his office.
  Kyoko: …Stop it… Just stop it…don’t call me your baby girl…you have no right to call me that when you walk out on me…both in the past…and right now. You know, I was starting to entertain the notion of mending the bridges between us, to start being a family again…but you haven’t been a Father to me…just a big coward. Instead of trying to encourage me and my talent like…like Makoto’s Father would…you’re just trying to keep me locked up, unable to use my abilities…I WISH THE NAEGIS WERE MY PARENTS INSTEAD OF YOU!
  Jin: Kyoko…wait…
  Kyoko: I HATE YOU!