Rhino’s Guard: Horikitas role as a leader

Everytime I see someone say or insinuate that horikita is useless as a leader I question if we’re reading different stories, so I decided to just explain what (I believe) to be horikitas role as a leader coming into year 3

To put it simply: Without horikita class D quite literally cannot function because she serves a parallel but opposing role to ichinose.

Both horikita and ichinose created situations where the class rally around her but the difference is the class rallies around ichinose due to their trust in her abilities, (unintentionally) forcing those around her to change to better suit her personality, creating the environment of “toxic positivity” within her class that hindered them for so long.

While with Horikita the class rallies around her because they know that they need each other, horikita (unintentionally) absorbs the traits of those around her, and others (unintentionally) force her to change in order to be their ideal leader, causing her to evolve to the position we see her today where she is trusted among the class not because of her individual ability, but because of her ability to exemplify all of their individual traits and incorporate them into strategies.

While the other classes rely heavily on their leader in a “queen Bee and worker Bee” type relationship, horikitas class is different.

Without class A Horikita is nothing, and without Horikita class A is nothing, it’s a mutually parasitic relationship more Akin to that between an Oxpecker and the hippo than to the Bee Hive relationship other classes have, this is exclusive to horikitas class.