It seems there have been several other cases of this, none of which have been solved. I booted into the Kali specifically made by offensive security for the rasberry pi. Everything installed fine and I realized the USB devices didn't work when I needed to type my password in. After trying a few different things, I finally just put Rasbian on my pi and the keyboard and mouse work just fine... so it is very clear that it is a Kali problem, not a rasberry pi problem, and not a keyboard and mouse problem (like all the other discussions I've seen say).
One thing I didn't try is booting it with ethernet, or just trying to put the normal Kali on it, but that's all I can think of. I am somewhat of a noob to this, so at first I just assumed I was doing something stupid, but it all works just fine with Rasbian so this feels like more of a bug report but either way, I appreciate any help, thanks.
