Kimblee has pretty much gotten to a point where he's entirely okay with Carmen, on the level that he was okay with Envy back home. That's still not quite to Archer levels of okay, but Archer is also a different sort of okay entirely so it's kind of a moot point as far as he's concerned; it's not that he likes him better than her so much as he considers it apples and oranges, basically. (It's likely telling that he's still willing to stick around after breaking up, because she was legitimately hideous to him in several ways while they were dating; he's not denying his share of involvement with that but she crossed so many lines it was ridiculous and in ways that he can't just write off as "not personal" - so bluntly put, the fact that he's even still around says a lot.)
He's not entirely sure what the hell to do with this whole...grab-you-and-drag-you-into-another-region-to-evade-arrest thing; honestly, he's still getting used to having someone who actually cares about him rather than what he's capable of doing around - he's been here for a while, but he's also been dealing with the latter for pretty much his entire adult life, and honestly he usually prefers it that way. Feelings are difficult and inconvenient and often contradict with his logic, and he likes his logic exactly where it is; the fact that she likes to involve feelings in everything kind of throws him off a lot of the time, since most people are just content to shrug and leave him be and assume that's just how he is. Sometimes they don't want to deal with it and they ditch, which he's fine with; other times they stick around but just kind of resign themselves to it - she's doing neither, which is kind of confusing but you know what, it makes for a decent game for him so why not.
He's still fond of her in that way that people would be fond of their possessions, overall, but it's better than the usual "not giving a fuck" that he usually gives people; he's one that has opinions on very few people, but he actually has one on her and that's more than half the battle with him. (It's more like ninety percent of the battle.) I also don't think he's had this many direct conversations in his life - he's not really to Ishimaru levels of Cannot Socialize, but he is not used to just kind of shooting the shit with people, and she has gotten him talking to her on a halfway functional level which is always good.
tl;dr there is a lot of QWOP and IDEK and a lot of other acronyms but she's important to him in a way that no one else is, tbh :|a
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Kimblee has pretty much gotten to a point where he's entirely okay with Carmen, on the level that he was okay with Envy back home. That's still not quite to Archer levels of okay, but Archer is also a different sort of okay entirely so it's kind of a moot point as far as he's concerned; it's not that he likes him better than her so much as he considers it apples and oranges, basically. (It's likely telling that he's still willing to stick around after breaking up, because she was legitimately hideous to him in several ways while they were dating; he's not denying his share of involvement with that but she crossed so many lines it was ridiculous and in ways that he can't just write off as "not personal" - so bluntly put, the fact that he's even still around says a lot.)
He's not entirely sure what the hell to do with this whole...grab-you-and-drag-you-into-another-region-to-evade-arrest thing; honestly, he's still getting used to having someone who actually cares about him rather than what he's capable of doing around - he's been here for a while, but he's also been dealing with the latter for pretty much his entire adult life, and honestly he usually prefers it that way. Feelings are difficult and inconvenient and often contradict with his logic, and he likes his logic exactly where it is; the fact that she likes to involve feelings in everything kind of throws him off a lot of the time, since most people are just content to shrug and leave him be and assume that's just how he is. Sometimes they don't want to deal with it and they ditch, which he's fine with; other times they stick around but just kind of resign themselves to it - she's doing neither, which is kind of confusing but you know what, it makes for a decent game for him so why not.
He's still fond of her in that way that people would be fond of their possessions, overall, but it's better than the usual "not giving a fuck" that he usually gives people; he's one that has opinions on very few people, but he actually has one on her and that's more than half the battle with him. (It's more like ninety percent of the battle.) I also don't think he's had this many direct conversations in his life - he's not really to Ishimaru levels of Cannot Socialize, but he is not used to just kind of shooting the shit with people, and she has gotten him talking to her on a halfway functional level which is always good.
tl;dr there is a lot of QWOP and IDEK and a lot of other acronyms but she's important to him in a way that no one else is, tbh :|a