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Character Relationships Meme

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Part of the problem Ishimaru has always had with deciding how he feels about Leon is that he didn't have much time in the school to get to know him, due to Leon coming down with a nasty case of death in Case 1, and what he did work out, he most definitely didn't like. Talking to him has always been sort of awkward as a result, but in a lot of ways he's been really determined to talk to him because of what happened; he's come to feel really guilty about how that entire thing was handled, particularly in Leon's case - while he obviously wasn't okay with the execution and still has lots of nightmares about it, he was perfectly fine with voting for him at the time because he was firmly of the line of thinking that Leon deserved to die for what he did. It was just how things were; Leon disturbed their reasonably peaceful communal life by murdering someone and so according to the rules he deserved to die. So he didn't really feel any remorse for it at the time, and was fully of the opinion that Leon didn't deserve to be forgiven for what he'd done; he got some distance from it upon coming to Johto, though, and he eventually came to realize that that was actually really, really sick, and so he's been really determined to at least get along with Leon halfway well.

Guilt issues aside, though, he's...actually found Leon to be surprisingly decent? Like, really, really surprisingly decent. He's found the advice he's given him - while abrasive as hell and not always something Ishimaru wants to hear - to be some of the more useful advice he's gotten in terms of conversation and how to talk to people; he finds Leon to be rather abrasive but at the same time he's blunt as hell, and he gets the impression that Leon wouldn't fuck him around. He says exactly what's on his mind, whether the other person really wants to hear it or not, and that's something that Ishimaru kind of needs conversationally. He's also more extroverted than most of the people from Hope's Peak and Ishimaru has gotten to a point where he can kind of respect that, because it takes a certain sort of skill to be able to do that sort of thing (at least as far as he's concerned); everyone from Hope's Peak is really maladjusted in several ways, but Leon's maladjusted in ways that still allow him to talk to people without having to jump through a million conversational hoops. Basically, he finds the guy to be surprisingly genuine - it makes Leon kind of an ass...well, a lot of the time, but at least he's honest, and Ishimaru likes that he doesn't have to guess at what Leon's trying to say a lot of the time.

...Granted, he still has a really superficial reading of Leon right now because that's just sort of how Ishimaru tends to roll, but he's had conversations with a couple of people that have sort of made him have the realization that "oh, right, Leon...has feelings, apparently." HE'S STILL REALLY BAD AT THIS AND WORKING ON THE "PEOPLE HAVE FEELINGS" THING, but at least he is kind of comprehending that Leon has them at this point; he's...also becoming awkwardly aware that someone needs to tell Leon about Ishida because he doesn't think Leon knows and he knows that Ishida likes to show up during those weird three-day blackout periods, so um.

tl;dr HOLY SHIT KUWATA-KUN YOU'RE A PERSON WHO KNEW