Character Relationships Meme

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The Character Relationships Meme!

Because I noticed we haven't had one of these in quite a while. This meme is pretty simple! Just:

1. Post your character(s).

2. Comment to other characters asking what they think of yours right now, and answer anyone who comments to your thread.

3. Lovely CR descriptions for all!

Comments

Yagyuu on Coop

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Okay, well, the thing to remember with Yagyuu and Coop is that they first really met under some pretty dire circumstances, and so I think that really made a difference in the sort of first impression that Yagyuu took away from that. He'd normally defer to adults anyway, or at least would seem to do so on the surface, but with Coop I think it actually runs past that sort of instinctive deference into an actual level of respect for the guy.

I tend to think of Yagyuu as the member of Rikkai that you go to when something needs to get done, and you need the guy to do it. Some people inspire, some keep order, some provide an informational edge, some bring the psychological pressure, some look after the future...the whole team's got its roles to fill, and Yagyuu's tends to be "the one who you can count on to get the job done when it needs to be done". One of his teammates comments that in some ways he's their fiercest warrior, with the implication that his focus is on the end result — winning — regardless of how it takes to get there.

So I think Yagyuu respects Coop a lot not only because he's impressed by the whole FBI agent thing (he's a dork for detective stories, and knowing an American FBI agent on a personal level is pretty cool, in his opinion), but because he saw how Coop handled himself on the train and from his very first impression took away that Coop is a capable, levelheaded kind of guy — and more importantly, a guy who didn't hesitate or question a fifteen-year-old kid who stepped up to help, but treated him like an asset on equal footing and worked with him to get the job done.

It's also probably worth noting that Yagyuu has never bred his starter except for the egg he gave to Coop, and has a policy of basically never breeding his main go-to roster except for Really Significant Reasons. So that in itself is something of a show of confidence and approval, that he went out of his way to give Coop an egg from Phantom in recognition of the train thing.

All in all, Coop's pretty okay in his book. Yagyuu's not really one to rank people on a "friend" radar except in really unique instances, but it's pretty safe to say that Coop ranks above "acquaintance of interest" and reasonably into "yeah, I'm okay with this guy".