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

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WOOOOOOOOOO HERE WE GO

Okay, so Carmen actually doesn't have a whole lot on Reese yet, which I think speaks to Reese's tendency to be socially fail something of a stone wall when it comes to interpersonal interaction — which, from what little I've seen of the show, is precisely how he's supposed to be, even if it doesn't necessarily lend itself well to actually getting to know each other.

What she does know (or at least can guess), however, is that Reese is a professional something. For someone like Carmen, who deals with the law-enforcement-y types on a ridiculously regular basis, spotting the signs of an agent is pretty instinctive by now. It's the way he dresses, the way he carries himself, the things he asks, the things he thinks to ask...stuff like that.

Which is a little interesting, I think, because with Carmen in Route there's always this sort of lingering sense of "I know something you don't know" about her, because basically no one recognizes her as the thief she is, and so it's strange to be able to walk up to someone like Reese and just maintain a conversation without someone trying to slap a set of cuffs on her. I also think she can tell he's got a pretty strong personality (even if it's a sort of socially reserved one) and she likes that, in a way, because she's got a pretty overwhelmingly strong one herself. They don't precisely clash, but there's a sort of inherent tension of these two people on equal footing going sort of toe to toe with each other whenever they interact.

And I think that's where Reese tends to be a little different for her than most of the other people she's encountered, because he's not slipping into that rival/friend category the way that Coop does (since she's not prone to be at ease around Reese, even if she is calm around him), but he's also not antagonistic in the way that Sherlock is, and he's not...really trying to be anything to her. He's just sort of there and she's there too and she's still kind of feeling out where to even put him on a relationship level, since he's not the type to give her much with which to gauge how he fits in and where he belongs.

So yeah, I'm finding it really interesting to play off him because I think neither one is particularly aiming to forge any kind of relationship with the other, and yet when they do get together there's this sort of perpetual circling feeling as they mentally size each other up and try to get a read on what that nonexistent relationship should be in the first place. o/