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[preybeforemeals]

Character Relationships Meme!



1. Leave a comment listing who you play.

2. Reply to one another, asking for details on CR/what their characters think of yours!

3. tl;dr at will!

Holy crap, it's so easy a Weedle can do it. It's not Magikarp-tier simplicity, but that's just because nothing is Magikarp-tier simplicity.

Have at and enjoy!

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[occultigen]

With all this social function in the water, I think it's a swell time for:

Ishimaru on Kirigiri

Tsukiyama on Meridiana

And optionally, your choice of one of yours on one of mine, if there's something interesting or novel worthy of note!

[preybeforemeals]

Ishimaru → Kirigiri
You know, he is actually starting to hate her face a lot less. :|a

He definitely acknowledges that they're probably not going to get along very well on a regular basis - they're never going to be friends - but he's actually pretty okay with that? Some people are friends, some people are coworkers or acquaintances, some people are one of a set of 14 who were victims of a highly traumatizing set of circumstances so they're going to have to deal with each other from now on because it's not right to not deal with each other, it's just how things go. He's not going to ever seek her out for casual (..."casual", because this is still Ishimaru we're dealing with) conversation the way he does with, say, Naegi, but at the same time he can acknowledge that she's useful for some things and...not-so-useful for others, and it's more a matter of delegating tasks in a way she sort of likes as opposed to trying to smack her in the face with it like he usually does. He sort of accepts that she'll do her own thing anyway, and at this point he'll only step in if she's doing something horrendously stupid (LIKE THE FUCKING SHEDINJA THING, DON'T DO ANYTHING ON PAR WITH THE FUCKING SHEDINJA THING EVER AGAIN, ARE YOU TRYING TO GIVE HIM A HEART ATTACK OR).

Otherwise, though, he's...trying to be better toward her; part of this is due to her being Naegi's Girlfriend (YES, HE KNOWS...) but a large part of it is finally locating half a sense of empathy - it's not that he never had one, but at the same time he's so poorly-socialized that it wasn't exactly...functioning properly. Something that actually kind of kickstarted it in her direction was her fuckup with Fujisaki, and that time he called to try to make her feel a bit better about it; that's...honestly because that's one of the few things she's done that he could understand completely. I told Chi above that Ishimaru spent a large amount of Fujisaki's last stay here accidentally making the poor kid drown in tears, so he completely understood the whole "I did not realize this would get that reaction and now Fujisaki's a mess so I'm going to retreat and let Naegi handle it" thing because that is exactly what he did for weeks. He has an easier time relating to people if he has a direct comparison, as...horribly stunted as that is, and so he felt the need to try to make her feel better about it through some bizarre sense of I HAVE BEEN THERE AND oh god it sucks please don't be upset over it it will be okay.

But with being nice to her comes a bit more of an understanding, I think, of how she works; at the very least he's figured out that there is a difference in coding between "Kirigiri-hime is being obstinate today" and "...wow, okay, I guess Kirigiri-kun doesn't know what to do either", it just takes him a while to work out which is happening in certain responses. But as long as he takes his time with it he can...often work it out? Not always, and not even most of the time, but a decent amount of the time, and that's helping with the lessened hating of her face. That and she's actually acting more like a human being toward him over the last several months - getting him on the DDR machine, teasing him about confessing to her on her birthday, stuff like that. It makes her register higher on the Person With Feelings scale with him, as opposed to...I don't even know. The Plot Dispenser I Tend To Otherwise Forget About.

...He also totally would have switched honorifics if she'd asked him to because quite frankly they're not kids anymore, and his particular speech quirk comes from holding a position of superiority over the other students that he...is kind of acknowledging he doesn't have anymore? It's a work in progress, anyway.


Tsukiyama → Meridiana
Okay, I'm going to throw a disclaimer out here that any negativity that happens is entirely on Tsukiyama's end, because Tsukiyama is actually a terrible person despite what she wants to think - Meridiana isn't doing anything wrong, outside of maybe choosing to travel with something that only looks human but is honestly closer in mindset to being some sort of animal.

NOW THAT THAT'S OUT OF THE WAY oh boy.

So they started traveling together entirely because she was the best candidate for dinner that he'd seen all damn day. That was definitely a thing he did, and he was more than slightly annoyed to realize once he'd evaluated her (which he did when they were alone, and he didn't call attention to it or anything but again that definitely was a thing he did) that she wasn't going to be suitable food-wise and so the effect was kind of "...great, so I'm stuck in the woods for several days with something I can't even eat" and basically he was being completely charming like that internally while having to...actually be charming outwardly. Which is something he's decent at doing, so at least there's that, but at the same time there were more than a few cracks showing - the willingness to push her buttons with all the rules of nature talk and asking her bluntly about people who were trying to kill her, things like that, that's...generally a sign that he's agitated, and he spent a while agitated with her for no rreal reason other than anal devastation at his own initial analysis failure and generally being hungry and the entire new-world situation making him testy as hell.

Once that chilled out a little bit, however, he...actually likes her all right? She's good company, even if she's a bit too delicate for his liking; he can tell she's trying, and it's kind of cute, and she's kind of cute, and he's not opposed to cute at all. So he's actually pretty fond of her, whether he started out that way or not. He does still talk shit about her behind her back from time to time, but it's not over anything that she's doing wrong - he's not used to being around someone who's as sentimental as she is and quite frankly he finds that a little disgusting, but that's an issue with him and he can deal with it tbh. He's really bad with feelings outside of short obsessive periods that he has toward people or goals; otherwise, he isn't really good at knowing what to do with feelings given that he deliberately deadened his own years ago. He's...really messed up, and she has a damn near uncanny tendency to stumble into questions and topics that manage to highlight exactly how he's messed up, and a lot of the time he just doesn't want to deal with that so he goes off and vents at his stupid castmate over the 'Gear about how he's dealing with this absolutely repulsive woman who won't shut up about human sentimentality and it's stupid and disgusting and I'm sorry what, I'm the only one allowed to talk shit about her so don't you dare talk shit about her, she's nice.

...it's really, really dumb.

But basically he does like her, she just...makes him think about stuff he'd be more comfortable not thinking about. She's good company, though, and honestly the fact that he hasn't abandoned her yet despite the entire Cherrygrove clusterfuck says a lot about how much he does like her. It's probably closest to how he feels about Hinami-chan back in Tokyo; he'd abandon her if he had to, but he enjoys her company and thinks she's nice, and as such he won't make any sort of move against her unless he has to.



...IF I THINK OF ANYTHING ELSE I'LL GIVE YOU ANOTHER COMMENT.