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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!

Comments

[ardent]

SO.

Ishimaru is honestly very comfortable with Naegi by now; he finds him reliable and incredibly dependable, which are always good traits to have as far as getting along with Ishimaru is concerned. He doesn't like surprises and he doesn't like trusting people only to find out that his trust was ill-placed, and problems like that aren't very likely to arise from Naegi's direction. Naegi is a very...safe person, I suppose, in that regard; as such, Ishimaru is a bit more okay with talking to him about things that he normally doesn't talk to anyone else about, including Mondo. (It's not that he doesn't trust Mondo as much as it is that he finds him unpredictable a lot of the time, and as such he has a hard time gauging what will get a good reaction and what won't, as such he doesn't tell him as many personal things; he doesn't really have that issue with Naegi. "Predictable" is too mercenary a way of wording it, though; "dependable" is closer to what he wants.) He...sort of dislikes talking about feelings with him, because Naegi is one of those people that seems to have his feelings all worked out and he basically seems to have his shit together in a way that Ishimaru does not, and Ishimaru is still a ridiculously competitive person and he doesn't like having to admit inferiority like that - he's really counterproductive in some ways because he wants to learn from people but attempting to learn from peers just tends to make him all frustrated and competitive, so he's trying to find some sort of balance where he can talk about these things without feeling like an idiot, but. Naegi has actually given him a lot of good advice in those regards as well, and he's feeling a little more confident in social endeavors largely thanks to Naegi's help.

(...he's also probably the reason Ishimaru is making a concerted effort to be nicer to Kirigiri, both because of the whole dating thing and because Naegi has basically managed to talk to him enough that he has some degree of social function.)

His friendship with Naegi is also noteworthy because he's managing to do it without putting him on a pedestal or going through some bizarre honeymoon phase where absolutely nothing he does is wrong; he acknowledges that Naegi isn't perfect and he's...okay with that, or at least as okay as he can be, rather than taking it to some sort of unhealthy extreme in either dismissing any and all of his flaws/claiming they don't exist, or trying to bludgeon change into him with all the subtlety of Justice Hammer #3. (He's strict with regards to things like kendo but that's more because he's not the best teacher out there and doesn't understand how constructive criticism is supposed to work, as opposed to actively trying to verbally beat the flaws out of him.) He tends to have a lot of problems with that sort of thing, but he's somehow managing functional friendship with Naegi even if he's not entirely sure how.

He's probably closest to Naegi than he is the rest of the Dangans, and he really appreciates everything that Naegi's done for him and everyone else. He's discussed it with Kirigiri before, the difference between being grateful that someone specific survived and being grateful that someone survived, period; he's really grateful for Naegi, specifically, even if he's kind of shit at expressing it. He feels like he owes him a lot, definitely, though not in a...bad way, just in an "I ought to find a way to return the favor someday" sort of way.