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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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Meridiana on Tsukiyama

...Okay, Meridiana is kind of...in a really awkward sort of position with Tsukiyama right now, because her outlook on him is basically that sense of "we would never be friends (or possibly even associate with each other) were it not for this one thing that is kind of uniting us, but wouldn't you know it, that one thing exists, so...here we are."

Outwardly, he pretty much fits the profile of a decent gentleman: he dresses well in her estimation*, he addresses her properly, he generally treats her with respect and consideration, and so in a manner of speaking she's really got no foundation upon which to dislike him. At the same time, between the RULES OF NATURE thing and his personal struggles with facial expression and the fact that he didn't demonstrate a whole lot of empathy when she broke down crying in front of him, there's all these little twinges of something being off that she can't quite place, and it nags at her. I hate to pull the "she just gets a bad vibe" card, because it's not that, but it's more that she's subconsciously registering that something ain't right there, without being able to concretely say "it's this thing" or "it's that thing", so she's kind of penned in and forced to let it pass.

One of the semi-relevant things I feel like I need to point out about Meridiana here is that there's one point in canon where she makes an emotional appeal to Jezebel and tries to use the rationale of "but you love me, so...", which as you might expect hideously backfires on her. So I think some of that colors her experiences with Tsukiyama, too — if only in that she's been burned by equating courtesy and caretaking with affection and emotional attachment before, so as mentioned above there's this overall sense that Something Ain't Quite Right, but because she doesn't know what's not right, she can't really do anything about it.

That said, what she's been doing a lot of lately is flagrant escapism — she doesn't want to think about the life she left behind because it'll just make her break down and cry in a situation where she really doesn't have the structure or safety net to allow that, so instead she's kind of immersing herself in a very frivolous array of needs and concerns, like needing a gentleman to travel with because it's proper, and visiting entertainments because it's fun and that's What You Do, and at least some of the reason why she's still sticking with Tsukiyama is because she acknowledges that she doesn't really have any viable alternative option, so this one just sort of does for the time being?

...I realize this comes off as sounding kind of horrible but I think it kind of goes without saying that they're not really...friends so much, they're just kind of convenient for each other and pleasant enough to be around, and as you said, so long as we're keeping it on that surface level of courtesy and not peeling back the veneer to look at all the RULES OF NATURE underneath it all, it works out. She's kind of his pet curiosity and his presence in her life gives her a structure of how she fits in with this strange world she's been thrown into, and she's honestly very unlikely to say a bad word against him — on the contrary, she'd vouch for his reputation if anyone asked — but having been someone's doll before (rather literally, unfortunately), I think she can tell that things are fairly hands-off on his end and because of that she's sort of careful in terms of her expectations of him and how she handles their relationship.



* Look sometimes I read things about how Victorians felt about color in wardrobes and I got to this one article where it was like VICTORIAN MEN LOVED COLOR, TOO, THEY'D WEAR ORANGE AND GREEN AND CARMINE AND ALL SORTS OF SHIT (though probably not all at the same time) SO THEY WERE NO STRANGERS TO COLOR and I am just like .........god, you know what, okay then.