CR post!
YOUR HANDY KEY:
♩: this is good.
♩: this is neutral.
♪: this is for bros.
♫: this is derpy ginger romance.
♬: this is Neku having complicated feelings.
♭: this is Neku hating your punk ass.
CANONMATES
DAISUKENOJO "BEAT" BITO
Beat is Neku's bro and one of his very best friends (not that Neku has many friends in general). They tight, yo. Beat, in all his overzealous glory, ran ahead with Rhyme in an effort to get ahead of Neku (who kind of got the jump on him when Beat was asleep for a month). Someday Neku will catch up. o9
used_beatup♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩ ♪
RAIMU "RHYME" BITO
Beat's baby sister and the token voice of reason in the Shibuya crew. Neku doesn't know her as well as he does his other Shibuya friends (because she was a squirrel for two weeks, um) but he still values her friendship and trusts her to have good judgment. And someone needs to keep Beat in line.
reasoningrhymes♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩ ♪
SHUTO DAN
This kid. This. Kid. Neku remembers him as this little brat who babbled too much about Tin Pin -- which he is! But for some reason, Shooter thinks Neku is one of his Kindred Loser Color Buddies. A thing Neku is not. So now the kid thinks he's been brainwashed by Pokemon, or something. Shooter is just loud all the time. All. The time.
usedslam♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩
IN JOHTO
CHIE SATONAKA
Neku started calling Chie 'Chuckles' after she laughed at him too much for his tastes when they met. They traveled together for a few days before Chie's friends showed up, and have some kind of benevolent mocking friendship. She's pretty easy to get along with, Neku approves. Even if she eats cave moss.
They met up again when Chie crawled out of said cave and have been traveling together since. There really are not many times when they aren't within shouting distance of each other, because Chie tells Neku when he should train and Neku goes along with it just for those excellent moments when he gets to snipe her with some wonderfully placed snark. He also needs to keep her from doing dumb things. And he won't say it out loud ever, but he trusts her. This is a Big Deal if you're Neku.
They're not dating, but he's still whipped.
He also might have had a tiny secret tsuncrush on her before she DISAPPEARED FROM JOHTO. Whether or not he realized/admitted it doesn't change the fact that he misses her like crazy already.
Chie returned not long after Neku's month out of Johto, but he hasn't really talked to her since he got back and figured out she doesn't remember him. He's bummed, but. He wants to think they are eternal bros.
usegalacticpunt♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩ ♬
HAYATO GOKUDERA
Neku met Gokudera on his first day in Johto, over the network. They built up an odd semi-friendship where one of them complains and the other tells them to shut up (and then Gokudera calls Neku an idiot), but they are friends. Just, well, neither of them will expressly say it because they are also kindred tsundere spirits. Neku appreciates Gokudera's tendency to skirt the topic of caring about people and additional tendency to frown a lot and act angry as a defense mechanism because Neku does the exact same thing.
Of course, this is another mutual understanding they'll never talk about. Gokudera has also been informed that Neku spent 3 weeks dead, and sometimes calls him "zombie bastard" and/or threatens to study him in detail, because Neku is clearly a UMA. Neku doesn't approve, but he responds to everything Gokudera says about the Vongola with "stupid mafia magic," so he gets back at him just a little.
Gokudera needs to stop missing Neku by a day so they can actually travel together. Not that Neku wants to, or anything! Jeez!
stupidera♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩ ♪
RISE KUJIKAWA
RISE. Rise is pretty much Neku's (platonic) forever girl, here in Johto. He met her pretty much at random and found out she's one of Chie's friends, and slowly has earned himself one idol grafted to his skinny ginger side. Rise is bubbly and cheerful, but balances it with just the right amount of sighing exasperatedly for Neku to think she's pretty cool. He likes talking to her and has enjoyed the few times they've managed to run into each other in the same town, even if he's not the best at expressing that. Neku really values Rise's friendship and trusts her quite a bit -- someday he will get around to telling her about the UG, probably.
She's also been on his case about his absurd Pokemon-naming habits since they met, when she laughed at poor 2. They argue about Neku's Pokemon-rearing methods pretty often, and most of the time Neku loses. But he's used to it.
Deep down underneath all the tsuntsun, he's glad Rise didn't disappear from Johto while he was home. Sometimes he feels a little awkward interacting with her, because she knows so many people and he...doesn't, but they get along really well anyway.
restardom♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩ ♪
KOSCHEI
Neku thinks Koschei is smug but not intolerably so!! other than a couple moments where he got SNIPED with some kind of smug jab (i.e. making fun of his gingerness, omgsorude). Neku's not really super into the advanced culture thing, but Koschei does seem like - or at least presents himself as - the Token Ambitious Man from a culture of lazy bastards. so his smugness is redeemed a little.
tl;dr Neku has not been run off, Koschei has gained +1 ginger.
hypnotises♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩
KAITO KUROBA
KAITO IS A BRO. Neku thinks he has a good amount of "WHAT THE HELL IS THIS, JOHTO" that a lot of people don't, and so Neku appreciates having someone to rolls his eyes at Pokeymans with. Also that one time Kaito pulled him out of a lake, that was a rank up on the bro scale. They're not bffs (/single tear) but Neku likes their conversations.
bakaitoukid♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩ ♪
ROXAS
Roxas is Neku's chill bro. Where Kaito is sarcastic, Roxas is straightforward and pretty down to earth, another thing Neku appreciates. Neku doesn't know Roxas very well, despite having talked to him a lot, which he'd be interested in changing if he ever actually manages to catch up with anyone. For now, he's pretty content with idle conversations with someone who isn't as excitable as everyone else all the time.
seasalttwilight♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩ ♪
NANAKO DOJIMA
Nanako is adorable (don't ask him to admit it). He may have helped name two of her Pokemon Fluffy and Pink, in the traditional Neku Is Balls At Names fashion. He is also kind of an idiot while talking to her because he has no idea how to talk to kids.
usedjunes♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩
YUKARI TAKEBA
Discussed expensive shoes. Yukari seems pretty alright and down to earth, at least from their, uh, only conversation.
garudyned♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩
YOUICHI HIRUMA
Hiruma is a complete dick. Like that's really about it. At first he was just antagonistic, but then he took all faint glimmers of chance that he was not a complete dick and stomped on them thoroughly, cackling all the while. Neku really doesn't like him! It doesn't help that he's also insensitive (god why the fuck is Neku such a delicate flower) and takes pleasure in being a complete dick. Going out of his way and all.
SO YEAH ENJOY YOUR HATENOTE HIRUMA.
devilbatshit♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩ ♭
NORN
She, uh, has cat features. But she seems nice! Neku braved the snow with her when they both returned to Johto knee-deep in snow. Her company didn't make the horrible freezing conditions easy to ignore, but it helped.
turn2candy♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩
TOM RIDDLE
Dude has a snake.
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DONALD DUCK
Really who talks about dead goats like it's a regular thing that's such a weird figure of speech.
usedthrash♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩
VANITAS
HEY BIRD-PUNCHER
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updated 1/13/11