985 comments is close enough -- RELATIONSHIP MEME

[machiavelliyaan]

PREMONITION PREMONITION PREMONITION--

Relationship meme for Sakubo. Comment here and I'll tell you how Saku and Bo feels about your character o/ Reciprocation makes me happy but isn't required.

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[samsera]

HI SAKU HI BO

[machiavelliyaan]

Bo likes Sera, but it's a restrained kind of 'like'. That's to say, he likes Sera, and they've actually talked about a surprisingly large amount of personal things on both sides, but there's always an... emotional awkwardness he feels when they talk? I don't want to say he thinks she's talking down to him, because he doesn't, but he's very conscious of the fact that both times they met he was trying to be strong about something and deeply afraid and not handling it very well. He's a little embarrassed, and kind of shy -- especially because she's a really nice person and very understanding, but he feels very much like a kid around her. He's still going to try to talk to her a lot, because he likes her, but a lot of times when they've threaded he feels like he's struggling against his own expectations and giving off a sense that he needs to be protected, when really he wants to be useful

[samsera]

"Restrained like" is probably a good way to describe how Sera feels about Bo, too. Bo is not entirely wrong in thinking he's giving off this aura of needing to be protected - that's not quite accurate, but Sera really can't help but be aware that she's gone through huge amounts of pain and fear in kinds and intensities that Bo will hopefully never experience when she talks to him. The only way she can think of to handle the situation is to try to make it clear that that doesn't matter, but just by trying to do that she's putting herself in a position to judge his situation - she certainly thinks her own deficiencies matter, after all! He does bring out her protective side. If they met in a situation where they aren't talking about Weighty Emotional Things it might actually help with that, because Sera desperately wants to be a kid on some level, not a protector figure. She feels plenty responsible for just Embryon already. YOU ARE A NICE KID THOUGH, BO.

[machiavelliyaan]

I AM POSTING VERY SOON ABOUT PLAYING WITH STRAY ANIMALS.

Hopefully this will need less horrible protection from >D

[dimanibussacrum]

o/~

For Pi? I'll essay back in the morning.

[machiavelliyaan]

Bo thinks that Pi is a very nice older lady! She has always been very helpful and serious about work in the G.U., and he wants to do what he can to help her out. They were never very close back in the G.U., of course, but he's warming to her quite a bit from their brief conversations -- The fact she likes candy, for example, really brought her from the figure of the "intelligent competent superior" to a person he feels like he's a little closer to understanding. Overall, right now, he views her a little like a teacher -- someone to look up to, someone he can learn a lot from, but someone it's difficult to be close to.

[machiavelliyaan]

Saku... haha, oh Saku. Um. SHE DOESN'T HATE PI. For one thing, Pi's not a huge threat in her attempts to win Master En -- Pi's interested in someone else, Pi's an older lady who OBVIOUSLY Master En wouldn't go for (...). However, Pi and Haseo have a close-knit relationship of ribbing and good-mannered cruelty which, despite herself, Saku is jealous of and a bit threatened by and TOTALLY DOESN'T KNOW WHY.

Right now in camp, she's cozying up to Pi because Pi seems to know what's going on, and is OBVIOUSLY more reliable than Kuhn or STUPID HASEO, and has hacker skills etc, but she still thinks of Pi as "Oh, that old hag! She better not butt into my business like that time I was tryin' to trick Haseo!". etc etc. This'll probably relax some as she ends up spending more time with Pi in close quarters.

[banhammer]

Pi feels chagrined...not quite the right word for the degree of it, but close, that Saku and Bo are in camp--she's never been quite as directly affected by the whole "oh shit kids are stuck in this camp" except with maybe Haseo, and Haseo had gotten there first, and settled in, and was doing okay when they got here--maybe if Pi was a different person, she'd say he needs to talk to others more--but she's not. She feels a kind of responsibility to Saku and Bo that she doesn't feel to any other camper out there

[songtoallmy]

Even though they met briefly, Bo and Eugénie?

[machiavelliyaan]

Bo thinks Eugenie is a very nice older woman! I'd say 'maternal', but Bo has a very skewed idea of maternal affection, so more... teacherly. The sort of woman who talks to you gently and is kind, but isn't necessarily someone you're close to. He'd like to see her again, and probably thank her more for the treats.

[anoathkept]

o/

[machiavelliyaan]

Bo likes Roxas. A LOT. He was nice and calming and up-front and talked to Bo like an equal and wanted to be friends and wants to go out and explore dungeons together and in short, Bo's really excited and happy to have a friend with similar interests to him, who sees him as an equal, and yet who is willing to find ways around Bo's occasional issues with things like big fights.

He IS kind of worried about Roxas's clearly rocky relationship with Saku, given the circumstances of their SECOND meeting, but he usually tries to stay out of things like that, and it wouldn't be the first time he's had a friend Saku doesn't get along with. He just wants everyone happy, but knows that reasonably, it doesn't always happen that easily.

[machiavelliyaan]

Saku doesn't really like Roxas. She's acting like it's water under the bridge, but when they first met, she felt pressured super-fast to talk about something she didn't want to talk about, something private, and it really built to a head from annoyance to something else when he practically accused her of lying to cover the situation up. Essentially, by choosing when, how, where she reveals her personal situation to, she can keep an illusion of control in a situation that she's got very little actual control over. Without control, she feels very -- at a loss, extraneous, etc? So by having her hand forced, she was feeling overwritten, like her wishes didn't matter. Especially after the fact, when she tried to give him the benefit of the doubt and explain why she'd been hurt by it, and he called her an idiot. She'd called Bo to deal with it more because she needed breathing space before she completely freaked out, and because Bo and Roxas were already friends, and when she came back she was doing a lot of faking being okay. The fact he's

[skateinurface]

Just the one thread, but. :D?

[machiavelliyaan]

B-Bikky!! Bikky is the kind of cool kid that Bo normally gets shunned by, so he's sort of hopelessly excited by the fact that Bikky's invited him to hang out and that Bo liked his magic and that Bikky maybe thinks he's cool, and seriously, how amazing is that?! He wants to be friends with Bikky like plants like water, and he was really happy that they got along so well. And Bikky seemed just... really nice and friendly and awesome, and he wants to get to know him better.