xx || questions meme!!

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1700 is not a round number but I never did a proper question meme and also EXCITING THINGS ARE HAPPENING SO.

Questions/relationships/what have you for Jay/Swift! I will answer these in a couple hours once I have "studied" some.

ETA: IF YOU ASK FOR RELATIONSHIP YOU ARE GETTING DOTS AS WELL AS WORDS because . . . I like dots . . . .

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OH BOY.

He is just . . . really mad and I don't see that changing any time soon. After the game he sort of had this idea of tracking them down one by one until he could get them to fess up WHO DID THAT, but he didn't really have a clear goal in mind (I don't think he would have actually gone through with revenge) and when he actually saw Blackberry he sort of realized that he . . . didn't want to see them. At all. And he interpreted her and Percy's answers as to who made the decision as them closing ranks around each other, which is the one thing in this whole mess that he sort of respects about them, since it's what he'd do. Fine, he can blame them all equally, since they seem to want that.

Otherwise they did not impress him! Percy did sort of disarm him by admitting to fucking up right off and being really apologetic about it, but . . . Jay prizes perceptiveness and the ability to see things as they really are, and he is not impressed by "good intentions," especially noble intentions, which he interprets here as wishful thinking and stubbornness blinding them to the truth. He is very disdainful that they didn't bother to read the fine print, so to speak, or find out who their partner team was, because Jasper is a very cerebral team! And they have won games--they won their first game--by being cerebral and careful and meticulous and reasoning out as much as possible based on very little information, and they were careful to ask the relevant questions in this game. They played strategically, and in fact all of their arguments centered around what the most strategic tack to take would be. And the fact that Citrine, as he sees it, didn't think and didn't play--well.

I could go on, but it's almost beside the point. He's made up his mind that Citrine is a bunch of idiots who let their feelings and preconceived notions get in the way of finding the best path through the game, to Jasper's detriment, and I don't think there's anything anyone could possibly do to shake that. He will just come up with post-hoc justifications for why it doesn't matter. (Citrine was fighting? Well, so were we, and it didn't stop us from playing right!!) The crux of the issue is that--during the game Swift began to realize that he really cared about his team and wanted to protect them, and he was willing to do almost anything (including a lot of morally questionable shit, although that didn't come up so much) to accomplish that, even though he knew his ability to control their fate was limited. He tried his hardest, even so! And then it didn't even matter. Fundamentally Swift is not mad because Citrine passed--he is mad because you made him feel helpless. :'D Which is a lot harder to swallow.

And then I think the apology actually made things worse, whoops. Jay doesn't care about you or your apologies, and he doesn't think there's anything you can do that will make up for the fact that you killed his entire team, so why are you here?? Especially since he . . . doesn't want to see you, haha. Honestly, he views it as just more self-justification, Citrine's attempt to make themselves feel better by telling themselves they did the "right" thing, and the fact that Blackberry didn't respond to his jab about that only cements his feelings.

SO WHAT ARE AOKO'S THOUGHTS ON JASPER . . . JASPERING IN HER DIRECTION

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She thinks it's completely understandable! She'll think it's completely understandable if Jasper stays mad at them forever! Because a big component of what happened is… Citrine made a mistake. She completely acknowledges that, and in most threads, she made a point to point out, that it wasn't all of Citrine—and also included herself in that (implied that it's partially her fault). Because she knows that she WAS part of the decision-making process. 8Ua She did get kkkkkkkind of frustrated by the insinuation that NOPE NOPE NOPE Jasper is completely innocent!!11 thing because as far as she sees it, nobody is entirely innocent in trauma-games. Everybody has blood on their hands, why would you even try to pretend otherwise? Etc etc. Citrine was just unlucky enough to have circumstances+a really poor choice+bad luck in that they didn't get protected by the knights.

SO YEAH this is gonna stick with her for a while! She'll never forget it, and she'll never push Jasper.

… Unless Jasper targets Citrine in or out of a game. That, she won't allow. She's a lil' worried about it primarily—well, actually, entirely—because of Erika, who outright stated that she wants revenge. As far as Berry's concerned, YES she would have let Erika hit her. No she will NOT over her dead body allow Erika to hurt Citrine. At her heart, Berry is a straightforward, emotive, protective character. SO.

I'm. I'm not sure if that answers your question but anyway.

Talk to me more about Jasper's team identity!