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. . . it's been a thousand comments since the last one okay and STRANGE AND EXCITING THINGS ARE HAPPENING.

I only play Jay/Swift. You can ask me about app plans and things too I guess!!

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[oceansflower]

Relationship update if there is anything? '^' Also what does Swift think of Tavros/Ruby in general?

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Mostly just S-LINK LEVEL UP!!



It will stabilize here for a while, I think :|a Generally with Swift making it to color+5 is easy, going up a color is pretty hard.

He is really fond of her at this point. He completely dropped the affect around her a while ago, which is something he only does (UNTIL NOW, but bluh bluh character development) when you have both his affection and his respect. She keeps reminding him of his party--he's basically mentally placed her into that category--and at this point she's more Shirley than Moses, which is a lot of dere and protectiveness and admitted respect. She is one of the very few people he would actually talk to about shit that is bothering him. He will keep prodding her if he finds it necessary, and he will respect her choices and possible heroic imprudent decisions!! to an extent he does for almost no one else in Aather.

. . . there is also the kissing thread. Which. I covered mostly, but! He was actually telling the truth for the most part--he really didn't have any expectations--except then she MADE HER OWN CONCLUSIONS, and he could tell, and now he is thinking about it, thx Marine!! I doubt he will get anywhere without some outside prompting. Mostly he will just tsun.

OKAY GOSH LONGWINDED. Swift was extra sulky about Tavros because he was . . . semi-trying to help??? In his own Swift way? Because Tavros seemed pretty beaten down and Swift is just like god what is it with you Ruby people and your spinelessness and it was kind of sad! So he prodded for a bit and was kind of hurt when it was not taken well even if . . . REALLY HE KNOWS IT SHOULD NOT BE. This was only compounded by C.C. calling him out on being a big fakey faker who covers up his own insecurities, and bluh. He would have poked at Tavros more but for C.C.--he will probably leave him alone from now on out of deference to her.

. . . he is not really sure what to make of Ruby as a whole, except that there are a lot of people who CANNOT tell him that they just want him to get lost, geez. Obviously C.C. and Shade don't fit this pattern but he is just like :? Why are you inviting me to your cabin when I have been a dick to you 24/7, and then it did not go well so. He will be keeping his distance a while.

r-reverse I guess???

[oceansflower]

She considers Swift to be one of her best Aather friends, and even if she didn't make ALL OF HER FEELINGS EVER!!! known and didn't wear her heart on her sleeve she would probably always be very honest around him! She will drape on him and everything forever and dere dere dere. Even if she knows Tsuruume doesn't exactly like him! And it's not like she can't see why she wouldn't, but Marine is very determined to make her own decisions about people and to not let anyone else interfere with her judgement usually.

So yeah, basically there is just a lot of dere and good feelings. '-'!

As for Tavros, he ... actually didn't mind Swift at first? It's not like he hasn't dealt with frustrating people before, but Swift was being himself and that frustrated Tavros a lot in the end! And Tavros doesn't actually have the patience his canon counterpart has because Ruby's been rubbing off on him, so. Yes. That led to the result of the thread.

Honestly Tavros does not like Jasper, minus Saya. He has a lot of clashing opinions with the people that he's met and he really dislikes Erika. SO. . . for the most part he approaches Jaspers with caution because aside from Saya, he's only had bad experiences so far. '-'a Basically Jasper is a team that he ... kind of keeps his distance from. I'M SURE THAT SOME TIME when he's not as :T about things he will be okay with Swift, but he definitely wouldn't be okay with Erika.

Um. :|a How's Swift doing in general?

[thinkoutsidethebox]

Tell me things about me!!

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I just did you!! I can do bullet points though??

• He is really uncomfortable about the whole kissing thing, and will be (and will be trying really hard to hide it) for a while. why did you do that!! why did I agree to kiss you and all I got out of it was this lousy knife and augh! But he will also be trying not to think about it.
  
• He does view the Personae information thing as an ongoing 'game,' and is determined to wipe the floor with you okay! Except that is on hold while he sorts out his EMOTIONAL REVELATIONS. But she is such an antagonistic figure to begin with that his relationship with her is impervious to the effects of god, Swift, you suck and your masks suck too!! He will probably be back at it soon.


• The latest memory is not going to help his competitiveness, ha ha ha. I also want to prioritize some information-gatherer memories soon which will just make him mad and stupidly determined to find out more things!!


• He actually does still care about her on some buried level, and the fact that she doesn't care still eats at him. At this point if she were to actually try he would eventually accept her back into his mental party, but that possibility is growing more and more remote. Right now it's just a constant :[ wow. I can't trust my own team. :[ which is not that new and which she is not solely responsible for, but he has been brooding about it more since taking his Jesus-speech memory.


How is Erika doing right now?

[thinkoutsidethebox]

SHE IS DOING PRETTY WELL. She probably was pretty frustrated over not winning the kissing game, but I didn't... actually play her between that and heart games, so that was offscreen. :'D You can all imagine. And then Rolo's heart game was pretty great for her! It was a little frustrating as well because she didn't quite get to finish the assigned tasks in the time allotted, so she's kind of mad at Sakura and Kyouko for getting in a pointless fight and wasting time, but she got to manipulate people and use duct tape and solve a murder mystery riddle and get the prize, so that's pretty okay. And she's being unpleasant at Kyouko in endgame now so that will make her feel better. AND ALSO the argument they (+Breeze) were having was over how Vincent molests and murdered young girls and is a terrible person who didn't care about anything, so even if Erika didn't think that was the best time or place for it she was still... taking very interested mental notes. :'D And she didn't even alienate all of Turquoise and the Geass cast like she might have. I think they are all still kind of wary of her probably, but she WAS HELPFUL, so.

BASICALLY IT WAS AN INFORMATIVE GAME AND SHE DID WELL AND JASPER WON SO SHE'S DOING PRETTY WELL. Erika is a girl of little needs. We should have a Jasper post soon.

What are Swifts thoughts on Jasper as a team compared to other teams (or teams in general)?

[telepathetically]

ME ME ME

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lol! --> lol!! --> lol!!! --> ACTUAL RESPECT?? --> lol!!

Yuki was fun to bother and had great reactions and didn't seem to always pick up on the fact that he was being trolled, which was also great, and Swift just kept bugging him because, gosh, endearingly flaily and literal-minded! And then Yuki proved to be pretty sensible about the whole Personae/complacency issue (in Swift's mind at least) which earned him some actual respect and now he is actually being witty? Which is different but no less awesome. Swift is pretty fond! Which is why he gave the warning about Mother's game--there were actually not many people he would have told about that because lol, dick, but he doesn't want to see Yuki crushed under some Persona's heel. Of the blue-five-dots crowd (there are . . . a few), Yuki is one of the closer ones to yellow, but it's a very easy relationship--Yuki, out of all his closeish CR, is basically the only one who has never flustered him--and he doesn't really think about it much.

Reverse!

[telepathetically]

Yuki showing wit is almost entirely due to Swift's excellent influence. He is generally aware of when he's being poked at (not that it keeps him from reacting anyways...) but he's figuring out that hey that is kind of fun.

Swift's dickishness is also really kind of REFRESHINGLY BLUNT, compared to most of Yuki's tiny collection of CR. He's scared of Kunzites, nervously puppying around Sapphire, regularly freaking out on Kazuki, and trolled by Carnelians that go for more drastic reactions. And Yuki has no idea how to deal with people being very forward or cautiously considerate of him so BY ALL MEANS. KEEP BEING A DICK, IT'S GREAT. He trusts that Swift will tell him whatever is actually relevant/important, and will answer his dumb questions otherwise. Likewise while he isn't going to tell Swift about any of his ongoing drama (he doesn't want to have to deal with that in this CR too, and really doubts Swift would want to/know how to deal with it either. YOU DON'T NEED TO KNOW MY ISSUES, I NEED A DISTRACTION AND YOU ARE IT), he did give Swift the warning about what his heart would probably be like because it's relevant/important!!

so Swift is a dick and YUKI KNOWS IT

but it's generally amusing

and good for Yuki

and somehow outside team + cast he is the closest thing Yuki has to a friend

[telepathetically]

OH AND QUESTION

has swift met Ruka/Snow

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NO HE DOES NOT! I maaaay have him swing by Kunzite some time if IC development allows but he in a weird state. So for now, untwinned. :|a

What is the deal with that anyway!! I know it's like, some kind of weird canon shenanigans and they're not actually related . . . ?

[telepathetically]

They are not related despite having the same blood type and the same FINGERPRINTS even. Least spoilery answer is that they're in a murdergame thing where there's two teams with a King, Bishop, Knight, and Pawn on each side. Everyone has the same face as their counterpart piece, and Yuki & Ruka are the Pawns :|b Haruki who was just accepted to Amethyst is Kazuki's counterpart.

this has caused DIFFICULTIES in Aather since. Ruka murdered Yuki's family, tried to kill Yuki, and wanted to usurp his identity as well :Db

NOT KNOWING ABOUT RUKA AT ALL IS A POINT IN SWIFT'S FAVOR because pawns are clingy, insecure, and also hate being mistaken for each other. my friend '-' my friend only.

[brotagonist]

I don't know if they even threaded enough for first impressions, but I'd love to play with Swift more with Lloyd or Nunnally!

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We should, yes!! Swift liked both of them '-'

I . . . don't know what icon this is.

[immoetality]

Did something happen at Ruby? I'm a god awful team stalker.

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NOT VERY MUCH it just surprised him and it was one of the few times he went trollin' and things did not go according to plan! He was kind of a douche at Tavros, first just as part of being himself, and then as part of poking at what he sees as some hefty passivity/defeatedness issues, and Tavros did not want to put up with that shit, which shockingly almost never happens. Then he was a lesser douche at Ash, although Ash never seems to mind for very long. With all of that, he sort of saw C.C.'s actions as being at least partly "yo, step off my team." Which he understands--honestly, if someone had said half of what he did to Tavros to Azure? Or Saya, god forbid? He would have been pissed. So he will stay away from Tavros and Ash at least, for the time being.

. . . tell me about me . . . .

[immoetality]

Honestly, she was focusing more on his relation with her rather than how he was treating the rest of Ruby. I mean, you are coming to hide out here from your team and other issues, so you should behave yourself like a weak child ought to, not play at being so strong and capable. Really, what's wrong with admitting what you don't know or understand? Also, if Tavros and Ash dislike being treated that way, then they should handle it. When someone starts cutting off limbs or seomthing, then her or Naha would have stepped right on in. They are not here to smother, just to terrify if need be.

As for Swift, she can appreciate that he as a lot of outside pretenses, inside complexes, and a struggle between the two going on within him. He reminded her quite a bit of Lelouch, to be honest. So, C.C. doesn't mind letting him be himself and dig that hole; he had just better know that she'll be standing at the top of it, looking down and asking him how he's enjoying it. He is one of the few characters where she has to watch what she's saying, because she would prefer to take care of him, rather than playing with a certain amount of safety distance as she should. It's hard to be dere.

Mmm, I can't quite recall if she knows about Hakuren and Swift, but she wouldn't be surprised to see that double-play going on between them . . . Or that they would end up picking the same targets, either. Uh, she would stick around just to level Hakuren's holier than thou attitude which may not acknowledge for the darker aspects of life as we know it, though.

Rrreverse.