MEMESHEEP (should that be memehippo?)

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Yeah yeah okay everyone's doing it, QUESTION MEME yadda yadda I'm not c/ping that when you all know what I mean anyway.

I don't think I have a tag for this kind of thing yet. I am okay with forgetting to tag this for a bit, although if this ends up complicated enough I'll just pretend it's like a bonus memory registry or something. REPLIES MAY BE SLOOOOOOW because I am an overthinker and also you people with your over-100 wpms, you terrify me.

ANYWAY yeah I play THIS FLAILY HITTING-THINGS-WITH-OBJECTS PERSON HERE on Emerald and I also play Sterling's resident voreloli. (That would be Riful. Not Saya. Who I also once considered apping.)

ASK ME QUESTIONS ABOUT BOTH OF THEM.

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WHERE DO YOU THINK RIFUL AND MUKURO'S RELATIONSHIP WILL GOOOOOO

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SHORT ANSWER: IDEK IT IS SO MUCH UNSAFETY I CAN'T AAAAAH

LONG ANSWER: Riful came to Aather with a Claymore memory! It was, admittedly, one that reaffirmed her basic belief that she is someone who naturally expects control and doesn't care if people try to push back against that because she has enough self-confidence that people objecting ... really doesn't bother her, and a lot of Riful's behavior I feel like is so innate/ingrained that even without memories, if you put her in the position she's in in Aather those qualities will just come out, but! It was still a Claymore memory.

Which means she very vividly has a memory of HER BODY BEING DIFFERENT, there being sensations that, in that half-youma body, were dulled. Also she had silver eyes and silver hair HOW DID THAT HAPPEN. These are all questions that are fascinating but she knows there won't be an answer for her without memories, so she's just kind of. Set the appearance issues aside for now. In the same way, if she gets enough more than one non-Claymore memory back, she may just ... stop wearing pants entirely because right now she's only wearing them due to how she's like "I wonder what pants feel like/I remember wearing these, huh!" but honestly she doesn't care what she wears. But she also doesn't have the GOD KNOWS HOW MANY YEARS of being a feral vorechild to bolster her indifference to other people's suggestions, so she may just wear them to make people more friendly to her for a while anyway. Not that she cares terribly, but sigh, IT IS EASIER when people are not making terrible faces at you, really, and she doesn't have the memories back where she super enjoys making people make terrified faces at her yet so she's not ... as much a deliberate troll yet. Riful's thought processes: WONDERFUL.

But anyway I got distracted, where was I. RIGHT. Anyway, one of the things she remembers is that she remembers things like HORMONES and LIBIDO and suchlike being things she ... seemed to lack. She remembers this clearer than she's really let on, mostly because it would ruin the experiment if she let people know that she was experimenting. AND THAT EXPERIMENT IS: "hmmm, I think I can get off! WHAT GETS ME OFF? LET'S FIND OOOOOUUUUT" and one thing she knows is that she's very satisfied with her own capacity for violence - hello, Claymore memory, she was ranked #1, etc. - but she wants to know if she likes anything else.

This is kind of why she's been so tactile experientially all the time - it's because she's like "I LIKE THINGS? WHAT THINGS DO I LIKE? I like pretty things, I like natural things, I like ... aggressive things ... I like things that tear and fight to survive ..." Although those last two are more like things she already understood, it was just ... ah, confirmation! Good.

She's not going to be terribly bothered if she remembers that some of these are things she didn't care for later (spoiler: she won't, really, although her notion of "pretty" may skew pretty strongly towards the grotesque fast), because Riful's not much of a person to terribly worry about the past. She remembers it, but it's only relevant to her if she has use for it. It's a part of her, though, and she'd like it back, if only because it is hers.

And I'm getting distracted again. But anyway, Mukuro is like her. And in canon, this would be a reason for her to just be like "ahhh, not interested!" because of her situation, here there's that Claymore memory influencing her, because it's made her more zen about DUTIES and RESPONSIBILITIES, in that she remembers being like "these things dovetail nicely with my own interests so I'll do them" and so ... she's supposed to monitor these "heroes" to keep them secure? What does that mean? WHAT ARE THE HEROES LIKE, HMMM. Like she was all set to be like "well okay I'll keep them safe" because she knew she could, and duties that made sense to her weren't duties she'd object to ... but then she met Datura lol.

AND DATURA IS SO VERY CLEARLY ANTIPATHETIC TOWARDS EVERYTHING, he just doesn't care, she went like "oh my gosh, you act like me!" so Riful realized the Knightly duties were more like the Pirate Code and were actually not rules they were expected to follow very closely - she's gotten the sense that something Bad will happen if she doesn't obey some of them, but since she wasn't there for Three's threat it's like "oh whatever".

IN OTHER WORDS she's totally getting shanked by a Persona one of these days and it won't even be because she likes anyone, she just likes testing how much power people have over her versus how much they think they do.

And this plays into her relationship with Mukuro, actually! Because like I said, Mukuro is a "hero" who she recognizes as being similar to her, and in this situation she's very interested in testing how much power he thinks he has to affect her versus how much power she has to affect him, and this could get very unsafe very fast. Because neither of them, I suspect, are the sort of person to just stop there, ever, and Riful will for sure only get more cheerfully abusive/benignly torturing as a way of showing her interest/affection, in the interests of seeing how hard they bite back, or if they bite first, and ... yeah. She is totally willing to break his fingers just to see him fail to react.

She's not trying to "assert" power by doing it, though, is the thing; she has a vague memory of having worked to assert that power, but she takes her position as Knight as proof that she's already achieved it - and so reasserting it has no interest for her. It should be obvious to everyone involved who has the dominance here, but ... she's willing to play at submission and power negotiation in general if it proves ... entertaining enough, because the relationship is, in actuality, already determined beforehand by forces beyond any of the other parties' control, she only has to tolerate their ignorance, which is hardly a hardship. Besides, if they're clever they'll figure it out soon enough, and even so, seeing them put up a good fight would be enough of a welcome surprise that she'd encourage it if she thought they could. AND SHE KIND OF THINKS, RIGHT NOW, THAT MUKURO WILL PUT UP A GLORIOUS FIGHT IF SHE JUST GIVES HIM THE RIGHT INCENTIVE FOR IT. (Other people in this category: Sion! For completely different reasons.)

So yes. This is just going to get even more delightfully terrible. Please let me know if there are any limits you don't want me to cross now, or at least things you want me to clear with you beforehand, because ... yes this will uh be the kind of situation where THOSE LIMITS WILL GET BREACHED EVENTUALLY, THERE IS NO "IF" BUT "WHEN".

One sort of exception, maybe: I don't know if she'll ever vore Mukuro, though. He's too fascinating to vore, right now, but if she ever gets bored of him or he does anything to make her be like "welp you're no fun anymore :(" then she'll try it just to see if it makes him do something more interesting, because even if he doesn't and she vores him successfully, she'll still get a meal out of it so WIN/WIN.

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Also, she kind of wants to see what happens if she loads him up and aims him at another team again. JUST BECAUSE. Riful loev watching other people do stupid shit and kill each other for her amusement yes yes.

man i should ask you for the reverse not that i've tl;dred everywhere

[corinthian]

GOSH I FEEL BAD THAT I WON'T BE ABLE TO WRITE AS MUCH BECAUSE I AM LAZY AND A SMALLWRITER ANYWAY.

BUT LIKE. Riful is right in a lot of ways. HILARIOUSLY Mukuro is very 15 now. I mean, a slightly twisted 15 year old who remembers Hell, but yeah. He doesn't have any of his reincarnation cycle memories or anything. And he acts on 'interest' and 'desire' -- both of which get him in trouble. Riful hits both of those things right now! That and he has a . . . not really a masochism thing but danger is interesting to him. Partly because he too has a pretty big confidence in himself, so danger is exciting and also lolapathyidk. But he also . . . isn't quite sure what to do with Riful. He'll initiate things and he definitely go along with things she either pushes towards him or starts herself. But in the end it's going to (right now) be her lead to take if she wants it. He has some awareness of her strength, and if she does try to point him towards another team he'll have some awareness of that as well. But that doesn't mean he won't go along with it if it brings him what he wants.

mmmm and she's right about fighting. But it's also weird because Mukuro hates revealing his deep desires. His desires for hurting others or more simple things he doesn't matter, but in terms of larger things he'll try to bury those for a bit. So there are some things he'll go along with or lose on because even if he doesn't want them there are other things he hates revealing more. If that makes any sense.

BUT THERE ARE A LOT OF TERRIBLE PLACES IT COULD GO AND I AM EXCITED. I don't have a lot of limits, but there are things that I feel aren't "in flow" of a thread and will just not do them then :|a I WILL LET YOU KNOW if it goes thataway.

He would not like being vored but would also ... ignore it after the fact. YOU CAN'T HOLD THAT OVER MEEE.

Riful on Sterling?

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I try to go with the flow of threads too, and sometimes I wonder if I could push harder, especially with Riful, but. By and large I try not to shove things too far in one direction unless I feel it's very IC to make that shove, and I will LET YOU KNOW if that's about to happen.

Right now Riful's sitting on some of her potentially terrible ideas to see which way the other Knights will jump. Because if enough of them jump towards WE MUST INTERFERE TO KEEP EVERYONE HAPPY FRANDS, she may just ... side-eye that inwardly and then go and intentionally look for the right opportunity to instigate another feud or whatever, JUST TO MAKE THINGS HARDER FOR HER TEAMMATES because she's a helper like that.

Riful is someone who very strongly believes that your values are worthless if they can't be tested, so ... her fellow Knights believe they can save everyone? Or at leas that they can try? LET'S FIND OUT WHO'S RIGHT, HMM.

Or, in Shield's case, they believe they can judge the heroes? HMM, REALLY? THAT SEEMS DUMB. Why are you trying to moralize values like righteousness or power? That's dumb. What you should do is what pleases you, and what value comes from ascribing moral value to things? This kind of power never really matters to her in the face of physically obvious power, and her superstrength ironically reinforces her opinion that the Knights have power because they're the physically most skilled/powerful, so ... LOL WHAT IS THIS MORAL SUPERIORITY YOU SPEAK OF, EVERYONE'S OPINION HAS EQUAL VALUE AS FAR AS SHE'S CONCERNED, but whether their ethics can be supported in the face of blatant evidence is another story entirely, that's the point where she goes "my my my, you're a stubborn one, aren't you" and starts poking at you hard.

I think right now she holds every other Knight she's met except Lloyd, Seishirou, and Doku in a vague sort of half-contempt. She doesn't think much of their perspective, but she's considering at least respecting them if they prove they can force their perspective to survive in the face of reality. She's much more inclined to give them things without forcing a trade or outwardly mocking them than she is with the heroes, simply because they're her peers, but she still thinks their values are ridiculous. Lloyd she kind of respects because he engaged with her and becausehe actually, for all his seeming obliviousness, actually understands the nature of power, Seishirou because he's funny to watch, and Doku because ... well, they haven't talked much, but the few convos they have had lent herself towards thinking of him as someone who's not easily fazed by things and whose rough sense of humor appeals. They haven't really gotten into his values yet, so she's kind of given him a bye just for being pleasant to talk to.

Note how none of this actually prevents her from being perfectly congenial and friendly with them! She liked talking to Guy, and she genuinely finds Mithos nice to talk to, even discounting the trolling - let's be fair, she wouldn't troll him so much if she wasn't fond, and honestly half of that trolling starts out as incidental to her real purpose of "let's talk!" - and Zack's a pleasant enough derp.

But lol this thing with "FRIENDS SHOULDN'T FIGHT" is so duuuuuumb. You let your potential friends live because they're more interesting alive than dead, not because you don't expect them to try and kill you in your sleep. (Riful would, in fact, encourage all her potential friends to try.)

So lol. STERLING, RIFUL FINDS YOU FASCINATING IN YOUR FRIENDSHIPS AND WISHES TO SUBSCRIBE TO YOUR NEWSLETTER --

... b-because it makes for good toilet reading o-orz

MUKURO AND THE DUCK: WHERE DO YOU THINK THAT'S GONNA GO

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I am curious about how Asuka's feeling in the wake of the hippo incident, now that she's had a few calmer threads post.

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I AM HONESTLY NOT ENTIRELY SURE MYSELF. She feels pretty proud of herself, but also guilty. She's trying not to think about how EVERYONE WAS MAD AT HER for it and how she probably deserved that, but at the same time she was so upset when she did it and getting the shit kicked out of her BUT STILL WINNING was a gigantic confidence boost for her, to be honest. It showed her she could take just about anything and still get up afterwards. She wasn't real solid on the whole "survival" thing for ... a while there, after the Three game. Even the deredere feelings several of her memories gave her didn't help, and then this last memory with her mother dying and her not being able to stop it was just. A hammer-blow to her ego in ways that were just going to fuck with her no matter what.

It's funny, I'm playing Rebuild Asuka but Aather has pretty strongly pushed her towards being NGE Asuka instead, which ... I am hoping will balance out as time goes on and she gets a) more memories and b) more experience in being badass in Aather. One of the things that's affecting Asuka right now is that - unbeknownst to her or anyone else, really, Asuka is that kind of gifted kid who's isolated from everyone else because she's just THAT MUCH SMARTER and also that much more socially inept, because she was coddled due to her intelligence and kept apart. And in canon this gave her a center to work off of, kind of? Because she knew she was that smart. It kind of hilariously kept the more insecure aspects of her personality in check, because it was ... explicable. So to speak. There were other factors, but I'm mentioning this one specifically because -

Right now, in Aather, Asuka doesn't have that. She isn't the gifted kid, really. Sometimes she is. She came up with that fairy tale story, after all, after that one hit from a mommy memory, and she'll probably come up with a good riddle for Beato's task once I sit down and brainstorm/Google one to modify because of the INTELLIGENT!!!1 infodump she kind of got from this last memory, but her "I graduated university when I was FOURTEEN" skillset's still locked away. And so sometimes she compares herself to her memories and feels inadequate, but also? She feels out of place and she doesn't know why, so she's kind of ... inventing reasons for it. She doesn't have to look hard, unfortunately, but the things she's latched onto are unhelpful things in terms of coping. Because one of the things she's latched onto is "I DIED", and the other thing she's latched onto is "I LOST MY MOM", now, and also "I JUST SUCK AT MAKING FRIENDS WHO STICK AROUND".

But she's also starting to come around to this idea - influenced at least party by memories - that she doesn't fit in because she's subconsciously underperforming. And so the hippo was kind of an act-out against that, along with a reaction to the overwhelming helplessness that came bundled in with her last memory.

(WHAT'S REALLY FUNNY HERE is that she got all this about her mother dying and she's blaming herself for it but she doesn't know HOW, and the HOW changes the interpretation so much that oh my god.)

So one thing that's driving her in the aftermath is that everyone keeps treating her like she's too easily hurt - and, frankly, I did play that up a bit, because she actually looked worse off than she really was. The cuts were severe and she's going to be limping and bruised for at least a week, but she's. Actually pretty functional, considering. When you look at it rationally, the fact that she survived that fight without any broken bones is kind of astonishing, and really speaks well of her ability to think fast and methodically on the fly, but really lol I doubt even Asuka's thinking about it rationally. Asuka's just kind of naturally talented at not getting killed, when the situation's actually something she can control. If it'd been just her and some werecamels it would've been like a reenactment of EoE, just saying.

One thing that she's just decided, though, is that the only people she's really going to open up to ever again are Shinji and Misato, and secondarily Faith and Fetch BUT ONLY SOMETIMES. (Maybe Rabbit, but only if it's unavoidable.) She's not going to talk to her team about how she's feeling ever again, basically, because it makes them think she's incompetent and she can't have that. She's actually even going to go so far as to take her memories separately, or try to take her memories before they get taken back to the cabin for everyone else to share. It's none of their business and - she really doesn't want to talk to people who don't understand her anymore, and the way they reacted to her in the aftermath made it pretty clear they weren't even interested in trying, from her point of view. They just wanted to yell at her to make themselves feel better about not stopping her beforehand.

But now that she's gotten this particular ragequit out of her system - and, more importantly, that Faith responded to the hippo moment by offering to patrol with her - she's going to calm down and approach things more methodically. SHE WILL SOMETIMES DO SOMETHING EXTREME (that somehow usually works, even if it takes more effort than planned), because lol this is Asuka, and specifically this is the one who straight up kicked an Angel in the face to kill it after shooting it with bullets didn't do the trick - completely ridiculous giant-robot protag wins are what she aims for just naturally - but the whole point was to be frustrated at the things she COULDN'T do and now the whole place knows, more or less, that there's nothing she can't do if she works hard at it, so now she's going to make them understand just what "working hard at it" means. Because obviously killing a hippo's pretty straightforward, when you get right down to it - the next step is working on strategy and experience.

In sum: she is calmer, but she's hit that point where, like all Asukas, SHE CANNOT BE STOPPED except by her own inability to work with others and see them as more than necessary assets ... and as with every Asuka, unless she gets over that, it will always screw her over in the end. On the other hand, she has a better chance of getting over it here in Aather than she did in canon, and she did get over it in canon, and she kindasorta remembers starting to, so! Who knows.

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HOW DOES RABBIT FEEL ON GINGER lol i am great at the asking questions back today ;;

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IT… IS COMPLICATED. I think the hippo incident is definitely going to make her take a step back either in a good way (i.e. she learns about patrolling with Faith and does a conscious reevaluation of her own limits and is sad but doesn't push it anymore) or a bad way (i.e. Ginger hits really hard on her own issues and feelings of helplessness and she ends up either giving up or doing something really stupid; this is less likely since Viridian managed to talk her down).

The thing is that, Asuka is/was the person she really cared most about, but she is really kind of crap at showing that without any of her skillset intact to make gestures like bringing food or helping fight or whatnot. And the hippo incident really drove that home; despite being younger and more immature, Asuka is smarter faster stronger etc etc, and she doesn't have the same emotional inner strength that Tsuruume will have once Ginshu remembers more about Tsuruume. So Ginshu really feels kind of helpless, she doesn't have the memory of Kouro to keep her going like in canon or the memories of her life experiences to offer to Ginger, and that thread came really close to breaking her in a bad way on top of everything else going on at Aather.

And then, lol, along comes Viridian going YOU ARE DOING THE SAME THING AS GINGER and she was a bit "…oh. Huh." Which helped her put it in perspective a little bit but she's still very WHAT DO I EVEN DO :( about it.

So… it's complicated! Like I said, I think she's going to be stepping back no matter what, but Asuka's still incredibly important to her, and she wants to do something… she just doesn't know what she can offer at this point.

Is there anything in particular that you want Asuka to get back ASAP?

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lolol the funny thing about Rabbit is that Rabbit is someone who is very much "I AM A COMFORTER I WILL BE A WARM BODY TO HUG AT ANY TIME FOR YOOOUUUU" and while Asuka probably needs that, what she's actually most comfortable with is people like Misato, who are loud and boisterous and who don't actually take her yelling with a sad smile, they take it with a wry smile, talk about their dead dad, and then offer her beer. This is totally what helps Asuka cope and it's why she and Misato are so fucking tight in Rebuild. I figure in canon, since Rebuild lacks a Kaji to get in the way, Misato was just like "okay cool you have boundaries, I won't cross them, BUT WE'RE GOING TO DO THE GIRLHUG THING" and this. Really WORKED WELL ON ASUKA. Mostly because the impression was that Misato wasn't being that way because she particularly wanted to HELP ASUKA GET BETTER! but just because it's what Misato did and Asuka didn't have to force anything, Asuka didn't have to work, Misato wouldn't be affected by Asuka's failures because she'd already made it clear she didn't care about any of that and that made it seem more genuine. This is a lot of the reason why she responded so well to Knife early on and why I said a few times that KK was her substitute Misato, because this is exactly how KK treated her and it is without fail the kind of mommying Asuka responds to best. Mostly because it's failmom.

Rabbit's kind of quietness actually freaks her out because she thinks it's her fault and that she's hurting Rabbit by being around her, and especially after seeing Rabbit totally switch gears from angry and miserable to happy and genial it just. Asuka no longer knows how to trust what Rabbit says anymore.

THE COMFORTING HUGS ARE LESS COMFORTING WHEN IT FEELS LIKE SOMEONE'S JUST TRYING TO COMFORT YOU OUT OF PITY AND GUILT. s-sobbb. THEIR CR WAS SO GREAT but I am painfully reconciling myself to the fact that their relationship may have just permanently damaged itself, never to recover completely.


... hmm! Anything in particular? I almost gave her back the phone call with Rei as a a starter memory because I REALLY LIKE REI AND ASUKA'S RELATIONSHIP IN REBUILD, so .... I'd like to get that back! But I'm also kind of keen on her getting the horrible Unit 03 memories back soon, too because I want to inflict that on her too and I've finally settled on how I expect she'll respond to them with the weight of everything that's happened so far .... that's a memory people need to ask me on but I'm okay with saying "yes" at this point. Perhaps also some memories of her being BADASS in her Eva, like the same memory Shinji just got back only from her perspective and thus filled with more ins-and-outs of Eva piloting. Iiiit would be kind of nice for her to have some clue what the fuck she actually does beyond kind of what I'm headcanoning for what she knows from the last memory.

I DON'T REALLY HAVE A LOT OF PREFERENCE. I find it hilarious that everyone else from Eva has gotten memories back of what she looks like piloting an Eva or even what Evas and Angels are, concretely, and she hasn't gotten any of that back yet but she's still the one most active in doing Eva pilot-like things, like with the hippo.

WHAT ABOUT GINSHU, ANY PARTICULAR HOPES OR PLANS?

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do u liek me y/n

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YES. i am super dere for shinji right now though :( but i am also avoiding that fact kindasorta atm so WHO KNOWS.

I am kind of working towards the end goal of Asuka and Shinji being beffies in Aather, rather than actually in any sort of dating situation? I think they work better as PEOPLE WHO GET EACH OTHER but not really romantically, in Rebuild, myself - and also Asuka is still weird about the fact that she outed herself as liking him to his face before either of them really recognized the other so the romantic thing is just. Super not happening right now. Even if she LIKES HIM A LOT. Asuka, avoiding people because she doesn't know how to cope with being fond? PFFFFT YEAH RIGHT.

Also Winter got booked, which ... she really liked Winter. Winter reminded her a lot of the Shinji she doesn't really remember, so the impulse was there but the awareness of why is not. So that gave him room to get in there and make her fall for him, a little.

FAITH COULD EASILY DO THE SAME. But right now it's in the way of how she looks up to him as a genuinely nice person who is her friend but also kind of her commanding officer even if she doesn't know what that means yet or have a frame of reference for the feeling.

That won't matter as much when she starts getting more Misato memories because Misato's her CO and they're super tight girlfrands in Rebuild who might as well be each other's surrogate family for how close and sympatico they are, but right now she has this vague feeling it should matter, so she's kind of ... WE CAN BE FRIENDS? SURE? Why are you friends with me?????? about the whole thing.

So he has to get through that and the whole SHINJI IS HERE thing. But she totally kind of likes him and wants him to be her friend, even if she's still on edge about the whole WHY WERE YOU SO MAD thing.

lol look at me spend half of this comment TALKING ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE go me.

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MITHOS' FEELINGS ON STERLING??? maybe you already talked about that though so if so IS THERE ANYTHING MITHOS REALLY LIKES ABOUT AATHER THAT ISN'T SIMULTANEOUSLY A HEAVY BURDEN ON HIS SOUL

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Mithos's feelings on Sterling have changed drastically from game start. Because he started out NAIVE AS HELL and assuming Knights would all work towards the same goal and be willing to help out norms and each other. He's been pushed out of that viewpoint by a whole bunch of things by now: Crow and Falcon's relative apathy, Datura's trolling re: Tiger's Eye's food, learning about the Shield fiasco, and his own memory + Riful's DEATH AURA making him realize that LOL SOME KNIGHTS MIGHT BE WALKING DEATH BOMBS EVEN IF THEY DON'T KNOW. He is really, really trying his best to keep Sterling together too, in their way. He knows they'll never have a team dynamic but they still have to live together, and despite being temporarily enraged at Shield he knows a rift in the Knights would be terrible. He has an advantage in that on a very low, very cold level, he can empathize with anyone on Sterling if he takes enough time, learn the way that Sterling thinks, and try to use it to nudge them into being a productive Knight and not doing overtly horrible things. Possibly that is why he is Mom. Who knows.

As for the other question--Mithos really likes the wildlife. :|a People guilt him some because to get here they all had to be amnesianapped, and his feelings on Personae are complicated. But like...darkflies and moths and incests are STRAIGHTFORWARD and ADORABLE and he got to cuddle an incest the other day :3333

If Asuka got TEMPORARILY BOOK'D RIGHT NOW and came back how do you think the experience would change her?

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I think that's why he's mom. Thaaat's definitely why he's mom.

.... man IDEK. I'm a terrible person, if I had to drop her temporarily I'd forest her. For the braintrauma. I probably won't, though; if I need to do something like TAKE A BREAK I'd hiatus her for an OOC week and send her off to go be chased across half a magical world by a drunken unicorn on a fetch quest for Coyote's alimony payment to his ex-wife. I've half considered hiatusing her just to inflict this magical adventure on her when she needs it the least. Because I am amazing.

THIS IS WHY MY CHARACTERS CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS.

But booking ... I'm not even sure what happens when you get booked, so I can't really say. Let me ask AJ!

and now I have asked and herpaderpa it would freak her out a little. SHE WOULD BE SO BEWILDERED. Especially if she had to get booked and while she was gone there was a trauma game. THIS WOULD BE THE MOST GUILT-TRIPPY THING EVER BECAUSE SHE'D BE SO RELIEVED.

But to be honest if no time passed it would ... probably not hit her quite so hard as having her soul slowly leached away while trapped in a stone statue, haha, so uh I think we all know what my preference here is.

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s-sooooob i just realized i forgot to ask a question back again dfjfl;jsdklhfl;dkh

THE PERSONAE DECIDE THAT FETCH NEEDS TO BE PUNISHED FOR BEING A FAILKNIGHT

FAITH HAS TO BE THE ONE TO SHANK HIM

WAT DO

[brotagonist]

WHY AM I YOUR DAD

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BECAUSE YOU KEEP BEING RESPONSIBLE AND SYMPATHETIC AT ME, DUMBASS

WHY ARE YOU MY DAD

[brotagonist]

I'M SORT OF A BLACK BOX OF FEELINGS. YOU PUT FEELINGS IN, AND LLOYDLINESS COMES OUT. NO ONE KNOWS HOW.

Is Asuka even still mad at him?

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.... lol no she can't actually stay mad at him long enough to get a good gripe going. She's not even mad at him in their current thread, just vaguely grumpy and avoid-y. IT'S HARD TO STAY MAD AT SOMEBODY WHEN THEY KEEP TELLING YOU "oh that makes sense have you thought about this?"

IS LLOYD ACTUALLY GOING TO END UP DATING KK FOR REAL, BECAUSE THAT WILL BE WEIRD

(is he going to ever end up dating mithosand really be sterlingmomanddad with him)

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REI COMES TO AATHER


WAT DO

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QUIETLY FREAK OUT

KILL ANOTHER HIPPO MAYBE

"I AM THE DOMINANT ONE HERE IN AATHER, RESPECT"

... not that Rei ... will care ... sob ... which will just ruin the whole point but ... wat do ...

IJS if this ends in makeouts to prove a point a month after Rei's arrival (l-like it did with Shinji, ssssoooobbbb) IT'S NOT MY FAULT, I CAN ONLY RESTRAIN MYSELF SO MUCH

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okay and just for that


KAJI, HE COME TO AATHER TO SAVE THE PRINCESS MISATO

WAT DO

[failtactical]

... makeouts. 8)

BUT OKAY, lols. If Kaji came right now, Misato would basically freak out a little and go bitchsmack him the second she saw him. SHE WOULD YELL AT HIM, CALL HIM A JERK and then go and cling onto her guyfriends and PARADE IN FRONT OF HIM WHILE SHE DOES THAT. "LOOK LOOK HOW MUCH I DON'T CARE ABOUT YOU YOU STUPID JERK I HOPE YOU NEVER GET LAID".

... Because that is, of course, the mature thing to do.


TELL ME ABOUT THE THINGS YOU EXPECT TO SEE IN THE NEXT TWO REBUILDS. Or crazy dreams you have about them.

[ichtreteihrgesicht]

... HAHAHAHA, MAN. I don't even know if I have all that many theories, although I still kind of hope I'm right and Asuka gets to Eva-jack Unit 08 for Angel ass-kicking, whether it be punching Unit 06 in the face or taking on another horde of them like in EoE but this time winning unambiguously. Either that or somehow they manage to repair Unit 02 and Mari gets Unit 08 and then we get GIANT ROBOT TEAM UP OF EPIC VIOLENCE while they spend the entire fight sniping about Mari's bad habit of touching other people's stuff, naaamely Unit 02.

Either that or my other theory which is that they rebuild Unit 02 using Unit 03 and that's where Unit 08 comes from.

AS FAR AS OVERARCHING PLOT THINGS I'm still half-convinced Rebuild really is going to turn out to be a "sequel" to EoE somehow; I bet at least part of 3.0 is going to be spent with Rei and Shinji "trapped" inside Unit 01, but that the experience will be an affirming one for them, unlike what happened to Shinji when he dove into the Dirac's Sea Angel whose name I can never remember, for the simple reason that they're experiencing it together; I have absolutely no idea if Anno or Tsurumaki plans to do anything with the implications that Shinji and Rei together will DOOM THE UNIVERSE, but it'll be interesting to find out; MOSTLY, I WANT MORE MARI because my tastes are not at all complex and her existence makes me happy. If you ask me, Gendo's plan really doesn't seem to be the same plan at all this time around, so I'm curious to see where the fuck that's going. This also appears to be the continuity where Kaji lives, so I AM INTRIGUED WHAT WILL HAPPEN THERE.

Mostly though, this is all spec that I'm perfectly willing to discard if/when the movies give me something more entertaining, which after 2.22 I'm almost positive they will. I would not have called Asuka Rider kicking an angel in the face after 1.11, after all, and yet she did and then she muay thai'd another Angel to death and then god only fucking knows what that was Mari did to her Eva, really, so ... if things get quiet and philosophically contemplative for most of 3.0 I won't be surprised, but about all I can say for certain is that once the contemplating their LCL-dissolved navels sequence is over, if it's even that long, I suspect we're looking at some of the most intense giant robot action ever put to screen, and without a doubt some of the bloodiest. I'm down with that. Even so, that's not a theory so much as it is "welp I guess that's what I'm in for /buckles up preemptively", because ... if 3.0 and Final turn into an extravagantly animated psychoanalytic acid trip I am still going to be perfectly happy with the result, I bet you money.

I HAVE YET TO HAVE A CRAZY DREAM ABOUT EVA. SO.

Any memories you'd like Misato to get back sooner than others?