𝄫 Question Meme 08

[glorious]

I HAVEN'T DONE A QUESTION MEME SINCE MARCH. And I need something to go back and forth on while doing a tedious assignment.

Right now I'm down to Selenia, my Van Grants from Aather, and Noir, my Van Grants from Deco. (Playing two Vans felt less ridiculous when I also had girls in my lineup alkjfsd).

And though they're dropped, I'll also accept questions for Estelle and Saya if there are any. (PRETEND I STILL HAVE VARIETY OK? OK!)

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[doesnothappen]

anyyyy relationship updates? OR IF NOT then maybe, tell me about one or two of Van's current most interesting off-team dynamics!

[glorious]

RELATIONSHIP UPDATES...Nothing too huge really. After Mau's sort of birthday part with his friends, Selenia has kind of gotten the sense that Mau is a teenager with teenage friends? A SHOCKING REVELATION TO BE SURE, but it's one that means he's kind of accepted that eventually Mau will move on and that that won't be a terrible thing. Which seems like a bit of a leap when put like that, but it's really just realizing that Mau has his own life and things will be okay when it's time for him to go home, or whenever it's time for Selenia to head out into Greater Aather.

...Which still sounds weird and I'm not sure how else to explain it but REGARDLESS. It means Selenia's making more of an effort to at least make use of the time he has with Mau and make it worth more, just so there'll be no regrets whenever they go their separate ways. (#VanGrantsPositiveSpinOnFatalism)

AND THAT OTHER QUESTION IS HARD but interesting but I'll try and answer them! Daiquri on Emerald is one CR that's been a lot of fun since it started with Daiquri deliberately seeking him out and demanding music lessons. And the rest of their interactions have been pretty high-energy and fun. She's definitely one of his favorite students right now. (Though they're all his favorite tbh but 'ONE OF HIS FAVORITES' IS STILL TECHNICALLY ACCURATE.)

Melody from Tiger's Eye is also new idol-singer related CR but that's been interesting since their introduction was Kitsune's Find the Fox game and he had to convince her not to vote for herself, which he ended up doing by sharing his Cry Wolf experiences. Which is pretty interesting because that is not something that Selenia would ever normally bring up in a first conversation with someone but it seemed especially important to back up his stance by sharing his mistake so someone newer wouldn't repeat it, and she listened and took it to heart! She's also YET ANOTHER CUTE SINGER GIRL, one who listens and takes his experience into account! Which equals another new favorite.

...I ANSWERED TWO SO I will reverse whichever one you feel like answering (or both) for Mau.

[doesnothappen]

I do not think there are any substantial relationship updates to talk about! Mau feels more comfortable with Selenia than he ever has before, and really just wants to be as supportive as he can in making Selenia feel more secure and able to be hopeful as time goes on. He really has a lot of faith in him and wants him to be loved and to be able to find a place in the world where he feels like he belongs.

Mau's most... "interesting"... off team dynamic is with Edmund right now, I think, and, uh, well. I suppose I can sum it up by saying that Mau is not attracted sexually to Edmund, but nevertheless, in the last 3-4 IC days he has both kissed him out of nowhere and asked him on a date, so. That's... happening...

They have this peculiar friendship where they have a lot of emotional parallels and end up pinging each other all over the place, so they either end up with extreme and sudden empathetic support or end up getting into weird pseudo-power struggles or just cryptically talking about generalities while both referring heavily to extremely specific things except not clarifying any of them, depending on the day. Which, as you can imagine, means their relationship has a lot of tension! But it's largely undefined and Mau is dealing with it by going "WE SHOULD DATE" for reasons only tangentially related to Edmund himself. Which, at least he's being honest about, but. It's all very experimental and dumb.

Tell me about Selenia's Personae relationships.

[glorious]

...GOSH THAT'S...A LOT. Now I think about it. I'LL TRY AND NARROW IT DOWN TO THE MOST IMPORTANT but on a general note, Selenia seems to get along better and faster with other Personae for some reason that may or may not involve the whole 'having our life stories prewritten' thing. (by which I mean it is definitely that.)

Brill I think is the most obvious one, what with her having been Jabberwock and then successfully being freed from her Score story. Things are sometimes awkward on that front because Selenia considered Jabberwock a sort of (villainous) mentor figure so having that role reversed and being one of the people to help her along a redemption path is...sometimes a bit intimidating. But he is committed to helping her as much as he can, but also try and give her some room to walk her path on her own and make her own friends.

Firebird was the first Personae Selenia really took interest in. Her role is to shatter cages and be free! How amazing is that? ...Unfortunately it is actually quite terrifying to him too, in the sense that he sometimes can't tell how much of her desire to break out of her role is her and how much of it is...her role requiring it. Her trauma game kind of convinced him that it was her and not her role, given the fact that she was apparently trying to push against it as much as she did. But it's still...something that affects how he approaches her.

Nimue is also pretty important! And is actually pretty interesting in that...Selenia rarely actually really thinks about her role when he interacts with her! He just really appreciates her comfort, trusts her and feels he can confide in her about most things. He just genuinely believes she only wants the best for people, even when she's maiming them which is not something he really seems to believe in for most people. (I think I told Sapphire during Nimue and Odile's game he actually worried that using her coin meant she was taking the damage for them. He fully believes that she would take the damage for them in games if it was possible for her to do so; he has that much faith in her.)

Mira is kind of a new one! But it's one that's been on his mind post-parasite for...lots of likely obvious reasons. :') But she asked to meet him in a more one-on-one setting due to his 'unique view on life and death' like...fifteen minutes after he revived and being the man he is, of course he said yes. And then that night, they met, had tea, she asked him if he thought she was beautiful (which, of course, he answered yes) and then she told him she wanted a friend and he...agreed to be that friend. So in less than twenty-four hours he was then friends with the Personae who ran the worst game Aather ever seemed to have. And that is actually intimidating to him in a way that was never was with Jabberwock, because at least he knew Jabberwocks role and understood it enough to feel as though he was safe as long as he didn't cross certain lines. With Mira, he's very unsure on where those lines are so he feels like he's walking on pretty thin ice with her.

There is also Queen Guinevere now I guess! He actually had a pretty low opinion of her after her announcement that the barrier would fall and then giving them the 'choice' to fight, when the choice felt very much like 'fight and risk death' or 'wait to die'. SO HE REALLY DIDN'T LIKE HER FOR A WHILE and then...disliked her more when other people tried to tell him to be more reasonable about her. In short, he was a pretty contrary child on the Queen Guinevere matter! :'D BUT, then they had their fight, it went super well and then she asked for their opinion on what to do next and the options were a lot more...freeing. So he felt better about her then, though she wasn't anywhere near the list of favorites.

BUT THEN...THE ROMANCE GAME. She asked some pretty intimate questions and he was very HRRF in the first two rounds...but then the third round question was phrased in such a way that he was thinking about Iris. "Do you feel comfortable naming them?" was definitely meant as a 'do you mind listing the people you're dating?' thing but he was thinking about naming Iris and then he just...went into spamming the private options with words after that. (Apparently Haru counted and he shared ~1500 words about his Feelings on Romantic Love with Queen Guinevere s-sob). AND NOW HE FEELS SHE IS A GOOD PERSON TO CONFIDE IN AND TRUSTS HER JUDGEMENT? After...not. for a long while. It is actually kind of hilarious. :'D

(There's also Odile, simply because she somehow slid herself into the 'deadly but sometimes cute' category, and Professor Endboss because HE'S VAGUELY FAMILIAR FOR SOME UNKNOWN REASON (also that facial hair) and Mother in that she is still one Selenia intensely dislikes but is still...interested in. AND THEN THERE'S CHANCE who he despises because their very role is terrible uncertainty and THAT IS TERRIBLE and yet he still approaches them anyway because he's seems to thrive off of rivalries that exist only in his head.)

...I am really bad at narrowing the list down sob. But Selenia does make a pretty active effort to get to know the Personae, especially the dangerous ones since he feels...sort of an obligation to help them out of their roles since there are very few people he'd think capable of it.

How about Mau and Jill and their Personae CR?