doesnothappen | question meme-ish

Impressions on Naoto?

HEART ROOM

i don't have real questions i just love heart rooms

Smart and nerdy and awesome. Clearly this is someone who he should continue to harass about projects and things he wants to learn all the time, even if he is occasionally self-conscious around her because she has an entirely different set of assumptions about what basic normal skills are. Mau in general is pretty comfortable around people who are more quiet and reserved; he's good at clowning and joking and being social, but a lot of that is a front he puts on to be normal and approachable and fit in. Company like Naoto's is generally more restful. He respects her intelligence and teaching skills and wants to get to know her better!

Reverse?

[You find yourself in a spacious, rectangular room with pale blue walls and a high, white ceiling. It's very quiet. The room has one window, and one door on the opposite wall. The window looks out onto a garden, much like Sapphire's garden, except open and sprawling across fields, though still orderly. Beyond the cultivated land, in the distance, you can see the sparkle of the sea. You seem to be at second-story height.

The room is furnished with a double bed, a desk, a little wood stove in one corner, and a wardrobe like the one in Sapphire. It's neat and tidy, and there's a collection of stuffed animals on the bed. The floor is soft blue carpet that muffles any noise.]

IDK WHAT A HEART ROOM IS.

You could relationship Sakuya and Jill or do that if nothing's changed!

...who farms all of that.

[poking at the stuffed animals]

A HEART ROOM is when you say GIVE ME A HEART ROOM and then I tell you what it would look like if I were to run a heart game for one of my characters and there was an area in it that represented your character/my character's relationship with your character/my character's thoughts and ideas on your character etc etc.

AND THEN IF YOU WANT you play out exploring it or whatever. I will do one for you after this if you want!

But as for relationship, Jill still thinks Sakuya is the coolest bird who tells the coolest stories, but by this point she's also noticed that he's kind of prickly. She doesn't really mind, but she thinks he seems lonely and defensive and she wants to be his friend '^' so yeah I guess on her side, the relationship has moved from sort of casual admiration centered on how much he can entertain Jill to a bit of genuine concern and compassion and the recognition of him as an individual with real feelings.

By the way, the fact that she didn't see him like that before has nothing to do with the fact that he is a pigeon, because Talking Animals are pretty much normal okok -- it has everything to do with the fact that she's a fourteen-year-old kid.

Reverse! Or if nothing has chanced tell me about Lenalee's thoughts on Mau.

H-How are we doing now?

[there's a lamb, a Sapphire puppy, a winged snake and a rockzile -- they are soft and warmer than the ambient temperature and feel like friendship, but nobody answers]

Mau has been feeling kind of disconnected from Selenia lately (because he's busy ICly and because I OOCly avoid philosophical discussions between them but shhhh shhhh), which... mildly worries him because he likes to try and keep track of how everyone on Sapphire is doing at any given time. He's also worried about how Selenia will do in the wake of Nessa leaving.

His vague impression is that Selenia is on a fairly paranoid conspiracy theory driven kick right now, but he's not really sure why he has that impression, or if he's right, or what brought it on specifically. And he's not really sure where the line is between offering his support and prying, so he's kind of just... letting well enough alone.

Overall, Mau still sees his relationship with Selenia as one between equals; as far as he's concerned, they should be able to agree or disagree on any number of issues and still care about each other and work together! He loves him and wants him to be happy and wants to trust him to find his own way of doing things and getting by, so he's... trying to do that...

At the same time, he's a bit concerned Selenia will feel like Mau is rejecting him because he's trying not to police and question him so much. The conversation in which Selenia talked about not being able choose between Nessa and Apple compounded that concern for mostly unrelated reasons! There was obviously an opening there for Mau to invite Selenia home with him, and he did worry that Selenia would feel abandoned when Mau didn't take that opening, but he still wasn't going to do it. For one thing, if he ever does invite anyone home with him, he's never going to do it if he feels the least bit pressured -- it's going to be entirely freely offered. For another thing, he's not going to invite anyone home with him unless they literally have nowhere else to go without talking to the people at home, first. For a visit, sure! But not to live.

SO YEAH in reality that conversation didn't reflect on Mau's personal feelings for Selenia at all, but he was aware that it might seem that way. I bring it up because overall, Mau still more or less feels the same affection toward Selenia and the same interest in his well-being as always, but he's worried that the way he's acting -- trying to give Selenia more space and thus implicit trust, not inviting him home when it came up, and so on -- will have a negative impact on how Selenia feels about him!

...that was sort of a two part answer because Mau's observations about Selenia's behavior and mental state are somewhat separate from his feelings for Selenia or his thoughts about their relationship but... yes...

REVERSE.

Relationship for Silver and Nick?

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

Nick feels very indebted to Silver for helping him, and is always ridiculously touched whenever anyone expresses concern for his well-being, so he just thinks Silver is clearly such a good guy and wants to do anything for him and if Silver ever called him or even just said hello to him he would be ecstatic. HE CAN BE A GOOD SWANBOY, A GOOD SWANBOY LIKE YOU WANTED.

Reverse?

Relationship for Angie and Jill?

Fleur is clearly an intelligent, forthright, kickass lady who is super easy to be around because she explicitly and specifically asks for the kind of help she wants and is willing to make exchanges and isn't weird about it. It's very relaxing. CASUAL BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP STATUS ACCEPTED IMMEDIATELY.

Reverse?

I am answering your question so you should write cool things while I do that. IDK DO...AN AU...where aather is now modern day high school???

As a ficlet or should I just babble about it or do you want me to set up a PREMISE COMMENT and then we thread it out?

Ditto, basically. Mau gets a billion and a half extra points for seeming very uncomplicated, unimpressed and straightforward. Uncomplicated strangers are like the number one point on her list right now. She needs more of them.

She thinks he's very bright! Mostly though it's just helpful helpful helpful kind.

Who does mau wanna run classes with?

Hmmmmmmm Just babbling about it!

[wraps the snake around his neck like how he carries the real one]

[opens the wardrobe]

Jill keeps trying to place Angie as either an upperclassman or a grown-up, and she can't seem to make either designation fit. She really likes and respects Angie, and there have been plenty of situations, especially after trauma games, where she felt like she could both offer comfort and receive it freely... so she feels close to her, but in this weird way where she hasn't articulated it in her head like that and it's very perfunctory and taken for granted because on some level it feels like they have nothing in common except shared trauma and frustrations.

So I guess maybe it would be fair to say, she feels like her life is very bound up with Angie's but she still doesn't feel like she knows her well on a personal level. It feels like a wartime bond! Which is not abnormal for Jill, but it's why she doesn't really try to confide in or do normal things with Angie.

Reverse?

In light of recent hilarity, HEART ROOM ME

If Aather were a modern day highschool we'd have to age adjust like EVERY SINGLE PERSON but! In this AU the Personae are the inexpressibly weird school staff, and all the teams are a single grade; the team groupings are actually their assigned groups for Career and Personal Planning Class, so they have to keep doing group projects together, which practically every student deeply resents.

For every class other than CAPP, most groups get split and can only meet in the hallways, because this is a Vancouver Inner City highschool AU so homeroom only meets literally once a year, and you get to choose a few classes so everyone gets shuffled into their core curriculum classes wherever they fit around those. CAPP, on the other hand, meets once a week, which means at least once a week for their entire highschool career, the students of Aather High are forced into these stupid (gemstone named, gahd, how lame!) group project teams, so there is a certain amount of forced getting to know one another.

Mau is the kid in the Sapphire group who doesn't really speak up much or overtly try to organize anyone, but just kind of quietly slips in suggestions and completed bits of work that means no matter how loudly anyone else takes over, they always somehow end up with some kind of finished product that gets a decent mark. He acts more or less completely bored the entire time, and makes appropriately sarcastic jokes about the teacher, and generally appears totally normal and unremarkable... but nobody ever accuses him of slacking for some reason.

Outside of CAPP, Mau is on the soccer team, where he plays defense well but not spectacularly. He mostly hangs out with Josh and Ven and is middlingly popular; he works at being normal and he does it well. He's not one of those kids who gets good grades without trying and is arrogant about it, but he does get good grades. Nobody knows if it's because he works really hard or is secretly a genius, because he never offers any opinion on how easy anything is. He's one of the few kids his age who has a weekend job. He takes all sciences.

Only his close friends know that he's ambitious, restless, and actually a really angry kid -- only his best friends know what happened to his family.

OKAY KEEP ADDING STUFF ON let's make this ridiculous, tell me about Apple in this setting!

There is some sense that the dynamic has changed but also that this is Probably a Good Thing, which is a concept he is learning. Selenia's been deliberately trying to back off from Sapphire since he had a pretty significant thread with Apple where they both kind of exploded and then talked about all the ways they hurt each other which was a bit of wake up call to how he was using Sapphire as a bit of crutch/ideological punching bag. Which with Mau specifically, when he doesn't know if what he's going to say is crazy and hurtful or not he just opts to...not say it.

Which goes over to the invitation. Selenia isn't going to take the 'not offering an invite home' thing as a rejection or attempt at abandonment. He mainly brought up Apple's invite because that was something on his mind and it happened very soon after 'losing' Nessa but then Mau asked if Nessa even invited him and he realized he was being a bit crazy and deluded and then backed off. Mau not inviting him home was actually a good thing because the thing that made Apple's invitation terrifying is that he would have to make a choice between going to her world and potentially leaving everyone else behind and choices are terrifying! He kind of wanted to articulate that but he has had a bit of a uh, Stressful Time and so he shifted the conversation to Mau's plans which didn't involve anything terrifying on his end.

But he has some Good News for Mau in reserve once things have calmed down enough to actually talk, since Selenia learned a bit about how trauma games work from Jabberwock (and also that Jabberwock listened to the idea of not running trauma games and considered them and all without biting his head off) and he'd want to see if there's something to the idea of there being a Three-esque balance in the way trauma games are run in accordance to Mau's experiences, and also get his advice on what can be done with that information.

How is Jill doing? I noticed Edmund lent her a very strange cat for one thing!

[You are in a forest grove. On your left, a cliff of crumbling black rock towers up, the slope not quite vertical. It's overgrown with vines, orchids and flowers, and there are many handholds and footholds; it might not be a safe climb, but it wouldn't be a particularly difficult one. A thin, rapid waterfall splashes noisily white down the cliff, ending in a little clear pool with a black sand bottom, from which a little stream pours, cutting downhill across the clearing and into the undergrowth on the other side.

Ringing the rest of the area, and growing up quite close to the cliff base, are huge, ancient tropical chestnut and fig trees; their trunks are too smooth to shimmy up, their branches out of reach. All around the edge of the clearing, the undergrowth presses thick and high; the clearing itself has obviously been recently created by some human hand. The land has been cleared to the very soil, which looks fertile and rich.

It's very odd that nothing is growing here, when the plants in the surrounding jungle are unmistakably racing and competing for every inch of soil and sunlight, but it does seem to have been recently tilled... maybe it's been sown with something. Judging from the fact that sunlight is shafting through to the ground, obstructed only by the highest level of canopy, trees were felled to make this space.

The air is hot and humid, but a fitful breeze is blowing. Birds are singing -- some sweetly and some with harsh cries. If you look up, you can see them flitting about, but none choose the trees of this particular grove to land in. A well trampled path follows the stream out of the grove.]

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