Discourse likes Ned in his own Discoursey way. Actually, he has a nice, comfortable bubble of delusion around Heliodor where he has arbitrarily decided that they are Obviously the Greatest Team and it is highly unlikely anything is going to change his mind. So while it's not like Discourse likes being needled, he can look past small things that irritate him and see that Ned is someone thoughtful and intelligent who has an incredibly limited BUT POSSIBLY USEFUL!!1 zombie power.

Enigma... doesn't care. He doesn't like or dislike Ned. He's not particularly interested in playing on a team. Also he took a bad memory offscreen and is actively hiding right now.

So how has Sapphire been since Fallout left?

...do you expect me to have some kind of actual working long-term memory because I DO NOT.

I think overall Sapphire has been trending more and more towards stability and just SOLID FUNCTIONAL TEAMDERE and then Van Grants. Exists. And he fits into the teamdere, all right, but he also doesn't... um well everyone else on the team has a certain... moral philosophy and enjoyment of life that...

Anyway there may be some slight conflict of values or something. And Allen's headmonster woke up and Mau tried to work himself to death at least twice and we lost some girl to the Darkness (except she's coming back this week), but apart from that everything is okay. Yeah, apart from that, Allen and Mau have sort of solidified into being SAPPHIRE'S CORE and everything kind of revolves around them in a mostly functional and easy way? There aren't a lot of power struggles or relationship dramas within the team -- mostly drama comes from outside and they respond with SOLIDARITY. ...they probably tend toward self-sacrifice as a group more than they used to...

Also they have like the best food resources in all of Aather (garden and planter boxes! incest farm! hunting/fishing/gathering every day!) FALLOUT WOULD BE PROUD.

...has anybody recognized Il Palazzo from Fallout's descriptions or memories yet and how hilarious was that..?

Fallout is very proud!! o7

Sion did and it was fairly delightful. But my favorite reaction I think was Allen's, who was just like "SHE'S GOING TO KILL US" and, "THE HAIR, IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW 8|a"

Mau might be able to recognize him too, huh? Though even if he doesn't, Il Palazzo might bring it up if they run into each other. He's curious about his subordinate and his subordinate's subordinate.

Questions, questions... what's a canon that you're into right now but don't play from?