Carlee's Links
"I'm grateful you're here, I feel safe and comfy around you... I'm lucky to be able to consider you a friend,"
To Carlee, Ira's as much of a friend as he is a role model in some form. She knows he's not overly sociable but appreciates his company all the same, comfortable when she interacts with him for any reason. She goes out of her way to give him a smile and a wave whenever he walks by her at work, or listen if he ever needs her to. She's named a plant after him, and has his favorite recipes memorized to make for him. She truly values their friendship and him being there for her.
"I'm happy you're here, you're a direct reminder of what I fight to protect."
"I don't know what I'd do without you in my life! I'm incredibly lucky to have you as a friend!"
Lealah's upbeat energy and strong will has been one of the few constants throughout Carlee's life as her best friend and general rock through everything she's been put through whether that's at the circumstances of their time or the trauma at the hands of other people. It's Lealah who always helps to drag her out of bed when she hasn't moved for days, reminding her to eat when she hasn't, and listening when she needs an ear or needs any sort of "bullshit detector". Carlee tries to make it up to Lea as much as she can, trying to take care of all the house chores when she has the motivation and time, making food for them, and being the ear in return whenever she needs. She's incredibly grateful for Lealah's presence in her life.
"How did I get this lucky to have a best friend like you in my life? I must have done something right, hah!"
Carlee's calm demeanor is one of Lealah's favorite things about her, and knows she's incredibly lucky to have them in her life in general. She tries her best to help Carlee wherever she can but knows that she carries too much trauma to be helped by just one person in their day to day life. So, she does the little things, and thanks them when they do the little things to show the things words can't describe. She loves living with Carlee, and dragging her out when they have days off and when they have any free time, often just dragging her on walks around until they find something to do. Lealah's so happy and grateful to have Carlee as her best friend, roommate, and practically sister.
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X is Carlee's ex boyfriend and the reason she doesn't trust herself with having any romantic relationships anymore. He manipulated her, abusing her mentally but never got physical thankfully. It took her a long time to be able to get the courage to leave him, having many breakdowns at the realization that he wasn't treating her well and even considered all sorts of avenues and bad things to do to herself to get him to leave her or just make the relationship end on its own if you get what I mean. He was not good for her mental state, and still continued to be harmful to her even after they broke up and attempted to be "friends" and even after that. He tore her mental state and self worth down to the lowest it had been, and it took her (with help from her friends) to get it even back up to a fraction of what it used to be. Things are getting better though, slowly but surely.
"Why do you think you'll be 'fine' without me? We were great!"
X genuinely can't see what he did wrong in their relationship and thinks badly of Carlee for ending it when and the way she did. He doesn't see anything wrong with what he's done and what he really continues to do with his attitude and refusal to get professional help to combat his own mental disorders and illnesses. He constantly used Carlee to help him feel better about himself and to springboard all of his ideas off of, rarely truly listening to her and her own struggles and ideas. He thinks she made poor excuses and does not understand why she couldn't give him another chance and why she eventually cut off contact with him after his repeated attempts of getting her to come back to him in some shape or form. He has thought about violence before but is too afraid of Carlee's friends to really try anything against her in that way.
"You're just so fun to be around!!!!!!"
Carlee likes Emily a lot, finding her energy and upbeatness fun. She's always happy to see her, and often takes music suggestions from her to widen her already wide music taste with suggestions from her. Carlee's thankful that they don't always need to be talking the entire time they're together, all they need is a good vibe through music or something else and they're good! She also likes to drag Emily into her and Marshall's prank wars, having memorized Emily's favorite baked goods and other items like that. Overall, while they're not the closest of friends she still loves her company and is very grateful to be able to call her a friend.
"Hahah, right back at you! Yer' the biggest sweetheart I know! ♡"
"I'm already making plans for the next stage in our little gift war, I hope you'll like it!"
Marshall is one of Carlee's favorite people. She loves talking with him, loves his cooking/baking, loves his reactions to their little gift war, and overall just loves his company in general. Without him (and Lealah) she's sure that working at Starfall Peaks wouldn't be as fun, since most of their interactions are during working hours. She also has to commend his skill in the ktichen, frequently taking inspiration from what he makes when she bakes or cooks on her own, making it all the more special to her because of the mental correlation. She's even named a fruit plant after him that she makes a point to use when she bakes!
"Oh just you wait! I've got so many more ideas in the oven! ...that was not an intentional pun."
"I will, I promise. Thank you for looking out for me."
"If someone ever gives you trouble, you let me know first, alright?"