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A FUNNY GAL I EALLY LIKE HER STYLE MAYBE I DONT AGREE FULY WITH HER POLITICKS. BUT . II LIKE HER
She's an asset. He's not obligated to have many thoughts about her beyond "plucky and intelligent", but all of that seems to be rendered moot anyway when he kills her. Or so it seems. The fact she comes back to haunt him is actually kind of exciting. He's creepy.
He is a dick. Taurus is the bigger evil at play, but the Swordsman was all too eager to cut off Keane's arm and kick her into a mile long drop to the Empyrea underbelly. Keane thinks he should just.............. stop.
Cool buddy!!!! He's endearingly dumb and curious about Keane's make. Having been born with a silver spoon in his mouth he's seen a lot of androids like her but never one in her position. They seem way too fragile to take on a job like a cop. He's kind of nearly indestructible (or so it seems), so he's made it his duty to be her back-up guy and step in when things get hairy. He can be annoyingly cheery, but that's because he thinks sometimes she could use the uplifting.
She is the seasoned cop and he is the irreverent rookie. He seems to be a good person at heart, but Keane would rather work alone anyway. She lets him have his first impressions of her because she can't be bothered to correct him.
Catherine exercises caution as a standard procedure up until she gains the ability to fight back. With her newfound powers she doesn't tolerate Anselme's shitheadedness at all and is quick to lodge a tree through him, but unfortunately that only makes him want to stick around more. They are constantly in a tug-of-war that she's tired of but nevertheless has no choice to be in lest he cross a line and actually wind up killing her. Needless to say she's stressed out, but later on she comes to tolerate his presence as bigger threats begin to loom over the horizon. He's easy to ignore once you get the hang of it, and she never really found him scary anyway.
Cat is the second most fun person to mess with (Jeff being the first because of the whole Slenderman stuff). He doesn't have any long term plans for her, and enjoys letting her take the lead during their little tiffs. She's a momentary cure for his boredom. Although he doesn't have high hopes, watching her campaign against the Slenderman is interesting, in a common enemy type of way.
While putting on a theatrical, showy rivalry with Ritter, Chimmney is in truth /enraged/ at him, writhing in the unfairness that Ritter gets to be the hero, the one everyone trusts and likes when Chimmney knows full well the truth about who he is. He is childishly jealous of him, and is determined to undermine Ritter and destroy the ship when it becomes necessary.
When what Chimmney was waiting for finally happens, he finds himself incredibly guilty and empty in the aftermath. Nowhere else to go, Samantha ushers him to Ritter's doorstep. He is devastatingly depressed and guilty and can't look Ritter in the eye, expecting all the hurt that he knows he deserves. In the end, Tom becomes attached, understanding that they have no one else but each other. He can no longer be a coward and instead chooses to heal and make amends. Also it's gay
As his arch nemesis, Ritter enjoyed playing cat and mouse and utterly blocking Chimmney from gaining control over G's ship. Ritter was the first line in defense, and he did it very well. He also did it while sending Chimmney memes and bad YouTube videos. Despite Ritter's playfulness, he was always prepared to be ruthless and dangerous and let Chimmney be the only one to see his exhausted, impatient side more than once.
With things said and done, Ritter is left alone with his battered ego and all the bridges he burned along the way. With the newly declawed Tom dumped on his front door, Ritter is tempted to take out his frustration on him. But he resists. Tom has been a victim the entire time, and Ritter was no more a hero than he was. He didn't have the right.
They heal together, precariously. Tom is the only one that Ritter is able to make amends with. And like..........it gets gay
Rosie's abandonment+attachment issues come up pretty big here, as she figures it's ironic that she can only make people stick around if they're magically chained to her. She keeps up pretty well with his cruel jokes and mischief, and eventually becomes attached to him as he oddly enough shows more consideration and care for her than the real, actual humans that were in her life. She knows it's weird, but she'd do anything to make sure Anselme doesn't starve to death at her hands. She doesn't want to ruin the one good thing she has.
Rosie went from an arbitrarily chosen tool to pest, and eventually friend. Very ironic that he is unable to hurt her while she passively starves him to death. Still, there is something about the fact that she is the first human he can be around without scaring, and that's what opens up all his latent issues. He's very attached to Rosie and it works out that she's as mischievous as he is.
Jeff does not really think Mitch is as stupid or incompetent as he makes it seem, he just acts mean like that. While any desire to have companionship is totally latent, he also does not have the impulse to push people away. With Mitch being in the same boat it's a good excuse to stick together. Some part of Jeff likes being around someone who "has it worse", but the other part just kind of likes him.
Mitch can't believe Jeff's audacity and bluntness, and he's at first he's wary -- or at least, in an abstract way /thinks/ he should be a lot more wary than he actually is. Mitch is a little worried about the poor sod, to be honest. What the hell happened to his face, and furthermore, why does he go around killing people?
Push comes to shove, Mitch feels as if they're in the same boat and can't deny that Jeff is the only person who could ever relate to him or see him as more than a monster. (Don't tell him this, but he's also kind of cool.)
Jeff thinks their predicament and happenstance usefulness to each other is profoundly hilarious, and at first tags along for no real reason whatsoever beyond staving off the other monsters because he can. As he learns more about Eliza, he realizes just how miserable her own situation is, and believes it's only fitting that she be the one to finally end his life -- for good, this time.
Jeff is another monster, but the ones chasing her are afraid of him, so she needs him around. Jeff certainly succeeds in coming off as heinous and careless but his bluntness also leads her to see he was- is- human and something happened to him. He's unhappy and she can't believe that his situation is own choice. He just won't listen to her and that it makes harder for her to redeem herself for abandoning her friend.
Cat is his rock. She is both the proof that what happened was real, and the only hope he has to move on from it and be normal again. He had always depended on her trust and cooperation and now it rises to the surface in an extreme way. Jeff is very protective of Cat, the point that he often sees himself as a threat, something that is holding her back from living a regular life; even then he is terrified of being abandoned. Despite being difficult and moody, he really just wants her help and wants her to be happy. They are close enough to share a bed some nights.
A therapist might say Jeff is low key codependent tbh.
Cat tends to overthink about Jeff and his situation more than she'd ever admit, and feels responsible for him. She wants to help him heal and grow, but that task is one she isn't fully prepared for, and she ends up neglecting herself a bit in the process to balance Jeff and her new responsibilities. She feels closer to him than anybody else: for the experiences they share, the knowledge only they are privy to, and the comfortable silences they spend together. There are some things both of them understand without having to state it openly. For better or worse, they need each other.
Rosie is the first person Jeff has met for years. It means she's in hot water if she's in the mansion, and Jeff is equal parts terrified and ecstatic. His loneliness is really clawing at him to make a connection, but his stubbornness tells him it isn't worth it. Even if he won't let it show, he wants to protect Rosie from all the evil afoot. Well, he should have listened to the part of himself that's dedicated to being a heartless friendless killer: all his effort is thrown into his face when Rosie betrays him and leaves him in dire straits, for one of the monsters he's warning her about. He cuts ties then. She can figure out a way to survive on her own.
Rosie holds Jeff, playfully, at arm's length; they butt heads often because of their personalities. Rosie loves to tease and get a reaction out of him and loves the attention, and something feels a little good about getting into a fighting match with some creepy, dirty killer guy.
..At least that's as far as she'll let anyone catch on. Really, Rosie can't understand why he'd want to pay attention to her if he doesn't want something. He confuses and irritates her, but she also genuinely cares about him hidden under all those layers of jokes and poor emotional skills.
Unfortunately, she destroys any chances of friendship by betraying Jeff's trust and using him as a tool for Anse to feed with. He's rightfully devastated, and the screaming match that ensues leaves Rosie in angry, bitter tears. Whatever! She didn't care about him anyway!
Jeff is obsessed with the vigilante and never wants their arrangement to end He can’t fathom anyone taking the time to stop him from killing, let alone pay attention to him, LET ALONE doing it in such a theatric manner. If he can just keep stringing the vigilante along, he can finally feel /worth/ something. Why would he ever want to stop?
She's glad Jeff is alive, but it's so frightening and heartbreaking that he won't tell her what's wrong. If he just talked to her, she could try to help, instead of being the mysterious masked woman that vaguely threatens to harm him at night. There has to be a way to save him from himself.
Ironically, Hazel turned into everything Jeff wishes he was. Although he uses his manipulative, charismatic guard to try and charm her, in truth he has an enormous inferiority complex and is terrified of blacking out and hurting her. He tries to hide from her the kind of creature he really is, but he can't do it forever, and he can't stop himself from wanting to be her friend. Desperately.
In a perfect world, Hazel would be happy to reconnect with her childhood best friend and find out everything new about him. He'd find out how she'd grown and changed. She hopes he'd be thrilled for her. But instead it seems they've switched places, and Jeff has lost the spark in his eyes. Something evil is doing this to him and Hazel wants to make it stop.
Cat is cautious around Jack, but he's literally so enthusiastic and a little bumbling she doesn't have the energy to stress out about him too much. He's definitely /weird/, and way too overfriendly, but it's better than the alternative. She also thinks his organ harvesting shit sucks.
please. please be my friend
Whatever preconceptions Luz had about Jack arre completely erased once he reveals his true intentions of keeping her prisoner. Unsure of herself, terrified, and dependent on others, she finds herself completely alone and at the mercy of a monster. She hates it; she grows desperate and enraged, and finally remembers who she is. That person is a strong, smart, cunning woman who isn't going to die by the hands of a disgusting monster. She plays nice to throw Jack off, but on the inside she's waiting for a chance to run as far as her legs will take her.
Jack has lost everything and it's made him unbalanced. What better way to rebuild than to begin with something new. He is utterly infatuated with Luz and he can barely think of anything else. He wants to watch her move, feel the blood in her throat, bend the cartilage in her body. He will give her a home.
Sophie doesn't take Jack too seriously, considering him another figment of her imagination -- in fact, she jokingly criticizes him and teases him for it. She's down to earth, and accepts the appearance of Jack quickly; they hit it off well. She comes to think of him, rather shyly, as a kind of guardian, and teaches him things.
Sophie feels horrified and betrayed when the truth is revealed. Extremely upset, she refuses to see him or talk to him; had he been manipulating her this whole time? Her, who should've been smart enough to see it coming?
..But she can't deny the other parts of him, the parts that were kind, funny, sharp as a whip, and curious about her. She felt a true friend in him, and finds it difficult to reconcile those aspects with the cannibalistic monster he's revealed to be. After much furious, tearful debate with herself, she decides to give Jack a chance. She is infinitely curious about him and the way he is, and wants to understand /why/.
She feels protective over Asia and particularly relates to her as similar people in a really just sucky situation. She doesn't trust Jeff around her and kind of moms her even though she's only a year older. There's a lot of trying to do normal human stuff with her even though it's clear Asia isn't entirely a person yet at the beginning of the story.
Cat is great, and Asia doesn't mind her protectiveness, even if it is unnecessary. She lends a lot of new perspective to chew on.
Cat really turned his world upside down. Five years of isolation and suddenly there's more of himself wandering in. Proxies. Victims. When it becomes clear he can't get rid of her, Jeff decides to enlist her in his new plan to defeat the Slenderman, but she's being stubborn about the 'trust' thing. It's frustrating and for her to abandon him now would be devastating. She doesn't have to like him, but he wants her to believe in him.
Cat /does not/ trust Jeff, not even as far as she can throw him. Even though he says that she can trust him and that he won't hurt her, she finds it hard to believe when he seems just fine hurting everyone else. She's scared, and refuses to let her guard down for a good while, but the stress takes its toll and she finds herself assuming something almost friendly with him. Never tender or coming to a real understanding, but..friendly.
The Warden is her enemy, but she has made a vow to never do harm again. As his only caretaker, she is in a unique position to challenge his perspective and share her true feelings: that he's a bloodthirsty madman. The more that is revealed to her, though, the more she thinks he is growing tired of his in-born purpose, but feels he has no way out. She relates to that, and if it means saving thousands of innocent lives, she'll try to reach him and get him to change. Their talks are a philosophical tug of war and she would be lying to say she was not intrigued by his way with words. In other circumstances, they would get along.
One irony that healer keeps secret is that she knows she must be one of the few people in the prison that deserve execution. Warden is not privy to her difficult past.
The Warden is very aware that he is in a position to easily be killed, and he deeply respects Healer's dedication to her moral code and what she believes. He doesn't mind being called a monster by her, as monsters seem to be the only creatures who get things done. She challenges him in many ways, and pries open the tiny crack in his steel-encased resolve. He knows that this can't go on forever, deep down, and so does she, but he must see this through, with or without her help. Even if it kills him.
He enjoys their talks and how brazen she is, how open she is with that she thinks and feels, even if sometimes her lack of respect irritates him.
[BANGING ON IROJ'S UPSTAIRS ROOM] ARE YOU COMING DOWN FOR DINNER HONEY I MADE YOUR FAVORITE
perpetual rebellious teenager phase
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Iroj is a thorn in Otsilam's side but oftentimes he doesn't really care about it too much to make a move, like the anhedonic snake he is. He'll only put Iroj in his place if the binch idiot decides to hurt Aletta or others.
bonch. Otsilam was almost respectable back in Ohot, but now out of his element he seems like a real idiot.
Otsilam in all his years has never quite experienced someone like Aletta. She's a rabbit in her warren dashing in and out, burying herself. He finds himself deeply curious about her and entertained by her. Humans are so unlike Ohots; angry, finite, changing constantly, and Aletta is no exception. What began as a simple delight in teasing her and viewing her as a small, weak thing blooms into something else. She has strength that can't be understood in terms he is used to; in fact, she defies his definitions at all. She teaches him things where he thought there was nothing more to learn.
Otsilam is cold, mean, and alien, but Aletta has to keep him from causing a worldwide freak out. And... he's a person, despite what he says, who shouldn't be captured by the FBI or whatever. She notices his growing curiosity and maybe even softness the more they go through together. Sharing ideas makes her think he is missing something dire, and being trapped on Earth is his only opportunity to attain it. If he wants it, she'll show it to him. She begins to like the way he looks at her.
Lorentz is completely thrilled by Tess's nonchalance and on-the-edge-of-society roguish lifestyle, free from most obligations and to make her own choices. She finds her attitude a breath of fresh air from the stuffy tech people back at home base, and would give just about anything if it'd make her life and job easier. Also, she's /beautiful/.
Lorentz is the cutest person and Tess could listen to her ramble about her bad coworkers and science stuff forever. She admires her for not letting red tape hold her back. She likes seeing Lorentz flustered, too, and excited about new things. She is a very accomplished woman, and Tess just doesn't want to ruin that with her own reputation.