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The Doctor fell in love with Luke instead of her. Suddenly Aletta's future as she knew it has become skewed, and she knows she must one day leave the Doctor's side. The fear is all consuming. There is nothing wrong with Luke. He is kind, patient, and has been through so much. He reaches the Doctor on a level that Aletta realizes she never did. He is her friend, and she doesn't know the anxiety she is causing him with her grief.
Luke enjoyed hearing the Doctor talk about Aletta. She was someone that pulled him out of a dark place and truly made him happy. He wished he could meet her-- this smart, stubborn, fiery hero. When he gets his wish, it's in much more dour circumstances than he wanted, and now all Luke wants to do is disappear. Not only is the Doctor keeping the truth from her, she is already heartbroken by Luke taking her place. She doesn't deserve this. The Doctor doesn't deserve this. All Luke does is get in the way.
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.
Anse is an indiscriminate killer who does it for fun and that puts him straight on Jeff's shitlist. (Jeff doesn't care if that makes him a hypocrite somehow. He can still hate terrible people while being one.) When the other proxies show up, Jeff is very protective of them against Anselme, as long as they aren't jackasses about his warnings.
Anse is a long time rival of the Slenderman and was delighted to see it had a new plaything. He likes to check in on and bully Jeff, but he can't play too rough or Slendy gets upset. There is really nothing very deep about Anse's antagonistic motives toward Jeff... he just likes pissing him off.
This is the bastard that ripped open his hands, and he didn't even take the opportunity to kill him once he was unconscious. To Ritter, that means the fight never ended. He wants his revenge and he wants Anthen to know he doesn't forget such slights. Afterwards, though, he's fine to have a conversation if he'd like.
He loves Cille. She keeps him grounded and puts the breaks on making really bad, illegal choices. When he's not being illegal, they have adventures together. Cille is his Queen
Roran thinks the Doctor is reckless and ignorant. Technically, the Doctor did do the thing that later resulted in the downfall of his entire species, but it's not like it was on purpose. Perhaps Roran is dealing with misplaced anger and pain. Whatever the case, the Doctor is his target of ire, and while he is not above asking the Doctor for favors, he always does it with a bitter smile. Since nothing he does will matter in the end, he may as well live long enough to see what the Doctor does next.
It was only natural that Jack should run into the Gauntlet. A few gangs more or less sicced him on Jack with their complaints of his behavior, both the obnoxiously friendly kind and the violent kind; luckily for them both, they see eye to eye about the raiders. (For the most part.) Jack and Jensin become swift friends although it's in their best interest to keep that on the down low, or the gangs will start drama. They spar with each other often and Jack is always happy to spend time catching up. Jensin is one of the very few people Jack can say he trusts. He has a bit of a crush, but who doesn't???
Despite their closeness Jack is unwilling to divulge any of his secrets to Jensin. He is curious about Jensin's origins, however, as he can sense that he is not a natural born raider.
Roran was the first alien other than the Doctor that Aletta befriended! She had no idea that he would turn tragic due to their actions. Roran, however, is a very hard person to get close to, and she thinks he doesn't want her help. He seems to tolerate her better than the Doctor, maybe out of pity, which Aletta doesn't appreciate. She hopes Roran finds peace somehow.
It's a shame Aletta is infatuated with the Doctor. He could easily start a fight explaining everything that's wrong with him, but Roran doesn't really want to hurt her like that. He low key watches out for her when they're around, but in the long term he doesn't think it will matter.
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.
IF ANYTHING I SEE YOU AS A BOTHER FIGURE BECAUSE YOU'RE ALWAYS BOTHERING ME
do you see me as a father figure
A necessary evil. Teal is ambitious and talented, which are two things he dislikes most in a magician. But, they are also loyal and driven by their own need for knowledge, so he can count on them to stick around. They seem to not understand the gravity of certain situations, though.
Eli is Teal's boss. He offers the opportunity to get into a lot of illegal magic stuff, so Teal is very happy to be a part of the team, especially since nothing dire to their happiness is on the line. Teal doesn't realize how unique that makes them. Anyway, Eli is a huge stick in the mud and keeps a lot of secrets, but Teal is a project kind of person.
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.