tl;cr meme

[whattaprick]

tl;dr relationship meme
♥ post your characters!
♥ respond to other people's characters with your characters!
♥ they tell you what their character thinks of your character, ic or ooc! tl;dr is enouraged but first impressions or even just impressions from hearsay are a-okay!
♥ react if you want! wallow in da feels
♥ other people do the same thing -- maybe you can use these for a CR chart later? go nuts

Comments

[starseedling]

MY GOOD PAL

[kingsroads]

Someone please save this child from all the fae bullshit. Because a lot of Strange's actions towards Steven are colored by the fact that this kid has been put through so much fae bullshit. And he's not someone like Childermass, where he can cope with all the fae bullshit or someone like Strange who just dives headfirst into fae bullshit. Steven 100% got a bad rap and has to deal with the bad rap and that's just something that Strange wants to try his hardest to change.

Steven is one of the few people who Strange sees as a kid, unlike how he sees some of the other younger carnival members (Rita & Susan are magicians, 9S is a coworker, etc.) Which is interesting, because this means he'll actually think through his actions and conversations with Steven more than other carnival members, doing things like trying to comfort him in the pre-manor radio post or trying to distract the conversation from Portland's everything when they were in the Summerlands. One of the things that Strange is just AMAZINGLY self-conscious about is the fact that he doesn't want to turn into his father, who was the literal worst and was terrible with children. The fact that Strange thinks of Steven as a kid means that he cares what Steven thinks about him and is trying his hardest to work his way through their conversations so he doesn't torpedo it and so Steven thinks that he's not a garbage fire of a human being.

He also cares more about what Steven thinks about him because heeeeey, who has two thumbs and lingering guilt over trying to kidnap him in Portland, it's Strange.

Anyway, this is Jonathan Strange we're talking about and he can mess something up just by breathing, so for all of his 'trying to think things through' and 'trying to be a decent adult to Steven' like half the time it's gonna fall flat.