tl;cr meme

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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

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[hippocarnival]

Tell me how you really feel Foster.

TW: suicidal ideation discussed heavily and also immediately

[criticallyfucked]

So, this one is interesting.

Foster's CR with Yuya is tainted by what Yuya said to him in Portland during the ritual. In the span of a sentence or two, Yuya basically suggested to Foster that 1. he didn't understand what was wrong with himself well enough and 2. his reason for wanting to die (and wanting to die THAT BADLY) wasn't good enough.

Foster has never forgiven Yuya for this.

MONTHS later, he still hates Yuya so much that he and Reira can't talk about Yuya at all--he knows Yuya is her canonmate now, but just saying Yuya's name reminds him of what Yuya said, and that creates an actual emotional backlash in Foster so strong that... well, yeah. They changed subjects immediately.

This has actually saved Yuya some grief, as Foster is not inclined to believe Yuya is worth trying to communicate with, and so tends to leave before making any stronger effort to convince Yuya of anything.

This is kind of complicated by the fact that Yuya tends to possess a lot of traits that Foster regards with envy and contempt in equal measure. Yuya's sincerity, for example, is something Foster has literally never possessed*, and while on the one hand, he ostensibly views sincerity as admirable, something you have to work hard for and must be able to afford in yourself, he also kind of hates Yuya for how being so transparent and wasting his efforts so easily. He basically views Yuya as unworkable because he feels everything he believes and Foster just can't even understand that. He actually(!) makes no assumptions about Yuya's life over it, though. The one time Foster didn't assume something, amazing.

All of the above is why their CR has been such a fucking tire fire.


*Foster's disease was present very early in life, but obvious low empathy/emotional scarcity is pretty socially unacceptable, so he was pressured, as most people with low empathy, to lie a LOT and "act" feelings he didn't have at all. This wasn't even like, an intentional thing people did--just imagine how you're expected to be excited about everything you open at Christmas, and think about not being able to feel excited about things. As an adult, he has concluded this makes him a pretty horrible person, and so people who have a lot of emotions in general tend to put him off. He can't even say the word 'sorry' sincerely, so now he never does. Yuya being very sincere is just sort of a constant "in your face" thing to him.



That's Side A. I have to go to work, so you'll have to wait for the less depressing Side B, but I promise it does exist.

[criticallyfucked]

Okay, so. Side B.

Shorter, thank god, but.

All of this actually means they actually HAVE CR. Normally, he would have written Yuya off the instant Yuya declared he would NEVER use Foster, but now he's like... stuck unable to stop engaging Yuya whenever he sees him.

So he's just like... deliberately inflicting Yuya on himself because he's so mad about that.

And the fact that Yuya is friends(?) with Reira is complicating because frankly, Reira is one of two or three people (depending on whether you count Amethyst) Foster would actually do something for without being told to and frankly if Yuya actually cares about Reira, he's not 'allowed' to complain about him....