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avalaughs2021-06-21 09:30 pm
leicesters) wrote in avalaughs2021-06-21 09:30 pm
the tl;cr meme
the tl;dr character relationships meme
It's exactly what it sounds like! tl;dr about your character and their current relationships with others in game, or use it as a sounding board to talk about how potential cr might go down in future.
steps:
1. leave a toplevel with your character's name
2. comment to others' toplevels with the character relationship(s) you'd like them to tl;dr about
3. reply to their response with your own characters' thoughts on the cr!
4. gush/commiserate/poke fun at/meme on all our dumb characters and their dumb interactions idk
5. feel free to use the responses to throw together a cr chart, or link one if you already have one!
Irhya Pendhula (WoL OC) | Final Fantasy XIV
Re: Irhya Pendhula (WoL OC) | Final Fantasy XIV
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Irhya likes and respects Barbara a lot, and admittedly wants to spar with her sometime to see how good she is with that lance. For not having as good a handle on language as the rest of them, Barbara certainly personifies the idea of actions being the most powerful language of all. And she kind of wants to be there for her even if they don't know each other that well yet, just because she feels like perhaps there's some commonality yet to be found. Their life experiences are pretty incomparable, but adversity can build fellowship, too, as she's learned with Estinien likewise.
Barbara seems very independent and can clearly hold her own, too, so if something should pop up on the quest board that requires killing things effectively that piques her interest, she's pretty high on the list of candidates Irhya would turn to for that.
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Caster, to Irhya, seems to be a woman mired deeply in... some kind of lingering sorrow, she isn't sure what yet. It resembles the kind of sorrow that makes people want to self-destruct in the face of all reason, no matter what anyone says to the contrary. Part of why she didn't go after her to free Darin, beyond knowing someone was going to have that part covered already, was because it seemed like an act of desperation over an act of vengeance. Both may have been true, but perhaps only because she was willing to take down the other guy with her in the process.
So, a hot mess of contradictions, basically. What to do with that? Irhya's not in the business of shunning people if they're genuinely at rock bottom, when they think they've nothing left to lose, and would sooner play devil's advocate if it feels more like an elaborate suicide than an execution, so to speak. People have done that before to her, and even if their deeds were undeniably vile, it was still hard not to feel something for them -- it's like to be the same here.
These are all just gut feelings, so knowing the truth might eventually change some things and cement in others if it happens, but she intends to at least prove she meant what she said by standing by a social outcast. Even if her reputation is mostly self-made in this case.
(She's still going to check in with her, by the way; I've just been struggling to keep up lately. I'll backdate something for her inbox soon, hopefully!)
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That's interesting, though- and yes, she is a hot mess of contradictions and grief and everything else, so I'd be curious to have them chat once Caster's calmed the hell down and they can talk properly.
(And no rush at all! Whenever you get the chance that will be lovely~)
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cw: brief mention of talk of rape
Emet still frustrates her at times, sure. There have been instances where she absolutely just wanted to throttle him, and not in a sexy way. In the end, their worldviews still oppose each other, even if he is no longer at the mercy of his god's will; it's still something she has to contend with, and whether it's just something that can be chalked up to stupid lovers' spats or something more serious, she isn't sure yet.
But like Yotsuyu before him, it's hard not to feel something for him, even as someone who's killed many more than she could've ever dreamed of doing. He won't acknowledge it; he literally can't if he doesn't want to carry the weight of countless lives upon his shoulders. He's stuck in a shitty situation with no one left to turn to, and though she wants to see him pick himself up and move on for as long as he has left, like mortals do, his entire coping mechanism involves dancing around the mountain of problems that build under him until he can't ignore them anymore. It took that one instance in Duplicity where he made that suggestion of assaulting her, in his visceral anger, for her to realize just how deep the both of them had fallen.
It's not a romance, and it probably never will be. Sometimes love alone isn't enough to make one. So she thinks, anyway. But it is enough to keep her going, at least, and even if she never has anything like it again, it's enough to remember fondly. She snuffed out his life and his dream, but at least he'll never be spoken of poorly as long as she's the one writing history.
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...The trouble comes when she does think deeper about it, though. There's guilt, certainly, even though she isn't fully responsible for it -- she is still a byproduct of the Sundering, like it or not. He's a fish out of temporal and cultural water, and some of the grittier aspects of humanity probably don't sit well with him, yet she never hears him complain about it. It's sort of like she wants to prove they're not all bad, befriending him as a means of apologizing... but something like "hey, sorry everyone from your world ends up dead, but it's not all bad, right?" doesn't go over well no matter how you frame it.
And to that end, she worries. That someone will take advantage of him, or use his inability to defend himself to some nastier end. That he'll see some of the uglier sides of them and decide, finally, that enough is enough. If he of all people gave her a withering look like that, she's pretty sure a little (actually really big) piece of her heart would die inside. Certainly, she knows there must be something he's holding in, all the conflicted thoughts and opinions about what happens in his future and who's involved in it, but she just hopes that layer underneath never reaches a breaking point. He seems like he'd be scary if he were really, truly angry.
He's a gremlin, but he's an extremely good gremlin. And she deeply appreciates his gremlin presence! For both Hades's sake and her own, because he really does seem like the sort of sweetheart she only encounters every once in a great, great while. Rare and irreplaceable, like Haurchefant was, but with the "unrepentant little shit" factor turned up to maximum. Someone she will probably never see the like of again for a long time to come. So, short though it may be, she's happy she's gotten the opportunity to spend time with the real him. No regrets at all, 10/10, would visit again. ♥