TL;DR CR MEME

[ironicoolly]

TL;DR CHARACTER RELATIONSHIP MEME

1. post with your characters
2. respond to other people's characters with your characters
3. they tell you in detail what their character thinks of your character, ic or ooc! tl;dr is enouraged. don't have much/any cr? respond anyway, make magic happen!
4. then you react if you want!
5. other people do the same thing to you! maybe you can harvest your tl;dr to use in a cr chart later!

(shamelessly stolen from other people)

Comments

[ironicoolly]

play your cards right and he just might, karamatsu.

SO ANYWAY Dave's interactions with Karamatsu have so far consisted of Dave being really confused and not... really knowing what to make of Karamatsu. First he thought, "okay there's no way this guy is for real." Then that changed into, "okay well he's fucking weird but he's also pretty cool," and now he just doesn't know what the fuck. Is Karamatsu genuine about any of his weird mannerisms?? Is he self-aware? Is he being ironic??? Dave has no goddamn clue, and it fascinates him. In fact, the fact that Karamatsu is able to teeter the line is legitimately impressive to Dave, and damn if Dave wouldn't love to have that ability himself. To keep the person on the other side constantly on their toes and be this inscrutable force.

Whatever Karamatsu is, he's able to deliver some ridiculous shit with confidence and poise, and that is also something that Dave can't help but be impressed by. On top of that, Dave thinks he's absolutely hilarious. When Karamatsu first approached him, Dave wasn't really looking for an enjoyable conversation. He went into the conversation already determined to come out of it disliking him, in a sense, because Dave's been burned one time too many by his human interactions and it's left him guarded, the way a wounded dog who's been kicked one too many times immediately raises its hackles whenever any person gets within fifteen feet of it. But Karamatsu is genuinely funny and makes Dave laugh in a way that's disarming, and it totally throws Dave off his game. Add onto that the fact that Dave is very encouraging of Dave in his own weird way, and Dave is absolutely endeared to Karamatsu.

Needless to say, it hurts a lot when he learns that Karamatsu was a Wraith. That maybe this person that he actually managed to kind of open up to when he hadn't opened up to anyone in a long time isn't a person and never was, in fact, a person. He's sort of angry with himself when he finds out and he thinks, damn it, Dave. How do you keep fucking doing this? This is what you get for letting anyone in. But it's too late, and now Dave can't bring himself to treat Karamatsu as a monster and stick a sword through him the way he would a monster.

So he lets Karamatsu go, and he leaves Tsukudo-cho trying to put Karamatsu out of his mind as best he can.

But Karamatsu turns up again. Dave is... well, he tries to be exasperated, but then Karamatsu is telling him about how he's turned into a genuine magi now and Dave accepts it pretty easily - he wants to accept it, because damn it, he liked Karamatsu. He likes Karamatsu.

That's probably going to be a thing that continues to be true, by the way, even if Karamatsu is about to turn Dave into a laughingstock with that hideous Christmas sweater.