or i guess it's just all around ship-adjacent meme. flows off the tongue worse

its too hot to do like. anything. so question meme it is

court!val: 2, 4, 5, 11, 20 (any character(s) you feel like talking about)

rahia: "What's your character's "type"?" this is a funny one that's pretty much consistent across all forms of Valencia and it's big, kind of stupid men (bonus points if they're super buff/himbo type) and mature personality women that trigger her mommy issues a little. Extra points all around for monsters or otherwise nonhuman people, but also the secret

third thing of "anyone who interacts with her with blatant interest/positive attention/just genuinely cares about her wellbeing" because that sort of thing is a rarity in her life.

Does your character use pet names? Do they like being called by pet names? val never ever uses pet names for anyone, she's a very polite Full Name + Honorifics (if applicable) person, especially to anyone older than her. She actually loves being called pet names though, but that's an extension of the secret third thing above because, again, it's a rarity

What does your character think about romantic love? Do they have baggage surrounding it? Do they idealize it? Is it an object of longing and wanting, or were they really not thinking about it until it happens? What are their expectations like? She does not believe herself actually capable of love, and does not acknowledge her own feelings as such. This

mostly due to how she's raised; she was born for a purpose and should have no desires but to fulfill that. Being in love is a hindrance and a distraction, and it's for the best she can't feel it. ... So she thinks!! of course she's a normal human with normal human feelings but she has no idea how to identify this part of herself, anyway. She can acknowledge

she cares for people. she wants to be around them, crave their attention and affection and stability and their happiness and all that jazz, but she simply has no idea how to identify this as "Love." The media ideal of love (huge, bombastic emotional thing in movies and tv and books) is really all she has to go off of and as she isn't feeling the same ways

as these characters, she has to assume she's simply incapable from a variety of angles.

plurk why do you insist on not entering my words. come on now

Would your character ever feel comfortable moving out of their usual bedroom role? What's something in their comfort zone, and what's something out of it? Considering her inexperience she doesn't really have a bedroom role right now, but her comfort zone is always having some small measure of control over a situation- whether it's active command or

simply not allowing herself to be put into positions without an easy escape route. unfortunately it's way harder in Court for her to avoid these though due to objectives addling her brain when sex happens. Outside of her comfort zone is like, full willing submission with that intent being a central focus in her mind. she's too paranoid most times though

How do these two characters influence each other? Do they bring out the best in each other or the worst? this one is more essay question than i can really do well because i'm stupid. her and linnea are kind of funny though because they started off very sweet with each other and on val's end she was very quickly on track to valuing linnea as more Person

than Monster right up until she started talking about farming humans for food. and then her brain just went aaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

So currently. I would say they bring out the medium-bad in each other because val does feel bad and does actually want to be linnea's friend now that she's thought stuff over and is Coping. she does kind of sense that she's totally ruined that pathway though so she's mentally preparing herself for just uneasy neutrality on linnea's part, at best.

i was actually rereading their sex thread from a while back and thinking man. they went south SO fast for starting out like actually really good. thats what happens when you have one extremely paranoid cultist however

their sex thread was SO GOOD and then the very next thread was both of them just punching each other's neuroses at full strength

linnea enjoyed it so much in the moment and she had this third-eye-opening experience of "GENTLENESS... CAN ALSO BE THIS GOOD?!" and felt like some kind of bonding had happened

and then they fought and now IN RETROSPECT the experience is now something she's mad about sjdlgf. so then she was like "NEVER AGAIN" which is why in the dragon thread she was like "no touching that isn't biting"

and then now she's swung back around to, "would have sex with, but only on my terms and with maximum violence"

one more thread from now....????? WHO KNOWS WHAT HER ATTITUDE WILL BE

I DON'T

What is even happening with this CR oh my god

i felt like val giving her the fish during the dragon thread was like... something about to happen or maybe some conversation about to occur, but then irl happened to me and i accidentally dropped all my threads on the floor

that tag is still in my inbox and i keep staring at it like, what was going to happen, should i still pick this up, is it too late because too much has occurred in both of these character's experiences and headspaces

anyway as soon as val has a toplevel, linnea's kicking in the fucking door and yelling "WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU THINK OF ME AS A FRIEND"

"EXPLAIN THIS SHIT RIGHT NOW, NOW THAT I HAVE THE STRENGTH TO GORE YOU A SECOND TIME"

OH no it's okay she was genuinely just going to leave unless linnea had something else to say

she doesn't expect to be asked to stay because she fully feels they are no longer in that space (going back to the "val ruined everything" point)

i can toplevel her tho one sec

also yeah that IS why she was confused in dragon thread bc she does not actually know linnea doesn't like normal touching normally. so she was like oh ................ so i'm the problem (correct either way)

rahia: GOT DISTRACTED heres a val tl

i also wound up having to do a bunch of chores to prepare for tomorrow so i am tagging in right before giving up and going to bed, i'm so sorry

tomorrow is going to be a rough one at work so sorry in advance for being slow as hell for the next few days

no worries im also in hell