i don't. think i did anything but backtags all September

probably it's due to that that it feels like theres been little to no progression of things scarlet is doing. however the backtags are necessary for progression so i'm not particularly fussed about it + am happy about tags at all its just kind of (shrugs weakly) at what she has going on rn which is. not much

feeling a little adrift!! i am trying to get her out and about more with other characters but (and this is just me personally. and nothing anyone has done) im entering that feeling of "i am being too much/am not being fun to play with" so with good ends announcements i am wondering if maybe i should just bite the bullet on that

especially with lots of significant cr going or otherwise unavailable and also just making spur of the moment bad character decisions... thats on me though

i AM excited for betrayal though and i have not actually lost the motivation to play her and have in fact been thinking about maybe bringing indium back as well bc i just do want to keep playing in LL. but.

gestures vaguely to my perpetual inadequacies and shit

i wish i had made better IC decisions in the last few months rather than just going with the flow/what seemed fun at the time because i do fear it is coming back to bite me. resigned a little that due to various factors probably i am not gonna be able to do the couple of things i DID want to do with scarlet but that's fine honestly

all that said i'm not exactly unhappy with where scarlet is ICly but i'm just putting forth mental predictions of like. (pointing at various things) ah yeah these are never gonna get addressed/noticed/fixed/etc and i'm mostly fine with that. i AM still having fun with her... i love her a lot

i do wish i had more reachable goals for her beyond just "icly poke at people and hope they poke back" right now but i feel like im kind of in this rebuilding/building new closer cr zone

kicks the door in im not making a new plurk for characters as spouses meme so happening here

SCARLET......... WOULD BE A BAD WIFE!! AT FIRST!!!

she would catch on into being less bad about general life stuff pretty quickly so being bad at chores/etc is a temporary issue. however

her mental health problems.

she does kind of need someone who can deal with her insecurity well enough so that's the first hurdle. the second being new problems arise with things like "actual marriage" and "potentially having kids" and "having to think about the future and future milestones at all"

truly casual dating is probably the best thing with her. for everyone else's sanity not her own

slides back in here after thinking some more. canon valencia would actually be a pretty decent spouse though all things considered. i mean scarlet eventually would too she's just got shit to work through first. but like

she's the or die part of ride or die bc once she attaches to someone for real it is basically impossible for her to drop them. she will follow people she loves to the ends of the earth. she will be a massive hypocrite for them. she WILL fight people about her moral standing and her expectations but she is not really someone who is willing to drop people

for perceived bad behaviour (or actual) which is true for like. friends. people she is Actually In Love with get such a huge pass it's ridiculous

she tends to draw the line at being treated like a plaything/whore/etc but fortunately everyone she's invested in/involved in is dog trainable in many ways.

she does not I Can Fix Them people but she DOES You Will Respect Me In This Moment Or I Will Crazy Murder You them

kids are still a point of insecurity but thats a "i do not want to turn into my mother" thing and not a "she would just be a bad mother" thing. she would be a pretty good mother! she is actually very good with young children! it is just not something she thinks about due to her everything but if/when it comes up she does tend to have the

"do i want kids??" spiderman moment

... if you want a housewife who can cook and clean though it's not here and will never be her sorry shes still a spoiled rich girl at heart. she IS however very handy and very artistic. canon val is good at guns AND most any drive-able vehicle, expert hunter/tracker and not afraid to break down her own meat, handy with survival shit, etc

this is mostly true for hsr val as well and sort-of-true of scarlet as well.

coming back to this AGAIN because i forgot i had other characters

aglaea: great spouse but WILL sacrifice you for the good of humanity. but she'll also do the same to herself so at least she's consistent. canonically raised a child and also mentored(?)/raised other children most of which came out of it well-adjusted and kind. unfortunately kind of teetering on the edge of being a soulless husk of a person however

ruan mei: no

azalea is a good spouse if you basically want the perfect housewife but she WILL take off for personal enrichment and will also never be content to just stay in place. someone needs to match her freak. not a horrible parent but kind of accidentally neglectful/unattuned to the needs of people who might care for her in many ways

indium/gale would be a bad husband because the guy just has too much damage to be in a committed relationship. if you want a husband who might wander off and/or is extremely depressed but can hunt for food AND make stuff from leather i guess he's the guy for you though