Relationship Meme

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Well, now that everyone has been traumatized by the Epic Shadow Plot, I'm sure a lot of you have built up tons of CR with people. So, it's time for:

Relationship Meme!

You know how it works! Reply here with all your characters and a CR list (if you have one) and then wait for people will respond asking for your character(s)'s opinion(s) are on theirs.

Get to it!

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Death

Gesicht: She likes him. (copy + paste, copy + paste...)

As for character specific reasons, she of course knows the things he's forgotten about himself, and she's much too perceptive to miss the similarities between the two of them. She plays at mortality once a century to learn empathy, but in Gesicht's case it comes easily.

Death is one of the seven six (dammit Destruction) most powerful entities in the universe, vital to it yet not fully a part of it, created to serve its needs and lacking a purpose otherwise. Her immense power is leashed only by her will, and while Gesicht doesn't think this is true in his case, she's aware of what really happened. And last, Death has known deep, deep grief for which she has no outlet.

She knows they're going to have a lot to talk about in a few months.

Togusa

Gesicht: Togusa doesn't really register Gesicht as a robot, because he's not as limited as service robots like the gynoids, and because he's nowhere near as annoying as the tachikoma. He knows, but he lacks a mental category for "fully human-like robots." Gesicht goes in the "full-body cyborg" emotional file with Batou and the Major, and as far as Togusa's concerned, cyborgs are people. When he does remember Gesicht came from a scientist and his lab loving each other very much, any residual anti-robot sentiment from the first series is gone in the wake of what he's found out about the tachikomas' actions while Section 9 was on the run.

Thus, Togusa judges Gesicht on his own merits, and given that the community is full of headcases, Gesicht comes out looking good (not that he wouldn't even in a more regular setting.) Gesicht is comfortingly normal to Togusa, and he relates to Gesicht the same way he'd relate to any professional colleague with whom he had a compatible personality. Given that Togusa's life is his job, this means that Gesicht is rapidly moving into being a friend, a position previously reserved for the other Section 9 members.

Also he feels bad that Gesicht never gets a vacation. :(

Batou: Batou is his best friend, though you'd have to hack his brain to get him to admit it. ...Not that either of them hide it very well. Shut up, they're cops, not actors, okay?

Togusa feels awful about the fact that Batou's life is basically barren, and that he's in love with a woman Togusa is sure will never return the affection, even if they were in a position where it wouldn't be inappropriate to do so. He has no idea how to deal with this beyond making it the one thing he won't tease Batou about.

As for their professional relationship, Togusa is at the start of the transition from regarding Batou as a mentor and a superior to seeing him as a peer, a process that will be complete by the time SSS happens. He's beginning to stop automatically trusting Batou's judgment over his own, and to notice the time when the way Batou handles situations isn't just different, but actually flawed. He's still got a long way to go, and for the time being, Batou's experience is still keeping him in the lead, but Togusa is just starting to notice the change, even if he's not consciously sure why he's a little uneasy. Right now, he's chalking it up to stress, but sometime between the end of 2nd Gig and SSS, the balance of the relationship is going to shift.

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Death. ;_;

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BAWWWW

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/SOBS