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So, as I was mentioning on plurk - I'm something of a psychology nerd and love pondering over how precisely the thought processes of another works/operates/etc. Thus, I pose this question:

How do(es) your character(s) think?
Do they think in color, words, action, movement, music, movies - the entirety of their senses?
Draw it, diagram it, describe it - either way you choose, inquiring minds want to know. ♥

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II.Tabris (SEELE) vs. Kaworu Nagisa:

While the same individual, these two are immensely polar in some of their operations. The key difference lies in their current placement, needs, influences, and motivations. To look first at the Kaworu who is Tabris:

Drawn by Adam, his motivations are solely self-serving. While tied to and aware of the very short leash in which SEELE has him on - his interest in humans is much more detached. Indifferent. His interest is simple and clean-cut observation, usually. What makes him pass as human is enough to use, and these feelings are attempted to be ignored though they are "replicated" within himself. Knowing his placement and his position, he's startling quick to provide a harsh analysis of the individual who stands in his path - though, perhaps only in his head. He fiercely guards the one who is himself who is part of SEELE - as this is a requirement needed in order to fulfill his mission. A slip could reveal the reality of his position, much more what and who he actually is. Unlike the Kaworu who is Kaworu, his detachment from humanity is not one made by merely the recognition of different operations/physical matters alone - but one that he wants to maintain instinctively, literally, and genetically distanced from. Despite his interest in them, this is immensely secondary to what he is and was sent to do. He's very gently manipulative and deceptive, and his thoughts tend to be sharp and angled. There are always biases in this kind of process, and in this one his ability to mirror and speak on the more positive qualities that the other is seeking comes through most clearly as he very easily and readily processes what little or is generously offered to him. He doesn't "waste" as much time dwelling on the emotional aspect of others beyond what is merely causal or advancing in terms of his motivations. His own emotions, as well, are clean out of the picture. There's a deep undercurrent of thoughts trained by regiment and schedule - and for it, his processes here a like well-oiled machine. It leaves very little space for "unnecessary" detail, but what "unnecessary" detail exists holds a deeper importance. For example - his interest in music and the lingering idea that all men do not have an immediate propensity for evil, despite what he had likely been told.

He's trained to be strategist and an observer. And for it, his ability to quickly assess a situation, take in and use what little information that has been provided to him, and his problem-solving skills are rather astounding. This is the same in "both", though it comes in mostly clearly through Tabris as he has better "field" in which to show his expertise on. Think of it as a lightning quick, extremely detailed explanation provided and laid out by the brain - and there you have the Kaworu who is Tabris' thought process. In essence, this is the boy that SEELE desired him to be. Unrelentingly logical, almost frightening linear in that it searches out the best route in which to answer standing questions - whether or not the solution is abstract, but at the same time - fraying into something almost creative in terms of his quick thinking, his ease in deception, and his ability to spin lies and appearances at an eyeblink. The perfect puppet.

Notably, while the Kaworu who is Tabris and the Kaworu who is Kaworu share a great deal of their processes, their interests vary by time, distance, and separation. Even now, the overlap is only an overlap in the barest of motivational senses - here, notably, I'm dividing them by the ideals of another or others. Tabris is the ideal of SEELE, while Kaworu possesses multiple characteristics that SEELE would have hated from the outset - or, rather, would have known that it indicated their eventual failure.