Question Meme

[outstandingbalance]

Natasha passed 3,000 comments, and Naha is like... nearly to 35,000 comments,

My Personae (Kitsune, 3 of 3 and Dorian) are also fair! And if anyone wants to ask questions about Court characters...? Khamael and Kaname.

Whatever, whatever, it's time for questions.

Comments

[cerealpunner]

sup, Naha. first impressions?

[outstandingbalance]

Pretty positive, actually! He seemed to take getting dumped into a new situation fairly well. And Jason. Sob. Naha hopes, hopes, that he'll keep his word about that. Because just. This kid.

Other Bats aside, though she wouldn't mind hanging out with him again. She'll probably crash the next Emerald post, even. Not just for him, but because she does that sometimes to hang out with Emerald people. But he can be on the list of Emeralds she'd like the chill with.

Reverse?

[cerealpunner]

He likes Naha! She's very firm and resolute in the areas she feels strongly about and when she cares about a person, she makes it very clear! And this is something that Dick really respects from people. And, okay, so maybe he's a bit of a woobie and just really appreciates the fact that she was supportive without being coddling or smothering, since yeah, despite adjusting pretty okay to things, he was getting a little overwhelmed.

He can tell that he probably shouldn't push the wrong buttons with her because ho boy, that probably would end up messy. Mostly, he gets that sense because of her firmness with insisting that he not hurt Jason with assumptions/forgetting what he's said that day about wanting things to change. She's well-intentioned and wants to help but god help you if you mess with people she cares about.

Thankfully, she happens to care about people who Dick cares about, so it works out!

He'd really like to get to know her better because she seems to be a cool person, so he definitely wouldn't object to Emerald-crashing!

Tell me Naha's Bats feelings in general? Like, how she sees/thinks/feels about their issues/family situation?

[outstandingbalance]

For a long time, she really didn't have a lot of opinions on them as a family or unit, because her experience was Cass and Jason. It was clear that they had some kind of shared history? Or if not history, origin? But they didn't feel super connected to her. For a long time, Naha mostly avoided or ignored their relationship because sleeping with both of them and she just had no patience for being pulled around or feeling pressured to take sides.

Buuut that evolved some after Jason's heart game, where she got a little more feel for things (through the Jason filter, but she accounts for that), and that did pull things together for her more because it crystallized BRUCE in particular (and funny enough, Alfred, who gets to be like the more responsible parent figure for Batkids in Naha's mind now). Then Tim showed up, and suddenly it DID feel a family situation. Steph and even Dick have added to that feeling.

And it's definitely interesting since it's a family by choice, but at the same time held together and inextricable in a way that's very familiar to her.

And boy, do you Batkids drama it up.

But she's actually liked all of them, in different ways. She needs to talk to Steph more, and Dick is obviously very new, but even they've made positive impressions. It's just very... she doesn't expect Batfamily to ever be without conflict, and Naha being Naha she wouldn't ask for that, but she'd also like to see them develop and have healthier times. '^'

She'd also like to meet the real Bruce. She may punch him. Or sleep with him. OR BOTH.

Who knows.

IT IS NOT A QUESTION BUT I'D LIKE NATASHA TO MEET DICK A LOT. So. Um. IS THAT A THING THAT SHOULD HAPPEN?

[immaturelycursed]

Natasha on Sasuke? :>

[outstandingbalance]

She likes him. He's seemed very measured to her, which is sort of... lol Sasuke, and she wouldn't be surprised to find out he can be pretty intense or even emotional in his own particular Sasuke way. He was sort of intense when they first met, particularly with his insistence that she not let other people define being a knight for her. But, with her, he's been pretty cool and reserved.

And for real, he was cute with STRATEGY! in Three's game and with how he deals with Onyx stuff in general. She's glad to be on a team with him!

Reverse?

[tsunbender]

Sasuke tends to act in certain ways with certain types of people, so I always enjoy that. Wait until we're in a trauma game together, Natasha.

SO FAR. Natasha has left a good impression on Sasuke. She did from the start, her humor is somewhat similar to Itachi so she felt familiar in a positive way and her collected attitude in general strikes as grounded to Sasuke in ways he can't achieve completely. Because Sasuke is good at repressing and controlling emotions in certain ways, but he's always full of them. Natasha seemed to have a better control and from the start, she gave the impression to be someone that doesn't take shit from anyone. Also a fighter, and Sasuke is inclined to like fighters.

That she joined Onyx improved things because if Sasuke could pick who HE wanted to join, he would've picked her. Especially now that he's started to see Onyx as a team instead of sorely as people working for Maleficent. So it means he is willing to put certain levels of trust in her, and that's going to improve a bit more in their current thread. She's just a to-the-point, practical, strong woman and Sasuke's female friends seems to fit into that category. He used to have a very interesting relationship with one from that DOGS manga :> and Maleficent counts. Sakura doesn't count only because their relationship was very damaged in canon.

So yeah. He likes her, and he appreciated that she liked strategy, too. Sasuke loves those games way more than he shows.

What are Natasha's impressions of Onyx as a whole so far?

[afal]

Natasha on Ahad?

[outstandingbalance]

THEY SHOULD TALK AGAIN.

Ahad strikes Nat as sort of... prickly and insecure, in some ways. He's quick to feel like he's a problem, maybe? She feels sometimes like he projects that on her a little—like he thinks she dislikes him more than she does. She doesn't really dislike him, and wouldn't mind getting to know him better. (In part because OMG ADULTS YES.) But... she's also sort of reserved with him in return because she's not entirely sure about trusting him herself.

So. There's that.

She wouldn't mind working with him more in games or what have you, though. He's pretty realistic, and she wouldn't worry about things getting judgy for choices made in a game.

Reverse?

[dailydouble]

THEY SHOULD.

Ahad feels like he's only ever interacted with Natasha when he was having a bad time of things. Which kind of led to him coming off as . . . well, prickly and insecure yes. Because he was at the time. So he's actually not sure how he sees her, beyond possible ally and someone he's only shown some of his worst faces around. He always means to talk to her when he's more normal, but then stuff keeps coming up.

Any app plans?

[itsjustafayz]

UMM any updates for relationship stuff? If not I will think of an actual real question.

[outstandingbalance]

UM. No real updates, I think. We need to thread again. I keep waiting for a Carnelian post to crash. XD

[itsjustafayz]

Hahaha. I think there'll probably be one after the loser game(s), and I know Rin actually wants to talk about Onyx, so you should totally crash that one! And someone needs to tell Breeze about Viola leaving, sob.

HMM as for a question... Does/would Naha have an opinion on Tavros crushing on and/or dating Breeze? :I SHE IS SHINY'S, AFTER ALL.

[maidmalapert]

What's Tasha's impression of Jill?

[outstandingbalance]

Positive, overall. She's not entirely convinced she's spy material, but she likes her, and she definitely understands and supports the inclination to have more skills and more control.

And she seems bright and resourceful.

First impression, obviously, but pretty good!

Reverse?

[maidmalapert]

Pretty much the coolest ever? Cool enough that Jill is like "Okay I probably can't be that cool maybe this is silly." But she's really excited to get to learn from her.

Tell me a little about what Kitsune got out of her dog-hunt game?

[twiceburnt]

Oh! Me, me!

Naha on Radu and Kamui if there are any changes or anything of note
Natasha on Kamui, first/second impressions
Kitsune on Mme White if anything

[outstandingbalance]

NAHA LOVES RADU.

I don't know if there are real changes, but for real, Naha just loves Radu. He feels very easy to deal with to her, and she values his presence in Ruby.

She is also fond of Kamui. '^'

Natasha kind of things Kamui is... hm. He's cute, and he seems like a good kid, but she's not entirely sure he thinks things through all of the way.

Mme White is Kitsune's best Personae friend. '^'

REVERSE?

[twiceburnt]

RADU LOEV NAHA idk she is just a very comfortable presence for him, both physically and emotionally/mentally, and he appreciates her so much.

Kamui doesn't mind Naha, though he feels a little self-conscious around her because she's One Of Fuuma's Teammates and he wants to present a good side of himself to Ruby, generally.

Kamui doesn't really know what to make of Natasha, except that he gets the feeling she kind of just...humors him. And that kind of makes him twitchy, but it's not really a bad thing or a good thing. It's just a thing.

Mme White wants to just pet Kitsune and watch her make her own mistakes and find her own story to tell and soothe her through her heartaches. bebbeh animal-spirit-demon thingy who loves humans '-';;

[detectivewonder]

Either Natasha's thoughts on Locke or Naha's on Tim. Or both. I feel like I've already asked this on plurk sometime recently and gotten answers, but whatever, I will ask again (and if you've already answered just let me know :-P).

[outstandingbalance]

I will start with Naha on Tim and you can ask for Nat on Locke for a second question, but I actually don't think I've talked about this CR before so more interesting for meeeeeeee. /selfish

Naha actually finds Tim fairly interesting. He's very analytical, which is not her thing or her type, but there's something vaguely fascinating about watching how he processes, and how he comes at things, and how his being generally cerebral can cause blindspots—like how he didn't put things together with Cass until he got a hint. And Naha is sure he would have clicked on it eventually on his own. And she doesn't think he was entirely unaware, precisely. But he hadn't quite made it yet, so she nudges him, and it's like setting off a rube goldberg machine where you can see all of the parts were already there but now they've been set into motion, and SORRY GOTTA GO NOW.

She also, generally, just likes the Bats. Something about night people, maybe. So while her feelings aren't strong, and she doesn't consider them close, she does have an opinion!

Reverse?

[detectivewonder]

Naha is this really imposing and elemental person, just very impressive to Tim. I've talked before about how he has this idea of her as sort of the embodiment of sensuality/romance, so I won't go into that again here, except to say the matchmaking reinforced that impression.

He'd really like to know her better, because he has a strong impression that they're fundamentally on the same side - her association with both Jason & Cass, her night-person-ness, the fact that she's had a few conversations with him where she gave him really good advice, the specific fact that they're now two diverging sides of a relationship triangle... at the same time, he wants to keep his distance, because he has a sense that if he & Naha became friends, it would REALLY make Jason flip out.

She's cool and kind of intimidating.

Okay, NOW I'll ask about nat & locke.

[deadofknight]

Khamael on Furtur? :ob

[outstandingbalance]

IT IS INTERESTING.

Khamael doesn't trust Furtur much. At all. She's got some pretty deep seated feelings of demons = terrible, kill it. However, the nature of her story is such that she finds herself questioning that. Particularly as she realizes that Furtur isn't the same kind of demon she's used to.

In Khamael's world, the angels who were defeated in Lucifer rebelled were cast down to earth, to reincarnate through the millennia, working off the sin of their rebellion. In a very real way, earth is essentially a prison where angels atone for their crimes. In theory, they can earn their way back into heaven, but the conditions are nearly impossible.

These people (angels reincarnated as people) become demons if they remember their original life and/or tap into their power. Expressing that power corrupts them physically and metaphysically, and they become soooort of like vampires who have to feed on humans to maintain themselves. Many of them can also spread their corruption to other humans, which means angels generally view them as in need of extermination for everyone's spiritual wellbeing, including their own since they need to get back into the reincarnation cycle.

Hells are essentially pocket dimensions that very powerful demons (Belial, Samael)are able to create, which angels can't penetrate.

But complicating this, is the fact that it turns out Azrael (along with Uriel, one of two angels in charge of death and judgment)has become corrupt and is essentially not allowing angels who should have earned their reentry into heaven back in, which is one of several sort of huge betrayals.

Soooo... Khamael has reasons to suspect her own opinions of demons. And Furtur has demonstrated pretty clearly that hir world operates on different principles. As a result, Khamael is very much in the midst of negotiating with herself about how she should feel about Furtur.

So I guess. The short answer is, Khamael doesn't trust hir, but she's curious and slowly letting her guard down enough to... pay attention?

Reverse? (Also, sorry about the giant babble about OC backstory.)

[friendlyfaces]

At the moment, Furtur's attitude is not quite hostile, but sort of wary, with a dose of having fun poking Khamael's wariness of hir every now and then. Sie is admittedly curious what kind of relationship they can build without a battlefield to vie over, which is what drives Furtur to approach Khamael time and again. Being reasonably confident that sie can escape any sudden onslaught of angelic wrath helps too. >.>

Part of Furtur's attitude is informed by the fact that, in hir world, angels and demons haven't had a lot of direct contact or been in a state of open warfare for a long time. Hir world is pretty typical: Lucifer rebels, Lucifer and those who stood by him fall. In Furtur's world there was then a long period of demons regrouping and basically forging their society from scratch, then a few open clashes that resulted in heavy casualties and much worldly destruction. And then both sides lapsed into a tense stalemate with the Earth as the dividing territory between them, vieing against each other through and for mortal souls.

So, despite hir angelic origins (Furtur was one of those original demons who fell, as opposed to being created or falling later), Furtur is actually pretty curious about the state of the angels in hir present, partially informed by the fact that one of Furtur's domains is knowledge and the fact that hir knowledge of the angels is severely lacking is something that really annoys hir. Knowledge of angels from another world will have to suffice.

So my short answer is, lots of wariness, but also an intense curiosity and enjoyment of the simple pleasures of yanking Khamael's chain every now and then.

Natasha on Ace?