TL;CR MEME

[gatonina]

1. Comment with your character.
2. Receive comments from others.
3. Reply to their comments with long ballads and explanations of your characters' relationship throughout the game.
4. Suffer as we have suffered over your CR.

Comments

[muragas]

i need to tag our back threads more, but

[swordflash]

backtagging is our best friend

An angel descended to help him when he was freaking out on the bus. Turned out, that angel was Ken’s dead girlfriend(?). It was a question mark, because Ken was arguing with the other guys over Minako and Zenitsu just wasn’t very sure. Anyway, surprise knowledge about her death was a bombshell that would’ve sucked to drop on an unsuspecting person (little did he know), so he didn’t mention it.

Actually, once he learned about alternate realities from Wei Wuxian, he hoped that that meant Minako was from a reality where she wouldn’t have to sacrifice herself for everyone. He didn’t have the details, but the way Ken had described the situation to him had made her out to be a selfless hero. A benevolent person like that deserved a long life, which added to his shock later when he learned that she’d died on the same night as him.

But before that, there was the friend date that enlightened him on the joys of going out with friends. He really was enamored by Minako’s everything, if in a completely platonic way. If not for Ken, he might’ve crushed on her pretty hard (deep down, he did). She was smart, cheerful, and just so very amazing—everything a guy could want in a wife. Their date was fun and he appreciated her understanding of his initial reluctance to go with her, because the last thing he would’ve wanted, regardless of with whom he was in love, was an upset girl.

After that disastrous week with love and paranoia, the fake marriage happened. Even though Zenitsu was kind of (read: very) sore about the elopement the week prior, he was glad that he’d been “married” off to Minako, except he was a little (read: very) pissed about the unromantic initiation. Did this camp have no regard for the sanctity of marriage? Then the crazy birds appeared and he wanted to throttle all of them for taking away his private time with Minako, who was his champion throughout the whole ordeal. She just never seemed to be fazed by anything for long, meeting everything in casual stride with a charming smile.

In fact, she was always so enthusiastic and eager to go all the way that he was surprised by her desire to hang a teru teru bozu on every cabin. Making them in batches had originally been Shinobu’s project, and she had hoped to make a teru teru bozu to represent all the campers. Minako bore a similar determination going into a given activity that kept Zenitsu’s mood high whenever she was around. She didn’t dwell on the gloom; in a way, she was a lot like the bright sunshine that could penetrate the fog of sorrow and anger looming over the camp.

When they saw each other in Campsco, he was extremely upset, more so once it became apparent that, for all his moping around in regards to his own failures, she was more worried for everyone else while claiming that she was perfectly fine. It spoke volumes about the kind of person she was. For him, it had felt like he’d been on borrowed time after his multiple deaths at the mansion, but he had been hoping that Minako would get to live on to the end of the competition.

Alas, the competition was unfair! Nothing was fair for poor Minako!

His appreciation of her increased by leaps and bounds with every interaction in the graveyard. She was not only smart, but sharp and clear-headed where he was meek and vague. He did agree with her on basically everything she said in regards to Dimitri’s trial, which had been an utter disaster, and she helped him put a lot of the pieces together. While there was a lot of pent-up frustration about the overall experience between the two of them, she brought him clarity during a confusing and emotionally charged time when people seemed all too eager to, as she put it, victimize each other—some food for thought on his end.

Then the mafia reveal happened and they commiserated on the pointlessness of their efforts to single out their killers. Given how poorly he felt about it, he did worry for Minako, who did that thing where she didn’t dwell on the unnecessary bits and focused instead on caring for each other. As dead inside as he was, by this point he was the most comfortable with her of everyone in the graveyard: He felt that he could relate on some level with her due to certain commonalities in their murders and subsequent trial, and she was just a very easy person with whom to communicate. He either didn’t know the rest well or they were his mentors, so the time they raided the ice cream section together was probably the most discontent he let himself look about the announcement that had led up to it.

He really would’ve kissed her and been beet red—even excited!—about it for Spin the Bottle if he weren’t crushing super hard on someone else who shall not be named. What a loss.

After everything that had happened to her, it broke his heart to learn that she was dead back home after all. See, nothing was fair for Minako! He was seriously distraught. Even still, he thought it would be better to part in high than low spirits—and with a happier memory as opposed to one full of his gross tears and snot—so that was why he pulled her aside for a clumsy dance. All in all, he always thought that she deserved better than she got.