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

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god guy and beau's cr was so interesting

beau's general impression of him first off was that he was pretty chill, if like... not condescending, but putting his nose in her business when she didn't want him there. their first conversation about 45 and beau being like what the fuck, are you my mom was basically her general attitude with guy, like. she liked him but she was not about to let him, a mostly stranger, give her unsolicited advice, which is not even guy's fault it's just beau being belligerent about thinking people are telling her what to do. she called him a busybody in a thread with someone else, I think asch, and that didn't change too much. but beau's a busybody too! and she's more aggressive about it at times, where she's not even like oh, this is a suggestion but more like hey, tell me, you fuck. she's not a fan of the former, which I'll get to later.

so guy got some solidarity points with the fight they had directly after phoenix and the others showed up "dead" - getting to legitimately fight someone who didn't go easy on her was nice. it felt good to actually be angry and not upset and hopeless like she had been. she'd been veering straight into hopeless apathy mode especially because at that point she knew she was going to have to murder eventually. so getting some sort of spark from fighting did, in fact, help. that spark left again later after she talked to phoenix, but she did keep it in mind that guy was someone she could rely on to beat her up, which like. that probably would've gone somewhere if guy hadn't been scapegoated for the murder beau did hA HAAA...

there's some fuzziness here too because generally beau liked guy but there was some stuff that put her ill at ease with him. like on the one hand - guy was just as concerned as her about asch's mental state once he came out of the love spell. beau knew it was going to be bad, and she'd just gotten close enough to asch to realize she wanted to help. so she figured guy was going to need help taking care of asch, and she wanted to be part of that. she was stubborn enough to want to put herself in asch's life whether he liked it or not and she's pretty sure guy was feeling the same way? or at least had some sort of obligation to him. so they bonded over that, but then in the same thread, guy carried beau back to the portal, and that unintentionally made beau feel weird. she knows that guy was doing it to help himself get past his touch issues, and that he was reassuring her that she was doing him a favor, but she felt a little used and a little upset that just existing and touching someone made them as freaked out as guy was. for as much of an abrasive and shitty person beau can be, she doesn't like to unnecessarily cause people pain, and she definitely is the type of person to insist she can handle her physical injuries on her own. so she was uncomfortable with the fact that him touching her (which is a big thing for her, beau's big on physical contact for comfort and it drives her up the wall when she can't do it) made him so upset and that she didn't really get a choice in the matter. it worked out fine, but I think it set the grounds for her being a little more closed off.

I think in general beau was always going to be distant/aggressive with guy because she doesn't like people like him in general. this is not a bash on guy or anything but guy's habit of trying to give her advice or trying to do what he thought was best for her (or just making assumptions about her or her intentions) grated on her nerves. she doesn't do well with people telling her what to do, even if it's a suggestion or a gentle prod in the right direction - not until they've earned it, anyway. maybe they would've gotten to that point if he hadn't died, though, who knows!

and then comes the trial, and guy is scapegoated for beau's murder. she obviously couldn't tell him, but this is why she was so apologetic and why she came to him pretty much in tears. talking to the person who took the fall for her and, on top of that, letting it happen - that was something she carried with her for the rest of the game. but she had a job to do. she had a partner she made a promise to. and she was convinced that there was going to be a way to save everybody. so she had to do this. she didn't want anybody else to have to kill people. guy was a necessary piece in the puzzle and for as much as she hated to think that way, well. she can be logical sometimes.

by the time week six rolled around, she was pretty sure the graveyard in general was pissed with her, so she had no idea what to expect. she'd had some pretty terrible conversations with people so far about what being a murderer meant and she knew guy was going to be pissed that he got scapegoated for her murder, so. she went into it defensively, because at that point she was done with feeling bad about feeling bad. she'd talked it through with yin yu at that point and he'd told her that it was okay for her to be hurt after everything that happened, and that her traumas were not less important than anybody else's, so she took that to heart.

she was as calm as she could be, but I think that the couple of assumptions guy made plus the fact that he was a murderer in his own game and she didn't think he had any sort of understanding for her just made her angry? the whole You know, the more I hear about people telling me they were killers in their own games, the more angry I get about who just cannot fucking find it within them to understand my shit line was basically how she felt about it. and then on top of that he talked about huaisang and beau, who had heard huaisang's version already and knew him better than anybody - huaisang had been like "he'd already come to a conclusion and I didn't think it was worth it to correct him" and beau was there, too. she tried to give him an idea of what huaisang was thinking based on her own understanding but guy didn't give her a response to it so she wasn't sure if she got through with it. I think the talk was good for her to get things straight but idk if it actually fixed anything.

so I imagine she left the game kind of... idk, uninterested in explaining herself further. what happened happened, and like, she didn't hate guy or anything and definitely wished him well wherever he was going, but - I think she was just - uninterested. that's the mood, she wasn't going to chase him for friendship or anything, she was just going to leave him be, with a sort of unsteady I think you maybe got what I meant left between them!