Question Meme

[medpacksapunch]

It is the slowest of slow Fridays and I want to babble. I don't have any really appropriate landmarks, so I'm going to pretend that 14k and 666 are totally round and legit landmarks.

Also I know I have been teeeerrible at answering question meme things in other people's over the last month BUT THIS ONE IN ON MY JOURNAL I CAN'T FORGET IT'S HERE ;o;

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[noeyeinteam]

Relationship me!

... I will be sloooow at responding '-'

[medpacksapunch]

Sakura is so glad Kakashi is here ;o;

I mean, given that she doesn't remember much more about him than any other member of team seven (that is to say, not a lot), it's still...comforting, in a way? To have somebody familiar. And also, since Naruto left, she had sort of...idk. It's nice to have a teammate who acts happy to see her when they interact? It makes her really happy. Him offering to get her a key was like ;A; you want me to come visit you ;A;

It's kind of a struggle for her though, finding a balance in how to treat him-- she can be very casual with her good friends, and she treats a lot of the knights with a pretty casual friendliness-- but he is still her teacher. But he's her teacher who doesn't remember anything! So she doesn't want to like, put a lot of I'm-expecting-you-to-be-responsible pressure on him. But she IS expecting that, because he's still a Knight, and and and...

Reverse? :B

[heteronormative]

TELL ME ABOUT YOU AND ROLO

[medpacksapunch]

...with that face makes it a very exciting request.

O-OKAY KANJI OKAY

Sakura has pretty much settled in on Rolo-- she still doesn't quite understand him, I expect, but she at least understands that he is approaching most human interaction from a completely different angle, with a different set of rules-- unlike, say...Sasuke, who knows [x relationship] is important but rejects and walks away from it for [reasons], Rolo would likely just not see [x relationship] as important in the first place, maybe! So she's like... okay I have to remember it's not that he thinks x is dumb, per se, he just doesn't think about it the way I do so doesn't she why it's important okay okay.

Like back baaack back in the game where they abandoned Echo she was really upset at him for being like well fine AWAY WITH HER then. Because she was like...Echo is mad at us that's not a good reason to just kick her off! But like...understanding him better she can appreciate the point that like-- okay, if somebody doesn't think Turq is important, why should they be important to Turq, why would we set ourselves up that way.

So she's generally more patient and tries to at least explain her point of view, and more likely to not like... try and beat him over the head with hers '-'

And because he is protective of Turq and she is protective of Turq she is pretty much a big ball of squishy dere over him. He is her teammate he's her very nice teammate errybody better recognize '-'!!!

reverse :x

[unbalancedscales]

IT COULD BE WORSE

Haha that is dead on for how Rolo works.

Rolo really likes Sakura! (For...Rolo forms of like). She's like... as far as the members of Turq he feels personally closest to or more comfortable with, she falls just behind Breeze and Clue, and he actually might be more likely to share some of his life with her than the others (since ...he's more likely to share with people who are interested and inquire about it rather than people who don't want to dig around.

He's very interested about her. Not about her life, or her interests, but her personality and role. He's very possessive over her as well. I definitely want to thread them again soon :'D

What are Sakura's current goals?

[fraternalorders]

Lightning's impressions of Itachi and relationship updates for Itachi and Sakura?

I ASKED FOR TWO THINGS I HOPE THAT IS OKAY

[medpacksapunch]

NO HDY yes of course <3

Lightning is... well okay she has a base :T for all of Emerald to begin with, largely because A)she is resisting this whole team-and-heroes thing as hard as she mentally can. What is this, what, no. DNW. B)Emerald was like...way too zen and welcoming. She got a lot of "Hi, those colors mean you are now part of our ~family~ and ~we love you~ and will ~care for you~ and expect the same in return because we might have mentioned you are Emerald now". ...okay it wasn't quite like that but that was her overall impression. Which is both like...kind of creepy and also, in Lightning's mind, extremely ill thought out. They don't know anything about her! What if she's violent or dangerous! You can't just accept somebody into your life and your safe space like that, jeez. Jeez.

But that aside, she likes him okay. He is generally one of the more reasonable ones, and he's quiet, and he provides information when she thinks to ask for it and often even when she doesn't. Also, he has a younger sibling and so she like... idk. Older sibling solidarity you will understand '-' If she were going to let herself have any visible feels (which she has, a little) she would probably be most willing to have them around Stealth at the moment.

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Sakura remains pretty solid on Itachi. I mean obviously he is where she goes when she needs to have Sasuke feels, because he will understand and he's pretty comforting about it. I mean, he kind of understands Sasuke best, so. He also keeps her from wallowing in miserable hyperbolic woe. Sometimes she thinks he does maybe not fully understand the extent of her sads, because hey lets be honest whenever Sasuke chooses to just like up and abandon someone it is not ever Itachi that he chooses 8| but, well. She knows their relationship is complicated so w/e w/e she is pretty sure he understands why It's Complicated better than most other people. Sakura doesn't even know why it's so complicated honestly so. SHE WILL LEARN. EVENTUALLY.

Sasuke feels aside though she still just likes hanging out with him. He is relaxing and smart. :B She still wants to train more with him because that was awesome~~~

Reverse '^'

[thankyouverymooch]

I will be selfish and ask for Sakura's first impressions on Ling!

[medpacksapunch]

Sakura likes Ling a lot! Gosh, he is a lot of fun. He's playful and teasing and just kind of rolls with things-- but is also capable of switching gears pretty seamlessly and Taking Things Seriously when they need to be. She really appreciated his willingness to just go along with her/play back in the RP game because she usually has a hard time finding people who are into holding the role as seriously as she is. It was refreshing and made it easier!

His flattery kind of weirds her out a little because like okay, being complimented is nice! And it's not creepy flattery or anything, it's just super constant. But he backed off on that when she was like :\ so she appreciates that, too. He is an observant clever boy. And she likes sparring with him because he IS a really fast learner, and he's really eager, and it's just... talking to Ling is often just easy and enjoyable for her. :B

This is technically the reverse you asked me for that I failed at :x

What sorts of skills will Ling be re-learning? Are there any in particular you are very excited about?

[autorejoin]

Tsunami's Turquoise thoughts, what are they? As a team and in general.

[medpacksapunch]

Her knee-jerk reaction to that question would be like TURQUOISE IS THE BEST TEAM THE VERY BEST THE VERY BEST EVER AHH I LOVE THEM AAAH.

non-knee-jerk is... honestly very similar. I mean, slightly more rational in the way that she realizes they all have faults and that some of them are kind of extremely dysfunctional people, or are hovering very close to the line. But she also thinks they compliment each other well, as a team, and she feels relaxed and safe and very homey with them. And for as chill as they are, she also solidly believes that if they were in trouble they would pull it together damn quick-- I mean, they kind of did with Vincent Cabin Invasion-- all he did was touch Breeze and he was assaulted like 14 different ways. They kind of fall apart if they have to plan shit or whatever, but if you need a solid offensive strike, she knows they will be solid for that. Reliable team who is snuggly in their own socially dysfunctional way.

That said, she is frequently very XT!!!! Over their play in games. Which she represses and ignores until she accidentally word vomits it all over strangers and brand-new teams twice in one day >->;;; Like...Sakura hates losing. She hates hates hates hates it. She can grudgingly accept "we tried our best but we lost", but has real trouble with "we didn't really try that hard and then we lost". A lot of her own issues are tied up in I have to try harder; as she gets more memories, that will only get worse. She's very shounen, obviously. But in Sakura-world there are few problems that can't be solved by trying harder, and if you failed it's because you didn't try hard enough, so... Turq's approach to games is hard on her.

But she also realizes she is 1/7 members of Turq, and also when it's laid out she understands 'let's not make ourselves miserable in a game if we don't have to, just for the sake of winning; happiness/safety first'. She gets that! It just...is hard. Versus her nature and her issues. But overall she loves Turq to bits '^'

So how does Katou feel about his new claw-hand?

[brotagonist]

Tell me about something interesting in Lightning and Sakura's development lately, preferably something you didn't expect!

[medpacksapunch]

For Lightning, ppppprobably Sasuke? But that's only half unexpected. I was pretty sure they would either get along quietly but decently or not at all. Granted, they've only had one 'conversation' so far that was mostly just being cranky in each other's vicinity, but given that both Sasuke and Lightning are prone to just ignoring or walking away from people they don't have the patience for, I count it as a positive interaction :B otherwise I need to do more with her. Rationally I know 666 comments in three weeks is not actually terrible but it feels so incredibly slow to me, that I'm like fff fff she's not getting out she's not interacting with people fff. But I know that is mostly just me needing to ramp up into a) remembering how to play more than one person B)Getting used to Lightning/her personality type. I WILL HAVE MORE EXCITING THINGS TO SAY NEXT TIME >A<

Hmmm, for Sakura, probably the most interesting development lately is how she's kind of switched over from trying to get everyone possible to teach her things to teaching things to other people. Especially given that she still feels really behind herself, so it's not like her drive to Learn All The Things has lessened, any...she just feels more confident spreading that around a little.

SO TELL ME ABOUT DOG?

[fallinflames]

Impressions for Spitfire?

[medpacksapunch]

Both of my characters likes Spitfire okay :B

Sakura thinks he is friendly in a low-key way, and interesting, and enjoys talking to him. Sometimes she is just like ?? because Iolite. Iolite is clearly a very odd team, and they're all odd. Yes even Neji.

Lightning found him pleasantly tolerable. He wasn't difficult to speak to and wasn't aggressive with either his opinions or his emotions and she appreciates that. She did not entirely hate the hairstyle he gave her. Would not mind continuing to speak with him in the future |D

Reverse? :B

[playfreebird]

You should tell me things about Sakura and Neji.

[medpacksapunch]

They are fluffycute '^' Sakura doesn't actually mind that Neji is not into PDA much and wants privacy; it would be kind of weird for her to be super snuggly in public too? And in general it slots in with the rest of his personality that she has gotten used to, so. It really only gets frustrating when you realize how little privacy there is for non-knights, sob.

Dating also means that more than ever she just... kind of knows that Neji has her back? Not that she didn't before, but. It just makes her feel very secure.

reverrrse

[threadspinner]

First impressions + relationship for Rose!

[medpacksapunch]

Sakura likes Rose! She seems super cheerful and curious, and friendly and aww aww she was showing her how to do a thing! Sakura loves being shown how to do a thing!

She doesn't know much about Peridot, actually, but the few bits she does makes her think she probably fits in okay! She still feels bad that Rose showed up right in the middle of the cohab game, but she adapted really well, so! Good for her, she's clearly strong and stuff.

Reverse?

[fraternaldevotion]

U-UPDATE?

Also Lighting on Sasuke.

I WANT TO PLAY WITH YOU!!!

[medpacksapunch]

YES I WANT TO PLAY WITH YOU ALWAYS <3 <3

Sasuke ;A;
okay gosh let's see it's been like a month and a half since I did one of these which is like seven months in dog Sasuke and Sakura months ssssso....

WELL SHE WAS VERY HAPPY that they were learning a thing together. That was pretty much... the most awesome thing that was ever awesome. Also she was just... really proud of Sasuke. I mean of course Sasuke is good at everything, but medicnin stuff is hard! It also made her feel good because she felt...useful? And competent. Even without her own skill, she could instruct.

Right now she's just kind of like though she is taking this less hard than other times he has been upset? She's certainly taking it less hard than the Sasuke-loses-his-memories thing. She kind of accepts that it's probably not about her specifically as it is about Sasuke and his Sasuke feels. She is still determined to be his friend, possibly in a more active and targeted way than before; she's been kind of passive about it in the past, on occasion, because Sasuke has allowed her to basically do as she will regarding him. But if he's going to be really determined about her staying away, then she will likewise have to be determined 8|

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Lightning found Sasuke to be the least-annoying of the Knights so far. I mean, she appreciates the ones who give her info and such, but she is really sore over them being Knights (which is a word that means something!!!) but not being security/law enforcement/...knights. That bugs her way more than I thought it would. But Sasuke was not currently engaged in being silly or strange or bizarre or overly-casual or any of the other zillion things that have annoyed Lightning over the past few days, so that's a bonus. He was also suitably cranky about their situation for her tastes. Finally, somebody else who is willing to agree that this is incredibly stupid, wonderful. And he gave her a sword, and a knife, for free, when she had had the quest system kind of harped over. That confuses her a lot! I mean, she's thankful in a way she wouldn't ever mention unless their relationship were very different one day far in the future but it's still confusing and awkward and weird. But fine whatever.

Also he's Stealth's little brother. She is already primed to give bonus points for younger siblings. >->;;;

Saying she likes him is probably a bit much, but him being nearby would not make her cranky. That's kind of the best she can do at the moment.

Reversy-thoughts?

[screwthatnoise]

How much has Echo's cold shoulder hurt sakura...

[medpacksapunch]

She is hurt ;; she is hurt in her feels ;; mostly because she's...confused. It was a really rough day for Sakura, and so she's kind of too flustered to be able to process well and understand what she did and why Echo is upset. :x :x

but other than that she is still like no echo is the best. I must protect her and help to see that she is happy ;;

So what are your thoughts on handling Zwei?

[aberdevine]

Tell me your thoughts on Viridian, Ferron '-'

[soundandfury]

Like I mentioned to Itachi, Lightning currently has a bias against Emerald just based on her being fussy about their welcome. That aside though... she doesn't...dislike him, terribly. He's been informative and helpful. Sometimes his snarky makes her fussed, but other times she can gloss over it because it at least makes him reasonably interesting. She is a fussbudget, essentially, but does not always mind being in his company '-'

reverse?