End of year question meme

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

'Tis the season.

You know what to do.

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[purrrnicious]

CR me bb

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Kohime! His cat and BFF if he was a person that ever used the word BFF.

She makes sense! And that alone is quite a big deal for Intensity. Most people in Imeeji don't make sense to him. Either they are paladins or nice and soft, and he doesn't know what to do with them. Or they are irrational (in his mind) and are content as puppets in a glass cage. There are various flavors of in between and the occasional unicorn normal person sometimes as well, but theirs is a rare breed. So it's very refreshing that he found someone who gets where he's coming from and vice versa. That is a solid base for a "friendship" in and of itself.

He also trusts Kohime, which is also a big deal. She's probably in the top 3 people that he trusts. Sure they made a pact after the cry wolf trial game to not hit each other/look out for each other as long as it wasn't at the expense of their units. But normally when that happens, and Intensity protects a unit - there is always a disbelief period after it which is very ??? for Intensity. Did they not believe him? Do they feel guilty? Did they hit Future is Now?! What's going on there! But with Kohime, it's completely different. It's not even on the table for them to hit each other and they don't have to affirm that after the game. It's just a fact. Intensity pointed this out to Silence in the GM game as well - the only people he really think have their backs are BARiTONES and ZRAEL. And he's glad that Silence and Wildfire are pairing up (selfishly) because he doesn't want that to all fall apart if he is not present at one of these trauma games.

So A+ compatibility on that front.

She's also just fun. Witty, snarky, a pain in the ass. Always willing to throw his own shit back at him. It's great! Someone he doesn't have to handle with kid gloves. And someone who doesn't take offense to his comments - ala saying how he would run a murder game if he was in charge.

It took him a long time to realize it (due to his own emotional incompetency), but he has come to understand that there are some issues that Kohime wears openly on her sleeve. Mostly without her being aware of it (or so he thinks). The first one is her abandonment issues which is tightly intertwined with her must-win issues - which (let's be honest) because they were intertwined is why he was even able to identify it. That walk through her dreamscape opened his eyes to her shitty upbringing and her shitty parental figure (something that Intensity identifies with though he ended disowning his) and the House confirmed it.

She was abandoned. She understandably put up walls because of it. But she still doesn't know what to do with herself.

Same feel, Kohime. Same feel. (Though Intensity has the benefit of his rival being here so they are working through their issues, and also creating more because FEELINGS SUCK!)

So he shows his camaraderie in the only way he knows how. Property destruction on bad days. (OOCly in my heart of hearts, I hope she sics Blue Eyes on someone since she is now attuned to use the LASER WEAPON.) And willingness to hide a body (even one that's still alive and bloodless) on even worse days. No questions asked. No need to pry into that awful past unless she needs it. Instead they can just take out her frustrations on the world around them.

A+ cat. She has a forever home provided she wants to stay in Hell and doesn't mind being associated with a looney tunes 80s cartoon villain.

Also solidarity in not liking their own doubles when they show up. Some people just can't get along with themselves.

Reverse CR me.

[purrrnicious]

SURE THING

So going all the way back to the murder mystery game cuz that's obviously the foundation. Kohime didn't exactly have an auspicious start in Imeeji -- BiT was a brand new team without a lot of connections and with a very public, very brutal random murder right off the bat. It really coloured her approach to Imeeji (and still does). It meant they were targets in games and outside of that there seemed to be this feeling that they were all painted with blame for it and the question was "how are THEY going to take responsibility". Meanwhile, she was brand new, and actually had never even met Doll before that happened. She felt very unsafe in her dorm (the one place that SHOULD have been safe as other teams are locked out and games don't happen there) and bitter that no one ever offered them support when arguably they were the most at risk of violence from Doll since they couldn't lock her out, and that she was to be "responsible" when she never chose her unit or who was on it.

So going into murder mystery, that was very much the BiT mood: they're all going to try and kill us. (It's always the BiT mood, it's why they play the way that they do). So they formed the strategy to sell a lie to survive, but Kohime thought for sure they couldn't pull it off and would die and basically went out to fuck around and ended up trading snark with Intensity, and tossed out some one-off line about tying their fates together.

Then they ended up winning, and could spare a team, and none of them had a team they were particularly attached to so Kohime went whelp I want to pick FiN. She'd somehow managed the whole game without telling a lie and really didn't want the first and only one to be her promise to drag FiN with them, plus Erika and Intensity had worked hard to pull everyone together and organize in the game so honestly she thought they were the ones who deserved it. And voila, FiN - BiT partnership was born. And because it happened so early on before her trust issues were really bad, she's just never questioned it. She fully believes that FiN will never hurt her unit and in turn she won't allow a play on them, and they don't need to talk about it.

She also just understands Intensity. She doesn't care if he wants to be Hell's overlord or run murder games or whatever. He's her thing and he's not gonna hurt her so he could go out and massacre a populous or two and she might side-eye him a bit but she wouldn't drop him. You don't own a cat, the cat owns you FoR LifE. The good thing is the cat will probably also knife a jerk for you! So, you know.

Importantly, he gives as good as he gets and takes whatever she throws. Kohime is prickly and rough and kind of an asshole and she needs people who are the same or have a thick skin for that –– she's run into people who react to her like she murders orphans for fun, who've said or implied she deserves to be targeted in games for being less than nice, and it's something she obviously resents and also thinks is ridiculous so people like Intensity are actually the NORMAL ones to her. And for someone who's never had a safe space in her life, he kind of provides that -- she's trying to make her dorm a safe space (it's part of why she's so territorial, and reacts so poorly to intruders and those who disrespect her right to have control of her home) but it's not fully, but Intensity and FiN kind of are? Like when she goes, she doesn't think twice about it because she trusts him. And for someone with her particular history a "safe space" is priceless.

And he pretty much knocked it out of the park after the memory game. That memory is a brutal one for issues around trust and relationships, and she was definitely teetering on the edge of 'but what if I just never let people in again because they'll hurt me' and then he showed up, affirmed she had worth, went out with her and let her blow off steam without pushing -- so later when she did hit on this idea of isolating herself, she went but then I would have to give up Intensity and others and she realized she didn't want that.

So a millionty words later he's definitely a friend, someone she trusts without thinking about it (a big deal for her) and not someone she wants to give up. She'll probably honestly go to him for help with the whole bracelet thing -- the only thing that's holding her back rn is that he's king of the info network and she's afraid of that information getting out and giving people even more excuses to write her off, plus it doesn't feel like an immediate issue so while she's starting to try and feel out what to do she doesn't feel like this is something she needs to solve, like tomorrow. So she might be ignoring it juuuuust a little, but the first time she gets a "punishment" and realizes nope this is a now problem she'll likely be at his door. And if he ever came to her with an issue she'd just go with him to deal with it. At the end of the day she just wants to be with her people :(b