TL;CR MEME

[divus]

TL;CR MEME

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. Endure everyone else reading your comment like the vultures they are.

Comments

[selfimmolates]

MADOKA... so she was actually the first person in this game Ray considered a friend, which he realized when Rise asked him if he was getting along with anyone and the only person he could name was Madoka, though it came with the caveat that Madoka seemed to get along with everybody, so he had no idea how much she personally cared. Still, she was easy to talk to, the similarities between some of their circumstances was an easy starting point, and she was... young enough that Ray felt comfortable treating her like. well. a dumb child, basically NEVER MIND THAT SHE'S TECHNICALLY OLDER THAN HIM BY A NUMBER OF YEARS. But it's why he did stuff like ruffle her hair, etc. as if she was one of his younger siblings.

When she told him that she'd kill someone in self-defence and that she did want to win, he started looking at her in a different light. A good one—he very much appreciates that kind of pragmatism, and from that point on, he definitely saw her as someone who could look after herself and not someone who needed to be coddled or protected. Admittedly, her SHEER HONESTY kind of baffled him, and that she so easily gave him info was why he was not comfortable with telling her anything, but he wouldn't have gotten as far as he did if she hadn't revealed her notes to him, so thanks??

On the flip side, he was concerned about her emotional state, since it seemed like she was trying to take everything onto herself and not bother people with her problems. So that kind of triggered his mother hen instincts, though in the same vein, he realized he probably could not do much in that regard and just hoped he was someone she felt like she could relatively honest around. (He can't believe she didn't realize he basically drugged her.)

While he didn't necessarily think she killed Fortune, so much as he was going through everyone who matched that handprint before dismissing it as Blame Game, he didn't think she couldn't kill either. Again, it wasn't a slight against her as so much he didn't have reason to cross her off the list of suspects. That moment was also kind of reassuring, though, since her non-secret confirmed for Ray that she wasn't hiding anything. Not just in regards to Fortune—it meant that in the context of this game, he knew pretty much everything he needed to about her and didn't have to be constantly paranoid about what she was doing behind the scenes.

In that way, talking to her was sort of a unique experience. He didn't have to keep his guard up, but he also didn't have to think super hard about plotting/feel obliged to be the strategic one, because they weren't really talking strategy anyway. Her sheer niceness sometimes bowled him over, but.

Overall, her situation back home is extremely ????? to him. He wishes things could be better for her, but again, he doesn't know how. He accepts that he doesn't fully get it, so he just hopes that she's made peace with her decision.