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Ruby : Yuri

Naturally, Ruby really likes Yuri. She thinks that he's really fun to be around, a very dynamic person and just really enjoyable. He's sassy and he's clever and he's ~edgy~, but he still puts up with her despite her being Ruby and she's never felt like he doesn't appreciate her company, so she really likes him. They are definitely friends in her book, and it's not like it's easy for Ruby to make friends, so she thinks it's extra important because Yuri is a friend she made all on her own. Which really is just testament to how well Yuri deals with teenage girls but you know how it goes.

She's entirely unbothered by his differences in opinions and worldviews. People have different thought processes, and that's fine. She'll live her life and he'll live his, and she'll keep trying to understand him while also telling him a bit more about herself, and she knows they'll be fine. She's also happy that he's found a family in Flynn as well, even if she thinks Yuri's kind of dumb about family and she wants him to get over himself at some point because Flynn sounds like a very nice man.

SO YEAH Yuri is one of her favorite Cerealia people as Her Friend and as someone who feeds her a lot and someone who just kind of humors her, but not in a way that makes her feel like he doesn't appreciate her company. A++ would let crash on the couch at any time.

Leon : Stahn

oh my god......................

I am going to try to keep this from getting to too massive of lengths especially since we've already talked about a lot of it BUT OKAY HERE WE GO.

Naturally, Stahn is Leon's best friend. He's been a best friend in ways that Marian and Chal never were, because Chal was Leon's friend but also his sword, and Marian was...something else entirely. Weird Marian things. MOVING ON. Point is, Stahn is Leon's best friend and the first he's had where they weren't together from day one, and that's because Stahn never, ever gave up on him. Leon is so used to pushing people away for so many reasons, and 99% of the time, people do exactly what he expects them to do and back away from him. They let him keep them at arm's length, and he just...never stopped doing it. It was safer that way. People couldn't be people, unreliable as they are, if he kept them far away from him.

Stahn, as in many things, was the exception. Stahn just kept on trying, no matter what Leon said or did. He kept bulldozing his way right into Leon's life, and Leon didn't really know how to handle it. And then Stahn saved his life, and never asked for a single thing from Leon in return, and he just...thawed. He's never had anyone around him, really. He had Chal and he had Marian and that was it. He's been isolated all his life, so to suddenly be in the company of someone so cheerful and friendly and warm was really beyond him to handle.

And just as Stahn set the bar for friendship for Leon, he also set the bar for what a good person is. Stahn is naive, and an idiot sometimes, and a country bumpkin, but he's always trying to help people, he's always looking out for the entire party, and he wants to legitimately save the world and save everyone they meet. Leon can't be that way, naturally, and he doesn't want to be either; but he can recognize very well that Stahn is just... good. It's why he left the fate of the world in Stahn's hands; he trusted Stahn, he knew Stahn was the sort of hero the world needed, and now when he thinks of what being a good person means, he thinks of Stahn.

So really, Stahn has been so much to Leon, and that makes it even worse that Leon betrayed him, really. He betrayed the party, all of whom were his friends, and he was full expecting condemnation from them. But Stahn floored Leon again, this time by instead worrying about Leon, and trying to convince Leon once again that they were friends, and that he was still there for him, and it's something that has still stuck with Leon. It's what convinced Leon with a sudden finality that he can trust Stahn with everything--with Marian, with his own life, with the fate of the world... it doesn't matter. He trusts Stahn, because even after everything, Stahn still offered him his hand, and that's more than Leon could have ever expected or asked for.

So dying to save Stahn and Rutee and the others was repentance for the awful things that he did, and that was good enough. He fully expected Stahn to get over his death and move on and save the world and he could just rest.

Cerealia naturally threw a wrench in those plans by bringing them both here, and both of them after Leon's death. Now Leon has to deal with the consequences of his actions instead of avoiding them, and he's honestly not doing a good job of it. He's dealing with it all unhealthily, and most of all seeing Stahn again. He has a lot of leftover guilt for what he did, but he can't bring himself to apologize to Stahn either. He doesn't know why Stahn still doesn't hate him even after everything, so he's grateful for that, but also uncomfortable and confused. Things have been different for them from how they were before (unsurprisingly, with how everything has gone), so they're already on unstable ground when Cerealia starts throwing things even more out of control.

The library event really messed them both up. Leon got to be on the opposite side of things (though he still doesn't see it as a betrayal, since as far as he's concerned, Stahn was totally brainwashed). Still, he had to deal with Stahn reaching for his sword, intending to fight him if he had to, and Stahn walking away from him, and those are both images that he can't seem to shake. They keep sticking with him, and because of that, even when he's having a really rough time of it with their arguments, he can't quite bring himself to walk away. Eventually he'll probably shake it, but for now it means he sticks around, even when it just makes things worse.

Meanwhile, the ghosts have just really hit it home for Leon--he has to get Stahn home safe and sound. Seeing Stahn like that frightened him, and he was incredibly concerned while they were out and about (hence the fierceness of his arguments). Getting Stahn home in one piece has become Leon's sole goal in Cerealia; so long as he can see Stahn back there safely, he'll be content. Stahn still has a role to play, and him dying here would just be wrong. So he'll get Stahn home, and then he can go back to being dead, or die again. It doesn't really matter to him, because even now he really doesn't value a single thing about the fact that he's breathing again. And as soon as Stahn is safely home, he'll go back to having zero reason to keep on going.

So... really, Stahn is currently Leon's reason for living, but usually when someone says that it's more romantic, and it's not at all romantic like this IT'S JUST PATHETIC. But even knowing how pathetic it is, it's all he can really feel right now. They have 50000 extra issues right now because they just can't seem to talk, because both of them need someone to kick them into gear so they can start resolving their issues, but for now, they just settle and linger and make both of them incredibly uncomfortable.

And yet still, even with all of that in place... Leon's incredibly grateful to see Stahn again. He didn't necessarily want to interact with him, because he doesn't really think he deserves to, but seeing him again has been something he's really appreciated. After all, Stahn is someone who's that important to him, especially now that he has basically mentally removed himself from Marian's life after everything that happened. It leaves Stahn as his only option to cling to, and he can't help but do just that.

AS FOR CHAL Chal really like Stahn, naturally... he thinks that Stahn is energetic, fun and a really good person, and he also really appreciates everything that Stahn has always done for Leon. He's always been there to try to help Leon and try to be his friend, and Chal can't help but appreciate that. And in the end, Stahn still tried to listen to Leon and understand him, even after his betrayal, and Chal was impacted by that too. He knows that he messed up in not trying to get Leon to go to Stahn more emphatically, especially seeing how they are now, and it haunts him a little.

He's also worried, because...well, being around Stahn seems to have a mixed impact on Leon right now, and Chal doesn't know how to fix it. He's not as good at separating duty from friendship like Dymlos, so he really, really wants to fix it. It's not healthy and it makes him worried for both Stahn and Leon!!! ...But he doesn't know how, and he can't do anything, so for now he's just stuck.