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Naminé | Kingdom Hearts |

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turns into a toad?!

ANYWAY.

So Merlin is probably the one of an extremely small number of people who aren't from her worlds that she's met so far with whom she would be at all inclined to discuss her powers. Like, at all. Obviously this owes primarily to the fact that he's been very open about his, since a large part of her motivation for doing so would be a sense of guilt that stems from that perceived imbalance and unfairness. Aside from that, though, he's been pleasant company and has generally given enough of an impression of being a decent guy that she has no cause to mistrust him, which is an accomplishment all on its own. She likes Merlin, and he's been kind enough to put her at some degree of ease.

Naminé has never really had anyone in her life whom she could relate on the whole magic and hiding things level. Given her history with loneliness and the significant lack of support figures in her life as well as his superior experience with Cerealia, she can't quite help herself when it comes to picking his brain on those subjects since it's the first time she's ever had the chance to talk about those things with someone, even if she's not quite ready to do so openly. Asking him about the way he's been/is being treated in Cerealia also functions as her Geiger counter, so to speak, as she tries to figure out whether she should take a more active approach to what she can do. Frankly, she finds it hard to imagine that his openness won't come back to bite him at some point, so there's a certain measure of protectiveness to it, as well. He is Like Her, therefore she ought to look out for him. Her logic is flawless, clearly.

TL;DR: Basically he is her magic senpai. :|b Please notice her, she would really appreciate it. Girl needs all the help she can get.

Wails... she's so cute...... I'm so sad for her but HOPEFULLY THINGS WILL BE OKAY HERE... grips your hands

He'll be her senpai that's okay *^*

SHHH SHHHHHH IT'S OKAY she's much happier here... even though that's kind of sad all things considered... grips your hands back

Aw yeeeeee, best magic senpai!!!! \o/ Best possible turn of events.

GOOD :*

gotcha back gurl ;u;

what does a nobody think of jaune

RUDE nobodies don't think anything about jaune because they don't exist, duh!!

Despite the inauspicious start, Naminé has come to perceive Jaune as a good person, albeit one who for some reason feels the need to save face sometimes. Being as she has no ego to speak of, that's something she doesn't really do, herself, and she will probably unrepentantly call him out on it from time to time without even realizing she's doing so forever more, sorry Jaune. At first she wasn't quite sure what to make of him and she still isn't certain, but more and more she is convinced that he means well, and is sweet and otherwise just a pretty acceptable human being. He seems to her to go out of his way to be nice, and that speaks highly of him. She also may or may not be beginning to suspect him of having a few things in common with Sora personality-wise, which is quite a favorable subconscious comparison for her to make.

Jaune has this weird habit of punching her directly in the feelings. With Naminé, there are a few different degrees of how much she is effected by what people say or do in relation to sensitive topics or to her own problems or insecurities. The level of reaction that most people tend to reach usually involves a certain amount of grim, roundabout explanation or trying to smile her way through it or pointedly not saying anything about it. The level of reaction that Jaune seems to keep hitting is the one where all she can do is go "?!?!?!?!?!" and scramble around trying to figure out what she's supposed to do, because whatever's just been said to her is so thoroughly unexpected that she has a very difficult time keeping her head straight well enough to respond the way she'd like to, i.e. the whole 'friend' thing.

This frequently manifests itself as her actually being too off-balance to smile nearly as much as she usually does around people she finds acceptable. It's not that she doesn't like Jaune, she just... still finds him a little hard to grasp, which will probably change over time. But since they're Friends (and this has been established as A Thing) she has a built-in sense of responsibility for his well-being in addition to her natural inclination to try to look after people. It seems to her like he's going through a bit of a tough time at the moment, so even though she has little to no practical experience with how one is supposed to approach Friendship, she's liable to possibly make overtures of some kind in an attempt to make sure he gets through things okay.

Really, she's incredibly grateful to have been given the title of Friend. She's not entirely certain how that happened or what she did to deserve it, but she will attempt to fulfill her role to the best of her abilities. o7

First impressions on Shiho?

First first impressions on Shiho are that she is quite pretty - especially her hair, since it's not a color or type Naminé is familiar with. As far as actual impressions go, Shiho struck her as the kind of person who's generally self-possessed, and came across as being fairly mature at least in comparison to the way Naminé perceives herself. She hasn't yet gotten used to being complimented (and especially hadn't at the time of their first thread) or to other people attempting to build her up, so it was really a good experience for her to be treated that way. Confidence is not quite so easily accrued as that, but it did ease her self-esteem issues somewhat at the time and give her ample cause to view Shiho favorably.

The above being said, she does at least suspect that there is an underlying self-consciousness to Shiho, or rather that her life may not have been all sunshine and roses. What that might have been about Naminé doesn't yet have the foggiest idea nor is the thought really all that well-formed, but she knows someone with bad memories when she sees one and can definitely sympathize, even if only on a subconscious level. When or if she finds out that memories are just the issue (hah) it'll probably make a lot more sense to her, along with causing her to be exceptionally sad on Shiho's behalf and leading to a certain sense of kinship, given their similarities. For the time being, however, Naminé's glad to have met Shiho and is looking forward to getting the chance to talk to her again.

Edited 2016-06-13 08:12 (UTC)

we have one unfinished thread, is it possible...

CLEARLY YOU UNDERESTIMATE ME or at least the degree to which she pays way too much attention to people and internalizes things.

Given the circumstances of their initial meeting, Naminé had (has?) some reason to be a little bit suspicious of him. That's not really his fault, since in actuality it's largely because of her own past experiences; she's not overly comfortable interacting with strangers in the first place, and in a rough neighborhood she's even less so ~~once she actually, you know, realizes it's a rough neighborhood~~. There's something just a bit too conscious about his smiles for her taste, which is kind of ironic since she's prone to smiling on purpose, herself.

Except ignore everything I just said up there, because that's pretty much irrelevant in the face of his ongoing Acting Like an Alright Guy. He did help her out in the first place, which does him considerable credit and is definitely not something she's inclined to overlook. She just needs some time to talk to him to ascertain his probable motivations and get past the 'stranger danger' alarm bells before she can be properly comfortable with being in his presence, but so far and totally in spite of that she is tentatively presuming that he's a good guy. There's probably like a little question mark next to his name on some mental list she has of Acceptable Company, but at least he's on the list. For now.

He happens to strike her as someone who's reasonably intelligent and thinks through things, which... does actually make her slower to trust him, because she's used to shounen types who have no brain to mouth filter and that's what she's comfortable with despite being someone who is also super cagey, sorry Marco. Long story short: he seems like an okay guy, she just needs some time to get over her own hesitations.

I DID, I UNDERESTIMATED YOU... and jeezus namine, smart af... for all her (unsure)ness, she's p much got him figured out

also this is off meme topic but can i just say your writing is incredible, holy wow

She's a clever girl, yes. :|bbbb Also it's basically her job to suss people out like a champ because otherwise it'd be really hard to spirit guide everyone all the time. GOTTA BE TRUE TO HER ARCHETYPE.

fdjjdkgfkgDFKJGG WELL I CAN'T STOP YOU you dirty meme topic ignorer but orz TH-THANK YOU?!??! You are too kind, you sweetie. /);///w///;(\

Naminé's initial thoughts on Hiro?

Naminé is the sort of person who has some (perhaps understandable) difficulty getting used to and trusting strangers. However, because of the situation in which she found herself when they met, Hiro's been able to bypass a lot of her usual initial trepidation by helping her right off the bat. That's the sort of thing that she takes to be both an indication of good character on his part and something that she ought to repay him for, should she ever get the chance. His claim of being a hero can really only add to that, because there appears to be enough evidence to support it that she's inclined to take him at his word. Although she doesn't really think of herself as a 'good guy,' so to speak, he comes across as one and it certainly helps his case in the trustworthiness department.

There are a few peculiarities to the way that Naminé subconsciously perceives people she's recently met that also happen to work in Hiro's favor. The easiest way to explain it would be with some statistics: of the people she met in her life before coming to Cerealia, the vast majority of them had an intentionally negative impact on her. Of the people who actively sought to cause her harm, 100% were adults. The rest, who either were kindly or neutral toward her, were predominantly male teenagers approximately Hiro's age and probably of comparable size.

Basically what I mean is this; Hiro is exactly the type of person - demographically - that she (without being aware of it) is used to. This means that psychologically she was already predisposed to being comfortable around him. This holds all the more true because personality-wise he actually doesn't remind her of any of the other boys she knows, ensuring that he's not likely to trigger any unpleasant memories while still taking advantage of her instinctively positive reaction to people with a similar presence.

Ignoring all that psychology folderol, the long and short of it is that Hiro made a good impression early with the whole 'making sure she didn't fall out of a tree and break her neck' thing, then followed it up by being someone she genuinely finds it enjoyable (and more importantly easy) to talk to, as well as a helpful source of information. She likes Hiro quite a lot so far and thinks he seems intelligent and fun. More impressively, she felt comfortable enough interacting with him that, at least with a little nudge from her natural inclination to try to make him feel better when she saw he looked down, she was able to experiment with the type of humor and conversational back and forth that she'd previously really only seen in other peoples' memories and never put into practice herself. Since that turned out pretty well, it also had the side-effect of boosting her confidence, which is another thing that was nice for her about talking to him.

TL;DR : Hiro's alright in her book and she would very much like for them to be friends, even if she doesn't know quite how to go about it.

BONUS BAYMAX:

Naminé thinks Baymax is super rad. Mostly that's because of that same saving her thing and they didn't really interact much, but still. Big awesome robot who helps people, what's not to like? (And he totally spotted her when she was hiding, respect points for that even if she's not sure how he works.) She has quite the soft spot for anyone who tries to look after others, so A+ robot, would receive assistance from again.

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