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YOUTH?!

Their talking is like a Mean Girls sequel that doesn't suck. Oona herself started out with sort of mixed feelings-- she thought Kaoru was human, albeit more polite an prettier than any human she'd met before, and Kaoru didn't react poorly to her frequent complaints about humans.This put him much further up on the tolerance scale like, immediately.

The more they talked, and the more of Oona's bullshit Kaoru put up with, the more Oona liked him. She already felt a sort of bond with the whole "my people were nearly wiped out/I'm the head of my clan" thing even though Oona's story isn't nearly the same. It was more of a "you hate people too, SO DO I let's hate together."

Kaoru doesn't dissuade Oona's misanthropic views and, while not outright actively encouraging it, he gives her a good sounding board and a reason to keep stubbornly clinging to those views.

Also even though I use 'he' in the OOC brackets a lot, Oona IS still under the impression Kaoru's a girl and thinks she's very pretty. She's definitely in a "hey if you wanna bang we should bang winkwonk" and has half a mind to crawl on Kaoru and just cuddle up to him because she's reached that level of feeling comfortable with him.

Also Kaoru has a tendency to show up and help her fix her mistakes ala spilling dirt EVERYWHERE so she's like THANK GOD SOMEONE'S GOT MY BACK. Likewise if Kaoru needs her for anything, he'd gladly jump to help him almost no matter what it was. Congrats on your pet attack mermaid.

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cASUALLY SKIPS OVER THE DONTENS TBQH TENKA COMES LATER BECAUSE HE HAS SO MANY FEELINGS

Oz and Natalia ;

Natalia thinks Oz is really endearing to be honest. Her feelings on him aren't complicated - except for one part. She just wants to know where he knows her from and what that situation entails. Oz, Patchouli, and Anise all seem to recognize her from that place and she doesn't understand it and she's not a fan! So she's going to keep.... gently asking and waiting to see if he'll tell her one day and if he doesn't, she'll probably just give up on being nice about it and think that - well, if it was her life, then she deserves to know about it!! (Except Archer did bring up the notion of parallel worlds to her so she also has a theory that maybe it's something like that. It's weird. She gets a headache if she thinks about it too much.)

But otherwise, she thinks Oz is sweet. He's a friend and someone who fusses over her and she thinks it's endearing. It's like he's considerate but only the limit of what's appropriate.... and that's pretty typical for nobility. But he does consider her as a person first - she has no idea if he knows if she's a princess so she's going to conveniently NEVER BRING IT UP OF HER OWN VOLITION - and she always thinks that's very kind of people since she's used to being treated as a royal before anything else. She's happy to teach him things about first aid and worry about him because that's just what friends do!

That said, she has noticed a bit that he has a habit of.... bouncing back really well...... it's all at once impressive and something that she's vaguely concerned about. Yeah!

These thoughts aren't that complicated, I'll be crying over Tenka and Kaoru later, bye.

OKAY

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Shin-Ah | Akatsuki no Yona |

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Natalia's mentioned Archer in at least 3 of her threads so far and I think it's really funny................

but well, first off, she is really grateful to him for cooking and baking for her. Because the food is really good and up to par with cuisine that she's had in the castle and that's already a plus. Probably when he's cooking, she holds her tongue a bit more and refrains from egging him on and snapping him simply due to the fact that he keeps her fed so she doesn't have to eat her own disastrous meals and it's good. Out of everyone in Cerealia, I actually think that Archer is the one she sees on the most frequent basis simply because he's gotten into her kitchen.

that said, the way they met totally colored Natalia's impression of him and will continue to. like - he was so rude (in her eyes) and insolent and she wanted to slap him..... she was able to openly snap with him in their first meeting and huffed a lot and it literally shoved their CR in a direction where Natalia is more honest with Archer than she is with most people. like she's the type to speak her mind on a normal basis but with Archer, she'll give her opinion on anything and everything and won't hesitate to taunt him if she sees the opportunity tbqh. she's still very proper around him because that's just how she is but she's more unrestrained in what she says and how she says it, if it makes sense

but that said, she can acknowledge that he is wise. he's kind of like a fortune cookie in the sense that he's lived so many lives and will randomly throw advice and it's up to you if you want to take it or not and Natalia sometimes doesn't want to take it just because he's a dick!!!! ..... but she'll acknowledge that what came out of his mouth was a smart thing. and she respects his decision and honestly is glad that he decided not to kill shirou..... now that she knows more about his past, she understands a bit more and while she doesn't think that it excuses his rudeness, she respects his choices and is willing to let them be. she doesn't think it's a surprise that he wanted to kill shirou but she would fully admit that she'd be sad if archer didn't exist. he's an asshole but he's an asshole that she cares about, whether she'll ever freely admit it or not

also whenever he automatically picks up on her expectations and goes to make tea just because she mentions tea is when she likes him the most for the record

she likes him the least when he shoves her out of her own kitchen how very dare

oh also she agrees with yang that archer is hot but it's a pity that he chooses to talk sometimes

yeah i think that's everything

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EVERYTHING

okay despite their.... really awkward first thread, Natalia likes Lee. SHE UNDERSTANDS THAT HE NORMALLY IS NOT SO BRUTISH AND PIG-HEADED AND MOSTLY NAKED, so that's okay. He's okay. He has managed to escape the normal first impression woes. Except she does remember that even when he was under the effect of the card, he was surprisingly easy to lead around once she snapped at him enough, so that works in his favor, HAHA. consciously, Natalia thinks it's impressive that his normal character is reasonable enough to break through even the effects of this world, but subconsciously she just likes it when people listen to her......

AS FOR RIGHT NOW, she admires Lee!! She's not sure what it's like to be a ninja who can't do typical ninja things, but she can imagine that it takes a lot of hard work to still stand among them and be considered strong. so for him to get where he is through sheer hard work and determination is something that she thinks is very respectable indeed. honestly, if she ever does end up learning from him, she's a little nervous as to what kind of wringer he's going to put her through but she's all about pushing limits and trying new things so she'll at least give it a try. now he's still very humble about his work and is constantly thinking about ways to improve and she thinks that it's a wonderful thing to see. she only wishes him the best in his pursuit of strength and youth!!

..... except the youth really does confuse her a bit. he's very excited a lot of the time and she's regularly overwhelmed.... the offer to protect her was sweet and she appreciated it but also very sudden!! do you have a heroic streak, lee..... admittedly she does too but still. it was like a pleasant surprise but she's not always sure what to do when lee is suddenly a bundle of EXCITED FEELINGS. it's a little overwhelming and vaguely exhausting so she supposes it's just best to deal with him in small doses before she wears herself out trying to keep up

overall though, Lee is a good person to Natalia and someone she doesn't mind spending (reasonable amounts of) time with. even though she thinks his name is Rock. whatever.

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Why are you even here... he's got nothing to say to the Yamainu.

So, Sousei. This is a lot of what we've talked about previously, but I'll do my best to make it as long and unreadable as possible!

Simplest way to put it is that Shirasu doesn't like Sousei because Sousei is Yamainu, and also because Sousei doesn't like him. He's just paying back the favor. Being a member of the Yamainu encompasses opposition to the Orochi, opposition to the Fuuma, and being a tool of the bad government that's making his clan's survival difficult. Ninja thrive in chaos, not order. Plus, Sousei has a rotten personality, as far as he's concerned.

All of that would be enough... except for the part where it's not. Shirasu's inability to stand Sousei goes way beyond professional dislike. Shirasu spent ten years listening to Tenka talk about the Yamainu and how Sousei turned his back on him. Tenka didn't hold a grudge, so Shirasu took it on for him. That grudge only got worse when after so long apart, Sousei called Tenka a traitor. Now that they're in forced contact in Cerealia, the grudge is being force fed by the fact Shirasu is so jealous of Sousei it makes him sick. After ten years of shunning him, that Sousei steps in and takes Shirasu's place as Tenka's confidant drives Shirasu nuts. The finer points of this are completely unrealized; Shirasu just feels irrational hatred for Sousei whenever he's around, which he justifies by--

Actually blaming Sousei for not dying when his twin tried to kill him. Shirasu's own feelings of guilt and loss over his brother's death just mix with the hypocritical Tenka-related jealousy and Sousei gets the short end of the stick. If Sousei had just died, too, then his twin's death wouldn't have been so completely meaningless. Shirasu regrets making the promise to Tenka that he's not going to harm Sousei without reason -- and he's smart enough to know that "I hate him" is not enough of a reason. He'd honestly love to shove a blade right into Sousei's eye.

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Maybe just for Kaoru so far?!

let's do first impressions, why not

shall i compare thee to a summer's day.......... nO I'M KIDDING HAHA but no i love this cr okay it's so new but also so cute goodbye.....

but to actually write a response, Natalia's really curious about Shin-Ah!! like. almost more than anything else, she wants to know about him and figures it's going to be hard since he doesn't talk much and she's not the type to ask things out of the blue just to get to know someone, though if she's curious enough, she might resort to that!! Because even under the effects of the card, she didn't really think of him as suspicious at first - she's seen a lot of strange things in Cerealia and during that time as long as he had a shirt on then you know what, he wasn't hurting anyone by looking a little out of place - but just... different. His clothes, his mask, his fur piece, it's all so foreign to her and Natalia really is the most curious princess out there. she wants to ask him about his home, his family, his culture, how he can make tea better than her even though he doesn't know what ice cream is!! she's just.... so curious, honestly!

now she still worries about Shin-Ah, though. she hasn't seen him stand up for himself but since she was so rude and snappy with him before and he didn't fight back at all and he says he doesn't mind when people treat him unfairly, she was very concerned! so she's sort of taking it upon herself to make sure that whenever something bothers Shin-Ah, it's addressed. he's a very easy-going person and while she thinks that's very kind and wonderful of him, she also thinks that anyone who treats him badly therefore deserves to be kicked in the teeth - she just cares about Shin-Ah a lot already and would quickly get defensive of him especially because he seems so passive yet kind.

but the kindness is really what's been getting to her. like - Natalia didn't have many general friends before she started traveling with the Abyss party! everyone saw her as a princess among the nobles and she never really made friends with her people because she saw them as people she needed to take care of. but even among the Abyss party, they're all vaguely emotionally stinted and aren't the type to have touchy-feely nakama talks about friendship and goodness. that's more Graces jam. so when Shin-Ah offers her food and calls her kind and gives her his fur piece and makes her tea, she's touched..... he's very perceptive, from what she can tell, and notices what she's feeling (and it's easy since Natalia also wears her heart on her sleeve). but she really does think that Shin-Ah has a good heart. it's pure and sweet, always seeking to be as good of a friend as possible to the people around him.

also to some degree, she already trusts Shin-Ah. to a degree, he's the first person in cerealia that she willingly told about her identity as a princess. she normally keeps it out of conversation until it comes up and even though she could've left it alone with the 'castle' remark, she both felt paranoid enough that she wanted to make sure that he didn't mention it to anyone else somehow but also made the conscious decision to tell him the truth. because she already feels very safe with Shin-Ah, probably because he comes off as very honest and pure-hearted. like - she doesn't worry about her safety or her secrets when she's with him.

but he's still really mysterious in the sense that she hasn't seen his eyes and she likes looking people in the eye when she speaks to them. he hasn't let her see so far but she.... she really wants to know. which comes full circle to the curiosity.

overall though, Natalia just wants to be a good friend to Shin-Ah. he's kind and takes care of her and she wants to return the favor because it makes her feel all warm and happy inside whenever he's so abundantly sweet.

also he gives good hugs and she's a little sad that she doesn't feel comfortable giving out hugs anymore because he really is such a warm person........

also she just wants to keep giving him different kinds of food that he hasn't had before because he gets so cute and excited whenever he has something new

also Ao is precious and she's not surprised that someone as gentle and cute as Shin-Ah managed to tame a squirrel like honestly

yes i think that's everything

cute cute cutes

you're not done yet natalia

Hello running buddy?

"also she agrees with yang that archer is hot but it's a pity that he chooses to talk sometimes"

please tell me there is a thread with this so i can cry at work

ask and you shall receive

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