SO BEFORE TAKING THAT MEMORY Raven was kind of... not planning on telling Yuri things, mostly. He remembered Yuri yelling at him to not just lay down and die at Baction ("Even if all your travels with us were just some joke to you..."), and then holding up the cave-in , and that was clearly really important to him, but he didn't know what happened before that (the betrayal) or after (the fact that he actually survived) or... why he was that suicidal in the first place, so he had very little context for that memory. And in his more recently-acquired memories he was coming to terms with the fact that he apparently had this whole identity as Schwann that he was hiding from Yuri and the rest of the party for some reason! So while it was nice to have Yuri show up, it... put him on the defensive more than he had been since he'd been in aather, because here is a person he has been keeping all these secrets from and he doesn't really know why. So he wasn't really planning on mentioning his blastia or the fact that he's Schwann to Yuri at all, even though he's mentioned both of those things to other people, occasionally even people he doesn't know that well.
HOWEVER then he got that memory and it answered a lot of questions! I could talk about it for a long time, but most importantly for this relationship meme it showed that he trusted Yuri enough to put his life in his hands. And let him feel the amount of emotion he has tied up with Yuri and the rest of them. And more mundanely it let him know that the air was cleared with Yuri at some point, so he could feel better about revealing his secrets since Yuri would remember them eventually! He was still very unsure about sharing the memory with Yuri when Yuri remembers almost nothing about him, and he probably wouldn't have said much if the memory wasn't easily sharable. But he also feels weird about having the advantage over Yuri in terms of memories, and clearly withholding information from him was a big part of the issue before, so. Yes.
In general Raven prefers people he trusts having authority over him to making choices for himself, so having Yuri here and aware of what happened to some extent makes him feel better, even if it's a weird situation and neither of them remember it fully. Although he's not as dependent on that fact as he might be, since he doesn't have any of his really negative memories yet and thus isn't actually self-destructive at the moment. XD So mostly Yuri's presence is just... kind of comforting. In a strange way.
Um, QUESTIONS. What memory(/ies) do you think it would be fun for Yuri to get back next? Or are there any you don't want for a while?
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HOWEVER then he got that memory and it answered a lot of questions! I could talk about it for a long time, but most importantly for this relationship meme it showed that he trusted Yuri enough to put his life in his hands. And let him feel the amount of emotion he has tied up with Yuri and the rest of them. And more mundanely it let him know that the air was cleared with Yuri at some point, so he could feel better about revealing his secrets since Yuri would remember them eventually! He was still very unsure about sharing the memory with Yuri when Yuri remembers almost nothing about him, and he probably wouldn't have said much if the memory wasn't easily sharable. But he also feels weird about having the advantage over Yuri in terms of memories, and clearly withholding information from him was a big part of the issue before, so. Yes.
In general Raven prefers people he trusts having authority over him to making choices for himself, so having Yuri here and aware of what happened to some extent makes him feel better, even if it's a weird situation and neither of them remember it fully. Although he's not as dependent on that fact as he might be, since he doesn't have any of his really negative memories yet and thus isn't actually self-destructive at the moment. XD So mostly Yuri's presence is just... kind of comforting. In a strange way.
Um, QUESTIONS. What memory(/ies) do you think it would be fun for Yuri to get back next? Or are there any you don't want for a while?