Question meme

[edgeofjustice]

I was going to wait another couple of days but whatever I'm bored now.

Question/first impression meme for Yuri Lowell and Turn/Mikura Kazuma

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[edgeofjustice]

First impression: LOVABLY SKETCHY (???) OLD GUY. Actually, pretty close to how he felt about Raven when he first met him, in game without the part where Raven annoys him with his sketchy antics. More neutral than positive.

AND THEN THAT MEMORY HAPPENED AND... it honestly kind of freaked Yuri out, not that he would ever ever let on about it. The part where Raven betrays him somehow is actually kind of whatever; they clearly made amends, so Yuri isn't worried about that. What really threw him was the strength of his own emotion. Yuri isn't someone who jumps at the chance for intimacy, and he likes to play it like he can roll with anything (which is true (98% of the time) so seeing himself that pissed off was reeally startling and he knows he wouldn't have gotten like that if Raven didn't mean something to him. He just... has no idea what that something is so he has all the responsibility and none of the emotional context and it's kind of too much too soon and Yuri is very /unsure but it's more along the lines of WHY are you okay with handing your life over to me.

Reverse~

[telltaleheart]

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?

[edgeofjustice]

Meh I'll bullet point.

WANT
-Flynn memory so he can double-take at Guy
-Meeting with Judith~
-headcanon childhood being an orphan with Flynn
-sig neg from First Strike movie

I want to hold off on the vigilantism until he has good, solid relationships with other people. I also want to hold off on the Brave Vesperia memory to see how he develops without those guide lines.

Same question!

[telltaleheart]

I...DK. I had the memory he just got locked for a long time because I didn't want to give him that resolution too early; I've also had his horrible death memory locked because I would like to not send him into a 10-year depression if I can help it. But I think he's in a good place for pretty much any of his memories right now! I am not sure where he will go from here. Although I probably need to update his registry with more post-Heracles memories because I think it only has like one right now. I guess I probably don't want his Schwann boss battle memory for a bit because that would clarify too many things, and also I kind of enjoy his lack of much Schwann/Raven dissonance at the moment. The main thing I would really like is for him to get his Raven-accent skill, partly because I keep almost slipping up and dropping his Gs and stuff, but mostly because I think it would be fun to play him slipping in and out of it as he fails to distinguish "Raven" as a different persona as much as he does in the game. :B

WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON FIRST STRIKE.