Echo trusts Yuri despite all of the crap that's happened! She can vaguely see herself in him, or at least the position Yuri was put in when he gave Vincent that poison. Echo can't hold that against him because she totally knows she's been in similar positions like that before (LIKE BLINDLY HANDING OVER CONTROL TO ZWEI BEFORE HER ATTEMPTED KILLING SPREE, or I guess reluctantly kidnapping Sharon in canon). Because of that she can't find it in herself to hate him. She used to think he was some idiot if only to convince herself that Yuri is just being used, he doesn't know what he's gotten himself into, that's all Vincent wants him for, etc, he's too stupid to realize this, that's all. Now knowing he HAS, in fact, known what kind of person Vincent is, ECHO STILL CALLS HIM AN IDIOT! Honestly, she doesn't really think Yuri is an idiot, per se. She doesn't want to; she has grown to respect him. Like how she called Emerald fools, despite admiring their nobility, Echo will label Yuri as an idiot because, well. It's a STUBBORN TSUN-ISH DEFENSE MECHANISM, insult the things you admire/respect, and so on! It's also because Echo's seeing the side of herself that she hates in him—the used and abused part. :(

Yuri also has Echo trying to figure out how the hell love works because of just how willingly bound he is to Vincent.

so. thx for that.

OVERALL, SHE KIND OF LOOKS UP TO YURI—er, not for any reasons above. He's been pretty nice to her, and he's beginning to fit her ideal image of what a knight SHOULD be (mature and handles everything coolly) so there's that. :|d

REVERSEEEEeeeeee?