Multipurpose Meme

[kagekachou]

Comment here with your character(s)'s name(s) and what they think of my characters (Enjolras/Maladict/Tatsumi), and I'll respond in kind!

...or just list their names, and I'll respond to that, too. Because while I'd love to hear from your end, I'm easy like that. And I like to talk.

I could give a number for how much my characters trust yours, too.

And any questions, too, and I'll essay.

And anything else you can think of.

...though for any of those, if you're Tsuzuki or Hisoka, I reserve the right to say "I'm working on that essay right now."

Comments

[esp_not_pms]

...:D?

Okay, in all seriousness, I'm currently essayed out from school. >: But I'm probably going to put up my own meme later this week once I finish finals (if I'm not dead) and I'll...ramble at you there! Or I could ramble at you here later! I dunno! Because I'm not really capable of forming more than three sentences that relate to one another right now. Ahaha. What was I talking about?

ANYWAY. W-Wakaba? 8D For anything you want to doooooo because finals are eating my brain.

[kagekachou.livejournal.com]

I'm packing right now and don't have time to respond, but I just want to wish you good luck on your finals and have a safe trip home for break (BECAUSE BREAK IS COMING HOLD ON THERE FAITO). ♥

[beautytopsthe]

;;

[kagekachou.livejournal.com]

Hisoka

Given that Hisoka is, well, Hisoka, I’ll just briefly address a couple of random things here. ^_^

Hisoka is probably the person that Tatsumi trusts the most. Yes, more than Tsuzuki. What complicates Tatsumi’s relationship with Tsuzuki is that Tatsumi doesn’t trust himself with Tsuzuki, which impedes his ability to keep himself open to him. Meanwhile, Tatsumi trusts Hisoka with Tsuzuki, which has to be one of the biggest things he can do. As I’ve mentioned in the past, he has a lot of respect for Hisoka, admires him, even. Considering all of the shit that he’s been through, Hisoka is a relatively stable person, and he has a responsible personality. Because of the age/experience difference, Tatsumi feels a responsibility toward Hisoka, but he really does view them very much as equals.

...regarding your dad. ♥ Ah, given that I’ve pulled Tatsumi from before the Kamakura Arc, if Kurosaki Nagare showed up in camp one day, Tatsumi’s reaction would be… very guarded and professional. His reluctance to take the Kamakura case is telling, I think; he really doesn’t want to get involved. The fact that there are a lot of people in camp (i.e. he wouldn’t be isolated with him in a very small, exclusive population, as he was in Kamakura) and that he isn’t supposed to be directly investigating him would allow him to keep more distance; he’d be working on damage control, mainly. That being said? Nagare fits what I’ve deemed to be (based on what we see in canon and what his personality would suggest) to be Tatsumi’s physical and emotional types: pretty but very much distinctly male and an emotional disaster that will do him nothing but harm (…I never said that his type was healthy or what he should want or wants to want, it’s just what he does). Hisoka just aging up to look like Nagare would probably cause Tatsumi to think that he was very good-looking and then feel guilty about thinking that. Hisoka turning into Nagare would potentially be a complicated thing, depending on how long it lasted and how much distance Tatsumi would be able to keep.

Trust: 9
Hotness: ..doesn't go there. Which is to say, mostly objectively and completely devoid of any context, repression, etc... probably a 6. (Too young!)


Wakaba

So! Wakaba! Tatsumi was surprised to see her show up in camp, and while he’s naturally glad to see a friend, he’s increasingly worried about the state of things back home. There are the obvious things: Terazuma having no one to turn him back in the usual way, there being a shortage of active shinigami in the field, etc.. But also, the fact that she showed up accidentally (like Saya and Yuma) creates some conflicting types of anxiety. On the one hand, if camp is interfering with the world at home, well, you know, MULTIVERSE INSTABILITY CAN’T BE A GOOD THING. On the other hand, though, if camp is somehow above (or at least equal to) the powers-that-be at home, that would mean that Enma Daioh-sama could lose his hold on Tsuzuki and Tsuzuki would be able to escape having to return home – a train of thought that naturally opens a whole other can of worms.

As far as trust goes, I think that being one of the older shinigami means that she’s one of his closer colleagues. While I recall that you were going with post-WWII, nevertheless, I think that shared experience counts for a lot, especially given how not many shinigami probably stick around that long. They’ve probably, like, had tea together a lot in the past. Maybe baked cookies together. Or not, because while Tatsumi is quite a cook, I don’t exactly see him as the cookie-baking type, but. You know.

Trust: 8
Hotness: ...um. An objective, theoretical 7? She's a cute girl, and Terazuma should be appreciative, even if Tatsumi isn't.

[esp_not_pms]

...so this means if I want the maximum evil, I should age up twice, once with personality and once just physically? I vote we play the "pass the Tsuzuki" game again, only not because we're retarded!

And I figured Wakaba and Tatsumi were pretty close in canon, since they're the ones that try to persuade Konoe to go to the Earl's ball together, so yeah. :D And that hotness score is ttly a lie, we know you're afraid of boobs >: (♥)

[kagekachou.livejournal.com]

...basically, yeah. |D Neither would fuck with his head as much as it would if I'd pulled him from the Kamakura arc, but once he learned who it was... We'd need some good Trauma for that game to start, though! Because otherwise I just assume that he's resting in your good hands!

Wakaba helps to cut down on property damage, too. ♥

...just because Tatsumi likes the cock does not mean that he's afraid of boobs.

[beautytopsthe]

Or so you SAY.

[kagekachou.livejournal.com]

[beautytopsthe]

♥

[harukami]

Um um~.

Umeda:

- Likes Enjolras! Most specifically, likes to poke him. IN THE HEAD. Basically, he views Enjolras as a basically nice person who he gets along with, but who happens to have a stick up his ass that he's trying to loosen a bit.
- Likes Maladict! Lol vampire Mizuki soldier type. BRAINFUCKY AND WEIRD, but that's his life in a nutshell. They get along well, I think.
- I... don't think he's really talked much to Tatsumi.

Hakkai:

- Uhhhh he's talked to them, I think? XD He doesn't have strong opinions on any of them.


Kubota:

- I need to get this guy OUT more.

Marluxia:

- Oh dear. XD Marluxia is amused by and slightly wary of Tatsumi; So far their getting along has been rather chilly at best. He's not sure why this is, but it may have to do with the fact that he was threatening... Saya or Yuma, I forget which ... for manhandling him and putting him in a dress and then. Taking photos. When they met. XDDoesn't mind poking at Tatsumi, as long as he regularly forgets the -san.

- Intrigued by Enjolras, and Enjolras's somewhat scathing curiousity about the Organization. They haven't talked much in months, though.

- I don't think he knows Maladict overmuch? They've talked now and then, but ...


Riku Replica

- KNOWS NOBODY REALLY

[kagekachou.livejournal.com]

Umeda

Enjolras

I’d been failing at getting Enjolras out for a while, so not much has changed from what’s in the essay thingy (http://patria-ou-mort.livejournal.com/15355.html#cutid3), which was pretty general, anyways. But to respond to what you said... well, Enjolras doesn’t like getting poked to loosen up, but he actually does like getting poked in the head! Umeda usually has interesting things to say, even if he can be a jerk sometimes, and Enjolras enjoys talking to him a lot.

And regarding the trust score given below, as relatively well-adjusted as Enjolras is, he’s still a (relatively) normal, human kid without any special powers or fancy technology, is from a pretty stable social situation where kids aren’t packed into giant robots at age 15 so that they can save the universe, and here he is in a zombie camp filled with ninja and death gods and falling moons... It’s reassuring to have someone there who both is similar in that way and seems to have a pretty good handle on the situation. Enjolras wouldn’t trust Umeda with little things at all because Umeda is a jerk, but he totally trusts him with the big stuff. (As in, for example, wouldn’t trust that Umeda wouldn’t mock him mercilessly and take blackmail pictures of him being a pink flower, but would trust that he wouldn’t let him, you know, die or anything.)

Trust: 9
Hotness: 4 (...that's a high number. Rly. It means he actually registers Umeda as... like... an individual human being. Or something.)


Maladict

Hey, there, Doc! Maladict was initially wary of Umeda because of how Umeda sussed out his secret almost immediately and Umeda’s casual but pointed way of poking him with it struck Maladict as threatening. Nothing came of that, though, and Umeda turned out to be the type of person Mal really likes: smart, straight-forward, down to earth and not above being a little evil. Mal tends to hold himself at a distance from people and, despite usually displaying a friendly and open demeanor, is really slow to trust. Umeda is at the top of his trust list at camp.

Trust: 7
Hotness: 5 (Just... not his type!)


Tatsumi

Doesn’t know him beyond him being on staff at the hospital. Has a positive-neutral opinion, as the hospital staff is such an important, dependable part of camp. If he ever found out about Umeda’s romantic backstory, though, he would... probably keep an eye out for Umeda? Because, you know, has sort of been devoted to one guy for the past, oh, fifty years or so, so a little bit of sympathetic been-there-done-that.
(Also, I was re-reading the day-in-the-life Tatsumi sidestory a bit back, and it was all, like, "Despite Tatsumi being cold and grumpy, everyone knows that they can depend on him!" or something, and I was just, like, "...hey... I think... that reminds me of someone..." XD)

Trust: 3
Hotness: 7.5


Hakkai

Enjolras

...hi, there, polite-yet-somewhat-creepy neighbor. Hakkai is just sort of... there. Like part of the scenery.

Trust: 4
Hotness: 1


Maladict

Pleasant and, as far as Mal knows, no more psychotic than anybody he shares his regiment with at home, so. He’s sharp, Mal recognizes that, and perhaps a little on the shady side, so while he liked the random tea with the zombies and would enjoy dropping in on him every once in a while, Hakkai’s too much work for him to want to hang out with a lot.

Trust: 4
Hotness: 6


Tatsumi

He’s seen Hakkai around, and he knows that he’s one of Sanzo’s colleagues, which boosts the trust rating a little. Doesn’t really know or care much about him beyond that, but the Sanzo connection is enough for Tatsumi to go out of his way a little for him, if something comes up.

Trust: 3.5
Hotness: 7


Kubota

Tatsumi

...thinks that Kubota is a juvenile delinquent, but oh well.

-Trust: 3
-Hotness: 6.5

...the hell, LJ, making me split up my comments.

[kagekachou.livejournal.com]

Marluxia

Enjolras

He's very uncertain about Marluxia! On the one hand, he is still extremely interested in what Marluxia was talking about -- his plans, his goals, etc.. On the other hand, however, what Enjolras has seen of the Nobodies has caused him to view them -- Axel, Larxene and Marluxia, that is; Zexion is rather low-profile compared to them -- as rather shifty. To say nothing of Marluxia himself, who seems a rather suspicious character.

As I mentioned previously, I went through a sizeable period of failing with Enjolras. He’s an easy character for me to play... as long as I have a minimum amount of brainpower. Which, for a good while, I didn’t, thanks to being eaten by school and other RL stuff. This especially affected his interactions with characters like Marluxia, as I just avoided them because I felt that I wouldn’t be able to do them justice at all. HOPEFULLY THIS WILL BE CHANGING.

Trust: 3
Hotness: 1


Maladict

He's sort of lost interest in Marluxia! For a while, he was wary of Marluxia and the Nobodies because they displayed strange powers that he'd never seen before and that made him rather uncomfortable. Marluxia, especially, made him uncomfortable because he seemed both powerful and very untrustworthy, which is something that Maladict's been on the receiving end of before and doesn't want to repeat. It's Mal's M.O to put up a cool front and do the alpha male posturing as much as possible, though, so he didn't want to feel as though he was running away. Recently, though, Mal has interacted with Dante a few times, and Dante both can kick his ass and doesn't set off the Skeeve Meter like Marluxia does, so he's happy with his casual pursuit of this new interest.

Trust: 1
Hotness: 3 (Too flouncey!)


Tatsumi

I feel as though I should be saying something with an exclamation mark here! So, Tatsumi got off to a really bad start with Marluxia. There was Marluxia threatening one of his co-workers, which is something that Tatsumi reacts very strongly to. And when they actually talked for the first time, Marluxia managed to get under Tatsumi's skin and poke too near to some emo buttons for comfort -- Tatsumi had only recently gotten to camp and he'd had a really bad year (canonically, the guy he loves having a mental breakdown, being kidnapped by a psychotic rapist doctor and trying to commit suicide, and then camp causing four of his co-workers, including aforementioned guy and one of Tatsumi's closest friends, to lose contact with the folks back home for months) and it was not something he needed plzkthnx. Recently, the incident with Kyouya has told him that Axel and Marluxia can really be trouble. However, while he thinks that Axel and Marluxia’s reactions were totally inappropriate, he recognizes that Kyouya probably accidentally stepped into the deep end of the pool – that while he might not have been aware of what he was doing, Kyouya nevertheless walked into it himself. All of the PSAs about Nobodies and such have interested Tatsumi, given how he’s a human-based entity himself – someone still around because of guilt and regrets from his lifetime - and has a few personal existential issues that are being very firmly repressed.

Trust: 3
Hotness: 5 (...the pink hair and flowers are a little much.)


Repliku

Enjolras

...they just keep on coming and coming from that world, don’t they.

Trust: 3
Hotness: 1


Maladict

...hey, didn’t I see a guy who looked just like him...?

Trust: 3
Hotness: 6.5


Tatsumi

...this should be interesting when we get around to tax time. So do they actually count as related or...?

Trust: 3
Hotness: 4 (...I mean, he’s not bad-looking but. He’s a kid. Just... no.)

[cock-my-gun.livejournal.com]

Hi thar. |D

Essay on uh, Tatsumi's thoughts on Dee and their relationship?

[kagekachou.livejournal.com]

Hm, before I get all essaying, I might as well get the basics out of the way. ^_^ Dee is undoubtedly the person to whom Tatsumi is closest at camp outside of the shinigami. (Tatsumi feel responsible for and trusts Francescu a lot, but a portion of their relationship is mediated through their respective relationships with Tsuzuki and Hisoka; with Dee, it's a direct relationship that Tatsumi formed himself, for himself.) He probably wouldn’t talk to Dee about any shinigami-related or emotional issues without something poking him into it, but it isn’t because he doesn’t trust him – he just has so much emotional baggage with just about everyone else to whom he’s close that he prefers to keep things simple, be able to just sit and have a casual conversation without worrying about things suddenly becoming unbearably awkward. Because in his head, letting all of that messy stuff into the picture would make everything else into a mess, too.

-Trust: 7
-Hotness: 7

[kagekachou.livejournal.com]

...and the longer version!

Tatsumi arrived at camp on 8 July 2006. His main concern was getting here, finding out what had happened to Tsuzuki and Hisoka, and keeping things running as smoothly as possible until they were able to get the hell out of Dodge. Any big impressions were made on him via his co-workers – Francescu mentoring Hisoka, Marluxia whipping out the scythe after being innadressed. But Tatsumi settled into camp relatively quickly, something helped by the fact that so many of his co-workers were here. It was almost like home!

With the situation now framed thusly, Dee was a good co-worker; he was pleasant to talk to, practical, not insane, actually did his job, etc.. Probably something like Wakaba in the office (if not as emotionally involved due to shared experience, etc.) – not as close of a connection as to someone like Hisoka, but sort of a "oh hi there other sensible person we’re so put upon how’s your day" thing.

Additionally, as he talked more with Dee, Tatsumi learned that Dee worked as a cop and was happy with a partner back home. Also, Dee appeared to be in his late twenties. (With his in-camp birthday, he’d been 29 and turned 30 even, though I think you said that you were going to ret-con that.) Now. Imagine that for a guy who died at the age of 29, works basically for detectives of the dead, was one of those dead detectives for a while, royally fucked things up with his partner whom he loved (and still loves) and generally has had not much go right for him.

It just… was nice. To see that things really do work out for people. Especially for someone who was becoming something like a friend.

And then Tatsumi de-aged.

From what I have dubbed the "Into the Woods" thread:
T: I like being able to take care of myself.
D: Everyone does. But sometimes ya just gotta let other people do it for ya.
T: And when those people fail, then what?
D: Then there's probably other people ready an' waitin'. 'Sides, kids shouldn't hafta take care of themselves. That's what us adults are for.

De-aged!Tatsumi was incredibly wary of Dee, who seemed normal enough when he first met him but then, when they talked more and then when Tatsumi headed out into the woods, struck him as a naïve, loud-mouthed fool. After all, the things Dee was saying were things Tatsumi had seen be proven false – he was a kid who had to take care of at least one adult in his life, and there wasn’t anyone waiting in the wings to take care of him. When Dee showed how sincere he was, though, that made de-aged!Tatsumi extremely uncomfortable. Because yeah, it was nice and it made him want to trust Dee, but he was not just a sixteen-year old guy but also well on his way to becoming the emotard we all know and love today.

So the de-aging came to an end, and Tatsumi was thankful about how willing Dee was to just sort of let it all slide, because Tatsumi had been so much more vulnerable, physically and emotionally, in that state that… he just wanted to be able to go on as if it had never happened, basically. Also, because he remembered everything that had happened, he knew that Dee was one of the people to whom he’d said things that would allow them to figure out that there was something up with his age, so the less said about it, the better.

Despite all of the usual let’s-pretend-that-never-happened, it did make Tatsumi more open to Dee, in the sense that, for instance, Dee has already seen Tatsumi use his shadow powers, so there isn’t any sense in pretending that they don’t exist.

[kagekachou.livejournal.com]

All in all, Tatsumi was quite comfortable with where he stood with Dee. That was what allowed the whole dancing thing. Because that was casual screwing around with a friend – it was like a challenge and Tatsumi was just going with it, perhaps attempting to take it a step further – when he’s not being all serious and boring, Tatsumi can have a rather wicked sense of humor and likes trying to screw with people’s heads. Of course, he wasn’t totally comfortable with it because he’s doomed to be awkward, but. It didn’t shake him up like…

The mistletoe incident. Ahaha. The entire thing made Tatsumi extremely uneasy, and yes, this is related to what Tatsumi think of Dee and their relationship, because when Tatsumi gets uneasy with himself, he gets uneasy with other people. Tatsumi has basically not thought of himself in a romantic/sexual context for many, many years and, following that, didn’t think of people in relation to himself in that way. For him, romantic/sexual is, by (personal) definition, unsafe territory. Given that Dee had been one of the safest relationships that Tatsumi had, it was rather unsettling for him.

Yes, it was mistletoe-induced, camp effect, etc., but as Bikky pointed out, how the effect plays out differs from person to person. With a female co-worker, Tatsumi got a peck on the cheek. With a male friend, Tatsumi got a make-out session against a wall. (The fact that the two other main incidents that very evening were with the teenage boyfriend of a friend’s boyfriend and his trauma-riffic ex? DIDN’T HELP THINGS.)

But again, after that, they were able to ignore it and go on as usual, which Tatsumi counted as a success. So things are good again. Tatsumi is content.

…and you had said Tatsumi’s thoughts on Dee and their relationship, but I’m going to chime in because we all know that Tatsumi can’t be trusted.

My prediction is that the current situation will eventually fall apart. Tatsumi can’t indefinitely maintain the balance of being close enough to be friends but casually distanced enough to effectively keep Dee out of everything beyond his surface, present life, especially in a place like camp where improbable events are always popping up to poke at things. Either a more rigid sort of distance will set in or Dee will find out how much Tatsumi is actually sort of a basketcase. Camp just… doesn’t allow for the sort of stasis that can be achieved at home. I can’t predict which way it will go, just that, eventually, a decision will have to be made. Or, if Tatsumi gets his way, something will make the decision for him. Even if the decision is not to decide.

Also, he’s not acknowledging it yet, but Tatsumi is not-thinking that he’s using Dee as a place to run away to. Dee doesn’t know what he is, what he’s done, any of it. When he’s hanging out with Dee, it’s almost as if he’s escaping from… himself. And Tatsumi knows that he does the running-away thing and he’s ashamed of it and he keeps on doing it anyways. So, there’s a bad-ping there.

[kagekachou.livejournal.com]

And finally, for reference, the first month or so of Dee and Tatsumi’s threads.

-July 8: Tatsumi arrives (intro post). (http://community.livejournal.com/campfuckudie/2738824.html?thread=518582408#t518582408)
-July 18: Tatsumi asks for souvenir suggestions. (http://community.livejournal.com/campfuckudie/2783640.html?thread=535838360#t535838360) [This is where I failed at remembering that they'd met. My IC explanation is that a person's first days in camp are naturally a little overwhelming, Tatsumi's first priority was Tsuzuki his co-workers and Dee just didn't make a huge first impression. Also! Origin of Dee calling him "Tatsumi-san" goes here!]
-July 19: Dee is a woman. (http://community.livejournal.com/campfuckudie/2787850.html?thread=537447434#t537447434) [Dee first talks about his partner Ryo here. And... they talk about him for a good bit, relatively speaking.]
-July 21: Ichigo took a run at the barrier. (http://community.livejournal.com/campfuckudie/2792425.html?thread=539454185#t539454185) [ Man, kids are idiots, aren't they?]
-July 31: Dream post. 8D (http://community.livejournal.com/campfuckudie/2833842.html?thread=557359538#t557359538) [Yes. The one where they twirl together for a shit-load of comments before riding off into the setting sun. Dee's dream, so Tatsumi didn't remember it.]
-August 1: Tea with Tatsumi. (http://community.livejournal.com/campfuckudie/2838100.html?thread=558555476#t558555476) [...just a nice, pleasant conversation. Dee being a cop, Japan, England...]
-August 3: Tatsumi de-ages but doesn't talk to Dee in the post itself.
-August 7: Truth or Dare. AU. (http://community.livejournal.com/campfuckudie/2856910.html?thread=566653902#t566653902)
-August 8: De-aged Tatsumi and Dee actually meet. (http://community.livejournal.com/campfuckudie/2861617.html?thread=568998705#t568998705) [This is where Dee's computer uses his full name, allowing me to retcon ICly Tatsumi referring to Dee as "Dee-san" (since Dee had introduced himself to Tatsumi as "Dee," and I'm assuming that Tatsumi wouldn't have run into Dee's name right away with whatever paperwork he was doing). This is also the point when de-aged!Tatsumi really begins fraying. Ahaha.]
-August 10: De-aged Tatsumi's trip into the woods, with Dee following. (http://community.livejournal.com/campfuckudie/2865032.html?thread=570809992#t570809992) [Tsuzuki confirms for Dee that Tatsumi is de-aged. Tatsumi uses the shadows for the first time in camp.]
-August 15: Dee is de-aged. (http://community.livejournal.com/campfuckudie/2887710.html?thread=580866590#t580866590) [Tatsumi is mainly Mr. Exposition Man.]
-August 19: Tea with Tatsumi. (http://community.livejournal.com/campfuckudie/2901199.html?thread=587047375#t587047375)

[zero-pilot.livejournal.com]

Enjolras on Heero! And not in THAT way >.>

I will babble back at you once this essay is done and sent out! :D

[lastle-cord.livejournal.com]

Yachiru barely knows Tatsumi and Enjolras. Sadface!

Cielo also doesn't know Tatsumi that well, but he sees him here and there, has a vague impression of him as a nice and quiet guy. Who does paperwork. Lots of paperwork.

Thomas has not met any of them!

Yuma...well, okay, Tatsumi looks like her brother (lols fanon lols) but she's known him long enough to get over that. Honestly. Other than that Tatsumi is, y'know, the EnMaCho shadow king secretary. In her base, dockin' her pay. :< And, I don't know, this is hard. She feels comfortable enough around him to tease, but she's probably never innadressed him? :D?

[vegan-megan.livejournal.com]

Megan for Enjolras. She still likes him a lot but suspects that he was more a friend of her and Marius and that's why they drift apart since Marius disappeared.