[OOC] Questions Meme

[zettai]

Okay, I think CFUW being ported kind of borked my comment count, but I'm pretty sure I've reached 1k comments over here anyway, and that makes an almost 10k combined comment count! Not to mention I haven't done one of these since May. So, questions meme! I just play Lambdadelta.

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[nooohandouts]

Relationship meme! With the bonus that you consider what happened in CFUW games too.

[zettai]

BEST FRIENEMIES 4 LIFE :)

In seriousness, Lambda actually... quite likes Ankh! He's both easy to poke fun at and have silly banter with because of his temper and attitude, but he's also someone she can be completely openly amoral around without him getting on her case--and he can be interesting for serious conversations in general. She's actually started to respect him more lately after finding out more about him and the nature of Greeeds, especially since he seems willing to talk more openly and honestly about it than she would've expected. She also secretly kind of relates?! Since, hm, the nature of her own existence is very complicated but in a lot of ways has an empty, unfulfillable quality. And she strongly gravitates towards people she can relate to! So she will keep talking to him and pressing him for ~feelings~ and very, very secretly projecting just a little bit.

As far as CFUW goes, things are mostly the same! If anything, the time they were on the same team as wolves together made her feel a little more friendly with him, because YAY FOR KILLING PEOPLE TOGETHER this is how good relationships are formed. She doesn't really think much at all about having killed him in her own game! (And then... having a good laugh about it afterwards THE KFC WAS DELICIOUS SHE REGRETS NOTHING!!) That kind of fare--killing people as part of a game--is pretty old hat for her as a witch, so she doesn't even really think of it as more than a thing that happened and definitely nothing personal.

Reverse?

[runstowardsfire]

Do you love me Lambda, y/n?

[zettai]

n :|

Tiffany definitely wins the prize for being most capable of getting under Lambda's skin! I will leave it up to your own judgement whether that is a good or bad thing.

It's not really correct to say she hates Tiffany or anything--she's perfectly capable of tolerating her and having semi-friendly conversations with her with no problem. But Lambdadelta has a couple very sensitive spots, and Tiffany has the bad habit of hitting on those--unfortunately not fully enough that Lambda feels like Tiffany legitimately understands her (which is something she secretly seeks in general) but just enough to irritate wounds and genuinely piss Lambda off. Tiffany has a very self-assured, and as Lambda sees it almost condescending way of addressing her issues (and usually hitting somewhat close to the mark, but not quite on it), and that's just the kind of attitude that Lambda can't stand. But again, when Tiffany's not saying something to piss her off, she can be pleasant enough for conversation. So while sometimes she would like to rip her limb from limb, she doesn't mind talking to her the rest of the time.

Reverse?

[runstowardsfire]

Lambda sort of annoys Tiffany sometimes because they have different priorities and probably misunderstand each other quite a lot. But she is a witch underneath the girly frills and the crazy because a witch is nothing if not the power behind the scenes most of the time--only Lambda's is the darker version of what she is used to. Since Lambda has a special set of morals, Tiffany no longer expects rational choices like maybe-not-a-kill-game-this-round from her. But she totally disapproves of games on principle. And going crazy because that is a major thing to avoid back at home.

Tiffany has a thing about immortals who play games with people. This is something she has felt strongly about since she was nine years old. Also, she has the same attitude towards grand titles like all witches do--you could be a god and she would tell you get the hell off her lawn. But she knows that Lambda doesn't actually take that stuff seriously at the moment and wonders what in the world is she playing at. Tiffany is logical to a fault and it doesn't make sense to her that someone with that much power is playing games without another purpose or two behind it.

And yes, Tiffany is well aware that she can wreck havoc--the only thing holding that back is Tiffany herself. She doesn't like the part of herself that could have ended up like Lambda if it had gone the other way when she was possessed. Or the feeling that her eleven year old self at that time would have got along well with Lambda. That's why Tiffany sometimes feels that talking to Lambda is like addressing that other witch that might have been. She does wish that Lambda would speak like a person rather than a caricature sometimes, but it's probably more than a habit already. Also, she knows that people who build up personas are usually hiding things. Tiffany's not going to rush things with Lambda because this isn't her turf and she hopes that Lambda can change over time too because of Camp's interference.

It's not actually surprising to Tiffany that two witches end up frienemies or whatever they call it these days--strong-minded individuals tend to clash anyway. And then they'll be polite about it as they poke at each other's issues.

[fayzedandconfused]

Anything new for Lambda and Brianna?

[zettai]

Nothing new since the last time, I think! She's still an entertaining kid who's got a lot of the qualities she likes to see in a person and who's fun to banter back and forth with. It's especially fun when they get to talk macabre! Lambda also often feels compelled to become an increasingly terrible influence and horrible enabler for Brianna, too.

Anything new on Brianna's end? Also we need to thread moooore.

[moextispicy]

Lambda and Rika?

[zettai]

After the red string event and a couple bouts of mistletoe, the fact that there's definite romantic tension there is something she can't really ignore anymore--and she doesn't think there's really much to be done about that. Lambda is still Lambda, so she'll basically continue to do whatever she feels like (especially since Rika already talked her out of backing off entirely SO WHY BOTHER BEING RESPONSIBLE), but she's definitely become more wary of the impact she has on Rika, and also doesn't plan to let things go much further for the sakes of her, Rika, and Bern. She cares a lot about Rika, and Rika makes her happy, but there's still some residual "haha whoops" from when the red string event actually made her stop and think. But, she really does love Rika! And although Bern will always be first to her without question, and a lot of the differences between Bern and Rika are things that put a lot of extra distance between Rika and Lambda, there are also some things Lambda gets out of her friendship with Rika that she could never get from Bern because Rika isn't quite as broken.

... And then if we count CFUW there's even more "WHOOPS WHOOPS WHOOPS," because Lambda is a terrible enabler for Rika becoming more Bern-like, which... both makes Lambda feel comfortable because it closes some of that extra distance I mentioned before, but also makes her feel bad because Bern is a pretty sad person. But since it got Rika presumably taken out of the game and won't even remember any of it anyway, Lambda's pretty "ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL \o/" about it.

Reverse?

[moextispicy]

TOO COMPLICATED, CANNOT ESSAY

...Okay that's a lie. So basically Rika has slowly evolved over time from having complicated love/hate feelings into much more simply loving Lambda about as much as she loves anyone besides Hanyuu, and Lambda approaches Hanyuu in weird spots like being beyond her in a way that...pisses of Rika but she sort of accepts? (This is why Rika really enjoys ordering Lambda to use her powers to screw her up in punishment games, as a way of basically coping with that gap in a way that makes her feel superior for once. It's a bit like how she uses kimchi to punish Hanyuu.) Rika has mostly moved the things that make her hate Lambda into the same place she has the things that make her hate Hanyuu, so all that's really left is loving her. She's just...gotten to the point where her feelings for Lambda are fairly simple? She'd like to have a romantic relationship with her, but she's also pretty well aware that that's probably not going to happen, and she's not going to risk screwing their relationship as is up by pushing for it. She's made her attraction to Lambda plain enough, if Lambda's not interested she'll just thoroughly enjoy plausible deniability camp events and deal with it.

But it still kind of hits her in a weird sanity spot? Because over time, Rika has evolved into really being insanely jealous of Bern. ...Not entirely because she has Lambda, but that's a part of it! But also because...hmm. Everything Rika's seen has made Rika realize that she has everything that Rika has always wanted? A girlfriend Rika loves who won't let her be bored, a god who's strong, infinite power, a lack of need to manipulate the situation when she can just make it so without having to run around shoving everything in the right direction - I think Bernkastel is who Rika has always fantasized about being, to a large extent. And every time she sees Lambda's life outside that, it really upsets her on a fundamental level because - okay, she wants to win and survive and live in peace in the world beyond her fated death, yadda yadda yadda. But she also really wants everything that Bernkastel has! ...More, at the moment, than what she'll get when she wins, because she's been getting reminders of what Bernkastel has, but her friends aren't here. Her knowledge that Bern is broken is too abstract for her to really internalize how broken she is, just because...well, Rika's always been on the victim side. From her perspective, the perpetrators are the ones she envies and she never quite gets the chance to see how broken they are. Bernkastel was, I think, born out of that perspective. And loving Bernkastel's girlfriend is basically an ongoing reinforcement of that as a good thing, in a way? Rika has the most dysfunctional blind spots, seriously.

...Which is why CFUW was so weird! She really regrets pulling herself out of the mostly broken mindset that she went into it when she tortured Tiffany, because....well, she expected to enjoy it more than she did, and blames the fact that she broke out of it before she could fully explore that mindset on the fact that she had the goal of ending the games and yadda yadda. She actually could run another kill game and part of her really wants to? But something would have to trigger her to want to explore her sadistic side some more, and I'm not sure what that would be.