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Almost at 2.5k, so it's time for a questions meme! Hit me with whatever and anything! Especially embarrassing questions.

I play this weenie and an Echo, The Caretaker. Hawke hasn't been intro'd yet.

Questions that are not allowed:
- How are you dealing with falling into kyr hell?
- Why won't you let me flirt with Naru?

Comments

[secare]

I ASSUME ANOTHER RELATIONSHIP REQUEST.

KONG IS........ Kong is complicated, man. First and foremost, he is a teammate which means that he's important to Ren. He cares about the little things and he keeps trying to make conversation with him to find some common ground even though it's hard and awkward BUT HE IS DETERMINED. Mostly because he wants Kong to feel like he belongs there with them which is a stupid idea that has only been strengthened by seeing his memories. He really thought that he had him figured out until seeing the MURDER MEMORY and a little glimpse of mind-reading.

Then he realised he was a jerk who didn't really know anything and has been trying to force stuff on Kong without knowing. LIKE HE ALREADY KNEW HE WAS DOING A LITTLE OF THAT but now it's Definitely A Thing. Totally a thing and he regrets it because he's not sure if he made it difficult for Kong to want to relate back to him? He still cares what he thinks and wants his approval because there's not a part of him that doesn't think that Kong isn't trustworthy. He supported him when he saw his purification ceremony memories, so yeah!! Faith in Kong!!

He's a little shaken by the fact that Kong really enjoyed the balloon murder, but he also. . . really understands. Kong wanted to take back his life and that's something that resonates so strongly within him, so yeah! It's fucked up but that's what went down and he doesn't really judge him for it because he isn't so sure he might not have done the same thing if he was in Kong's position. Plus he's been learning the hard way that desperation can drive people to some fucked up shit.

tl;dr: KONG IS TEAM, REN IS FORGIVING, and he'll defend Kong to the death.

Kong on Ren?

[murimurimuri]

Team is hard for Kong. It's not that he has anything against his fellow cocks; for as much as he was dodging the real question, he was being truthful when he told Ren that he didn't have anything against Alectryon. And he honestly has a soft spot for Ren, despite all of the awkwardness. That's the problem, really. All of his instincts (and memories) are telling him, "don't trust anyone, don't love anyone, don't think about anyone but yourself," and friendship genuinely scares him. So he kind of dreads Ren's attempts.

But at the same time he knows he needs to get along with the team in order to work with them, so Kong has to walk this line where he's a good enough teammate to maintain team loyalty and harmony while still keeping them all at an emotional arm's length for his own sake. It's important that the team continues trusting him, and it's just as important that he doesn't accidentally start trusting them back. So he tries to support Ren whenever he can, but he's scared of accepting support in return. This is becoming harder and harder to pull off, which is why he eventually just slipped up and was like, YEAH I KILLED A DUDE SO WHAT MY LIFE IS TERRIBLE.

But it's hard not to like somebody who is relentlessly supportive, and it's hard not to empathize with Ren's problems when he's experienced them himself via shards. He's starting to care, and he doesn't know what to do with that. He assumes it's a problem. Lately, though, Ren's affection is starting to feel less threatening, and Kong is starting to put him more in the same category as Tora, kinda like, "but what if I kept and raised this child as my attack dog :|a" Part genuine sociopathy, part needing to rationalize his interest in another person.

tl;dr may or may not be wigging out about wanting to be friends

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Bark, bark.

I'M SO EXCITED TO SEE WHERE THEIR CR IS GOING TO GO since Kong is by far one of the most interesting people on the team as far as Ren's concerned. He's backed off of trying to aggressively friendship him after realising that it was having a more adverse effect than anything, but then KONG CONFESSED ABOUT HIS LIFE and Ren kind of took that as EFFORT BEING MADE BACK and he's satisfied enough with it.

Kong's adorable. Weh.

[unholydiver]

I'm amazed at the awesome breakthrough we made with this CR, seriously. It's been adorable and magical.

[secare]

ME TOO. It really wasn't what I was expecting.

I was expecting something along the lines of Ren being told to fuck off and then sulking around about it for like weeks.