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Basically you're either dead or he hates you or both.

OK NO I ACTUALLY HAVE A LOT OF THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS GO AHEAD AND ASK ME ABOUT THEM because nothing is actually that straight-forward with Yomiel.

It's really too bad I don't have the icon I'll call "phi$ wine whiteplanet.exe" yet...

YOU'RE WEIRD, PHI. HE DOESN'T GET YOU.

And Yomiel generally considers himself to be pretty good at getting people! Not like, to any extraordinary extent, sure, but he can usually scrounge up a few keywords to describe people after a few conversations. BUT NOT PHI. Fuckin'. 5 days of hell with this girl and he couldn't tell you shit about what the hell her deal is. WHAT THE HELL IS HER DEAL. It doesn't bother him that he can't figure her out, exactly, but that's honestly mostly because of that message on Day 2 that was trying to frame her; that all but cleared her of suspicion in his eyes and from that point on he didn't have much reason to try and figure her out when he had bigger issues occupying his mind. He probably figured in the back of his mind that if he was wrong about anyone's innocence, it was Phi, but it was kind of in the "clear that hurdle when we come to it" category. Definitely not someone who ever would've made it into his trusted "in" group, at least.

BUT YEAH GOSH PHI IS COMPLETELY OPAQUE TO HIM. It's like... she doesn't seem to really care very much, but also doesn't seem to not care? Like she's involved and not involved at the same time. Detached, but not quite, maybe? Basically, she's just plain "off". In different circumstances, she would probably kind of drive a high-emotions guy like him up the wall, but in these specific ones, it basically ended up being "*SHRUGS AND MOVES ONTO SOMETHING MORE IMPORTANT*"

Still vaguely buttmad that she was apparently in the "boned either way" camp with him and Knightley and still voted for Reactivation instead of joining them in "blow it all to hell" solidarity, though.

???

HILARIOUSLY, Yomiel was probably the last of the major instigators on the Citizen side to come around to thinking Robin was a likely Communist. Like, Paul and Kimbley were on her ass pretty quick, and Knightley and Simon were like "sounds legit" about it, and then there's Yomiel way back at the starting line like "that kid's just dumb and following herd mentality". Like, his pool of potential suspects shrunk enough for him to investigate her, but the reason he investigated her and not someone else was because she was the one he was most unsure of.

I think part of it was that he just really didn't want to believe she could be a Communist. He's a jerk and an asshole, sure, but unlike most of the Citizen's side big players, he's not a straight-up misanthrope. I won't say he had the most flattering view of her, but he figured she at least meant well. And why wouldn't he? She gave him a hand when he was freaking out over Seryu's body, she was one of the people dragging him off Clay, etc., etc. Though by the end of Day 3, even he kind of had to admit that she wasn't really reacting like he would expect her to. (Day 3 was a major turning point for him in general, and by the end of it, he wasn't really inclined to give anyone much in the way of slack anymore. Killing Anthy, even as indirectly as he did, made him backslide baaaaaad.) Even so, even as he put her name in, he was still half-sure it was going to come back innocent.

AND THEN IT DIDN'T. He had this perfect plan in mind where he'd gun for Bobby and leave Robin for later, but he was just SO PISSED OFF about the stuff she said about Kimbley and at himself for believing it, that when she tried to talk to him he just... blew the hell up right in her face. And then she tried to deny it and throw the suspicion back on him and that just pissed him off even WORSE. Moreso the denial than the counter-accusation, to be honest; accountability is a pretty big thing with Yomiel. His feelings towards her on the last day can mostly be summed up with "SHUT UP AND GO AWAY, I DON'T WANT TO DEAL WITH YOU RIGHT NOW."

His non-reaction to her true gender reveal was probably something like... 60% "Yeah sure why not I was wrong about everything else about ~~him~~ her" and 40% "I thought there was something funny about that brace!" That thing was honestly probably bothering him more than her behavior was....

Also Robin was the only person to survive being investigated by him CONGRATULATIONS, ROBIN.

Surprisingly, her reactions to the people that turned up dead each day were pretty damn genuine. It's one thing to vote for someone and have them disappear in a burst of fire, but another to see them lying there, dead because of you. She had never killed anyone before, even indirectly like they did here.

I love how the last trial basically turned into a mess of "Who can put more suspicion on who". Robin had actually composed a plan that may have worked if it hadn't been useless in the long run. She would have put suspicion on Yomiel, and by extension, probably put suspicion on herself. That way, either her or Yomiel would have likely died if they hadn't gone after Bobby instead. Then they would have gotten the inhibitor while the communists could easily take out the loyalty officer.

It's funny how things work out.

SUP BUDDY

SUP PAL.

Yomiel's first impression of Simon was something like "this guy hovering around Knightley looks like a total weenie, I could probably give that poor guy a heart attack just by jumping at him and going 'boo' really loudly." So for the first could of days, Simon was basically just "Knightley's hanger-on" to him.

He knew they were friends, though, so when the Indoctrinator acted first night, they were the first people he suspected. ~~Which in no way stopped him from asking Knightley for a strategy meeting, good planning, Yomiel.~~ And then during the trial that day, Simon was like "Well, we talked about that and decided it would be better to wait..." so Yomiel was like "OK ain't nobody dumb enough to admit something like that if they were actually the ones who converted, especially not a scaredy-cat like that, and I'm sure this guy's no idiot because Knightley wouldn't tolerate him hanging around if he was so... they're probably clear."

So after that, he didn't have any particularly strong feelings about Simon. Seemed like a pretty alright guy but probably not a super reliable one, probably not going to be any sort of major mover or shaker in this game, I hope he and Knightley get out of this alright, that sort of vaguely positive feeling. And then Simon told him he was the troubleshooter, and when he was like "Yeah I haven't told Knightley I'm using the two of you as insurance against each other" Yomiel was like "...I have severely underestimated this guy's intelligence." REALLY GLAD SIMON WAS ON HIS SIDE, but yeah wow not expecting that in the least.

ALSO REALLY UNEXPECTED: Simon so readily agreeing to the fake Troubleshooter plan! That conversation was about when Yomiel realized that he was completely wrong about this guy and needed to throw out all his previous misconceptions and start over. Not even fuckin' mad about being so thoroughly fooled, just honestly kind of impressed. Really impressed, actually. That was basically when Yomiel started earnestly liking Simon, was when he realized Simon's smarter than he is.

Aaaaalso when he realized that oh Simon is probably not the only stealth sketchy asshole here, I should stop cutting Robin and Fulbright so much slack and start assuming we're just all sketchy assholes here. So congrats, Simon, between that and providing him the means to "personally" murder Anthy, you're pretty much singlehandedly responsible for Yomiel's character development going off the rails as badly as it did.

Even without Knightley threatening to break his arms, though, Yomiel really did want to protect Simon. That's why he gave Simon that note and wrote his letter to leave everything up to Simon to explain, because he trusted Simon's judgement more than his own. So it SURE DID FUCK HIM UP when Simon mentioned that Bobby might actually have reason to scan him, god, if he'd mentioned that earlier, Yomiel would've called the entire damn plan off, you go publicly do the Troubleshooter thing, Simon, Yomiel will figure out some way to fend for himself it'll be fiiiiiiine. But that's not how it went and Yomiel totally spent all of Day 4 kicking himself for getting Simon killed.

He still feels awkward about it in DART, but Simon doesn't seem mad about it, so he guesses it's okay???

Yay, I helped :3c

Simon should have tried to engineer Fulbright's death from the beginning, but he sat on his worries about the guy because he was avoiding an awkward conversation with Horace, and consequently told himself he could ride it out until people's suspicions about Fulbright came to fruition. So he blames himself for being weak enough to feel feelings, and Knightley for making him feel those feelings, and in the face of that barely blames Yomiel for his death at all. Actually the most IC thing probably would have been to Troubleshoot Fulbright right away, long before anybody even thought he might have been Communist, but I'm not that much of an asshole OOCly.

SO APPARENTLY I HIT ON YOU AND CAUSED A MELTDOWN

BASICALLY.

OK no it's actually a lot more complicated than that.

Yomiel's first impression of Kimbley was basically "That guy's an asshole. ...Probably not a Communist, but definitely an asshole." Which is not necessarily as bad of an impression as it might seem? Yomiel doesn't exactly have room to criticize people for being assholes.... But still, he was not exactly first in line for getting all buddy-buddy with Kimbley.

And Greed didn't help that at all when Yomiel told him his role and he was like "I bet Kimbley's a Communist and even if he isn't, he's a backstabbing asshole so don't trust him." And Yomiel really did intend to follow that advice! But then they got into the trial and Kimbley just kind of laughed off everything Yomiel tossed at him and was basically like "hey Greed trusted you so I'll trust his judgement and follow your lead" and Yomiel just. Completely wasn't expecting that. Nothing Kimbley did at the trial was what Yomiel was expecting, really. (Including hitting on him. What was that, Kimbley, what was that.) Kimbley consistently had Yomiel's back in that trial and Yomiel's pretty used to people not having his back by this point, so... I wouldn't say he was touched exactly, because you're still an asshole, Kimbley, you're just. His kind of asshole.

And then Rin declared that Kimbley was next up on the Communist's chopping block and Yomiel was a little mad that apparently he wasn't even considered enough of a threat to even get scanned, but mostly he was scared that he was just starting to warm up to this guy and he was already doomed like WASN'T LOSING GREED ENOUGH OF A KICK TO THE PANTS? ~~Of course not; apparently Yomiel's friendship is literal poison.~~

So he was really worried about Kimbley all night and really hoping Rin's prediction would be wrong and then NOPE Kimbley died and he was the Defense Officer and Yomiel felt like the biggest heel for all the shit he said about the Defense Officer to him. Kind of like the biggest heel in general for even doubting him enough to investigate him in the first place, really. Like, finding out that Kimbley was the Defense Officer probably gave him a few more ticks in the positive feelings category than he really deserved, because Yomiel really is just kind of overly sentimental like that.

In case, y'know. The whole "talking to the corpse" thing didn't make that one clear.

He's pretty sure he knows already, but go ahead and surprise him.

Greeeeeeeeeeeeeed.

That first conversation on Day 0, of course, Yomiel came to the conclusion that Greed was a ghost just like him. And that meant a lot to him! He's never met another ghost (he's aware that Lynne has one following her around, but they're working at odds with his goals so they are clearly not friend material. Ha. Haha. Hahaha.), so the possibility of someone who knows how fucking awful it is to be dead was really exciting and he was immediately attached to Greed baaaaaad.

So that first night, he waffled a lot on who to investigate, but ultimately he picked Greed because he just really needed to know if he could trust Greed or not, more than anybody else. And he could! And that was a huge relief. God only knows what he would've done if Greed showed up as a Communist, but it probably would've been incredibly stupid. Because Yomiel.

He wasn't really planning on telling Greed his role and result, though. He wasn't really planning much at all that first day, just kind of a directionless "yeah I guess I'll try to win this thing since I ended up with an important role and am generally opposed to us all getting slaughtered on principle. (Also killing is bad and wrong and people who do it shouldn't get away with it NOT THAT I'M TALKING ABOUT MYSELF HERE OR ANYTHING.)" And then after the trial people were like "dude, you gonna die" and he was like "shit, yeah, probably" so it was like yeah better tell Greed he's Officially Cleared JUST IN CASE.

He thought about directly talking about the whole dead thing, too, but GOD that's an awkward conversation to start and WHAT IF HE'S WRONG or WHAT IF TALKING ABOUT IT PISSES GREED OFF OR SOMETHING it's just safer to sit down and shut up and not risk rocking the boat or anything yeah that's fine kind of want to pretend those last ten years never happened anyway. First non-cat friend he made in ten years, he might've been overthinking things ~~a little~~ a lot.

And then he didn't die but Greed did. And that fucked him up. He was confused that Greed was dead and he wasn't, and hurt that Greed hadn't told him his role when he'd told Greed his own considerably more dangerous one, and mad the Communists had taken his one trustworthy clear from him on TOP of the other positive feelings he had about Greed, and PISSED AS ALL HELL that their intended target didn't even seem to give a shit, and just. He was not in a good place. If he hadn't been, aheh, otherwise occupied for most of the morning and missed it, his reaction to the message accusing Phi probably would've just been "I didn't write that, so we can ignore it. (P.S. Yes, I'm implying I'm the Loyalty Officer.)" THANKFULLY HE'D CALMED DOWN SOME BY THE TIME HE ACTUALLY HEARD ABOUT IT AT THE TRIAL, but yeah. Congratulations, Greed, you really won the friend lottery on that one.

He still thought about Greed sometimes the next couple of days, too. Mostly like, "I really should've said something about the dead thing, even if I was wrong I might've been able to get it off my chest," and "jesus christ, 300 years old, how the fuck was he not a gibbering mess, I'd completely lost my shit after 10 years, I can't even fucking imagine literally 30 times that," and just. General seething bitter hatred in Clay's direction. Because GOD was that not fair, if the Communists had targeted Greed for some reason that would be one thing, but no it was a series of unfortunate coincidences completely outside Greed's control and that just kind of ground his gears extra hard. NOT SUBCONSCIOUSLY FAMILIAR OR ANYTHING.

'SUP

I think the only reason Knightley managed to survive Yomiel's Friendship of Death was that it was a slow burning friendship. :V He never disliked Knightley or anything, but for the first couple of days, it was like, yeah he'd be bummed if Knightley bit it, because that guy's smart and he's been a good ally, but he wouldn't... do the Yomiel thing over it.

And honestly, like I said to Excel up there, he spent most of Day 1 thinking Simon and Knightley were probably Communists because they were the only pair he knew of that definitely already knew each other. There are a few comments in the Day 1 strategy meeting that I was cackling as I wrote because they're basically Yomiel giving deliberately misleading advice and secretly feeling oh-so-clever for it. The Communists should investigate people with relevant skills (that I don't have)! They should keep an eye on people who don't speak up much in trials (because I'm going to be yelling my stupid head off)! The fact that he was totally wrong about Knightley being a commie just makes it even more hilarious to me.

(He totally stole Knightley's idea of the Loyalty Officer using a messenger, though, thanks for that unwitting advice, buddy. Before that, the FunFood thing was seriously his best idea and he really didn't want to have to resort to that.)

After the first trial, he was pretty sure Knightley and Simon were clear, though, so Day 2 was mostly, like I said for Simon, "those guys are pretty alright, I hope they get out of this okay." No hard feelings for yanking him off Clay, even! ~~All hard feelings regarding that are exclusively reserved for Clay.~~ And the vaguely positive feelings just kept building up into genuine fondness as they went through Day 2 and Day 3 ~~and as Yomiel's character development kept on backsliding~~, and by the end of Day 3, Yomiel was basically like "OK if this plan fails and I die tonight, I'll actually be pretty okay with that, I think Simon and Knightley'll be able to handle it just fine without me."

AND THEN SIMON DIED INSTEAD. Yomiel felt just awful about that, as he do, and honestly kind of surprised that Knightley did not, in fact, break his arms for it. Also kind of disappointed, to be honest. Because Yomiel. But once they cleared the air on that, it was basically, like, they were fully united in Being Completely Done With This Shit. Never before in his life or afterlife has Yomiel been so thoroughly on the same page as someone. They're mad tight, basically.

And the conversation they had in the final trial about what they had to go back to kind of really hammered it home for him that he wasn't just hanging around Knightley so much because he was the only person left with a brain worth a damn, but that he really was genuinely fond of the guy, so y'know. Extra kick in the pants there, learning that Knightley was boned anyway.

Mukuro gave Yomiel a gun in the final aftermath, and chances are pretty good that he handed it off to Knightley, though, 'cuz, hey, couldn't hurt to try, right?

Also probably inevitable that he'll start calling him Horace eventually.

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