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alphacomplex2014-11-28 12:49 am
schrodingers_man) wrote in alphacomplex2014-11-28 12:49 am
POST-GAME TL;DR CR JAM
TL;DR Character Relationship Meme
♥ Step one: post with your characters.
♠ Step two: respond to other people's characters with your characters.
♦ Step three: they tell you in detail what their character thinks of your character. TL;DR is encouraged; that's how this works.
♣ Optional step four: discuss it with them if you want! Make a big chain of tl;dr if you're up to it.
♥ Step five: other people do the same thing to you! Maybe you even harvest your tl;dr to use in a CR chart later.
♠ Step six: keep checking back in so that no one is ever late!
♥ Step one: post with your characters.
♠ Step two: respond to other people's characters with your characters.
♦ Step three: they tell you in detail what their character thinks of your character. TL;DR is encouraged; that's how this works.
♣ Optional step four: discuss it with them if you want! Make a big chain of tl;dr if you're up to it.
♥ Step five: other people do the same thing to you! Maybe you even harvest your tl;dr to use in a CR chart later.
♠ Step six: keep checking back in so that no one is ever late!
Zolf J Kimbley
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Kimbley actually was pretty inclined to like Robin from the start, because she was a little angry thing and he was also a little angry thing, and he was feeling really weird already because he hates being locked in. He spent ten years alone, locked in a 10'x7' box waiting to die, so he doesn't take kindly to people shoving him somewhere and not letting him leave; he has a tendency in canon to kill people on his own side if they try to shut him in anywhere. So he was already feeling freaked out and messed up and didn't want anyone to know about it, and spending time around Greed...helped a little in that Greed kind of kept him walking around and talked to him enough to calm him down and generally didn't let him just sit there being a basket case, but at the same time Kimbley wasn't too sure how he felt about Greed at the moment so he didn't want to spend all his time with him.
And then he found Robin, and he definitely appreciated the fact that she was being all RARGH about everything, and then they started talking and...not even gonna lie all the yelling about sincerity and honesty and shit really kind of amused him? Like he could already see that the situation was a deathtrap, so her HOPE!!! was just kind of inspiring a lot of "...oh, honey, you got a big storm coming." But while he admittedly found that hilarious as fuck, he's always had a thing for charismatic people - he tends to be drawn toward the people who are loud and act out and generally make you notice them, and she definitely did that, and so he was pretty content to just kind of see what she did. If she broke all over it'd amuse him (because he's an asshole who likes seeing idealistic people break), and if she didn't that had potential to be really interesting.
So he was pretty interested in her from the start, which is a good way to go toward getting him to like someone; he was a little wigged out that she came to ask him if she could stay in his room that first night, but at the same time he was grateful for it and if he's honest that's why he left the door open – he was sort of hoping someone would come wandering in eventually, he just had entirely too much pride to ask. So he was glad she and Anthy were staying with him, because it was good to know someone else was there and to be able to hear them moving around and stuff before bed.
She actually started striking him weird somewhere around the end of the first trial, though; he wasn't sure why she voted despite the fact that an Abstain option was available, and while she seemed shocked, she didn't seem as messed up over Moge-ko dying as she did Seryu – and while that could have been explained by the fact that Moge-ko was an asshole, it sort of bothered him for some reason he couldn't articulate very well. He didn't want to try to say anything or ask her about it, though, because honestly she was one of the few people who was decent to him without calling him an asshole 24/7? Which he totally deserved because he's an asshole, but at the same time it's sort of nice to have someone just treat you like a person once in a while, and she was good at doing that. She also told him her secret early on, which...once he got over the OKAY SUDDENLY TITS realization, went a long way toward getting him to give a fuck about her because apparently she'd been keeping that secret for a damn long time and yet she trusted him enough to say something about it to him. So he was fine with keeping her around, and he started to like her a lot more than he expected to which was...confusing, aaaaaaand then the second trial happened and everything went to shit.
He kept her out of his room that night so she wouldn't wake up to find him gone when he'd been in the room with her that night before; he was pissed at himself for doing that after the fact, because being alone and knowing he was going to die soon like that fucked him up really badly in ways that he didn't expect it to. So he sort of hated himself for having done that to himself, but at the same time he didn't really...regret having done it in the first place, if that makes sense? It did what he'd intended it to do and that was what mattered – she was still upset when he died, but at least she didn't wake up in his room. He also didn't like seeing Robin cry when Yomiel started in on her and said she wanted Kimbley dead; he actually had to leave the room while that was going on. It would have been a lot easier if she'd just said that he'd been killed because he had a role, or if she'd tried to put on a brave face and sassed Yomiel about it, or...it even would have been easier if she'd been lying the whole time and actually did want him dead; he didn't know what to do with the fact that she was apparently fucked up over it.
He also told Greed to only come get him if Fulbright burned, because he figured it was either going to be Fulbright or Robin and he didn't really want to see it or hear about it if it was Robin.
...Greed also started teasing Kimbley at one point about acting like an older brother to her, which annoyed him because he couldn't really deny it, either – the whole thing made him feel all weird and protective and he generally doesn't get like that toward people, so it was just sort of this giant cluster of what the fuck is this even.
He actually doesn't hate her for being a Communist because his thoughts were pretty much that you do what you have to do; he also doesn't care if he lives or dies and in situations like that he starts getting weird and deathseeker-ish, so he was actually okay with the fact that he ended up dead at all – he could have done without the night before and ahahahaha wow he is never doing a decent thing for anyone ever again, but at the same time there aren't any...genuine hard feelings? He's mad at her, yeah, because he's kind of mad at everyone, but it'll pass eventually.
(Also he sort of encouraged Paul to go after her later and vented to Knightley about his suspicions toward both Robin and Fulbright, which he will admit felt pretty good, and ngl he was feeling vindicated as hell about the fact that he was right about both of them, so uh.)
And this was a lot of tl;dr to express the basic sentiment of IDK, but it's essentially the pseudo-sibling equivalent of a Facebook "It's Complicated."
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Yomiel has the dubious honor of being someone that Kimbley never suspected of being a Communist, despite being one of the loudest damn people in the game; part of this is because Kimbley's Communist-finding game is apparently completely ridiculous, but part of it had to do with the fact that the first time they talked Yomiel literally just rocked up, looked at the hot mess that was everything Moge-ko had decided to be that day, and went WELP SHE'S GONNA DIE AT THE TRIAL IF WE KNOW WHAT'S GOOD FOR US. That managed to get Kimbley's attention immediately because it basically gave off the impression that Yomiel gave the least number of fucks in the room, and Kimbley tends to find people like that fascinating – because either they are, in fact, completely and utterly fuckless and therefore like him, or they're...not quite as fuckless as they seem, which tends to come with all sorts of fun buttons to push.
So that was honestly the driving force behind him accusing Yomiel of being a Communist early on, it was a way to gauge it (if you know nothing else about both versions of this man, you will learn quickly that they tend to forego the "asking" stage and jump right into "let's pull a very stupid tactical maneuver to try to get the result I want, people may actually die, I may actually die, it'll be great" while everyone stands around yelling "...OR WE COULD HAVE DONE THIS THE EASY WAY") – either Yomiel would be a Communist and fuck yeah score one for the Citizens, or Yomiel wouldn't be a Communist and maybe he'd have a fun meltdown for Kimbley to poke at later, or Yomiel wouldn't be a Communist and he just did not give a single fuck and therefore he'd be a good person to ally himself with.
He wasn't...entirely sure about what he and a bunch of the others got; they kind of got the screaming meltdown but it wasn't anything Kimbley actually knew what to do with because it involved paranoia over computers of all things, and so he was willing to back off; he did find Yomiel's argument against Moge-ko to be sound, though, and that was why he ended up pushing to kill her instead of letting the group abstain. Which turned out to be a huge mistake and actually ended up painting more of a target on Yomiel, which...he did not exactly feel bad about per se, but it wasn't what he'd intended, either. So that put him in the really awkward position of feeling like he should probably apologize and having no real idea why he felt that way; that's why he came up to him and tried to talk to him a little after the trial, that entire thing was his completely socially awkward way of saying that it wasn't Yomiel's fault, and he defended him that night because like hell if he was going to have the guy die for his own fuckup. Accountability isn't exactly the biggest thing with him, not anywhere near like it is for Yomiel, but at the same time it's not like he could defend himself anyway so defending the guy who inspired him to go after Moge-ko again seemed like the next best option.
And then Greed died and everything went to shit, because we had a 2003 FMA cast in this game and they apparently felt like being nothing if not true to canon in that regard.
He didn't go see what Yomiel was doing with Clay because he knew that if he did somebody'd be dead by the end of it, but he wasn't surprised when Yomiel called him untrustworthy in the trial; Yomiel seemed pretty close to Greed, so he was kind of expecting that Greed had said something about Backstabbing Douchebag Incident Of 1915: Devil's Nest Edition. At the same time, he was willing to just kind of laugh it off because Greed's death had fucked him up too, and if he could fuck up some Communists by helping Yomiel out, he was all for it. He'd also noticed that a valid strategy at that point seemed to be "hassle Yomiel until ideas fall out," and he was a bit surprised when Yomiel told him flat-out "I've got some ideas for you to tear into later, just get everyone off my back" but he was perfectly happy to take that and run a fucking marathon with it and basically just jump into a lot of conversations and yell them into a standstill, because if he's good at anything it's being a charismatic asshole who can yell a lot if he needs to.
Basically, he discovered during that trial that Yomiel...well, the "you're an asshole, but you're my kind of asshole" sentiment was pretty mutual, let's put it that way.
That said, though, he wasn't really bothered by the comments made about the Defense Officer in general; he fully acknowledged that he was an unfathomable fuckup and hence he was totally fine talking shit about said Defense Officer along with Yomiel. He...honestly almost asked to stay with him the night after that trial because he really didn't want to be alone, but decided against it for the same reason that he told Robin to go take Anthy and stay somewhere else that night (and if anything it would be more of a dick move if he'd done that to Yomiel – he figured the guy had already awakened once to someone gone, he didn't need to do it the next night as well). I mean he regretted the fuck out of that decision about three seconds after the doors locked and he pretty much decided that he's never going to do anything halfway decent for anybody ever again after that, but you know what, holy fuck was he glad he did that in the end because as it was the guy was standing around talking to his corpse because that's nice and well-adjusted.
He spent most of his time in deadland watching Yomiel, honestly; he sort of appreciates the speed with which shit veered around between "...Yomiel, no" and "YOMIEL YES", because if nothing else Yomiel is amusing as hell. A+, would accidentally drive into a backslide again.
(Also the flirting was nothing personal, he promises. He's only really interested in fucking with you; the "with" is important.)
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...Still probably would've agreed to it if Kimbley asked, anyway. Greed did tell him about Kimbley's claustrophobia, and he would. Probably not be polite enough to not mention that fact. And that's why Yomiel would be the one who had to sleep on the floor. (Because of course he wouldn't want to share the bed with Kimbley.)
(If they were stuck together after the doors shut, though, Yomiel might've actually mentioned the whole... "bullshitting up a meeting with the Loyalty Officer to cover up for actually being the Loyalty Officer" thing. Because that worked out so well for him with Greed???)
EDIT: Also laughing at Kimbley's first impression of Yomiel being that he gave no fucks. Fairly true on the first day! COMPLETELY FUCKING WRONG thereafter. ~*~SURPRISE~*~
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