POST-GAME TL;DR CR JAM

[schrodingers_man]

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!

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[alchemicals]

OKAY since you for some reason are a glutton for punishment, here we go!

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."