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[rollplayinghouse]

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[syncintohell]

In what ways do you think Maki would have developed differently if she had been placed on BAD END=DEAD END?

[rollplayinghouse]

THAT IS A GOOD QUESTION. It's hard to say for sure without knowing how her relationships with the team would have developed differently. Boss and Oni have developed as some of the top people she is comfortable with anyway, but I am not sure how that would be different actually on the same team.

IN GENERAL THOUGH it's likely she would have started out more relaxed/open... she likes Taisho but they... I don't want to say put her on the defensive exactly, but made her much more immediately aware of how she presents herself and how she interacts with people, whereas BE=DE's more like... chill dumb boy attitude would have been a lot more comfortable for her to interact with without worrying too much about it. Like Kaito in canon. On the other hand that same situation might have made her a lot more Team Mom in a way she's not right now because she mostly trusts Taisho to be on top of their own shit or else doesn't really care. And Team Mom is not actually a thing I particularly enjoy playing so that's a good thing.

It's possible she'd also be more comfortable being violent / with the fact that she's assassin if she was on a team where that was the motif? Or even if not, I feel like people's expectations of her on that count would be pretty different, whereas now people seem to assume she's a calm and nice person based on (as far as she can tell) very little evidence, which definitely affects how self-conscious she feels about it.

Have the teams developed differently than you expected?