End-of-year question meme

[rollplayinghouse]

You know the drill! Ask a question, and I will answer it and ask one back! CR, meta questions, etc., all are good!

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[rollplayinghouse]

MAKI LIKES SHRIKE A LOT!!

Which doesn't surprise her. Basically all of her best friends involve them both liking the same guy, both in canon and in Imeeji. Shuichi -> Kaito. A -> Joker. Man Eater and King -> Intensity. Yugi -> King. A COMMON ROMANTIC INTEREST IS A REALLY SOLID COMMON INTEREST TO BUILD A FRIENDSHIP ON, OKAY. Especially when you don't have a lot of hobbies.

There's a range of attitudes in there from "quietly jealous and resentful" to "we have an understanding," though, and Maki is very glad Shrike appears to be on the latter side. She felt a bit weird initially that their literal first conversation went from "hi there I murdered your boyfriend and also have a huge crush on him" to Shrike giving her advice on family/unit dynamics, but Shrike seemed fine with it, and Maki appreciated the conversation with someone who appears to be in a similar position as her, so she was immediately very comfortable with her. Shrike inviting her to spend time at avante was also really meaningful to her and she's very happy/appreciative of it.

She's also not particularly surprised that they appear to have a lot in common, even if Shrike is from a pretty different background overall, because Maki has a lot in common with Griffin and clearly Shrike and Griffin clicked well too! But that's always nice, because Maki doesn't have a lot of people who she feels on the same page with on murder/emotions stuff.

Overall, she's eager to spend more time with Shrike and get to know her better. And she's also happy to give romantic advice where she can, because she can tell Shrike and Griffin are still pretty hesitant/figuring stuff out and she wants them both to be happy and avoid a lot of the pitfalls Maki fell into in her first relationships.

REVERSE!

[softlyfalling]

Honestly it's really cute that they get along so well; Shrike was terrified, honestly, because of how the Shrike-Sekhmet-Kohime thing went, but she's been really delighted, especially since at first she found Maki intimidating but actually they have a lot in common.

Like Griffin, Shrike has a lot of family baggage—her family was present but bad, and now that she has a sense of family with avante, she has a bit of an impulse to pass it on to people who seem like they need it. And, ahaha, Shrike is always so relieved in a weird sort of way when someone else has weird murder & emotions feelings, since otherwise she just sits there hating herself, but she has trouble hating other people, so it weirdly helps her bootstrap into better self-esteem.

I'm looking forward to them hanging out more, and god, please Maki give Shrike love advice, she's all right at the basics but she has such a confidence problem and also a lot of hastily papered-over emotional problems,