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What is your favorite memory for Link? (That you've won or want a lot next.)

Probably the aftermath of the level 4 attack on HQ, which I haven't gotten yet, because it's sort of when Link starts connecting to Allen as a person and not just a suspect.

I also am amused with the memory he got back first, which was Allen blackmailing him with footage of Timothy crying while he had possessed Link.

uuum :|a how's Taiki doing in Sabra vs. canon?

Relationship me, I am curious.

:|a damn, I can't find old relationship-thoughts so I may not be too accurate with what's changed and what hasn't. BUT basically Link's thoughts will now revolve around Jace's relationship to Edward because that's the strongest point of connection between Link and Jace. Link is willing to give Jace a lot of leeway with Edward because he's positive Jace is well-intentioned. He does think less involvement might have been better in the beginning because of how aware Link is of the desires of the rest of his team, but he also thinks the weight of being aware of a team's feelings and weighing that against personal desires falls to Ed to deal with (not that he isn't willing to give advice and assistance where needed). He won't make someone's decisions for them when it comes to things like other people's relationships, because of how he dealt with Allen and Slick.

So all that said, Link does feel a certain private, general disappointment that Ed had to turn to another team to get moral support, which now colors his view of Jace a bit. And while it doesn't have as much to do with Jace himself as much as the idea of not being seen as someone who can be relied upon, he can't help a tiny bit of jealousy/disapprove. XD; Jace being Ed's strongest bond galls Link a little in his provider-nurturer place, basically. IT'S A SMALL AMOUNT and Link doesn't consider it important in his non-emotions places.

GOSH THAT ALL SOUNDS LIKE BAD NEWS, uh, it's not really \o\ /o/. Link does honestly trust Jace to be a caring friend to Ed, and to always be interested in Ed's welfare. He's not certain he always trusts Jace to make the decisions Link would consider best but he chalks that up to them having different ways of handling people and also different priorities. But it is a good thing for Ed to have friends. Friends are important. OVERALL he views Jace as a good guy, but there's some complicated stuff there which he intends to mostly just let sort itself out with perhaps some nudging here and there. He remains generally respectful and unafraid that Jace will suddenly decide to tear up his/Ed's/his team's minds.

UH--return? I kind of assume Jace see's Link as the Parent He Must Impress now...

Kind of! But Jace honestly has had a huge amount of respect for Link for quite a while, now, and Link's handling of the general situation only increases that. A lot like Link thinks of him, actually, he trusts Link to make decisions with the general welfare in mind, and even if they're sometimes not the decisions Jace would have made, they're still decisions he can understand and respect. Jace also has a huuuuuge self-determination ping, both because of how Canis generally handles matters like this and because he knows how very easy it would be for him to not have a ping like that, and how terrible that would be. So he's got an enormous amount of respect for free will, and Link's general mode being "I will let everyone make their own decisions because I don't have the right to make them for them and they are responsible adults" scores major points every time.

He doesn't feel particularly close to Link, but he'd honestly like to get to know him better, and not just because he's the Parent He Must Impress. Link's tied into several things which impact Jace (such as Allen), but even if that weren't true he'd still like to talk more. The main reason he hasn't is that, at this point, poking someone else on Del would probably start pushing his luck. XD;

(And yeah, the chance that Jace will do anything to damage Ed is actually less than zero at this point, pretty much zero for Link. :|a)

Hmmmm. Speak to me of Link and Allen Walker.

RELATIONSHIP MEEEEEEEEEEE

BOTH OF MEEEEEEEEES

IDK, LINK IS FINALLY GETTING TO EXPRESS ALL HIS CARING FEELINGS TOWARDS SOUJIROU WITHOUT FEELING LIKE HE'S BEING BELITTLED OR NOT TAKEN SERIOUSLY, IT IS THE BEST FEELING EVER. And that Sou has expressed honest respect for him is kind of flustering and also makes him really happy. AND HE'S JUST REALLY HAPPY FOR SOU. He's never seen someone transform like that and he's super glad Soujirou gained stability and perspective about who he's been and has an idea about who he wants to become. SOUJIROU CAN FEEL FEELINGS this is \o\ /o/ aaaah, so happy!! And he likes me enough to consider me important to him aaaaaaaaah!!! S-so many happy mommy feelings, you guys...

He's sad Soujirou has to go though. LIKE, he thinks it's a good thing, and that Sou seems mostly prepared to cope with it, but he would have liked to have him around just a bit longer for the LOVE to really sink in.

KATOU is grumpy at everyone ever for looking down on him. He also thinks his subunit is mostly creepers but doesn't really mind that.

Link on team, Katou on subunit.

fft okay uh, I'm just gonna... ramble whatever and maybe it will make sense. Maybe it won't.

I'm gonna answer Link's FEELINGS ON THE CONCEPT OF TEAM.

Because of Del's history Link is highly aware that teams are designated by the Judges and there's not much guarantee that you'll like who ends up on your team. That said Link feels a big responsibility (and responsibility, duty, dedication, are all things that come to Link easily, since it's more desire and less obligation) to everyone that does end up on his team because he realizes that he has a hand in shaping who these people become, and it's important to get it right and not give up. It's because of situations like Soujirou, Shiki, and Zero that Link tends to put team first in practice, even though he's never actually told anyone to do that (due to his strong relationship to Allen he wouldn't ask someone to do that). It took a little over 100 days for Soujirou to become what he is now, and Link thinks he wouldn't have if his teammates hadn't stood by him despite whatever he's done. If they hadn't had patience to put up with him, or hadn't accepted him when he was basically horrible sometimes, he wouldn't have the foundation or support to get over his break to such a stable place where he's ready to face himself.

That's how Link feels anyway, so as much as possible he is there to help anyone that shows up on his team and needs him, and tries hard to foster a loving environment between other teammates as well. It's why he disapproves of disharmony in his team, and rather than siding with his moral inclination and arguing with people about right and wrong he's more likely to tell both parties in an argument to chill and try to think things through from other perspectives and see how something might be justified. Admittedly he also expects people with the more morally just perspective to be able to bend and understand better than people who are screwed up morally. A person doesn't always need to agree with someone's morals to love and support them.

ANYWAY Link super loves his team, and I don't mean because they're wearing light blue. New members will earn his attention and his support but he is aware affection develops through shared experiences, even in himself. But the team he has now he loves a LOT, because despite how kinda crazy and emotionally closed off everyone is, they've learned to hold each other up and that is amazing and makes Link's heart warm. Unfortunately, there are lots of bumps still to come and as much as Link is determined to be emotionally available to all his teammates, he also tends to suffer a lot of emotional blows as well because of people's issues. But he's gotten efficient at shrugging most of those blows off out of necessity.

AAAH WHAT AM I EVEN TALKING ABOUT ANYMORE?

Shiki -- The first teammate he connected with. She is super important to him. He sees her as really strong but with fragile breaks in a lot of places and it's not hard to inadvertently jab them. Link himself generally has no problems avoiding those fragile places and that Shiki trusts him with understanding her and doesn't mind him knowing where she's fragile when she normally puts on such a hard front does a lot for making her important to him. He can't help loving the people who rely on him.

Zero -- He and Link are in a rough patch! Link is a little unhappy at being pushed away when they were doing fairly well before and Zero seemed to be opening up a bit. He's really at a loss with how to help Zero deal with what he is in a way that isn't self-destructive.

Soujirou -- see comment to Sou above. Despite how he cared about Sou, he wasn't able to connect with him at all before because he wasn't invited to understand him the way Shiki was. He is super glad things have worked out.

Cornelius/Raymond -- Rather distant. Raymond and Cornelius are both adults and don't have much need of Link, as far as he knows, so again, he has difficulty relating.

lolwat y so long

Ren -- He won Link over really quickly because despite his kind of rough or grumpy attitude Link could tell easily that Ren is trying to look out for him and the teammates who'd let him. Link trusts him a lot, even though compared to everyone else he hasn't known him long. Also Ren doesn't have the emotional baggage of everyone else Link knows and MOST of the time Link doesn't need to worry about probing him for issues to help him deal with it, so as a result Link isn't as serious around him.

Ed -- Some mixed feelings, in the vein of stuff I mentioned to Jace. While he is aware Ed does like him the most out of Delphinus, he still feels a bit overshadowed by Jace. Link is the type that does best when he is relied on in some way, and the fact that Ed clearly does need someone combined with the fact that he feels Ed's first choice isn't him makes him a little unsure of where he stands. The thing is that it wouldn't bother him as much if Ed seemed confident and entirely independent from the start. BUT that has been smoothing out recently and Ed has been showing more steadiness, which makes Link feel a little better about it. And whatever Link's mixed feelings are, they're always put aside in favor of helping and being supportive whatever the situation is, and Ed is still someone he is responsible for, so he'll always do what he can. He expects the feelings and whatnot will sort out given time.

Katou thinks his subunit is full of dicks, but not too terrible.

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QUESTION, orz, UH.

:|a How does Ed feel about being patroned?

I already answered this, and I'm torn between questions on whether it's lazier to answer again or to find the answer and copy-paste. XD Short version, though, is that he's not quite entirely sure yet, which really comes from both IC and OOC not having everything quite in place yet. BUT he's cautiously optimistic, both because he likes Messenger as a Judge, and because he likes the idea of making the Pillar go away (though not so sure on the whole evading "what happens to the people in it?" part).

Link's feelings on the same?

Link is not entirely hot on the idea, because he feels a little coerced into it ICly, and he doesn't trust Messenger's evasiveness, though he's shown no signs of harming blanks before. Right now Link would almost certainly prefer a Judge like Librarian, who observes rules and is orderly and straightforward and is a keeper of writings and documentation. Messenger seems to enjoy being kind of vaguey wavey and tells things on a need-to-know basis, which bothers Link a bit, given his past as a vaticaninja who didn't question orders.

Fair enough, though it's also pretty hard to challenge what a Judge wants...

I know you didn't ask a question, BUT, I wanted to do a brief little thing on something from Jace's answer, regarding the part about "Link does feel a certain private, general disappointment that Ed had to turn to another team to get moral support." While Ed does in fact depend on Link in a way that's different from the rest of the team, it's the unfortunate timing of him being lost in the caves during the time when Ed was trying to get himself settled into everything that caused that fracturing--a problem of "I need someone here to depend on and the person I trust most is missing :(" which ultimately became a transference of that level of trust over to Jace, just because of an uncertainty that Link would be around. HOWEVER, the more Link IS there and IS dependable and the voice of reason and everything, the more Ed trusts him and is beginning to depend on him a lot more. Obviously it won't be a relationship similar to what he currently has with Jace, but on Ed's side it's stabilizing and strengthening. (Sob badly timed hiatus. :< )

LOVE ME MORE

CAN'T LOVE, TOO TSUN

LOVE ME LESS?

CAN'T HATE, TOO DERE.

tell me about your dere, then.

HE JUST LIKES IT BETTER WHEN ZERO ISN'T REJECTING HIM. It actually hurts, you know. And he remembers when Zero was okay with indulging him with hugs and awkward and he was okay with people loving him and that is a billion times better than expecting everyone to stop caring because you tried to kill us a little. Link secretly thinks not loving people because you're afraid of loss is cowardly. He is also on the verge of getting kind of tsun about it and just abusing Zero with his feelings. Again. HE'LL TRY TO REFRAIN THOUGH.

IS THERE ANYONE ELSE ZERO WOULD GIVE HIS GUN TO?

... he'd keep it within the team... maybe Shiki? It's... oddly the people he trusts and cares about the most that he'd give the gun to.

And I dunno if he's afraid of loss moreso than he's just tired of it? But that's more memory oriented.

... if I ask you another question would you actually get to it?

:|b Link doesn't think it's odd.

And it's a very just... gut reaction. FISTSHAKE WHY DON'T YOU SEE SENSE MY WAY sort of feeling. I don't think he honestly believes Zero is a coward.

I HAVE NO IDEA. WHAT IS THE QUESTION?

I STILL THINK IF SHIKI TRIED harder to kill him in the game he's be a little more okay. I DUNNO.

I haven't thought of any yet.

Unless you want to essay about Link's current thoughts on Allen... the Lovers game and the Noahed?

I will write some kind of sometime up-post, since Jace asked that. HOPEFULLY IT WON'T BE REDONKULOUS LONG.

:|a favorite, least favorite, and most surprising icons? Zero on Link.

Favorite:

Least Favorite:

Surprising:

Imma put explanations in a second comment, I forgot what I chose.

FAVORITE: 1) MOM IS LECTURING. 2) The kids are making fun of mom and mom looks annoyed.

Least fave: 1) MOM DISAPPROVES. AND IS SAD. 2) Even more sadness and mixed up feelings.

Surprising: 1) Mom has hormones. 2) level of tolerance, falling?

REVERSE.

Link on Geddoe?

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