yogen wants to hear ur cr

[taketori]

~YOGEN CHARACTER RELATIONSHIP MEME~


pictured: you, talking about what ur character thinks of someone else

step 1: post with your characters
step 2: respond to others with the characters you have CR with (or not, i aint gonna stop you)
step 3: get all the details on how their characters feel about yours!
step 4: return da favor?

i havent made one of these in a while it ok

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Nanami's feelings on Komaeda are aren't very complicated. I don't see it as her being naive or too trusting, but that she's very earnest and sees the best in those around her. She has a somewhat childish personality at times, but she's empathetic and is able to look at the full person and the situation that they're in. That is all to say that she can look at Komaeda, recognize every single fault and misdeed, and still love him. He's somebody who is so important to her, and I think if she had a regret it would be that she wasn't there for him more. It's subtly different from regretting his choices, because Komaeda stands by those and she won't take that away from him, but the thought of what they could have built up if they were together rather than apart. It's that same metaphor of that if you're cold, you'd be happy to be in front of a warm fireplace, but if you were in front of it from the start then you wouldn't need to be happy for being offered that warmth.

I always think it's interesting that the three that reach out to Komaeda the most are Hinata, Nanami, and Sonia. We do know that she does little things that the others don't, such as checking up on him while he was tied up, and how different things might have been if CH5 Nanami had been with them from the start. Regardless, I think he's someone she loves deeply. They wear the same hat in that they're both kids who care about the group rather than themselves as individuals, hope, and who love too earnestly. They're so the same but in completely different ways, so of the group I think they both have the most conflict while understanding each other best in terms of motivation and beliefs - but also in what they lack, as Nanami has no true family and would have been compeltely isolated if not for the cast.

I'm inclined to agree that they'll settle into a sibling relationship, and I think that's what both of them need more than anything. They're both capable of romantic love and other kinds of support, but they lack those familial bonds that are just earnest and caring and that can help to carry a person and change them without the complications of romance and other factors. It's just a different dynamic, you know? It's one where you can always expect the other to be there, and it's uncomplicated and supportive despite the conflict that comes with it, and one that both of them lack.

As for Midori... She's fond of him! He's very charming, and he's a person who is patient enough to handle her quirks and to find them interesting rather than strange. He's trash and I hate him, but I also hope they can just nap together sometime, that would be cute. But she's just really charmed by him and enjoys talking with him. I can't wait for him to fiddle with her code.

As for Ranger and Komaeda... looks off to the side. I really should have killed him when I had the chance. If you hadn't told me I couldn't, then I would have, but the opportunity is gone now. That's his AI, he made it, and he owns it. His feelings on Komaeda re really complicated because it's become a tangled web of emotions vs logic in a way that I don't think anyone else has really managed, and that's because Komaeda is a very emotional person who is also highly intelligent, reliable, and patient with him. I think it's less that Komaeda has put more effort in and more that he checks all the right boxes, but he's also focused on purely emotional concepts and that makes him difficult to compartmentalize.

Anyway, Komaeda has been essential to Ranger's development, and I mean it when I say he wouldn't be who he is today without him. It's because Komaeda is so difficult to compartmentalize that he's able to push Ranger in a way that other's can't, and he does so while being patient and trying to understand Ranger. It's a comfortable thing where he can safely assume that he doesn't truly care about him or view him as anything, while also sharing everything with him. It's a paradox, and it's a dangerous one, but it let them bypass the hedgehog's dilemma - Ranger doesn't believe the spines are there, and so he was able to huddle with him for warmth. If it's for different reasons, and if their priority systems are different, he can assume that Komaeda will act as Ranger does and that makes him feel safe. That said, it's a bit like knowing a winding punch is coming, and it's going to leave a permanent fracture when it happens.

So all that is to say that Komaeda has hit this intersection where I think he has the same relationship with him that he did with ASUNARO, but one wherein he can breathe and mixed in emotional concepts so it's developed further: He's intelligent, reliable, and his partner who he would kill for. He is the person that Ranger trusts most, and he's the exception to that very logic based priority system because he's less useful than those of ASUNARO (leading to it being Komaeda > ASUNARO > Shin/Sara > everyone else.) But again, that's just because Komaeda is a very emotional person who has pried him open time and time again. I'd almost argue that Komaeda has become his hope because of how he's pushed him, but I don't want to frame it as toxic and codependent since it's really more like Komaeda constantly affords him opportunities and growth... So it's a positive example of that since it's not like it'd go away with him, you know?

Aside from that, I tried very hard to temper his crush on Komaeda. It did not work. He spited me by digging the hole deeper, and I think it's a very honest love. Ranger is a person who has many flaws, but he can accept the best and worst parts of a person and see them as they are. That's why he works so hard to understand Komaeda, and I think that he loves him for both the best and worst parts of him. He enjoys his company, there's push and pull with both of them, and Komaeda balances him out, and that's all led to just these complicated feelings. Bravely Default has "it only gets worse from here on in" when you're saving before a boss and that's how I feel about this at all times.

So tl;dr - Partner, romantic interest, would do anything for.

Midori we've talked about so I won't rehash it, but in the end they're both just byproducts of ASUNARO, and I do believe their relationship reflects that. I do think a lot about the fact that both of them seem to have been intended to be heirs at one point or another (Sara's comment about Ranger being a heir, and then the doll clause for the final participant in addition to how proactive Midori is and the deck is stacked for him and Sara in particular,) so I think there's an odd connection between the two of them that isn't present with ASUNARO employees. I don't think either of them are aware of it, but there is a kind of solidarity in being intended for far greater things than you were left with due tot he actions of others. But Midori's the one who is easiest for him to work with, and it's very toxic, but there is a strange kind of care between the two of them that no one else can understand. No one can understand their love I'm crying.