yogen wants to hear ur cr

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~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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Ranger's feelings on Shin are complicated, and that's because they're almost exact opposites. There's a major point of friction between them in that Shin tries to replicate Midori and ASUNARO-coded behavior, but in the end he can't manage it Shin is someone who has a lot of care, empathy, and values, but he's been hurt deeply and the scars that he has show, and that all blends together to create an emotional person who tries to guard their heart by playing at being emotional. By comparison, Ranger makes an effort to be human but instead runs filters the world through a logical lensand does tend to embody that ASUNARO-coded behavior. He is the softest of the Floormasters in that being an AI and a relatively young one, he can easily adapt to the people around him, but he is still a product of the company and other Floormasters as the closest thing he has to family.

Finally, they're both victims of the hedgehog's dilemma. Ranger tends to be simpler and more straightforward with his thoughts and feelings, but for various reasons he doesn't form true bonds. The knife is always at your back, and even now how Ranger feels about others. It's difficult for him to conceptualize a world in which he's not betrayed in the end for some minor slight (which is being validated on both sides,) and when it happens it seems as though it's a natural consequence and a logical progression because that's just how life is. It's much in the same way that he doesn't blink at Komaeda talking about killing him since that feels safe and normal when compared to something softer and more protective... So, what does that mean? It means they can be close while pretending to not feel hurt when that sense of closeness falls apart.

This is a really roundabout analysis, but I think about it a lot since without all of those factors you wouldn't have the messy situation they're in now where both sides are pricking each other without actually meaning to.

Regardless, I think that because of all of the above Ranger tends to overestimate Shin since he does make the effort to be more like Midori et al. It's like when a person is teaching a new concept to someone, they can easily things that are "obvious" to them and leave the other person feeling confused and missing chunks. In the same way, he misses how frail Shin is and approaches him accordingly. This is even worse because with Ranger, you tend to get what you ask for, and since Shin tends to ask for logic and problem solving that's what he gets. It might have been easier for him to catch in canon, since he was like a scared rrabbit, but he's done fine in Yogen so now we're at this point where he has to learn it all over again. It's started to occur to him, and I think it will more now that things are coming to a head with Midori's arrival, but it's not something that happens overnight.

With that being said, Shin is one of four people that Ranger will truly go out of his way for in Yogen - the other three are Komaeda, Midori, and Sara. It's not an easy position to get to with him. Komaeda is his partner, Midori is the most useful person in the room, but Shin and Sara are due to the ties that he has to them. He does have respect for Shin as a tech person, but it's moreso the way that they've bonded over time beginning with seeing him working with Rei and peaking when Shin fixed the errors in his system without thinking on it for a second. For someone who think so themselves as a thing and was owed no favors, that was significant, as was being completed, and everything just tied together so that he genuinely cares about him. There's a lot of trust there too, but because of the way they are it's easy to miss.

But he likes him, and he watches out for him, and he enjoys working with him. I also don't think he'll be surprised by Shin pushing him away, though I'm not sure how that'll be taken yet. In the end I think he'll be able to justify it, but that doesn't mean it won't sting. It's worse when you consider that he both told Shin about Midori first, and because he's already doing what he can to coordinate and avoid putting a target on his back - such as making a point of not mentioning Shin's involvement with fixing his code... But then as with Sara, that's probably something Shin will never know about because it just comes naturally for him... So you know, it's a huge mess with everyone doing their best and it ends in tragedy because no one talks to each other properly... Anyway I'm hopeful that they can sort it out over time, it's just messy right now.

All that aside, I'll also note that Shin is probably one of the people he'll go to for collaborations and to soundboard for projects, or give information to whereas I don't think he does that with everyone.

Nanami! I think she's fond of him. He probably reminds her a lot of her classmates since they were largely people who had a similar vibe to them - genuinely good people who were weighed down by the issues that they suffered from. She's the opposite of Ranger in that she's very sensitive to people's feelings, and she is indeed the kind of person to set herself on fire to keep others warm. I think she'll warm up to Shin quickly and want to watch out for him, especially with him getting closer to her twin... I could easily see her filling a similar role as Kanna, albeit not quite the same. Nanami is sharp and she can handle her own, but she still sees the best in others and makes a conscious effort to support them.

I'm very excited to see him find out that she's an AI and discuss it! She's a bit like Ranger in that she won't hide it if asked, but that she won't volunteer it since she's really not supposed to.. I'm kinda crying because Midori's already sinking his claws into her too. I can't wait for somebody to start messing with her code around here. But for now, she's fond of him and she'd like to get to know him better, and I think she'll be a warm and supportive presence for him that doesn't really push him too far or too hard.