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Korra > Checkers
Korra > Jinora
Nyota > Checkers
Nyota > Penny

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DID I FORGET ANY? Is that too many?

Penny and Steeeeeve

Derek and Naga/Korra!

Hei > Checkers

...I don't think anyone else has aaanything but fleeting impressions, but if you wanna talk about those, I have never said no to tl;dr. ♥

The important one.

Uncle Isaak > Chekov
Neil > Justin

We need more CR, it seems.

BACK ATCHA!

Steve > Penny

Uhura almost sees Saya like a little sister. Almost. The young girl is hard to get to know (what with memory loss and the crazy people surrounding her), but Uhura thinks she's smart and sweet.

And in a really fucked up situation. Like, holy crap, she's still not really over seeing Diva molest Saya over the network. Or finding Charlie with her shit beaten out by Saya's stalker. Uhura worries about her, but she's hesitant to step in without understanding the situation. (She's not Jim Kirk, kthnxbai.) She's still trying to figure out what to do.

Jinora > Korra
Justin > Mao
Chekov > Korra
Chekov > Uhura
Penny > Uhura

Derek > Naga! (totally counts)

◢ Carla & Justin

Well. Sometimes I sort of have to look back at how they got here and it all started with Justin entering the City and going straight to the topic of suicide, which obviously piqued Carla. I have always been very conscious of trying not to infomod on Justin because I have seen his movie, read the articles on who he's based on, am familiar with his archetype, etc. So I really really have tried to focus on matching what Justin says with Carla's kind of logic. So... with that said. Carla likes Justin. She also thinks he's pathetic and disdains him, but with Carla those feelings are not mutually exclusive because with her the certainty of the emotion is better than if he were completely tedious to her. Sometimes he teeters on that edge, and that's when she gets impatient with him. I know she's told him how she feels about his ridiculous attempts at normalcy.

But in the very end: he's been around so long that he is a staple in her mental/emotional landscape and she would be bothered if he were gone. He's hers. She's a bit less bent on trying to crush him to death although she will never not be mean to him because she is physically incapable.

◢ Marie & Chekov

At this point I am pretty sure Chekov is one of the few things that actually keeps Marie on a reasonably even keel. The other thing probably really spiteful hatesex with Adnrew Ryan, which I mention to illustrate the dichotomy between her NURTING/SCIENTIFIC/CURIOUS side and her... paranoid side that feels increasingly confined in this environment. She only really seems to know where she is when there are monsters to fight, the rest of the time she's just... preparing. And drinking. And she's really not fulfilling the things she needs as a healthy human being. So, Chekov is one healthy relationship in a big batch of bad. Yay.

Korra finds Garcia intimidating and comforting and confusing and kind of adorable. She's like a whirlwind of everything that Korra can't understand but luckily doesn't have to because Garcia is there.

And Korra kind of likes being mothered. She doesn't usually, but it was a rough few months for her in canon and the Dome is weird and strange and it's just really really nice to have an adult around

/Squeaks! /AHEM

Quick ones first! Lacus's first impression of Karl is that he's definitely off in some way (the disdain for newcomers reactions, not a lack of empathy but a lack of caring) but her policy on crazy is to tolerate it until it becomes intolerable for some reason. Treating someone who has trouble connecting with others like a pariah doesn't help anything, in her view, and she has a policy of not making judgment until she either has to or understands things to her satisfaction.

Zel thinks Karl is a typical dickhead. Nothing special, in his mind, about the guy who gets his jollies teasing freaks.

Zel would probably find Hei somewhat interesting if he wasn't determined not to get into drama with people in the City ~~at least until Lina shows up~~. (Or if he were interested in Yin, which he sort of isn't since he finds her creepy -- not just the blank stare thing, but losing touch of his human side mentally/emotionally is a great fear of his and she reminds him of that.) Anyone who is businesslike and logical and has special abilities generally gets Zel's attention, but in this case he's fully prepared to cut his losses and never bother again (sob). Hei was very correct in his assessments of Zel in terms of reacting with instant defensiveness to anyone who even almost treats him suspiciously, presuming it has to do with his appearance because that's been his life for seven years, Lina and his few friends aside. Hei's initial hostility was recognized as protectiveness eventually, but there's only so much leeway Zel's going to give someone if he's feeling cornered in whatever way. It's not impossible to find a way past it, though Zelgadis is begrudging about lowering his defenses at the best of times, which this clearly isn't. Fortunately Zel is way more likely to withdraw than fight it out, but if he's pushed to it he will. (And sorry Hei my love, you can't win this one. Though it might be an interesting bout.)

Karl confuses the living hell out of Saya. That might be more significant if everything didn't confuse the hell out of her, but Karl does have a particular knack for it. Saya being an amnesiac presents its challenges in terms of relationships, but she has something of an easier time with people who don't claim to know her from before the City. Karl specifically attributes qualities to her that she doesn't want or entirely understand and you can imagine how troubling it is to be told "no, you're supposed to be this way" when she doesn't have the feelings or experience that commiserate with that statement. (Not that Karl is correct in what he's saying if she did have her memories, but she has no way to know that.) Karl makes her not want her memories back, both because he insists she's a monster, which the flashes of Vietnam she's had combined with the curse that made her selfish and Diva-like seem to confirm, and also because she doesn't want to hate Karl like he seems to imply she will once she remembers. Despite her general wariness of Karl she's also seen what she thinks is protectiveness and maybe some form of caring, in his way. When she considers what Karl said about Chiropterans saying they're sorry with their claws, in her head it follows that someone like Karl would show caring by being a possessive, teasing jerk. She's projecting but she's nowhere near emotionally self-aware enough to get that. Yes he injured Charlie to manipulate Saya into doing what he wanted, but he also seems so hurt whenever Saya spends time with Setsuna or brushes Karl off. All this leads Saya to wonder what the real deal is. Her pheromone-driven instinct to make babies with Diva's Chevaliers isn't helping much either. All that said, Saya's being just as selfish and manipulative in her innocent, ignorant way. Karl can't seem to say no to her and she's using that because she hates being alone. If we want to get Freudian about it, she's got no ego right now -- no way to center herself between her fleeting destructive instincts and her equally fleeting self-sacrificing martyrdom. She just reacts to the moment, and combined with hypersensitivty and generally being yanked at from all emotional angles makes her a tantrum-prone two year old but instead of screaming and stomping, she indulges anyone who provides her some sense of belonging, no matter how superficial or bizarre. Karl is one of them, ain't he lucky, and as long as he continues the push-pull he's got going on with Saya she probably won't stop unless she either gets her memories back or Karl does something horrible.

Holy text wall, Batman. ;;;;;

(The Spock thing is because of the pointy ears, isn't it. Don't lie.)

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Chekov respects Delacroix. Yeah, okay, he respects plenty of people, but Marie is one of very few people in the City he respects on an intellectual level. Her engineering knowledge impresses him largely because it's easier to apply to what they have to work with (unfortunately, the year 2258 is so far ahead of City-time that a good deal of Chekov's knowledge is almost impossible to adapt to the materials available). Her no-nonsense attitude is respectable, as well; she's one of the most effective people he has ever met.

When she's not drunk. He worries about her ~~PTSD~~ emotional and mental state as well as her coping mechanisms, but she intimidates him enough to discourage him from asking after her well-being too much. Maybe "intimidates" is the wrong word. Marie just seems very capable and he has a hard time imagining that she can't handle her issues. Ha.

Tag.

◢ Carla & Saya

...I have so much babbling to do.

Carla's felt really hesitant with Saya since... I think since she killed herself and Saya warned her not to upset Chase again. Which Carla inevitably took more seriously than may or may not have been meant because Chase always causes that problem with her, and spiderlady just compounds it. So where I tend to find her is that her feelings for Saya are very lingering, but she's been having some kind of success living on her own, so she's also developed a fear that if she lets herself indulge too much in the undeniably negative relationship she has with Saya that she'll backslide. Not that she doesn't backslide all on her own, which makes the whole thing feel pretty futile. A lot of the time she'd still really just like to give up and lie at Saya's feet. Because it's easy being a victim and a slave and Carla's got all the self-hate in the world over it, which isn't new or a secret or anything.

She just has Saya constructed as an ultimate figure, and really has from the beginning and has a desire not to disappoint or appear ungrateful. Which annoys Carla, but she still has no idea how to really shake such a feeling in a way that isn't just mindless anger, so it keeps nagging from the back of her head.

So... I suppose currently she's just attempting to find a balance between awed/cowed/lustful/self-denigrating and this 'normal' thing she's been practicing in her relationship to Saya. She's also continued to try to understand more about Saya, and generally fails. But she tries.

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