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I fear

i'm sorry ty but i gotta.

I'm gonna preface this that it's probably not going to be very cohesive and possibly not very long but also

but also.

my GOD naru where the fuck do i even start with their cr? do you remember when we first put in our apps and were talking about how we were gonna get cr and how excited we were to be roommates that first week to force them to talk to each other? i'm still laughing at how that first week went.

THE THING ABOUT IZUMO IS THAT THEY REALLY SURE DID ALMOST RUIN THEIR CR RIGHT OFF THE BAT. but at the same time i think they both needed each other in a certain way because they offered a certain perspective that the other people never had or never wanted. with izumo, she served as a good reality check to sora to remind him that not everyone subscribes to his brand of optimism and it forced him to rearrange his thinking and be more aware of how other people handle trauma and their emotions. after izumo slapped him and yelled at him, he did actively avoid her for a while and he assumed he would just have to be polite to her and stay out her way. and then hajime died and he realized they were in a more serious situation and he would have to work harder to make sure people were okay.

with izumo especially and knowing early on that her life situation wasn't the best, sora decided he would do whatever it took to be someone she could rely on and it shaped a lot of his future interactions with her. he always felt like she was someone who would hold everything in and wouldn't share any of what she was feeling, so he had to learn how to talk to her about situations and gain her trust by slowing down.

in doing so, and with izumo tolerating him, she actually became someone he trusted so much and pretty much outside of the other roles & his teammates izumo was the person he trusted the most (possibly more than some of the other roles.) there were a lot of things they ended up agreeing on and the more they talked he realized there were similarities in their personality and in their core beliefs that they showed in different ways and ultimately that's what made him value her as a friend. especially their later conversations about izumo and alphinaud and sacrifices, he realized exactly what sort of person she is and why she holds her cards so close to her chest. overall, he thinks izumo is one of those people that's worth the effort to fight for because once you earn her companionship she's one of the most loyal people you could meet (and sora is the type of person who wants loyalty when it comes to his friendship.) and especially in later weeks he really did feel like she had his back and it's why he told her as much as he did and as much as he could, and ultimately why he refused to take her as a sacrifice when swan's team needed to make a kill. he wasn't going to separate her from something that stabilized her and selfishly speaking she was a good friend and he refused to hurt her more than she'd already been hurt.

at the end of the day he really just wishes the best for her and wants to make sure she's happy because she's experienced so many hardships that he thinks she deserves to hold onto one good thing and open the doors for more of them. he believes she's still one of the strongest people he's known and he feels like she also made him stronger by teaching him hard lessons he didn't know he needed. it's terrible. it's disgusting. he's so fond of her even when she's always one step away from shoving him in the dirt but it's fine. izumo's always going to be someone special to him whether she likes it or not

I still feel bad about mailman but Kano was ??? there could be nobody else but Sora who would talk to everybody and decided it was okay

closes my eyes and takes a deep breath

OKAY SO. SO!!!! kano was literally one of those people that sora never quite figured out how to handle but the thing about kano is that he really, really wanted to try. sora's surrounded by so many goddamn weirdos in the kh series that he's just learned how to talk to people as he goes and it's a lot of why he mostly let kano be himself and didn't try to push him once he realized that kano was the type of person who wouldn't cooperate if pushed. hilariously, actually, kano reminds him a little of roxas who is also pretty much someone who looks at situations and goes "haha fuck this" and ventures off to do whatever he wants to do without really telling people exactly what he's thinking.

kano really drew his attention solely for the fact that he was SO bizarre when he and sora first met, including the delivery of a severed arm. sora is someone who loves people who are different than he is because at the end of the day yeah he is sociable, he likes talking to people and getting to know them and overall he wants to know how to help his friends with anything they need, no matter how great or small. he was never sure if kano actually ever wanted his help, but he was willing to give it to him no matter what. it's also why he went to see him after the trial kano was scapegoated and they had the conversation they had. he trusted that kano had his reasons for doing things and wanted to fulfill anything else he could do in the time allowed since kano would be leaving.

admittedly he was surprised kano wrote to him but kano also knew how to play on his weaknesses really well because the assessment he had of him was right. sora would immediately share letters and crowdsource and try to find answers. he was actually pretty thrilled that kano chose to try to help and pass the message along because it really solidified that kano isn't a bad person. kano was someone who had his own way of doing things and his own morals but he was a person who sora could still trust at the end of the day. he never wanted to have that trust waver and it's why he dutifully delivered all of the messages, wrote to him to ask questions, etc.

he's not under any illusion that kano trusts him as much as he trusts kano, but he does see him as a friend and would still drop everything to lend him a hand or just hang out with him and it's a very weird kind of friendship that he doesn't regret

yeets at

cartwheels away

okay just kidding so alex was someone who was nice and sora liked her right away, but he didn't really bond with her until after their cyoa and he realized he could actually trust her and that alex has her own ghosts that haunted her. they never really super talked about it, but it did mean he was more comfortable sharing things with her. alex also has this kind of calming energy about her that sora liked and it meant he felt like she wasn't going to stab him in the back and they could work well together.

he thinks alex is a very smart and brave lady overall. he admires her ability to keep focused and how she handles people, especially people like hansa and chiron. he thinks it's a very special talent to have and probably his favorite thing about alex is the way she's able to adapt even when she's so far out of her element.

there are times that they clashed without meaning to and he understands her perspective on things (namely his own sacrifices for his friends) but he did also sometimes feel like alex wasn't really listening to what he was saying (and that's likely because sora's 16 and thinks he knows better about things when he does Not) but the important part to him was that they could brush past those things and continue being friends. alex was also the first rabbit he found which meant she was a very important point of contact for him. sorry he kept sharing info with both her and clem and it wasn't always up to date, everything happens so much.

basically the bottom line is that alex was on-par with people like the radiant garden adults where he trusted her with the mission and liked to talk to her and wanted what's best for her. he feels like he learned things from her and ultimately he wanted to be someone she could trust, too

/slaps desk me me me

i am once again asking you to please explain why we always get really good cr when you're playing a fate.

OKAY so like i told you from the beginning, chiron is very interesting because sora unfortunately knows the world of disney's hercules and ergo knows a little about hero training and legends and etc. the thing about chiron is that while he was very much in the bracket of being something like a teacher/mentor, chiron was also just someone that sora understood in terms of how to handle a murdergame, morality, and a general sense of doing what has to be done. i don't think he ever quite saw chiron as a teacher like some of the other teens did but he absolutely saw him as an adult he respected and someone he could trust with advice and opinions. he knew chiron was important and someone that not only had a lot of people relying on him but someone who needed to learn how to let himself rely on other people (which is something sora himself isn't always so great at.)

i think the thread you me and flurry did also did a lot for how sora saw chiron because while he came to notice that chiron wasn't infallable, it actually made him respect him more and understand how important his lore was to who he is as a person. but then again, as someone who has lost his memories and also knows a lot of people who've lost who they are, it was even more important to remind chiron that his memories weren't gone forever and that he was still the same person at his core. despite chiron losing so much of himself, sora never really saw him as anything different and maybe that was due to his own stubbornness, but it was also partially a belief in chiron in general.

probably the best thing also was that chiron never really treated him like a child and even actively offered to train him and see what he could do, and trusted him to help out in a fight. good centaur, 10/10. regardless, he does feel like he learned a lot from chiron about how people exist in other people's stories and he hopes he's happy with his polycule and his new legs because sora still doesn't understand fate/.

I also fear.

first of all, i will constantly reiterate that i am so very glad that you came to join us this game and i got to play with you again snow, it's been a treat

that said. i genuinely did not think we'd get cr and especially the way that we did. IM STILL TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW, EXACTLY, IT WORKED. originally hc was pretty hard for sora to read and he just kind of wrote it off as "this guy is just doing things his own way and that's chill, i will also do things my own way." he accepted that he's not going to be 100% on the same page as everybody else and just kind of figured as long as they were friendly enough it was fine. and then hua cheng started actively speaking up in trials and during the week and saying things sora aligned with and he was like "wait never mind i actually do agree with him, okay, this could work."

everything really solidified when swan told him hc was on their team because it suddenly became something personal since teammates are always people you should talk to and get along with. somewhere along the way, hc became one of the most trusted people in the realm when it came to planning and getting the job done, and it's part of the reason sora tried to convince the other swans that he was the one who killed alyssa. to him, there was less of a chance of people getting upset with him than there would be with hc and even though this logic was stupid as hell he sure did try. hc was someone whose morality was a little more gray than sora's, but he never felt like they clashed when they started talking about how to handle things going forward and what their next steps were. he highly valued his opinion and after a while he started hoping for approval before settling on the fact that he was just happy to have someone to communicate with. likewise, hc's desire to help him protect swan definitely won a lot of points and in the end sora just sort of shrugged about any sort of reputation hc had and went "this is my friend and that's all that matters."

and with that in mind, there really wasn't much that sora wouldn't do to help him during their time in the realm whether it was gathering information or helping make plans or just making sure he didn't hurt himself more than he already had. he's not quite arrogant enough to say that they're equals, but he didn't exactly have the same sort of reserved quality around hua cheng as he does with other adults he's not as close to. he was someone sora could talk to without judgment and that meant a lot more than he could ever really say tbh.

tl;dr good swan dad, best swan dad

me. . .

breezes through here before two-week starts

okay so mob was a baby. and by baby i mean he recognized that mob was kind of out of his element and it sort of really made sora want to try harder to be friends with him and at least be someone mob could talk to if he wanted. there were times sora felt like he was being overbearing because sora is very much himself and mob is very much himself, but it wasn't really something that bothered him and instead he just kept pushing forward. the thing about mob is that mob is also very levelheaded and mature for his age, moreso than sora was at 14, and it left quite an impression on him. he found that mob wasn't really someone he wanted to protect during this game but he was an ally and he was someone that really seemed to get sora's agenda of trying to understand why this was happening and why people felt the way they felt rather than just going through the motions of capturing a killer every week.

it's also a lot of why he would continually ask mob for his thoughts on things and why he would check on him and why he asked a lot of questions. mob was someone who didn't talk very much and to sora that meant that mob likely had thoughts he wasn't voicing out loud and he wanted to make sure his opinion was heard by at least someone. they ended up on the same wavelength a lot more than sora anticipated but after a while he did ease up upon seeing mob making friends and having people to count on.

granted when mob kind of lost his mind thanks to memloss it sort of reminded sora that there was still so much he didn't know, but it didn't really change his opinion overall? mob was still the same person he was, and probably even more impressive when sora learned what mob was capable of and that he was choosing to keep himself in control (from his perspective, anyway.)

that said, mob died and it sucked but then he got better and sora hopes someday he can gather the courage to ask a girl out and actually successfully obtain a girlfriend. he believes in you buddy

i feel like overall they didn't talk too much but i am so curious

overall you are correct they didn't talk to much by nature of them being themselves but that's okay lisa because i'm still personally glad bucky existed

so honestly a lot of sora's impressions of bucky were just that he was kind of one of those people who had a lot of things happen to him and his way of coping wasn't exactly the healthiest but it was just how things went. granted his first impression was actually that bucky was a disaster of an adult by letting a teenager encourage him to shave with butter and a kitchen knife, but it also worked in bucky's favor because it meant that sora just saw him as someone who would be easier to deal with later. on some levels they seemed to vibe and there were absolutely things bucky said to him that sora's fairly certain bucky is the only person who understands some unique circumstances (i.e. time shenanigans, etc) and he also has a lot of interest in bucky being a hero and his relationship with cap. that said, they never quite found solid ground to really connect on before bucky died. it wasn't even that he just didn't want to, it was more he wasn't sure how, and then the scapegoating happened and it was one of those moments sora went "well that sucks."

more or less bucky was someone on his radar who was just kind of like "well you seem like an interesting person but i'm not really sure what to do here" and he's someone sora would have liked to get to know better. he feels like there's a lot of untapped potential there and also he still thinks bucky's job is one of the harder ones out there because being a hero of any kind of taxing.