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1. Comment with your character.
2. Receive comments from others.
3. Reply to their comments with long ballads and explanations of your characters' relationship throughout the game.
4. Suffer as we have suffered over your CR.
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while Kano's impression of Claude is that he's popular and outspoken and extraverted and everything Kano "hm"s and 180s at
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Basically, Claude is popular and outspoken but uhhhh that's all a persona.
SOME BACKGROUND FIRST:
Back in Fodlan, he's actually wildly unpopular and very controversial. Basically, he mysteriously showed out of no where and was made heir to the leading house of one of the most powerful nations on the continent. Before he showed up, it looked like there was going to be a shift in power so his appearance really threw off some political plans. People tried to undermine him by digging into his past but... he kept it all covered up and doesn't tell anyone about himself. He's the subject of a lot of rumors but he doesn't care if people don't like him or don't trust him. He's really flippant about all of it and just jokes about how he has a lot of enemies and no one should trust him because he's a schemer. Without getting into spoilers too much, it's because he spent his entire childhood being hated and alone. He ran away from home to escape his problems and created a whole new character for himself which is the character everyone sees now. He's using this persona to achieve his own personal goals and dreams and he won't hesitate to lie, scheme, and use people* to accomplish them. (*He actually gets better at this in canon and tries to be more honest and work with people instead, tho.)
TL;DR: His carefree, casual, confident, and friendly demeanor is all an act to cover up the fact he's actually a lonely and hated guy. Because of the nature of his secrets, he also just keeps everyone at a distance. He acts friendly and talks a lot but once you really think about it, no one really knows anything about him.
Hikaru in particular mentioned that Claude's smile is similar to Kano's and like... actual canon first impressions of Claude lmao. His smile is the fakest thing about him.
And as upset as everyone was about Kano's removal Claude like... really respected how he went down fighting because he would have done the same thing. Again, avoiding big spoilers but Claude's a survivor and if he's going to die, he's going to go down fighting and die on his own damn terms. I always planned if Claude ever had to be executed, he'd do the same in most contexts.
I think the really big difference tho is like, even if they have similarities, their approaches seem to be different and I'm not canon familiar enough to really comment. But Claude's a complicated faker with a troubled past but he came out of his situation with a JRPG protag dream so he has a lot of love and hope for people and the future of the world. He knows the world is a terrible place filled with a lot of hate and sadness but instead of giving into it, he wants to create a better world. And the person Claude pretends to be is the person he really wants to be... it just isn't the real him now.
I'm canon blind so I only know what I do from threads and OOC discussion BC GOD DAMN KANO KEPT COMING UP AND RUINING CLAUDE'S LIFE FOR WEEKS but the impressions I always got were that they had certain similarities but still had some big differences.
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KANO KNEW NOTHING ABOUT RUINING CLAUDE'S LIFE BUT I THINK IT'S HILARIOUS I can't believe he keeps inadvertently and thoroughly ruining people's lives even after he is dead, this is like what he did to Bucky but 100000000% worse, his letter crimes.......
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He knew he'd passively sinned in a way that created a lot of grief/stress for people so he truly wanted to leave that whole week behind him but he ended up getting real close to Izumo who was close to Kano? And when he realized that he was like "fuck" because Claude will lie and use people but he's not a cruel person and draws the line at emotionally manipulating people which is how he felt. He felt like he'd inadvertently taken advantage of her when she was miserable about Kano. AND THEN HE COULDNT LEAVE HER ALONE BECAUSE THEY WERE TEAM MATES AND IT JUST. KEPT. COMING. BACK.
SAME WITH HIKARU. Hikaru confessed her Kano crimes to Claude and Claude was like why. does. this. boy. keep. coming. back. HE TRULY FELT HAUNTED BY KANO FOR WEEKS.
And then his letter crimes? HIS GOD DAMN LETTER CRIMES. Because Claude knew about Hilda the entire time. He knew about Hilda Thursday evening. So he saw that dang letter from "Raven" when he was already having a shit week and he had no idea why Raven would be against Hilda and Claude was shook. It's also how he found out the dead were able to communicate with the living and up until that point, Claude didn't believe in any sort of afterlife so he was like THE DEAD SHOULDNT SPEAK THEY SHOULD JUST STAY QUIET. He was so afraid the other dead were maybe talking and it would put Hilda in danger and he was so stressed on top of his other stress. That letter was the last straw for him he lost his dang mind for the weekend and needed an intervention. The letter by itself wouldn't have done anything to him but it was just on top of everything else?? WELL DONE KANO YOU WRECKED HIM.
After that, he was kind of free from Kano's curse tho even if Hikaru would bring him up once in awhile but by that point, Claude had found peace and come to terms with things.
AND SORA GAVE CLAUDE A MESSAGE FROM KANO OUT OF NO WHERE?? And Claude still has no idea what the actual fuck is up with that message but like... Kano. KANO!!! CURSING CLAUDE THROUGH OUT THE GAME.
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to be perfectly honest Kano would have pursued making Hilda's life living hell so much more if Bucky hadn't landed in the graveyard and all of the sudden Kano had an in-person target to direct all his evil SO AT LEAST THAT'S THAT, BUCKY TRULY SUFFERED TO SAVE EVERYBODY ELSE