TL;CR MEME

[retellers]

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.

Comments

[antaressnipe]

/slides in here

[bowfaire]

T E A C H

So obviously, Claude looked up to Chiron like, a lot. Claude, as a character, is used to being judged, hated, and looked down on. He's a schemer and a liar too so he was fine with the idea that people might figure him out and all of their trust and respect and take it all back. This is just to preface saying Claude generally wouldn't be bothered if people disliked him in game.

But he'd be really bothered if Chiron was ever disappointed in him. :(

Claude's had a pretty whack life and doesn't have many gentle, guiding figures in his life. His parents are very tough love, his first combat instructor (whom he trusts with his life!) was very tough love, and most of his teachers are at worst, very tired of him and at best... part of a system he hates.

He's had two types of education: The one where he needs to be strong or he'd literally die and the one that has tried to indoctrinate him and make him a person that could be used.

So meeting a teacher that was... Gentle but strong? Supportive but willing to call him out on his bullshit? Challenge him but also work with him? That was wild. He's only ever met one other person like that (Byleth! The original Teach!!!) but he ended up forgetting her gradually and completely pretty early so Chiron became his stand in Byleth to an extent. Even Chiron's pragmatism and the way he was just really hard to read at times reminded him of "an important person."

Claude's a really confident person. He's smart and he knows it and he's used to being one of the smartest people in the room, even in rooms with other teachers/authority figures. This was not the case with Chiron and it was very humbling but also made him admire and look up to him more. It pushed Claude and made him really want to live up to Chiron's expectation and be the person Chiron thought Claude could be!!!

... Which is why whenever he couldn't do it, he took it hard. He couldn't even really act like he didn't care either because he respected Chiron too much to even consider not caring. Honestly, Chiron could just look at Claude and get him to confess his some of his sins on the spot if he really wanted to because around Chiron. Which he did when Claude revealed some of his true self/identity to him.

He always really respected that Chiron would never tell Claude what he wanted to hear. When he spoke to Chiron about what he would do if Jeanne was in danger, Claude was asking because........... he'd known Hilda had killed Cater and said nothing to anyone while Kano got scapegoated. (': He'd selfishly protected one of his own friends instead of defending an innocent person, oops. Chiron did NOT make Claude feel better with an easy, nice answer and just... reaffirmed what Claude was thinking (there is no easy, perfect answer and he'd have to figure it out for himself). It was honestly the BEST answer because... if Chiron had led Claude to believe he'd done the right thing, Claude would have hated everything and gone into, "I'm going to destroy and change everything then" mode but if he'd told Claude he'd done the wrong thing... Claude would have hated himself. SO GOOD JOB KEEPING A DEER BOY FROM NOT GOING DOWN A POTENTIALLY (SELF-)DESTRUCTIVE PATH, CHIRON. Even if he went down a vaguely self-destructing one for like half a week later. It's fine. He came out of it fine.

Also I guess the last thing is.... Claude really did feel sorry for turning Chiron into a llama. It was his only item and he didn't really have any choice about what he was going to do. He knew Chiron was having identity issues but he figured it would be "best" to turn the horseman into a llama instead of a person. Maybe instinct would kick in and Chiron would be more okay than others? MAYBE? At least he knew Chiron enough to have a guess how he miiiiight react so like, he rolled with it. He wasn't going to be satisfied with any outcome so he just cursed Chiron and braced himself for the consequences tbh. He wouldn't be himself if he didn't give his teachers a hard time once in awhile.