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

[exercisms]

Pats him

[frostythehitman]

Mob caught Bucky at a canonpoint where he'd already basically adopted two kids so like. Mob instantly activated his Dad Mode. Partially because he's baby and partially because the second he started talking to Mob he was like "oh my god, this child is so naive he will get himself killed."

But at the same time, sometimes Mob just busts out some incredibly wise statement in such a measured tone of voice that was just. fully wisdom beyond his years. It left Bucky with a weird balancing act of like. Dispensing advice to Mob to keep him from kILLING HIMSELF and talking about big philosophical questions even he himself doesn't know.

As I'm sure Mob figured out, his usage of the rock to make Kano not feel any pain infuriated him mostly because Bucky already felt like everything about that execution was his fault and the lack of pain just let it get so much worse than expected. He was in a weird place of "Kano is innocent" and "he did this to himself by being suspicious" and "is that alone enough to condemn someone to death" and "if I'd gotten rid of the scalpels before Kano got to them we wouldn't have scapegoated him in the first place" and Mob using that item just kind of. Scrambled him even harder with his guilt which, of course, he expresses initially via anger and only after mellowing out the rest of the week could he really come to terms with it.

Week 3/4 kind of reoriented Bucky's view of Mob in that he saw that Mob isn't necessarily always passive and can actually! be quite angry and bratty too!!! Which like yes was very concerning bc it's so different to how he normally is, but also kind of a relief because wow, thank god, a kid doing a normal kid thing. With the memshare context he got for that in week 4 too it helped explain the week 3 outburst a little more--but not necessarily why Mob is so fucking chill all the time. Honestly by this point Bucky just kind of. accepted that that's How He Is against all logic. He did learn that uhhhh an unnerfed Mob can be fucking terrifying holy shit my dude??? fuckin kids with powers, i swear to god--

Anyway Bucky didn't really wanna see Mob die because he seemed too...i guess sensitive? to handle such a thing well. (I mean. really. who does handle death well.) Plus also like come on, the kid is so innocent. I don't think they talked much in the graveyard because by then he was like, so busy drowning in his Kano-fuelled anger cycle and lost all the dad instincts that initially drew him to Mob, so.

He still doesn't quite understand what happened there at the end of Mogami but again, Mob's total dismissal of it was just so fucking wild to him lmao. He was also treading lightly with Mob at the end there because he has no idea if he knows about Bucky's weird high school drama filled with insecurities there, he. did not want that to be Perceived.

All in all, Bucky likes Mob and he definitely triggers his protective dad instincts but he just cannot wrap his head around the way the kid thinks at all. Bucky wants the best for him, but he also like operates in such an alien way that Bucky isn't even sure what 'the best for him' even is.