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TL;CR MEME
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.
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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A lot of their early CR was funny to me because Vezda kind of. . . misunderstood him a lot? He kept emphasizing what a naive kid Mob is, how he's going to be hurt by people and take advantage of. They had a whole conversation about how people have tried to kidnap him and his brother, and Vezda treated it like a situation of helpless little kids getting targeted, and tried to convince Mob his strict pacificism was not viable in that situation.
The thing is Mob is not a strict pacifist. He beat the absolute fuck out of those people who kidnapped his brother. Mob is a person who has a lot of anger in him, and when he becomes angry, he lashes out and wants to hurt people! None of this is obvious from the surface, because his emotions are so repressed, but it's the reason he holds himself to such high standards. He is very aware that given how powerful he is, he can't give into anger so easily and needs to remember to hold back. The thing that is difficult for him in a kidnapping situation is not defending himself but holding back enough to not seriously hurt someone unnecessarily.
But he's not able to explain any of that in terms anyone would understand, because he's grossed out by people who brag about how powerful they are, and thinks his powers are uninteresting, so would just never explain his insane powerlevels to someone. That was always going to be a memshare week reveal. And he's also fairly ashamed of his anger and capacity to hurt people, so it's not something he brings up out of the blue.
The other advice Vezda kept giving him was to not be too trusting or naive. And that one also was advice he totally rejected. Bucky got a little taste of Mogami, but Mob spent six months in Mogami's world before this game, and the lesson Mogami tried to teach him was exactly that - the world is full of cruel people who will hurt you, so stop letting others take advantage. Mob couldn't remember most of the game how that arc concluded, but he did push back pretty hard every time Bucky said that because an asshole Raven already yelled at him about it a lot while gaslighting him and he wasn't into it.
Despite that, he really liked Vezda? The main thing Vezda said early on that he liked was he talked to him about how the line between doing the right thing and defending yourself and others is hard, and the important thing is to keep trying to do right. This was something that really resonates with him, because he's all about trying to become a better person than his past mistakes. I think he saw in Vezda then a person who is also trying hard to be better, and that's what he respects most in people. So after that he was pretty fond of Vezda and kept coming to him for help with things even knowing they had kind of different worldviews.
So when Vezda got angry with him after Kano's death and then stormed off and avoided him without confronting him it really surprised him. Before that, he had trusted Vezda quite a lot and saw him as someone he could depend on, and that included assuming that if he did something wrong, he could trust Vezda to tell him. This is very, very important to him - it's a fear of his that he'll make decisions that hurt others and no one will be able to scold him or stop him. That reaction actually hurt him quite a lot.
Zuko explained - pretty offhandedly - that Vezda is just someone who gets angry and lashes out at others, though, and Mob was like 'oh okay that's just a character trait he has, makes sense.' That's the reason why Mob approached him later and pushed him into openly expressing his anger. Normally, Mob would just ghost an adult who he felt confused or disappointed by, but since he thought he had an explanation for the actions he was willing to try to fix it.
That said, although he fully forgave Vezda for hurting him, he never forgot and never stopped seeing Vezda as someone who will hurt people. That's why he became so lecturey and a little pushy with him. He doesn't really care about people hurting him but will stand up against someone if he thinks they're going to hurt someone else. Vezda remains on his babysit list forever.
Even so, he still likes him and even relates to him. He thinks of Vezda as pretty kind. He liked a lot how he was never really a threat to Taako in his execution, and he didn't lash out at people in the lead up to that. In the graveyard, though, he saw he was back to lashing out at other people and wasn't fuckin' impressed. But he cares about him and wants to see him do better, and I think recognizes that they have a lot in common with the anger issues and subsequent angst about it, whether or not Vezda realizes that.
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love this grown ass man being on a teenager's babysit list. love him disappointing a teenager bc he's in an angst spiral. incredible.
But also, clutches my heart. Truly he doesn't know quite how much they have in common re: anger issues or that Mob sees him as kind, but I am cherishing this fact with all my little heart. 😭
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