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

[supremity]

Oh Boy

[evocationary]

FLYING KICKS

lup LOVES hua cheng. they kind of immediately clicked, i think, because he's such an asshole and she just very intensely vibes with that, but also like... almost right off the bat she could see how much capacity for love he's got? like it just started with xie lian, obviously, but lup knows what it's like to love someone with your whole entire soul. how it is to have someone you would do anything for, including die, over and over, if it meant that person was safe. so like, part of it was that he immediately indulged her bullshit by wearing the stupid sunglasses she gave him OVER his eyepatch, but the other part was that he would fall on a sword for xie lian and she knows how that is, re: taako.

so like, they got along ALREADY, but then she and hc made their pact, and like. they didn't explicitly ever say it, but i think they both assumed that if either xie lian or taako died, the other would do whatever it took to murder the killer, no matter what happened. i think they both understood the level of devotion the other had to their respective Important Person and respected the shit out of that.

the lord and lady of the manor thing was also a stupid joke that she kept as a serious little thing in the back of her head to cheer her up. she really like... appreciated the willingness to just bullshit around like that. and that he didn't write it off, either, like they had their little in-joke and that means something to her, as someone who exists almost solely on jokes. idk how to put it, like. i think hua cheng is just a person she VIBES with; his sense of humor is similar, he's a sassy little shit, he is very dangerous, and he has a lot of big emotions that he keeps very close to his chest. they're similar people, in all of those ways. they're both also old, and kind of dead. you bond over this sort of thing.

so like, of course, when she found out he killed someone, she sort of shrugged it off. she'd kill someone too, if she had to do it for the realm. for a purpose. and it wouldn't bother her. she was a little pissed that it was alyssa, because she liked alyssa, but that wasn't hua cheng's fault. she was basically like look, the second i figured out you did a murder i was like cool, time to cover for hua cheng, because xie lian was a very important person to her at that point, and hua cheng was too. there was no way she was going to let him take the fall for anything. like, actually, she might have tried to scapegoat herself instead if there had been suspicion at him. part of the pact, you know? especially since that was the week taako had forgotten her, haha.

oh also hua cheng giving her a hug after chiron's death is the cutest thing in the entire world goodbye

BUT YEAH LIKE lup is very, very fond of hua cheng, and i've said this multiple times but in another life, she would've fallen for him, probably. wheezes. fortunately she saw how xie lian centered he is right off the bat and just wrote him off, but god. what a good spooky work husband to have? yea.