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

[stillnot]

i feel fear, but me?

[lecarre]

CLEMENTINEEEE.

Wow where to even begin with Clem. Ange initially honestly didn't have much intentions of pursuing much of a relationship with Clementine to be totally honest, and that's because Clem, when she spoke to her, was sensible, pragmatic, practical, and most importantly, a good human being, even despite everything she'd been through. To Ange, that meant she doubted Clem would be much of a threat to her and her "good girl" persona, so she thought it would be safe to leave it at that.

Then they ended up stuck together that one week, and Ange ended up spending more time with Clementine despite herself, and that's when Ange made the mistake of realizing that... she liked Clem. There's a very specific subset of people that Ange tends to like, and those people are generally very practical, don't dabble in too many frills or unnecessary things, and are, in the end... people with a heart. She's a big sucker for good people who stick to their morals no matter what, and when Clem said that the only thing Ange could do for her is not kill unless it was self-defense, that kind of solidified for her the fact that she... liked the person Clementine is. It was a sensible and fair request--Clem took into account that Ange might have to defend herself--but it was still a very selfless one.

So Ange liked her. Ange liked her a lot, and therefore even though her cover was pretty solidly established with Clementine, Ange... kept on approaching her anyway. She kept spending time with her, not for her cover but because she honestly kind of liked to. There was a part of Ange that wanted to reveal herself to Clem since probably around week 4, but she's too much of a professional to ever go through with that. Still, she thought it, which was also Ange's cue that she was getting a little too close personally.

There are a lot of reasons that Clem in particular was someone who Ange came to really appreciate, I think. Things like how their circumstances aren't that different (two girls who have been through a lot since they were children), but Clem came out of it as a much better person than Ange did, or how Clem was one of the few people during trials to approach things with sensibility. But overall, she did really like her.

It's because Ange liked Clem so much that she knew better than to expect that their relationship would be the same after she revealed herself. She wasn't necessarily upset to learn that Clem was involved in the whole Plot with Dorothy, but she was a little frustrated; if it hadn't involved Dorothy, Ange wouldn't have cared at all about it happening, but she's a selfish human being and knows she is, so her own selfish self was just frustrated: frustrated because Clementine never hid from her that she was plotting and Ange didn't pursue it because of how much she liked Clem and her own cover, and frustrated because it happened at all. But these aren't rational emotions and that's why Ange has tucked them away into a small little box which is how she deals with non-rational emotions.

That's how she dealt with Clem's reaction to her cover, as well. After all, Ange is realistic enough to know that she's basically been lying to Clem for 7 weeks and Clem doesn't know who she is at all, so she's well within her rights to not seek her out anymore. Ange isn't very good at like... her own emotions, though, which is why she never chased Clem down. After all, being realistic, Clem not holding it against her was still more than she could've expected, and she didn't want to push her luck by pursuing a new relationship. Besides, she didn't really know how to go about it, either. So that's why she kind of failed to ever try to patch things up; she doesn't know how, and to her, Clem was well within her rights to just kind of walk away, and was still probably more generous than Ange herself deserved.

So in the end, Ange still does think fondly of Clem, probably some of the most out of the people here. She meant what she said about Clementine deserving that wish more than anyone, because she believes that someone who works as hard as Clem does and still has to deal with shitty circumstances probably deserves a fairy tale wish as a bit of a hedged bet.

(Also, she is taking that teddy bear home. She's not thinking about it too hard.)