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

[robopriest]

"That's it", thinks Hansa. Everything is fine. Emet is alive. They can move on. And here's the thing - even after that show at the execution, Hansa...sincerely never thought that Emet would ever reciprocate anything. Why would he? He's a mortal that dies like a mayfly in the immortal's view. In a way, its logical, not to even blink at a silly cyborg who has some fondness for him. Hansa was just feeling that he would be more or less content if he learned it would be one-sided forever, because to him, it made sense. He wasn't even jealous or upset over learning Chiron loved Emet, because hey, they're both powerful immortal beings, they can be together, he'll just sit here and live out his life and Emet will move on as he supposes he would. Besides, he has Alex, and she's the priority, above everything else.

Except...Emet suddenly calls him and Chiron in for a meeting to explain their feelings, Hansa does so, and then throws down his ultimatum that he would never leave Alex and that was that. He expected for Emet to just say "okay lol I'll be with Chiron and you be with Alex"....except suddenly the two were like "yeah that's fine, we want you, bring Alex in". This FLOORED Hansa. Here he had been thinking things would go one way, and here was confirmation that Emet cared? For HIM? And Chiron was fine with them all being together? Its still sort of a shock to this day - Hansa definitely doesn't take anything Emet gives him for granted, and any sign of affection is one more than he thought he'd ever get from the immortal.

Its then funny because they get love arrowed, and after a smooch and a sudden memshare he sees that...Emet is basically [REDACTED] in his canon. Hansa is furious, of course he is, but seeing the ending, where Emet [REDACTED]...actually softened that anger. Hansa operates on a philosophy that even if you're a bad person, or a terrible being, as long as you accept what you are, live quietly, and do good things despite things you have done or were planning to do in the past...he was fine with that. And seeing that Emet didn't have those feelings he saw anymore really reassured him that being fond of Emet wasn't a mistake, and honestly he felt more for Emet after that. Hansa, your terrible taste. (To be fair, if Emet went back on THAT level of bullshit, Hansa's morality is strong enough that he would actually fight the man, because love or no love, he can't abide by that.)

ANYWAYS, as of right now Hansa will probably be clueless of HOW MUCH OF AN ASSHOLE EMET WAS FOR THE ENTIRE GAME HOLY COW but I think right now, he's terribly happy where he is. Its hard to describe what his feelings for Emet really are - it is love, in a sense, but its mixed with this kind of earnest devotion, and just happiness to be at the man's side. He just finds it special that Emet cares for him back in his own way. Right now, Hansa sees himself as like...someone that Emet can be happy to witness. Sure, their viewpoints as mortal and immortal won't really coincide, but if Emet can live vicariously through him, understand some of the joy he has every day as a human being who is happy with life itself, then Hansa would be overjoyed himself. If Emet turned away and grew tired of the relationship, then that would be fine. Its his right to do so. But Hansa treasures the fact that he decided to stay by his side, and he feels more happy that he can be one of a tiny few who has received his attention.

Sometimes, that's all that matters.

(also, after several weeks of deliberating it, Hansa can conclude that Emet's other form is indeed Hot)