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

[antaressnipe]

Having Jeanne in this game was such a source of comfort for Chiron, even if he never stated it in plain terms. If she was here -- if Ruler was here -- it meant that everything would eventually fall into place and he could breathe a little easier. While he has always cared about her, they are Servants at their core and understand all that entails. Being stuck together in the Realm was business as usual.

So he really did come at her like she was his boss, or at the very least, a comrade-in-arms. And because he knew of her duties back home, he was also lowkey protective of her once he realized they were in a killing game. That's part of the reason why Chiron was willing to execute Kano for the crime of killing her during that second execution -- in part because they couldn't have Kano running around if he willingly murdered his executioner, but also because Kano, even without realizing it, would have doomed Chiron and Jeanne's world, and he could not abide that.

Jeanne survived, however -- with injuries she normally would not have taken. So that was a wake up call to both of them, that they had to be careful in how they moved from then on out.

Though hilariously when Chiron realized the nature of roles and that he couldn't speak freely about them is when he started keeping Jeanne out of the loop a little. He didn't feel particularly guilty, however, as he knew Jeanne could take care of herself, and really, in that way, he always treated her like a fellow Servant who would go off to do whatever needed to be done without his coddling. BUT--

The passage of time is a THING and the fact that they continued to survive and exist is why Chiron started having these moments where he would tease her, or frown mightily when she got herself hurt, or just have the opportunity to talk to her without it always flying back to business. He treated her way more like a person he cherished instead of just a business associate as the weeks went on...

Though on the flipside, he never forgot her station even if she did. It's why he asked her opinion about him going with Emet-Selch after the game was finished, and also why the moment Jeanne approached him after week 4's trial, he spilled all of the secrets as a nod of acknowledgement and respect. She always had a great amount of sway over him and his actions, but it was earned and he simply trusted her.

Maybe Jeanne isn't a saint in the way the world revers her, she is truly just a person at her core, but he respects her so much for her she carries herself and the decisions she makes. If anything, the game just allowed to him to have a more fuller picture of her as an individual. She still has duties to resume now that the game is ended, but he prays very much for her soul to have peace and maybe in some way, she can be allowed to have her own moments of selfishness, like he's been allowed.