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

[soulus]

He didn't think they would talk much. She clearly wasn't fond of contracts while he wasn't fond of going without. It was his crutch to prevent emotional investment, and he had no intention of pursuing when she passed it up.

Thankfully, Rupe was there! The weekly effect also helped. He was often the bearer of bad memory news, but he felt that she should know rather than remain ignorant. He wouldn't have offered a supportive touch without the effect, but he did want to address the consequences of her hearing about the memory loss from him and that was why he stuck around a while longer.

She had given him a potential opening with what she had said before about wishes, so he tried to use her for his first task as the Pawn. He ended up paying for it by being banned from money talk, but he considered this a fair exchange when his question bore a manipulative edge. He didn't disparage her wish: Family is important, though he would have been the first to say that love wasn't worth a penny.

Then she surprised him with an offer of her own, and he took it.

Things sort of took off from there. Alex's best quality, aside from her enduring cooperation, was her lowkey presence. She had her opinions and would voice them, but she wouldn't shove them down his throat. Instead she would engage in a calm back-and-forth, then grouse about his stubbornness—if that—before moving on. She observed his boundaries despite their fairly dissimilar perspectives of most of the Realm's goings-on, and for that he never resented her company.

The fact that she gave him the option to simply say, "I don't want to talk about it," was far more than he received from most participants. His appreciation of her approach, as well as his general wariness of people and awareness that he was using her for his role, saw Rufus' being a little more careful than usual when handling their interactions.

He responded literally to many of her points on purpose to dispute them or close the topic swiftly. He always knew what she was intending to say. It was a similar tactic to how he would initiate their conversations with seemingly bland comments or questions; he was reacting to her body language whenever she was visibly distraught in order to pull her out of her musing.

Sharing memories allowed him to experience her fire. He wasn't especially impressed by the lack of consideration for the consequences of her jumping into the fray, but he did acknowledge her good intentions. She was a good person who considered the feelings of even someone like him once Fiora was removed and Dorothy was convicted, which was far more than he knew he deserved.