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

[evocationary]

i want you to know how much chiron and lup's cr took me by surprise

because like, she really did not go into this game expecting to be daughter'd! she didn't even expect to find any people she'd like past taako, but like. the very first conversation they had was a really good impression of chiron for her. people who put up with her bullshit and her jokes are good in her book. he kind of just laughed and went with it, and even joked back? and she immediately decided she liked him.

she also learned pretty early on that he was a sacrificial dude! one of the first conversations they had was about how he'd prefer to take on the burden of having to execute kano, and she was like well, fuck that, i wouldn't volunteer - which is a lie, she would. but she's not the kind to just put that out there on the table, she doesn't insist on it, she sees an injustice and she tries to fix it, but quietly. but yeah like - i think about 95% of their conversations were a lot of chiron being like i'm dead, i can die again and lup just very firmly being like, no? no. you won't.

she also told him pretty early on that she was dead! and then he like, reverse uno carded her, and was like actually i'm a summon so i'll die once i'm gone, and she basically rejected that? chiron didn't deserve to die, or vanish, and she's a really powerful wizard, so like... no. no, he doesn't die, she'll fix it. and at that point her team was winning, so she was basically like yeah, my team's wish thing will go to fixing all of this. she got it in her head that she was going to save him. (spoilers: she was a little angry that emet got to like, summon horse dad or whatever he did. wow maybe she wanted to be important, emet!!)

but then after the execution she basically was... on board? with chiron completely. because he was ready to do what needed to be done, and she agreed with him on it, like. if he had to shoot kano to make it so that one person died instead of two, she wouldn't have blamed him. she's still vaguely upset that kano got scapegoated, but it happened, he was suspicious, that was just... what happened, and they weren't going to change it. the realm was in charge of that decision. AND THEN LIKE, he did his "i'll be the sacrifice" thing again and she started her constant slapping of his hand like STOP TRYING TO DIE YOU DUMB HORSE right there in that thread. and -

she entrusted him with taako's wellbeing. she knew chiron would take her up on it and look out for him, and what's more is she already trusted him to do it? he already was like "taako was my first roommate, i suppose i just worry" and that was enough, because sometimes, people meet taako and they decide he's not worth their time past the first meeting. and so like - she knew chiron wasn't going to hurt him intentionally. which led to her trusting him to take care of her, too.

because she forgets the first big thing, week two - she forgets that she died, and taako reminds her, and for the first time since she got there, she was freaked out? and so she goes to ask chiron... how he deals with it. and he was like "i'm sorry that i can't help you more" but i think even just hearing how he was dealing with it was enough.

I WANNA BRING UP THE LIKE - so after their investigation, when she had the drunk curfew effect, she called him dad? and it was mostly teasing, but i think like... that was really a thing she thought about later. lup and taako didn't really have any family besides themselves when they were little. they had their aunt, but mostly they got passed around until they decided to strike out on their own. so they've never really had a parental figure before, and like - stepping away from taako, lup really was starting to value chiron's advice and his presence in general. idk when the switch from friend to dad came in? i think maybe after he got attacked by leopards? like the idea of losing him really got her, i think. especially to something so easy, which is WHY after the execution that same week, when he pretended like he was the one who killed shiro, she threw such a shitfit at him.

he did it for a REASON, but she didn't care. because she thought no, not that one, just let me have this one family figure that i don't have to give up, and he's out here at every possible turn trying to die.

also, he called her one of his favorites, and there was no getting rid of her after that. she was doomed. ALSO HE LET HER RIDE HIM THROUGH THE FOREST she - felt special, because of that. it was nice. it was really, really something that he treated her like someone special. she had this thing that she told wolf for a bit where she was concerned about being everybody's favorite because it meant nobody would pick her to die, and like, that was mostly bullshit, but also a little true. it's not that she's been hated her whole life or anything, because she hasn't, but - both her and taako have lived lives where they were really just pawns or like, functions, if that makes sense. they're powerful wizards and also chefs, and people just want things from both of them. so to have chiron, who didn't ever want anything but for her to be happy and warm, that was special. to be someone's favorite, not just a background tool - that was special.

so - it gets to the point where chiron has forgotten so much of himself, and she was losing it internally every time that she talked to him. she nearly died in her cyoa and i think that other than taako, chiron was the only person she was needy with? she wanted comfort, and she just - needed him to promise her that he wasn't going to die, because so many things were falling apart. even though like, she knew he was going to. it fuckin' broke her to know that he'd finally been like i think i'd like to live and then he just. got chosen to die. like she'd said, it didn't make his death any easier, knowing that he was going to be one of the bodies. her sitting on the beach with him after they dragged his body out was 100% real, she just bluescreened for a bit.

FINDING HIS BODY WAS AWFUL THE END i think - she was upset about soo-won too, but i think chiron is the one that really fucking gutted her. her cr chart that week basically is what she felt, that she was angry that for the greater good she had to lose him. it sucked. she was angry. and she was angry enough to take the goddamn endgame by storm because she promised him a happy ending. which he got! he got it in the end.

so YEAH. chiron ended up dadshaped? it kicked me in the gut multiple times. i love wholly unexpected cr, wtf.