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]

From the start, he didn't regard her much differently from the others, simply because age was just a number in that he himself had shouldered his fair share of responsibilities as a child. Everyone had laughed at him then, but they weren't laughing anymore with his being more famous than the lot of them. Similarly, there was no reason to laugh at or otherwise dismiss Ochako if she had valid points to make.

It helped that she was forthcoming with information and able to make reasonable decisions regarding the usage of the healing gun. The week he gave up his hand, multiple participants asked why he hadn't asked to be healed and he answered that his injury hadn't been lethal. He both respected and supported Ochako's decision, to say nothing of begging for something that hadn't been offered. In a way, it felt to him that Ochako had more sense than half the participants on this matter.

On the other hand, he did think that she was a touch naive in a way that wouldn't be good for her survival in a competition of this nature. She was someone who would die if it came down to sticking by or betraying her morality. He didn't agree on a personal level; however, she was entitled to her beliefs, so he just didn't say anything.

How she reacted to him on a couple occasions baffled him, because it would have been silly to dismiss a participant when there were only so many of them with diminishing numbers every week. While he treated her largely the same as everyone else, a part of him was able to relate to her dream when they shared memories. He, too, must have been driven to tears at some point in his desire to help his dying mother. It wasn't his business, but his advice was that she should never feel ashamed for wanting to support her family.

That was a part of her he respected. She was down-to-earth and honest about her intentions . . . if a little too nosy.