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]

To be completely honest, most of it was built on a web of deception. Hilariously, this still ended up becoming one of his most honest CR in the way they communicated.

Rufus didn't exactly bend over backwards to do his tasks as the Pawn in secrecy. The confidentiality clause was that he wouldn't let anyone know about his role; as long as he avoided that, he could be as lousy at coming up with excuses as he wanted. That he wanted secret information nobody else knew was a load of baloney, because such information would've been useless to him. It was just a reason to get her to talk, though Hikaru used this bizarre equation to arrive at the correct answer that he disliked wasting time.

Before that, though, he thought that she talked too much. Her heart wasn't in the wrong place, but she cared about fairness too much in an unfair existence. Rufus, who grew up disadvantaged all his life, didn't carry such lofty ambitions.

However, her strong values were accompanied by the desire to understand. How she approached Rufus set her apart from the masses, because she never tried to push her beliefs onto him once they got settled in their arrangement. Her desire to understand him was what really kept their relationship aloft, seeing as they interacted beyond the times he needed her for a task.

It was during their exchange of twenty questions that he came to understand her perspective better. Her memories of the Test were especially important, because he witnessed that her motivations were grounded, no matter how lofty her ideals. She fought for herself, and she condemned the way of htinking that would sacrifice those who were left behind for a cause. Rufus, who was abandoned for similar reasons as a child, was impressed by her words and the actions taken to back them. Of all the people with similar values as she, he arguably liked her the most.

Then he had to kill her! It was a job, so he didn't fight it. His main plan was to kill her as painlessly as possible. Approaching her earlier that week was strange, and he deliberately chose not to get too close—not because he feared contracting her condition, but out of consideration for her, stemming from the fact that he was plotting to take her life during curfew. If she had a question, he answered out of the same consideration, rather than as part of their agreement.

He respected all of her requests that night, including the wish that he live. They weren't close, but he wasn't interested in causing unnecessary anguish by hacking her up and then leaving her out in the open. He didn't like the job, but he chose to do as the task demanded for the end it would promise. Even though he wasn't emotionally open nor warm, he refused to abandon her heart to a cause like an irresponsible person.

He had every intention of accepting responsibility for her actions at the time of her return, at which point he was able to confess what he'd done for the doxxing task. Even without that requirement, he would have told her everything she wanted to know. And because he took her life, he refused to accept thanks from anyone for willing to do the dirty work: Regardless of his intentions, it wasn't something to be celebrated.

[heartablaze]

Jae I'm SO TIRED

she really liked that he allowed her to talk to him and defended him so much in the graveyard after she died... and the fact that he answered her upfront during doxxtime without sugarcoating it was something she really appreciated even if some of it was hard to hear

lies on the ground...