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]

While they had talked before then, their relationship kicked off once she apologized for suspecting him during trial . . . which he thought was utterly unnecessary. Anyone with a healthy helping of suspicion would've suspected him. However, her apology was the gateway to his request for a secret in order to fulfill his task as the Pawn, and what he got was much heavier than expected.

He didn't pry for two reasons: 1) her story with her sister was deeply personal, and 2) he didn't need to hear more than was necessary for the task. All the same, her insistence on being fair to him, despite his comparative lack of faith in anyone, had promise in their deal to exchange information.

She seemed distraught about their mounting losses, so he raised the subject of the graveyard to appease her by drawing from his own experiences with the Underworld. It didn't go as intended, but at least this became a point of discussion in the near future (during which he talked his way around knowing about the messaging function as a member of Wolf's team, ah).

Then the CYOA happened! They had debated before on how to absorb all the information they received, and even here their differences became apparent. Rufus wanted to do anything and everything necessary to graduate while the rest rebelled at the thought of another sacrifice. In the end it sort of worked out and he focused on discussing business once they were resting in the same area at the inn. Their ways of thinking were different—he even thought she was rather green at times, though that didn't diminish her ability to perform as a participant—but she always treated him fairly and respectfully, so he treated her well by his standards.

They weren't especially close, and he was fine with that. She was a kind soul who thought the healing gun wouldn't have gone to waste on him, no matter how much he disagreed. Subconsciously, she was one of the people he didn't regard with as much suspicion as the masses: She was just so very genuine in their encounters, and wasn't the type to lather her message in pretty words.