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

[lecarre]

what if i do one tl;cr entry per week, huh, what if I do that

ANYWAY LUP!!

Sweet, sweet Lup. Lup's CR with Ange was such a surprise to me. Like with her entries above, Ange's initial reason for seeking out Lup was very simple; she was trying to find the people she thought were competent and convince them all of her cute, clumsy, weak girl facade to get them on her side. That was goal number one, and that's the first thing Ange had in mind when she first started to seek out Lup. Pretty standard for Ange, really.

The thing is, out of everyone that Ange spent time with, Lup on her own merits kind of...changed that for her. Much to Ange's chagrin and a little bit of horror, Ange actually enjoyed spending time with Lup, even while pretending to be someone she really wasn't, and by the time she realized it, she had already started to get in way too deep. Spies are not supposed to be attached to people, especially not when they're undercover. That was pretty much the one thing she'd been trying to avoid from day one.

But really, she didn't stand a chance when it came to Lup. Lup is a bundle of traits that Ange is weak to, because what Lup has is a whole buttload of really amazing character traits that all happened to coincide with members of Ange's team back home. She's really cool and strong emotionally like Chise, she's protective and has a strong sense of her own morals like Beatrice, she's clever and wise but also kind like Princess, she's dependable and loyal like Dorothy--you get the idea. Ange never really put together the pieces of why Lup was someone who wormed her way past all of her defenses, of course; she's not very good at understanding her own feelings. But nonetheless, Lup was someone who she liked spending time with very, very much.

This is usually the point where she'd start to pull back a bit to try to save the mission, but that was immediately derailed by the fact that Lup was also a Wolf. Ange couldn't avoid her at all, and with that thin excuse now gone, all Ange could really do was keep on spending time with Lup! (Ange did not try very hard to avoid this, admittedly.)

There were a lot of things Lup did and said that constantly impressed upon Ange how good of a person Lup was--but Lup was a good person without being a stupid person, and that was just the key combination to keep Ange coming back. She was floored by just how much Lup was willing to do for her fake persona, and Lup was one of the people Ange slowly started to wish to tell the truth, even though she wasn't sure how she'd take it at all.

And... well, then the reveal happened and Lup took it fine! Honestly, Ange was probably harder on herself than Lup was on Ange. Ange thinks that the amount of time she lied to Lup's face was definitely not the basis for a relationship at all, and that she deserved to be dumped on the curb for all of her emotional manipulation. But Lup didn't do that! And she didn't do that for decent, logical reasons at that, and that was something Ange could not even begin to argue with (and didn't want to, really).

So ultimately... she's always liked Lup. She really, really likes Lup, and she's grateful that their friendship wasn't broken by Ange being a shitty, shitty person. And Lup is probably the only person she'd legitimately invite back to their world to help her and Dorothy topple capitalism, because she knows Lup's absolutely, 100% good for it. And for Ange, that means a lot, because she's a spy--she doesn't trust easily at all. But somehow Lup managed to gain that trust, and now that she has it, it's not going anywhere.