Imeeji ooc - Question Meme

[criminaljustice]

HERE'S THE DEAL: YOU ASK ME A THING, I BABBLE AN ANSWER, AND THEN I ASK YOU A THING THAT YOU BABBLE AN ANSWER BEFORE ASKING ME ANOTHER THING.

CURRENTLY HAVE BOSS/JOKER AND RAIJUU/HAK OK GO.

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[criminaljustice]

BE=DE is wrecked and are pretty sure that their positioning in the Imeeji inter-unit relations is... bad. Boss personally feels like BE=DE is getting scapegoated for all the This Game Was Shitty feelings mostly because like... IT'S VERY CLEARLY OBVIOUS THAT THEY KNOW THEY MADE A MISTAKE IN PLAY AND FUCKED UP AND REGRET. Boss doesn't really appreciate the thought that other units might think they deserve some kind of corporeal punishment and he doesn't like the direction it's going to send some of his unitmates in (Sanguine and Phoenix being 100% ready to bus themselves), but Boss also feels like there's not much he can do or say to change things because they did do a wrong and the fact that the options were literally called "Trust" and "Betray" in the game has influenced people's views of their choice (stupid but also...). That said, he at least know AlcheME and HSS are willing to still work with BE=DE. So that's... something...

On the flipside, avante's been very much like "we made our play based on our understanding of the situation and therefore will not tolerate judgement" while also being like "we need to make it clear that we're not going to carry grudges from game to game". Raijuu wasn't involved in the game but he's been pretty much watching the fall-out with an eye of "... seems dumb to blame people for the outcome of a double-blind game that asks people to trust that units won't Pull Some Shit" mostly because he HEARD about the previous game enough to know Some Units Will Pull Some Shit. So it just seems stupid to him and he's fine with dealing with other teams. He has learned that avante isn't fond of AZRAEL tho. So. Good to know.

As for CR... Raijuu didn't really get much of an impression from Yasuragi. He seemed pretty chill but also pretty distant. For a newbie who was trying to get an understanding of the situation and the place he was in... he was remarkably unhelpful. But noted that Shuten and Yasuragi are unitmates so like. Shrug. Maybe Taisho is just Like That. (Except Shuten was actually Helpful.)

As for Boss...

Boss was really out of it after the game, he was bsoding really hard. But it did register that Yasuragi was trying to buoy him up in a way? Not optimistically, but with a sentiment of "this too shall pass" which does help in some ways but in other ways it doesn't help the above situation at all. Boss has no idea what to do, he doesn't know what he can say or do to fix the situation with Taisho--but both Yasuragi and Shuten, while upset, didn't seem willing to hold grudges and Maki also doesn't seem to be interested in any kind of penance or anything like that. So he's... mostly still at a loss.

He's also kind of wanting to talk to like Yasuragi who was there during the play to tell him what happened. At this point, Boss has no idea what went down for the other units except that AlcheME knew they were going to get bused and played Trust anyway. Boss is understanding that it was Very Poor Communication on BE=DE's part but also... he just wants to understand why the other units would risk Trust when (DESPITE WHAT PEOPLE KEEP SAYING) Trust was actually the HIGHER RISK to play. It's completely something he doesn't understand and he'll probably understand it even less if he's told that they actually assumed their message correctly but then changed their thoughts on the interpretation of the message.

There's very few people who make Boss feel like he can approach them about things like this and weirdly Yasuragi is someone he sees in that area. Largely because of how they've interacted previously. He's not sure how Yasuragi sees him, except that Yasuragi apparently is willing to put aside his own (probably? maybe?) personal hurt in order to help him out when he was drowning in guilt and horror. Which is moooore than what he can say for like... moooost other people. lolol.

REVERSE! For everything.

[sonof]

his impression of Raijuu is pretty much just that he's Hiryuu's thing rn LMAO. he seems pretty serious and levelheaded, but in particular since they met during Tanabata, Yasuragi was a little, uh, lost in his own head at the time, so he didn't really take to picking him apart right away.

Yasuragi... doesn't consider himself a person who was hurt by the game. Which isn't completely true, but it is true that none of what rattled him can really be blamed on Bad End, so it's honestly not hard for him to not be mad at them, especially since he would have preferred to play their way.

he did briefly consider being a little angry at Boss for Maki's sake, but didn't go through with it in the end since 1. Maki isn't really mad at him in a way where it would be very helpful 2. honestly he's not even sure what he'd do if he was mad except some petty shit or outright avoidance, neither of which do any god either. so he's just not mad, and he just wants to help Boss and Maki to repair their relationship for Maki's sake, except he flatout doesn't know how repairing relationships works. so you know.

his opinion of Boss has actually not dropped or even really changed at all, because he like, did kind of already realize that Boss has some issues with how other people perceive him and with what they expect out of him, so really this game just solidified that impression. on the other hand, , setting aside that Yasuragi made no real attempt to put it into play, it is a little comfortable that that particular impression was solidified on specifically an approach/way of thinking that apparently matched Yasuragi's in the same circumstances. he hasn't carefully thought on it yet and doesn't necessarily want to, but as much as he kind of likes to pretend otherwise to everyone else, he is in the process of trying to get to know himself as much as anyone so he will probably end up considering whether the resemblance holds water next time they talk despite himself.

there are also some things he'd like to ask about how BE=DE played but it's basically out of curiosity, so it feels kind of awkward to bring up when it could very easily come across as sounding accusatory or critical to question them more when the apparent public opinion is already You Done Fucked Up

Taisho's relationship with BE=DE as a whole is more complicated when you factor in, uh, Maki, but also Shuten, Ken, Kuzuebiko, and Okami... but aside from knowing Kuzuebiko bought an axe and intends to just carry it around to look intimidating, Yasuragi only actually currently knows that Shuten took it understandably hard (but doesn't know Shuten went to talk it out with them yet) and that Okami wants to write up a contract to force BE=DE to play more cautiously in games, which Yasuragi is pretty ambivalent on. honestly all of Taisho has reacted pretty differently, and Yasuragi is not a group-minded person, so I would have trouble saying the overall impact it's had on their collective relationship to BE=DE HAHA

the same can be said of AlcheME! about Taisho's relationship to them as a whole (it's probably a little better? net gain?) but I CAN say that this game improved Yasuragi's opinion on them in particular. Yasuragi absolutely did not trust B or C before (and hadn't really talked to the rest of them much), and in fact in mahjong was the one to put AlcheME! on their list of teams to throw under the bus. it didn't matter at the time because Taisho played light anyway, but if they had played heavier, his unit recommendations would have been exactly the same. this doesn't actually mean he didn't like them - in fact he has been pretty comfortable with both B and C from the start and basically enjoys their company. but he also absolutely assumed both of them were only interested in surface level relationships, and that they were invested in being seen in a very specific way in those surface level relationships, and like... I mean I guess "he doesn't trust them because he can tell they're wildly dishonest people" is actually pretty straightforward. but Maki knows B and C better than he does, and also knows the rest of the unit better than he does, and she was confident they were there and they would trust, and she was right, so now Yasuragi is reassessing them entirely and trying opening up to them a little more. also really in the wake of the game Yasuragi is also trying opening up to everyone a little more. but yeah, maybe AlcheME! is cool after all. relationships to other units have not really changed I don't think.

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