THE TL;CR MEME

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TL;CR MEME

HOLD NOTHING BACK, BRO.

• Post a toplevel comment for each character you play!
• Reply to other players’ character toplevels!
• In response to those who’ve replied to yours, let the thoughts flow regarding the CR between the two characters relevant! How your character feels about the other? How you feel about the CR? Thoughts on their current dynamic? Thoughts on a dynamic’s future potential? Whatever you feel like spilling!

Comments

[polkayoureyesout]

Awkward.

[hearthebell]

Very.

Saying the way L feels about anyone is difficult. The nicer they are, the harder it is to really put it into words, because he's so bizarre himself. He tends to relate the most positively to the people who are the worst, ironically, which means that he writes off the kind and good people as boring or unauthentic. He's a paranoid, cynical, difficult person to get along with, if only because he's so focused on stimulation instead of social cooperation and forming friendships. Part of this is because of the world he's from (where he never made any lasting relationships and was very career-oriented from the age of like... 5) and part of it is because he's just... off, and emotionally stunted.

I do feel like Waldo could be really good for him. He's benefited from seeing decent behavior modeled by Oliver, who suggested that L talk to him at the holiday gathering, so I'd definitely like to get more CR and steer it toward ultimately positive (even if that's more like "eventually" since L is so initially broken and off-putting.) Altogether, he does like Waldo, even if he feels like it's a nut he needs to crack before he is able to figure out what makes him truly interesting. He also wants to test just how earnest he is about being willing to sacrifice himself so readily for others, because that's how you treat your friends, right? You push their boundaries and test them until they break under the pressure?

IN ALL SERIOUSNESS I'd really like to try a moderate self-improvement arc for him. Waldo's nice. L thinks so and if there aren't any tricks to his niceness, he'll think so even more.

[polkayoureyesout]

Waldo's nice sometimes, but he's not very happy about being tested. Depending on how it was done he'd push back. So the improvement idea might work or not but either way it should be fun.