Meme 02. CR meme

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A little over 5k comments and a few trauma games and memories worth of development.... CR meme for Shark/Ryugamine Mikado, though if you have other questions feel free to ask.

Responses may be slow as I housework!

Also totally open to Emerald Study CR questions. Because I can.

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WORDS UGH. Okay :|a Kazuki and Shark are a lot closer now I think, because they've had some real talks and Shark's seen some of Kazuki's memories and Kazuki's seen Shark's regrets and they've had stupid fight were Kazuki topped Shark's feelings and stupid Kazuki anyway. But seriously Shark has a much better idea of who and what Kazuki is now. Including shit he needs to ask more about, like, um DEATH GAMES? But in general, knowing about Kazuki has just solidified Shark's dere and care for Kazuki as well as his comfort levels with him. Kazuki is important to him, and understands shit like emotions and romance or at least understands that stuff better than Shark does. Because Shark is brilliant but also an idiot. So that's something to admire in his friend, that emotional awareness that Shark has sometimes but not to the same degree or depth a lot of the time!

Shark admires Kazuki for his good points but not to any kind of hero worship or extreme degree. He simply greatly respects the parts of his friend he thinks are admirable and accepts the parts he's not so enamored with as well as he can, and basically feels really relaxed talking to Kazuki about anything more or less. This doesn't make Shark any less of a vicious horrible little shit when he's angry. In fact, it's possible he could be nastier with Kazuki than with most just because the trust there also means the emotions are more raw with Kazuki and less repressed than if he were angry with someone else, though that's mainly me speculating since... Kazuki has a way of defusing situations and anger that seems to work quite well on Shark so far. Though the fact that it works is also testament to how much Shark loves Kazuki as his friend, as well. Also Kazuki being Kazuki.

God how coherent am I right now? OH WELL.

WHERE. WAS I? Shark recognizes Kazuki is flawed and he disagrees with him plenty. He also enjoys picking on Kazuki a lot because Kazuki's fun to pick on, but he really does care about Kazuki lots and it's a very emotional bond to Shark. They can connect on a TEENAGER BOYS ABOUT THE SAME AGE level that makes it extra relaxing, even when there's a lot of not very relaxing things surrounding it, like Kazuki's WTF life, and Aather in general being weird as fuck, on a personal level Shark thinks they're really compatible friends. More than that, Shark cares enough about Kazuki to be very dishonest if he needs to, in order to protect him. One of his chief issues with the elevator game that WASN'T Coral related (because lol that explosion) was seeing Kazuki in round 4, and just going fuck it. He'd have pushed for protecting Emerald even if the other team had been one they had closer ties to, because he wasn't sure if Kazuki would go down with Emerald if Emeral went down.

And he would have argued whatever bullshit reason about Emerald if he had to (though he likes Viridian a lot, his main motivation for voting Emerald was stronger ties but chiefly KAZUKI). So yeah. Kazuki's really really important to him. Extremely so. No matter if he doesn't get all of Kazuki's opinions or agree with his attitudes, Kazuki is super important to Shark, and Shark is actually terrified about ever having to choose between Kazuki (or Mikage) and Coral. To a degree Shark HATES the choices they have to make between teams and knights and etc, but in particular I'm not sure he'd be able to deal with a choice that made him pick Coral or Kazuki. Because as much as Shark loves Coral and they are his FAMILY and he could NEVER place them in danger, he loves Kazuki too! Kazuki is someone he can be open with and is his friend and it's a choice Shark really doesn't ever ever want to make, but it's one he's already had a glimpse of just because he considers scenarios like that, and the games make him try to think ahead, but whenever he thinks of THAT scenario he just shuts down and can't imagine it, it's just that distressing.

But he's thought of it.

Wow yeah I'm rambly idk. Ask something specific if you want more/clarification/a specific topic maybe?

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