plot question meme!
Hello friends! We're accepting any and all questions about the plot and its characters/backstory, and any general worldbuilding/processing/what made you decide to do this mods!! sort of questions here. Also questions about Jalen and Meric's ~passionate tryst~. FEEL FREE.
The general backstory is that the crew picked Jalen up on Vodaspei when Erin was out looking for a doctor that could tend to an Eriophor. Hijinks ensued! That was a move that ultimately saved Jalen's life because it got him off of Vodaspei (which was a planet hit by the World Eater), although he immediately went on to have his epic two week-long bender. Erin was the one who slapped him out of it ultimately, making that the second time she's saved his life. To say that Jalen is indebted to her is an understatement.
And she's impressed him! He's quite enamoured by her, something that is exceedingly obvious. Jalen's well aware of how obvious his crush for the captain is, though, and doesn't really address it. It's a thing. It's there. Let's move on. At least, he was zen about this because they're in this situation where there's really no time for, you know, that. Which is why he raised his eyebrow a lot at some things! Their relationship is complicated in that . . . Jalen likes her, but he's much more wary of the military as a whole. He didn't care for the secrets! Which is why when she confronted him about leaking information, he made a point of saying that he followed her, not the military. He likes her, and he will support her, but he'll also always do what he feels is right and that comes before anything else. And seeing as she is so closely identified with the military, it becomes a tricky sort of thing.
She is also prrrrobably the only one in general that he really trusts, and she's earned that by brow beating sense into him and generally putting her own faith in him. But then again, Jalen has this general distrust of the military, so it's a bit of a conundrum. And now he is military, apparently, by her orders, which is. More of a conundrum. It's sort of this weird back and forth, and it's not quite as simple as "Jalen loeveses Erin the end" on his end.
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