IT'S SOMETHING NOT FOURTH WALL RELATED

[kepthishead]

Unless our fourth wall friends want to join in. I am okay with this.

ASK A QUESTION, it can be anything CFUD related. OOC, IC, relationship/first impressions, psychology, thoughts, whatever. I.E. My character's opinion of your character (relationships and whatnot) or maybe what you have been wondering about this behavior or that, or general thoughts

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[kepthishead]

Starting with Ace because he is easy, Elliot was already aware that Ace was psychopathic because Alice explicitly told him so! It took a lot of worming it out of her, but Elliot was aware that he was kind of batshit. So discovering that he was batshit was not that much of a surprise. He didn't expect him to be quite so ... badtouch, to be honest, he just expected him to be with the stabbing, so when Ace shifted from getting all in Elliot's personal space and making him squirm and instead shifting towards fighting him, this was far safer territory. Elliot can handle physical violence just fine given his upbringing, it's the whole getting in on his personal space and making him squirm that makes him uneasy.

Ace basically annoys him a lot. He doesn't take no for an answer, regularly threatens to kill him, insults his morals and talks about killing Alice. That said, Elliot thinks he can take Ace in a fight if he had to. How the relationship has shifted from being about touching Elliot to threatening to kill him is ... actually bizarrely comforting in its way, because death threats are easier for Elliot to deal with than someone who is kind of ... handsy. That said, in the trio of his new badtouch buddies, Ace is actually really low on the list.

The next worst is Glen Baskerville, who keeps touching his face and telling him things like how his family are all dead ... oh and the part that he is responsible for the Tragedy of Sablier and won't talk about it. Glen disturbs Elliot more than he can say, which is why he resorts to anger rather than just dissolving into a wreck. Anger is empowering, so yelling at the mastermind of a massacre that got your family condemned for a hundred years is far better than being afraid of him, right?

Then there's the part where Glen complimented him, and Elliot hates that he responded like that. He doesn't need his approval, oh god, and what the hell does it mean if Glen says you would have been a capable Duke? Why does he approve of our friendship? WHAT THE HELL DOES THIS ALL MEAN? He's concerned that Jack and Oz basically collapse into themselves when dealing with Glen so he is just. screw you all, i will take on this burden, and empowers himself by being angry with him rather than acknowledging the fact that uh. he is basically insulting their big bad to his face and telling him to back off and leave his servant alone.

If Elliot ever let himself think about it, he would be utterly terrified of Glen. But thinking leads to paralysis which leads to not being able to tell the big bad to eat a damn sword, so Elliot refuses to think about it. After all, someone will have to be able to tell Glen to eat a sword, and Elliot has realised that it is going to have to be him. After all, he keeps going on about Leo's inheritance, and Elliot's opinions on that are "fuck that". So what if Leo is a Baskerville, so what if he's Glen's reincarnation, he is also Elliot's friend and that trumps all of what Glen wants. So Glen and his plans can go and take a long walk off a short pier because Elliot Nightray has had enough of his nonsense. So if Leo ever told him that Glen touched him, Elliot would hunt him down and make him eat a sword. He's already considering it for his effect on Oz and Jack, so if Leo told him, there would be the truly stupid showdown of Glen versus a side character who isn't even the protagonist.

This is destined to failure.

Yura is going on a separate comment because I am near the character count. :(