985 comments is close enough -- RELATIONSHIP MEME

[machiavelliyaan]

PREMONITION PREMONITION PREMONITION--

Relationship meme for Sakubo. Comment here and I'll tell you how Saku and Bo feels about your character o/ Reciprocation makes me happy but isn't required.

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[machiavelliyaan]

Bo likes Sera, but it's a restrained kind of 'like'. That's to say, he likes Sera, and they've actually talked about a surprisingly large amount of personal things on both sides, but there's always an... emotional awkwardness he feels when they talk? I don't want to say he thinks she's talking down to him, because he doesn't, but he's very conscious of the fact that both times they met he was trying to be strong about something and deeply afraid and not handling it very well. He's a little embarrassed, and kind of shy -- especially because she's a really nice person and very understanding, but he feels very much like a kid around her. He's still going to try to talk to her a lot, because he likes her, but a lot of times when they've threaded he feels like he's struggling against his own expectations and giving off a sense that he needs to be protected, when really he wants to be useful.

He also thinks her situation is really, really sad, and that she's been through a lot, and the fact she's still afraid -- he wishes he could do something for her, but doesn't know what he could do. And that ends up with more of the 'I want to be useful, but I don't think I am for her'.

[samsera]

"Restrained like" is probably a good way to describe how Sera feels about Bo, too. Bo is not entirely wrong in thinking he's giving off this aura of needing to be protected - that's not quite accurate, but Sera really can't help but be aware that she's gone through huge amounts of pain and fear in kinds and intensities that Bo will hopefully never experience when she talks to him. The only way she can think of to handle the situation is to try to make it clear that that doesn't matter, but just by trying to do that she's putting herself in a position to judge his situation - she certainly thinks her own deficiencies matter, after all! He does bring out her protective side. If they met in a situation where they aren't talking about Weighty Emotional Things it might actually help with that, because Sera desperately wants to be a kid on some level, not a protector figure. She feels plenty responsible for just Embryon already. YOU ARE A NICE KID THOUGH, BO.

[machiavelliyaan]

I AM POSTING VERY SOON ABOUT PLAYING WITH STRAY ANIMALS.

Hopefully this will need less horrible protection from >D