Relationship meme
So I just checked, and hitting four thousand comments at the year point seems like a good time for a relationship meme, especially since I never do first impressions memes. So, relationship meme for Rika! And/or Ferdinand and Cielo if you want.
There's a lot of complicated things involved in there, though. One, she's the type of person who just...appeals to Rika! THIS IS PROBABLY NOT A SURPRISE TO ANYONE. But there's a pattern to the teasing and the trolling and the games that's very distinctly Higurashi/Umineko, and Rika really missed that. Zhores came the closest to getting it, which is big reason she likes him, but even he didn't really get that unconscious pattern of social interactions down. Plus being an adult male are two big points against him in those sorts of interactions. Lambda fills that lack for her, and it was one of the big things Rika really missed about home.
The game has also given her...grounding again? Rika basically came to camp treating it as a vacation from the game, and an opportunity to, well, recover from being broken a bit before she had to return to her fate! Especially since at the point she's taken from she knows she's right at the edge of being permanently broken in that way that means death. But because of that, she tended...hmm. She wanted to avoid it as much as possible? She made some desultory efforts to see if she could improve her situation back home, but when it didn't work...well, she's pretty much accepted her fate, and so it was easy for her to just try to forget it while she was here. But now Lambda's reinvolved her in the game again, and so she'll be pushing more on that from here on out.
More mundanely, she's just the type of person Rika's wished she had around! She has the knowledge of her that Hanyuu does, with a personality closer to Satoko, and that's pretty much her two most important people right there. She obviously has her own agenda, of course, but that mostly just makes her more intriguing. Plus she's never had a good drinking partner, and that seems awesome.
So yes. Rika ♥ Lambda.
As for Judai, Rika liked him well enough! Mostly she filed him into the cute and toppable and potentially useful portion of her mind. She'd probably enjoy playing with him if it ever came up, but she wouldn't really care enough to seek him out.
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