Yep 1000 comments have passed since I did this thing, so let's have another one! Hot or not/relationship/anything goes meme for Shaun Hastings and Zhores Barsoukova.
This will probably need an edit later because it's hella noisy here and I'm hungry so I know I'm going to forget something. :\
But Cesare... Okay, right now he's just really frustrated and is taking it out on Shaun. Sorry about that. He's aware that Shaun sees him as something like a student during the times that they're not at each other's throats and he he's settled it for himself that Shaun does not think of him as the same sort of threat he used to. He thinks Shaun could be very useful to him--actually, Shaun has already been quite useful. Issues of Camp aside, he's very interested in pumping Shaun for information that would be useful to him once he returns to Italy (and he's still operating under the assumption that he will eventually return and will continue down the same path history has him walking). He thinks that Camp is a wonderful opportunity, annoying though it may be, and that Shaun could provide him with the information he needs to eventually get the Good End. He's... unwilling to put himself fully into the student role for this, however, because Shaun does step on his pride sometimes and etc and he's much more comfortable reaching some kind of trade for his purposes.
Cesare won't tell Malik about what Shaun told him. He wouldn't get anything from that. He'd much rather have that left hanging. On a similar note, he really does want to know pretty much everything Shaun can tell him about his family in the ACverse. He wants to know exactly what they did so he will be able to tell exactly where they went wrong. He's still set on following traditional history up to 1503 but is desperate to change events from there on out, with good reason. Shaun can help with this.
When they're not at odds, Cesare actually rather likes Shaun. He's not his favorite person in Camp but he's someone he does in general like, although he wouldn't think to put it like that. He would say that Shaun is useful, convenient... even capable sometimes. That aside, he does like him as a person when he doesn't want to punch him in the face. Which, to be fair, is often. As you said, they are brilliant at getting on each other's last nerve. Cesare doesn't often listen to Shaun because he doesn't often listen to most people, but he does occasionally take his advice. And sometimes he purposefully does the opposite just to prove a point. That point may often come off as "am willful teenager", but regardless...
How Shaun handles the camping will affect things fairly strongly. Touchy subject is touchy and even when he's on good terms with Shaun there's that kernel of mistrust that leads him to, in general, keep him at a distance. It's not something Shaun couldn't eventually work past, but it would take effort.
But Cesare... Okay, right now he's just really frustrated and is taking it out on Shaun. Sorry about that. He's aware that Shaun sees him as something like a student during the times that they're not at each other's throats and he he's settled it for himself that Shaun does not think of him as the same sort of threat he used to. He thinks Shaun could be very useful to him--actually, Shaun has already been quite useful. Issues of Camp aside, he's very interested in pumping Shaun for information that would be useful to him once he returns to Italy (and he's still operating under the assumption that he will eventually return and will continue down the same path history has him walking). He thinks that Camp is a wonderful opportunity, annoying though it may be, and that Shaun could provide him with the information he needs to eventually get the Good End. He's... unwilling to put himself fully into the student role for this, however, because Shaun does step on his pride sometimes and etc and he's much more comfortable reaching some kind of trade for his purposes.
Cesare won't tell Malik about what Shaun told him. He wouldn't get anything from that. He'd much rather have that left hanging. On a similar note, he really does want to know pretty much everything Shaun can tell him about his family in the ACverse. He wants to know exactly what they did so he will be able to tell exactly where they went wrong. He's still set on following traditional history up to 1503 but is desperate to change events from there on out, with good reason. Shaun can help with this.
When they're not at odds, Cesare actually rather likes Shaun. He's not his favorite person in Camp but he's someone he does in general like, although he wouldn't think to put it like that. He would say that Shaun is useful, convenient... even capable sometimes. That aside, he does like him as a person when he doesn't want to punch him in the face. Which, to be fair, is often. As you said, they are brilliant at getting on each other's last nerve. Cesare doesn't often listen to Shaun because he doesn't often listen to most people, but he does occasionally take his advice. And sometimes he purposefully does the opposite just to prove a point. That point may often come off as "am willful teenager", but regardless...
How Shaun handles the camping will affect things fairly strongly. Touchy subject is touchy and even when he's on good terms with Shaun there's that kernel of mistrust that leads him to, in general, keep him at a distance. It's not something Shaun couldn't eventually work past, but it would take effort.
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