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[watchmycannon]

--Whup David passed 10k sometime last night! I was planning on doing a State of the Union post for the occasion since a lot has changed for him lately, but then it sneaked up on me and it would probably be a very long essay dump anyway.

So in lieu of that Relationship/Questions Meme? Make me talk about David and You, or David and Anything -- I

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[watchmycannon]

OH GOOD SO THEY CAN JUST BE LIKE DURR DURR DERE DURR AT EACH OTHER

As far as expectations and standards go, David definitely... has his way of responding to things, knows how he would do things, but he’s also very aware that his situation is kind of unique and that not a lot of people can (or should) be able to approach things the way he does -- so absolutely he’s going to let Shuri... fumble his way towards his own answers, and he wants to help and be there and be supportive, but he also doesn’t want to be responsible for any of that; he knows that being anyone else’s Reason is a terrible idea, because what happens if ...that person goes away? He is very much of the ‘your friends will support you as much as they can but everyone has to stand on their own two feet, etc.’ mindset.

And definitely them not knowing each other very well is working in their favor -- David can take it all as “I am learning things I did not know about Shuri, and man was I aware that I didn’t know anything about him” -- and he does like learning about people. It also helps him, because it means he was able to tell Shuri about his problems, which he... normally doesn’t do. Shuri is sitting right on one of the magical lines of people David can tell problems to. It looks sort of like this:
Don’t Know Me at All | Acquaintance | Good Acquaintance | Good Friend | Super Special Person

and only the third and fifth categories are the sort of people David would really tell problems to -- for some reason he doesn’t want to bother Good Friends with that, but people who know him but only a little or Super Important people can know? It’s... he’s a complicated person.

Man. Okay. Just. David and Shuri as a pairing would be... so full of rainbows.

[a_mighty_oak]

YEAH, I THINK THAT ALL MAKES SENSE! and shuri does need to learn a healthy degree of independence, good lord. Not that other people aren't trying to encourage that, but he is the worst at it, so it cannot hurt coming from more people. At the same time, in a weird way he kind of appreciates David's problems, because HEY, I GUESS NEITHER OF US ARE PERFECT HERE, COOL

I could supply all the rainbows you might ever need in a relationship bb