Fluff, Relationships, and Traditions
This entry is part 52 of 52 in the series 365 Challenge
So characters have habits, ways they interact with certain people and situations, things they do and like to do, stories and histories together. I've known a lot of my characters' for a long time but getting them all into fic is interesting, particularly for the ones I don't know that for.
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It makes one want to see it work. I almost thought he should hug Shift, too.
Of course, that is a very crazy idea.
Still, he's good with his daughter, better than he wowuld have seemed in the one where she claimed him as a pillow.
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Hugging Shift would have been very, very dangerous at that moment. She was still thoroughly ticked off, and she admittedly claims putting-foot-down rights due to the fact that she was the one who DID pay the cost for Elisabeth, so he was still pretty ticked off at her. They have very different ideas on what is "best" for their daughter.
Told you they weren't very strongly characterized in that one. I didn't have their voice and so I left it at they were doing the let's-not-be-tense-around-Elisabeth thing. Unfortunately, they do have plenty of "masks" as it were.
*Before you judge Shift for that, let's just say if he HAD known, his own exception would have gone up in smoke. It was Watcher's idea to not give them leverage over Kilter and instead keep the problem confined as much as possible to Shift.
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I bet him finding out did not go over very well, though.
True. But maybe he needs to hug her some other time.
Yeah, they do have masks. Shift probably has more than anyone else in some ways.
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It blew up spectacularly. People who know them even sometimes forget that Kilter was second when Shift was third. He CAN bring her into line. He can fight her on perfectly even footing. He just retained a conscience when she embraced the weapon the Department was making her into. On that, she sometimes mentions that they were never stupid enough to succeed again. They learned their lesson with her.
More than anyone but Cate. Those two rival each other in the masks department.
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That's the trouble with pushing things too far with their living weapons. Cervone told Solenne that it made no sense for him to be alive because he'd gotten too good at what he could do and when he reached that point, he should have been stopped before he could turn against the person holding leverage against him.
That line, that bit of control... it's razor thin and could have turned a lot sooner.
Shift had her team to care about, so she didn't do anything to jeopardize them, but that danger was always there with her.
Though Shift can have physical masks as well as all her personality masks and emotional ones and fake manners, so she might have just a bit more.
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There's a throwaway line in Welcome that mentions Cate can fool a mindreader. Shift can alter her body. Cate can alter her mental landscape in much the same way. I'm honestly not sure which one has more, but I'm inclined to think they went back and forth.
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It probably depends on the situation.
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