YO I HEARD YOU LIKE TL;CR

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STEP ONE: Post with your character!
STEP TWO: Respond to other people's characters with your characters. They will then tell you, in detail, what their character thinks of yours -- and as per the meme's title, tl;dr is encouraged, but not necessary! Don't be afraid to ask others for their characters' first impressions of yours as well.
STEP THREE: Write out tl;dr for whoever comments to you in return.
STEP FOUR: Chat with each other in mutual joy/horror/disgust/delight/confusion at where your CR has gone!
BONUS: Use this for writing up CR charts, or if you already have them written, link to them!

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Re: ruka

[hellrisen02]

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Ruka doesn't quite dislike Duo, but she definitely wouldn't say that she likes him, either. He's not really a "peer" of hers, not only in terms of age (more obligatory grandpa jokes here), but because in his previous time in the City, they had minimal direct interaction. She didn't know him then, and they didn't run in the same circles. Most people had better things to do than look after a literal 12-year-old and she knows it. Despite the whole thing with First Quatre's breakdown, Ruka has a hard time imagining that she made any real impression on anybody for what she did. (Ruka had a hard time seeing herself in a positive light even at that age, and it only got worse from there.) The fact Duo not only remembered her for it—when she wasn't actually conscious the single time they "met" back then—but remembers it with something like respect feels unearned. Because it conflicts with her self-image, it makes her think that it's his perception that must be wrong.

On top of that, she feels as though Duo is trying to build some sense of camaraderie between them based on that shared history, but because of how different she knows their experiences to be, it reads presumptuous. He wasn't there for the worst things she experienced, and more than that, he doesn't know the half of it. (For instance, Atropos is in the top ten of Worst Things, but it's not in the top five.) His "you haven’t done too badly for yourself, seems to me" in the most recent inbox thread is probably the one she's had the greatest negative reaction to — because to her, it's like, who the FUCK does this guy think he is, thinking he knows SHIT about me. The more it feels like he's presuming to know her, the less she wants him to know (other than that he's WRONG).

This isn't to say her opinion is entirely negative, or even mostly so: she can respect his experience and his intellect, when the situation calls for it, and she usually doesn't mind the turns their conversations take. She doesn't even mind the helping him / Quatre-by-proxy thing, and taking shop about Lachesis with someone who doesn't need to be walked through what kind of personality she is makes it easier to actually get somewhere. With time, she might even be willing to trust him some (though by her standards, trust wouldn't earn him much more than "less likely to evade the truth about literally everything" bc she's just a fucking trainwreck). But if Duo comes off like he's equating their experiences, or like they're in the same sort of category of veteran, or that he really knows her or really understands her, the more put off she'll be.