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Acedia // Mukuro Rokudou ([personal profile] adharma) wrote2011-09-01 09:57 am

QUESTION MEME

I broke 20k I am allowed.

ASK ME THINGS if I was in your question meme and it is my turn and I forgot you can punch me too. I play Acedia/Mukuro and Aeris. And I NPC Dream, Beauty, Three of Three and Cheshire Cat. I guess I am also a mod so you can ask me game questions but I reserve the right to just reply in keysmashes.
unfortunateson: (I've got no new act to amuse you)

[personal profile] unfortunateson 2011-09-01 05:16 pm (UTC)(link)
TALK TO ME ABOUT RUBY

IOU A RELATIONSHIP THING
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[personal profile] unfortunateson 2011-09-01 06:14 pm (UTC)(link)
I DO!!!

It's complicated yet not. Konatsu doesn't hate Acedia and . . . doesn't dislike him--? Well he kind of does? COMPLICATED! He both likes and dislikes him at the same time. He doesn't trust him at all because he sees no reason to. Like, when he talks to Dera and Luke about it, he gets a lot of the same things, which are along the lines of "He'd never hurt Ruby," "He hasn't done anything as bad as X in a while now," "He's getting better," "He wouldn't have done it if he'd known it was THAT bad," and so on. But Konatsu doesn't see any evidence for these things, so he frankly doesn't believe them. Acedia only hasn't raped anyone else THAT THEY KNOW OF! They didn't know about Gil until 2-3 weeks later (which Konatsu also REALLY doesn't think is long enough for a rapist to. "reform")! He only hasn't murdered anyone in Aather THAT THEY KNOW OF! And then Acedia will actually tell him things like "I can't promise not to hurt people" and "If Wrath left me I'd give up on being Acedia" and while Luke and Dera call those bluffs and insist Acedia loves Ruby too much to hurt them, Konatsu feels it's their responsibility as a team to take those threats seriously, the way one always takes a bomb threat seriously just in case. He knows Acedia is a liar but there are some issues where you have to take a person at their word or else you're endangering others.

But he does think Acedia at least WANTS to change, SOMETIMES, now. Before their long epic thread, he didn't, and he'd totally lost faith in him and kind of wished they could kill him to just. End the threat. But that talk convinced Konatsu that Acedia does want to change himself, he just really sucks at it and it's hard. And that's stuff Konatsu can sympathize with. In fact he can sympathize with a lot of Acedia's feelings because he's had issues himself of wondering whether it's actually worth it to try to be a good man, and whether it's not easier to just give in to the part of him that's fine with being a cold killer. In fact he knows it IS easier. So he can't fault Acedia for failing sometimes--but he can't forgive him for it or give him a pass on it either, if that makes sense. He'll hold Acedia fully responsible for every mistake he makes, and "trying" isn't good enough when people get hurt--but it does count for more than not trying, because it's the difference between being capable of reform and being an animal who needs to be taken out and shot.

Konatsu pretty much judges people in Aather based not on how "good" they are, which he honestly doesn't care much about/think is even a real concept except when it applies to him being terrible, but on how dangerous they are. He doesn't give a shit that Luke killed 10,000 people or that Dusk was once Asch the Bloody or that Yukio's dad is Satan because they're not dangerous! But Acedia is. That's why he's all like "Yeah I don't care if you fantasize all day about killing people, JUST DON'T DO IT FOR REAL." He wants Acedia to be happy with himself both because he cares for him and because he thinks it will make him less dangerous, but other than wanting Acedia's happiness, he is not at all invested in Acedia becoming "better" as a person, so long as he becomes less dangerous as a person. We live in this community together, you dick. Keep assaulting people and eventually Ruby's going to pay for it and/or you're going to destroy someone I love, and then you're opening a can of worms you don't want to get into. :D

Like I said though he doesn't dislike him (always) and sometimes he actually does like him. Acedia SOMETIMES MAKES HIM FEEL BETTER AND WORK OUT HIS OWN PROBLEMS by being a foil and also someone he can talk to about his ~darkness~ and so yeah. He doesn't consider them friends really but he does still care for Acedia; he just is never going to let that care blind him to anything terrible Acedia does.

REVERSE MEEEEEEEEE
unfortunateson: (somehow not antisocial enough)

[personal profile] unfortunateson 2011-09-01 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
HE'S NOT REALLY--like, he gets some of the similarities between himself and Mukuro, and himself and Dera, but not fully yet, and he hasn't drawn yet that EVERYONE ON RUBY IS KINDA LIKE THAT. He has noticed that the team keeps getting darker in nature every time they lose people. Like for a while they had dudes like Jacuzzi and Charity! but now they have a headless demon chick and the son of Satan. So he considers Ruby to have the darkest nature of the teams and he kind of is starting to figure that people get shoved there if they're . . . a stupid teenage boy with some sort of demonic or evil or criminal backstory ping. AND THEN CELTY. Also Yukio's not stupid but. :'D He has that sense of Ruby but he hasn't quite realized how MUCH a lot of them have in common, though if they ever talked it out somehow he would be like OHHHHH.

Really I think Ruby just needs to have a drunk pile party.

ON THAT NOTE, ANYTHING YOU WANT RUBY TO DO IN THE NEAR FUTURE?