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Relationships with Bones, Arianna and Selendis?

Akin on Bones: He likes the grumpy old doctor, even if Bones tends to be cautious. Especially since Bones tends to be cautious, because, well, Akin accepts Sabra is dangerous. Also you ping him as trustworthy and knowledgeable. The age thing is a bit weird, since Akin literally has never seen an old human -- the only ones on Earth when he's growing up have had their aging slowed and were somewhat young when this happened. So, realistically, Akin's parents are probably Bones's age, but they still look like people in their 20s-40s. So it's kind of interesting and frustrating since there's really not much he can do about it, but he'd really like to fix it, even if it's natural.

Honor on Selendis: Man, after that first game, Selendis made quite an impression on Honor. Partially because she didn't feel like she needed to explain how she ended up a prisoner, and that Selendis understood things. Honor is starting to realize what makes sense for her teammates/Easterners in general and what doesn't. For example, team loyalty makes sense to everyone, lack of sneakiness makes sense to some, but she's still getting used to the idea that her teammates value their lives more than Honor does hers*. The other game she's played in was with Royal, who struck her as different -- much more subtle. Granted, there's a difference between 'nightmare about aliens invading and being helpless to stop it' and 'picking fights as Catholic schoolgirls', but her general impression of Royal matches her attitude that Easterners don't get why she is so violent.

Honor on Arianna: Doesn't like your essays. Does like your magic. Wants to know more about the magic, but isn't sure if she wants to write more essays. It's not that she's bad at them (as much as any new Blank is), it's just that she's not terribly interested in it. Of course, once she gets memories of magic, she'd probably happily talk shop with Arianna.

She's also not clear on the distinction between a Solar Exalt and a normal Easterner, but she can accept it.

Reverse?

* To be fair, Honor values her teammates' lives more than her own. Not out of any selflessness or lack of ego**, but just because it hits her in the loyalty pings. She expects the same kind of dedication from others, and would be hurt if say, a Corvus/Lynx did abandon her.

** She's not lacking in ego. It's taking a bruising right now, since she's got all the desire to fight things, but little of the skill, and going up against ninja and Final Fantasy characters who have been here months and have a dozen or two dozen memories is a bit rough.

Two for one question (since I'll forget the second by the time I get home):

1. Standard relationship question

2. Akin's thoughts on being stuck in Ed's body during King's game

1. Akin likes Ed, even if, after their last conversation, he seriously worries about humans with Ed's powers (who are not Ed). It kind of reassured him that even when humans do terrible things, other humans are like 'wait... what?'. He still doesn't understand why things like that are so important, but part of it is that Oankali aren't hierarchical -- everyone is equal and the only way to get listened more to is to know more, and it's still a matter of consensus (not even voting -- decisions when part of the group disagrees are rare).

He also likes that Jace and Ed have each other. Because... well, Jace and Bones are the two remaining Canises (Canii?) who have been here longer than he has, and Akin can appreciate that older team members have to take on more duties to teach the new team members. So having someone Jace doesn't have to mentor is good.

(I don't remember if you play anyone else.)

2. It was... well, uncomfortable, since it's been the first time he had fully human senses while remembering his old ones. (Old Sabra memories don't count, and his more human-like child form still had a bunch of upgrades over bog-standard human.) Plus, well, Akin is temperamental for a construct*, and having to suddenly deal with a human brain made him even more so. And, there was the whole metal limbs thing, which just felt wrong and off that he couldn't feel anything through them.

Reverse?

* Not that you can tell most days, even in Murdercave. About the closest he's come to losing it was in Chika's nightmare.

I do only play Ed currently, yes. XD

1. Ed likes Akin. It's... oddly never bothered him at all that Akin looks so very alien, I think the most is that he was thrown off a bit at the very start by the lack of eyes, but otherwise it just doesn't bug him at all. And after their last conversation, he's curious and would love to know more about Akin's society and constructs and the like.

2. It was honestly overwhelming. Both with suddenly having not just feeling but ALL THE FEELINGS in his ordinarily missing limbs, and with Akin's enhanced senses. It started out a bit dizzying, even, and took a while for him to get to a point of, if he tried, screening things enough to function for the duration of the game. Being back to his own body made the experience more interesting than disturbing (because it was over at that point), but it was a hell of a rush when it was going on.

How's Akin doing these days anyway?

Worried, mostly. I mention in the intro to his heart game write up that the two memories he got -- plus finally going over all the details from his previous ones* -- left him not really trusting his alien side, and not really liking his humanity. Oddly enough, the heart game helped that as does everyone's constant reassurances that 'you are all right and not a freak at all'.

So, how's Ed reacting to the whole Messenger thing?

* Eidetic memory, and it's mentioned Akin will even do this in canon when there's something he doesn't understand at the moment, but he learns new information. So after he takes a memory, he tries to assess things from previous memories that he just didn't absorb at the time.

...Unsuuuuuuure. On the one hand, yes, this place needs to stop, it's a nearly dead world on life support (and he can FEEL that now that he has his full alchemic ability back), where people are being used and thrown away, and yes, for every one who wins, how many never go home again?

On the other hand, if they're successful, it's likely all those who HAVE come here who aren't out by the time they succeed may never get their wishes. And worse, may be trapped here... he's not sure how Messenger intends for them to get back to their homes and not be stuck on this dead world. And while he's been assured that those with Foreman and other Judges will be "safe" (inasmuch as they can be, anyway), everyone lost to the Old Man is likely beyond salvation, and that's hard to reconcile.

And worse, it's not something he can really discuss with much of anyone (he'll likely talk with Jace about at least some of it, but not even the full details there, and only because he trusts Jace with literally anything), so he has to try to work it out more or less on his own, which in this case is not the easiest thing to do. Del just got kind of a heavy thing dropped on them, and he's not entirely sure they can handle something like this, but he's not entirely sure they can't either, really.

How's Tazendra settling in so far?