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tushanshu_ooc2013-06-09 10:51 am
ironwood) wrote in tushanshu_ooc2013-06-09 10:51 am
a wild teal deer appears!
How to play? Reply to this post with the characters you play, people will then reply to you asking 'What does X think of my character Y?' then zoom around and ping other people in the same manner to generate some CR chatter! This is a good way to see where your current CR stands and what your characters secretly think of each other.
Re: The Archive
oh and you can include stuff about Bruce if she has any thoughts from knowing everything he's ever written.
sorry that's a lot of teal deer
When they were fighting together he was fairly reasonable about understanding her and working with her, and that's something she appreciates. Even though she's rolling in power I'm assuming that a lot of adults in her world don't understand her capabilities, even if they know it, and so she gets respect simply based on the fact that she's the Archive, not because she's actually a badass. So the fact that he accepted her as being sort of equal in power pleased her. And then he helped her get back to her house, even though he got hurt along the way, and that just made her happy. Ivy isn't used to people doing nice things for her because she keeps people at arms length and they are usually more than happy to keep that distance. On top of that, fighting alongside him reminded her of fighting alongside Kincaid, her guardian and closest thing to family, and she misses Kincaid desperately. So that sense of familiarity adds to her positive feelings toward the Hulk.
However she is on full alert "should not be having feelings!!!" mode and is pushing back a lot. There's a sort of knowledge of generally accepted guidelines that are passed down with The Archive, and one of them is not being close to people so as not to burden the future generations with all your feelings and experiences. On top of that, the last time she got friendly with someone and acted out of friendship (rather than the optimal way for keeping herself safe as The Archive desires) she ended up captured and mentally tortured by fallen angels (she was also 11 at the time). So her associations with friendship are fantastic (she got a nickname and to pet a kitty!) but they're also terrible.
Right now her coping methods with the world are sinking about as fast as the Titanic, and her feelings toward the Hulk are part of the proverbial iceberg that's causing the problem. It'll take her a while to reconcile her positive feelings with her "woah we need to back off" feelings, and for now she's still clinging tight to her "woah we need to back off" feelings. So she likes him, but she is not in a place where she can show it, though if push comes to shove she might act on it.
AS FOR BRUCE she's actively interested in meeting him. She's hoping that if she can interact with him in a purely business/science way that it can somehow help her ignore the nice feelings she has. There's another small part of her brain going "you're in denial, that isn't going to help" but she's really at a loss for what else to do (see: failing coping methods). It's rare for her to have feelings that aren't passive (sort of an "oh okay you exist and here is my general outlook toward you but it's not really a Thing") so she'll actually pay attention to him as a person rather than just his actions. She knows about him from her ability (Dresden-verse is up on its comic knowledge, plus the things he's written since she's arrived) but she's waiting until she meets him to pass a judgement on him.
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That's awesome. I had no idea he was pinging her issues so much. Like it obviously came out in her narrative, but I'm too canon blind to get all this weight behind it. I'm really excited to do more things with them, then. We should do some kind of thread where she comes into SI for the first time and they meet, once you're done with finals?
Bruce would have a lot of sympathy for her feeling like she can't get attached. he struggles with that CONSTANTLY and is going to struggle with it here, too, himself. And he won't have any problem respecting her abilities the same way Hulk did, so she'll get silent acknowledgement all around.
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She has lots of issues and only one coping mechanism which turns out to be just not dealing with people. It is not going to work out very well for her here. So yes I am so excited for their interactions. And that sounds great! My finals will be over Wednesday morning!
They can be "I don't want to get attached to people but it's happening anyway whyyyyy" buddies. And she will appreciate that respect. It will win him points in her book.
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I really do, too. :( Once we thread more I'll probably have way more to tl;dr with you back. Especially once we get Raimei and Ivy stuff, too.
OHHH Wednesday, okay! Count on it! Bruce has been trying not to deal with people, too, but it's not going well for him either. Everyone keeps being concerned and understanding. Curse them.
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Yep! My last final is Wed morning but I have to work graduation on Sunday so I'm trapped at school until then.
They can quietly be concerned and understanding of each other and not actually say anything about it.