break out the teal deers!

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THE CR TL;DR MEME

HOW IT WORKS:

1. List your character(s)!
2. Others respond with "what does your character X think of my character Y?" or some variation.
3. Respond to them! Break out those teal deers!
4. Generate some discussion about your CR!
5. PROFIT!

Comments

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ME PLEASE

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DO YOU WANT BOTH OR WHAT?

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YES MY GOD

ALL THE THINGS

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Bruce Banner: FUCK YOU AND YOUR SCIENCE. He really just plain does not like him on principle. A Hulk could be useful in the right carefully orchestrated circumstances, but Bruce himself sets off alarm bells. He didn't agree to leave him alone for no reason beyond a badge and a spinny chair. He did it so he has a legitimate explanation why he won't interact like he does everyone else. He's also 75% of the reason that Loki wants to do something terrible to Tony in order to save him. He needs an ally like Iron Man here, and he needs enough positive regard to counteract any reasonable influences that might slow that process down if he somehow needs to tap Tony for a plan on the fly.

Okay, gimme a sec and I'll do Willow's, too.

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HAHA oh man, I didn't know most of those nuances at all. That's delightful. I love people being afraid of or resenting Bruce, because he should have some negative CR.

Loki is really going to piss him off something fierce once that plot happens. xD

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I love memes like this for a reason. Loki doesn't often lay is cards out on the table, and there's often no reasonable way to share these things in the course of play.

Short of snapping, he's going to be very careful and work extremely hard to not get caught at anything that might earn big green retribution.

Or, worse yet, retribution from Bruce Banner himself. He feels very threatened by a certain kind of intelligent person, and Bruce fits a lot of those qualities.

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You should always feel free to ramble at me about them on plurk unprompted tbh. I eat this stuff up.

FFF YES there's a lot of stuff in 616 about how Bruce is way scarier than the Hulk when he gets ticked off and goes after someone, so I adore getting to play with that myself. His revenge would be deeply frightening. xD He really does try hard not to let things escalate, though, so Loki will probably be safe unless he makes a serious misstep.

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Freakishly intelligent people on the warpath are 1000% more terrifying than indestructible super powerful monsters.

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Okay now for Willow.

He was instantly attracted to her because of the magic thing at first. She also sounds immensely vulnerable to someone like him, and she seems like the perfect victim. She obviously wants positive regard and acknowledgement from others, and he's capable of offering that in a very convincing manner. He just planned on investigating the possibility of using her kind of as his replacement for Billy from canon, but what he didn't expect was that she really wants to like him. He didn't have to launch a murderous multidimensional eldritch horror at her in order to get her to work with him.

He's not comfortable with the idea of friendship like the sort that she just offered to him. He wants it to just be a natural outcropping of using her to get something that he wants, but it isn't. He didn't make it happen, and he knows it. It's enough out of his control that it scares him because he can't justify it.

More than that, she takes care of him in certain ways. He doesn't quite understand where she's coming from or how familiar she is with dealing with crazy supernatural beings, but I think it'd freak him out even if he did know. She recognizes when he's upset or getting himself into trouble when she's around to see it, and she intercedes. More than that, even if she doesn't like it, she respects his autonomy when he pulls away.

He's so lonely so much of the time, and she doesn't let him be even though he's entirely aware it's just because she doesn't understand what he is. He's still an awful enough person to use her to accomplish his goals, but I don't think he'd be willing to let anything happen to her in the process at this point if he can at all help it.

She's rather landed in the "people Loki would straight up murder someone for" category. Despite his lack of compunctions about murder, that's a very exclusive category.

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OHHH I didn't see this before I went to bed. You are so much more coherent than I was when I wrote yours. XD

So basically, she acts like his friend and Loki doesn't know what that looks like. He has such a convoluted approach and Willow is... very straight forward. She likes him, they're friends, that's enough for her to put aside her suspicions until he proves otherwise. It's not amazing to her, it's just how she is.

I seriously awwwww'd that he'd murder someone for her. I DIDN'T REALIZE HE CARED THAT MUCH. That's so cute, Loki. :( And not wanting to let anything happen to her even if he's still willing to use her... that kind of intention is probably what would get Willow to forgive him if he did use her and she found out.

edit-- Though she's follow it up with "you could've just asked me!!" all huffily. Won't that be an instructive conversation for Loki. LOL

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She's just being herself and it makes her some magical rare creature in his world view. Loki's usually really good at operating with things that he doesn't entirely understand and he very naturally falls into patterns where he uses people. So it just all fell out to where he's realizing he likes what she does more than he likes the idea of using her as his own personal plot device.

He's also becoming really territorial here in the game. He's stuck in a randomly shifting population that generally is neutral towards him at the absolute best, and his plans are still all in flux. So he'll shank anything that risks what little he has gathered for himself.

Also, finding out that he could just ask for help rather than create careful scenarios to manipulate people into things could be really fun. Alarming and baffling, but fun.

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She is a good personal plot device, admittedly.

She would understand being territorial even if she wouldn't see it or phrase it that way. Willow's going to be massively overprotective of the bits of positive CR she has, too, due to being stranded from her castmates. You've definitely seen enough Buffy by now to understand why that would affect her so much. haha

We DEFINITELY have to do that because you know Willow's penchant for doing things just because her friends ask her to. xD He doesn't even need to manipulate her.