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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!

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[imaginate]

both your girls about my boy, gimme

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[dunhaming]

Hehehehehehehe...

Olivia honestly considers Kyle one of her best friends here. If Lincoln doesn't count, then he would be her best friend hands down. He just... clicks with her? They might have a tense moment here or there as they figure each other out, but those get resolved fairly quickly, and other than that they get along really well. Basically he lets her shine and she recognizes and loves that. And because he gives her enough in that way, she is able to feel comfortable returning to him in terms of trust and support. He pretty much validates what she says and does and she loves gathering those kind of people around her because it's something she needs to thrive. Basically, he is a matching piece to the puzzle of Olivia.

Ivy is going to be eternally conflicted about Kyle. COMPLICATED FEELINGS EVERYWHERE. Obviously she started out thinking that he was a nice and interesting individual, but between his power and seeing her vulnerable moment during the Dreaming, she's wary of him. He knows a smidgen too much about her for how strong he is and no matter how nice he is, that is always going to be nagging in the back of her mind because The Archive has a very strong sense of self preservation. So even if "Ivy" was fine with Kyle "The Archive" (yeah we're getting into differentiating between her personal self and the magic construct, that is how complicated this is getting) would not be fine with him and would always be blinking some warning light when he's around. So that ultimately combines and comes out as her thinking he's nice but wanting to keep her distance. THEN JIM KIRK HAPPENED AND IT GOT EVEN MORE COMPLICATED. Because now she has Jim's very very strong feelings for Kyle that pop up and she has an extremely hard time keeping them separate from her own since she feels emotions on a much weaker level than Jim (most of the time). So now she knows just how wonderful and caring and good of a person Kyle is, and it is very jarring with the fact that The Archive, more than before, is telling her to be cautious. It puts a lot of mental strain on her to try and suppress both Jim's memories and The Archive's warning systems, but if she didn't do that then it would probably drive her slowly insane. As for knowing about all of Kyle's suffering, it doesn't really affect her one way or another. Since she has 5000 years of memories and information, that kind of thing doesn't mean much to her and she simply goes "okay" and moves on. However, she would be upset if she saw him suffering in front of her and would consider helping him (if it was emotional distress she wouldn't know what to do because help what are feelings but would probably make a pathetic attempt at helping him a bit, if it was physical distress it would really depend on the situation and would require pages of introspection for her to actually corm to a decision which she would regret either way, there is zero good option for her there, one option is letting a good person come to harm and letting Jim down but the other is going against the Archive in a really serious way and she would have so many problems doing that).

TL;DR on that essay is that she likes him but it's ~forbidden~ and she's a goody two shoes and doesn't want to break the rule, so being around Kyle is extremely hard for her because she can't ever enjoy it.