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The TL;CR Meme



♥ one: post with your characters.
♠ two: respond to other people's characters with your characters.
♦ three: they tell you in detail what their character thinks of your character. TL;DR is encouraged; that's how this works.
♣ four; optional: discuss it with them if you want! Make a big chain of tl;dr if you're up to it.
♥ five: other people do the same thing to you! Maybe you even harvest your tl;dr to use in a CR chart later.
♠ six: keep checking back in so that no one is ever late!

(Shamelessly gakked from places.)

Comments

[hollowchild]

Isaaaaaaac.

It really amazes me that they got where they are from Sophie's first impression of him, which was that he had an ego far out of proportion to his abilities and needed to be knocked down a few pegs. Then somewhere in some way she realized that he was fronting and knew it, and he was fronting because he was scared, and that changed eeeeverything.

Sophie has about ten million feelings on Isaac now. The thing about her is that she is legit bad at morality, so she doesn't really see any essential conflict in personality between the fact that he's a squish and a violent bully. Bullying is...not good, but Sophie doesn't think violence is intrinsically bad (obviously, she's a very violent person), it just needs to have reasons. She has a lot of empathy about the concept of struggling to be good, but she's not trying to teach Isaac to be good at all. Other people who actually know how can do that. What Sophie is trying to do is help Isaac learn to think for himself, to see how badly the real world fits into good or bad, to walk through his reasoning and come to conclusions and actions that satisfy him as a person, not someone else's measure of behavior. 90% of his negative feelings make perfect sense to her, it's just what he does with them that could use some fine tuning. Sophie has been literally consumed by anger and hate, it's not something she wants to do on purpose or encourage in others.

Before coming to Asgard, Sophie literally never had a friend, which is one of the reasons she's very patient with Isaac and doesn't push on him. She was extremely lucky in that she had a few people latch onto her who were very trustworthy and more or less made it impossible for her to argue in favor of being paranoid and alone. Then she learned that there's no way to go anywhere else from Asgard and that they won't remember any of it, and she decided that she was just going to live as much as she could in Asgard, because even if she won't remember it, this is probably her only shot at being a real person with real friends. Everything always leads to being hurt and she doesn't expect this will go any differently, so she just kinda goes for it. That's pretty much what puts her ahead of him in the 'how does I friendship' game, and it makes her very willing to let him feel his way through all this stuff. She's not expecting anything like equality of caring from him, because a) she's herself and never would and b) she knows where he's coming from on the whole trusting people thing. It means a lot to her when Isaac lets her in by degrees, because it feels earned on both sides, if that makes sense.

She is, as I've said before, kind of intensely protective of Isaac. Not in the way where she excuses his stupid, but in the way where she knows that there are certain things he can't stand up to and if anyone tries to do them she will tear some throats out if necessary. Nobody protected her, but she was able to protect herself. He didn't have that, which is why she's trying to give him the ability to protect himself without the wolfyness, and part of why she'll protect him to a length that he'd probably find shocking and confusing.

The other part, of course, is that she's adopted him and she protects her own, but duh.

tl;dr Isaac would probably be surprised at how much Sophie cares, but she'll let him realize that or not on his own time. In the meantime, god help anyone who tries to abuse or harm him.

[freezerburned]

Gosh, this is all so perfect, and I love it tremendously. I'm really glad that Isaac has someone like Sophie there to understand him and to be patient and balance him out. ;; He really needs it.

augh i'm going to save this tl;dr somewhere because it's so great augh. THANK YOU.

[hollowchild]

hahahaha I'm glad you like it! Their relationship is really fascinating to me because I didn't expect it at all, but it's been really rewarding to play out.