Part of that is having no other baseline so this is. His baseline. This is normal?!

This is "normal"

He doesn't even dislike Maki he actually has a very good opinion of her, he's just got also, a very. Healthy fear. Of her. And knives. And also anyone not on the unit, for now

Even when he figures out "normally intros do not go. This way" he won't feel bad about it, because idk man, demons

He does not understand or comprehend Taisho's like, problems? Obviously, he's new. He doesn't have any history

But he is like, okay it seems we have some disunity but y'all seem great

He likes them

More importantly he like, kind of respects them? Which was going to be an issue I feel like, but no, actually, stabbing and stomping on him repeatedly until he snapped into ultra good behavior is in fact like, enough to make him go, I guess I kind of respect these people or whatever!!!

whether that remains is like, another matter, but for now he's just like, positive feelings on his unit

still firmly in a "well I seem to be lumped in with these people but I feel like working with them wouldn't be a pain since they seem competent."

I'm not sure if he'll find any game arguments like, oh nevermind on the that or if he'll just enjoy it for being entertaining

since atm I don't really see him having strong opinions on like, trauma games, except maybe "hey let's protect ourselves" and otherwise not giving a shit about the whole "who to hurt" debate

He is still going to want to mess with them long term I feel, especially if he starts getting more. Fond on a personal level

the other funny thing is he's got a decent reading on the personalities of his unitmates already, to an extent, but he's also a goddamn moron about feelings

and again, so so so fresh and new he's just like, idgi with how Taisho is fractured

"I don't get why y'all seem so upset and shit but okay I guess" says the guy who provoked like, so much drama in his first hour of existing

his impression of the unit so far is that Shu, Fox and Yasuragi are pretty soft, Yasuragi and Maki are really fucked up, and Sol's a future-predicting wizard

"soft" for Yasuragi just because he's protective but also fucked up because it took SO LONG to find a name that bothered him

meanwhile literally the first thing he said to Maki was a name that bothered her

right

I mean he's not gonna do that. Anymore. He likes keeping his tongue

I mean he's honestly likely to be a sassy bitch again over time and with comfort but he's already genuinely distantly fond of Taisho and has a totally positive impression of Maki for beating him up

it's true they certainly established. some backbone. as a unit

it's charming and he digs it?

She seems like a girl who would castrate a dude, better pay some respect

I think partly it's just like, demons??? His mom's a demonic general fighty type and in general demons are on a level of casual violence and establishing dominance that is like, a normal thing, so even though he mostly avoids demons in his world he's like, well this is legit I guess

he's really more into mortals and generally is considered weirdly mortal acting by demons but he's also very much demonic by mortal standards

obviously Maki could have straight up murdered him and she did not so that's already clearly a positive relationship indicator!

he just takes it as like, well that was a warning/establishing not to mess with her stab, we can be friends now! Or like "friends". Work together as chill equals!

I mean that's, his take on it obviously

it's pretty hilarious

He's SCARED OF HER to a degree because he's still not sure what the standards for acceptable interaction are because his personal baseline is real gross so swinging full polite and willing to slowly slowly push what's acceptable

but being scared she'll stab him is just, fine? He knows if she gives a warning that means she will follow through if he doesn't pay heed, so he can respect that

so he does want to find her and be like, hey, sorry about the behavior, but given you stabbed me, I figure it's even, lets get along!

yeah Maki is definitely not fond of him because generally people are scared enough at the "do you want to die" step and don't require stabbing, so it definitely seemed like he did not believe she would actually do it

at least... he believes it now.

he believes it now!

but he still required stabbing to get to that point of stopping disrespecting her so that impression is going to take a bit to fade

if he is civil she will work with him civilly as needed but she doesn't have to like it

He is very arrogant and came in absolutely sure he was better than mortals so like, it was pretty good actually for a long term working with perspective that she stabbed him because she probably would have had to sooner or later anyway

but now he can move on to, clearly, that impression is wrong at least as far as physical ability goes

so respect that people can stab you and act accordingly

he's likely to be civil and even friendly at her, just like, not quite understand why she's not chill back but whatever man, respect the lady with the knife

anyway I am just like, amused that he will not GET maki but his net gain on being stabbed is feeling hella positive about her.

He can grasp people and yet he's kind of not good at getting them

insults and pet names are just compliments

yasu you sure??

pretty sure.

I’m actually not sure if pedophile would work or not

I actually wasn’t sure about “infant baby boo” either but I figured I’d let it pass bc it would be less fun for me if Noah picked it back up to harass him with later down the line than other things

sacae: is there an insult you want him to land on that'll be fun for later?

PRETTY MUCH ANYTHING ELSE I’m just not big into the idea of him getting infantilized repeatedly

No that's absolutely legit it wouldn't be that fun for me either, just wondering what things would work if you want me to steer in any particular direction

I am fine with any! “pedophile” I just kept going back and forth on bc I’m not sure his culture really would really have the same... negative attitude towards it... in the end I decided if he had more memories of having kids it’d have worked but he’s still divorced enough from children existing as a concept that he’s more just indifferent

like there was Samira (child) but notably he did spend a lot of time in that game talking about politically marrying her off for status

Sure was a game about marrying off 10 yos but yeah he'll just keep going

HE DID IT

lawyer made me laugh

In so glad for both. He did it. He'd be proud of himself except. Gestures

the ones I figured would work from the start were things in the family of bastard/mutt/halfbreed or son of a bitch/whore’s son/general unfavorable comments towards his mother or any form of butchering his name that he personally would not like the sound of,

but king of swines was good.

I'm sure he'll figure out the others on accident some day

I’m excited

He'll just be like, "really, pedo didn't get you but mutt does???"

Then again being a half breed issues are probably things he could relate to on some level

dark/light combi

Ye, high five