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[puzzlekeeper]

i almost broke 5k and am having a fit of nostalgia, so old school journal question meme it is

insert question, receive answer and another question, rinse repeat WE'RE ALL OLD AND KNOW HOW IT WORKS

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[rollplayinghouse]

Maki CR!!

[puzzlekeeper]

HELLO HUSBAND

King's liked Maki basically from the first time they talked on Dissonance chat - she's frank and to the point, which makes her easy to talk to because King is ALSO very frank and to the point. He knows when he talks to her that she's going to say what she means and not obfuscate or make shit up. This also makes it easy to trust her, in some capacity - he hasn't really opened up to her about much, outside of some of his 8/ 8\ about Intensity, but that trust is why he'll be willing to hit her up about his current Intensity issue.

And then I think the first time they actually met in person was the wedding game, which is HILARIOUS, and it is in the back of his mind that they ended up getting married off because Maki saw a description of him and thought "oh, hey, it's my boyfriend." On the one hand: yikes. On the other: hmmmmmmm. She was a good sport about the whole thing, which he appreciates, and the wedding crashing made it clear she also has a deadpan sense of humor underneath her usual demeanor, which he also appreciates. And during the kissing game things were kind of awkward in a harmless way, but not in a way that left him with any bad feelings? Which is good. He was trying to toe the line between "not rudely disinterested" and "still polite" and didn't know how, which he told her, and she didn't make fun of him for it, so. Bless. Basically, they get along well and their personalities seem to mesh easily.

He doesn't have any romantic interest in her or anything like that, but he DOES care for her and worries about her wellbeing, and would be willing to help support her if she ever indicated she needed or wanted that. But he's also not likely to push things, either. That said, he IS figuring out that there's more going on with her than he realizes (especially with her being like "you know I'm bad at emotions and had a bunch of breakdowns, right?" "n...NO???") but. Oh well. W-WHAT CAN YA DO!

TL;DR HE LIKES MAKI A LOT!! Would like to get to know her better but doesn't want to push her either. So he's just seeing how things for for now.


So what all did Maki take away from her late-night chat with the internet about relationships?

[rollplayinghouse]

Things Maki took away from her relationship chat:

1) She is in fact annoyed by the way a lot of people deal with relationships. The majority of people answered with wishy-washy platitude answers, which she hates, and did so even when she was like "okay but you literally cannot have romantic relationships with infinite people, there has to be SOME maximum." Or they'd genuinely argue that you could have relationships with hundreds of people because something something harems, to which she was like...... if you're counting that we have very different definitions of romance.

2) A gave the most real answer, which was 5, with some supporting research. Which actually seemed pretty reasonable. Perhaps there is a reason she likes A.

3) She got two things that a person could consider "real answers":
a) "As many as you feel like you can handle." Which made her reflect on the fact that she absolutely did not even feel like she could handle dating even one person when she started dating both Joker and A within the span of a couple of days, and she was just like FUCK IT WHATEVER I DON'T CARE IF I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'M DOING I'M RIDING THIS TRAIN TO THE END!! Which leads into the second thing—
b) "Talk through things and try things out, probably one person at a time, and see if it works." Which really made her feel like she was asking the wrong thing to start with, because she ended up repeatedly asking the same Real Question, which was "How do I tell if it is not working??" Which meant she thought more directly about whether her relationships were working.

4) Sanguine's answer to the Real Question was actually very impactful to her. Which was initially "It's not working if it's taking time away from your other relationships" and then when she was like "what if I don't have other relationships" (because she's bad at friendship and keeps dating everyone she's close to) he offered "when it takes time away from you doing things for yourself and you end up just defining yourself by your relationships."

The latter statement really hit a chord with her, because self-definition has been a huge thing for her, and is in fact why she got close to both Joker and A in the first place. But lately all her time has been spent trying to Make The Relationship Work, or introducing herself to people and the first thing that comes up is her 2.5 boyfriends, etc. So she definitely felt like her relationships were taking over.

WHICH IS A PROBLEM EASILY SOLVED. RELATIONSHIPS TERMINATED. DONE.

...That's pretty flippant but she does actually feel better overall having broken up with them. She still feels a bit at loose ends, because like she just said to Req, she has actually been dating them longer than she hasn't and having zero boyfriends suddenly is a shock. But she also feels like she has the space to figure things out for herself better now, and things have been... alright... with A and Joker despite being kind of awkward, so... doing okay for now.


What are King's thoughts on each of the units?