Question Meme v. 2

[puzzlekeeper]

10,000 COMMENTS MEANS I'VE RPed TOO MUCH so u know why not talk about that

Ask me questions, I respond and then ask you a question, etc etc we know how the tradition goes

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[we_meet_again]

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[puzzlekeeper]

COBALT!!!!!!

King loves and trusts Cobalt so much, but it's like - almost such an understated thing. If you asked him when it started he'd obviously say when they were in Dangerbear together (which feels like centuries ago now), but at the same time he feels like it also snuck up on him in some ways. He's just such a constant, stable, reliable presence that he manages to stealth grab you and not let go.

King kind of realized it in the social bingo game when Cobalt very calmly/trustingly/casually(?) mentioned he's afraid of the dark as his secret. And King was like... oh. And just blurted out that he is too.

FOR THE RECORD HE HAS NOT TOLD A SOUL THAT. NOT EVEN YUGI!!!!!!!

But it just felt so natural to tell Cobalt, because he trusts Cobalt that much, because he cannot imagine a world where Cobalt betrays that trust. And then Cobalt just like... goes on step further and is like "by the way here's a lantern off my own belt that you can carry with you in case you end up in the dark!" after King had like, lol fuckin 500 pretty awful suddenly-in-the-dark experiences in a short period of time.

AND THAT JUST LIKE SUMS UP HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH COBALT DOESN'T IT? Cobalt has just been unfailingly good to him in quiet and unexpected ways, and sometimes he really doesn't feel like he does enough to communicate OR reciprocate that.

It's also why, in castle endgame - when King was super fucked up mentally, emotionally, AND physically, and absolutely FURIOUS with pep in the heat of the moment - he still managed to swallow it back because there was the voice in the back of his head that said "this would be cruel to Cobalt and would do Cobalt dirty and we'd literally rather die." So he was like. No, I'm not talking to you right now. That's why. LITERALLY RATHER DIE THAN BE CRUEL TO COBALT.

And when he stopped by later he mostly felt guilty/tired/apologetic, and everything he told Cobalt was the truth (he understands Pep's position / he knows why they did it and it makes sense to him / it's not his place to tell them how to play and he'll just have to respect their right to choose) and also kind of a sign of how much he respects Cobalt, because it would have been a lot easier to dig into his anger and hurt and just be like "fuck you, don't play in a way that hurts my important person." But he just... can't do that with Cobalt. So.

(That said he is VERY hurt and upset/angry by Pep's play method, irrationally and selfishly, but isn't going to voice that to any of them because points above.)

tl;dr he loves you. He owes you a beer or something probably?

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