OOC: Get your meme on!

[moptothehead]

I may not be playing her in any official games right now, but I think we've gone well over the 1k comment mark for this lady.


So I think it's about time for a questions meme!


(And as an added bonus you can ask anything about my 19038567195 other DC characters. They include:

azurebeneath
believe_in_legend
blackjackmagic
in_for_the_history
is_not_watson
karates_doors
know_no_evil
made_it_through
rubicantare
never_more
orchid_below
artistoflight
cloversarelucky
stillkicksbutt
stillpushingon
Moksa!Aoko
ICPO!Heiji (tomb raiders' verse)
jackoclubs's Aoko (ish)
Kazuo and Natsue Kuroba
man idek any more, OTHER CHARACTERS '-')

Comments

[jackoclubs]

Do you like me circle one y/y/hell y

[moptothehead]

[jackoclubs]

... :(

[moptothehead]

okay for srs this time

[jackoclubs]

... oh no it's an adorable raccoon ///

[moptothehead]

Oh no it's an adorable fiancé~ ♥

[moptothehead]

So, Thusia!Kaito meets Clearwater!Kaito. How does it go?

[jackoclubs]

... Thusia throws his hands in the air, says FUCK THIS WHY DOES EVERY OTHER VERSION OF ME EXCEPT FOR ME GET THE GIRL AND GET LAID IN THE PROCESS, and storms off all bitterly jealous and angry at himself for dying before saying anything to Aoko :|a

Clearwater tries to be the reasonable part of the duo and sit Thusia down so they can have a feelings jam. Thusia would probably be stiff and detached and poker facing super hard, which Clearwater would recognize, but he'd prod gently until he got Thusia to actually talk. IT WOULD BE IMPRESSIVE. And then Clearwater calls Thusia stupid for dying :|a

Same for the two Aokos? :U

[moptothehead]

Current AIM-verse notwithstanding and explanations out of the way, Clearwater Aoko would be... kind of at a loss, really. On the one hand, all of her usual "HURT PERSON MUST COMFORT" buttons would be mashed, but on the other, it's one of her alternates, which she doesn't really have all that much experience with. On top of that, Thusia Aoko is actually older than her, so Clearwater feels kind out of her depth and naive and less capable than her strong impressive police officer self, except that strong officer self is having breakdowns and oh no oh no what do I do /)_(\

Clearwater Aoko is more than willing to offer hugs and clinging, but she's having all the unsettling Feelings and can't come up with any advice. But at the same time Thusia Aoko feels a little more secure unburdening herself on... well, herself, and a version of herself that she doesn't have to worry about guilting or having to deal with back home, unlike Kaito (or if she ran into Keiko, her dad, etc.).

So Thusia Aoko just cries about everything forever and gets out some of the things she's never talked about ever and Clearwater Aoko winds up crying too and N-NOT A LOT OF PROGRESS IS HAD but there's at least a little bit in that Thusia Aoko exorcises a few of her demons. And then she pulls herself back together again and goes on being an officer and dealing with Kaito as best she can, and Clearwater Aoko goes off to feel terrible and uncertain and cling to her own Kaito while trying not to feel guilty about having him.

FUN TIMES FOR EVERYONE.

[moptothehead]

More than a month later I have a new question.


Instead of Thusia!ko, reverse!Aoko shows up after getting killed at a heist.

How do she and Kaito deal or not deal?

[pandorabox]

I am pretty sure Kaito would just Psyduck all over the place. H-HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE, AOKO IS KID, THIS DOES NOT COMPUTE, WHAT IS GOING ON HERE? He would be incredibly angry at the Black Organization for killing another person, especially since that person was Aoko, but he would like. Not know how to deal with a Kidoko at all. THERE WOULD BE FEELINGS, about her being dead and about him not being Kid in another universe and it would just. Take some time for him to get used to things. But eventually he would deal! It just might take a while of him wading through feelings first.

[moptothehead]

As opposed to never dealing and having feelings forever over certain not!girlfriends?

How does Kidoko react.

[larcenous]

... HELLO 8Ua I AM REVIVNG THIS TO BE ANNOYING

What would Thusia Aoko think of Isa/Sabra Aoko?

[moptothehead]

THAT WOULD MEAN SOME ANNOYANCE WOULD HAVE TO BE INVOLVED. I SEE NONE.

Well that depends on a few things. How Isa approached Aoko, whether she heard about Sabra from anyone else beforehand, whether it was in Thusia or the Mansion, etc. Going with the most straightforward meeting (in Thusia, standard greetings and explanations, general wtfery dealt with)... hm.

She'd mostly be upset and uneasy, at least at first, because Isa's so unlike anything she's experienced (in terms of identity and what makes Isa who she is, not just the whole why-do-I-have-a-double thing). After Kaito died, Aoko pretty much reconstructed herself around her stubbornness and her desire to do policework, so her self-identity and that perception of herself as determined and strong and professional is super super important to her. Isa has a little bit of that (as is evidenced by her joining Lucky's police force), but she's missing huge chunks of her identity and her memories. That gives Aoko the impression that Isa is sort of unfinished as a person, and that if anything big happened to her (like Sabra!Kaito disappearing) she wouldn't have anything to stand on and would just... potentially collapse.

This would scare Aoko a lot more than she'd ever admit, because she herself was staring that possibility in the face for a good long while in the interval between Kaito's death and her decision to throw herself into becoming an officer. Glaring differences aside, they're still essentially the same person, and Isa, with (what Aoko sees as) all those holes in her emotional defenses, is pretty much a big wad of "THIS COULD STILL HAPPEN TO YOU".

At the same time, Aoko would be protective. She'd be tempted to think of Isa as a child at first due to those gaps — not childish, necessarily, but as someone naive and unworldly that needs to be defended. That would likely change a bit when she found out how well Isa can fight and deal with triple-personality boyfriends, but it's hard to say by how much. It would depend on what kind of interactions she had in the interval.

So conflicting desires to avoid and stay close to in order to protect. Finally, Isa's relationship with Sabra!Kaito would punch Aoko in just about every feeling. She never got to tell her Kaito how she felt about him or vice versa, and it's not 100% that she even realizes exactly what she felt for him — at least not in a way that she's ever put into words, even to herself. And by the time she does realize it, there's the issue of her being three years older and having spent those years trying to learn to accept his death and move on, and them being dead, and just all the complications forever. (Less so than in the Mansion, though, where she's alive and he's dead and that just throws an even bigger wrench in the works.)

THERE IS PROBABLY STUFF I'M MISSING but I'll go over it again after I've gotten some sleep.

[moptothehead]

Over a week later................ >_>

So, firstly, I didn't address how Aoko would react to both Kaitos in Thusia. Her impression of them will affect how she deals with/thinks of Isa a lot.

Secondly, Aoko's decision about how to deal with Thusia as a whole will also affect how she deals with Isa.

Thirdly, Mansion meetings would be something else entirely that I should probably address because oh my dog all the pings and problems forever.

First up, Kaitos! Aoko's reaction to her own Kaito would be simultaneously pretty simple and the most complicated. Simple because she has an established relationship with him and still remembers how to act in it, complicated because she's going to be constantly falling in and out of that. She knows how to deal with Kaito, how to be comfortable around him, except whoops she hasn't seen him do that thing for 3 years and whoops someone just commented on their age difference and whoops she just mentioned something he doesn't know anything about because it happened last year and whoops that sure is the anniversary of his death coming up, and. Yeah. Those kinds of things are going to be constantly kicking her in the heart when she doesn't expect it, bruising her feelings pretty badly until she either gets used to it or becomes numb to it. By virtue of being Kaito's age and having a younger personality, Isa would more or less be constantly mashing those pings all the time every time she was around Aoko and Kaito at the same time, making Aoko painfully aware of how much she's changed since Kaito last knew her. Neither of them are the Aoko he knows best, but Isa seems closest between the two of them, and that hurts.

Sabra!Kaito, meanwhile, is more complicated while being more simple! There's the murdercave history and MPD and what she'll recognize as PTSD and a few other things she'll identify thanks to having learned about psychology in police training. That'll bring all of her officer-ness to the fore, and in her mind it'll completely divorce him from the Kaito that she knows, so she'll have an easy time of thinking of Sabra!Kaito as a completely different person. She might wind up overdoing this, really, to the point where she's firmly thinking of him as entirely unrelated to Kaito — someone who looks like him but isn't really him. If that happened, every time Kaito!personality did something that struck her as being particularly Kaito-ish, she'd be surprised and... kicked in the feelings yet again. And filled with tons of guilt, if anyone confronts her directly about it — and I have the feeling Isa would do just that. There'd probably be a lot of back and forth on that until she managed to reconcile Sabra!Kaito as his own person while still being Kaito in a way she can identify with.

Seeing Isa's relationship with Sabra!Kaito in action would just kind of mush all of that further into a messy ball of dissociation. I think Aoko would notice pretty quickly how unhealthy and codependent their relationship is, and it'd make her extremely uncomfortable for a number of reasons (not in the least because she and her Kaito never got to admit to themselves that they wanted to be in any sort of relationship). I doubt she'd say anything against it outright unless things went careening off in blatantly terrible directions, but if she found out about, say, Kid 'cheating' on Isa, there would be a lot of silent and stern judging in his direction, and probably some not-so-subtle attempts to get Isa to spend some time by herself for a little while. Aoko would kind of need to try to foster that independence in her. Before Kaito's death she would have done it out of kindness, but now she'd be doing it because she sees dependency as something that can rip your whole world from under you, and that is Not Good, and ultra-dependency is even worse, and she would be coincidingly stern about it. Not to the point of being a drill sergeant, but there would definitely be a sense of "I can and will patiently make you wade through your own bullshit until you come out the other side". She got that treatment a lot from her superiors when she went through training, and it's second nature for her to apply it to other people she considers herself to be taking under her wing.

Look what you're making me do UH PART TWO COMING UP NEXT I GUESS. or is it part three.

[moptothehead]

SO THUSIA. Both the most straightforward decision ever and the most terrible, mainly because of Lucky. The last time terrible things happened, Aoko coped by becoming the Best Damn Police Officer, and now that terrible things are happening again on a greater scale, she'd be wrapping her profession around herself like a skintight armoured body suit. On top of that, Aoko's taken the hard-won and hard-fought for route into Tokyo's police force, and she'd be fresh out of her rookie year by a year or two when she came in, so all of that training would still be very vivid and something she is very protective of. She realizes policekeeping isn't a black and white issue, but she respects the rules a great deal for all of that, and the way Lucky does things would get her instantly angry. She wouldn't stand for it. She couldn't stand for it. And Isa.... works under Lucky.

There's a chance that Aoko and Lucky could work out some kind of compromise, but given Lucky's batshittery and Aoko's hyper-professionalism I wouldn't place high bets on it. How Aoko would treat Isa in response to this would basically depend on how Isa drew sides, and how staunchly she'd defend Lucky. Aoko could put up with Isa continuing to work for Lucky if she acknowledged that Lucky frequently makes terrible decisions and pledged to make what correctional measures she could from 'inside', but without those conditions... yeah, that could turn out very badly.

This would be compounded by the fact that Aoko would likely wind up acting like an officer all the time around everyone except for Kaito and Akako. It would be more relaxed when she wasn't 'on duty', but in Japan police officers are usually pretty friendly and neighbourly with the blocks they're in charge of, and she'd just use a softer version of that in her 'civilian' relationships. This would help keep her fair and impartial in dealing with issues, and would be good for making friendly acquaintances, but not necessarily friends — especially with Thusia's bunch. She'd probably wind up alienated by a few groups for her behaviour, even if she didn't come down on anybody without good cause.

And of course, faced with so much concentrated resentment and lack of respect from people she's living among, she'd probably start breaking down on the inside while... not being willing to talk to anyone about it, because Akako and Kaito wouldn't really understand it and she wouldn't feel close enough to anyone else to mention it. Who wants to know that their officer is having serious issues? Though something in me says a member of Sparklehaus would probably stumble across this eventually and try to do something about it. She knows letting them build up is a bad thing, they're warned about it in training, but back in the force they also had coworkers and shared shifts and on-duty psychiatrists and leave time and all the things that Thusia does not have by any stretch of the imagination. So she'd just keep stretching herself instead, until something broke.

Isa has a good chance of recognizing this behaviour, all things considered! Depending on how things go with Lucky, Isa also has a good chance of being completely shunned by Aoko on this front. It could easily go either way. Idek how things would go after she broke, it would depend on what relationships she had by that point.

I think that covers that ONTO PART THREE/FOUR.