#(and the second bit is from his F//TE and D//RS interaction with M//aki Shui//chi and K//aito)

[byakuyasdarling]

I’m rather divided when thinking about how he would react to the - uh, consequences of my relapsing. He may be intelligent and mature, but it doesn’t extend to emotional intelligence or empathy. 

Though, there are many inferences in the games that he has felt a great lot of pain regarding his family, and a lot of the rhetoric he speaks is from that schema (and I actually think he is fairly aware of that - explanation for all that in tags). 

So providing the issues she (S/I) has are similar in nature, and how they fell in love, etc... I think he initially would lose his temper and lecture her with his usual prattle about needing to push on and ‘get over it’ despite everything.

Though, he will recognise the emotionally damaging nature of that mentality for her once he has cooled off - being somewhat cognisant of that schema forming from his coping mechanism from his experiences. And granting their issues are  similar, he knows that pushing her in that same box will cause her so much unnecessary pain; he couldn’t live with that knowing the nature of their relationship. 

So, I like to think he ends up reading a lot on what causes these issues and understand where she’s at more to prevent the issue, rather than pointlessly causing more pain. He tends to helicopter over her though too, and be more protective than what’s needed... but she gets more of what she dubs as his ‘therapy cuddles’ - haha <33

#'inferences' being how his relationship with his primary butler is described - the old butler is clearly a father figure to him #describes as ''the only person he ('Kuya) is willing to open up to'' - which obviously implies he has feelings to 'open up' about #and the way he describes his half-siblings - that his will to win is derived from 'honouring those he has defeated' #I'm not going to say he is necessarily emotionally attached - but instead has a degree of respect for them still despite that contrasting - #-with his other rhetoric (they were exiled and became 'plebeians' as to which he hates and is fairly consistent with). #It's that beautiful contradiction of emotions that's so unique to humanity - #- it shows that he is flawed too ; within that cold and logical person - there's a grey area of beautiful emotional contradiction #that highlights he IS a person with feelings - though they are bottled up and cut off #(the first bit is from D//GR Ano//ther Epi//sode - just read the fan//dom w//iki tbh) #(and the second bit is from his F//TE and D//RS interaction with M//aki Shui//chi and K//aito) #long post #relapse mention #tw relapse mention #I am sorry this is cringe but writing this in excess and creating a logical justification for what he'd think and how he'd help - #-stops some intrusive thoughts