Question meme

[stigmateyes]

I haven't done one of these in forever and I guesssssss things have happened. Also, I'm sick and bored. :(

So here's your question meme for Ryner/Night and Zero/Thorn.

Comments

[hunting]

That's adorable. XD

LOL Zero would be SUPER INTERESTED in Julius. Since he really wants to know about Ace's world and also because poor Julius sounds like the type of person Zero would get along with from what Ace has told him about him. He would also want to make sure Ace's friend is doing all right and not getting too horribly topped by Ace. But Aather!Zero is also not an ass so he wouldn't ask Julius about Ace, though he would ask Julius about Julius.

Why do you antagonize my bunny? :(

[deadofknight]

Because your bunny antagonized me, of course. ♥

Ace is Booked and/or Darknessed! What do?

[hunting]

... omg um... it probably wouldn't be... pretty. I mean, when he lost Yuuki, he still had Ace to help him deal. It is nooooot likely he'd turn to anyone else to deal with Ace being taken. So he'd probably be a wreck. Sure, he'd do his job as always, but he'd be very closed off for a while and would probably reject help, in typical Zero fashion. Oh and he might care a lot less about death. :x Again, Zero doesn't do so well with losing...

Reverse~

[deadofknight]

S...Same, pretty much. Ace's Good Knight act would take a sharp dip and he's probably spend a lot of time fucking around in the sunflowers and/or chasing after harpies and getting the shit beaten out of him on a regular basis.

If Zero was Booked, he'd probably spend a lot of time hovering over the book, looking at Zero's page. If Zero was Darknessified...Ace might actually switch to Onyx just to be a spiteful bastard in Beauty's direction because that'd be the only way he could think of to hurt her for letting Zero be taken away. If he went the spite route he might...actually...continue to be a good knight for Maleficent, just to be extra spiteful at Beauty.

Any app plans?

[hunting]

Well, I already apped Toboe and the other one I wanted to try is a no go. So we'll see how Toboe settles in before deciding. I cannot cycle like other people at all. :x

Tell me Ace and Spitfire!

[deadofknight]

There's not much from Ace's end! He thinks Spitfire is cool and kinda of hot, and there's some automatic protectiveness thanks to Ace's sorta-decision to adopt Iolite. A++ would talk to and/or make out with again.

Are you really happy that I've apparently decided to adopt Iolite? '-'

[hunting]

Well... it's good that you're getting close to the teams. :|a He would've preferred a team that makes less bad decisions and has a few more stable individuals... but it's important that knights bond with teams too. Maybe it'll help Ace understand Zero's occasional team-dere. Soooo 50/50.

Who in Aather most pushes Ace's yandere buttons when it comes to their dealings with Zero? :3

[deadofknight]

Actually, not much of anyone! Ace is possessive, but there are few people that he views as a Serious Threat to his relationship with Zero. He gets jealous, yeah, but not overwhelmingly so, and generally chalks it up to Zero being Weird and Protective and that having lots of friends is just how he is. ...Though, now that I think about it, Drift is starting to edge into yandere button territory. Whoops! :Db

Who is Zero's favorite person in Aather other than Ace and why?

[hunting]

Jaina. He wishes she didn't think her life was so doomed due to the Sword of the Jedi thing. But she also really understands what he's going through as far as with his twin and all and vice versa. He really likes talking to her. She helps him wrap his head around things, even though he usually skirts her attempts to help him. He sometimes lets her do it without telling her because that's how he rolls. But yeah, Zero sees Jaina as someone important. And she reaches out to him a lot.

Reverse~.

[deadofknight]

Neji! He feels less pressure to be taking care of things around Neji -- not that he resents Zero, but Zero is definitely high maintenance, especially when combined with the fact that Ace is not really equipped with the emotional apparatus required to be constantly empathic and such. But Neji is really cool and with-it and sort of relaxing to be around, plus he was totally non-judgmental about Ace giving up his compassion in the Green Knight's game and that won him more than a few points.

Do you have any plans for Ryner and/or Zero?

[hunting]

I rarely have plans since I just like making stuff up as I go. Though I do want Ryner to swipe LOTS OF MAGIC so when he goes crazy again, it can be SPECTACULAR. Zero will eventually learn Kaname is an ass so I look forward to that. :3

And now I shall ask you for the reverse to your first question~. Since I think that's a good spot to end on. o/

[deadofknight]

This is indeed a thing I can do, but it's going to have to wait a bit while I get some other stuff done. But I'll definitely get back to it! ♥

[hunting]

That's why I saved it for last. :3

[deadofknight]

Ace is the type who saves all his emotional investment for a very few individuals. I…wouldn't necessarily say that he's by nature co-dependent, but he tends to invest so heavily that the object of his investment occupies a hugely important place in his psyche. In canon this is Julius and Alice (and the mostly-fanon hatemance that I imagine him having with Vivaldi, to a certain extent.). In Aather, the subject of his enormous emotional investment is of course Zero. Which means that Zero is Ace's Most Important Thing.

This has a lot of effects on Ace, some negative and some positive—it's Zero's influence, or rather the influence of wanting Zero to be his friend forever and ever, that makes Ace do his best to play the role of Good Knight. It means he takes protecting teams during games seriously, it means he tries to be thoughtful about the quests he gives out and to make them helpful or useful ones. At the same time, though, Ace's investment in being a Good Knight goes about as far as his investment in being bffls with Zero forever, and so it's rather fortunate that Zero is both a pretty good role model and that Ace is incredibly invested in maintaining the level of his friendship with Zero. This is why Ace takes so many pains to conceal the bits of his memories that he considers to contain things Zero won't like—not because Ace is perturbed by all the killing and whatnot, but because he is perturbed by the fact that Zero will be perturbed, and he doesn't want that. He doesn't want to ever give Zero any cause to think of Ace as anything other than a Good Knight, which is actually Ace's desire to never give Zero any cause to ever reject him.

And…well, Ace is aware that Zero has a lot of issues, but he also just…doesn't have the emotional apparatus to always understand what those issues are! To him Zero is full of weird quirks and flaws that Ace doesn't understand and at times thinks are kind of naïve or stupid…but at the same time he recognizes in those quirks and flaws a goodness of nature that he himself lacks. And…it's not that he wants all of Zero's feelings or issues, not at all; in fact he feels pretty good with his emotional stuntedness as it is. But it's…well. You know what they say about loving your friends because of their flaws, not in spite of them? That's his attitude. Zero is fucked up and sometimes stupid about things but that's okay, because that's the Way Zero Is and also Ace will look out for him. And he's totally okay with having to do that because, even though Ace is often fucked up about friendship, and how to recognize it, and what it entails, he still takes it very seriously and is a friend to the best of his ability. There's not a whole lot he wouldn't do for Zero or for Zero's sake. His skewed sense of self-preservation does play into this a bit, of course; saying he'd die for Zero has a lot less meaning when it comes with the coda that he'd do it because he knows he'll come back anyway, one way or another.

As for the physical aspect of things…well…Ace's possessiveness plays in here because he enjoys having another way to hold and have and be with Zero. He's not thinking too hard about romance because that way lies Alice and, well, that's a huge knot right there that he doesn't really want to think about, especially when he'd rather be thinking about kissing Zero. He loves Zero a lot in a platonic bro way, but not quite romantically…? It's kind of hard to explain, and I suspect it's going to be much like his issues with friendship in that Ace isn't going to recognize/realize whether or not he's in love until something forces him to face the undeniable truth that Zero might love him.

I think part of why Ace doesn't really think of Zero in a romantic way or even a potentially romantic way is because very early on they both established that they're in love with women who they can't have in Aather—Zero has Yuuki, Ace has Alice. And Ace is very good as separating sex from romance (but not romance from sex) so while the idea of carrying on behind Alice's back doesn't bother him, he thinks it would bother Zero. Except apparently it sort of doesn't…? But at the same time because he feels that Zero is super loyal to Yuuki he feels like romansu is really off the table (and, again, Ace doesn't really want to be thinking about romance anyway). But holy hell does he love getting to touch Zero and kiss Zero and have Zero and so for now he's just rolling with what feels good. And kissing Zero feels really good.

He continues to wish Zero would get over his topping issues though. Either top or be topped, there is no constantly flip-flopping back and forth. Or at least Ace wishes there weren't. :T

Let me know if you expansions or clarifications~~~ /o/