he also has a tendency to waffle/stall enough that he can pretend that blood is out of his hands
yes yes yes. love that the game touches on this haha. it's like... kind of an embarrassingly common failure mode of ppl irl (*sweats nervously*) & it's so interesting in RD
also also also—come to think of it—it *is* interesting he tends to keep people *just* out of emotional reach (as you mentioned, defense mechanism), given that... i mean, without him having the laguz girlfriend at one point, his ENTIRE CHARACTER changes right. zi without that is probably a similar fellow in a lot of ways (industrious, competent, etc) but definitely lacking, like, the sense of justice that actual!zihark values so much. avoiding more entanglements even though that's the one entanglement he'd definitely never want to reverse or have avoided etc etc idk is this anything chat
anyway *draws hearts in red sharpie all over this entry* zi <3
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yes yes yes. love that the game touches on this haha. it's like... kind of an embarrassingly common failure mode of ppl irl (*sweats nervously*) & it's so interesting in RD
also also also—come to think of it—it *is* interesting he tends to keep people *just* out of emotional reach (as you mentioned, defense mechanism), given that... i mean, without him having the laguz girlfriend at one point, his ENTIRE CHARACTER changes right. zi without that is probably a similar fellow in a lot of ways (industrious, competent, etc) but definitely lacking, like, the sense of justice that actual!zihark values so much. avoiding more entanglements even though that's the one entanglement he'd definitely never want to reverse or have avoided etc etc idk is this anything chat
anyway *draws hearts in red sharpie all over this entry* zi <3