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[vice_is_nice]

O-okay.

Ask me what Umeda and Hakkai thinks of your character. If they've only met briefly, mind reminding me of when? If you remember. Which you also might not. Um.

I WILL TRY TO RESPOND COHERENTLY. :D

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[sisterskeeper.livejournal.com]

Kisa and Simon, yes.

[vice_is_nice]

UMEDA ON KISA:

No opinion.

UMEDA ON SIMON:

He's not the Simon Umeda remembers, but he's a Simon who's less likely to imply that Umeda is an uneducated hick, which is something Umeda approves of. Also, dicking with him regarding his sexuality was fun, because, dude doesn't remember his past, what ELSE are you supposed to do? They haven't interacted enough for Umeda to respond more other than a vague amusement and desire to poke him more, though!


HAKKAI ON KISA:

He likes her. most of their interactions have taken place 'offscreen' in the weekly lessons, and he views her as an intelligent girl who needs encouragement due to her shyness. His approach to her is mostly professional and I wouldn't say he has much interest/response to her other than that at this point, mostly because of the primarily-offscreen-in-the-last-few-months thing.

HAKKAI ON SIMON

Strictly speaking, Hakkai doesn't like Simon. It's not Simon's FAULT, exactly, but meeting Simon when he was deaged and Delirium'd , Simon hit several major buttons for Hakkai (not quite to the trauma freakout level but to the "..." level) and the "I don't remember my sister's name but that's fine 'cause she's still my sister." left Hakkai going D: D: D: After he reaged, they talked again, and Simon's stumbling over and around the incest thing amused Hakkai,a lthough he appreciated Simon not being like "OH EW I HAVE A SISTER OH GOD YOU DID WHAT WITH WHO GO DIE" (though I ... almost hope somebody DOES do this some point in the RP. XD) So his impressions overall aren't very positive but they also haven't interacted too much. And, well, Hakkai's interactions with people he's got a bit of distaste for is basically to be very cheerful and polite, so I don't think there'll be any trouble in GETTING those further interactions.

[classprotector.livejournal.com]

Anne and Buffy have both met Hakkai, Buffy and Chase have met Umeda on occasion? Chase just for Blade Runner, I think. I fail at remembering.

[vice_is_nice]

UMEDA ON BUFFY

She's sharp and snarky, which is an A+, but she's also a girl so he'll have a moment of "...I should probably make her hate me huh" every time they interact that he pushes by pretty fast. No deep opinions, it's only been brief.


UMEDA ON CHASE

Cracks on gayness are likely to get him UMEDA'D or book'd, but so far Umeda's got a positive impression of Chase. Chase reminds him of the kids back at school so Umeda's likely to like him; being Umeda, he'll show this mostly through casual comic violence. He's got a brief good impression so far, though, because -- he showed up at all for Bladerunner.

I think Umeda's met Anne, too, but he was just sort of "...whatever" about the whole thing.


HAKKAI ON BUFFY

Nice girl. No, really, Hakkai likes Buffy and has a great deal of sympathy for her. He remembers his own difficulty adjusting to the realization that he was an OMG HORRIBLE BLOOD-SOAKED SINNER and thinks she's handling things wonderful. He also doesn't just want to interact with her on that level alone, so while he inquires about it when he can, he also wants to talk about other things. That said, they haven't interacted in a while, so opinions a bit out of date!

HAKKAI ON ANNE

Nice girl. He has no idea that Gojyo told her about his past and what Kanan did. XD Their interactions are often on a surface cheerful/polite/friendly level so there's not much more I can say other than she's an innocent and a girl and if she needed anything he'd help her if he could. He grew a bit more fond, personally, of her when they interacted regarding the orphanage, and he remembers her kindness to him when he was young!Gonou.

I think Hakkai's met C-3PO but only briefly, no opinion there.

[overacting.livejournal.com]

UMEDA PLEASE!

[vice_is_nice]

SPITE!

...gimme a minute. XD [TYPE]

[reidealize.livejournal.com]

♥?

[vice_is_nice]

♥!

O god I don't even remember who all you're playing right now. XD Heine, Robert, Anon, and Jay? Well.

Umeda hasn't met Anon, Jay, or, AFAIK, Heine. He HAS met Robert -- ooooobviously -- and he's fond of the kid. Not much has changed for him since the last one of these, actually but like. Umeda's canon is full of kids who, for whatever reason, are 'special' or stand out or whatever and he treats them all like kids who he'll help out in the smallest fix (seriously, twisted ankle? Umeda's like "Let me see that. Oh you just twisted it. Do this and this, PFFT YOU CALLED A DOCTOR OVER THIS" never mind he'd come over first, that sort of thing XD) and who occassionally need a smack upside the head. Psychic? Treat 'em and smack upside the head. School idol? Treat them, smack upside the head. Osakan soccer-champ? Treat him, smack him upside the head, and whisper mockery about homosexual inclinations that make him scream. etc etc. He accepted Robert's 'angel' thing with good grace because one of his students has a pair of pet weasels who are the manifestation of his particular shinto god, and who occassionally casts voodoo spells on the other kids. Tenkaijin? Okay he can handle that. World-destroying trends? Sure okay, Umeda remembers being a teenager, he can dig that.

Which is a long rambly way of saying: He likes Haydn and will cheerfully tease him and is amused by Robert's 'Doctor' thing and he doesn't just like Haydn, he'll pretty much accept any weirdness Haydn throws his way. He's also really really glad the hand-nailing psychopath is gone. XD LET'S HANG OUT MORE.


Hakkai hasn't met Anon, met Jay only briefly (Sorata had given a big, great impression of him, and Jay was sort of "...ehhhhhn don't want to talk" at that meeting so Hakkai is a little "Ah, well" about that), has met Heine (obviously) and has met Haydn only in his last post.

Hakkai doesn't dislike Heine. It'd be stretching it to say he 'liked' Heine, but he doesn't dislike Heine; he's sort of amicably neutral. It's really very much the "friend of the romantic partner" situation. XD A lot of what he feels for Heine, since they haven't interacted personally in like. Four or five months? Is sympathy for Ishida, like. Mmm. Ishida's fear he'd be made to kill himself in front of 'those he cares about' makes him concerned about how Heine would respond if it happened. But not much of it's personal since, you know, haven't talked in an age.

Like I said, he only met Robert in the last post, but so far, Robert was interesting. Clearly something happened, and while Hakkai didn't push, Robert seemed to want to talk about it, so Hakkai tried to present himself as 'generally willing to listen; otherwise, appreciating Robert's show of sympathy that, yes, that situation SUCKED'. Is pretty sure RObert picked up on half the subtle badnesses in that post relating to several of the people in CAMP, and appreciated Robert's discretion in not responding badly to HAKKAI as a result.

[monkwithgun.livejournal.com]

Gosh, have we met?

HI MEET MY NEW ICON.

[vice_is_nice]

I, I dunno! This one may take a few minutes especially as I'm alternating with article-reading. XD

Icon. ... oh god I felt something in me bleed out, collapse inward, and die a painful death of "WRY".

[cordialpoison.livejournal.com]

Dotdotdot.

[vice_is_nice]

LOL OKAY. Umeda hasn't met Hiro, I don't think. He HAS met Yaone, what with the handpuppets and humiliation, which. You know. I think 'handpuppets and humiliation' sums up their relationship well. He doesn't dislike her; he doesn't like her yet either, but he's sort of amused how their conversation... went. XD

HAKKAI ON HIRO:

They've mostly talked in context of the school thing. HIs overall impression of Hiro, through that, is good, but I'm at a loss to actually say more about it.

HAKKAI ON YAONE. Um.

Canon - Okay, canonically? Ironically? They've met like three times. At least in the manga. In the anime it's like... four, five maybe. But manga: The "I will kill you -- omg why are you kicking my ass? I THINK I'D BETTER STAB MYSELF IN THE THROAT YOU'RE OKAY WITH THAT RIGHT?" scene, the "I resolved to live for Kougaiji." "That's very nice." "Can we try to kill each other now?" "It would be my pleasure. For all one frame that we fight before we get distracted by the more important characters" scene, and the whole bit in Against the Stream.

That said I think Hakkai and Yaone have a pretty positive relationship in canon just because of how much emotional activity happened in that short period. Their first meeting, both Yaone's fear of inadequacy and Hakkai's trauma over Kanan's suicide came out; in Hakkai's case it was the first time it was revealed in the manga itself. I think their initial fondness came from before that (with the "We can't tolerate sexual harrassment" thing being the reason Yaone had hoped most that Hakkai would be unconscious), and it carried through after that. Their ....friendship? Relationship? Interactions? are of course deeply tinged with projection on both sides of the fence BECAUSE of triggering each other's issues so immediately; that said, they do a good job of not going OVERBOARD with the projection. I think they honestly have an affection for each other that almost smacks at shared relief over their mental/emotional SURVIVAL from their first meeting (it has that ...survivor air, in a way XD) but I also think they have a genuine respect for each other. Hakkai certainly respects her for -- well. Surviving. And. Continuing to fight. His feelings on Yaone are complex, I think, and I'm not sure I understand them all entirely, even up through Against the Stream. They're totally not enemies. They don't even usually make great opponents. XD But. They're both totally aware of fighting for their own sake, and that the other is too, and that's good. It Works

CAMP -

To say 'nothing has changed' would be a bit much considering, well, all that's happened. But while situations have changed, Hakkai's feelings have stayed generally constant: Respect, a certain degree of affection, a definite awareness that she's fighting for herself and for Kougaiji and certainly not actually on his 'side'. He has also never playing on her the mean trick he sort of did on Zakuro there. XD Um.

That said, she knows a LOT more about him now than most people; he's not sure whether she HEARD all the details of what he said because she was distraught at the time, but he knows she knows it. He also is really shaken up about the Hyakugan Maou thing (as she surely is as well) and at this point he's not sure if he's scared or eager to deal with her but he's also not the sort of person to bow to his fear so he is determined to have tea and cake with her and discuss the weather.

[sexy-roach.livejournal.com]

Hi there. :D

[vice_is_nice]

OKAY. JESUS. XD Fortunately I think I only interact with like um. Gojyo. Mostly. and Akiha. Cripes. I'll start with KUBOTA. :D

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KUBOTA AND GOJYO

Kubota doesn't dislike Gojyo.

KUBOTA AND RENJI

Hasn't met.

KUBOTA AND AKIHA

Hasn't met.

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UMEDA AND AKIHA

For canon stuff: See giant essay I wrote the other day. In short, summarized form, [SINGS] YOU'RE WAY OFF BASE / I WON'T SAY IT / GET OFF MY CASE / I WON'T SAY IT / I WON'T SAY I'M IN LOVE. [/SINGS].

Camp stuff continues to match canon stuff pretty well, which I'm actually kinda proud of us for, you know? One additional complication is that camp is known to randomly and wackily CHANGE PEOPLE, which means Umeda's always on edge that something will push Akiha and him too far. That said, if Akiha ever gave up on him or if Umeda ever confessed under camp influence (the two deciding factors, in a way, being the opposites of their usual stance), Umeda would be one totally broken cookie for a while, though he'd no doubt cover it up with bluster, annoyance, and a tendancy to hit people harder than usual. He'd move on eventually because, well, Umeda lives with things, but right now, Umeda himself is content with how things are -- though (and he'd not admit this easily either) he doesn't like hurting Akiha emotionally.

(...physically, of course, he loves it!)

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HAKKAI ON AKIHA

No real feelings, beyond mild (amused/superior) concern that Akiha is in love with "that man". Of course, being Hakkai, this pretty much constitutes a sense of glee. XD But they haven't interacted much.


HAKKAI ON GOJYO

Oh jeeeeeeeez.

Canonically: Love (though it's never named as such; it's identified as need, more, but some of those looks, anyway I digress; whether or not it' romantic love in canon or just LOVE is up to the reader, but there's love there), need, some dependence and a certain amount of independence at the same time, a deep friendship (in the case of a relationship, I think Hakkai would consider the friendship more important overall, but Hakkai just sort of /needs Gojyo around/, as the Kamisama arc showed!). They're used to living together and are comfortable with each other. Gojyo flirts, and Hakkai teases him about it with any variety of edges depending on mood, from soft to sharp, but it's pretty much teasing ("Educational guidance!") . Hakkai is an astronomical freak, and Gojyo refers to that casually ("You know, you say stuff like that with a cool face, but I bet your discomfort level's at 90%."). They both have huge quirks, and both enjoy each other's quirks (though I'd say Gojyo's known to be afraid of Hakkai. He doesn't MIND being afraid of Hakkai, but it happens. I WOULDN'T say Hakkai's afraid of Gojyo, except maybe of Gojyo's lack of formal ties to the ikkou meaning that Gojyo CAN and MIGHT leave). In short, they're an Old Couple. Well-established. KINDA MARRIED YOU MIGHT SAY.

In camp: Again, this maintained pretty well! The additional push of, uh, PASTS WALKING AROUND IN FRONT OF THEM meant that the unspoken parts became spoken, but I at least think the characterization was good on that issue. Hakkai loooooves Gojyo. He also relies on Gojyo deeply to function as a point of sanity. The sexual tension is running high and while Hakkai (as usual!) pretends to be cool with it, he's sort of not. Beyond which, Gojyo's moving to a new cabin has left Hakkai... twitchy and lonely. He can't move into Gojyo's cabin (AS FAR AS HE KNOWS) and he JUST made a home for himself out of the hospital -- though if he were invited into Gojyo's cabin he probably would just abandon his home; we're not shown canonically with Hakkai attaching that much to things, even things he, well, made or likes, even if it's got symbolic value. In the meantime, he's passing time however he can and will probably snap and start slaughtering gorillas soon to drag Gojyo back. XD

[loves-trees.livejournal.com]

Uh... Mori met both characters briefly or something, Umeda during immunizations and I don't remember when Hakkai BUT UH they talking healing or something. And I think Norma briefly met Hakkai during her post on breast size. BUT I COULD BE WRONG.

...anyway. I'm just commenting because I can. :D

[vice_is_nice]

Umeda remembers Mori as "That girl who's a friend of Robert and Ueki's"! She seems nice enough and he approves of him not being a total social loner, so. XD

Umeda hasn't met Norma. I LOOK FORWARD TO THAT.

Hakkai doesn't really remember Mori either, but knows they've met and remembers her name. Sorry! He'd probably like to get to talk again though because interesting female characters are this chapter/episode's plot hooks.

Hakkai remembers attempting to reassure Norma that her body was pretty, having Norma WANT BOOBZ, and eventually concluding "Well, I suppose there's nothing wrong with pushing for one's own ideal", but he's not a huge tit man (oh god typing "Hakkai" and "huge tit man" made me hurt, yet win, somewhere inside) so! Yes. She was enthusiastic and nice about the boob thing, though, so the impression is pretty positive!

[hot4shoes.livejournal.com]

I'm addicted to commenting on these things though I feel sure nothing has changed since the last time I commented on one of yours.

[vice_is_nice]

Not much, really! Umeda hasn't seen Cher around for a bit, no real change from "Female but amusing, also, she understands fashion and would probably recognize my horribly flamingly gay red outfit as designer-wear. Also, my fancy kickass shoes".

Hakkai continues to like Cher well enough although they haven't really talked much in a while. HIs last time interacting with her on a really noticable level was the stripper nurses thing, which both amused and embarassed him; he's got a fairly healthy laid-back approach to women in various states of undress and/or macking, but to judge by canon he's not used to it aimed at HIM at all, nor them being around Cher's age and doing so, so I figured he'd both respond with his usual "Well, well!" behaviour and also, yanno, avert his eyes politely! Which I think worked out well enough for all involved. He DOESN'T think it reflects badly on Cher, though, just that kids will be kids!

[patria-ou-mort.livejournal.com]

As usual, I comment for Great Justice. And for France.

If you please. ^_^

[vice_is_nice]

Umeda has seen the musical (while I haven't) and is very "...Huh. france's prettyboy huh" about Enjolras, whose name is designed to TRIP ME UP and check your tags for spelling EVERY TIME I WRITE IT WHAT ORDER ARE THE LR IN AHHH anyway. Other than poking some fun about the musical (with Near), they haven't interacted overly much; Umeda's impression of Enjolras, from my notes, is "Not bad looking but stodgy and oblivious". However, he's also got a positive impression regarding Enjolras's reaction to his own blatant homosexuality and was HORRIBLY AMUSED by his reaction to Umeda's pointing out Enjolras's co-workers' TOTAL LUST FOR HIM, so he'll probably poke at him again.

Hakkai has met him but not talked much in an age. His primary impression was positive; Enjolras was clearly WEIRDED OUT about the demon/youkai thing but not so badly as to hold it against him later. Other than that, he's mostly reserving judgments pending further conversations!

[swiftamorato.livejournal.com]

THERE WAS NO APHRODISIAC IN THE SHEH!

...

But if you had fun after drinking it, I can take the blame.

[vice_is_nice]

[laughs] We had angst after! DOES THAT COUNT?

Uhhh Obi-Wan and Swift, right? XD

Hakkai has no opinion on Obi-Wan; I'm not even sure they've met.

Swift... Hakkai doesn't actually dislike! He had a momentary "YOU GAVE MY BEST FRIEND WHAT" moment when Gojyo said there was aphrodesiac in the Sheh, but then remembered like 99% of Gojyo's girls probably slipped roofies into his drinks to make him easier to roll for cash anyway, and lived with it. Also, the Sheh is good. I think they talked briefly about responsibilities before; Hakkai has a distant but positive impression of him.

Umeda has pretty much only talked to Obi when Obi shows up to disapprove of this or that thing Umeda's doing, so he thinks Obi's a bit of a stickler and wants to tease him. Of course, he's also a sci-fi fan, so it's got a bit of "....Ben." about it too. XD

As for Swift, congrats, Swift is the one Wraeththu so far who hasn't broken Umeda's brain just by existing. In fact, even the flirting doesn't break his mind so much because it's less blatant/aggressive! They've only talked a few times, but it's improving his opinion on the species already. XD

[touch-sensitive.livejournal.com]

Kaza and Rue

[vice_is_nice]

Hakkai hasn't really talked to either, that I remember. Remind me if you remember otherwise!

Umeda ... Kaza doesn't register much beyond "that kid whose hand went funky and didn't want to try a sure cure like Ashjuice". Also, the whole freakout/bloodloss/hypothermia thing. Suspects Kaza overreacts to things and will be a doctor's headache, but he'd still treat him, natch.

Umeda doesn't exactly like Rue and doesn't want to, but sympathizes with him because of the story Rue told about his past, the lover, anger, the child, etc. Mind... he has a vague niggling suspicion that Rue told him the story TO get him sympathetic so he's gonna be a bit grouchy "Whu" about it a lot of times until that sensation goes away or is proven right. As is, he doesn't like that Rue hits on him when Umeda's obviously not comfortable with the Wraeththu thing, is pissy about Rue insisting he's male when the Wraeththu were introed to him as hermaphroditic (which is a silly thing to be pissy about, but Umeda's grouchy nevertheless!) and is very, very pissy about how Rue's trying to use Umeda's sympathy over the story/his own hitting on Umeda to hurt Akiha. He doesn't want to encourage Akiha by showing it too blatantly but if it continues, he will probably have a talk with Rue. Or have his shoe have a talk with Rue, being Umeda and all. Because the other pissy stuff is just background Umeda pissy, but using Akiha's feelings for Umeda against him plays right into one of the reasons UMEDA is bitchy to Akiha; he wants things to be upfront, blatant with Akiha: "It's okay if it's just sex but I'm not going to dick around with trying to love you because I LOVE SOMEONE ELSE AND I DON'T WANT TO HURT YOU BY PRETENDING". If he DID do something, though, he'd want it to be behind the scenes so Akiha didn't get the right 'wrong' impression (ie, the same sort of thing he did with interfering with Mizuki's brother on mizuki's behalf; did it in a way she wouldn't find out about.)

Sooo yeah! That's about where it's at right now pending furhter development.

[fingeroflife.livejournal.com]

Francescu's met both of them, briefly, though I doubt he made much impression on Umeda (in his what-do-you-want post).

[vice_is_nice]

Yeah, Umeda's sort of like "Some guy, kinda hot, oh hey magical worldness. Huh."

Hakkai knows that there's more to Francescu than he's letting on, and knows that Francescu knows Hakkai knows. And he's sort of okay with that! He has an overall good impression of Francescu thanks to his generosity in offering to help Hakkai clean the blood off and the complete understanding that 'youkai' is less 'akuma' and more 'spirit creature'; at the same time he's uneasy because he worries HE said too much by revealing his issues with rain on a first meeting, but the coincidence of being covered in youkai blood and hearing rain was wearing on him. He's not sure he made the right choice and he'll probably be a bit alert around Francescu at first because of it!

[latrine-orderly.livejournal.com]

[vice_is_nice]

WE LIKE NEVER INTERACT. WHY IS THIS?

Uhhhhhh! Umeda likes Excel well enough but they never talk so it's more a "Energetic kid, point that energy somewhere else" sort of thing.

Umeda doesn't so much 'like' Il Palazzo as ... enjoy him. He's eye candy, and also, he once dumped Alex in the pit for him. So, life is good. He wants to mack on Ilpy more because he responds so adorably to it.

....Again I don't think Hakkai and Excel interact much! NOtice how if you change Excel's artstyle to Saiyuki's, Excel looks like a cracked out Kanan? No? Neither has Hakkai! Amicably neutral as a result.

And I ... also don't think Hakkai and Ilpy have interacted, I suck.

...

I also have no memory: Do you play other charas? XD+

[insertbaldjoke.livejournal.com]

pachinko wantz 2 no

Except maybe he probably doesn't. The boy lives in fear.

[vice_is_nice]

Umeda thinks Ikkaku's neat enough. Fun kind. Talks about wanking. Life is good!

Hakkai.

Ah.

Hakkai? Is a busybody. I mean, while I'm playing manga!Hakkai, I've always been amused by anime!Hakkai's busybody matchmaker side, and recognize the qualities in the manga they called on to, well, make it. Hakkai? Total busybody.

(I am also firmly convinced he used to go around matchmaking for Gojyo's old girlfriends supposedly for their benefit and after all they're such nice girls and it's not as if you intended to make honest women of them, Gojyo ... but mostly because he's an ass. A passive-aggressive ass, even. But other than Yumichika's tongue in Gojyo's mouth, THAT IS ENTIRELY IRRELEVENT HERE.)

Anyway. Yeah. So the long and the short of it Hakkai wants to do a little magic fingerwiggle and poof! Ikkaku and Yumichika are a couple! OF COURSE he knows quite well that it really doesn't work like that! BUT HE CAN DREAM CAN'T HE. Anyway, yes, Hakkai wants to matchmake them because he's an ass Gojyo's tongue, Yumichika's mouth they're obviously in love. Really, now.

As for Ikkaku himself? Hakkai is fond of him in that distant, vague way that comes from not interacting much yet. He appreciated the help on Bleach weekend and was more than willing to make food to bring that nice boy back to health. The way Ikkaku talks and his attitude is reminiscent of the characters he's more openly friendly with in the ikkou (Goku and Gojyo, in other words) so I figure Hakkai will affectionately mother hen Ikkaku for no readily apparent reasons at times. He knows Ikkaku's nervous about talking about stuff; he hasn't really quite acknowledged it's partly that Hakkai is a GIANT FREAK AND LOOKING AT HIM EXPECTANTLY and all. XD

Also I am sick and my brain is bleeeeeeh so I'm not sure how coherent this is, so. If you want me to go over anything else/go into more detail, just ask!

[ishidork.livejournal.com]

:D?

[vice_is_nice]

:D SORATA, ISHIDA, AND MAL RIGHT? I'm not missing anyone new?

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KUBOTA ON ISHIDA:

Doesn't dislike him.

KUBOTA ON MAL:

Hasn't met.

KUBOTA ON SORATA:

Hasn't met.

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UMEDA ON SORATA:

...don't think they've met?

UMEDA ON ISHIDA:

Annoying kid, but a kid, and thus pretty okay when he's not being annoying. On the one hand, had a stick up his butt about healing shinigami. On the other hand, laughed when Umeda made fun of Ryuuken's tie. So, sort of evens out.

UMEDA ON MAL:

Umeda just luuuuuuuuurves Mal. Mal's funny, not exactly nice, willing to joke around about sex, and generally a great guy to hang with. Umeda firmly considers Mal one of his buddies. That said, although he jokes about it a lot, Umeda's really not into Mal physically -- Umeda's type is generally pretty-faced guys and guys who are different on the outside and the inside. (ie, seem to be nice guys but are SOCIOPATHIC; seem to be nice and cute but are MANIPULATIVE AND A BIT STALKERY). Mal's not unattractive, and Umeda will notice this, and if the option were open and Mal were interested Umeda probably wouldn't say NO, but he's not 'into' Mal that way and so joking about it's even easier; he figures Mal knows that much. Mal noticing the hickey omg embarrassed him, and the fact he's pretty sure Mal NOTICED he got embarrassed over something he normally wouldn't be -- well, embarrassed him more. Because he's worried Mal thinks he 'likes' Akiha. XD

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HAKKAI ON SORATA

Nice enough young man, offered to trade recipes. Sorata is tentatively filed away under 'possible housewife to gossip with', but they've not interacted much.

HAKKAI ON MAL

...I don't think they've talked, really.

HAKKAI ON ISHIDA

I could write a novel.

INSTEAD, I will summarize to say: Hakkai really likes Ishida, genuinely, and considers Ishida one of 'his' people. If Ishida got hurt, he wouldn't care too much (unless it was torture or something) but WOULD patch him up. If Ishida got killed, he'd be ...annoyed but since Ishida gets killed and respawns regularly, he can hold that back. He would protect Ishida if the option came up in the heat of battle, but doesn't feel he 'has' to.

Ishida also reminds him that he's a horrible monster living a life of sins he can never atone for, and Hakkai likes that.

He also ...Ishida's the person he's come closest to projecting on to, and sometimes I worry about my characterization there because Hakkai canonically is NOT given to projecting himself onto people -- but rather projecting KANAN on to people. That said... They were similar when young, and have similar approaches to problems, and both tend to ritualize, and then there's the demon killing thing, and THEN Ishida brought up the suicide thing, and well. Hakkai has a lot of personal sympathy for Ishida. ...also they're both dorks.

That said, Ishida is a hard-edged irritable jerk, and Hakkai likes that about him too but isn't above falling victim to it at times. XD And he knows -- the same way he knows about Sanzo -- that too much friendship is something the other wants, so he doesn't try to play it up. Besides, he does think Ishida still thinks of him as the Despicable Other, at least on some level, so he's content with that.

[toiletseat-girl.livejournal.com]

Tell me, please? ^_^

[vice_is_nice]

LET'S SEE.

Umeda on George:

no particular thoughts.

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Kubota on George:

Kubota doesn't dislike her. In actual fact, he's a little bit interested by her; in his intro post when she said most of the people were good, but some weren't, and to avoid those -- and then followed up to say that she could take care of herself around them, he was intrigued by what she meant about 'bad' people and, if so, how she could take care of herself. Overall he's not terribly interested in people (except now and then, which is an entire other canon thing XD) but he'll probably try to gently prod a bit more at George-chan to see what she comes out with and what happens because of that.

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Hakkai on George:

Hakkai really enjoys George. He considers her a friend -- perhaps a slightly more distant friend than the ikkou, but still nevertheless in that category. Between her hardassing issues while still being sensitive to them and her understanding/approach to his own issues, he honestly feels really fond of her and fully intends to have a polite talk with George's new boyfriend and a shotgun at some point. THE IKKOU MAY WELL KIDNAP GEORGE SOMEDAY XD MARK MY WORDS. But yeah. I know this sounds quiet/undetailed, but it's sort of a simple, not too complicated thing at this point: He likes and appreciates her.

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::cake goes here:: ♥

[vice_is_nice]

Umeda on Ros:

Doesn't care much either way. Not bad to talk to the time(s?) he has, but no actual real feelings on her. XD

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Kubota on Ros:

Hasn't met.

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Hakkai on Ros:

Mmm, it's complicated. On the one hand, he told her his story to help her out with Stan, and it seemed to work, and he's glad. On the other, she acts very fondly towards him and Hakkai's not used to that and never sure how to deal with that; the hugs are something he has a MINOR trigger button over, actually, which is why it ended up getting addressed ICly; the cakes often vanish mysteroiusly (as I think I metioned!) because while he appreciates her kindness, he really doesn't eat much (though he doesn't dislike sweet things, and he always TRIES some of every of her gifts). He's also not used to being talked to about sexual matters, but he's used to GOjyo so he can laugh it off without much discomfort beyond "...my goodness! Well now." sort of things. It's not so much that he's easily shocked, but he IS easily startled when his view of someone doesn't match up to how they act, and while he didn't know the previous Ros well he'd got a different impression by her, which is one of the reasons he always brainstalls slightly over the overt sexuality. XD

In short: He doesn't dislike Ros at all, but their friendship is a bit one-sided since he always tries to put her off a little and take a step back from her extreme friendly-ness. Not a bad thing, and interesting to play with, mind!

(He's also just a touch jealous of her friendship with Goku. NOT something he'd EVER bring up IC, and it's fun to play with, but before Ros, Hakkai was firmly in the mom role in the group, and now... XD It's an interesting thing, I think.)

[(Anonymous)]

OT, but...

Have you seen this?

http://community.livejournal.com/saiyuki/296712.html

[vice_is_nice]

I hadn't! Thank you. I see she's changed some of the details of Kanan and Gonou since her conception of them (since in the manga chapter '10 years ago' Gonou knew he was looking to find his missing sister) but that's just a great, great read.

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Must... meet... Kubota....

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MEGA BELATED RESPONSE GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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HAY THAT TENPOU HAKKAI!