questions meme

[mapsio]

since i have literally never done one journal style, and the recent week has pushed me into nearly 13k comments. I FEEL IT IS TIME FOR A QUESTIONS MEME. please. ask and ye shall receive.

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[mapsio]

North is very important to Prim.

Prim finds herself very lucky? She has a lot of people from home to support and be supported by. And while Ann and Haru don't get very much on screen socialization in the game, I am so glad we have been getting to explore that in Imeeji. Every conversation and thread that they have is so genuine and nice. North is very much someone that Prim finds easy to trust and confide in.

The first time North died? Prim hurt for her. The first time she got hurt in front of North? Prim wanted to tell North she would be okay, and that it was nothing. But that was mostly Prim's stubbornness not to seem like she can't pick herself up.

She WAS....actually surprised that North confessed to her. But not surprised in a bad way. She very much already had a crush on North. But she didn't want to sway North's feelings about it or tell her right away. Because of course...even with Joker and Fox, she is putting her heart out there for them and it's a vulnerable thing! But Prim trusts North, and trusts that she will take care of her heart and allow her to take care of hers in return. Like sure, this makes bad games a little more tough because sometimes you have to bus your SO's...but, Prim is willing to take calculated risks like this. Even if maybe everyone should talk about that eventually...like, "please don't think I hate you or want you gone just because my team had to bus you", sort of thing.

OVERALL, I am excited to see where they develop further even though I super love where they are now? They have so much room to grow and have set backs and all of the fun stuff that comes with being in a relationship.

Reverse! Me!

[fullbodied]

North is pretty open about her feelings. She's not really into hiding how she feels, or what she wants unless there are reasons to do so that extend to "doing this will actively hurt someone I care about, and maybe I need to be better about that right now." So, for awhile, North decided that she wanted to be on the down low with her feelings, and try being a friend at first? Because Prim hit a lot of really great friend notes for her at the beginning! Like, she was even handed when North first got there, and while she respects WHY Mars and Joker did what they did, it's still a very useful contrast in what she wants to see in a friendship.

No immediate pressure, just let her come to her own conclusions without. Overloading her with the sense that something is wrong. And then there were more opportunities to connect and to really get to know Prim! So there was a lot of really good moments there. But a good balance was like. Those times they connected when shit sucked, to really let North get comfort from someone who probably had waaaaayyyy too much experience with that? North knew that dying sucked and that no one wanted her to experience it but then Prim was really comforting to be around, and she just wanted to snuggle her and forget her problems.

Which, she had to acknowledge to herself, was probably further than what you could call a "Friend." And then she had those moments where she knew she was flirting with Prim. She knew that Prim was receptive to the flirting, but North also didn't want to rush things to make Prim think she wasn't taking this seriously and was like... latching onto the first sign of comfort.

But after the series of bad games, North knows that really... sometimes latching onto the people you care about is really important, and it's the only way to survive hell. Prim is important to her, and she knows that that's enough for her, even if it's a pretty simplistic way of looking at things. And she wants to give Prim the support Prim gave her when she first got to Imeeji.

IF NORTH HADN'T CONFESSED... How do you think this would have gone?