#idk if they’d be friends—they both pretty explicitly hate themselves and it’d be very ‘reflection of the self’—but they could be

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I do wonder a bit about the parallels between Cal and Taka’s situations. “I’m not very good at being what other people want me to be” from Cal sounds a lot like basically everything Taka says in Tourmaline. They never mention each other or even talk to each other at all besides indirectly in the Zekroute labra-tournament, but they share a lot of the same basic conditions (being familial trauma & legacy). I think their main differences is that by the time you meet them, Taka is still isolated, but Cal isn’t.