#perspective haaaaaaard...

[neunian]

[bujlililu]

Day 14: unexpected

That's what you call it when your friend coworker shows up in the middle of the night, needing company and comfort from the most emotionally unavailable person ever

[what-yadoking-likes]

HEY YADO hi!! Which ideas would you pick as the most CRACK

My knee-jerk reaction was UkrainianChicken, of course (Vlad/Jacket for the uninitiated) - but admittedly I made this pairing up before I played Hotline Miami, & now I'm not so certain they'd be the crackiest pairing ever. I just - I don't know. I have a different perspective on Jacket, I guess? But I think this is because I have a haaaaaaard HC that Jacket never fully got over Beard's death. He believed he could have prevented it, could have saved him... & that was what sent him mad, sent him mute. Where he had before been introverted & shy, following Beard's death Jacket became mute entirely, only giving voice to his innermost thoughts when he was forced into the most extreme of emotions - but always, always he was plagued by the guilt of believing he could have done differently & spared Beard from that undeserved fate.

You... didn't give me a list to choose from. Maybe I'm supposed to know this? Uhhh gimme a minute -

Okay SO each of the original 4 members of the Payday gang HAVE ACTUALLY MET BAIN FACE TO FACE.

No, really. It's just they didn't know who he was at that time. In each of their lives he inserted himself as an NPC - for Dallas he was a potential customer interested in what FWB could offer him if he transferred his accounts over to them. For Chains, he was an armed forces-turned-civilian attendee of one of Chains' social meets for other former, uhh, servers. Of the armed forces. Y-yeah. This strikes me as crack BECAUSE Bain knowingly and willingly exposes himself to case these guys - he knows he will be captured on camera at some point - but he does it anyway because he wants to get this right. He needs to know his crew is made up of the right people - & how else could he achieve this other than evaluating their behaviour in front of those they perceived to be either their equals or inferiors?

For me personally... I kinda see HousHox as very crack-y? But this is likely because I jumped immediately from completing Payday: the Heist into Payday 2 & was distraught at being unable to play as Hoxton from the get-go, & immediately developed a resentfulness towards Houston that was probably as unfair as it was childish... & yet I still feel a bit of resentment towards him, even now, because why the fuck did they let him take Hoxton's name & mask? Mind games with the cops is one thing, yes - but the mind games this stunt had on Hoxton weren't worth it. They... they just weren't.

Also I typically see enemies to lovers as unlikely AF, preferring best friends to lovers way more because that's what I have personally experienced in my life, & I have never once wanted to crawl into bed with someone I HATED soooooo

Uhh. Is. Is this what you meant? I... I don't know anymore. Oh dear.