Question meme!!

[thinkoutsidethebox]

Raven (telltaleheart): 16,439 comments (92.92%), played since 2011-01-29 (475 days at 35 comments/day)
Furudo Erika (thinkoutsidethebox): 1,075 comments (6.08%), played since 2012-04-27 (21 days at 51 comments/day)
Kaburagi Kotetsu (heroinhisowntime): 178 comments (1.01%), played since 2012-05-15 (3 days at 59 comments/day)

Total comment count: 17,692 since 2011-01-29 (475 days at 37 comments/day)

...Somehow I don't think this comment rate is maintainable. Regardless, it is clearly time for a question meme! For King/Raven, Furudo Erika, and Lion/Kaburagi Kotetsu aka Wild Tiger.

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[telltaleheart]

A WHILE IF I'M RUNNING TEAM MEETING POSTS APPARENTLY

Leaderfeelingssss okay. Like I have mentioned, Raven has experience with leadership, but does not want to be leader nor does he think of himself as a good one! He has been in positions of authority but not ever really of his own will.

The start of leaderfeelings was the memory he got back recently where a retired knight was like "Schwann had a really human personality. He was a way better leader in terms of personal magnetism than Alexei." Which. Even in the memory he is like "ha ha... ha..." because... Schwann was basically a completely invented persona with made-up credentials! And in the end Raven doesn't think of Schwann as someone he wants to be. He talked to Ferris about it and was like "it's cool, I convinced him he had the wrong guy."

But... on some level, he kind of has to wonder what the real distinction is between "is actually a born leader with lots of personal magnetism" and "can act enough like a born leader with lots of personal magnetism that a very senior knight who's known him for years thinks that's who he is." Especially because Raven has no idea who he "actually" is. And because he was just talking to Beatrice about that, he is now kind of like... well maybe that's okay? So how that carries over is something like... if Ferris and Mitchell tell him he's being the leader and should be the leader, he still doesn't really believe them or feel like he is, but if they believe it enough that it accomplishes what needs to be done, that's fine? He can be that for them.

Because in the end it's just about what Tiger's Eye needs. A lot of the time Tiger's Eye does not need a leader! But obviously sometimes they do, and Raven will do his best to act like one if he can help to pull them together.

The memory he just got back will also solidify things along these lines because it is basically the same sort of thing - the guilds are in disarray, so he's providing direction because it's something that needs to be done. It will also make him slightly more comfortable because it is about guild leadership, which is all negotiation and trying to come to agreements with people when there's no real authority structure, rather than knight leadership, which is obviously more rigid as well as being associated with Schwann (and thus person-he-is-not) pretty heavily in his head.

Mitchell's thoughts on Tiger's Eye in general at the moment!

[deadlyfurniture]

IT'S COMPLICATED. He's not freaking out over the team not being cohesive but he's sort of... uneasy? Things don't feel as comfortingly stable as they used to. It's sort of like the team before was more stable than he was and could keep him stable, and now the team is still full of people who care about each other and work together and stuff, but it feels more like he has to be one of the stable ones and help the newer teammates, rather than relying on his team to help him instead. But luckily for him he has Jaina to lean on now and a lot of the weight of his memories telling him to lean on his girlfriend for all support ever, so it's not as bad for him as it could be.

But having his teammates rely on him more isn't necessarily a bad thing either even if it's less... comfortable, than being the one to rely on his teammates, and he feels like he has been doing pretty well at being there for Sieh and Naoto in particular. Even though they've had arguments, they've been productive arguments in that he feels like he understands both of them a lot better than he did before, and the issues they were having have actually been resolved rather than just being there in the background. He feels like he's up to the challenge of helping them out and he can do it and it's a good chance to prove himself, so he's pretty optimistic in general. It's just a bit more stressful than it was.

He's also slightly uneasy about the morality of the team changing. He clung VERY STRONGLY onto Dusk and Valiant's self sacrificial values after he got over the initial blow up and he's still clinging pretty strongly to that, with a large helping of "I've hurt enough people in my life so I need to make up for that now with protecting them". But he hasn't needed to think about this too much because the main person in issue is Sieh, and even though Sieh doesn't care about offteam people and would shank offteam people to save himself and the team, there are very, very good and compelling reasons to protect Sieh and not let him get hurt. He's got very good reasons to not want to be hurt and Mitchell wouldn't even begin to want to argue with those. Kitsunebi's a bit different but he hasn't really spoken to him at length about it so it hasn't been a major issue yet.

Reverse!

[telltaleheart]

Some similar feelings! Which of course ties into the leadery stuff. Raven was very used to counting on Tiger's Eye to be moral and stable and therefore keeping him that way. But obviously he hasn't felt that way about Mitchell for a while. He's always trusted Ferris but now she's down a bit, he trusts Naoto but definitely feel like she needs him more than he needs her, especially at this point, and he trusts Josh but is not close enough to him to really lean on him emotionally. And obviously Sieh and Kitsunebi he feels more of a need to protect than anything else. '-' Even if he doesn't know a lot of what's up with Sieh, actually. So of course he's counting on Beatrice a lot when it comes to his own issues.

But he still feels like the team is functional and that everyone on it can work together! That was a lot of his frustration with the whole situation really. They are different people with different outlooks but he's pretty sure they can all still manage to be a team. Raven has obviously never had as strong a Team sense than Mitchell - to him they are really just a group of people who work together, even if they work together well and are pretty close. And he thinks they can still be that, they just might need some nudging.

What does Mitchell think of the new teams?