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.

Comments

[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?