TL;CR MEME

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1. Comment with your character.
2. Receive comments from others.
3. Reply to their comments with long ballads and explanations of your characters' relationship throughout the game.
4. Suffer as we have suffered over your CR.

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[bonetiddies]

Aoi fucking destroyed her, haha.

Harrow didn't understand and could never understand Aoi's whole. . . deal, but I think that worked out to her benefit in some ways because she was just like. This is a person? I will treat her like a person? And just rejected anything to do with Aoi being fictional or not real. She did babycode her a lot, and Harrow is super awkward and has never interacted with a baby, so didn't know what to do.

I know Harrow like explicitly said this in her threads but she sees a lot of herself in Aoi and that's why she felt so protective of her. Aoi didn't see herself as a real person and didn't value her life at all, and that was a little triggering to her because of her own issues with like. Growing up being trained to view herself as the embodiment of a sacrifice rather than a person and how it made her really suicidal most of her childhood.

Anyway, a big part of Harrow's motives here have always been her feeling that she didn't approve of this becoming the type of competition where people kill for their prizes, and she was always determined to do whatever she felt best to stop that. Early on, it was kind of 50/50 whether she'd approach that by focusing on trials or focusing on murdering dangerous people but it turned out to be the former for a lot of reasons. But she felt this was necessary because the idea of people like Aoi being targeted was really distressing to her.

The Aoi in early weeks was just super helpless and she saw her as a huge risk to be taken advantage of, and spent some time trying to help her? But like. Her Week 1 CYOA also hit her in the same trauma of like. Self sacrificing child that doesn't value their life, and she felt like they'd failed somehow in the CYOA, so after that she got upset and kind of decided she wasn't sure she had the right to tell Aoi what to do when she barely knew herself.

But I think she learned in later weeks to respect Aoi a little more as a person who can make her own decisions? Like - one thing with Harrow is she always wanted to not vote in executions, but didn't really believe it was possible or strategically viable. But she respected Aoi a lot because Aoi always openly told people she thought they should not vote, which she thought was what everyone who didn't want to vote should have had the courage to do. She also did kind of respect/admire Aoi's desire to forgive people and be pacifist even if that wasn't her. In general, Harrow is just a person who respects people who have the courage of their convictions and she felt Aoi did. That's why she was willing to use her boon to help Aoi with her plan to curse Mahito to love limited edition items; she just thought there was something very nice about the fact that Aoi was so set in her determination to be gentle and kind of make people happy that she'd be determined to use her boon on something so simple and silly.

Anyway. Harrow knew Mahito was a bad dude through the grapevine, and warned one or two people off him - Molly and Gu Yun, mainly. She thought those were the kind of people Mahito would manipulate and hurt, not Aoi. But she was wrong and she took that really hard. And that aforementioned decision she made to focus on trials and not murdering dangerous people - Aoi's death was the only time she really regretted that, and it led to her wanting to deal with Childe much more harshly.

It just was really awful to listen to Aoi justify Mahito murdering her because she doesn't value her own life; it was really hard to hear. And she just would like to have been able to convince her before things ended to feel that way, too.