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Anything new relationship-wise...?

Actually, since the last time... yes. Neji's starting to feel a little more comfortable with Itachi. I wouldn't say friendly, but particularly since the skills game I think he's starting to feel that Itachi... doesn't... dislike him? Or hold being on Iolite against him so much. That makes it significantly easier to relax talking to him.

I guess it's not a huge shift. He doesn't feel closer, really. But when he's a little more relaxed, and it's easier for him to appreciate Itachi as a person when he's not tense and thinking that Itachi doesn't like him because he doesn't like ponies.

Reverse?

...What did we not talk about in my question meme...

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Good question. :|a

...Neji and Sakura get trapped in a terrible fiction trope, which one are we trapped in?

...Sakura gives up on Sasuke and gets a new personality and boyfriend!

idk badfic.

What fairy tale princess is Sakura?

Where's Clue when I need her to write terrible porn...

...I think fairy tale princesses generally do not have enough agency for Sakura to be a fairy tale princess...

Maybe she's the ugly duckling.

What role does Neji play in the College-AU for Naruto?

Any new relationship developments?

Well. It depends how loosely you use the term fairy tale, I think. I could see her as a Janet in Tam Lin. Not that she's full of agency, but that not giving up on people... Even when they turn into frightening things.

Hmmm. College is difficult. It's easier to picture high school, since then you have more upperclassmen type tropes. But... he's probably like. A sometimes-douchy philosophy major who gets drunk and starts explaining something about yooooou. But he means well and has room for growth.

Reverse?

:|a I'm slacking on my comment count.

State of the Neji?

He is totally a philosophy major.

Sakura is the girl who was a total nerd all through high school and when she gets to college she decides she's going to be ~someone new~ so she joins the women's rugby team or something.

I was going to make her pre-med but there's no way she'd have time for both that and a Sport. She'd just die.

If Neji styled his hair another way, what would he do?

How horrible is our relationship now, Neji? XD

Nothing major, really. Though in this recent thread, Neji kind of wondered what would have happened if he'd been caught with Ace when the mistletoe was around.

Probably less unpleasant than Sasuke. 8(a

reverse?

Neji is... okay. No really big dynamic changes in him lately. He's kind of settling and he's established a certain comfort zone. Some of his CR is moving into weird places, but not in ways that are upsetting him. He's pretty stable.

He's less driven to win than he was, I guess, though he still does want to. I think some of it is because the games feel so... non-competitive to him at times.

Anything you want to know specifically?

Hm...not particularly. How's he doing with the ninjas lately?

Less horrible than Jaina might think. But jfc, can Jaina be frustrating.

The last couple of threads in particular have convinced Neji that Jaina is a significant part of her own problem. It's also made him reflect on how Iolite is as a team a bit. She's just seemed both so defeatist (yes, Neji is judging someone for being defeatist) and so... set on wanting things a certain way. Neji's not unaware of Hibari, or Kyouko, or Vincent's flaws. And oh, do they have them. But he's just at this point where he's like... these people aren't going to change, and they're especially not going to change the way Jaina's gone about it.

If Neji was someone else, he'd be like. Okay. I'm sorry to tell you this. You have a team made up of cats. Some of them are friendlier than others. Some of them are feral. Herding them will only lead to frustration and scratches. You just have to deal with them how they are.

...That's not in Nejiese, but that's his IC reaction more or less.

Annnnnnd it's reinforced by the fact that Jaina doesn't seem willing to deal with Neji as an equal. He knows he's younger, but he finds her saying she wants to help him develop (and the fact he said something similar about Sakaya) pretty condescending. He looks at his memories, and sees Kakashi and Gai in the Gaara rescue arc treating him in a way he perceives as more equal and respectful than Jaina does when Gai actually was his sensei, and it's frustrating, and it undermines her point. He feels like she's trying to dictate the terms of their relationship and since Neji is Iolite, his reaction to that is more or less like... "We'll I'm not gonna. I'mma have a sandwich."

THAT SAID... it's a lot of words to say "you're giving me a headache," he doesn't really hate or resent her.

Reverse?

Ah, well, as I said to Itachi, better with Stealth.

Good with Sakura, though that's all awkwards at the moment because of the kissing. Still, they've been trending in a friendly, respectful direction. Neji does feel a little less... hm. He sees Sakura as a little less capable than she was because of the skill game--she made some mistakes in the skills she accepted and how she dealt with them. It's made him feel that he has to be more responsible for her in their relationship. Buuuut... overall, they're good.

Sasuke is MORE AWKWARD. They kissed, and Neji revealed some stuff he was keeping quiet. On the other hand, they more or less agreed to fight in the future. So Neji's interested in that.

How's Spitfire doing?

Probably something more like this, or something else part up and part down. Some of that's him being practical and keeping things out of his face, and some of that's me loving the look of him with his hair part up/part down. Especially if it's a little mussed.

>.>

/SHALLOW

Also, see icon.

Let's say Aatherites move to another Persona's area. What kind of theme would Sakura like to see?

Spitfire has reached a point of "what will come will come". He's doing a lot better than he has been since they first moved to the cove in terms of how he's handling things. It's probably not the healthiest way to handle things, but he hasn't gotten a negative memory in almost an IC month, so he's had a lot of padding built up between the shell shock of "what if I'm dead" and daily life.

He desperately misses Willow's presence on the team, but he's not displeased with the team they have. It's more he's just... displeased that one has to be taken for someone new to arrive (or return in Kyouko's case).

I guess overall he's just comfortable and avoiding things which make him uncomfortable.

What's Neji's favorite type of game? Or favorite specific game?

Neji tends to prefer games that feel like games or like missions. Clear cut goals. Scoring that he can at least guess at. He's not super fond of social games either. Obviously.

Lets say all of Iolite gets turned into dragons. What do you picture them like? XD

One of the things that is a problem on Jaina's side is that...despite being one of the leading characters of a young adult series in which the authors tried to treat their young characters mostly as adults, complete with lightsaber dismemberments, biological superweapons, and so on...Jaina then goes on to go through a phase of "I'm too young for this stuff but circumstances necessitate it" and finally as an adult joins the rest of the older characters in an "anyone who hasn't come of age is supposed to be in training, face a lower challenge rating, and generally needs to be guided" attitude. This is something that is secretly a problem for Jaina and MOST CHARACTERS BECAUSE ANIME AND MANGA. It just has not really been directly addressed since Yellow left.

What it comes down to is Jaina tries to be as unoffensive as possible about it because she GETS IT, it's not fun to be a teenager and have someone tell you that you don't have as much experience/still have some growing up to do. There comes a time, however, when there's trying not to step on people's toes, and there's admitting well, yes, many such as Neji are half her age and should still be developing. From the perspective of a 38-year-old with a culture that actually treats teens as developing and in need of guidance, along with an interest in moral issues, Iolite is worringly Lord of the Flies.

Jaina figured Neji was logical enough that he'd understand when she said she wasn't trying to be mean. She's...kind of disappointed how their conversation went, along with that answer of "no I really am just that willing to stand aside and let things be the way they are, regardless of what you or I want."

But she does take some comfort in the fact that he at least seemed to engage in conversation beyond brief, evasive answers. Since that IS the main thing she'd been prodding him about since hearing about his complaint regarding someone deciding it would be okay to sacrifice his life without specifically consulting him.

What's Neji's current day in the life?

You know that picture of the cat-dragon? That... and then flying around for a while before things dissolve into a huge brawl. Then Obsidian scruffs them all and they end up taking up various positions to sleep on him.

... what? Your cat herding reference might be influencing things here.

What did Neji think about the skill-swap game? What he was given? What others on Iolite were given? How they handled them?

Wings were awesome. This is the most important take away for him.

For other things... he feels like most of the skills reflect Iolite's sense of humor. Which is kind of warped. That's not surprising. It's just a really clear example. He might be less bothered than he ought to be by some of the choices in team, but Sakura getting Sword's yoma has sort of become his metric for bad decision skillswaps.

But that also ended up making him feel like... there were some very bad decisions made.

Reverse?

It's sort of similar to Neji. He doesn't feel closer to him, but he's a bit more comfortable and less inclined to be irritable at him because of negative associations. Though things could get awkward again if/when Sasuke tells Itachi about the execution order. Not that he'd consider Neji a direct threat to Sasuke in Aather so much as it's just.....awkward.

If Hinata ended up in Aather what team would Neji want to see her on?

Edited 2012-02-19 08:59 (UTC)

I wouldn't say he thought Jaina was being mean. More like stubborn.

But yes, it's understandable that someone from a more realistic canon in terms of development would think that way. Still.

Neji doesn't have a perfectly set schedule, especially since games and events and what have you pop up at random. As a rule, he's at Iolite at dawn and dusk. He sleeps at some point during the night, and doesn't really fuss waking up early since dawn is s bust anyway. At some points during the day he'll train and he'll run/jog. He'll also probably do some walking around. He usually bathes in the evening. Otherwise, killing time.

How is Jaina killing time? Projects?

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